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About 1,500 Russian soldiers killed in Donbas since spring 2014 – Russian NGO
Friday, 28 April, 2017 - 14:13 (EEST) Section: International, Latest news, Top stories, War & conflict, War in Donbas

Chairperson of NGO Union of the Committees of Soldiers` Mothers of Russia Valentina Melnikova estimates that at least 1,500 Russian servicemen have been killed in Donbas, the east of Ukraine, since spring 2014, according to TV Channel 112 Ukraine.
”There aren`t any exact numbers – we`ve got general estimates,” she told Channel 112.

Mass graves of unknown Russian soldiers

”Unlike previous wars and its participants we`ve dealt with, now people virtually do not apply – whether it concerns their wounded or killed. This war has turned to be very covert. We can only guess what is actually been happening on the basis of indirect data or those rare requests we receive,” Melnikova said.

At the same time, she added, ”there is a theoretical ratio between the losses of the belligerent states.”

”Therefore, our assessment, just the way we assessed those killed and wounded in action during the first and second wars in Chechnya – we estimates that the Russian losses – these are these so-called theoretical ”volunteers”, but in fact, they are servicemen, soldiers, officers of Russia – the death toll exceeds 1,500 men if we take the entire period of the war since the spring of 2014,” she said.

After the annexation of Ukrainian Crimea in March 2014, Russia started destabilizing Donbas, Ukraine`s east. Russia has been arming terrorists from the self-proclaimed Donbas republics and sending mercenaries and its regular troops there.
 
Russia funds and manages conflict in Ukraine, “Surkov leaks” show – Atlantic Council
Thursday, 27 April, 2017 - 14:01 (EEST) Section: Analysis & Opinion, Crimea Crisis, International, Latest news, Top stories, War & conflict, War in Donbas

Hacked emails show that the Kremlin directs and funds the ostensibly independent ”republics” in eastern Ukraine and runs military operations there, Aric Toler and Melinda Haring wrote in an article for Atlantic Council titled ”Russia Funds and Manages Conflict in Ukraine, Leaks Show.”
In late 2016, Ukrainian hacker groups released emails purportedly taken from the office of Kremlin official Vladislav Surkov, who oversees Ukraine policy for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Surkov leaks confirm what many have long suspected: the Kremlin has orchestrated and funded the supposedly independent governments in Donbas, and seeks to disrupt internal Ukrainian politics, making the task of rebuilding modern Ukraine impossible, reads the article on the Atlantic Council website.
Russia has consistently denied accusations from Kyiv and the West that it is providing the separatists with troops, weapons, and other material support or meddling in Ukrainian affairs. The emails from Surkov`s office betray the official Kremlin line, revealing the extent of Russian involvement in the seizure of Ukrainian territory, the creation of puppet ”people`s republics,” and the funding to ensure their survival.
There have been three tranches of information from Surkov`s account: a PDF document detailing plans to destabilize Ukraine, a dump of 2,337 emails, and a final dump of 1,000 emails. While the plot to destabilize Ukraine with its detailed plan to use energy tariffs to foment revolution has garnered attention, its veracity is disputed. The trove of 2,337 emails, released by the hacker group Cyber Hunta, covers the period from September 2013 to November 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea and deployed separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine to start a war. The final dump dates from September 2014 to September 2016.
According to the authors, the emails show that the Kremlin had a hand in maintaining the puppet government in Donetsk. On June 16, 2014, one of the candidates with an asterisk by his name—the ”elected” Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Denis Pushilin — sent Surkov`s office a spreadsheet with expenses for a new press center in Donetsk. The budget included estimated salaries for an editor, journalist, and other monthly expenses, along with the cost of a router and other pieces of office equipment. The Kremlin not just manages their puppet republic in eastern Ukraine, it is micromanaging and propping it up.
The Kremlin also actively works to disrupt and slow down the reform process in Ukraine by promoting pro-Russian candidates and proposals. For example, Surkov has met with and assisted pro-Russian activists and leaders who live in Crimea, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Slovyansk. The emails show that Surkov keeps lists of pro-Russian activists across the country that he can deploy when he needs a favor, Toler and Haring said.
The leaks also show that Surkov actively monitors Ukraine`s reforms and works with editors to push a pro-Russian agenda in Ukrainian and Russian outlets. Surkov has significant influence on the media narrative in eastern Ukraine.
Predictably, Kremlin officials have refuted the authenticity of these emails. However, cyber experts have pronounced these leaked emails genuine based on the routing information and some individuals have confirmed the authenticity of individual documents.
 
20.05.17 10:14
Four Ukrainian servicemen wounded as militants launched 55 attacks yesterday, - ATO HQ

The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone remains complicated.
The militants attacked Ukrainian positions 55 times yesterday. The pro-Russian hybrid forces increased the use of artillery banned by the Minsk agreements. Four soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were wounded over the past 24 hours, Censor.NET reports citing ATO Headquarters.

In the Prymorske sector, 26 militants' attacks were recorded. In particular, the militants shelled Ukrainian positions near Shyrokyne and Hnutove with banned 120 mm mortars. Shyrokyne and Berdianske strongholds were mortared with 122 mm shells. The militants fired at Vodiane, Pavlopil and Novohrygorivka strongholds from grenade launchers and small arms. Positions near Marinka and Krasnohorivka were attacked from 82 mm mortars and light weapons. One of the militants' 82 mm shells fell to Krasnohorivka residential area. No destructions and casualties among civilians were reported.

In the Donetsk sector, the militants launched 16 attacks against Ukrainian soldier. The situation in the southern and eastern suburbs of Avdiivka remains the most difficult. Last night, the militants fired at Ukrainian soldiers from 120 mm and 82 mm mortars, as well as small arms and grenade launchers. The pro-Russian hybrid forces shelled Verkhniotoretske strongholds with 82 mm mortars and fired from small arms. The militants hit Ukrainian soldiers at Svitlodarsk salient with IFVs and heavy machine guns.

In the Luhansk sector, 13 attacks were recorded, including the use of heavy artillery weapons and rocket launcher systems. Last night, the militants shelled Troitske strongholds with BM-21 Grad rockets and 152 mm and 122 mm artillery. Ukrainian positions near Novooleksandrivka were hit with 122 mm barrel artillery. Novozvanivka and Popasna strongholds were mortared with 120 mm and 82 mm shells. Positions near Valuiske, Krymske and Stanytsia Luhanska came under small arms and grenade launcher fire.


20.05.17 13:11
About 20 militants dead and wounded as ammunition depot exploded, - Intelligence

According to Ukrainian intelligence, the militants neglected security measures and drank alcohol and smoked in the ammunition depot.
Censor.NET reports citing Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
"An explosion occurred in an ammunition depot at the checkpoint of 11 separate motorized rifle regiments (Donetsk), 1st Army corpse in the Yasynuvata district. U p to 20 militants were killed and wounded,'' the statement reads.
According to HUR, the militants neglected security measures, drinking alcohol and smoking in the ammunition depot.
Also, two drunken militants opened fire at the checkpoint, severely wounding three scouts. Fearing being lynch ed by the servicemen of the checkpoint, they left their forward position with weapons.
The Intelligence also reports of the dispute between the Russian military of the 9th separate assault motorized infantry regiment of the Marine Corps (Novoazovsk), 1st Army corpse. The dispute turned into shooting. One soldier was killed and one was seriously wounded.

20.05.17 13:47
State Border Service completes construction of "Wall" on border with Russia

The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is completing a model of the protection of the state border with the Russian Federation in the Kharkiv region. The work continues in the Sumy and Luhansk regions.
This was announced by the head of the State Border Service Viktor Nazarenko, Censor.NET reports citing Interfax-Ukraine.
"Now we are completing all planned activities in the Kharkiv region, and we have already begun work in the Sumy and Luhansk regions," Nazarenko said.
In 2015, the government approved a plan for the development of the border. It is designed for three years.
"From mid-2015 until today, we have built more than 273 km of anti-vehicle ditches, 47 km of control and track lanes, 83 km of barrier fence, and 153 km of rocky roads," Nazarenko said.
This year budget provides 200 million hryvnia for this program, which is only 17% of the planned.
Nazarenko said that the violation of the border is reduced to zero at those sections of the border which are already complete. It confirms the effectiveness of the project.
 
21.05.17 09:41
Seven Ukrainian servicemen wounded yesterday, - ATO HQ
The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone remains tense as the militants attack Armed Forces of Ukraine with heavy artillery.
48 militants' attacks reported over the past 24 hours. Seven servicemen of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were wounded, Censor.NET reports citing ATO Headquarters.

In the Prymorske sector, the militants launched 12 attacks against Ukrainian military. Last night, the militants shelled Pavlopil, Vodiane and Shyrokyne strongholds with 120 mm mortars. Ukrainian positions near Krasnohorivka were mortared with 82 mm shells. The militants also fired from grenade launchers and small arms.

In the Donetsk sector, the militants violated the cease-fire 22 times. The most difficult situation remains in the southern and eastern suburbs of Avdiivka where the militants have fired from 120 mm and 82 mm mortars, grenade launchers and small arms. Ukrainian military near Nevelske came under 120 mm mortar fire twice. Verkhniotoretske strongholds were fired from mortars, IFVs, and small arms. At Svitlodarsk salient, the militants fired at Ukrainian servicemen near Luhanske from 82 mm shells and heavy antitank grenade launchers. Pisky strongholds came under grenade launcher fire.

In the Luhansk sector, 14 attacks reported over the past 24 hours, including the use of weapons banned by the Minsk agreements. The militants shelled Novooleksandrivka, Novozvanivka and Troitske strongholds with 120 mm mortars. Ukrainian positions near Krymske were attacked with 82 mm mortars, anti-tank missile systems and grenade launchers.
 
22.05.17 10:31
48 attacks on Ukrainian troop’s positions involving mortars, AA guns, IFVs and tank recorded yesterday, - ATO HQ

The situation in the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone remains tense, but completely controlled by Ukrainian servicemen.

"The Russian-terrorist forces continue attacking Ukrainian troops all along the demarcation line, although the intensity of strikes committed by the enemy using large-caliber artillery systems has somewhat decreased. 48 militants' attacks were recorded over the past day.

"In Prymorske direction, the illegal armed groups employed weapons against Ukrainian servicemen 17 times. The militants shelled Ukrainian troops' positions near Shyrokyne with 120 mm mortars on Sunday evening. The enemy tank committed several strikes on strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the vicinity of Vodiane village. The defenders of Hnutove were shelled with 82 mm mortars while soldiers deployed near Pavlopil were fired upon with the IFV weapons. The militants occasionally used small arms and grenade launchers at this section of the contact line and on the outskirts of Lebedynske, Chermalyk, and Novotroitske.

"In Donetsk direction, the illegal armed groups breached truce 24 times. Most of violations were recorded in the vicinity of Avdiivka. Last night, the militants repeatedly committed fierce attacks on certain strong points of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the southern suburb of Avdiivka using 82 mm and 120 mm mortars and weapons of smaller caliber. 82 mm mortars and anti-aircraft guns were also used near Kamianka. The illegal armed units fired at strongpoints near Verkhniotoretske, Opytne, and Pisky with the same types of mortars, small arms and grenade launchers. The militants launched attacks on Ukrainian strongpoints on the outskirts of Zaitseve and Maiorsk from the suburbs of the temporarily occupied Horlivka," the ATO HQ said.

Besides, the militants shelled Avdiivka-based Donetsk filtering station from the direction of occupied Yasynuvata around 7 p.m. yesterday.

"Seven militants' attacks were recorded in Luhansk direction. Ukrainian servicemen deployed near Troitske were fired upon with 120 mm mortars, grenade launchers, and small arms last night. Positions on the outskirts of Krymske and Zolote villages were blanketed with 82 mm mortars. Automatic grenade launchers were employed against defenders of Malynove, " the situation report reads.
 
IR summary: the occupiers in the Donbas take measures in case of the appearance of the "Javelins" in the AFU

Despite the reached agreements, the Russian occupation forces in the Donbass systematically violated the ceasefire in the period from 3 to 9 January this year. Low-intensity attacks on the units of the ATO forces were reported every day. In total, the artillery units of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" carried out at least 25 artillery raids (last week - more than 30) by 82/120-mm mortars, 122-mm portable rocket launchers "Grad-P", infantry fighting vehicles and tanks during the week-long period. In addition, the enemy systematically fired at ATO forces from small arms in the area Stanitsa Luganskaya from 3 to 9 January this year, which is a violation of the agreement on the disengagement of forces in this area.

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted by the enemy on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of settlements Lugansk, Troitskoe, Maryinka, Verkhnetoretskoye, Butovka mine, Gnutovo and Pavlopol. In addition, the enemy continues to actively conduct reconnaissance of the combat formations of the ATO forces with the use of UAVs. During the week, at least 12 UAV flights were recorded, including 4 of them - flights of UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out with a flight in the operational-tactical depth of the defense ATO forces. The activation of the activities of the sabotage-reconnaissance groups and enemy sniper groups is marked in the vicinity of the settlements of Dokuchaevsk, Zheltoe, Troitskoe, Slavyanoserbsk and Novotroitskoye.

Over the past 24 hours, the continued activity of the invaders on the Svetlodarskaya arc has been noted. The militants have repeatedly used 120 mm mortars in this direction, firing on the advanced positions of the AFU south of Svetlodarsk and north of Nizhnye Lozovoye. The fire is conducted from the positions in the beams between the height of 223.2 and from the landings between Logvinovo and Nizhnye Lozovoye. In this case, the mobile fire group of the "7thseparate mechanized brigade" of occupants is working out a "legend" for the suppression of "provocations of Ukrainian troops" for the Russian TV. At the same time, the occupiers are intensively dispersing information in their reports that allegedly the AFU shelling militants from infantry fighting vehicles and grenade launchers in this section. Also, the fact of stay and work of the newest Russian radio reconnaissance complex "Thorn" is recorded in the area of the Svetlodarskaya arc.

The occupiers conducted a disturbing fire at the advanced positions of the APU on the southern and southeastern outskirts of Verkhnetoretsky by the 82-mm mortars, as well as in the Lomakino-Gnutovo area in the Mariupol direction. A maneuvering BMP-2 of invaders was firing to the north of Pishchevik.

The confirmed losses of Russian occupation forces in the Donbass amounted to 16 servicemen in the period from 3 to 9 January this year:

1st Army Corps – 9th separate assault mechanized regiment of naval infantry (Novoazovsk) – 7 servicemen, 3rd separate mechanized brigade (Gorlovka) – 1 serviceman, 11th separate mechanized regiment (Makeyevka) - 2 servicemen;

2nd Army Corps – 4th separate mechanized brigade (Alchevsk) - 3 servicemen, 6thseparate mechanized regiment (Kadievka) - 1 serviceman, 7th separate mechanized brigade (Bryanka) - 2 servicemen.

To ensure the activities of units and formations of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2ndArmy Corps LNR", 14 trucks with fuel and lubricants were delivered to Lugansk from the territory of Russia in the period from 3 to 9 January this year, and a railway train arrived on railway station Rovenky, which delivered about 760 tons of petroleum products.

The Russian occupation command takes urgent measures in connection with the possible supplies of portable anti-tank missile complexes "Javelin" to the Ukraine from the US side. In particular, "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" got orders to carry out additional means of passive and active protection for armored vehicles. The commanders of units and subunits were instructed to search "more effective ways of protecting armored vehicles". Also, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has set the task for the research institutes of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to develop devices for the protection of armored vehicles from ammunition with thermal guidance in the shortest possible time, the installation and serial production of which will be possible to be established by the engineering and technical units of 1st and 2ndArmy Corps .

The command of "2nd Army Corps LNR" continues to strengthen the so-called Slavyanoserbsk site. The movement of motor transport and armored vehicles through crossroads near Stepovoe to the north towards the Red Liman, Prishib and Slavyanoserbsk was fixed. 3 BTR-80, 1 BRDM-2, 3 trucks Ural, 1 truck Kamaz and 2 MT-LB (one with installed ZU-23-2 AD system) were recorded. In addition, the positions of the unit of invaders (up to the company) with armored vehicles are fixed (3 units of BMP-1 were dug out) north-west of the settlement Dolgoe, and positions with armored vehicles and mortar firing positions closer to the forest and floodplain of the river.

The invaders continue to transfer ammunition and logistic items to the area of Gorlovka, mainly by motor transport. Up to 20 trucks of army type passed through Yenakiyevo and Uglegorsk towards Gorlovka during two days. At the same time, the enemy is actively working to strengthen its positions in the north-eastern and north-western part of the Gorlovka district (concerns primarily the Zaitsevo-Holmovskoe-Dolomite site). There is an active conduct of engineering work and the appearance of new weapons on the positions is fixed. A new unit of invaders with motor and armored vehicles (up to a reinforced platoon, 4 trucks Kamaz, 2 BMP-2, 1 BMP-1 and 2 MT-LB, 4 120-mm mortars) was noted in the Bayrak-Gurta area.

The occupants close up whole areas to the south and north of Yasinovataya in its tactical rear, blocking the movement of civil vehicles and the population (local residents are allowed into the area only if they have a local residence permit). The new mobile checkpoints are noted. The militants report to local residents about "searching of Ukrainian special operation team". But in reality, these measures are being taken by the command of the occupiers to hide the large-scale regrouping of their forces and assets in this area.

According to the instructions from the command of the 8th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Armed Forces, at least two motorized rifle brigades and one regiment of "1st Army Corps DNR" will receive a not less than 20 units of 120-mm artillery systems 2B16 NONA-K. It is expected in the near future. The main purpose is the arming of mobile fire groups, which operate at the front line.

The planned field drills of anti-tank units began in the units and formations of the "1st Army Corps DNR". The anti-tank units of one motorized rifle brigade and two regiments (mainly with the AT guns MT-12 Rapira) have already arrived at the training grounds.

The command of the Russian occupation forces demanded that the command of the subordinate "brigades and regiments" take measures to increase the concealment of weapons and military equipment in connection with the increasing intensity of reconnaissance flights of US UAV RQ-4A Global Hawk over the Donbass. Attention is drawn to the fact that the command of the "1st Army Corps DNR" promised in advance to warn the commanders of the units about the flights of US UAVs. Supposedly such information will be provided by the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, how it will be received - it is not specified.
 
Putin's "peacekeeping" initiatives or why it is necessary to closely monitor the Kremlin sharper

The last year and the beginning of this year are uneasy for Putin's Russia. Our "hybrid brothers" fail on all fronts. The events of the last days in Syria, when already after Putin's statements about the victorious end of the military operation of the Russian Air Force, Russians lost several military aircrafts and human losses, generated not only a lot of Internet memes. This is an alarming call, including for Ukraine.

Damaged by the Syrian events, the Russian reputation and new sanctions, which will become even more "life-giving" in 2018, may turn out a new scenario of the Russian Federation in the Donbass for us. We should not discount the presidential election campaign in the Russian Federation, within which steps can be taken to fertilize the great imperial ambitions of the Russian electorate. Kremlin can recover all its failures in Ukraine and its people, at least - squeeze out maximum for themselves from the situation in the Donbass.

In the Russian Federation, they can play a card of the transformation of the greatest murderer of the 21st century into a blessed "peacemaker". Moreover, the flywheel launched by the civilized world of the machine of enforcement to peace in the Donbass leaves the Russian king and his KGB environment ever less place for maneuvers. But they still have a little chance. Taking into account the previously embedded pitfalls, Putin has a chance to cheat everyone. The leadership of Ukraine and its allies should pay close attention to the Kremlin cheater.

According to the "Information Resistance" group, Putin's environment considers own conditionally "peacekeeping" scenario as one of the possible variants of localizing its own aggression in Ukraine using baits, which the contracting party should agree. Due to the West's lack of progress in negotiations on the Donbass, they propose the option "neither here nor there" implying a huge step forward. It can look something like this: an international peacekeeping contingent is allowed to extend to the entire territory of the LDNR right up to the Russian-Ukrainian border, which the West requires. At the same time, peacekeepers are deployed along the current line of demarcation in the LDNR, which Russia is seeking. In this case, "a huge step forward" would mean freezing the conflict, since further negotiations will be deadlocked by the Russian side.

The entry of peacekeepers into the territory of the Lugansk region, occupied by the Russian Federation, is also planned to be carried out on the conditions of Moscow. It means that the interstate border will be drawn by the Russian side, and the local "LNR" authority will consist exclusively of the FSB agents. They will have the "direct dialogue" with Kiev.

Territorial question

The Russian invaders are transferring the Russian-Ukrainian border in the temporarily uncontrolled Ukraine section of the Lugansk region since 2014. The occupiers are building engineering facilities, equipping the new border. According to our information, this situation is observed outside the border settlement of Veliky Sukhodol (Krasnodonsk district of Lugansk region). During the three years of the war, Russian occupants moved the line of the state border twice. Each transfer was accompanied by the establishment of border fences.

In 2017, the Russian occupiers did not calm down and continued engineering work to transfer the state border in the direction of Biryukovo-Pavlovka (RF). Because of Russia's illegal actions, the dam of the Kundruchya River (flowing through the territories of the two countries, the tributary of the Seversky Donets River), which located on the territory of the LNR, came under the control of the FSB border guards. The invaders dug ditches and installed a guard. From the Ukrainian side, access to the dam is completely lost.

It is possible that the Russians are carrying out similar "work" in other uncontrolled sections of the border. The purpose of such actions is obvious: to take the most advantageous positions from the point of view of tactics in case Ukraine begins to restore sovereignty and regain control over the LDNR.

This is the lesser evil that the local gardeners have lost their gardens where on the site of their beds with radishes is a "border" of the Russian "brothers" now. The fact that the Russian Federation systematically cuts off pieces of Ukrainian territory should be made public in international courts, within the framework of the relevant processes. Until this happens, our country will have an unresolved territorial issue with an inadequate northern neighbor. That is a frozen conflict.

Direct dialogue with the FSB and the collapse of the ideas of "Novorossia”

As we noted earlier, one of the signs of time in the "LNR" is the growing influence of the Russian FSB. During the "rule" of Surkov's protege Plotnitskiy, "the republic" was controlled by the competing FSB and the GRU of the RF Armed Forces. This often led to conflict of interests and real conflict situations. Plotnitskiy himself, as the curator-assistant of the president of the Russian Federation ordered him, gravitated toward the GRU. After the "coup" and the flight of the ringleader of the "republic" to Russia, representatives of the FSB sharply intensified in LNR. In addition to total control over the business environment under the S.Kurchenko, the FSB "sat down" in leadership positions in the "army units", exercising constant control over the situation right up to the company level. The goal is obvious: to find and "re-educate" dissatisfied with the new "power" and the situation in the "LNR" among the militants.

In general, there is a decline in morale and disbelief in the "bright future" among the "servicemen". It is already clear that the "Novorossia" turned out to be an empty shell, and the "warriors" themselves are used as pawns in political games.

Another interesting trend is that after the change of "power" in the "LNR", some persons come back to the management, which at one time left LNR because of the problems with Plotnitskiy. At the same time, there was a "clean-up" of old personnel.

It means that everything is ready for the discharge of the "republic" and the puppets are ready for dialogue with Kiev and the peacekeepers ... with the subsequent demands of Moscow to change the Ukrainian legislation in order to legitimize its influence on the development processes of our country. More precisely, to make these processes impossible.

Black “hole”

In the DNR, probably, the Russian scenario will be played out, where the peacekeepers "sit down" only on the demarcation line and provide security to the OSCE observers. Russia will pursue one goal - to leave the occupied territories of the Donetsk region as a zone of a frozen conflict, implementing the described scenario. Why here? Thanks to many years of propaganda work on the Kremlin methodologies, the DNR population is more pro-Russian. In addition, Russia will incur less expense for one "republic" than to feed Lugansk "brothers" also.

"Peacekeeping" benefits for the Kremlin

Amid of the deteriorating situation for Russia on all fronts, in Europe, Syria, the United States, in domestic politics and economy, this is the best option for Kremlin dwarfs to maintain influence in the occupied parts of Donbass and reduce financial influence at one time.

Returning to the starting point of our analysis, the possible peacekeeping efforts of Putin in the LDNR is a demonstrative desire to "establish peace" in the Donbass for the naive Western public, and the establishment of complete control over local "power" and "Army Corps" that gives an extremely favorable position to the Russia.

From the point of view of big politics, it is even a phantom, but the possibility of at least partially removing sanctions and demanding strategic concessions from the United States, and also to have the advantages to strengthen the contradictions between the states and Europe, while building up the possibilities of the pro-Russian lobby in Europe.

For Putin personally, this also gives a chance to use the image of the "dove of peace" in the eyes of his electorate, presenting the situation as "direct negotiations of Ukraine with the separatists".
 
IR summary: the occupiers continue to actively mine the terrain on a number of sectors of the front

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

The Russian occupation forces continue to systematically violate the ceasefire regime, using 82-mm and 120-mm mortars, grenade launchers and small arms in the ATO zone on the Donbas.

The enemy also activated the sniper fire by increasing the number of sniper pairs in the area of contact with the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a number of sectors (mainly in the Svetlodarsk arc and the Donetsk area).

The enemy continues to actively conduct reconnaissance of the combat formations of the ATO forces with the use of UAVs to inflict firing strikes on them. During the week, more than 10 UAV flights were recorded, including 2 of them flights of the UAV "Orlan-10", which were carried out with a flight in the operational-tactical depth of the defense of ATO forces. It is noted the activation of the enemy's sabotage-reconnaissance groups in the area of settlements Zaitsevo, Krasnogorovka and Shirokino.

The newest Russian mobile satellite communications station "Auriga" type was fixed in the vicinity of the settlement Debaltsevo, which designated for the organization of secure communication and used in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

To ensure the activities of units and formations "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2ndArmy Corps LNR", 20 units of 122-mm MLRS "Grad", 4 BMP-2 and a train with ammunition for artillery systems of various calibers were delivered to the territory of OJSC "Ukrugolsnab" in the settlement of Makeevka from the territory of Russia in a week period, where the occupiers organized one of the ammunition depots. The representatives of the "1st Army Corps DNR" were loaded ammunition for artillery armament, including for MLRS. After that, these munitions were transported in the direction of Gorlovka and Yasinovataya by trucks Ural and Kamaz.

At the beginning of 2018, the complete rotation of the entire command structure of the platoon-company-battalion levels was completed in "1st separate mechanized brigade of 1st Army Corps DNR". By the order of the command of the 8th Army of the RF Armed Forces, the command of the brigade also changed by the arrived personnel from the RF Armed Forces.

The active mining of the area by Russian invaders continues. Thus, mining of individual sections of the terrain between settlements Raevka - Krutaya Gora, as well as Raevka - Veselyaya Gora was recorded. Basically they mine areas of the terrain, which adjacent or located directly in the floodplain of the Seversky Donets River (apparently, the Russian command is afraid of infiltration of Ukrainian special operation teams through these areas). At the same time, the installation of antipersonnel and anti-tank mines is noted, although the use of tanks is virtually eliminated in this direction. It also notes the installation of individual mine-blasting obstacles (mostly disguised) by the enemy in the area of the road that runs north of Veselyaya Gora, between Schastye and Lugansk.

The appearance of a mobile CP of the occupants is recorded in the region of the south-west of Christovo. 2 mobile radio stations based on trucks, a mobile CP of the "Kushetka" type and 1 unit of BRM-1K were observed. It is not excluded that we are talking about an open demonstration for misinformation purposes. The vehicles were not disguised; they moved demonstratively open and remained for a long time in the open area.

In the forest plant south of Kalinovo, the appearance of a rather powerful armored group (a pair of T-72, BTR-80 and 2 BMP-1) is noted. All equipment is dispersed, disguised and guarded in position. Also, 3 trucks Ural were observed moving from Kalinovo to Almaznaya (apparently from the composition of this group).

The invaders expect the APU offensive from the side of the Trekhizbenka in the general direction to the Smelyoe and the height of 175.9 with the aim of cutting the "gut" near Sokolniki. In connection with these "expectations", the enemy gradually strengthens all his stronghold points along the Sokolniki-Prishib-Slavyanoserbsk road. Over the last day, 2 units MT-LB and 1 BMP-1were fixed between the Slavyanoserbsk and the Krasniy Liman.

In the area of Betmanovo, the invaders actively equip the battalion defense area. Several stronghold points have already been created (a number of engineering structures are located directly on the territory of this settlement), and the enemy actively mines a neutral line and approaches to the village. Similar work is taking place on the Golmovskoe-Dolomit site. Also, the appearance of equipped positions for ATGMs or ZU-23-2 AD systems are noted.

Using the truce, the occupants actively replenish the ammunition of their mobile fire groups operating north of Avdeevka in the area from Kamenka to Verkhnetoretsky. North of Yasinovatoya, ammunition is transported by several trucks Ural through the private sector to the area of height 272.2 near the road E-50.

According to available information, the command of the militia "DNR" is considering the use of explosive gas for pumping into the mine shaft of the Butovka mine to carry out a provocation. In particular, it is proposed to pump such gas through a degassing ventilation shaft, which is connected underground with the shaft of the Butovka mine.

Due to the difficult humanitarian and financial situation in LNR and the lack of opportunities to independently secure the needs of public services and medical institutions, the leadership of the LNR decided to apply to the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation with a request to provide targeted humanitarian assistance for 2018. To this end, an "interdepartmental commission" was established under the leadership of the "Council of Ministers of the LNR", which should prepare a complete list of the necessary equipment and materials (in particular, medical equipment, medicines, building materials, equipment for repair of water supply systems, etc.).

Some of the public structures of the "LNR" actively cooperate with humanitarian organizations in Germany. Thus, the NGO "Boomerang Dobra" (Lugansk) regularly receives humanitarian aid (specialized medical equipment, foodstuffs, etc.) from the alliance "Future of Donbass" (Thuringia, Germany). The founders and activists of the "Future of Donbass" Alliance are Raisa and Bernd Steinik (who live in Grossheide, Germany). There are members of the party "Alternative for Germany" are noted among the active members of the alliance. They closely cooperate with the information site of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, where Raisa Steinik repeatedly stated appeals to the inhabitants of Germany and the Russian Federation with accusations of the Ukrainian authorities in the "blockade" of Donbass, "genocide" against his population, while expressing "gratitude" to the Russian Federation for humanitarian and other assistance. Also members of the German alliance regularly visit occupied Lugansk.
 
It seems obvious that the world in general, sees the Ukraine conflict as more akin to a Russian internal matter (even though it is a sovereign state) rather than the separatist war it basically is. Blame it on the press for the most part, because this is the treatment it generally gets. It also seems obvious that the press largely chooses to ignore it, which is interesting. You have to go LOOKING for news about it, if interested.
 
and nobody over that side of the pond,or very few,seems to understand that putin is still pissed on US,that the USSR crumbled to pieces,that he blames you for the lost "glory and power"...he's out on a quest of revenge..
why putin controls russian news...
sends his shock troops against any one who speaks against him...a helluwa lot of dead bodies among those people...
 
Concerning "Crimean gifts" of Putin
14.01.2018 - 11:50

While Ukraine is discussing Putin's proposal to return the equipment and armament of the AFU, including armored vehicles and warships of our Navy, I would draw attention to another point.

Putin slipped up that the proposal does not apply to the AFU ammunition which remained in the Crimea ("this arsenal is not transportable"). It seems that the proposal does not apply to infantry weapons. And it's easy to explain.

In 2014, the IR group's network recorded the appearance of individual units of armored vehicles at the disposal of militants on the Donbas previously captured by the Russians in the Crimea. The flow of ammunition and small arms from the Crimea were supplied to the Donbas. At that time, the Russians were still "embarrassed" to supply the terrorists of the LDNR by weapons from the RF Armed Forces warehouses, and the arsenals seized in the Crimea were very useful because these weapons and ammunition were as part of the AFU (all under the thesis of Russian propaganda: "militiamen seized weapons and ammunition from the Ukrainian army ").

It is worth remembering how in May 2014 in the Berdyansk district of the Zaporozhye region, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) detained a cargo of small arms and explosives intended for the terrorists of the DNR (in the screenshots - the photo of of this cargo of weapons from the archives of the IR group). Dozens of boxes with small arms, machine guns, grenade launchers, grenades, cartridges were delivered by sea from the occupied Sevastopol. At that time, the SBU established that these weapons, formerly belonging to the AFU, were intended to be used by the militants during the planned terrorist acts, including the seizure of the seaport and administrative buildings in Berdyansk and Nikolayev, and the organizers of the arms deliveries were FSB officers and the former head of the SBU A . Yakimenko.

Besides, we can only guess how many of these weapons and ammunition from the Crimea Putin sent to "friends" from ISIS.

It seems that Ukraine needs to initiate an international investigation about the supplies of arms, seized by the Russians in the Crime, to the terrorists in Ukraine and far beyond its borders.

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Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Over the past weekend (13-14.01.2018), the Russian occupation forces in the Donbas continued to violate the regime of silence with the use of heavy weapons. During the weekend the invaders used - 122 mm howitzer type D-30 / 30A artillery for the first time in their new year, also actively use 120-mm mortars in a number of sectors. In addition, the enemy continues to conduct active reconnaissance of the combat formations of the AFU, including using UAVs.

Using the regime of silence, the command of the occupiers continues to regroup their forces and assets in a number of sectors.

In the Oboznoe area north of the route Lugansk- Schastye, the occupants transferred a new "motorized rifle unit" - 5 BMP-1, 2 MT-LB, 1 ATGM, 3 SPG-9, 2 ZU-23-2 AD systems (on the trucks Kamaz) and 4 82-mm mortars. At the moment the unit is digging, armored vehicles are disguised on the section north of the route.

The regrouping of enemy units in the area of Novolaspa, Petrovskiy, near the Reservoir to the south-west of Styla is noted. Armored vehicles were fixed (6 BMP and MT-LB units in Novolaspa), further digging in the Petrovskiy area (with mining of certain sections of the terrain), and equipping new positions for ATGM or SPG-9 south of Belaya Kamenka, improving the stronghold point at the height 206.9. There were 2 trucks Ural and BTR of invaders (they carried out something like a topography for artillery) in the beam west of Novomarevka. Apparently, the command of the invaders really believes in the rapid "offensive of the AFU" in this sector.

The Stakhanov group of invaders also continues active preparations for "defeat the forthcoming offensive of the AFU". In the area of Pervomaisk, namely at the height 270.4 and west of the railway station Teplohorsk, the occupants actively dig trenches; equip machine-gun positions and shelters for vehicles and weapons, preparing Pervomaisk for defense from different directions.

The occupants transfer the 122mm rockets for the MLRS BM-21 Grad along the N-21 highway towards Makeyevka and Donetsk by the trucks Ural. During four hours, 14 trucks with rockets were recorded, passing along the route. Ammunition arrives from the direction of Snezhnoye, where they are transferred from the transport that has arrived from the Russian Federation.

The division with 152-mm howitzers "Msta-B" of the artillery brigade "Kalmius" ("1stArmy Corps DNR") went to the field training. It is supposed to conduct trainings with the command staff on fire control with practical combat firing, training of interaction with "motorized rifle" units.

The parties of Russian mercenaries arrived to complete the staffing of the "6th and 11th separate mechanized regiments" of the occupation troops. In total, there are two parties for 120 people (some of them are directed to other parts of "1st Army Corps DNR"). They look like civilians, without military training (obviously not even passed the basic training course in the "Rostov camps"). Arrived mercenaries are forced to sign a "contract for military service" in the occupation troops.

After Putin's statement about the readiness to return to Ukraine the weapons and equipment of the AFU captured by the Russians in the Crimea, commanders of the units of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" were instructed to organize "explanatory work with personnel". The main aim is to bring to the militants the thesis that Putin's proposal is not aimed at strengthening the AFU and "Russia will not leave the Donbass." Recommended theses: the weapons are completely defective and will require a large expenditure of money by Ukraine for restoration; Ukraine will not be able to use against the militants Naval equipment (Navy ships), as it will not be able to transfer it to the Azov Sea; Armored vehicles are not practically recoverable.

In order to create motivation for the militants to continue their active operations in the Svetlodarsk arc area, the command of the occupants brings "intelligence information" to the personnel according to which "group of British, Polish and American sniper instructors" allegedly arrived at the location of the AFU units in the first line on this section. These groups are allegedly under command of officers from the Marine Corps of the United States.

The information is disseminated In "DNR" that since the issuance of "passports of citizens of the DNR", these "documents" have been received by 957 foreigners from more than 30 countries. Among them are immigrants from the United States, Russia, Germany, Italy, Serbia, and Finland. At the same time, representatives of the occupation authorities of the DNR do not indicate that all foreigners who have received the "passports of citizen of the DNR" are fighters and mercenaries and, accordingly, are international criminals.

Militants from the "law enforcement structures of the DNR" organized a scheme to extort money from car owners with European registration numbers. So, all cars that are registered in the respective countries are forcibly sent to the penalty sites, where a "penalty" is charged without the necessary documents from their owners. At the same time, the employees of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DNR" refer to an alleged separate order on the need to register these cars within 10 days. At the same time, such an order was not published on the "official" information resources of the "DNR".

The leadership of the "DNR" ordered to prepare an order according to which the whole "harvest" from "unauthorized occupied areas" by local citizens should pass to the "state ownership of the DNR". Under these conditions, the militants, acting under the "roof" of the "Minister of incomes and fees of the DNR" A. Timofeev ("Tashkent"), demand 300 thousand rubles each from local representatives of the agricultural sector, which for the last few years have processed the seized fields. These amounts are unofficial payments for the failure of militants to take "response measures".

IR
 
News from the zone: Terrorists put children ahead of themselves
01/17/2018 - 11:00


News from the zone in the last five days is simply knocked down. Changes occur so quickly that you do not have time to react or be surprised. Although, to be honest, those who constantly observe the zone, or rather, let the war through, know all its cracks, have long been not surprised at anything. Everything that happens in ORDLO is obvious, predictable and predictable. Since 2014, from the first days, pro-Ukrainian residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions have said that Russia will turn the occupied territories into ghettos, returning them deeply to the USSR. Everything that happens in ORDLO now, is not yet a denouement, but the point of no return is passed. And in the economy, or rather, its destruction, and in morality, and in the psyche, and in society.

I write about this, since every line of the war requires awareness, disclosure and understanding. To see the war, to feel and know it, means to work ahead of time. In our case, also to create a barrier, and, perhaps, immunity from the Russian tricolor plague.

When I write about the influence of propaganda on the inhabitants of Ordlo, especially children, I am accused of writing under the influence of a personal post-traumatic syndrome, they say, we are all immigrants from the USSR, lived in total propaganda, but it did not affect us.

"Did not it work?" I ask them, looking at Russian obscurantism from slogans, lies, manipulations, communist orthodoxy and age-old fanatics trying to revive monarchy and communism within the framework of the reanimated USSR-and who then is at war for the revival of the USSR, if not the natives and suckers of Soviet propaganda?

Propaganda in the USSR was so strong that it was simply not noticed, and it became part and meaning of life. Result? Take a look around how many people around us who rush to "shoot", "must", "must", condemn, dig in personal, puff with envy of success, demand to take away and share, nourish hatred of Jews, Negroes, Gypsies, retell television clichés and lives by them. Sexism, chauvinism, racism, anti-Semitism are the remnants of a scoop in us, like the narrowing of personal space, as the inability to think globally, stepping over through personal, analyzing the life of the country.

"This is my child, what I want ...", "I'm your mother and I know better that you ...", "the newspaper says", "you have to write like this", "you owe me," "the state is obliged," "this yours Ukraine"…

The USSR is still a lot around us and inside us. And even our modern party system, this is the USSR, with duties, doctrines, vacillations along with the party line and betrayal of the country for the ideas of the party or its leader, disunion of the people on the "right" and "not right" politically colored. And for the time being our school, this is the USSR, with the humiliation of the child, with the reluctance to see in it an equal member of society. And health care, and moms, who treat children on the Internet and advice in line, and ...

I think that the war, this is a chance to see in itself this shovel, restricting and degrading, marasmic and mercantile, lowland, see and clean, revealing itself to the world and realizing its own and others' freedom.

Donbass lived in an illusory world that limited its freedom. As in the USSR. All that abroad is a scoop is an enemy. The narrow space of a narrow person.

I lived in the Donbass for 43 years. All the conscious life told me that all the problems of the city and the region because of Kiev. The enemy was there for any reason. The local authorities stole, and Kiev was to blame. And the very name "Donbass", an abbreviated toponym of the Donetsk Coal Basin, somehow separated this part from Ukraine. Listen carefully! Lugansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine! Donbass! Do you feel the mental difference? I, yes!

Donbass in some part, I would say that at the time of 2014, this part could be defined as 80% of the inhabitants of the Donbass, but with the proviso that 35% of them are an aggressive environment of pro-Russian apologists and tiny, inert -Infantile part, waiting for Russia without personal participation in the war, still believed in the promised return to the USSR. Why? Perhaps because the propaganda in the USSR was so strong that it broke people, eating into its gene code.

Maybe those who shouted "to shoot", "to the camps", "Stalin to the hero," grandchildren-great-grandchildren of those who shot, protected the camps and occupied houses, sweetly stretching, "oh, it's good that the owners were shot." So professionally and quickly they, my contemporaries, remembered how to write denunciations and be vertices in the zone.

Surprisingly, those who defend the USSR do not see the danger, the long-term danger to the national security of our country from the aggressive propaganda deployed by the invaders in ORDLO, describe the USSR since the late 80s. Well, the late 70's. Not earlier. And then, what has become modern Russia and what the Donbas is turning into is the USSR of the 20-45's. What do they know about the propaganda of that time and its long-term impact on man?

Restrictions in information, movements, denunciations, executions, cellars ... These are the realities of the ORDLO, which came from the USSR in the model of 1937. Of course, the man-scoop is so arranged that until it touches him personally, he sees no danger. This is exactly how propaganda worked, the zone of restriction was presented as freedom, and its loss as anarchy.

The more I observe the situation in Russia and in the ORDLO, the more I realize that the communist "the whole world of violence we destroy" meant something else. Under the violence, the USSR perceived freedom, human values, culture, evolution. With this and fought. After all, the USSR, the man-scoop, this humiliation, brought to the state of nirvana. People lived in wretchedness physical, moral and social, but at the same time they enjoyed the thought that somewhere the West is rotting. Now lovers of the scoop ORLLO live in the same ****, enjoying the idea that somewhere Ukraine and the United States are rotting. Everything that was outside the USSR was perceived as an enemy. All that is beyond the territories of the borders of the OPLO is the enemy.

Residents of Donbass themselves built ORDLO, the territory of violence, humiliation, corruption, totalitarianism, restrictions. With queues, lack of freedom, lack of culture, rudeness, shortage and aggressive propaganda. In short supply, even medical services, communications, transportation, service, mail, bank.

The scoop comes out of us. Toxicosis and breaking. But it does. And we, born in the 70s, remember that here is the USSR, but not the USSR of the aggressive camp period. A revive it is his. True, more sophisticated, with priests, faith, as yet another manipulative lever, NLP, modern methods of conducting information and hybrid warfare and with modern weapons.

Why do not we calculate the long-term impact of propaganda on the inhabitants of the ORDLO and are not looking for ways to treat them? Reintegration and deoccupation of the Donbas must begin with the deoccupation of consciousness.

But the invaders understand this and work with young people as a long-term weapon, creating a "Trojan Donbass horse" from fragile minds and bodies.

On January 16, 2018, Leonid Pasechnik signed a decree on the establishment of a youth movement in the ORLO, which should cover all groups of children from kindergarten to university.

In 2017, many changes occurred in the schools of ORDLO, with the filing of an invader. Separate gender training was introduced. The boys are separate, the girls are separate. Learning is implemented using light signals. Half of the lesson, some children sit, others stand, according to the sound-light signal, the children change places.

Orthodoxy, prayers, home economics and other religious lessons are introduced in schools, giving an awareness of personal breakdown, driving the children into the consciousness-limiting framework. Vaccinations are evil, a woman has no rights, prayer heals, power is power from God, power has all the rights, it is honorable and important to die for Russia ...

The number of cadet corps has increased in ORDLO, where children have been studying since the age of 7. Children take an oath to put life in the struggle for faith, the tsar and the fatherland. Russian, of course!

Why do not we notice this? Do you think how many children, over 4 years of occupation, will not take this seriously and will not go to war? How many children go to the cadets because of their parents and their desires? Already now I see in the bulletins among the dead terrorists people born in 97th, 2001. These are the first issues in the occupation. Graduated universities in Ukraine return and swear an oath to terrorists ORDLO. Such cases have already been fixed. What's next?

The idea of creating "UNARMIA" in the ORDLO was brought by the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the coordinator of the integration committee "Russia-Donbass" Andrei Kozenko, who believes that the creation of the All-Russian military-patriotic social movement in ORDLO "Unarmy" will be an occasion for the reintegration of Donbass into Russia and strengthening the spiritual power of the children of Donbass.

"The main goal of the movement is to arouse the interest of the younger generation in geography, the history of Russia and its peoples, heroes, outstanding scientists and commanders." It is assumed that members of the movement will engage in volunteer activities, take part in cultural, military, sports and search activities, receive additional education and first aid skills. The financing of the movement will naturally come from Russia.

Remember - "we will put women and children ahead of us"? The creation, or rather, the involvement of children in the "Unarmy", the creation of the modern Hitler Youth of Donbass, is nothing but a cover for their weakness by children.

Terrorists do not just conduct agitation and drive children into all these Cadet Corps and the "Unarmy." Long-term, this is the creation of a fanatical army, ready, like Russians, to self-destruct in the name of the Russian world. Such children brought up on the ideas of terrorism and Russian chauvinism can use not only for the destruction of Ukraine, but also as a resource for Russian wars in the world.

Those who do not support terrorists will not give up their children in Unarmia. It's clear. Separation is and will be. But, the filling of children's and youth camps, cadet corps in ORDLO is quite active and massive. There are children and parents who accept terrorists for their own, but there are those who oppose the invaders and collaborators. But it is very difficult to control children if the school is an aggressive terrorist environment.

For example, in March 2014 in the class of my youngest daughter for Russia there were 2 children, all the rest were for Ukraine. In September 2014, returning to school, the class was already different: 3 children were for Ukraine, the rest came with tricolor. The school started fighting pro-Ukrainian children with pro-Russian children. First, moral pressure, ridicule, fights, then brought a weapon. Pro-Ukrainian children in ORDLO learn to live without raising their eyes, and remain silent. Is it good?

We forget that this is the Donbass, this is the Stockholm syndrome, this is the post-scoop, and the parents are "back in the USSR", "the people of Donbass."

Now, most of the inhabitants of Ordlo voluntarily sign notifications of the ban on leaving the Ordo. Miners ORDLO voluntarily-compulsorily (but without refusing or striking), in order not to lose their job, go to military gatherings arranged by terrorists. Prior to that, at the ORDLO enterprises, they wrote massively and voluntarily statements on joining the "public" terrorist groups.

There are no peaceful citizens in the war. Collaborator is a resource of war. In the short term ...

I think that the fact that now all residents of the Ordloe, let's say, of the militarily required age, are being recorded in terforming, public formations, being taken to landfills and training camps, starting up files and criminal cases, being done for nullification.

In order that in the event of a retreat of the Russians and the transfer of the Donbas under our control, it would be easier to say - see, here all separars, here even the children-separars, how to punish them or put them in jail, need a general amnesty. So criminals-terrorists will hide in the general mass of collaborators.

In addition to the opening of the "UNARMIA" in the ORDLO, the State Duma deputy Andrei Kozenko and the "head" of Lynyria Leonid Pasechnik announced the beginning of the integration of the field of education of ORDLO into the sphere of education of the Russian Federation. "The Russian education system is one of the best in the world. An important aspect remains the patriotic education of the younger generation, "the terrorist and the occupier emphasized. It is the children's consciousness that is subjected to total processing. Turn a person into a consumer without a sense of homeland, honor, devoid of faith and spiritual stamina.

Well, we also remember that. Graduates of Soviet universities, which are now the foundation of Russian education, sat massively near TV sets, charging water from the passes of Chumak, and now they believe in the propagandist Soloviev, start talking from bullets, visit shamans and fortune-tellers, fascinate and fascinate, and create falling Russian satellites. It would be possible to smile here if it were not for ... graduates of Soviet universities have copied the history of Ukraine, and now in the Donbas they teach children to die for "back to the USSR", and again carry the propaganda hell from the "country-404", "usro-fascism" and greatness of the "third Rome". The Russian modern education system is a blacksmith of stupidity, cruelty, obscurantism and terrorism. Read the statistics of children's, adolescent crimes in Russia, the level of homelessness, adolescent alcoholism, prostitution and drug addiction.

That's only the business and political legacy of Russia's celebrity and Ordlo for some reason does not belong to the "Unarmia", and lives in a decaying gay Europe. Russians in front of their guns prefer to put other people's children and wives. Will this finally understand Donbass?
 
IR summary: the invaders found a way to "compensate" for a shortage of personnel in their units in Gorlovka
18.01.2018 - 11:35

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

Over the last week period, the intensity of fire strikes by the Russian occupation forces in the Donbas on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory controlled by Ukraine increased. In total, artillery units of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" carried out more than 40 fire raids (last week up to 30) by 82/120-mm mortars, 122-mm portable rocket launchers Grad-P, infantry fighting vehicles and tanks.

The most intense fire strikes were inflicted on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of the settlements of Lugansk, Troitskoe, Novolugansk, Kamenka, Butovka, Gnutovo, Lebedinskoe, Vodyanoe and Pavlopol. In addition, the enemy systematically fired to the ATO forces by small arms in the area Stanitsa Luganskaya, which is a violation of the agreement on the disengagement of forces in this area.

The activation of the activities of the sabotage-reconnaissance groups and sniper groups of the enemy is marked along the entire line of contact. The reconnaissance and raid groups continue to operate, and snipers are actively used. The enemy continues an active reconnaissance of the combat orders of the AFU, tactical and operational-tactical rear.

Also, the enemy continues to conduct reconnaissance of the combat formations of the ATO forces with the use of UAVs. During the week, about 20 flights of UAVs were recorded, including 5 of them - flights of the UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out with an entry in the operational-tactical depth of the defense forces of the ATO.

The work of the Russian automated interference station R-330ZH (Resident) was recorded in the vicinity of the settlement Slavyanoserbsk.

The command of the occupying troops conducts training of their duty artillery assets every day, working out the questions of deploying them on firing positions and preparing for a fire attack on the positions of the AFU. The enemy's artillery units are in combat positions constantly in readiness for immediate use on the directions that the Russian command considers the most dangerous (Svetlodarsk arc, Bakhmut route, Gorlovka, Donetsk, Dokuchaevsk, Mariupol direction). At the same time, the field training of artillery units of the 1st Army Corps continues at the training ground near Torez, which began to practice the issues of fire control of units in the battery-division with the performance of combat firing yesterday.

The active actions of the invaders are marked in preparation for the defense on the site Styla - Staromarevka. On the line Zernovoe - Rodnikovo, militants are actively building an entire defense zone. Throughout this section, it is noted that up to 10 units of construction and engineering equipment are used daily, regardless of the weather conditions. The enemy also conducts a hidden massive mining of the terrain on the front line on this site.

The additional armored vehicles of invaders were marked in the areas of Petrovskoe, Staraya Laspa, east of Boikovskoe (former Telmanovo), and a very active movement of vehicles along the route between Boikovskoe and Starobeshevo. There are no obvious reasons for such activity of the invaders in terms of preparing the defense in this sector. Therefore, it is possible that the enemy equips and covers the area of concentration and deployment for 1-2 of his brigades in this area.

The strengthening of the right flank of the Stakhanov group of invaders continues in the "gut" from Sokolniki to Dolgoe. The redeployment of 4 BMP-1 and 1 BRM-1K was fixed south of the Slavyanoserbsk. Newly arrived from Lugansk 1 MT-LB with ZU-23 AD System and 2 trucks Ural were fixed In Prishib. The invaders secretly equip several firing positions for 120-mm mortars northeast of the Smelyoe.

The equipment of the invaders was identified, the redeployment of which the IR group's network had previously fixed in the Panteleimonovka area. At present, this equipment is located in the area north-west of Yasinovatoya (area of DFS-Krutaya Balka-Kashtanovoe). Apparently, the enemy command has rotated units in the given area, and strengthens its stronghold points with additional units of combat armored vehicles (1-2 units each). It is noted that additional BMPs and MT-LBs have arrived at strongpoints in the area of heights 247.2 and 272.2, south of Krutaya Balka and in the Gospodar-Kashtanovoe market area.

The command of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" conducts preparatory measures to verify the mobilization readiness of their troops. "Military registration and enlistment offices" of "DNR" and "LNR" got the order to clarify the lists of the mobilization reserve, and the units and subunits of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" began to prepare for the deployment of reception stations of equipment and personnel.

To ensure the terrorist activities of units and formations of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR", the 10 trucks with ammunition and about 1300 tons of fuel (railway station Rovenky and Krasnaya Mogila) were delivered to the Dovzhansk (Sverdlovsk) from the territory of Russia in the period from 10 to 15 January this year.

After the events in Zaitsevo, Gladosovo, Golmovskoe, Travnevoe and Novolugansk, the Russian command found a way to "compensate" for an acute shortage of personnel at the front line (in particular, we are talking about the "3rdBrigade" of militants, whose units, apart from lack of equipment, occupy rather vulnerable positions). In particular, the invaders formed several mobile artillery groups (including rocket artillery) for fire support of their understaffed companies and platoons. According to the IR group, these groups have at least 4 units of the 122mm MLRS BM-21 Grad and two batteries (up to 10 units in total) of the 122mm howitzers D-30 / 30A type. A concealment system for these artillery groups was conceived from the observers of the OSCE mission. They use hidden firing positions, including using the objects of the social infrastructure of Gorlovka and adjacent settlements, as well as enterprises, mine, logistic hangars, various administrative territories and facilities.

A sharp deterioration of the moral and psychological state of personnel marked in number of brigades and battalions of the "1st Army Corps DNR" due to the long delays in the dismissal of militants and Russian mercenaries from military service, who had expired "contracts". The main argument from the command of the invaders is that the militants, who want to retire, must "find a replacement". It means to provide a candidate for the "military service" to their duty positions. This condition raises indignation among militants seeking to retire.

Heads of the "DNR" together with the NGO "The Stronghold of Donbass" carry out preparatory measures for the celebration so-called "Day of the Defender of the Fatherland" on February 23 this year. Thus, 100 thousand rubles were allocated from the budget of the "DNR" to conduct a concert of "the legends of Russian rock" for the command staff of "1st Army Corps DNR". In addition, it is planned to attract a number of Russian pop stars of the 1990s for a concert in Donetsk for city residents (for this purpose an additional 500,000 rubles were allocated). The Staff of Russia's President will pay a payment of royalties to Russian artists and musicians.

IR
 
Putin's Russia supplies weapons to the terrorists of the Middle East
19.01.2018 - 12:10

The Russian Federation regularly takes the leading positions in the official world export ratings for arms and military equipment. However, this export is not always legal. Recently, more and more information appears that Russian or Soviet armament from the RF Armed Forces warehouses falls into the hands of terrorist organizations. This can be explained by contingency, however, this can cause serious concern when it comes to its mass presence in the regions of conflict ...

The armed confrontation in the east of Ukraine, which continues from 2014, clearly demonstrated that the Kremlin rigidly ignores international law and acts as it likes. Today, there are a lot of facts that testify about the illegal supply of various Russian armaments to the territory of Donbas, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. We are also talking about the supplied air defense complexes, anti-tank and artillery weapons. The Kremlin is sponsoring separatist and in fact terrorist groups de facto.

But, this is not something extraordinary for the Kremlin. After all, there are vivid examples of Russia's activities in the Middle East and other regions of the world.

So, as is known, there is a civil war in Syria for many years. The insurgent people are trying to overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. With the beginning of the war, arms shipments to Syria by Russia have grown at times. Officially, Moscow argued that deliveries are made under previously signed contracts, but it cannot explain why the number of these contracts suddenly increased. However, there are doubts that Syria paid for these weapons. It's no secret that Assad's regime is not able to buy such an amount of weapons that have been coming from Russia during these years. These are small arms, anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, and S-300 missile systems, T-72 and T-80 tanks, MiG-29 and Su-25 jets, and ammunition.

Kremlin does not above to "trade" with terrorist organizations. In 2011, Russian weapons became the "apple of discord" between Israel and Russia. Palestinian militants from the Hamas organization fired on an Israeli school bus by anti-tank guided missile Kornet, which was manufactured in Russia. The official Tel Aviv even protested, but Moscow escaped responsibility. Avoiding punishment, the Kremlin continues its criminal activities.

According to the latest data, there are reasons to suppose that the air defense units, which Hamas forms up in order to counteract attacks by the Israeli air forces, are being created and equipped with the support of the Russian Federation. It's unclear precisely whether the Kremlin supplies the terrorists with SA-22 Greyhound and Buk-M1, as it happened in the Donbass, but this should not be ruled out.

Hamas considers representatives of Russia as the "friends". The one of the latest initiatives of the leadership of this terrorist organization is evidence of this. So, on September 20, 2017, Russia Today released the speech of the deputy chairman of the Hamas political leadership, Musa Abu Marzuka, about Russia's support of the Palestinian movement in the international arena. In particular, he noted: "We asked our Russian friends to support us in the international arena. We hope that Russia will provide visible support in this regard. Russia more can do in this case than the US ". Abu Marzuka also appealed to the Russian side to help break through the blockade of the Gaza Strip and provide humanitarian aid to its residents in connection with the health crisis.

Hamas is not the single example. Moscow supplies arms to another organization operating in the Middle East region - Hezbollah. And this despite the fact that the entire civilized world recognized this organization as a terrorist but Russia not. In January 2016, the Israeli Ynetnews and the American The Daily Beast, referring to middle rank commanders of Hezbollah, reported that Russia "carries out direct deliveries of artillery and anti-tank ammunition" to the terrorists of Hezbollah, and "does not care at all for what purpose they will use it". At the same time, it was noted that there is full coordination between the Assad regime in Damascus, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia, while the direct interdependence between Russia and Hezbollah is growing.

The Russian smuggling is not limited of supplies of weapons to Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle East. There are grounds to accuse the Kremlin for the supply of arms to the terrorist group "Islamic State". For a long time, ISIS fought against Assad formally, attacking mostly Syrian rebels, Kurds, Sunni insurgent groups. They operated mainly along the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey where the routes of oil and gas pipelines to Europe must pass. The Russians could not openly transfer weapons to militants, because Russia officially recognized ISIS as a terrorist organization. A number of operations were carried out, during which a staging of the assault of a number of bases of Syrian government troops was carried out by militants. The Assad troops withdrew without a fight, leaving bases and mountains of weapons. In fact, there was a hidden supply disguised as trophies. It is noteworthy that the situation changed later, and they ceased to act in this way.

For today, the facts of illegal military exports by Russia around the world are more than enough to classify this state as a violator of international law and moral and ethical rules. However, the world community is more inclined to observe all this from the outside, limiting itself to critical statements sometimes and not taking the appropriate steps that had to be done for a long time.

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IR summary: the invaders cranked out the detention of "captured" for exchange
19.01.2018 - 15:05
Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

On the eve of the announced next exchange of prisoners, the leaders of the Russian occupation administration of the "DNR" ordered the "security services and the courts of the DNR" to intensify the processes of "identifying and convicting" of persons for "espionage and terrorism", which are planned to be exchanged. The series of articles on the recognition of the "military tribunal of the DNR" as guilty of committing these crimes, provided for by the "DNR criminal code", published in the so-called "DNR" media. During the 2017 year, there was a similar order, which made it possible to "gather" prisoners for exchange. During the year, the "MGB DNR" detained 246 people on suspicion of "espionage and treason", 148 of them were employees of the "state departments of the DNR". By the way, such a mass character of detained "spies and traitors" the occupants explain by the current order of the "DNR" leader A. Zakharchenko "On the temporary ban on the departure of workers of the public sphere of the DNR to the territory of Ukraine."

During the last few days, the units of "1st Army Corps DNR", which are located in Donetsk, are actively replenishing its stocks of medicines and first aid. There is an active movement of military and sanitary transport along the route from "military units" to medical institutions and pharmacies. Also during the last week, the number of donors increased at the blood donor centers. Earlier such activation was fixed only during active military operations and aggravation of the situation on the demarcation line.

Preparations for "local elections" are held again in the "DNR". In particular, pre-election lists and lists of electoral commissions are checked, and recruitment of agitators from the main social and political force of the "DNR" - the social movement "Donetsk republic" is under way. The "administration of the head of the DNR" spreads rumors that the date of "elections" will be appointed at the direction of "Russian curators", immediately after the presidential elections in the Russian Federation in this year.

On the instructions of the head of the Russian occupation administration of Gorlovka, I. Prikhodko, the head of PJSC Concern Stirol (owner - Ostchem Holding AG, the plant was "nationalized" by the occupation authorities of DNR in March 2017) M. Chepak handed over two hotels, a dispensary and a sports complex to the military formations of the "DNR" for the deployment of the personnel, which are on the balance sheet of the enterprise. In addition, M. Chepak regularly transfers part of the factory's circulating cash assets to militants of the "DNR".
 
Seems like you mostly post in this thread.

Just curious, what are YOU doing? How are you preparing for a guerilla war? Do you have prior military service? If so, what did you do? Infantry, engineer....

What do you do for work?

Do you have a family, wife and kids? Got any dogs?

Let's get to know each other! Hard to get to know you from just the Official News feed.
 
Seems like you mostly post in this thread.

Just curious, what are YOU doing? How are you preparing for a guerilla war? Do you have prior military service? If so, what did you do? Infantry, engineer....

What do you do for work?

Do you have a family, wife and kids? Got any dogs?

Let's get to know each other! Hard to get to know you from just the Official News feed.

He is giving us news from the Ukraine that we don’t normally get in the West. Maybe he doesn’t want to divulge information about himself for the reasons of OPSEC. He did start this thread ;) many of us read his post here! In that part of the world too much personal information can have deadly consequences.
 
I would hope he is smart enough to know what can be said and what can't. He is here with the stated purpose of preparing for "war", correct? So he already is here, and has an IP address. It is public.

Opsec is operational security, meaning he would be conducting an active operation. Persec is personal security, avoiding carelessly divulging personal information, in this case information that would lead someone to him, someone I would assume would have to be looking here, already on this site.

I'm not asking for his name, or address, or the company where he works. I didn't ask for his height or weight or identifying tattoos.

Lets not make too much, or too little, of PERSEC.

Can't we get to know each other just a little? Don't tell me what café you get coffee at every morning. But a little background would be nice.

He can always tell me no, lol.
 
Actually, after thinking about it, let me back away from my previous post, and try it a little differently.

Anaconda, while I was typing the earlier post, I was doing situps and pushups between typing, and then cleaned a couple guns.

Rather than get to know you by asking for something, maybe I can start a conversation by offering you something you might be interested in.

Its not much, but I have a few links.

From the Rand Corporation: https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1253/RAND_RR1253.pdf

A Rand Corporation wargaming of a Russian invasion on NATO's eastern flank. I have no affiliation with Rand.

From the Small Wars Journal Council : http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/showthread.php?t=25367

The Small Wars Council isn't what it once was, but there are still a few members who are active in DC think tanks, and one is an IT guy who is actively working against Russian cyber warfare in the region. I am a member of the forum. I don't post.

From SOCNET, the online Special Operations community forum: http://www.socnet.com/showthread.php?t=121513

The link above is a recruitment link, giving a slight idea of OSCE recruitment here in the United States, who they are looking for, and who they are getting. I am a member of the forum. I don't post.

My daughter has a school demonstration today at 1 oclock, its going to be hilarious. She is going to have a plastic heart pinned to her shirt, with tubes running all over that other kids can pump fake blood through, lol. So, I get to go cheer. Good day for me.
 
I would hope he is smart enough to know what can be said and what can't. He is here with the stated purpose of preparing for "war", correct? So he already is here, and has an IP address. It is public.

Opsec is operational security, meaning he would be conducting an active operation. Persec is personal security, avoiding carelessly divulging personal information, in this case information that would lead someone to him, someone I would assume would have to be looking here, already on this site.

I'm not asking for his name, or address, or the company where he works. I didn't ask for his height or weight or identifying tattoos.

Lets not make too much, or too little, of PERSEC.

Can't we get to know each other just a little? Don't tell me what café you get coffee at every morning. But a little background would be nice.

He can always tell me no, lol.
Here I publish detailed news reports that are published here. I think they are much more detailed than those that are going out in your media, and allow you to more fully see the picture of what is happening.
I had a chance to create a separate topic with a detailed description of my training, but I'm afraid I do not know enough English enough to conduct such a topic, that's why I prefer to give my opinion on the issue in the relevant sections of this forum.
If the forum participants arrange a translation from Google, you can create a topic for questions and answers in this section of the forum, but I do not know how much it will be informative, because I will not be able to make detailed detailed answers because of the language problem.
 
Create the topic, please.

I can translate it with online resources, and I might be able to get face to face help with Ukranian/Russian translations, if you were willing to let me. I would be getting help from an active US SF member (and Russian/Ukrainian speaker), but I would only get help with certain words or phrases. I would not hand him a transcript of your training. He is VERY OPSEC/PERSEC focused, obviously. No worries from his end of things.

I have worked with Native Slavic language speakers in the past (In Europe), I think I could do a pretty good job understanding things a cut and paste translation would not.

I would find your training and beliefs extremely interesting. After Crimea, the situation in Ukraine dropped off the radar here in the US.
 
Створіть тему, будь ласка.

Я можу перекласти його на онлайнові ресурси, і я, можливо, зможу отримати допомогу в українсько-російських перекладах, якби ви хотіли дозволити мене. Я отримаю допомогу від активного члена СФ США (та російськомовного / українського оратора), але я б лише отримав допомогу з певними словами або фразами. Я б не віддав йому стенограму твого навчання. Очевидно, він цілком орієнтований на ВІЛЬНИЙ ОПСЕК / ПЕРСЕК. Не хвилюйтеся з кінця речей.

Я працював з колишньою слов'янською мовою (у Європі), я думаю, що я міг би зробити досить гарну роботу, щоб зрозуміти речі, якими б перекласти не вдалося.

Я знайшов би твою підготовку та вірування надзвичайно цікавою. Після Криму ситуація в Україні опустилася з радара тут, в США.


Це добре?
 
IR summary: "HQ of 1st Army Corps DNR" finally came up with an "explanation" for "the presence of NATO servicemen in the ATO zone"
26.01.2018 - 13:25

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

During the last week, the most intense fire strikes by Russian occupation forces were inflicted on the positions of Ukrainian troops near the settlements of Schastye, Luganskoye, Troitskoe, Verkhnetoretskoye, Avdeevka, Peski, Vodyanoe and Shirokino. In addition, the enemy systematically fired on the units of the AFU from small arms in the area Stanitsa Luganskaya, which is a violation of the agreement on the separation of forces in this area.

The enemy continued to actively conduct reconnaissance of the combat formations of the ATO forces with the use of UAVs. During the week, up to 15 UAV flights were recorded, including 3 of them - flights of UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out with a flight in the operational-tactical depth of the defense of the ATO forces.

In order to prevent registering the facts of the violation of the Minsk agreements by the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission, the command of "1stArmy Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" of the operational group of Russian occupation forces imposed restrictions on the movement of military equipment near the demarcation line in the daytime and took measures to conduct additional activities on camouflage. In addition, in order to limit the movement of representatives of the OSCE mission, false sign plates on the mining of the terrain are being placed on the route of their movement, especially in areas where the enemy is equipping new positions.

Within the winter training period, the enemy intensively conducts combat training activities at the “Tsentralniy”, “Slavniy”, “Udarniy” and “Primorskiy” training ranges, practicing issues of coordinating the actions of units and their interaction both in defense and in offense.

To ensure the terrorist activity of units and formations "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR", about 1800 tons of petroleum products were delivered from the territory of Russia during the week.

In terms of firing on the positions of the AFU and civilian objects, the occupants finally switched to "night mode". They actively use 120 mm mortars, sometimes single tanks, barrel artillery (3-4 units of 122 mm artillery - mostly D-30/30A howitzers, or 2-3 units of 122 mm self-propelled guns type 2С1 "Carnation").

The HQ of 1st Army Corps DNR "found an explanation" of "the presence of US and other NATO troops in the ATO zone". According to the "military intelligence" of the invaders, they allegedly came to assess the level of training of the personnel from one of the mechanized brigades of the AFU, which was previously trained by "NATO instructors" and recently arrived in the Gorlovka area. According to the militants, this brigade "will take exams" in the form of performing some specific practical tasks.

The units and subunits of the "2nd Army Corps LNR" urgently need riflemen, machine gunners, sappers, drivers (category C) and combat medics. "Military enlistment offices" of "LNR" got the task to ensure the recruitment of personnel with these military registration specialties for "contract service", as soon as possible.

The unresolved issue of coal supplies to Zuevskaya TPP is exacerbated between DNR and LNR, which could lead to shutdown of this power plant and cause an energy crisis in the LDNR. In particular, there are only about 4 thousand tons of coal in the warehouse of Zuevskaya TPP (necessary 30 thousand tons until the end of the heating season), which is suitable for full-fledged use. This situation is due to the presence a significant debt in LNR of to DNR for the consumed electricity, which makes it impossible to purchase the necessary amount of coal. In this regard, the power station resorted to mixing of coal with other brands that are not intended for use at TPP. Such actions lead to an acceleration of wear and tear on the plant equipment and further problems with its operation.

The occupation Russian authority of "LNR" has intensified propaganda work with young people living both in the temporarily occupied territory and in the territory of the Lugansk region, which is under Ukrainian control. It is planned to adopt "laws" on the foundations of state youth policy and on the system of patriotic education of citizens of the LNR by the so-called "The People's Council of the LNR" In the first quarter of 2018. In addition, the so-called "The Council of Ministers of the LNR" has developed and will have to adopt "republican" programs for "spiritual education of students of the LNR until 2020" and "patriotic education of the younger generation of LNR until 2020" in the near future. It is also planned to conduct 3,169 events involving schoolchildren and students permanently residing in the LNR and in the territory of the Lugansk region, which is under the control of Ukraine. It is proposed to use widely social networks to involve young people from unoccupied territory.

The dissatisfaction with the situation associated with the termination of the mobile operator Vodafone is growing in the "DNR". At the same time, according to the IR group, this situation is connected with the position of the "Minister of incomes and fees of the DNR" A. Timofeev ("Tashkent"), who personally is interested in the disconnection of the mobile network, as he receives a part of the profits from the operator of the invaders "Phoenix".

IR
 
Ukraine and the election bluff of the Kremlin in the Balkans
30.01.2018 - 15:45

The creation of new hotbeds of instability in South-Eastern Europe will play into the hands of the Russian election campaign, and will bring gas dividends and help some Moscow oligarchs

The last months in the process of the next imitation of the Russian presidential elections are always emergency adjustments of budgets, the concentration of new directions of propaganda, as well as the formation of another series of political "figures", which are destined to save the country this time.

By the very obvious plan of forming an ideological basis for the Russian presidential election campaign-2018, the main "regular direction" of propaganda initially promised to become the Syrian. But it did not work. There was embarrassment with the territorial integrity of this country, and with the promised withdrawal of Russian troops, too.

Therefore, the Syrian priority on the agenda of Russian propaganda is changing rapidly now. It is replaced by the Balkan direction of Russian attention, and the European one coming from it. According to the Kremlin, these new directions were illustrated by the head of Russia's VTB Kostin and Deputy Prime Minister Dvorkovich at the recently held economic forum in Davos. The first stated that Europe is on the verge of a war with Russia. What is the reason? The answer was simple in style "because more of your warships in the Black Sea, not ours."

The second Russian official assured representatives of the forum that the Russian Federation is about to replace the international system of bank payments SWIFT with its own system in response to the sanctions. Why did he say that? Because, when in Moscow they will cancel this system, it will be too late for Brussels to think. Europe is better now to think about it, otherwise it will hurt her.

So, the main signal for the electorate of the Russian government for the upcoming elections was formed. Now, this is not Syria and the Caliphate. This is the Balkans and the South-East of Europe again, through which hundreds of thousands of migrants flock to Europe. Now they became a scarecrow for Europeans, as well as at the end of the far 90s, when the career of the current Russian leader was just beginning.


The basis of the current elections

Pre-election theses in the voice of Kostin and Dvorkovich - this is not the single indicator that the Kremlin is changing the propaganda vector. For example, Russian foreign political projects, which were hidden behind the scenes, began unexpectedly to float on the surface in the middle of winter.

In the middle of January, The Guardian turned its attention to the Serbian-Montenegrin paramilitary network "Serbian honor". It was created during the first Balkan military campaign as a Russian proxy group against NATO forces.

According to the press, there was evidence that this network has connected to incitement of separatism in Bosnia, and to an unsuccessful attempt of pro-Russian coup in Montenegro in 2016. It is noteworthy that this Kremlin project has come up on surface before the upcoming Russian elections.

On the same days in January, in Ukraine, the press suddenly remembered the Orthodox-FSB society Radomir, which became famous in the field of security business in the Ukrainian aluminum capital, Zaporozhye.

Moscow press refers both the paramilitary foreign networks to the sphere of influence of Konstantin Malofeev, who is fairly well known among the ultra-right as Orthodox-extremal ordinary businessman.

On the wave of the division of election budgets, a figure much larger unexpectedly appeared in the Ukrainian and Balkan directions this winter - the Russian aluminum king Oleg Deripaska. The media calls him as the leading investor of the so-called "family group" of Russian capital, which is formed by the family members and proxies of ex-President Boris Yeltsin. Along with Deripaska, this group includes Roman Abramovich and several other smaller businessmen.


Who is active on the "South-Western Front" of Moscow?

Abramovich is present in the economy of Ukraine for a long time. He has the control over the company Evraz Ukraine, which is considered one of the three main players in Ukrainian metallurgy.

In addition, Abramovich was a relative of the very famous in the 90 years of the Ukrainian oil trader Alexander Zhukov, and was his son-in-law until recent time.

Unlike the successful Abramovich with local Odessa relatives in the south-eastern region of Europe, Deripaska is frankly unlucky in these lands.

In recent years, his companies have managed to lose significant industrial assets - first in Bosnia, then in Montenegro, and after that in Ukraine. Guilty in the failures of the aluminum magnate searched for a long time, just a few years.

And suddenly, these guilty people were found just before the elections in Russia. In mid-January, the New York court ordered a meeting in May for a new lawsuit filed by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska in the US to Paul Manafort, former leading Western adviser to Viktor Yanukovych. In general, the consultant is accused quite harshly by the aluminum magnate. He took at least $ 40 million for paying for important services, but he did not do these services and did not return the money.


What the tycoon and consultant did for the Kremlin

First, the Republic of Montenegro, and then the Ukrainian Odessa and Zaporozhye became fatal points for both figurants of this court. The canvas of their dispute looks simple - the members of Ukrainian Party of Regions needed Manafort very much in 2004-2014, and Deripaska supported them.

Accordingly, he was ready to pay the part of the cost of the services of an American consultant for them. Support for this Party by the Russian aluminum king was not carried out as a hobby. It was a military-industrial interest.

The Russian aluminum magnate needed the Ukrainian authorities to turn a blind eye to the way Deripaska's companies dealt with Ukraine's own production of one of the main strategic materials of defense - the aluminum. In any country in the world, the rolling of this metal and its alloys is critically needed for rocket and aircraft manufacturers. Because of the Russian military aggression, Ukraine has quite a noticeable deficit with this technology now. The lack of technology was also due to the fact that defense plants need to import metals, since their capacities are cut to scrap. And imported metal is always more expensive than own.

Deripaska supported the inattention of the then Ukrainian authorities in matters of the aluminum industry with particular care. Until 2014, Ukrainian state authorities really did not notice at all how Deripaska's companies cut the single aluminum plant Zalk in Ukraine for scrap metal.

Most of the former capacity at this plant is now gone. And without that, Ukraine's almost complete dependence on imports of aluminum from Russia after this. In a word, the growth of Ukrainian import dependence brought Deripaska money and additional positions in business.


How the bricks of Russian influence in Ukraine and the Balkans cracked

The American magazine Atlantic tried to reveal the most intricacies of cooperation between Deripaska and Manafort in the field of relations with American and Ukrainian political circles.

Although the Reuters agency noted that the people of Manafort were sitting in almost every Ukrainian ministry until 2014, the Atlantic does not say anything about bribes for the "aluminum inattention" of the Ukrainian authorities.

Apparently, this publication tried not to disclose specific details of the business interest of the Kremlin, Deripaska and Manafort to Ukraine in the interests of the court. But, the American magazine managed to find out the main thing: when the disputing parties met, and when and why they quarreled.

The controversy looks quite simple. The Russian tycoon took upon itself the lion's share of the payment by the Party of Regions of the expensive services of the political consultant Paul Manafort, and the payment was carried out in the form of a constituent partnership.

In fact, Deripaska had rewritten cable TV company Black Sea Cable with assets in Odessa and the Crimea in the name of the American adviser Manafort instead of fees. The current court action of Deripaska to Manafort is just about the subtleties in the formation of its capital. Deripaska, for example, wants to take from Manafort at least $ 20 million through the High Court of New York. Deripaska tries to prove to the American court that Manafort had stolen this money from him and embezzled not less than $ 20 million through the PR-company Pericle, which did not provide to Deripaska previously paid services.

In contrast to the controversy, the meeting of the aluminum tycoon and consultant is a much more complicated process. The partners met back in 2005 long before the appearance of Manafort in Ukraine.

Then the American political consultant won a partnership with Deripaska for investment and other operations in the Republic of Montenegro. At that time, Deripaska unsuccessfully intended to displace the aluminum companies of Greece from the market of the Balkan countries.

On the way to such expansion, Russia's main aluminum company Rusal, headed by Deripaska, unsuccessfully tried to buy an aluminum plant and a distribution power grid in Bosnia at that time. Deripaska's companies acquired control over a similar plant in Montenegro with much greater success. In 2012, Deripaska lost control of this Bosnian plant when Manafort forgot the Balkan tasks of Deripaska and for a long time got stuck in Kiev.


The meaning of expansion

Aluminum producers, along with ammonium, glass and cement plants - are the main consumers of natural gas in the economy of any country. If more Russian control over such consumers, the more Russian gas exports, it means the less gas supplies from other countries. The most of the potential for external expansion of the Russian Federation is being built on such an ideology of supply of blue fuel.

Unlikely, Deripaska cannot know this circumstance. And that is the main reason why the main Russian aluminum magnate tried to forejudge the plant back in the Balkans for several years. But more recently, international arbitrament finally rejected his personal claim to the Republic of Montenegro in the amount of $ 600 million on January 17.

According these claims of Deripaska to Bosnia and to Manafort, it became clear that the partnership of the tycoon and consultant has a frankly counterproductive outcome, as in Montenegro, and as in Ukraine.

In our country, for example, Deripaska had to return the remains of the aluminum plant to the state. As for the technologically connected with Zaporozhye alumina refinery in Nikolaev, it was hurriedly handed over to the world's largest Swiss trade conglomerate, Glencore. By the way, the same company operates the mentioned plant in Bosnia, which Deripaska has not managed to take under control. The local press is gossiping that the lost Deripaska plant in neighboring Montenegro is guarded by the Glencore competitor, the Dutch Trafigura.

But hardly such a detail looks to be the main thing in the wave of activity that covered Deripaska. This is certainly important who oppressed the aluminum magnate, but clearly secondary. The main thing is, if Russia loses its position of influence, then it will necessarily seek to bring it back.


Economic points of revenge

Having hastily rewritten the alumina plant, Deripaska defended his positions in Ukraine. But he obviously lost in the Balkans and in our part of Europe. Together with this tycoon, the whole of Russia's expansion lost positions in the region. But it should be remembered that one of the rich representatives of the so-called "family grouping" of Russian capital is not only one Russian economic lever of pressure on South-Eastern Europe.

Russian capital lost aluminum plants in Bosnia and Montenegro. It also lost the struggle to the companies of India and Israel for the most important industrial giant of the Balkan region, the Kosovo iron and steel plant Trepca.

At the same time, other Russian investors are trying to preserve some influence on the oil and gas industry of this region. For example, the leader of the ferrous metallurgy of Romania remains the Russian "Mechel". The Russian amber king Vitaly Mashchitsky owns Aluminum plant Alro in the Carpathian Slatina through companies in China, whom the press reckons to Podolsk Moscow financial group. Transylvanian nitrogen fertilizer plant Azomures in the Romanian Tirgu Mures is owned by the Swiss Andreas Tsivi and BritIsh sitizen Sergey Makhlai.

All these and other Russian assets are in varying degrees of subordination to the political interests of the Kremlin. The positioning of Russian state interests on the Russian private capital settled in this EU region is unequivocally.

The top of these interests is formed by the Russian "Gazprom" and "Lukoil", which build a fuel infrastructure for Russian investments in other spheres of the economy. For example, after the Russian aggression in the Ukrainian Crimea, Lukoil decided to leave the markets of Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic states, which became too risky for it. This Russian oil giant decided to stay in Southeast Europe where there are 2 refineries of the company and a large network of gas stations in Turkey.


When will the Balkans fall into the field of influence of "business and Orthodoxy" again?

The reasons for this stubbornness lie on the surface. As in Gazprom, Lukoil expects that the transit of Russian oil and gas will grow through this part of Europe.

And these hopes feed by the Kremlin's main electoral ambition in the region - the Turkish Stream-2 gas pipeline (TS2). An agreement on the construction of its underwater segment between Russia and Turkey was concluded in mid-January, immediately after when the war in Syria entered the phase of dividing the country into zones of de-escalation.

The Kremlin failed to maintain the territorial integrity of Syria during this war. Along with this failure, Moscow was not able to launch most of its scenarios in Ukraine. As a result, official Kyiv never returned to the channel of the gas policy of the Russian Federation at the start of the gas project TS2 planned by Moscow in 2018.

Such weakness of the results of Russian policy in Ukraine and Syria led to the fact that the Russian Federation lost several economic battles in 2015-17, which seem extremely important for the expansion of the Russian Federation in South-Eastern Europe.

Firstly, the privatization of the oil and gas industry in Greece, which was claimed by Gazprom and Lukoil, but Azerbaijan won the process. Secondly, the refusal of Brussels to support the Russian-Turkish project TS2, which is destined to become a highlight of the Russian elections in 2018, proving the viability of the Russian government.

Unlike other gas pipelines that go to this EU region from Turkey, the EU Commission does not want to grant an official status for the Russian-Turkish pipeline. But Moscow has a solution for this problem. It could be the outgoing branch of the gas pipeline TS2, the Tesla gas pipeline. Its construction is a frank reincarnation of the ideas of the "Great Serbian Yugoslavia". The route of this pipeline is designed through Greece, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, and further to Austria.

If to describe the current situation with this outgoing segment of the Turkish Stream, it can be said that a single initiative of the countries of the former Yugoslavia on the construction of Tesla can solve almost all the problems that are currently observed in relations between Russia and Turkey.

It could be the fear of the Balkan countries facing some new threats that give rise to collective support for the Russian gas pipeline Tesla, fueled by the Turkish Stream. It is possible that the unsuccessful disorders in 2016 in Macedonia and the attempted coup d'état in Montenegro are just the mechanisms for the formation of such a fright in the region.

If such a multilateral appeal of the Balkan states to Brussels will have official status, then Turkey is unlikely to resist the great temptation to use the new Russian gas pipeline to strengthen itself in this region. But this is Turkey, and what about Russia?

Prior to the dashing jump into the trap of Ukraine and then to Syria, the indivisible and unified belt of Russian influence looked very solid. A few years ago, this "gray zone" of a specific Russian business and an extreme "Orthodox-FSB" policy was intended to pass from Russia through the Orthodox Ukraine to Europe, to Orthodox Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia.

But it was possible to gird the region. As in the case of Deripaska's factories, the failures of creating such a gray belt are visible throughout the chain, and Ukraine is far from the last place in this Russian fiasco.


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IR summary: the occupants sharply activated human intelligence in the front line
31.01.2018 - 20:35

Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

In the last week period (24-30.01.2018), it is a slight decrease in the intensity of fire strikes on the positions of Ukrainian troops and settlements on the territory controlled by Ukraine. However, the invaders fire only at identified targets. The reduction in the number of shelling from the enemy is primarily due to the inspector's activity of the observers of the OSCE special monitoring mission in the contact zone. At the same time, the enemy continues to violate and ignore the agreements on the disengagement of forces and means, and systematically violates the ceasefire. The firing of low intensity from the enemy's side to the units of the AFU is marked 24 hours a day.

In particular, the artillery units of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" of the operational group of Russian occupation forces carried out up to 20 artillery raids (over the past week period about 30) by 82/120-mm mortars, 122-mm portable MLRS "Grad-P", infantry fighting vehicles and tanks during the week period.

The most intense fire strikes by the enemy were inflicted on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of Troitskoe, Luganskoye, Avdeevka, Peski, Verkhnetoretskoye, Lebedinskoe and Pavlopol.

In connection with the improvement of weather conditions, the enemy activated the reconnaissance of the combat formations of the AFU with the use of UAVs. During the week, about 16 UAV flights were recorded, including 2 of them - flights of the UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out with a flight to the operational-tactical depth of the defense of Ukrainian troops. It is also noted the activation of the human intelligence of the occupants in the front-line zone on the territory controlled by Ukraine.

The main efforts of the command of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" of the operational group of Russian occupation forces were focused on regrouping their forces and assets in a number of sectors, maintaining the combat readiness of troops, engineering equipment of the terrain, conducting planned activities for combat training, checking the situation in subordinate units, as well as preparing to the complex inspection of units and subunits of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" by the next commission from the 8th Army of the Southern Military District of the RF Armed Forces. The beginning of work of the commission is planned for the first ten days of February this year, and the main reason for its arrival is the low moral and psychological state of the personnel of the units and subunits of the Russian occupation forces.

The order of the Russian command established weekly (on Thursdays) training in the management of artillery fire and shooting exercises in the units and subunits of both "Army corps", which corresponds to the provisions and plans for combat training of units and subunits of the RF Armed Forces which deployed in the territory of Russia.

Unprecedented efforts are being made by the command of both "Army corps" of the occupation forces to accumulate fuel and ammunition, which arriving from Russia, in much larger volumes than the occupation forces in the Donbas use in this period. In this case, warehouses, storage bases and areas for weapons and equipment, points of refueling and maintenance are dispersed and carefully disguised. In this regard, the Russian command actively uses the housing blocks, various logistics centers, industrial facilities and infrastructure.

Also, the enemy continues to conduct measures to verify the mobilization readiness of its troops. Work is under way to clarify the lists of the mobilization reserve, and the issues of deployment and operation of points of reception of equipment and personnel are being worked out in units and subunits of 1st and 2ndArmy Corps.

The classes are held with "reservists" on fire and tactical training on the training grounds. At the same time, "reservists" are forcibly compelled to write receipts about prohibiting departure from the territory of the "DNR" and "LNR" in the event of an aggravation of the situation or "a large-scale offensive by the AFU".

The confirmed losses of the Russian occupation forces in the Donbass amounted to 20 people during last week:

1st Army Corps – 3rd separate mechanized brigade (Gorlovka) – 5 servicemen , 9thseparate assault mechanized regiment of marine infantry (Novoazovsk) - 9 servicemen, 100th separate mechanized brigade (Donetsk) - 1 serviceman;

2nd Army Corps – 2nd separate mechanized brigade (Lugansk) - 2 servicemen, 7thseparate mechanized brigade (Bryanka) - 3 servicemen.

To ensure the activities of units of 1st and 2nd Army Corps, about 1500 tons of petroleum products were delivered from the territory of Russia in the period from 24 to 30 January this year. Over the past 24 hours, the unloading of ammunition (artillery 122 mm, 152 mm, mortar 120 mm) was recorded at the commodity railway station Debaltsevo. A mobile crane was involved for unloading, and transport with ammunition was sent to the southern direction.

The enemy is strengthening the area northeast of Vesyolaya Gora, up to the Oboznoe and the surroundings of the Lugansk TPP. Over the past 24 hours, a "motorized rifle company" - 5 BMP-1/2, several trucks Kamaz with manpower, truck Ural with ZU-23-2 AD system and 3 MT-LB, were redeployed from Lugansk to this site through Metallist.

The redeployment of the tank unit of the invaders (three tanks of the T-64B type and one tank of the T-72A type) was fixed in the area of Ternovoe. Tanks were redeployed from the Manuilovka training ground.

It is an acute shortage of artillery specialists in the "5th separate mechanized brigade" of the occupiers. After discussing the situation at the headquarters of the brigade and reporting to the headquarters of the Corps, it was decided to request "completing" directly at the headquarters of the 8th Army of the RF Armed Forces.

The recent demining of the area near Gorlovka, conducted by the sappers of AFU, was noted in the intel report of "1st Army Corps DNR" as "the equipment of passes in minefields for tanks and infantry groups to prepare for the offensive of Ukrainian troops".

The so called "The Council of Ministers of the DNR" reported to the Russian "curators" about the implementation of the "humanitarian program for the reunification of the people of Donbass" in 2017 in the part of providing assistance to residents of the Ukrainian-controlled territory of the Donetsk region. In particular, according to the report, "the Ministry of Health of the DNR" provided assistance to 550 patients. "The United Donbass Foundation" allocated 43 741 000 rubles for 1499 applications for cash assistance, and "the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Tourism of the DNR" organized 170 events involving 3,500 athletes. This information is planned to be widely covered in Russian federal and local media.

A meeting of the "integration committee Russia-Donbass "with a discussion of the integration of" LDNR" into the Russian Federation is planned in Donetsk at February 15 this year. The representatives of LNR and DNR, and public officials of the Russian Federation (preliminary, the Russian side will be represented by middle managers of the Rostov region) will participate in this event

There is a massive outflow of qualified personnel from "nationalized" enterprises, which are located on the territory of the "DNR". In particular, most experienced specialists of Makeevka Machine Building Plant refused to prolong the labor agreements and moved to Russia for further employment.

Representatives of the Hungarian minority of Transcarpathia are planning to organize a "visit" in Strasbourg (France) on February 8 this year, when a meeting of the Council of Europe will take place in this city. At the same time, they plan to distribute printed materials to discredit the draft Concept of the state ethno-national policy of Ukraine (the Draft Concept was presented on December 19, 2017 in Berehovo, Transcarpathian region, for discussion with representatives of national minorities). To this aim, the functionaries of the party "Hungarian Party of Ukraine" started to produce the printed materials.

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IR summary: the leadership of "DNR" is trying to create its own "Cossack Army"
07.02.2018 - 16:45
Operational data of the group "Information Resistance"

The Russian occupation forces in the Donbass systematically violated the ceasefire during the last week. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine noted low intensity shelling every day from the enemy's side. In total, the units of 1st and 2ndof the Army Corps of the operational group of Russian occupation forces carried out about 30 fire assaults (last week 20) from 82/120-mm mortars, 122 mm portable MLRS Grad-P, BMP and tanks during this period.

The enemy most intensively attacked the positions of the Ukrainian troops near Troitskoe, Luganskoye, Novoaleksandrovka, Avdeevka, Peski, Kamenka, Butovka, Novotroitskoye, Pavlopol, Lebedinskoe and Shirokino. In addition, the enemy fired the units of AFU from small arms year in the Stanitsa Luganskaya area on January 31, which is a violation of the agreement on the separation of forces in this area.

The enemy continues to actively conduct reconnaissance of the combat formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with the use of UAVs. During the week, about 15 UAV flights were recorded, including 2 of them - flights of UAV Orlan-10, which were carried out with a flight to the operational and tactical depth of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The main efforts of the command of 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the operational grouping of the Russian occupation forces were focused on maintaining the combat readiness of troops, engineering equipment of the terrain, carrying out planned measures for combat training, and checking the situation in subordinate units. Duty artillery squads of the enemy are in a state of constant readiness to strike a fire at the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and daily training is conducted on the issues of deployment and access to advanced firing positions for fire strikes.

Within the winter training period, the enemy intensively conducts combat training activities on the Centralny, Udaloy, Udarny and Primorskiy training ranges in order to synchronize the actions of units during offensive operations.

In order to prevent the representatives of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission from registering the facts of the violation of the Minsk agreements, the command of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR" imposed restrictions on the movement of military equipment and took additional measures to camouflage. In addition, the commanders of the units and subunits in whose area of responsibility the representatives of the OSCE CMM are planning to stay are categorically ordered to ban fire on the contact line with the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The commissions under the leadership of the RF Armed Forces officers began operating in units and subunits of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps in order to check the readiness and quality of the work carried out on armored equipment with additional means of protection against the FGM-148 Javelin.

Command of 1st and 2nd Army Corps sent out an order to the subordinate units and units prescribing that "servicemen" who expressed a desire to quit the "military service" should to serve in advanced positions for at least one month before the dismissal.

Confirmed losses of Russian occupation forces in the Donbass amounted to 15 people in the period from January 30 to February 5 this year:

1st Army Corps – 9th separate assault mechanized regiment of naval infantry (Novoazovsk) - 9 servicemen, 3rd separate mechanized brigade (Gorlovka) - 2 servicemen, 11th separate mechanized regiment (Makeyevka) - 1 serviceman, 100th separate mechanized brigade (Donetsk) - 1 serviceman;

2nd Army Corps – 4th separate mechanized brigade (Alchevsk) - 1 serviceman, 7thseparate mechanized brigade (Bryanka) – 1 serviceman.

To ensure the activities of "1st Army Corps DNR" and "2nd Army Corps LNR", about 1000 tons of petroleum products were delivered to the railway station Rovenky and Ilovaysk from the territory of Russia in the period from January 31 to February 6 this year. Also, a railway train with military equipment (including 12 units of BMP-2) and personnel (up to 200 servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and Russian mercenaries) arrived to the Donetsk. For the needs of the 2nd Army Corps, a large consignment of engineering assets arrived from the Russian Federation, including mines, remote mining equipment and etc. (in total - up to 5 trucks).

In the vicinity of the Gorlovka settlement, the command of the occupiers continues to strengthen its 3rd separate mechanized brigade. During the last 24 hours, two columns of vehicles and armored vehicles proceeded through Sofiyivka, Magistralnaya Street and Gorlovka Division Street - at least 8 BMP-1/2, 5 BTR-70/ 80, 4 MT-LB, 1 BRDM-2, 2 self-propelled guns (type not identified), as well as up to 10 units of various trucks (Ural, Kamaz, 2 GAZ-66).

A redeployment of the mobile command post of the occupiers through the Torez was recorded in the direction Makeevka-Donetsk. A column of trucks and command vehicles was observed (up to 10 units), and 2 BTR-70/80, 1 BRM-1K and 2 MT-LB, 1 ZU-23-2 AD system. Obviously, the invaders are strengthening their own combat orders to the north of Donetsk.

The invaders are strengthening their units near the Nizhnee Lozovoe. 5 BMP-1/2 and MT-LB with ZU-23-2 AD systems were transferred to the positions in this area through the "Cross" near Debaltsevo.

The units of occupants, which are occupying positions in the area of height 206.9 at Novaya Laspa and Belaya Kamenka, are strengthened with armored vehicles. During the last 24 hours, the arrival of 5 units of BMP-1/2 was noted.

In accordance with the decree of the leader of the "DNR" A. Zakharchenko (signed in October 2017), a new armed militia structure is being formed under the name "Azov Cossack Army of the DNR" in a number of settlements under the control of the "DNR". "Initial meetings" of the new "Cossack" formation are noted in a number of cities in the south of the occupied territories of the Donetsk region. (Torez, Amvrosievka, Starobeshevo, Telmanovo). There is an extremely low level of desire of local residents to join a new formation, so the organizers are trying to attract foreign mercenaries who "left" their service in the occupation forces and for whatever reasons remaining in the "DNR". For example, the head of the local formation of the "Cossacks of the DNR" in Torez is Ossetian. At the moment, the total number of "Cossacks" of the "Azov Cossack Army of the DNR" is up to 150 people.

An outbreak of venereal diseases was noted in the "1st separate mechanized brigade" of the occupation troops. In total, more than a dozen infected "servicemen" were recorded. A service investigation is under way.

The verification commission ascertained a significant lack of hemostatic means and dressings in two separate mechanized brigades of the "1st Army Corps DNR", including in the advanced units. The information is carefully hidden from the militants themselves in order to avoid the fall of the already extremely low level of the moral and psychological state of the personnel.

In the "DNR", a large-scale information campaign continues to disperse misinformation about the "forthcoming offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine". The given information passes not only in social networks and media controlled by the invaders, but also in classified intelligence reports of the "1st Army Corps DNR". In particular, it is reported about "the arrival of additional Ukrainian troops in the Mariupol area", "the deployment of two tank brigades of AFU at the south and north of Donetsk", "the appearance of American advisers, instructors at Gorlovka," and etc. In a number of cases they publish hastily and absolutely illiterate from the military point of view, "military orders," "maps" and "plans" of the Ukrainian General Staff. The true purpose of this campaign (an attempt to mobilize the local population or the information cover of the armed provocations being prepared by the invaders) is currently unknown.

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News from the zone: What the occupants are preparing "the people of Donbass"
07.02.2018 - 18:00

Societe occupiers and their sociologists, psychologists and propagandists, have long been used as a platform for agitation, manipulation and research of society's response to innovations and changes. Before in ORDLO something changes significantly in sotsgruppah are hidden polls, public opinion and detectable level of the population manipulative, readiness of society to accept this or that simulacrum.

For example, two weeks before the disappearance of the Ukrainian telecom operator in ORDLO, the social groups of ORDLO were clogged with pictures "if you remember how good it was in the USSR without mobile plus". And people lycal and puffed their own lack of freedom. Yes, it is due to the reaction of the population and its readiness to react to manipulative anchors, and some changes are being made to ORDLO.

The population of the "crucified boys" is praised, discussed and laughed, and the propagandists give them even more. Actively respond to the "decay of the West" and "the famine in Ukraine", propagandists lowered the bar "rotting enemies" even lower, people rejoice even more, but gets for himself the same understated bar existence.

"Remember how we drank from one glass and did not hurt, put the class." "If your parents get to know each other in line, put a kid." "Remember the home dialer, you're our man." "Plus a happy childhood without the Internet." "Bet your class if your grandfather fought." These are the anchors and markers by which propagandists study the public opinion of the "people of Donbass" and prepare them for the reality of tomorrow.

That is how the inhabitants of Lugansk and Donetsk region made "Donbass people" of the Ukrainian Slobozhanshchina "primordially Russian Cossack edge" of Stalin - the defender of the Russian Church, from the Don Cossacks, killing communists and fighting for Hitler, the king of defense of the fatherland, was born in Russia the third Rome, from Orthodoxy - the only legitimate faith. During the four years of the war, consciousness, history and society have completely changed in the Donbas.

Here, you can also, as in the Russian Federation to hear - "our Orthodox brothers Muslims," Syria, like the Donbass - a native Russian land, communism guardian of the Orthodox faith, we will build a monarchist, communist socialism, we will have a single national Orthodox Democracy, Akhmetov and Vodafon should be returned to Donbas, but that they be popular, we are against all oligarchs, Putin has the right to earn money, he is not an oligarch. All this is first exhibited by pseudo-polls, such mimi-pictures, "if you remember how the grandfathers fought, put the class" against the backdrop of the Cossack troops of Don and Stalin against the background of the church. Oh, and mimic yet - if you want to order, put the class, against the backdrop of the NKVD and the camp.

In the social groups of the occupied cities, hundreds of pictures flashed a day "remember how in the USSR": a little car is a plus, the line is a class, there are no mobile - it's like! People actively post this, they are lazy and plyusuyut, and give sociologists a picture of the readiness of ORDLO to accept this or that restriction of rights and freedoms.

Now in the ORLO alternates "Putin said that the Donbass is Ukraine", "Putin is not against the introduction of peacekeepers in the Donbass" and "How cool are the unrecognized republics." The latter is replicated more actively and more boldly. On "Putin, peacekeepers and Donbass-Ukraine" reaction was too negative and these markers were removed.

How healthy are the "Ossetia", "Transnistria" ... They have a growing GDP, wages are higher than in Ukraine, the economy is tied to Eurasia and Russia, they trade with Russia and China. There are excellent resorts, a lot of work for the inhabitants of Donbass, there are houses that can occupy the inhabitants of Donbass, having moved there, all these "republics" recognize each other, although they do not recognize the UN. But, they have been living for many years, and people there are happy. These "republics" are recognized by Russia, this is enough to develop! There is even a club SNNG (commonwealth of unrecognized independent states) and their whole 6 such steep in the world. Ordlo, Lugandon or Lynyria and Dynyria are already inscribed in the SNNG, this is a chance and a victory! And the states from which the unrecognized escaped, in fact, on the verge of extinction. Here so! If you like to be cool, if you are a "people of Donbass", put a class!

ORDLO is clearly preparing for a protracted conflict and complete isolation from the world. Reservation of the "peoples of Donbass", barbed wire, towers, ropes, dogs, mine fields so that they do not run away, lack of Internet and mobile communications with the world (only internal communication and only internal permitted sites and groups), pseudo-passport, permission to visit only such unrecognized ... All this is created by the "people of Donbass" themselves.

And I'm still arguing with the Donbasyan-Sverdlovsk citizens who are especially adamant that they say they voted for joining the Russian Federation (so it was written in the bulletin, they saw), which means that Putin has no way out. Moreover, many of them argue that Ukraine and Ukraine created Ukraine, putting their citizens at the helm - Plotnitsky and Zakharchenko ...

Psychological and simulacral anchors sometimes so strongly enter the consciousness that they forget to leave it even when a new anchor is digging into the brain. And yes, in ORDLO those who are "citizens of the IDPs", "citizens of Navarosia", "citizens of Russia and Putin are coming soon to us" freely get along, "we do not care who", "we are for peace", "the people of Donbass", monarchists , socialists, communists, democrats, grandfathers, warriors, Don Cossacks, and sometimes it all may be in one person, and I again look for houses in the villages for Ukrainian citizens leaving this madhouse and more and more often I hear pessimistic introduction from pro-Ukrainian residents of Lugansk region peacekeepers will not solve the problem of the psychosis of Donbass, although, perhaps, it will stop the war.

When I see heaps of these social anchors for the "people of Donbass", I understand that there is another front - information and psychological. And I really want silence. And I think that sometimes the restriction of freedoms is for the good, well, as bed rest for the patient. And, probably, after de-occupation, Donbass will need silence, informational. Without rush-tv, "Sogdadnikov", the country of Guzhvey and other shariev. And then we need psychological, historical and information rehabilitation programs. And there will be peace!
 

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