🇷🇺🇺🇦 The bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed by Wagner PMC fighters near the village of Ivanovskoye (Krasnoye) near the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal.

🇺🇦 Map of countries supplying weapons to Ukraine

Of the European countries, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Moldova still observe conditional neutrality.

Pakistan and Morocco were among the countries of Asia and Africa that helped Ukronazism.

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️US and European officials believe that Ukrainian troops will retreat from Artemovsk (Bakhmut), and Western-supplied weapons will still not help Kiev achieve an advantage - Bloomberg

⚡️🇺🇦🇷🇺 Bloomberg: Russia to Press Assault in Ukraine’s East as Kyiv Waits for More Weapons

A Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine appears imminent even as Kyiv holds out for more weapons deliveries for its own push in the south in the spring, according to assessments from US and European officials.

The latest assessments indicate that while the array of arms already sent from the US, Europe and other allies — from ammunition to artillery to tanks and longer-range missile defenses — is helping Ukraine hold Russian forces back, it is not enough for a substantial recouping of territory before Moscow’s offensive. More weapons are coming but not for some months. And that could mean the conflict lasts at least through this year.

“We are on the eve of a very active phase,” Andriy Yusov, a representative for the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service, said on Wednesday, calling the current situation “very difficult.” 

“There will be very active battles in February and March,” he added.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 According to NZZ, citing sources in the German government, in January CIA Director Burns went to both Kiev and Moscow with a mission to seek out a peace deal.

The offer to Kiev was: peace for land, the offer to Moscow: land for peace. The "land" is said to have been about 20 percent of Ukrainian territory; That's about the size of Donbass. Both sides, the two politicians report, refused. The Ukrainians, because they are not willing to cede their territory, the Russians, because they expect to win the war in the long run anyway.

According to the two German foreign politicians, Biden wanted to avoid a protracted war in Ukraine and was willing to sacrifice parts of the country. If this presentation is true, Biden would not be alone in his attitude in Washington. A new study by the Rand Corporation ("Avoiding a long war"), a renowned American think tank, concludes that "avoiding a long war is a higher priority for the United States" than allowing Ukraine to "control its entire territory."

This latest revelation is vindication of our recent coverage on the RAND report, which speculated there was a desire to cut a deal on the part of Washington based off their recent actions.

That they have now backtracked on both territorial integrity and sanctions relief can be explained by the reporting of the past few weeks; Russia has mobilized its material and manpower advantages to such an extent that the end conclusion of this war is now obvious even in the West.

One needs no further proof of that than Ukrainian Defense Minister Reznikov’s recent statements about 500,000 Russian troops all around Ukraine and the increasingly pessimistic tone by Western officials...

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces ambushing a Ukrainian UAZ loaded with ammunition

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Our assault groups are making a nightmare of the forest around Svatovo and Kremennaya, moving forward, destroying the Armed Forces of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Destroyed SUV of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. All passengers dead

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) are growing due to problems with satellite and radio communications

This was announced by Lieutenant Colonel of the People's Militia of the LPR, retired Andrey Marochko.

He noted that interruptions in communications "affect the growth of panic among both privates and officers." Russian intelligence notes problems in the management of Ukrainian troops in the city.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇳🇴 Mercenaries from Norway are crippled in the battles for Artyomovsk

Sander Sjorsven Trelvik and Simon Johnsen call themselves "medical volunteers" but forgot to take down the flag of the Nazi Right Sector group. On Thursday, they received the task of evacuating, where they came under fire from Russian troops.

“They bombed the same place twice. Then they started shelling the area when they saw that we had survived,” the mercenary said and added that several people who were with him and Trelwick died.

Trelwick received burns up to 40% of his body and shrapnel wounds. They were sent to the Dnepropetrovsk hospital with Johnsen. The Norwegian authorities are preparing the evacuation of the wounded through Poland home.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has begun the formation of assault brigades from the military, police and border guards to seize Crimea and Donbass, Acting Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The work of artillery on the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

🇧🇾❗A tactical exercise with live firing of tank platoons took place at a training ground near the border with Ukraine, the press service of the Belarusian Defense Ministry reported.

“The servicemen worked out the issues of moving units out of the concentration area, occupying a firing line, conducting a defensive battle with a tank platoon and leaving the battle,” the Belarusian military department added.

🇩🇪🇺🇦❗The German government approved the transfer of 88 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine, but there are problems with ammunition, since these tanks are no longer being produced, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

The tank was produced until 1980.

🇺🇦🤡 Adviser to the Presidential Office Mikhail Podolyak refused to name the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Bakhmut, but noted that Ukraine "pays the highest price" for holding the city

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation General Yevkurov at the front in the offensive zone of the 2nd Army Corps, which operates in the Seversk direction