2/ Geolocated footage published on February 9 indicates that Russian forces recently advanced on the eastern outskirts of Bilohorivka (12km south of Kreminna). isw.pub/UkrWar021024
3/ Geolocated footage published on February 9 indicates that Russian forces recently advanced along Chernyshevskoho, Sportyvna, and Soborna streets in southern Avdiivka. isw.pub/UkrWar021024
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The Russian State Duma is considering a bill to restrict actors that the Russian government designates as “undesirable” from entering Russia, likely as part of ongoing efforts to censor opposition media outlets and dismantle ties between Russia and foreign and international non-governmental organizations. 1/6
2/ Boris Nadezhdin, the only openly anti-war Russian presidential candidate, filed two lawsuits in the Russian Supreme Court challenging the Russian Central Election Commission’s (CEC) refusal to register him as a candidate as the Kremlin continues efforts to suppress popular opposition while trying to preserve the veneer of legitimacy of Russian presidential elections.
3/ Russian authorities continue to use youth engagement programs to Russify Ukrainian youth.
NEW | RUS Off. Campaign Assessment, Feb. 12, 2024: Ukraine’s Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) reported that elements of Lebanese Hezbollah (LH) & the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are training RUS drone operators at the Shayrat Air Base in Syria. 🧵 1/6
2/ The GUR stated that LH and IRGC trainers are training Russian operators how to use Shahed-136/-131, Ababil-3, and Qods Raab 85 drones and that LH commander Kamal Abu Sadiq is heading the training effort.
3/ Iranian-backed militias and Russian forces are located at Shayrat Air Base, which is the second largest Iranian air base in Syria’s Homs Province after the Tiyas T-4 Air Base.
Russian forces made confirmed advances near Avdiivka and in western Zaporizhia Oblast amid continued positional engagements along the entire frontline. (1/7)
2/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavlyuk as Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander, replacing current Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi.
3/ Russian forces appear to have constructed a 30-kilometer-long barrier dubbed the “tsar train” in occupied Donetsk Oblast, possibly to serve as a defensive line against future Ukrainian assaults.
Russia is conducting a deportation campaign in the Ukrainian territories that it is occupying that has the intent of robbing Ukraine of its multigenerational potential & damaging Ukraine’s future claims to its own people. Ukrainian children are a clear target of Russia’s deportation campaign.🧵
2/ Russia’s occupation design for Ukraine is meant to raise a generation of young people in a Russian-controlled system in which children are forced to forgo their Ukrainian language, history, and culture.
3/ The deportation of up to 700,000 Ukrainian children to Russia physically deprives Ukraine of its future generations—young voices who will be essential for the reintegration of Ukrainian lands into Ukraine.
2/ Newly appointed Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi identified several of his goals as commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian actors reportedly conducted a successful drone strike against two oil refineries in Krasnodar Krai on Feb. 9.
3/ Ukrainian military officials reported that Russian forces are increasing their use of illegal chemical weapons in Ukraine, in an apparent violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Russia is a signatory.
NEW: The Russian online community noted that Putin did not offer any new information in his interview with Tucker Carlson and simply repeated longstanding Kremlin talking points about Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine for American audiences.
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2/ Kremlin sources focused on presenting the interview as a massively successful and popular Russian effort to shape the information environment in the West and claimed that the interview demonstrated that #Putin is an influential world leader.
3/ Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev noted that Putin told the Western world in the most thorough and detailed way why Ukraine did not exist, does not exist, and will not exist.