russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for January 27-29

Category: Summary, PEGI 16
30 January 2024

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



- Friendly fire continues

Russian oil tanker Marlin Luanda carrying British fuel caught fire after being hit by a Houthi missile.


- Greece agreed to transfer its old Soviet-made military equipment to Ukraine after a request from the United States, Kathimerini reports.

This decision will unlock $200 million in FMF sales for new military equipment programs proposed by the United States.

Greece has anti-aircraft guns "Thor", S-300, "Osa" and ZU-23-2.


- Ukrainian intelligence (SBU) reports the discovery of a corruption scheme in the purchase of shells worth $40 million.

The contract for the supply of 100 thousand shells was concluded with the Lviv company Arsenal in August 2022.

Payment was made in advance, and part of the funds was transferred to foreign accounts.

But delivery was not carried out.

In the case, the leaders of the Lvov Arsenal and several officials of the Ministry of Defense involved in the scheme were detained.


- SCALP cruise missile supplied by France, installed on the Ukrainian Su-24.

“De Paris avec amour, Rachysty, allez en enfer”

(From Paris with love, Russia, go to hell)


- A Ukrainian FPV drone got stuck in the glass of a Russian car.


- Western manufacturers will need two years to provide Ukrainian soldiers with Russian-grade ammunition, the Financial Times writes, citing a senior Western official.

It is noted that Western defense companies do not have enough skilled labor to meet demand.


- Russian DRG shot a brother and sister in the Sumy region in the morning

The authorities of the Sumy region reported that the building of the victims is located in the village of Andreevka, which is located in a five-kilometer border zone. Residents of the area were urged to evacuate to safe places.


- Russia intends to wage war for another 3-4 years, as evidenced by the increased development of its military production - The Telegraph.

The Russian Federation is turning former shopping centers, bakeries and other civilian buildings into weapons factories.

Russian television footage shows children learning the skills of assembling ammunition parts in workshops.

Since February 2022, the Russian Federation has increased the production of tanks by 560%, infantry fighting vehicles by 360%, and armored personnel carriers by 350%.

Russia is preparing to produce two million artillery shells a year.

Currently, the scale of these activities does not allow for an offensive to be carried out in 2024.


- A Ukrainian pensioner aged 66 was detained in Germany, he had €455 thousand with him, – Bild

The traveler was heading to Cyprus. Customs officials are currently conducting an investigation into possible money laundering and are also trying to establish the owner and origin of the funds.

According to the publication, most likely, this money will be confiscated in favor of the state.


- The United States assured of the seizure of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine, said Prime Minister Shmygal.


- Russian language will be excluded from schools in Lithuanian Vilnius

The vice-mayor of a city in Lithuania, Arūnas Šileris, said that Russian will no longer be taught as a second foreign language. Instead, the study of languages spoken in the countries of the European Union is introduced.

People, catFor those already studying Russian, conditions will be created for changing the language.


- The Office of the Prosecutor General clarified that the Russian DRG in the Sumy region fired at a car with civilians

A 54-year-old man and his 68-year-old sister died. An investigation has been launched into the violation of the laws of war.


- It’s a matter of time when an incident occurs at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, now everything is going on, - Energy Minister Galushchenko on the telethon

He recalled that the station has been under occupation for about two years and therefore the entire continent is under threat.

It's constantly getting worse there. There have already been 8 blackouts of the Zaporozhye NPP.


- Explosions were heard in Poltava, an industrial facility in the Kremenchug region was hit, - Poltava OVA.


- Trump is preparing for a large-scale trade war with China, the Washington Post reports

Trump is considering imposing a 60% tariff on all Chinese imports if he returns to the White House.

Economists from both political camps predict that such measures will trigger a "global trade war" and lead to "severe disruption to the global economy."


- Ukrainian army is the 4th most powerful army in Europe, – Global Firepower.

The top three places are occupied by Great Britain, Italy and France. At the bottom of the ranking is Belarus.


- The enemy is advancing: “The occupiers are highly active, increasing the number of attack operations. For the second day in a row, 50 clashes have occurred,” - CNN.

▪️The fighting is taking place in the northeast of the country, at the intersection of the territories of the Kharkov and Lugansk regions.

▪️Intense artillery attacks are taking place in the Krokhmalnoye area, Tabaevka and Stelmakhovka.

▪️There is a significant threat from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) towards Bakhmut, especially near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, where the enemy is mobilizing its forces.

▪️According to a sergeant from the 92nd brigade, the occupiers have a large number of UAVs, exceeding the number of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including drones with thermal imagers.

▪️The enemy is making attempts to regain lost positions in the Zaporozhye region.


- The option of booking from the army for 40 thousand UAH for entrepreneurs is being considered, - Chairman of the Committee on Economic Development.

The idea is to place a bid for a reservation in the range from 6 to 50 thousand hryvnia. Natalukha warns that in wartime you sometimes have to make unpopular decisions, because “you can’t please everyone.”

However, he expresses concern that a rate of less than 40 thousand hryvnia for a reservation may not bring significant revenue. Representatives of large enterprises generally want the standard per employee to be 6 thousand hryvnia.


- We are ready to sacrifice Romania’s membership in NATO in order to annex the territories of Ukraine, - Newsweek, referring to the head of the leading Romanian party AUR, Claudiu Tarziu.


- Rashists killed the last resident of the village of Stepok, Sumy region

This is a settlement near the border with the Russian Federation.

“Dad didn’t want to leave, there was no electricity there anymore, they were driving every day, we bought him a generator and a battery and he lived there. The shell hit him directly in his room,” son Ruslan.


- Trump ordered Republicans to refuse aid to Ukraine, - CNN.

We are talking about the same $60 billion. Trump has expressed his intention to occupy this area if he returns to the presidency in December.

He also argues that Biden is politically powerless and unable to solve problems related to Ukraine, US borders and the country's internal problems.


- The Ministry of Defense conducts unscheduled inspections of TCC and joint ventures in the regions. Many violations are recorded - Umerov.


- The situation around Tabaevka: The Defense Forces are trying to moderate the enemy from further advances, - DeepState.

The enemy was unable to remain in the village due to the effective measures of the Ukrainian military, which led to the pushing of the invaders to the outskirts of the village. The fighting continues. The settlement moves into the gray zone for further developments.

The weakness of the defense of the village of Tabaevka is due to its geographical location. Located in a lowland between two ridges, and also riddled with many swamps, it makes it difficult to successfully hold, especially without control of both nearby hills.


-NATO needs to prepare for Russian missile attacks across Europe, - The Times.

The leaders of the Alliance countries are confident that there is very little time to consider this issue and hope for an early agreement on the introduction of the “military Schengen” system, which will allow the free movement of military convoys across the territory of NATO member countries.


- In the Russian Federation, an engineer at the Almaz-Antey plant shot himself because his missile hit a residential building in Kharkov - rossmi

In his suicide note, he wrote that it was a rocket that he “had a hand in.” And his grandmother lived in that house. She died.


- Russians, like in the Middle Ages, warm themselves by fires in severe frosts. Don't the authorities have money to help them?

Just compare:

only 337 billion rubles were allocated for the necessary modernization of housing and communal services;

but for an unnecessary war in which hundreds of thousands of people die, 10.8 trillion rubles have been allocated for 2024 alone.

That is, with this money it would be possible to modernize all public utilities planned under the modernization program at least 30 times (!) in one year.


- Combat work of the Swedish 155-mm self-propelled gun "Archer" in the Donetsk region.


- Photo of the consequences of the strike on Russian drone operators in Illovaisk from the ground


- Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" surviving after being shot down


- The Russians installed a barbecue on the Desertcross 1000-3 “golf car” received from China


- Adventure of Russians on the islands


- The organizers of the exhibition “Besieged Leningrad” are accused of treason against the Motherland. When setting up the exhibition, they foolishly took and displayed genuine rarities of those days, all life-saving products were made in America. In fact, this is exactly what happened. And beans and stewed meat and chocolate - everything is US, everything is lend-lease


- Relatives of bags


- Journalists found out that the founder of the Groupe d'Investissement Financier company, Viktor Labin, which provided services for the supply and maintenance of products to at least 18 enterprises of the Russian defense industry, runs a business with his sons in Belgium and is not under Western sanctions.


- ...and confiscate the property from our own..


- What would grandfather say...


- Another million is on the way


- More than 300 complaints about violations during the collection of signatures for Putin were filed by activists with the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation


- Who lives in shit all their life and prepares for war?


- And the professor looks at the root


- Just 2 news that live in harmony in cotton heads...


- Electronic warfare vs suicide bombers


- Patrushev called on Russians to prepare for a long “proxy war” with the West

“Repeatedly the enemy came to our land with fire and sword. And now the United States, NATO and their satellites, through the hands of the Kiev Nazi regime and various kinds of mercenaries, are waging a proxy war against our people and state, which the Anglo-Saxon world will not stop even with the end of the “hot phase” of the conflict in Ukraine,” said Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev .


- Why is that so?


- A Ukrainian war veteran works at the recruiting center of the 3rd assault brigade in Kyiv


- Future elite of the Russian Federation


- Cracked



It’s just that part of the hostel decided to separate. The usual thing.


- ASTRA: Russian military shot a family of 3 people in occupied Kreminnaya

As ASTRA found out, the bodies of 60-year-old Natalya Burlutskaya, her 37-year-old daughter Alla Burlutskaya and Alla’s 41-year-old husband Andrei Ruban with gunshot wounds were found in the occupied city of Kremennaya, Lugansk region, on Lenin Lane on January 26. ASTRA sources and distant relatives of the murdered family spoke about this. 37-year-old Alla is survived by 18-year-old daughter Victoria.



As ASTRA managed to find out, Fidan Khaerzamanov, a 33-year-old soldier of military unit 12271, was detained on suspicion of shooting civilians. His colleagues are also wanted: 30-year-old Igor Dmitriev and 39-year-old Azamat Gareev.



The motive for the murder is unknown.


- The court of the Rostov region sentenced a 72-year-old pensioner to 5.5 years in prison for “fakes” about the army.



The Shakhty City Court found Evgenia Mayboroda guilty of disseminating “knowingly false information” motivated by political hatred (Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and calls for extremist activity (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) for two reposts on VK. The prosecutor asked the court to sentence the woman to six years in prison.

The pensioner admitted guilt to everything except the motive of political hatred. She explained that she made the reposts because her brother in Dnepr found himself under the rubble of a building that collapsed as a result of a Russian missile attack.


- Does anyone know, but they do this of their own free will, or maybe at least earn money this way?? Personally speaking, this is of course some kind of new syndrome.



And why doesn't the carVAZ?


- A prisoner returning from the war stabbed to death a famous Altai musician. At the same time, the major press does not report that the killer is a “hero of the Northern Military District.”



In Barnaul, a former prisoner killed musician and composer Artyom Bashkeev, known under the pseudonym Tema Altai (pictured).

“The killer was caught, he is a member of the Military Military District and was transferred to the military prosecutor's office. <...> Tema considered him a friend, but it all ended with a knife to the neck,” noted an acquaintance of the deceased.

The musician was survived by his wife and children; he was known for his charitable activities, for example, for orphanages.

At the same time, the major press, for example the Communist Party and the AIF, does not cover that the killer is a participant in the war in Ukraine and a released prisoner.

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