In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct, full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repel the enemy
- Russia used a rare 4-ton anti-ship cruise missile P-35 from the 60s to attack Ukraine.
Despite its age, the R-35 is still in service with the Russian Federation.
Range of the R-35 - up to 300 km (according to some sources - up to 460 km in the 3M44 version), speed - up to 1800 km/h (according to other sources - 2200 km/h), Warhead size - up to 930 kg. 
- In this frame, the Ukrainian crew of the M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle dismantled the Russian T-90M tank. 
- Top NATO military officer Rob Bauer believes it is a good idea for people to prepare for war:
You need to have water in the house, a battery-powered radio and a battery-powered flashlight. This will help you survive the first 36 hours.
NATO countries must be prepared for war and “expect the unexpected.” 
- Boris Johnson: Trump's return could be a "big victory for the world"
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, arguing that he could be "what the world needs" right now - provided Trump supports Ukraine in its war against Russia. 
- Half of Poland and the Suwalki corridor were left without GPS
All because of the testing of Russian electronic warfare in the Kaliningrad region. 
- A Tarantula-class patrol ship sank in Sevastopol
Agents of "ATESH" during the reconnaissance of ships in Sevastopol discovered the sunken border patrol ship of Project 205P "Tarantul".
It is located on the pier of Grafskaya Bay. He was probably let down during an attack by naval drones on military installations of the occupiers several weeks ago.
The Russians lost another important weapon in the Black Sea. 
- Current events are similar to the 1930s, when the West tried to appease Hitler. We must not appease Putin,” British Prime Minister David Cameron for Politico. 
-France will supply Ukraine with 50 hybrid bombs per month until the end of 2024, - head of the country's Ministry of Defense Sebastian Lecarnu
Paris will also increase the supply of artillery ammunition. 
- Biden agreed to strengthen immigration policy to deflect criticism and provide aid to Ukraine - The Wall Street Journal. 
- Ukrainian hackers stole technical documentation for 500 objects of the Russian Ministry of Defense
The hacker group Blackjack, allegedly linked to the SBU, has successfully hacked a state-owned enterprise in Russia responsible for the construction of military facilities throughout the country. Ukrainian cyber warriors downloaded more than 1.2 TB of data from the “Main Military Construction Directorate for Special Facilities.” This includes more than 500 passports of Russian Ministry of Defense facilities, such as arsenals, anti-aircraft missile sites, headquarters, barracks, including those located in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
In addition, hackers managed to destroy 7 servers and encrypt more than 150 computers of the institution’s employees, depriving Russian special builders of access to data and backup copies. Now recreating information and building new objects will become much more difficult.
Powerful 🔥 
- The issue of financing for Ukraine may be considered by the US Senate as early as next week, - Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. 
- Poland has extended temporary protection for refugees from Ukraine until March 4, 2025, - government press service.
Accordingly, the validity period of the temporary protection certificates issued so far has also been extended.
Persons who have received a temporary protection certificate from the Office for Foreigners valid until March 4, 2023, September 4, 2023 or March 4, 2024 do not need to apply for new documents. These certificates will be valid until March 4, 2025. 
- Estonia will build 600 defensive bunkers along the border with Russia
At a meeting on January 19, the Baltic defense ministers agreed to create defensive zones on their eastern borders to counter possible Russian aggression.
In particular, Estonia will build about 600 fortified bunkers along the border. Lithuania and Latvia will also build protective structures. 
- During the course of 24 hours, Ukrainian Armed Forces aviation carried out strikes on one area of concentration of Russian occupiers’ personnel - they hit two enemy artillery weapons. 
- A bill was registered in the Rada to allow convicts to mobilize into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, - Verkhovna Rada website
It is immediately noted that those who have committed especially serious criminal offenses, as well as those who have committed offenses against national security, peace, the security of humanity and international law and order, will not be able to mobilize. 
- Russia has become the main supplier of oil to China, - Reuters
Russia has overtaken Saudi Arabia to become China's top crude oil supplier in 2023. China has purchased huge amounts of discounted oil for its refineries, despite Western sanctions.
Russia supplied a record 107.02 million metric tons of crude oil to China last year, equivalent to 2.14 million barrels per day, according to Chinese customs data. At the same time, imports from Saudi Arabia, formerly China's biggest supplier, fell 1.8% to 85.96 million tonnes, losing market share to cheaper Russian oil. 
- Journalists confirmed the death of more than 42 thousand Russian military personnel since February 2022
Journalists know about the deaths of 7,810 former prisoners recruited for the war from the colonies, 5,089 of the dead were mobilized.
By January 19, the death of more than three thousand officers of the Russian army and other security forces was confirmed. 349 of them are in the rank of lieutenant colonel and above. 
- The EU will be able to produce more than a million shells this year and Ukraine will receive the majority, - European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton
- New military target
Russia recklessly marked its next A-50 reconnaissance aircraft at the airfield in Sochi. In January, a similar specimen already became a victim of the Ukrainian Air Force in the skies over the Sea of Azov. 
- Ukraine needs about 50-60 Patriot and 50-60 SAMP/t, then they will be able to cover almost all cities
The former head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine said that complex air defense systems are needed, not just Patriot, of which at least 50-60 units are needed, and they should be distributed among different cities of Ukraine.
Ukraine also needs up to 100-150 units of strategic air defense systems, and up to 250 units of tactical ones. Such an air defense system will be able to protect all cities and villages, large strategic objects of Ukraine. 
- The occupiers captured Starch (Kharkiv region) and all the eastern outskirts of the village, - DeepState.
Recently, Russian troops have been concentrating in the Kupyansky region, regrouping and even attracting additional forces from another army corps. Now this blow is aimed at fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The enemy is showing significant activity near Novovodyany. Fighting continues east of Ternov and near Dibrova. The last 3 days have been very difficult. 
Capture of Starch inKharkov region is defined by the Armed Forces of Ukraine as a temporary phenomenon due to the constant shift of the front line
Speaker of the Ukrainian Ground Forces Vladimir Fityo explained that this settlement had only 45 inhabitants before the start of a large-scale war.
He also emphasized that in this case there is no threat to neighboring military units, since the enemy was not able to advance further. Not every minor front movement is reported, especially if it does not pose a threat to larger forces.
- Russia spends more weapons than it produces, and faces quality control problems, - Budanov in an interview with the Financial Times.
He also noted that without North Korea, the largest supplier of weapons to the Russian Federation, the situation for Moscow would be catastrophic.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate also noted that Russia would prefer to avoid external assistance, considering it unacceptable and derogatory to its dignity.
- Ukraine is creating its own “Surovikin line” with a length of a thousand kilometers, - The Telegraph.
▪️The main line of defense is located 15 and 25 kilometers from Avdeevka.
▪️Defensive fortifications in northern Ukraine have been strengthened by 63%.
▪️New concrete trenches, underground command centers, minefields, three-layer trenches, tank traps and strong points are being built. Each fort is capable of defending itself from all sides.
▪️The task is not only to create a strong line of defense, but also to give it flexibility for subsequent attacks. 
- The Russian oil terminal "Ust-Luga Oil" in the Leningrad region stopped work, attacked by SBU drones, - Bloomberg.
This terminal is one of the last key facilities in Russia. Its main function is to export petroleum products, but it also supplies fuel to the Russian armed forces. As a result of the SBU attack, all tankers located at the terminal were forced to leave for the open sea, and their loading process was disrupted.
This attack not only entails significant material losses, but also damages the image of Russia. The actions of the famous Russian air defense system turned out to be ineffective. According to information from our sources, the Russian authorities are forced to move even more anti-aircraft air defense installations from the front line to ensure rear defense. 
- Belarus, according to the new Military Doctrine, will consider an attack on its allies as an attack on its territory, - General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus. 
- Belgorod seems to be preparing for street fighting
Concrete blocks appear in the city center. 
- “For three days now we have been standing in lines for water and washing ourselves in bowls. Water was never provided according to the promised schedule,” about the water situation in Sevastopol.
Water supply was sharply limited, allegedly due to bad weather and heavy rainfall in January. The occupiers launched two dozen water tankers into Sevastopol, but this is clearly not enough to satisfy the population’s needs for running water. 
- Roy Desantis refuses in favor of Trump - he is also a Republican.
He explains his decision by the lack of a clear path to victory. DeSantis was one of the US Republican presidential candidates. He was considered Trump's main rival in the Republican primaries. 
- They had some breakthroughs 
- Ukrainian Marianna Vyshemirskaya, the same girl who almost died during the Russian shelling of the Mariupol maternity hospital, signed for Putin in the Russian presidential elections and received a position in the pro-Kremlin foundation - ASTRA.
“Now, despite sanctions and all the problems, Russia is developing dynamically. Protects its citizens and works to ensure that tomorrow is better than yesterday. It will not be possible to deny that this is connected with the personality of one specific person, under whose general leadership thewe are making the right decisions, as we see from the results,” wrote Vyshemirskaya.
Frames from Vyshemirskaya in 2022 spread all over the world. After the bombing of the maternity hospital, Vyshemirskaya went to the DPR, and then to the Russian Federation, where she received the position of head of the “social initiatives committee in the pro-Kremlin Rodina Foundation.”
Now she makes propaganda videos about the restoration of the destroyed Mariupol and interviews captured Azov fighters.
Lives and works in Moscow. 
** "The first betrayal is irreparable. It causes a chain reaction of further betrayals, each of which moves further and further away from the point of the original betrayal."
Milan Kundera "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1982)
- Here is some more information about IL-22 appeared 
- Trump consoles Pypu 
- Soldiers of the "Centuria" unit of the 3rd Brigade 
- Terrible, terrible, bad, very bad day 
- And not a word about the war. Tongue in the ass. 
- The “Quality Mark” was approved in Belarus. It turned out very “creative.” The new sign almost completely repeats a similar image that was used in the USSR.
It still turned out something mustachioed 
- In Gomel, another demonstrative arrest was carried out in front of students. A 16-year-old college student and his accomplices were handcuffed in front of distraught teenagers. All of them are suspected of committing a drug crime.🤬 
They don’t just ruin their lives for weed, but also publicly humiliate them? Goyda, what?
- A clinic is needed here 
- In the photo - the dog Crimea, who died shortly after an airstrike on his house in the Dnieper. Why didn’t animal lovers from the Russian Federation en masse curse the stump who was responsible for his death, as they now curse the conductor who threw the cat out into the cold? 
- The State Bureau of Investigation discovered 26 thousand tons of metal products on the territory of the seaport in Odessa, which were sent from Belarus to Italy 2 years ago. The property was confiscated and all 412 cars were transferred to the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. 
- Sorry, I liked the performance... 
At first I read it as “Putin, die.” It's a pity.
- You can make the “torture” a little quieter 
- Karma 
Ernest Hemingway once bet that he would write the shortest story about the Krynki that could touch anyone. But Moses won the argument 
- Why wait for NATO? 
- In Belgorod, fortifications made from sandbags that lined bus stops collapsed 
They didn’t fall apart, but regrouped in an organized manner
- The cat is the co-pilot. Ukraine, front line, 2024. 
- British volunteers who disappeared in January 2023 in the Donetsk region were executed by PMC Wagner. Chris Perry and Andrew Bagshaw disappeared during the evacuation of Soledar civilians a year ago 
28-year-old Chris Perry and 47-year-old Andrew Bagshaw, who went missing in January 2023 during the evacuation of Soledar civilians, were executed by Wagner PMC mercenaries.
The British Foreign Office stated that the volunteers were killed by an artillery shell. However, Bagshaw's family claims the findings on Andrew's body indicate he was shot twice, once in the torso and once in the head.
Chris Perry's injuries were virtually identical. Perry's family has not commented on Bagshaw's statement.
After the disappearance of the volunteers, Yevgeny Prigozhin published a photograph in which passports with their names were probably visible.
- Cancellation of Russia on maps of Europe 
I love the r/MapPorn subreddit, and since the beginning of Putin’s special obsiration I have noticed a trend towards the abolition of Russia on maps of Europe.
The picture shows a recent example, a map of the most common surnames in Europe. As you can see, Russia is not on the map of Europe, but, for example, Turkey and Armenia are present.
What is your opinion, colleagues? Is erasing a country from maps a fair punishment for its crimes?
- People are mocking: 40-year-old American infantry fighting vehicle “did something serious” Russian teenage tank 
- Storm of Avdiivka through the eyes of ZSU, 2024 
- The state of modern Twitter: a degenerate with 144K (exactly-not-twisted) subscribers openly calls for and approves of the murders of pregnant Ukrainians 
- Ah shit, here we go again 
SPENT...
- At the Minsk railway station, all information about trains in English was covered with duct tape. 
You will be the last one to leave - cover the inscriptions in English with duct tape
- ASTRA: 1072 security forces were deployed to disperse protesters in the Bashkir Baymak. Reinforcements were called even from neighboring regions - Chelyabinsk and Orenburg regions 
As ASTRA found out, the day before, 1,072 security forces were brought in to disperse the residents of Baymak, who came to the local court in connection with disagreement with the sentence of activist Fail Alsynov.
So, 514 of the recruited employees work in the republic’s police departments, another 334 work in the region’s National Guard. But this was not enough - the authorities called 100 riot police officers from Magna to help local security forces.Itogorsk and 50 riot police from Orenburg. Also involved were 74 employees of the FSVNG department for the Russian Federation.
The security forces used stun grenades, tear gas and batons. The Vulcan plan was introduced. According to preliminary data, 18 protesters and 22 security forces were injured. 14 people were detained and taken to the Department of Internal Affairs in the Baymaksky district, administrative protocols were issued against 6 of them under Part 1 of Art. 20.1 Coap. They are under arrest. A case was initiated under Part 1 and Part 2 of Art. 212 and part 1 of Art. 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
- Patriarch Kirill removed from the priesthood Archimandrite Kirill Govorun, who spoke out against the war in Ukraine and co-authored the declaration defining the concept of the “Russian world” as a false teaching. 
This was reported by the press service of the Russian Orthodox Church, and SOTA drew attention. According to the publication, in 2022, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Govorun co-authored a declaration of theologians, in which the concept of the “Russian world” was defined as a false teaching.
In December 2023, the Diocesan Church Court of the Moscow Diocese deprived Kirill Govorun of his holy rank and put him on ecclesiastical trial for serving in Kyiv with the clergy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
