russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for January 7

8 January 2023

In the early hours of February 24, 2022, Russia launched rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct full-scale invasion. APU repulse the enemy

- Hammered his veteran grandmother

Among the Wagner prisoners to whom Prigozhin promised pardon, journalists discovered Dmitry Karyagin, who killed his 87-year-old veteran grandmother.

This creature persuaded her to sell the apartment, after which he calmly beat the old woman with a hammer.

Hang him a little and throw stones at…

- That's all — dead invaders of the Russian army

The fields near Bakhmut are simply littered with the corpses of Russian soldiers.

One day. One situation. And such situations in a day in different directions — hundreds. Think...

- Mob relatives rebel

After a large number of invaders were destroyed in Makiivka, relatives cannot find them in the lists (neither alive nor dead)

Putin is already beginning to be blamed for everything. Hmm, well folks. In order for them to begin to get at least a little something, hundreds, thousands of people must die?

- Killed her daughter

In Chelyabinsk, a 36-year-old mother killed her 10-year-old daughter with a robe belt, after which she hanged herself, leaving a suicide note.

The corpses of mother and sister were found by 18-year-old son.

- #losses of invaders as of 01/07/2023

🔻+ 490 dead of the RF Armed Forces over the past day:

▪️ Major Alexander Tarasov;

▪️ Captain Ivan Aseev;

▪️ Lieutenant Alexei Kulikov;

▪️ Lieutenant Dmitry Klepov;

- In the United States, on the 15th attempt, they were able to elect Republican Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the lower house of Congress.

Now this party officially heads the House of Representatives.

But there is a nuance: he promised to raise the issue of cutting the US military budget and wanted to initiate an audit of funding for military supplies to Ukraine.

- Last year Ukraine received 32.1 billion dollars of external financial support. The bulk of it was provided by the Americans and the European Union, — National Bank.

At the same time, over the past year, Ukraine's international reserves decreased by 7.9%. Now they amount to 28.5 billion dollars, which is enough for about four months of paying for the imports Ukraine needs.

- And what about the face of the fair-haired priest?

By the way, Pasha Mercedes also came to the Lavra today, but apparently he did not pass the face control.

- Thanks to weekends and holidays, electricity consumption in the country is lower than the day before, even with a significant drop in temperature, — "Ukrenergo".

In many regions of Ukraine blackouts are not predicted.

- The United States is putting pressure on Italy to supply Ukraine with military air defense systems as soon as possible, — La Repubblica.

Italian newspaper writes that US national security adviser Jake Sullivan discussed the issue by phone with Francesco Talo, diplomatic adviser to the Italian prime minister. We are talking about anti-aircraft missile systems SAMP-T.

- Macron crossed the red line by deciding to hand over AMX-10 RC wheeled tanks to Ukraine, — The Daily Telegraph.

President of France overtook the leaders of the US, Great Britain and Germany, who have not yet decided to supply such armored vehicles to Ukraine. Thus, France is now "seizing the initiative to help Ukraine from Britain."

- A bit of real trash from the mentally ill obscurantist Okhlobystin.

You know what five-letter word fits here.

- The West has a "unique chance" with the help of Ukraine to finally deal with Russia, — Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Vadym Prystaiko in an interview with Newsweek.

“The West now has a unique chance. There are not many nations in the world that would allow themselves to sacrifice so many lives, territories and decades of development for the sake of defeating a sworn enemy, — Prystaiko said.

- A post for those who believe in a higher power: the liquidated mobilized in Makiivka from Samara, before being sent to war, were blessed with a stolen cross, which the invaders brazenly took out of Luhansk three years ago.

It is not good to steal.

- Poland will not transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, refuting the information about such an intention disseminated by the Wall Street Journal.

"We don't intend to hand over our tanks yet. Like Poland, without a broad coalition, we are not going to hand over", — Morawiecki said.

- Turkey can use Turkish strike UAVs against their current owners, — Chairman of the Board of Directors of Baykar Makina Seljuk Bayraktar.

Such a decision is provided in case the country that purchased Turkish drones turns them against Turkey itself.

- A brief history of how the Russian army "fixes itself in Soledar".

Three parts, starting from July.

- Putin continues to feed Russia with propaganda in an enhanced mode, — financial times.

Putin this week ordered the Ministry of Defense to grant access so that filmmakers can make documentaries about troops seeking to conquer Ukrainian territory. The Ministry of Culture was instructed to organize film screenings.

Documentaries were commissioned to show the "heroism of the participants in the special military operation" and not the brutal reality of Russia's indecisive military actions.

- Bavovna visited Kursk — the transformer station burns well.

Mrs. Bavovna is a very serious woman, it is better not to irritate her, because she can calmly come to the Russians.

- Russia will not voluntarily return the annexed parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions under the control of Ukraine.

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ex-Pentagon chief Robert Gates expressed this opinion in an op-ed for the Washington Post. At the same time, they see the only way out is to provide Ukraine with the maximum number of weapons.