Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President Vladimir #Putin celebrated the New Year in a bunker far from Moscow, behind the Ural mountains. Recall that, relatively recently, the President planned to celebrate the New Year at his residence in Sochi. 1/9
However, the strike on the Crimean bridge made #Putin think, and the strike on military airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov regions served as a convincing reason to move New Year's Eve to a bunker at a "safe" distance. 2/9
#Putin celebrated the New Year in the company of his family and a few close friends. Among those invited were: Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai #Patrushev. Patrushev is the only representative of the current regime who was invited to the President's New Year's table. 3/9
Despite the attempt of Alina Kabaeva and the servants to create a festive atmosphere, everything went quite ordinary. One might even say boring. Nothing could help: neither the Christmas tree, decorated in red and white with an abundance of garlands and tinsel,... 4/9
nor the festive table with many delicacies and alcoholic drinks, nor even the cake prepared with the participation of Kabaeva. #Putin looked tired, ate exclusively dietary "mashed dishes" specially prepared for him, and toasts and conversations mainly concerned the war. 5/9
Those present tried in vain to cheer up the President with wishes for an early Victory and promises of the implementation of all plans. #Putin cheered up a little by midnight Moscow time and made the "main" toast, celebrating 2023. 6/9
But by 1 a.m. on January 1, he felt unwell and left, inviting the guests to continue celebrating without him. By 2 a.m., doctors on duty were called to the President and spent about twenty minutes in the presidential chamber. 7/9
After #Putin's departure, the guests were completely depressed, but the cohabitant of the President of #Russia, Alina Kabaeva, people say, came to life and cheered up. She even tried to entertain those present for a few more hours. 8/9
After that, everyone went to their apartments. It was the saddest and gloomiest New Year's Eve for the President and guests during #Putin's stay at the top of power. 9/9
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Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin held a meeting via video call with representatives of the leadership of the security and military blocs. There were several topics on the agenda. Mobilization was the central one.
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Representatives of the leadership of the military bloc reported that they were ready to carry out a full range of mobilization measures within the framework of both general and partial mobilization.
2/12
After listening to the report of the representative of the Defense Ministry, #Putin confirmed his intention to call up about two million people during 2023 and asked the speaker whether everything was ready to complete the task in full and on time.
3/12
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Serious passions flared up around #Russian President Vladimir #Putin. The reason was the attack of the #UkraineArmy on the "site" in #Makiivka (the occupied part of the Donetsk region).
1/16
As a result of the attack, a large number of newly mobilized citizens of #Russia died. The President received the info about the "incident" in the report of the General Staff Headquarters eight hours later (at first, they did not dare to overshadow the holiday for #Putin,...
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and then, after drinking the medicine, he fell asleep, and the doctors recommended not to disturb him). In the first report of the military, the number of dead and missing as a result of the strike was 88 people.
3/16
Saturday, December 31, 2022, in the morning report to the President of #Russia Vladimir #Putin, the irretrievable military operational loss of manpower of the #RussianArmy is 104,186 people. Data are as of 6 am Moscow time today. 1/4
This figure excludes the data on the losses of #Russian PMCs that also participate in hostilities on the territory of #Ukraine. As of Friday, December 30, they lost 33,902 dead. 2/4
The next update on the losses of PMC fighters should be received on Friday, January 6 and will be updated once a week.
Losses of the #Russian National Guard since the beginning of hostilities amount to 5,941 killed and missing. 3/4
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! #Russian President #Putin spends New Year's Eve rather routinely. Yesterday, the President took part in the flag-raising ceremony on ships entering the Navy and the launching of the nuclear submarine "Imperator Alexander III".
1/11
"Took part" is, of course, loudly said. He was on a video call. #Putin addressed the audience via video call with a short speech, which he read with some difficulty from the video prompter. After that, the events on the other side of the screen became of little interest...
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to the President, and he began to actively cross out the text on some papers lying on his desk and mark something on the margins. An uninitiated viewer could get the impression that #Putin, at the request of Alina Kabaeva, took up checking the homework of their eldest son.
3/11
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, the visit of #Russian President Vladimir #Putin to the Pskov region was cancelled. This is Putin's second canceled visit to the regions in the past few days. 1/9
The last time the President flatly refused to visit Nizhny Tagil and Yekaterinburg and preferred the company of his former adjutant Alexei Dyumin in Tula. And if last time they preferred not to name the reasons for the change in plans,... 2/9
then yesterday's "weather conditions" prevented visiting the Pskov region. According to #Putin, it was impossible to fly to Pskov with only partly cloudy weather. However, the residence in Valdai can be visited in any weather. This is exactly what the President decided. 3/9
Dear subscribers and guests of the channel! Yesterday, #Russian President Vladimir #Putin, quite formally and without much fanfare, ended an informal CIS summit. The leaders of the participating countries managed to visit the State Russian Museum on Tuesday. 1/8
There, #Putin tried to communicate with colleagues in an informal setting. It did not turn out very well, but he did not despair and continued to entertain the guests until the final. Communication with #Lukashenko has become a game of "deceive me" for Putin. 2/8
Everything that #Putin asked #Lukashenko yesterday received a positive response. In such a simple way, Lukashenko once again "dotted the i", promising full integration, troops, weapons and joint campaigns against the "enemy", and help everywhere and in everything, BUT later. 3/8