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[REGNUM] At the end of January, a series of criminal cases related to sexual acts against minors were opened in Russia.
The victims are natives of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, living in our country and having citizenship. The suspects are their fellow countrymen, who after moving to Russia brought here their "traditions", including intimate relations with underage girls. Now the foreign citizens are facing long prison terms.
Today, according to the law in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, you can marry from the age of 18. But in remote villages, where customs often prevail over the law, early marriages are still common. According to ancient customs, parents can marry off their daughters as early as 13-14, and in some cases, as early as 12. At the same time, girls do not even know who will become their husband - the marriage issue is decided by families.
The authorities of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are trying to eradicate “child marriages”, but some natives of these countries still perceive them as the norm and a guide to action.
PORN WITH A 15 YEAR OLD
The first high-profile story occurred in Khimki, Moscow Region. In mid-January, law enforcement officers established that 20-year-old Tajik citizen Sunnatullo M. was producing and distributing pornographic materials with the participation of 15-year-old compatriot Madina R. ( name changed ).
The victim, a schoolgirl, is a native of Tajikistan, permanently resides in Khimki and has Russian citizenship. The suspect, Sunnatullo, is a citizen of Tajikistan and has temporary registration in Moscow. The man works as an excavator operator in one of the largest Russian companies in the field of housing construction and development.
The incident took place back in July 2024, but it only became known now. Police detained Sunnatullo on suspicion of indecent assault (Part 1 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - up to three years in prison) against a 15-year-old girl.
The investigation established that a citizen of Tajikistan filmed porn with Madina, after which he sent the videos via messenger and published them on social networks.
On January 16, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened another criminal case against the suspect under Part 1 of Article 242.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - production and circulation of materials with pornographic images of minors. Under this charge, the man faces up to eight years in prison.
MOVIES WITH A SEQUEL
On January 4, a police department in Moscow received a report that an adult man had committed sexual acts against 14-year-old Zulfiya I. ( name changed ). The girl is a native of Tajikistan and received Russian citizenship in November 2023. She lives in Moscow and is an 8th-grader at one of the capital's schools.
Law enforcement officers identified and detained the suspect. He turned out to be 20-year-old unemployed native of Tajikistan Shokhjakhon H. He has a residence permit in Russia until 2027, registered in the Moscow region.
The victim said that last October, a man saw her on the street and approached her. The schoolgirl was embarrassed and wanted to leave, but he was persistent. The girl told Shokhjakhon that she was only 14 years old, but this did not bother him: the man persuaded Zulfiya to give him her phone number. The next two weeks, the man wrote and called the girl, trying to get closer.
On October 15, Shokhdzhakhon invited Zulfiya to come to his home to "watch a movie." The schoolgirl was hesitant, but the man managed to persuade her. Zulfiya arrived at one of the apartment buildings on Dmitrovskoe Highway in Moscow. Shokhdzhakhon met her, led her into the apartment, locked the door and turned on the TV. After that, the man began to openly harass the girl and took off her clothes.
“The detainee committed sexual acts against the schoolgirl without using violence,” a source in law enforcement agencies told IA Regnum.
Apparently, the girl was simply afraid and could not say “no” to an adult, persistent man – hence the wording “without the use of violence.”
The man was detained. On January 17, investigators opened a criminal case against Shokhdzhakhon under the articles on indecent acts against a person under the age of sixteen (Part 1 of Article 135 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and on sexual intercourse and other acts of a sexual nature with a person under the age of sixteen (Part 1 of Article 134 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Shokhdzhakhon faces up to three and up to four years of imprisonment, respectively.
DRIVEN TO SUICIDE ATTEMPT
On January 19, the police of St. Petersburg received a message from doctors at a children's psychiatric hospital. The doctors reported that a 15-year-old native of Uzbekistan, Gulnara U. ( name changed ), had been urgently delivered to them. The girl had been hospitalized in one of the psychiatric departments after a suicide attempt, with a diagnosis of "Acute stress reaction."
As a source in law enforcement agencies told IA Regnum, the girl told doctors that the day before she had entered into intimate relations with three adult men. Again, as in the case of 14-year-old Zulfiya, formally everything happened without the use of physical violence. But after what happened, the girl experienced severe stress and attempted to commit suicide. Fortunately, the child was saved. Doctors are currently working with her.
Law enforcement officers identified three suspects who had persuaded the girl to have intimate relations. They turned out to be Gulnara's fellow countrymen, citizens of Uzbekistan: 20-year-old Kahramon E., 21-year-old Yakhyo F., and 23-year-old Ilesbek I. The police are currently searching for them. It is known that all three live in St. Petersburg and have temporary registration there.
The police are currently conducting an investigation, and the information has been forwarded to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg.
MOVED, BUT DIDN'T REBUILD
In all three cases described above, the male suspects knew the girls were underage, but that didn't stop them.
Having moved to Russia, some foreigners were unable to adapt or assimilate – they still internally adhere to the customs and traditions of their homeland, a source in law enforcement agencies told IA Regnum.
According to him, foreigners who have moved to Russia may know the laws of our country and understand that they may face criminal liability for certain actions.
“But when the situation concerns their relationships with their fellow countrywomen, it seems to them that Russian laws do not apply to this: if a girl is from a Tajik or Uzbek family, then she can be treated as is customary in the remote villages of Tajikistan or Uzbekistan.
This is also evidenced by the fact that when such criminals are detained, they sincerely do not understand why they were arrested and what bad they did,” the agency’s source notes.
He also believes that girls who have moved to Russia and even have Russian citizenship do not always understand how to properly respond to signs of attention from adult men. Their mentality and folk traditions forbid them from contradicting men, and they often do not know how to say a firm "no" and defend themselves.
[NYPOST] The number of Russians signing up to fight in Ukraine at Moscow recruitment centers have dropped 80% over the last six months, according to a new report.
Instead, more and more foreigners are signing up in exchange for the enlistment payout of nearly $20,000.
Recruitment centers in the Russian capital are seeing about 40 applicants a day, a significant drop from the summer frenzy when more than 200 recruits signed up each day, the local Verstka magazine reports.
Patriotic young Russians were energized in part by the Ukrainian counter-invasion of the Kursk region of Russia.
''In August, we could barely cope. People came en masse, 200-250 people a day,'' a source from the Moscow mayor's office told the magazine.
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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 19:50 Fighters from the 3rd separate assault brigade have denied the Russian Defense Ministry’s statement about the capture of Novoegorovka in the Luhansk region.
The Russian Defense Ministry announced the occupation of a populated area. As "proof," the Russians published a video allegedly recorded in the area of responsibility of the Third Assault Brigade.
The fighters emphasized that the capture of the village is a fake of Russian propaganda for the sake of "the illusion of success of the Russian Federation on the brigade's borders." According to the Ukrainian military, the video itself, filmed by the occupiers, shows the village of Kovalivka being destroyed by them.
18:00 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha has received an invitation to an extended meeting of foreign ministers from a number of countries, including the United States. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine , citing sources. Thus, the first meeting between official representatives of Ukraine and the new US administration may take place.
17.39 On Wednesday night, drones attacked 23 arsenals of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate (GRAU) of the Ministry of Defense in the Tver Region of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the Telegram channel ASTRA . At the time of the strike, there were no ammunition at the arsenal. But the facility was damaged. A military unit was also damaged.
17.26 Special Operations Forces operators raided and destroyed Russian invader positions in one of the hottest areas of the front.
Operators of the 3rd separate Svyatoslav the Brave SSR regiment discovered at least four occupiers who had taken over a dugout at the former Ukrainian Armed Forces position. The SSO group boldly broke right into the Russian position in an armored Humvee. The operators took control of the exit from the dugout and threw 13 kg of explosives inside.
The powerful explosion left only a crater and the remains of the occupiers at the site of the enemy dugout.
15:22 The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has handed over about 80 all-wheel drive trucks from a Ukrainian manufacturer to combat brigades.
The trucks will be used to perform special and combat missions. This is the first batch of transport purchased under one of the contracts under state guarantees for the supply of weapons and military equipment for the army.
13.53 British intelligence has analyzed the strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the oil depot of the Russian airfield Engels-2 in the Saratov region, which were carried out on January 8 and 14. This was reported by the press service of the British Ministry of Defense on Wednesday, January 29.
13.37 In Kupyansk, the occupiers hit an emergency medical vehicle with a loitering munition based on an FPV drone, and another civilian vehicle was also damaged. There are wounded. This was reported by the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov. According to him, three medical workers were injured . The 43-year-old driver was hospitalized with blast wounds. The 26-year-old doctor and 41-year-old paramedic suffered from an acute stress reaction.
12.13 Russian troops attacked the Kherson region with drones. Two people were killed due to enemy shelling. This was reported by the head of the Kherson OVA Oleksandr Prokudin on Wednesday, January 29.
10:59 On Wednesday night, Ukrainian military personnel struck the Nizhny Novgorod Oil Refinery in the city of Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod Region of the Russian Federation). This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Units of the Main Intelligence Directorate were involved in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces.
10.40 In the Tver region of Russia, on the night of January 29, the Transneft-Baltika oil pumping station was attacked by drones. A fire broke out at the facility. This was reported by Russian media and Telegram channels.
9.56 The downing of 29 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other types of drones in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytskyi, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa regions has been confirmed. 14 enemy drone imitators have been lost (without negative consequences). This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force.
8:58 Over the past 24 hours, the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out one strike on an ammunition depot, seven strikes on areas where personnel and military equipment are concentrated, two strikes on command posts, and two strikes on enemy artillery systems. This was reported on January 29 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:17 In Kiev, fragments of a Russian UAV fell near a metro station in the Darnitsky district. The fence and the checkpoint building of the Darnitsky depot were damaged. This was reported by the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko.
According to him, there is currently no fire and no victims have been found.
7:50 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,670 Russian occupiers in one day. The total combat losses of the Russian Federation from 24.02.22 to 29.01.25 were approximately 834,670 people. This was reported by the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
7:23 Several regions of the Russian Federation were attacked by attack drones at night . Allegedly 104 drones were destroyed. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense. It is noted that 47 drones were destroyed over the territory of the Kursk Region; 27 over the territory of the Bryansk Region; 11 over the territory of the Smolensk Region; seven over the territory of the Tver Region; four over the territory of the Belgorod Region; three over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Region; three over the territory of the Kaluga Region; one over the territory of the Rostov Region; one over Lake Ladoga in the Leningrad Region.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Defense Forces also continue to conduct operations in the Kursk direction.
The occupiers once tried to push their way into the Kozachoya Lopana direct on Kharkovsky.
The enemy continues to actively attack the Pokrovsk direction. In total, 152 combat clashes occurred on the front over the past 24 hours, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Thursday evening, January 29.
In the Kharkov direction, the occupiers once tried to advance in the direction of Kazachya Lopan.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attacked 10 times near Petrovpavlovka, Novoosinovoye, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoye and Lozovaya.
In the Liman direction, enemy troops attacked in the areas of the settlements of Novoegorovka, Kopanki, Makeyevka, Novolyubovka, Torskoye, Yampolevka and Zelenaya Dolina. The defenders repelled 26 attacks.
In the Seversky direction, the Russians stormed the Verkhnekamensky district six times.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 10 attempts by the invaders to advance forward in the areas of Novomarkovoye, Vremenny Yar and Stupochki.
In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers attacked the Krymsk and Toretsk regions 15 times.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russians 67 times in the areas of the settlements of Vodyanoye Vtoroye, Elizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Lisovka, Vozrozhdenie, Zverevoye, Kotlino, Udachnoye, Kotlyarovka, Andreyevka, Dachnoye and Ulakli.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the invaders carried out six attacks near the settlements of Konstantinopol, Razliv, Razdolnoye and Novoocheretovatoye.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces also continue to conduct an operation in the Kursk direction. Today, Ukrainian soldiers repelled seven attacks by the invading army in this direction, one battle continues, the enemy's aviation carried out 19 air strikes on its own territory, dropping 35 KAB.
Let us recall that Russian journalists have established the names of 88,055 Russian military personnel who have died since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. It was noted that journalists have received between 45% and 65% of all the dead.
Let us add that British intelligence reported that the losses of Russian troops in the aggression against Ukraine in 2024 amounted to 429,660 killed and wounded, which is more than in 2022 and 2023.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit units of a motorised infantry brigade and an assault brigade of the AFU near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 30 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, a motor vehicle, and two field artillery guns.
The Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation. Russian units engaged manpower and materiel of a tank brigade, a mechanised brigade, an assault brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to Topoli, Lozovaya, Zeleny Gai (Kharkov region), and Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 320 troops, a tank, three armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, eight motor vehicles, six field artillery guns, including two Western-made artillery pieces, and two Nota electronic warfare stations. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions. Russian units hit formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and two territorial defence brigades close to Verkhnekamenskoye, Yantarnoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, five motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns.
The Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Novoyelizavetovka (Donetsk People's Republic) as a result of active operations.
Russian troops engaged manpower and materiel of three mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to Andreyevka, Novopavlovka, Udachnoye, Shcherbinovka, and Tarasovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy's losses amounted to up to 520 troops, a tank, seven armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, seven motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, and a U.S. AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences. A mechanised brigade of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, and a territorial defence brigade were hit near Razliv and Konstantinopol (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy sustained losses of more than 135 troops, a tank, and four field artillery guns, including a Western-made gun.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of a mechanised brigade and a territorial defence brigade close to Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region) and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU lost more than 50 troops and four motor vehicles.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, strike UAVs, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, drone and uncrewed surface vehicles manufacturing workshops, depots, and assembly sites as well as clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 156 areas.
Air defence systems shot down 165 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,800 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,887 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,041 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,878 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted damage on formations of one tank brigade, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU close to Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zaoleshenka, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Eight hostile counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and Artillery engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolayevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny, Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, and Obody in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 420 troops, three tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 29 motor vehicles as well as seven UAV control posts and an ammunition depot. One AFU serviceman surrendered.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 55,900 troops, 325 tanks, 239 infantry fighting vehicles, 184 armoured personnel carriers, 1,649 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,639 motor vehicles, 392 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 103 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 19:11 Advance of Russian Armed Forces near Kotlino. 18:34 Servicemen of the "Southern" group of troops are checking road sections and adjacent territories in the Chasov-Yarsky direction.
Sappers are working to detect and defuse explosive devices, including anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, planted by Ukrainian militants.
18:32 Search and rescue team members on a Mi-8PSG helicopter accompany army aviation crews performing combat missions in the border areas of the Kursk region.
18:30 Advance of Russian Armed Forces near Novoandreyevka.
18:03 In the period from 15.25 to 16.45 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: two UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region and one over the territory of the Kursk region.
18:00 RF Armed Forces advanced near Yantarny and Slavyanka.
17:30 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces near Velikaya Novoselka.
17:16 First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Leonid Gornin checked organization of financial support for the troops of the Southern Military District
The heads of financial and economic departments, personnel departments and commanders of military units reported on the organization of financial and banking support for units, including those participating in the special operation.
Leonid Gornin drew the special attention of the district command to the prompt resolution of issues related to providing military personnel and their family members with monetary allowances and all types of additional payments.
The deputy head of the Russian military department also presented state awards to servicemen who demonstrated courage and heroism while carrying out combat missions in the SVO zone.
“We are getting closer to our Victory every day thanks to the feats you are performing,” noted Leonid Gornin.
16:16 The Russian army has taken up new positions in the southeast of Chasov Yar –MAP.
16:14 Around 15:10 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod region.
15:52 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the southeast of Dachny, Kurakhovskoye direction –MAP.
15:11 Reconnaissance, adjustment, video recording.
Calculation of unmanned aerial systems Supercam S350 Novorossiysk paratroopers corrected airborne artillery fire on a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle in the Orekhov direction in the Zaporizhia region.
Supercam S350 also recorded the destruction of an infantry fighting vehicle with a crew and troops for the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel on the combat contact line.
14:38 "Lancet" turned the enemy self-propelled gun into a pile of metal.
Accurate hit by loitering munition destroyed a 122mm 2S1 self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces camouflaged in a forest belt in the area of the settlement of Burlatskoye in the Vrem'evsky direction.
13:04 “The enemy is afraid when we work.”
Snipers of the Vostok group, having destroyed the enemy’s manpower, supported assault groups of motorized rifle units and ensured their advance in the South Donetsk direction.
12:48 In the period from 10.05 to 11.40 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of Kursk and Murmansk regions.
12:44 Using FPV attack drones destroyed M-113 armored personnel carrier and Spartan armored personnel carrier of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Petrovskoye/Grekovka settlement, Luhansk region.
11:55 Fighting is underway for the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway, testifies Deep State Enemy Resource Map
Over the past 24 hours, the grey zone has expanded onto the highway, and the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces to the east has also been indicated.
In addition, Russian troops advanced in several areas from Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) to Kurakhovo.
The enemy also recognizes the success of the Russian army in Velikaya Novoselka.
11:44 Krasnoarmeyskoye direction
The crew of the Strela-10 air defense missile system of the Center group, covering the advance of Russian units,destroyedEnemy UAV.
10:47 Powerful salvoes of 122mm BM-21 Grads.
Calculations of the MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "West" continue to apply precise strikes on fortifications, military equipment and concentrations of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the area of ??the special operation.
10:41 FPV drone operators of the 39th Separate Motorized Rifle Bbrigade of the Southern group of troops, in the area of the village of Dachnoye destroyed American Armored Fighting Vehicle "Humvee" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
10:20 Burned down the position of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
By artillery fire destroyed mortar position of a 120mm mortar 2B11 of Ukrainian nationalists in the area of the settlement of Novolyubovka, LPR.
10:10 Calculation of FPV drones of the Rubicon Center struck combat armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk direction.
10:08 RF Armed Forces are applying strikes on enemy targets in Kyiv
Geranium drones circle above the city and the region.
07:25 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 104 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles:
47 over the territory of the Kursk region,
27 over the territory of the Bryansk region,
11 over the territory of the Smolensk region,
Seven over the territory of the Tver region,
Four over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Three over the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod region,
Three over the territory of the Kaluga region,
One over the territory of the Rostov region and
One over the territory of the Leningrad region.
06:34 Attack drones confidently approach targets.
UAV units of the Dnepr group are destroying objects and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by strike drones in the Kakhovka direction. This time, the crew of unmanned aerial vehicles identified and destroyed an enemy stronghold on the right bank of the Dnieper.
05:10 "The enemy did not have time to come to his senses." The crews of T-72B3M tanks of the "North" group of forces, supporting our assault units, destroyed dugouts, strongholds and observation posts with Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
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[ColonelCassad] Today I watched a video from RT
about the combat work of the Nimble Volunteer Special Forces group "Akhmat" in the forest area south of the "Novoe" microdistrict in Chasov Yar. Akhmat is a Chechen unit, self identified as special operations troops. I consider them fanatics.
Ok. But are they berserker cannon fodder, or fanatics with the skills they claim?
The old camp "Chasovyarovets", located in the forest area "Donnaya Balka", has long been a large fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which drank a lot of blood from units of the Russian army during the battle for Chasov Yar. During the summer campaign, the above-mentioned forest was literally teeming with personnel, electronic warfare systems and enemy equipment. Hexacopters and FPV drones were launched from there, the operators themselves used well-prepared shelters that saved them from artillery strikes.
Entering the forest (in the slang of the direction it was also called the "southern faggot forest") at the time of the summer campaign was practically impossible due to the convenient location of the forest itself behind the "Seversky Donetsk-Donbass" canal, which was also a serious fortified area of the enemy - a huge number of fortified positions were dug along the canal line, the defeat of which was difficult due to the specifics of their location under the canal pipe (by the way, the pipe itself was actively used by units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to move out of sight of UAVs).
At a certain point, the attack aircraft managed to break the enemy's defense in this section of the canal, after which the fighting moved to the outskirts of the forest. Since the Armed Forces of Ukraine at that time began to lose city blocks and there was a complication in the supply and evacuation from the "southern faggot forest", the number of enemies there significantly decreased - instead of them, the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to more actively use strike FPVs, in which, unfortunately, they do not experience a shortage.
As the city blocks "fell away" and the assault groups entered the forest, we managed to push through the remnants of the enemy's defense, and the "icing on the cake" was the assault on the buildings of the "Chasovyarovets" camp, shown in the RT report. In the summer, this camp had a powerful electronic warfare system, which did not allow our units to conduct reconnaissance properly. Perhaps one of the city's defense PPUs was located there (although the main ones were in the five-story block until about September, after which the garrison leadership had to change its location due to frequent FAB of the area).
I would like to congratulate our colleagues on taking an important fortified area, which at one time caused us a lot of problems. There will be more to come, the fall of Chasy Yar is just around the corner, and after taking control of the city, certain opportunities for further work will open up for us.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko struggled to contain his irritation before snapping at a BBC journalist on Sunday, making veiled threats as the reporter bravely grilled him over his sham election.
Dubbed 'Europe's last dicator', Lukashenko is set to extend his 31-year rule over the country after the rigged election, which saw him re-elected with 86.8 per cent of the vote.
Lukashenko only allowed four token candidates who he approved of to have their names on the ballot paper, while his real opponents are either locked up or in exile.
After casting his vote on election day, the president gave a four-hour-long press conference, with questions from media organisations friendly to his regime as well as foreign outlets.
The BBC's Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg, whose questions have attracted the fury of the dictator and his ally Vladimir Putin previously, was warned by Lukashenko: 'Don't overdo it, Steve'.
Their tense exchange began with a frosty comment from Lukashenko, who asked Rosenberg: 'What wretched question have you got prepared for me?'
'Good morning,' the journalist replied as members of the press press laughed along with the president, who then said 'good morning, Steve.'
'How can these elections be called democratic when your staunchest opponents and rivals are either in prison or in exile?' Rosenberg asked.
'Some are in prison and some are in exile, but you're here,' Lukashenko responded menacingly. 'Everyone has the right to choose. That's democratic. Some chose prison, others chose exile.'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] This is the terrifying moment an out-of-control nuclear icebreaker collided with a cargo ship that it had been sent to rescue in the Arctic.
The nuclear-powered vessel, named The Fifty Years of Victory, was on its way to free the bulk carrier Yamal Krechet after it became stuck in the ice in the Kara Sea.
But as it approached the trapped vessel, it began careering towards it and was unable to change direction.
Shocking footage from onboard The Fifty Years of Victory shows it ploughing directly into the side of the Yamal Krechet.
The ship - which was built to smash through ice ten feet thick - strikes the cargo ship's hull, causing it to rock back and forth.
It then immediately reversed course and backed away after the nighttime collision. "You are free! Proceed to Port"
The Fifty Years of Victory and the other ship both sustained hull damage following the incident, which is expected to lead to a criminal investigation.
Russian officials have stressed there is no threat to the nuclear reactor installation and life support systems on the icebreaker.
This is a major, yet forgotten region of WWII between the Soviet Union and Germany.
[Regnum] Norway intends to strengthen its military presence in the Finnmark region, which borders Russia, the country's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on January 29.
"Now NATO's line is to protect every inch of territory. After that we need to strengthen our presence in Finnmark, so we are now creating a brigade," he told the VG newspaper.
The Norwegian Foreign Minister also answered a journalist's question about revising the ban on military activity near the borders with Russia. He noted that Oslo intends to consider the relevant changes "within the framework of the principles of reassurance and deterrence."
Earlier, Newsweek reported that a landing operations center had been created in Norway to strengthen counteraction to Russia in the Arctic. The center is located in the Norwegian municipality of Sørreise. Its specialists will train military personnel from the United States, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, the authors of the article specified.
The Russian side has previously expressed concern about the build-up of NATO forces in Europe. The Kremlin has previously noted that Moscow does not threaten anyone, but will not ignore actions that pose a potential threat to its interests. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that Russia has no reason to fight with the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.
Rather mess with USA than Russia? Time for US to leave NATO?
[ZeroHedge] In a very unexpected development Denmark is now working directly with Russia's Gazprom to do environmental mitigation on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, in the wake of the multiple underwater blasts that took them offline on September 26, 2022 - leading to years of accusations against Moscow and a Russia-West tit-for-tat.
Denmark's energy agency has granted Nord Stream 2 AG (which is under Gazprom) permission to engage in preservation work on Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic Sea. The agency described that there remain serious safety risks after the natural gas pipeline was filled with seawater and the remnants of natural gas.
"The work aims to preserve the damaged pipeline by installing customized plugs at each of the open pipe ends to prevent further gas blow-out and the introduction of oxygenated seawater," Denmark's energy agency said.
The $11 billion pipeline project to pump Russian gas to Germany was hugely contentious for years, with Washington opposing it, before it was blown up in a 'mysterious' sabotage operation.
The Western mainstream media has since backed off its repeat accusations that Moscow must have blown up its own vital pipeline, in light of revelations and a recent consensus that it was either a team of Ukrainian specialists on a 'rogue' yacht or else a major CIA op with help from the US Navy.
While Scandinavian countries were once leading the accusations and investigations against Moscow related to the sabotage, suddenly Denmark appears to be working with 'pariah' Russia. All of this is happening as Washington still has far-reaching sanctions on Russia as well as the NS2 Russian operator, Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 AG.
"The damaged line of NS2 is estimated to still contain approximately 9-10 million cubic meters of natural gas, while the intact line remains filled with gas, the Danish agency said," Reuters notes. "The United States in December issued further sanctions on the operator and other Russian entities saying it considers Nord Stream 2 a Russian geopolitical project and opposes efforts to revive it," the report adds.
This has raised the crucial question of whether the Russian entity's supposed environmental mitigation efforts are but cover to eventually revive the controversial project.
This brings up other questions of context and timing. After all, the Danish government is currently locked in a very public battle and war of words with the new Trump administration over Greenland's sovereignty. Is the tiny NATO country of Denmark in search of any and all possible leverage?
With an impeachment and a US Senate trial along the way, this outcome is very unlikely.
[Regnum] According to American laws, an assassination attempt on the Russian president could result in the accused being executed in the electric chair, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said on Wednesday, January 29.
At a plenary session of the lower house of parliament, he commented on statements by journalist Tucker Carlson about the possible participation of former US President Joseph Biden and former Secretary of State Antony Blinken in discussing the assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin.
"This is a crime. Let them prove that this is a country of democracy. Let Biden go to the electric chair with Blinken, then the whole world will see - this is democracy. And if they keep silent, drag it out, well then don't open your mouth and don't teach anyone," Volodin said.
He also responded that such information should be taken seriously and given an immediate and firm response. OK
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Carlson had previously spoken about the US administration's attempts to kill the Russian president and called these attempts "madness." He placed special responsibility on Blinken, who, according to Carlson, effectively ran the US state in the last months of Biden's rule and did everything to speed up the start of a war between Russia and the US.
Carlson did not provide evidence of the US administration's intentions to kill the Russian president, and it is better not to trust unsubstantiated information, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told journalists. At the same time, he noted that the special services are constantly taking all necessary measures to ensure public safety and the safety of persons under state protection, and first and foremost the president.
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At the end of January, a series of criminal cases related to sexual acts against minors were opened in Russia.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko struggled to contain his irritation before snapping at a BBC journalist on Sunday, making veiled threats as the reporter bravely grilled him over his sham election.
