One hundred eleven armored fires

Good morning!

In Belarus, the Minsk apartment of Sergei and Svetlana Tikhanovsky was put up for auction. From the description of the lot, you can find out that in the kitchen there is a Gorenje plate and a water purification system. In parallel wars, the news is the following:

• On Saturday, Russia fired at Ukraine with Caliber missiles, it was reported to the defeat of a military facility in the Khmelnitsky region. Two people are injured.
• Russia continues to storm Bakhmut and shell the Kharkov region.
• In Munich ended the International Security Conference. Western participants again agreed that Putin should not win the war.
• In Russia, the test version of the military service base is ready.
• The Netherlands will reduce the staff of the Russian Embassy in The Hague and close their consulate in St. Petersburg.
• Daniel Roer’s painting “Navalny” received a BAFTA Award as the best documentary.

Military reports

On Saturday morning, Russia has released at least four Caliber missiles in Ukraine, two of them were shot down. In the Khmelnitsky region, the rocket was struck by a military facility, another blow fell on the civil buildings nearby - two people were injured. The Ukrainian “Energoatom” said that two of the missiles released flew over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Nikolaev region and the threat of a missile strike on the reactor “was high again”. As Yuri Ignat Yuri Ignat explained as the press attache of Ukraine, Russia is now launching rockets on riverbeds so that they can fly at the lowest possible height under the radars.

The daily shelling of different cities of the Kharkov region continues, as well as attempts to take Bakhmut by the forces of the PMC Wagner. The White House estimated the losses of the Wagnerians killed and wounded from the beginning of the war of 30 thousand or more, of which at least nine thousand were killed, and half of this number - from the middle of December last year. In Russian colonies there are rumors about the upcoming spring forced set of prisoners for war in Ukraine. Ukrainian intelligence expects Russian combat activity in February-March.

According to the British The Times, by the beginning of April, Ukraine will receive less than a quarter of the western tanks promised to her - simply because there were very few tanks in a combat -ready state in Europe. Politicians are annoyed by these wires: at the International Security Conference in Munich, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrel, recommended that world leaders applaud Zelensky less and give him more shells, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on all countries to double assistance to Ukraine. The Commander-in-Chief of NATO forces in Europe, Christopher Kavoli considers the supply of F-16 fighters to Ukraine. The European Union, according to Reuters , was about to buy shells for Ukraine according to the same joint scheme as the vaccine from coronavirus. The general mood in the top of world politics can be described by the words of Sean Penn, uttered at the Berlin Film Festival: “If Russia wins, then we are all n **** c, just complete n **** c”. In Berlin, Sean Penn presented his documentary about Zelensky “Superla”.

Military everyday life

According to a photograph published in the telegram channel related to the Wagnerians, Radio Freedom journalists managed to find a large Russian repair base of military equipment at the Lugansk mine southeast of Lugansk: now from it to the front line about 90 km, for Himars with standard shells, this is too far, but the GLSDB shells with a range of up to 150 kilometers The power of such shells promised to put the UK to Ukraine.

The Russian publication Sota published a video in which a man kills a dog. According to the publication, the case takes place in the occupied Kadievka of the Luhansk region (the occupation authorities call it in the Soviet manner of Stakhanov). The source of the publication from the local said that half a year ago, dogs began to disappear in the city, including domestic ones - they were found dead on the outskirts of Kadievka. Then a local resident installed a camera on which one of the murders fell - this record was handed over to Sota. After the publication, the publication received a threat from the hero of the video - a fighter of the Chechen battalion “Akhmat”: he promised to kill the journalist, “to be processed and thrown into the pit like a dog” (a photograph of a pit with corpses of dogs was attached).

The lighter story of Python nicknamed “Kupyansk”: the Ukrainian military found it in a burning Russian tank - how Python got there, is not known, but now he lives at home with the Kharkov zoologist Dmitry Shabanov, here is a wonderful report about him.

Also about life in the front -line Kharkov: a tour of the school bomb shelter, equipped according to all modern standards and allows not to interrupt the educational process even during shelling.

The stories of Ukrainian refugees who have settled during the war in different countries read here , but a report on the cryoconservation of sperm is a procedure that gains popularity among the Ukrainian military.

War, view from Russia and annexed Crimea

The Governor of the Belgorod Region announced the death of a 12-year-old girl during the shelling of the village of New Tavolzhanka near the Russian-Ukrainian border.

In Russia, the test version of the database of military personnel is ready , in April it should earn full force. The new resource will contain information from the registration, phone numbers and the health status of military service to their data from labor exchanges. This will allow the authorities to quickly send the number of citizens to the front to the front, including closing the borders with them and finding them through the city tracking cameras.

The Ministry of Education of Russia is going to conduct “talk about important” not only for schoolchildren, but also for their parents. With the help of what tracking cameras to these lessons plan to drive parents, Minister Kravtsov did not explain.

The Russian edition “Polygon” discovered on the public procurement portal the order of the Moscow police for “hiking armored panels” with images of the Archangel Mikhail, George the Victorious and the Icon of the Kazan Mother of God. In addition to faces, prayers should be applied to products. The publication suggests that we are talking about side or additional armored plastins, which are inserted into body armor. Their Moscow policeman needs 111 - 37 pieces of each species.

The Russian authorities of the annexed Crimea nationalized about 700 assets of Ukrainian businessmen and politicians located on the peninsula. The head of Crimea, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksenov said that the property will be put up for auction, and all funds from its sale will go to the needs of a "special military operation".

The Crimeans who have fled from the war experience what difficulties with receiving Ukrainian documents are described here . With hypotheses about why the Georgian authorities are increasingly denied the entrance to the Russians who disagree with the war, you can familiarize yourself here (although no one knows anything for certain).

There are rumors that Putin is going to announce the accession to Russia of Belarus, Abkhazia and South Ossetia - and so, the authorities of the self -proclaimed Abkhazia officially stated that this was not so.

On the anti -war front within Russia, things are like this:

• Shevchuk released an anti -war clip;
• The court in Vologda in absentia arrested the chief editor of Sota.vision Evgeny Domozhirov under an article on fakes about the Russian army;
• DJs from the Tula region were fined 40 thousand rubles (he set the Potap and Nastya track during the New Year's appeal of Putin on TV, which discredited the Russian army);
• Astrakhan resident was fined 30 thousand rubles per badge with the flag of Ukraine next to the name of his telegram channel (“discrediting the Russian army”) and arrested for five days for petty hooliganism, committed in relation to the employees of the Center “E”, who had broken into it in the apartment;
• Here is the story of another “discreditor”-46-year-old Irina Yeremeeva from the Karelian village of Porosozero. The fine has not yet been appointed (the court will be February 21), but Irina is already afraid that he will not be able to pay it, because she has a knowingly less salary.

Other Russian

• In addition to the investigation of the Dossier Center about Putin’s armored train and the project of the project about the network of secret railways and stations used by the Russian President, the New Gazeta talked about another station built for Putin and his friends: the station is not called “Igor” and is in five minutes of walking from the 69th kilometer on the Priozerian line on the line - Petersburg. Nearby is the resort of the ski track of the same name, the ice palace and other joys, as well as the corporate village of the Russian Bank, controlled by the Kovalchuk brothers.
• In the Moscow region, the construction of the largest pre -trial detention center in Russia begins near Solnechnogorsk. It was previously believed that the Butyrka would be transferred there, but now the Butyrku was repaired and positioned as the first “digital pre -trial detention center” in Russia. It remains to conclude that a significant increase in the number of prisoners is expected.
• In Vladivostok, the employees of the E -E Center tore the meeting of the LGBT+support group, which took place in the space of the Mayak public movement (declared by a “foreign agent” in January last year).
• Here is a report from the Sakharov Center, which was recognized as a “foreign agent” back in 2014, but now has lost Moscow premises in connection with the entry into force of the new version of the Law on Inoagents.
• More than one hundred and twenty Russian lawyers supported the Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash, recognized by a “foreign agent” and deprived of a lawyer status. They demand to stop the persecution, although Benyash has been pursuing for many years.
• A month has passed since there is no news from Andrei Pivovarov, the former director of Open Russia, sentenced to four years in a colony under the article on the implementation of the “unwanted organization”. In December, he was transferred from a pre -trial detention center in Krasnodar, on January 18 he was in a pre -trial detention center in St. Petersburg. After that, his trace broke off.
• Roskomnadzor blocked the website of The Bell and several sites related to Ukraine.
• The visitor to the Moscow library, who wanted to give the books that were not necessary for her, showed a list of authors whose works will not be accepted: among them Vladimir Sorokin, Boris Akunin, Dmitry Bykov, Eduard Limonov and others, as well as for some reason Stephen King, Joan Rowling, George Orwell and Neil Gain.
• Daniel Roer’s painting “Navalny” received a BAFTA Award as the best documentary. The journalist Christ Grozhev, who played an important role in the investigation of Navalny’s poisoning, was not allowed to be awarding the award for security reasons on the recommendation of the London police. Earlier, Grozhev decided not to return to Austria, where he lived for more than 20 years, out of fear for his life. The Bellingcat investigative project, which Grozhev led, was declared in Russia an “unwanted organization” and “foreign agent”, and a criminal case was instituted against Grozev himself, he was put on the wanted list.

International Echo of War

• In Munich, the International Security Conference ended, the main topic of which was Russia's aggression against Ukraine, and the summary of what has been said. From the main thing: Macron urged not to insist on the “complete defeat” of Russia, Kasoparov called not to be afraid of its collapse, US Vice President Kamal Harris officially accused Russia of committing crimes against humanity, and the Secretary of State Blinken warned China from Russian supply of weapons (the United States, according to him, has evidence that China has already provided Russia with an absent-minded person military aid). China hinted that he has a world plan, but did not reveal the details.
• The Netherlands announced a reduction in the staff of the Russian embassy in the Hague and the closure of the Russian trade mission in Amsterdam; The Consulate of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg is also closed. The reason is that Russia continues to attempts to introduce its scouts under diplomatic cover. Read about the general state of Russian intelligence in Europe after the year of war here .
• As the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat found out , the daughter of Putin Gennady Timchenko in 2000 received Finland’s citizenship bypassing the usual procedure in 2000. In the migration service of Finland, reporters were said that now it was not to know how it happened, because "the person who made the decision is no longer working in the service."
• The US Department of Finance began an investigation against Raiffeisen Bank because of his business in Russia.
• The new US sanctions against Russia will be affected , according to Bloomberg, energy, the military -industrial complex and financial structures. They will be announced on the eve of the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions of the European Union have not yet been agreed.
• The President of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the top management of Russian banks and instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send the list approved by him to the EU authorities, the USA and other states to take similar measures.

Around the world

• On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, negotiations were held between the heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan, they were attended by US Secretary of State. It was about the preparation of a peace treaty and the removal of a blockade of Nagorno -Karabakh.
• President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov said on Facebook that he had gathered to meet all the former presidents of Kyrgyzstan in the name of the association. The presidents seemed to discuss the past and supported the idea of unification. Where and when this meeting took place, it is not known: two of the former presidents, Akayev and Bakiev, live outside the country for a long time, and the recently freed from prison Atambaev seemed to fly from Kyrgyzstan.
• Former US President Jimmy Carter (he is 98 years old) abandoned further treatment in the clinic to spend his last days at home, where they will provide hospitable assistance.
• Syria accused Israel of applying an airstrike in Damascus. At least five people were killed, 15 were injured. Israel never comments on the actions of its army, and according to the Western press, the blows were associated with the military activity of Iran in Syria.
• In Bulgaria, in a truck thrown 20 kilometers from Sofia, the bodies of 18 illegal migrants were found . There were about 40 people in the truck. The survivors were taken to the hospital. In recent months, Bulgaria has encountered an influx of illegal migrants, which can be compared with the 2015 crisis.
• The number of victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria exceeded 45 thousand. How many people are missing missing, the authorities are not reported.

Six links

• Eastern wisdom. Introduction to Korean philosophy. Or the story of how the Chinese philosopher Shan Yang created in the 4th century BC. e. The prototype of the modern totalitarian state itself became its victim.
• How to read the “Life of Protopop Avvakum” and the first Russian poet Simeon Polotsk (1629–1680).
• Fur. Two excerpts from the book of historians Bella Shapiro and Denis Lapin “Russia in a fur coat. Russian fur: history, national identity and cultural status” (Publishing House “UFO”): the first , about the flowering of fur fishing in Siberia, andthe second about the crisis of Russian fur trade in the early XX century and its consequences for the fur fashion.

Sincerely yours,
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