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Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (21 December 2023)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces jointly with helicopters, artillery, and heavy flamethrowers repelled nine attacks launched by assault groups of the 95th Air Assault, 14th and 43rd Mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Sinkovka (Kharkov region) and Yampolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The Zapad Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on clusters of AFU manpower and hardware close to Petropavlovka (Kharkov region) and Terny (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 55 Ukrainian troops, two motor vehicles, as well as two D-30 howitzers.

In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled one attack launched by the AFU 12th Special Forces Brigade near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic).

In addition, air strikes and artillery fire struck the personnel and hardware of the 63rd and 67th mechanised brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Torskoye (Donestk People’s Republic) and Serebryansky forestry.

The enemy lost up to 190 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, and one D-20 howitzer.

In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled 17 attacks, and inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower and hardware close to Bogdanovka, Belaya Gora, Artyomovo, and Georgiyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses in this direction amounted to up to 210 Ukrainian troops, and three pick-up trucks.

In counter-battery warfare, one UK-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, three Akatsia self-propelled artillery systems, two Gvozdika self-popelled artillery systems, one D-20 howitzer, as well as one U.S.-made AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar were neutralised.

In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU 72nd Mechanised, 79th Air Assault brigades near Katerinovka and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The enemy’s losses amounted to up to 65 Ukrainian troops, one tank, two motor vehicles, one Giatsint-S self-propelled gun, as well as one D-20 howitzer.

In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces repelled one attack launched an assault group of the AFU 65th Mechanised Brigade close to Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).

In addition, air strikes and artillery fire hit AFU personnel and hardware close to Novodanilovka and Malaya Tokmachka (Zaporozhye region).

The enemy lost up to 75 Ukrainian troops and four motor vehicles.

In Kherson direction, as a result of the Russian Group of Forces actions, artillery fire, and air strikes, the AFU losses amounted to over 70 Ukrainian troops, three motor vehicles, one Msta-B howitzer, and one Giatsint-B gun.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 129 areas during the day.

Air defence units shot down 29 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Svatovo, Belogorovka (Lugansk People’s Republic), Mayorsk, Gorlovka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Peremozhnoye (Zaporozhye region), Tavriysk, Novaya Kakhovka (Kherson region), as well as four HIMARS MLRS projectiles.

In total, 553 airplanes and 260 helicopters, 9,928 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 air defence missile systems, 14,226 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,189 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,430 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 16,547 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

All Western nations and NATO are robbers, thieves, liars, pirates, exploiters, terrorists and intruders. – kKEETON…

WtR

I think she covers this pretty good and you should read…

For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today.

What we are seeing in Gaza is a much better representation of what western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned about in school.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2023/12/20/the-atrocities-in-gaza-are-the-perfect-embodiment-of-western-values/

Nuff said…

WtR

Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation (20 December 2023)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.

In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by artillery repelled five attacks launched by assault detachments of the AFU 115nd Mechanised Brigade and 95th Air Assault Brigade near Sinkovka and Terni (Kharkov region).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 40 Ukrainian troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, two pickup trucks, as well as one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.

In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces supported by artillery repelled two attacks of the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade close to Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People’s Republic), and Torskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 180 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, as well as one D-30 howitzer.

In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by artillery repelled one attack launched by assault detachments of the AFU 24th Mechanised Brigade close to Shumy (Donetsk People’s Republic).

In addition, the Group’s artillery and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware near Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, and Maryinka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses in this direction amounted to up to 250 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, one tank, and three motor vehicles.

In the course of counterbattery warfare, one Slovakia-made Zuzana 2 self-propelled artillery system, one UK-made AS-90 self-propelled artillery system, two Msta-B howitzers, two Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, one D-30 howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system were eliminated.

In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted losses on manpower of the AFU 72nd Mechanised Brigade and 79th Air Assault Brigade near Elizavetovka, Vladimirovka, and Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).

The AFU losses amounted to up to 110 Ukrainian troops, two pickup trucks, and two Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems.

In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware clusters of the AFU 14th National Guard Brigade, 82nd Air Assault Brigade, and 116th Mechanised brigade close to Verbovoye and Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).

The AFU losses in this direction amounted to up to 70 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, two D-20 howitzers, and one D-30 howitzer.

In Kherson direction, as a result of cohesive actions of units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery, the AFU losses amounted to up to 75 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, two motor vehicles, two Msta-B howitzers, one Giatsint-B howitzer, and one Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer.

Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 127 areas during the day.

Air defence units intercepted one Ukrianian Air Force Mi-24 helicopter near Uglesborochnaya railway station (Donetsk People’s Republic).

Five U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles were intercepted in the past 24 hours. Moreover, 32 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region), Staromikhailovka, Spornoye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Belogorovka and Nyrkovo (Lugansk People’s Republic).

In total, 553 airplanes and 260 helicopters, 9,899 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 air defence missile systems, 14,202 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,189 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 7,416 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 16,502 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

It looks like the west has introduced more sanctions against Russia than all other countries combined have in total against them…

18,772 illegal restrictive sanctions have been introduced just against Russia and the Russian people…

Maybe the Western Coalition has a “Borderline personality disorder (BPD)”…

WtR

PS: https://windowstorussia.com/volodin-of-the-russian-duma-about-12th-round-of-sanctions-against-russia.html

About the meme “Russia is a gas station”

It was introduced into circulation by a patented Russophobe, Senator John McCain. In 2014, he said about our country: “Russia is a gas station that pretends to be a country.”

After McCain, everyone called Russia a gas station. Former Obama economic adviser Jason Furman (“Russia is, basically, a big gas station”) , US presidential candidates Mitt Romney (“Russia is now a gas station pretending at parades that it is a country”) , Ron DeSantis ( “Russia is a gas station with a set of nuclear bombs”) and many others.

Already this year, the author of another meme about the “blooming garden,” Josep Borrell, called Russia a “gas station with an atomic bomb” in his article.

But, as you already know, all our sessions involve exposure.

Look at the latest US foreign trade statistics.

The main US export is oil ($86 billion). Next come petroleum products (another $83 billion). In fourth place is gas ($50 billion). If we calculate the total share of hydrocarbons from the total amount of the first five items of national exports, it will be almost 63%. Aviation and mechanical engineering are trailing behind.

The United States is actively pumping oil for sale, production figures are growing every month and breaking records. Otherwise, the American economy can no longer cope, even taking into account the “inflated dollar.”

And who is the gas station country here? I agree though. The USA has a more complex design: a gas station with an integrated cash printer.

Maria Zakharova

WtR

The Houthis let Russian oil tankers travel in the Red Sea and Western tankers (USA’s) getting targeted – and just the USA tankers on the way to Israel. These are the only tankers that are the target of Houthis…

Yemen and what is an Empire to do?

You are actually being lied to about the true issue by the West again and again…

WtR

After the European Union approved the 12th sanctions package against Russia , 18,772 illegal restrictive measures were introduced.

European states act under the dictation of the United States and primarily harm their citizens.
The eurozone economy is forecast to contract within six months. This means a recession – the first since the coronavirus pandemic.

As one of the leading American publications admits, “Washington hoped that the departure of Western companies would help strangle the Russian economy. But the Russian leadership had other plans and turned the boycott of Western companies into success for the state.”

Western companies that announced their withdrawal from our country lost more than $103 billion .
This money remained in Russia.

By the way, by the end of the year, our country’s GDP growth will be 3.5%.

WtR

We have had so much snow and truthfully, it was getting worrisome…

38 cm of snow – the previous achievement was recorded in 1941 at 36 cm…

Almost half meter of snow on rooftops is not a good thing, yet Mother Nature (and I am sure God had a hand in it a tidbit 😉 ) helped us out this year and has decided to melt a bunch of snow. We are blessed with a rare +2 days for about four or five days and I will take it…

It has looked like end of February around here and it is just December. It was getting serious and that could have led to broken homes from the weight of the snow by February…

Thanks Mother Nature and God for the help…

WtR

Good post and very true about the state the EU and the cliff it is driving off…

💬 The end of December is the time to sum up the work for the year. The adopted 12th sanctions “package” is a self-explanatory result of the EU policy in the Russian (more precisely, anti-Russian) direction in the past year.

We are confident that this “package” will be remembered by the EU member countries for the fact that, paradoxical as it may sound, the vast majority of them did not need it at all . Neither their national economies, nor their populations. The next restrictions were needed, first of all, by the EU bureaucracy. In a way, you give a plan for sanctions.

❗️Sanction pressure on Russia is the answer to those who are asking a completely reasonable question: what is the “rules-based order” promoted by the European Union? Its components are extraterritorial illegitimate restrictions, political blackmail, neocolonial approaches, imposing relations on third countries according to the principle “those who are not with us are against us.”

It remains to warn in advance those politicians who may be dissatisfied with the results of the European or national elections planned for 2024: they will have themselves to blame for this , and not some “Russian disinformation” or “Moscow’s interference in democratic electoral processes.” It is as a result of 12 “packages” of anti-Russian sanctions that the foundations of the economies of EU member states and the well-being of their populations have been undermined .

On New Year’s Eve, we, for our part, want to assure ordinary Europeans that we remain interested in living with them in peace and mutual understanding based on respect for each other’s interests . However, while the EU political establishment – ​​and this is evidenced by the 12th “package” – alas, continues to dream of how to “strangle” us with sanctions, building relations with the European Union that meet Russian interests does not seem possible.

WtR