🇺🇦 One witness to the helicopter crash states that the helicopter was on fire while still in the air, which may indicate that the vehicle was hit by a MANPADS or some other means of fire destruction.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈⚡️Pushilin announced the capture of foreign mercenaries in Soledar

🏳️‍⚧️⚡️NATO will ensure the expansion of the alliance's combat groups on the eastern flank to the brigade level as soon as possible - NATO Deputy Secretary General

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Acting head of the DPR Pushilin said that there are no specific figures for the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the liberation of Soledar, but "there are thousands of them"

🇺🇸☠️🇲🇽 FAMILY OF 6 BRUTALLY SLAIN IN CARTEL-STYLE EXECUTION IN GOSHEN —
The Mexicanization of California spreads North

"Two gunmen invaded a home in Tulare County in Central California early Monday, where they killed six people, including a 16-year-old mother and her 10-month-old baby, in what the authorities said was presumed to be a gang-related attack.

[...]

Details about the crime were sketchy, but in a later interview Sheriff Boudreaux told The Los Angeles Times that a deputy responding to the call found the infant cradled in the arms of her 16-year-old mother in a ditch outside the home. Both had been shot in the head.

[...]

“We do not believe that this was a random act of violence,” Sheriff Boudreaux told reporters at the news conference. “We believe that this was very targeted. This was very personal, and we also believe that it was a message being sent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/us/shooting-goshen-california.html

@CultureWarCriminal

In war, you expect men to die and often so in horrifically violent ways. It is unpleasant, to say the least, but it is the reality of conflict and there is an honor to it. It matters not whether death finds you committing an act of heroism or in a ditch hiding from falling shells; the act of having lived for something greater than one’s self is noble. This is not to run cover for malevolent governments or causes, which should be opposed, but the integrity of the act of sacrifice extends even to the unfortunate grunts put into such positions, too. Amid all the carnage of the world today, recognition of this remaining martial honor provides some comfort when considering all the fallen.

With that said, there is never any defense to be had in the slaughter of the innocent and defenseless. These gunmen were cowards and their acts were evil. The cruelty inherent is astounding and, on a personal level, reading of a young girl being left dead in a ditch cradling her slain baby is something that leaves me deeply unsettled. I wish nothing but suffering on the so called “men” who did this act.

However, the unfortunate reality is that the guilty extend much further than the gunmen; complicit in this horror is the U.S. Federal Government. For the cost of the Humanitarian and Financial assistance alone provided to Ukraine so far, American authorities could have secured their border and ensured the proliferation of Cartel influence is definitively halted. Not only would this protect their own citizens against the tragic acts described above, it would also benefit their neighbors, most obviously Mexico, by curtailing the capabilities of the Cartels who deal so much death and destruction in both countries.

That the leadership of the United States chooses otherwise, to ignore the plight of its own populace for geopolitical games elsewhere, should be a wake up call for all Americans. I hope they are all listening…

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kamikaze UAV Lancet Destroyed the enemy electronic warfare station.

🇷🇺❗️Everything we do today, including the SMO, is an attempt to stop this war and protect our people who live in these territories [LDNR], these are our historical territories — Putin

🇷🇺⚡️In the near future, YouTube will be closed, and those who continue to use it will be punished - the founder of Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin

🇷🇺⚡All missing material and technical means for the RF Armed Forces must be sent [to the front] no later than February

— Mishustin

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of TOS-1A "Solntsepyok" on the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇺🇲🇺🇦 US ready to help Ukraine attack Crimea - New York Times.

The article says that from the very beginning of the war, Washington refused to provide Kiev with the weapons needed to strike at the Crimean peninsula.

Now, in Washington, they believe that the creation of a threat to Crimea can significantly strengthen Kiev's negotiating position.

According to the sources of the publication, the position of the United States began to change amid reduced fears about the use of tactical nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine in response.

The article also mentions that at the beginning of the war, the United States cautiously transferred batches of MANPADS and ATGMs to Ukraine, but now they are calmly transferring artillery, MLRS, armored vehicles and stationary air defense systems.

🇺🇦 The Armed Forces of Ukraine refuse to go to the sector of the front, which is controlled by Wagner.

Having learned about being sent to Bakhmut, the company commander went on sick leave, followed by platoon commanders, doctors and 60% of the personnel ...

🇩🇪🇺🇲🇺🇦 Germany will not allow allies to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine and will not send them itself if the US does not supply its Abrams tanks, - Wall Street Journal

🇺🇲🇺🇦⚡US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrived in Ramstein, where Ukraine's allies will discuss military assistance.

🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️It has become more difficult to resume negotiations between Russia and Ukraine - Turkish Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces dropping grenades on Ukrainian militants

🇷🇺🇧🇾 Lavrov arrived in Minsk to meet with Lukashenka