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Ukraine Invasion Day 355: the expected Russian offensive has commenced [1]
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Date: 2023-02-12
Nearly a year into the war, the Free Russia Legion, as the unit is called, has received little attention — in part to protect the soldiers from reprisals by Russia, but also because of reluctance within the Ukrainian military to highlight the efforts of soldiers whose home country has done so much harm to Ukraine. Several hundred of them are concentrated in the area around Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, officials said; they are always grouped with their own but are overseen by Ukrainian officers.
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At the start of the war, Ukrainian law prevented Russian citizens from joining the armed forces. It took until August to finalize legislation that would allow the Legion to legally join the fight, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine’s military intelligence service, said in a statement.
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Russian failures at Vuhledar show poor training of Russian conscripts — Russia lost 103 military vehicles (including 36 tanks) during the three days of its failed offensive on Vuhledar & Avdiyivka in Donetsk region, eastern #Ukraine.
x Not even the most basic rules of warfare are known to these Russian soldiers near Vuhledar. One by one drives into minefields and trashes its armored vehicle. Absolutely astonishing incompetence.
(Video by @AndrewPerpetua) #Ukraine #Vuhledar #Donetsk pic.twitter.com/pbJoEohuRc — (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) February 12, 2023
Poland’s president, Andrzej Duda, has cast doubt on whether Poland would be able to supply Ukraine with fighters jets . Duda said sending F-16 aircraft would be a “very serious decision” that was “not easy to take”.
The latest defence intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence says that over the past two weeks Russia is likely to have had its highest rate of casualties since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine.
Russian forces have continued to shell Ukrainian cities over the weekend amid a grinding push to seize more land in the east of the country. One person was killed and another was wounded on Sunday morning in shelling of Nikopol, a city in the south-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, said the regional governor, Serhiy Lysak. The shelling damaged four residential buildings, a vocational school and a water treatment facility.
The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, will end his term as planned in October , a spokesperson for the alliance said, after a newspaper reported that a further extension was in the works.
Yevgeny Prigozhin , the founder of Russia’s Wagner group , said the mercenary force had taken the village of Krasna Hora, on the northern edge of the embattled city of Bakhmut in Ukraine’s Donetsk region,
Galina Danilchenko, the Russian-installed mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, in the south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region, said on Saturday that one civilian died in overnight shelling of Melitopol by Ukrainian forces . Two people were injured, she wrote on Telegram.
Reports indicate that three Russian S-300 missiles hit the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Saturday night , the regional governor, Oleh Sinehubov, wrote on Telegram. “One infrastructure facility was damaged. Information about the victims and the scale of the destruction is being clarified,” he said.
Ukraine’s forces are holding defence along the frontline in Donetsk, including in the besieged town of Bakhmut , with the fiercest battles raging for the cities of Vuhledar and Maryinka, Kyiv’s top military commander said on Saturday. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi did not specify where the gains were. He added that Ukrainian forices were trying to “stabilise” the frontline around Bakhmut, a city in the eastern Donbas region that has become the focal point of Ukrainian resistance to Russia’s invasion and of Moscow’s drive to regain battlefield momentum.
Russia is ready for negotiations with Ukraine, but without preconditions, state media reported the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergey Vershinin, as saying. In an interview with state-run Zvezda television, Vershinin said it was not Ukraine but the US and the EU that should make the decision on talks with Russia. Ukraine’s presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, who headed the country’s negotiating team in the early phases of the conflict, said “talks are out of the question”.
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the Russia objective is to consolidate complete control of Donbas. “Lew Anno Yieretz Israel @anno1540
Military analysts state that the way the Russian Federation is accumulating tens of thousands of military personnel in a number of directions indicates plans to try to attack from the north and the south at the same time with the aim of encircling the Ukraine troops in Donbas/17 Russia is preparing to encircle Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, The publication quoted the former Minister of Defense of Ukraine Andrii Zahorodniuk, who is sure that Russia will try to capture Donbas completely,/22 and then announce the "end of the special military operation" and call for negotiations. Currently, the military-political leadership of Ukraine hopes for a quick supply of Western long-range artillery, which will allow to hit Russian positions, warehouses, places of accumulation of equipment and disrupt logistics/45 as it happened in the fall in the Kherson region. But if then Ukraine did not hide that the liberation of Kherson is a priority goal, this time Russia has to guess where and when the Ukrainian army will strike/46
The State of the War
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