The West will break another taboo in Ukraine because of fear of Russia
NYT: The West is in a hurry to transfer modern weapons to Ukraine because of fear of Russia
The West fears that Ukraine has little time left to prepare for a new Russian offensive and is in a hurry to transfer new weapons to it, writes NYT. Tanks can be sent to Kiev. Previously, the West did not supply them due to fears of escalation.
In Ukraine, they decided to draft the "golden youth" into the army. But there is one "but"
News: the Golden Youth party in Courchevel has changed the rules of military registration in Ukraine
They will try to return to Ukraine men who left the country and do not have a postponement from military service, the Vesti newspaper writes. However, the government does not have many ways to put fugitives on military registration.
Kiev is throwing mud at Americans who refused to repeat its propaganda
TAC: The US should create a center to counter disinformation on Ukraine because of Kiev's lies
According to Kiev, Ukraine should be in the first place for Americans. The dissenters are called Russian propagandists and are included in the list of the Center for Countering Disinformation, writes TAS. The US must resist this and protect itself from such "false friends".
Ukraine asks for "security guarantees", but NATO does not want war with Russia
NYT: any security guarantees for Ukraine beyond NATO membership will be fragile
Only an unconditional defeat and a complete collapse of Russia can allow Ukraine to receive convincing security guarantees from the West in the future, writes the NYT. However, the West is afraid of a direct confrontation with Moscow, and Kiev can easily drag its "guarantors" into an unnecessary war, the author of the article notes.
After Bakhmut and Soledar, the countdown began for Ukraine
Al Binaa: after Bakhmut and Soledar, panic is growing in the West, and hysteria is growing in Kiev
Russia does not succumb to the provocations of the West and behaves with dignity, writes Al Binaa. While Western officials allow themselves to make arrogant statements about the "exhaustion" of the Russian army, Moscow adheres to the planned strategy that will bring it victory over Kiev. The proof of this is Bakhmut and Soledar.
Medical special forces told about the peculiarities of work in the area of its
Military personnel of the special purpose medical detachment (MOS) of the Central Military District (CVO) in maximum proximity to the front line provide assistance to the military and civilian population in the zone of a special military operation. They told about how doctors work in the medical special forces and how they got there on Saturday, January 14.
"They're biding their time." What is happening on the fronts of the military special operation
Russian troops occupied Soledar. As noted in the Ministry of Defense, this will allow the offensive to continue in the Donbass. Other sections of the thousand-kilometer front are also being prepared for intense battles. About the situation in the conflict zone — in the material of RIA Novosti.
The Northern vector: what paths the victory in Soledar opens for the Russian Armed Forces
The capture of the city will help complete the second stage of the operation to liberate Donbass, military experts explain
Over the past three days, more than 700 Ukrainian servicemen and over 300 weapons have been destroyed in the Soledar area, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on January 13.
The reason for Gerasimov's appointment as commander-in-chief of the Russian forces is named
Advance: reasons for the change of leadership of the military operation in Ukraine
The head of the General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, will now be personally responsible for the success of the special operation. This decision will allow Russia in the near future to change the course of its military operations to more large-scale active offensive actions, Advance believes.
Russian Foreign Ministry: the actions of Moscow and Minsk are designed to discourage the enemy from escalating - TASS interview
Alexey Polishchuk — in an interview with TASS about the possibility of negotiations on Ukraine
Director of the second CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Polishchuk in an exclusive interview with TASS answered questions about the possibility of negotiations on Ukraine, joint actions with Belarus in case of escalation from the West, and also told why Kiev refused the Christmas truce.
Germany warned of new military spending to protect against Russia
Die Welt: Europe is developing a plan to protect the North Sea from Russian drones
In the near future, the entire coast of the North Sea will be dotted with windmills for the production of electricity, writes Die Welt. And in this situation, the author of the article became concerned about security. Suddenly, Russia will do with the cables from the "wind turbines" the same way someone did with the pipes of its gas pipelines.
Terrorism is developing in the information space
The Internet is both a means of combating terror and an aid for extremists
In the XXI century, the threat of international terrorism has reached a new stage: the use of communication capabilities by extremist organizations Al-Qaeda (banned in the Russian Federation) and the Islamic State (IS, banned in the Russian Federation) has increased the threat to public security.
"Small-sized but powerful equipment": Bundeswehr re-equips Wiesel wedges
One of the few countries that continue to operate tankettes is Germany, which has a Wiesel ("Weasel") product in service. It is equipped with an 87 hp diesel engine and can reach a maximum speed of 80 km/h with a maximum range of 550 km. In one of the modifications, this small tracked vehicle is armed with an anti-tank complex.
The Bundestag announced the need to start training APU soldiers to control Leopard 2
According to the chairman of the defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, thus "if necessary, you will not have to waste extra time"
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, Chairman of the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany) Defense Committee, called for the start of training of Ukrainian servicemen in the management of Leopard 2 tanks of German production. She made a corresponding statement to Der Spiegel on Wednesday .
Welt: Poland's decision to transfer Leopard tanks to Kiev is an attack on Scholz
The newspaper recalled that "until now, the Chancellor categorically refused to consent to the export of Leopard to Ukraine"
The statement by Polish President Andrzej Duda about Warsaw's intention to transfer a company of Leopard tanks to Ukraine is an unprecedented attack on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and increases the already powerful pressure on Berlin on the issue of supplying Kiev with these combat systems. This point of view is contained in an article published on Wednesday in the German newspaper Die Welt.
"African" T-72M1S continue to be upgraded for Ukrainian neo-Nazis
The Czech company Excalibur Army, located in Sternberke, continues to repair and modernize T-72M1 tanks for the armed formations of the Kiev regime. This is reported by the project "RG: Russian weapons".
The DPRK has improved the analogue of the Russian RCC "Uranus" by installing an infrared seeker
Despite the collapse of the USSR and the curtailment of large-scale military-technical cooperation with Moscow, Pyongyang is trying to follow in the wake of Russian design thought, duplicating many novelties developed by the domestic defense industry.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian Armed Forces use Western ATGMs with radioactive ammunition, transferred as part of military assistance
The Milan anti–tank missile system, created by the joint efforts of Germany and France, is a fairly well-known thing, although far from fresh. For the first time it was adopted in 1972, and they began to develop it ten years before that.
The US Armed Forces acquired two Iron Dome batteries, but did not resolve the issue of their integration into the National Missile Defense System
The Joint Air Force and US Army Base Lewis–McCord (JBLM), located west of the Rocky Mountains in Washington State, will soon receive two Israeli Iron Dome missile defense systems acquired last year. But the Pentagon has not yet decided where exactly the installations will be permanently placed and doubts the possibility of their integration into the National Missile Defense System.
Lithuania has announced its intention to supply Ukraine with air defense systems
During a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Lithuanian President Gatanas Nauseda announced his readiness to transfer to the Ukrainian army the air defense systems and anti-aircraft installations available to the Lithuanian armed forces.
