Russia continues to target Ukrainian critical infrastructure, such as the electric grid and power distribution centers, and residential buildings.
Russia launched 16 missiles and a number of Iranian drones, the majority was intercepted and only about 2-3 hit their targets, resulting in several dead and injured in Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia city. This is the Russian strategy to try to pressure Ukraine into negotiations.
🔥Poland
Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Kuleba, and other Ukrainian representatives arrived in Poland and will have access to the Polish investigation.
While not just Ukraine but also Belarus and Russia have S300 complexes, every missile is cataloged and can be eventually traced to its owner.
For now, Poland and the US suggest that this was probably a Ukrainian S300 missile that was set to intercept a Russian missile launched against Ukraine. Yet the key question is "Where is the Russian missile or what remains of it?".
The intrigue is: Was the Russian missile launched against Poland and not Ukraine? For now, the West seems to not escalate the situation or to escalate in the way that Russia wanted (e.g. provoking NATO into war).
Yet, the mystery of the second missile can be solved at an opportune moment or Ukraine can be given all that they need to deal with the Russian menace.
🔥Russia´s friends pushing for negotiations
Russian appeasers and Russian-friendly politicians in the West, such as Berlusconi, are pushing for negotiations with Russia.
In reality, Ukraine will not agree to negotiations on Russian terms, as Ukrainians are overwhelmingly pro-liberation of all Ukrainian territory from the Russian invaders.
Ukrainian victory is part of the Western security strategy and the basis of the new security system in Europe.
Moreover, any attempt to pressure Ukraine into negotiations by, for example, decreasing military aid to Ukraine, will result in political and popular discontent in the West as it “puts the Free World in danger”.
Ukraine has clearly stated the conditions for the negotiations – firstly, Russia must remove all Russian troops from all Ukrainian territories.
Meanwhile, as we can see from the West´s actions and the recent Ramstein meeting, the military aid to Ukraine continues.
🔥MH17 & Hague trial
The International Criminal Court at the Hague declared 3 out of the 4 accused guilty of shooting down MH17 and murdering 298 people, including Girkin (Strelkov) who got a life sentence. Russia is at fault here.
This is another sign that the West doesn´t want to escalate the conflict as the main responsible for the MH17 downing is missing from the list of accused.
Indeed, Putin is the only person who can order the Russian Ministry of Defense to release the Russian BUK system, the border guards, and the FSB (two other institutions) to let it cross the Russian border.
Thus, Putin is ultimately the main responsible for the death of 298 people on MH17.
🔥The Western Strategy & Ukrainian resolve
The West is not escalating the conflict & to control the course of the war, trying to contain it to Ukraine, sending weapons to Ukraine, signaling to Putin that he cannot cross some red lines (e.g. use nuclear weapons) and suffocating Russia with sanctions, but not removing…
…Putin from power.
Meanwhile, Ukraine is paying for this more cautious, non-escalation strategy with blood, destroyed livelihoods and Ukrainian kids murdered by Russian missiles.
For example, in the recently liberated Kherson there are more Russian torture rooms and mass graves being uncovered after the liberation.
Ukraine has already liberated 55% of the territory that Russia occupied after the 24th of February.
Ukraine will not stop resisting and will fight until the last Russian invader is gone from the Ukrainian land.
🔥Russian populace limit
The increasing number of Russian military losses, sanctions against Russia and crackdown on civil and economic liberties in Russia will sooner or later reach the critical limit and lead to an implosion in Russia.
Arestovych predicts that the serious internal problems in Russia will start in February-March 2023.
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🔥 Battlefield update:
🔥 Huliaipole:
Reports of 🇷🇺 starting attack, possible unpleasant results. Partially forces from Kherson.
🇷🇺 planning for same tactic of big and small pincers. Big pincers would go to Huliaipole, Pokrovske, Vasylkivka, Pavlohrad. Pavlohrad was also objective from Izium, so it can’t be excluded that 🇷🇺 would attempt to reach it from east again.
🇷🇺 can attempt to sell capture of Donetsk and Luhansk districts as war objective for internal audience, but they won’t succeed. This will continue until end of war.
🔥 Pavlivka:
heavy battles, 🇷🇺 would like to reach Kurakhove in order to encircle Marinka.
🔥 Missiles in Poland:
🇺🇸 U.S. intelligence confirmed missiles crossing border. 🇷🇺 denies everything, as usual.
Unlikely NATO will react by attacking 🇷🇺, or by closing airspace. It’s very complicated political decision, probably it will be forgiven. There is significant difference in intentional attack vs accident.
Likely procedure will be similar to MH-17 with courts, proof, compensations.
Even if S-300 are of 🇺🇦 origin, that is consequence of 🇷🇺 aggression used in defense.
Other options are, that there is also 🇷🇺 missile alongside 🇺🇦 S-300, or even both are of 🇷🇺 origin.
🔥Mykolaiv region is completely liberated of Russian forces
Russian sources report Ukrainians coming from Ochakiv (Mykolaiv region) and disembarking in Kinburn Spit (part of Mykolaiv and the left bank Kherson regions).
The Russian forces (radio-location equipment, artillery and VDV troops) were destroyed and the Kinburn Spit is reportedly under Ukrainian control.
🔥Kherson-left bank of Dnipro River
Ukrainian forces are hitting the Russian position on the left side of the Dnipro River.
There are some areas on the right bank of the Dnieper which Ukrainian defense forces have not yet entered.
Stabilization measures take place to capture Russian soldiers in civilian clothes. The low rate of UA advance is explained by dense mining of the territory.
Russia abandoned equipment and ammunition.
So far, UA reported 5 sizable weapon depots, 50+ trucks, 1 helicopter, at least 5 air defense systems, 10+ artillery systems, a lot of small arms, grenade launchers, mines, and ammunition.
Ukrainian forces are liberating the Kherson region with the right side of the Dnipro River being almost completely secured.
Unlike previously expected, Russian forces withdrew from Kherson now instead of defending the occupied territories for another week.
While Russia was able to evacuate equipment and most of the elite forces in previous weeks [under the disguise of the evacuation of civilians], the mobilized transferred to the region and some VDV (paratroopers) forces were supposed to defend the region and inflict damage on…