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
- Top 3 surnames in Russian media at the beginning of 2023
Festive Week Significantly Influenced the Number of Mentions of Politicians and the Military in the Russian Mass Media.
⚡️Despite this, from the very beginning of 2023, Vladimir Putin is still heard more often than others in Russian media and social networks.
⚡️Vladimir Zelensky, like the trends of last year, takes second place in the domestic Russian discourse.
⚡️Evgeny Prigozhin consolidates his third place in the frequency of mentions in the Russian Federation. He is again ahead of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in terms of media activity. It is important to emphasize that the frequency of references to Prigozhin in the Russian media did not drop even during the holiday period. Thus, the owner of PMC "Wagner" once again emphasized his significant and growing influence in Russian politics and the media sphere. 
- The FSB order to restrict the exit of Russians from the country is already circulating on the Web
The information requires confirmation, but alarm bells 
- Cover of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
Very realistic, what do you think? 
- But a Nazi, at the same time, you are still 
- Attention! Important Poll! Is such a law necessary? 
- The meme is funny, the situation — terrible 
- #losses of invaders as of 10.01
🔻+ 710 dead of the RF Armed Forces over the past day:
▪️Deputy Commander of the 1444th Small Rifle Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Aleksey Bachurin
▪️Lieutenant Colonel Boris Mikheev
▪️Lieutenant Ivan Maltsev 
- The US is thinking about sending Stryker armored fighting vehicles to Ukraine — Politico citing sources.
According to the newspaper, the States may announce a new package, which will include Stryker, at the end of next week. 
- Ukrainian military achieved success near Kremennaya, — battle map from ISW.
As noted at the Institute for the Study of War, even Russian propagandists are already saying that the defenders of our country are preparing to resume the offensive in the Liman sector. 
- Something is planned: Russian media write that Colonel-General Alexander Lapin has been appointed chief of the General Staff of the Ground Forces of the Russian Armed Forces.
And the meme is that not so long ago Lapin was called a "talentless" and accused of retreating from the city of Liman in the Donetsk region. 
- In many regions of Ukraine, emergency power outages are applied due to exceeding the consumption limit, — Ukrenergo.
Also in some regions, due to adverse weather conditions, there are damages in the networks of the distribution system. Repairs are being carried out promptly on site. 
- Wagnerians are "heavy bloody battles" for control over Soledar, — The Guardian.
Russian troops led by Wagner detachments suffered heavy losses in the battles near Bakhmut and Soledar. The founder of the mercenary group, Prigozhin, also dismissed allegations of massive desertion of Ukrainian troops from the front line in Soledar.
At the same time, the victory in the battle for Bakhmut and Soledar will be the first significant event for the Russians for the first time in a long time. 
- Goyda in line for arrest.
Abramovich found another 10 yachts and ships registered to offshore companies worth $427 million. 
- The G7 countries plan to introduce two price ceilings for oil products from Russia at once — Reuters.
Starting in February, a variant could be introduced for products traded at a premium to crude oil, and another for those products traded at a discount. 
- Inflation in Ukraine in 2022 amounted to 26.6% – Gosstat.
At the same time, core inflation in December compared to November 2022 amounted to 0.8%, for the year as a whole — 22.6%. 
- Turkey "contacts with Ukraine and Russia, helps organize a dialogue, and in some cases there is a result", — Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.
He is sure that the war will end sooner or later at the negotiating table and "some meetings in Istanbul" are being held. 
- In Poland, the director of the country's international policy department was fired.
And all because of Vovan and Lexus' telephone prank over President Duda. Because he did not see and allowed.
UPD: Office of the President of Poland denied the dismissal of an official for Duda's conversation with Russian pranksters. 
- The Ukrainian military will begin exercises on the Patriot missile system in the United States next week, — CNN citing two US officials.
The training program will take place at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, where the US conducts its own advanced air defense system operation and maintenance exercises. 
- Some space news: Green comet will fly past the Earth for the first time in 50 thousand years, — CNN.
According to NASA, a comet discovered in 2022 by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in California will make its closest approach to the Sun on January 12. 
- Rusnya: Yes, this Europe of yours will freeze without Russian gas.
It's also Rusnya today: how not to freeze in a state where there is so much gas??? 
- Canada will buy one more NASAMS battery from the USA for Ukraine, – Minister of Defense of Canada. 
- A little dark humor for the night 
- How can it be without Girkin's perturbations 
- Photos from Donetsk without heating (because there is no water) 
- Censorship went according to the classics - messing up 
hidden this: 
publishing rip
- German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock arrived on an unannounced visit to Kharkiv. Standing on the ruins of houses destroyed by Russian shelling, Burbock announced new deliveries of German weapons to Kyiv. 
- They want to expand the Empire, at any cost. And destroy the "Ukrainian". 
- After the government refused to publish the list of Chmobiks who died in Makiivka, unofficial lists compiled by relatives were also removed from social networks. 
- Some comics 
- China began to replace Russian coal with Australian
The Chinese authorities plan to buy coal from Australia again. This is reported by Reuters.
China has already increased its own coal production earlier, production is breaking all records.
Besides, the authorities are thinking about buying coal from Australia again.
Australian Coal May Partially Displace Russian Coal in the Chinese Market.
China has not bought coal from Australia since 2020
Then, the Australian authorities announced the possible involvement of China in the origin of the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Chinese authorities introduced an unofficial ban on the import of Australian coal.
Prior to this ban, Australia was the largest supplier of fuel to China.
At the end of 2022, relations between the countries warmed up, and already in January 2023, 3 utilities and 1 steel company received the right to order Australian coal.
In the near future, the list of companies may be expanded.
An attempt to replace Australian coal with fuel from Indonesia, Mongolia and Russia led China to massive power outages in late 2021
There are also problems with our own production - a new wave of COVID-19 has arrived.
Supplies of Russian coal turned out to be not a very good decision, because due to the workload of the Eastern polygon (Trans-Siberian and Baikal-Amur main lines), deliveries are seriously delayed.
Because of this, South Korea and Japan began to refuse contracts with Russian companies.
In November, Governor of Kuzbass S. Tsivilev said that wagons with 800,000 tons of coal got stuck in the region.
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- "Got crazy." China says it has lost confidence in Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who declares a strategic and comprehensive partnership with China, is losing the confidence of the leadership in Beijing, which increasingly doubts the sobriety of his decisions and the ability to get out of the “trap” of the Ukrainian adventure without loss.
China considers it possible that Russia will not be able to achieve a victory over Ukraine and will emerge from the conflict in the status of an insignificant state, weakened politically and diplomatically on the world stage, reports the Financial Times, citing Chinese officials.
Some of them, writes the FT, admit in private discussions at least some degree of distrust of Putin personally. According to the sources of the publication, the Russian president did not warn Xi Jinping about his intention to invade Ukraine. And during a visit to China a few days before the war, he only said that he could take "measures" if Kyiv attacked Russian territory and provoked a humanitarian catastrophe.
In China, this was understood as a signal of the possibility of a limited military intervention, and not a full-fledged invasion, which Putin started.
"Putin is crazy," one Chinese official told the FT on condition of anonymity. “The decision to invade was made by a very small group of people (in Russia). China simply does not understand Russia,” he explained.
According to FT sources, failures in assessing the situation cost the career of the chief expert on Russia in the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Deputy Minister Le Yuchen. Speaking Russian and working in the Soviet Union, and then becoming the third person in the ministry when Russia and China were actively moving closer, Le Yucheng was excluded from the contenders for the post of minister and demoted to deputy head of the State Administration of Radio Broadcasting and Television of the PRC.
“Le Yucheng was demoted two levels of seniority. He was held responsible for the intelligence's failure to (predict) the Russian invasion," the official said.
Now China wants to reduce tensions with the West, strengthen its position in Europe and offers itself not only as a possible peacemaker, but is also ready to participate in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, FT sources say.
This is evidenced by the disgrace of Zhao Lijian - one of the "hawks" in the Chinese Foreign Ministry, as well as the appointment of Qin Gang, the former ambassador to the United States, as head of the department.
Beijing's goal is to try to reassure European leaders that it is willing to use proximity to the Kremlin to deter Putin from using nuclear weapons, officials from China and the EU told the FT.
The European Union remains China's largest trading partner, and only two countries of the bloc - the Netherlands and Germany - buy Chinese goods worth 3.3 times moree than the whole of Russia (245 billion dollars against 73 billion). At the same time, the Russian Federation is not even included in the top 10 main export markets for Chinese companies.
"China has realized that it is facing too many countries at once, especially the developed countries that remain its main economic partners," says Jean-Pierre Kabestan, a sinologist at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Therefore, he believes, China is struggling to get closer to the European Union and its key member countries, as well as US allies in Asia, such as Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. 
- So what is the purpose of the war 
- Pakistan also participated 
- A little rotting. Free slow checkout! 
- Lawyer Igor Slabykh published the document in his telegram channel (you can see the link to the PDF below):
My colleagues and I have finished translating the report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the killings of civilians in Ukraine by Russian soldiers.
I can’t say that it was a pleasant job for everyone: reading into the details of the murders, choosing the right words for translation and editing the text took a lot of mental strength, but this is nothing compared to what had to and has to endure for those who are in the report is mentioned, and indeed to all Ukrainians.
It is my deepest conviction that every Russian should read this, so we are trying to distribute the report as widely as possible. If you have the opportunity to help us with this, please help.
Journalist Dmitry Kolezev shared the list of translators:
The translation is not official and was done by miss_Ali3n, Dmitry Valuev, Raisa Boyko and Igor Slabykh. Translation editors: Daria Dimke and Kirill Titaev.
You can read, download at this link
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- it’s hard to go with IT people, although why am I surprised, with such a salary, although they promised a reservation 😁 
- Every time it gets more and more interesting 
- "Racist Federation" by FreeYakutiaFoundation 
