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🔥 GUR destroyed the Russian VDK "Cesar Kunikov" with MAGURA V5 drones.

⚡ A group of allies is going to provide 1 million drones to Ukraine, - Stoltenberg

🙏 There is a partial withdrawal of our units in Avdiivka to more advantageous positions.

🇫🇷 Zelensky will sign an agreement on "security guarantees" with France in Paris, - Liberation

🇩🇪 Germany has pledged new military aid worth ~ €100 million to Ukraine.

🇬🇧 UK will provide Ukraine with thousands of drones, including FPV drones.

🇪🇸 Spain will hand over to Ukraine a batch of M113 armored vehicles and electric generators.

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan decided to join the financial sanctions against Russia.

🇦🇲 Azerbaijan is planning a "full-scale war" against Armenia, Pashinyan said, - AFP

🇳🇴 Norway will provide inflatable boats and equipment around NOK 60 million to Ukraine.

🇵🇱 NATO is creating a new training center in Poland, which will allow training of AFU.

🇳🇴 Norway will start training Ukrainian marines in combat operations on small boats in the spring.

🇹🇷 Ukraine plans to purchase Turkish KAAN fighter jets in the future.

✊ 15 countries signed "Coalition of Capabilities - Integrated Air and Missile Defense".

❗️"Russians are preparing a new offensive in Zaporizhzhia direction", - Dmytro Likhovy

🇭🇺 Hungary has blocked the approval of the 13th package of EU sanctions against Russia.

🤔 The mode of counter-terrorist operation has been introduced in Lelchitsky district, Belarus.

🇦🇺 Australia transferred $32.4 million to Ukraine through the International Fund for Ukraine.

🇺🇸 Trump plans to force Ukraine into peace talks with Russia if he wins election, - Bloomberg

👀 Ramstein: provision of additional missiles for our air defense and anti-ship missiles.

🇺🇦 AFU have established repairs of towed M777 howitzers on the territory of Ukraine.

❗️The Baltic countries are preparing for a Russian invasion, new bunkers, - The Times

🇨🇦 Canada announced the allocation of $46 million to Ukraine in support of F-16 fleet.

⚡ Russians want to put nuclear weapons into space, - ABC News

🇨🇳 China at the UN demands to stop the supply of weapons to Ukraine, - Newsweek

🇩🇪 Germany will provide Ukraine with 3-4 times more artillery shells in 2024, - Pistorius

🇳🇱 The Netherlands joining coalition that will provide Ukraine advanced drone
technology.

🇨🇳 China preparing for "protracted" war in
the Indo-Pacific region, - Nikkei Asia

Lost a toss up district by 10 points

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/trump-is-finished-2/54529/

The House is doing nothing for the American people.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/mired-in-their-own-stupidity/54534/

Trump writes a Valentine for Melania. It's a fund raiser. For $47 you can send her your love.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/this-is-just-laughable-at-this-point/54536/

Tankers hit by US sanctions refuse to transport Russian oil — Bloomberg reports.

About half of the 50 tankers subjected to U.S. sanctions from October 2023 have stopped transporting oil from Russia.

After the restrictions were imposed, 18 tankers, of which nine were shuttle tankers, picked up the cargo. The same number of others received fuel in the usual mode. Seven tankers were idle before their inclusion in the sanctions list. 21 tankers did not load fuel.

Between December 10 and December 12, 2023, eight vessels were blacklisted. Another 24 tankers came under sanctions on December 20, when the U.S. imposed restrictions against Sun Ship Management, which manages Sovcomflot's transferred oil tankers. In 2024, UAE-based Hennesea Holdings Ltd. which owns 18 vessels was hit by sanctions, and on Feb. 8, restrictions were imposed against the 50th tanker of Liberian firm NS Leader Shipping Incorporated.

The tightening of sanctions has led to Greek tankers refusing to trade Russian oil, the agency adds.

It is difficult to say with certainty how much Moscow will be affected, as it continues to use a shadow fleet.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱Liz
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-13/tankers-tied-to-the-russian-oil-trade-grind-to-a-halt-following-us-sanctions?srnd=premium-europe

For reference:
Caesar Kunikov is a large landing ship of Project 775. Its length is 112.5 m, width is 15 m, draft is 3.7 m. It carries weapons: 2x2 57 mm AK-725 gun mounts, 4x8 PU MANPADS, 2x30 122-mm NURS A-215 "Grad-M" launchers.

The ship could be used for laying minefields.
And can also be used with various loading options: 150 landing troops and 10 T-55 tanks with a crew of 40 people; 12 PT-76 amphibious tanks with a crew of 36 people; a unit consisting of 3 tanks of the T-55 type with a crew of 12 people, 3 120-mm mortars, 3 combat vehicles of the 2G 27 type, 4 ZIL-130 vehicles, 4 GAZ-66 and one GAZ-69 passenger SUV.

Crew: 87
Landing personnel: 147 landing personnel.
The ship was capable of transporting a
cargo weighing 650 tons over a distance of 4,700 miles.

The Soviet officer and commander of the airborne detachment Tsezar Lvovich Kunikov, after whom the BDK is named, died on February 14, 1943 and was buried in Gelendzhik, where Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has a bunker.

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🔥 Explosions are heard in the Black Sea near the temporarily occupied Crimea, smoke is also visible

In social networks, it is assumed that the probable cause of the explosions is damage to one of the Russian ships.

A Russian Ka-27 helicopter was spotted in the south of Crimea

The helicopter was spotted near the village of Foros. The Ka-27 is designed for search and rescue flights.

No clarification on what has happened at this time.

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⚔️ Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi:

Together with the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umyerov, they made a working trip to the military units and units that maintain the defense in the Avdiyiv and Kupyan areas.

The operational environment is extremely complex and stressful. The Russian occupiers continue to increase their efforts and have a numerical advantage in personnel. They do not count on losses and continue to use the tactics of "meat assaults". For example, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 29 attacks by Russian occupiers in the Avdiyiv district
alone. In addition, the enemy actively uses aviation, inflicts damage with guided aerial bombs, conducts dense mortar and artillery fire on our positions.

We are doing everything possible to prevent the enemy from advancing deep into our territory and to hold the occupied positions. Despite the difficult situation, the Defense Forces of Ukraine inflict significant losses on the enemy.

There is little official information about what is happening in Avdiivka and on the slopes.

The reports of the General Staff refer to the daily repulse of dozens of attacks on the city and in the area of the nearby villages of Tonenke, Nevelske, Novokalynove, Novobakhmutivka, Berdychi, Lastochkine, etc.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian troops are advancing into Avdiivka itself amid positional battles on the outskirts.

The so-called "Z-troopers" claim that their forces allegedly crossed the railway tracks in the northern part and entrenched themselves in summer houses, but there is no independent confirmation of this.
Barabash also says "Sometimes I read on Telegram channels that "Avdiivka has already fallen". This is definitely not the case. If someone says so, it is first of all disrespect to the defenders who protect the city. They know that this is not the case. As for "everything is lost", still far away," he said.

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Some comments from Russian Telegram channels about the sinking of Caesar Kunikov large landing ship:

"Why did we touch Khokhols [Ukrainians], soon they'll destroy our whole fleet..."

"But plenty of orders. Repeatedly wrote that the Black Sea Fleet is the most shameful and useless fleet of all. It's not a fleet at all. First of all, it is very infiltrated by Ukrainians, because Pypa once had a brilliant idea in 2014 to leave all Ukrainians who wanted to serve there.
Obviously, a huge number of traitors and saboteurs stayed there. The second problem of this fleet is that it was actively filled with hereditary degenerates from naval dynasties, who sent their offspring to serve in the warm sea, in the South. The result was extremely predictable. Nobody makes any conclusions, fools learn nothing. It's a disgrace!"

"Usefulness of large ships in 2024 is about 0. I hope the crew survived. And the loss of the ship is irrelevant to the fighting.

The trouble is that the whole world will laugh.

The enemy posted footage of the loss of the landing ship "Caesar Kunikov" near the coast of Crimea near the city of Alupka.

As in the case with "Ivanovets", the landing ship was attacked in the dark by several kamikaze drones at once, got a critical breach, lurched and sank. There is no exact information about the fate of the crew at the moment, the rescue operation continued all morning.

It can be stated that the current command of the Black Sea Fleet fully corresponds to its no less glorious predecessors from 2022.

The ships of the fleet, which still do not have any adequate means of countering the threat, are being shot like partridges".

( Anton Gerashchenko twitter X )

🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱Liz

The terrorist state of Russia damages a hospital.

Russian troops shelled Selidove twice during the night of February 14.

The hospital building was damaged.

According to the head of Donetsk OVA, there are probably people under the rubble.

"There are probably 3 people under the rubble, including a child. Rescuers, police and local authorities are working on the spot," Filashkin said.

"Rescuers are carrying out search operations, extinguishing a fire on an area of 60 square meters, evacuating patients from damaged premises," wrote the head of the Donetsk OVA.

"Currently, we know about 1 injured person, rescue operations are ongoing," Vadym Filashkin informed.

There were about 100 patients in the hospital. They are currently being transported to Pokrovsk and Myrnograd hospitals.

The head of Donetsk OVA showed what the hospital looks like after the shelling.

🇺🇦@ukraine_report🇺🇦🔱Liz

🔥🔥🔥 More footage of the fire at the oil depot in the Kursk region.

Russian publications, noted that as a result of a "drone attack" there, a tank with the capacity of 100 tons could explode.

From "The Analyst":

UPDATES 14-15 FEBRUARY

Obviously the sinking of the Ropucha-III Class Landing Ship Cesare Kunikov was big news. These ships - most of which were sailed from the Baltic to the Black Sea in late 2021 and January 2022, were originally intended as sort of the force that would land troops at Odesa. That never happened and they’ve mostly been used as ferries for men and material ever since.
The Ukrainian forces used five of their latest Magura naval drones.
The result was a a rapid explosion and the vessel sank south of Crimea.
Russian forces intercepted messages clearly had them saying all they could see was a ‘large patch of oil’.
Ukraine used its ‘Wolf Pack’ tactics, where one drone acts as a decoy and the others - in this case four of them
according to the released video, attacked the opposite side. It’s another erosion of Russian abilities to supply Crimea - but even more shocking to me is that they know these are targets and they seem to do little or nothing to protect or escort them. They had plenty of warning the ship was a target - three waves of aerial drones crossed Crimea - so many in fact the Russian air force tried to intercept them with fighters to little success. The missile defences are so badly degraded from prior attacks on command sites and radars they’re next to useless.

AVDIVKA
Things are bad, it’s very very tense.
Russian forces pushed towards the road and came within meters of cutting it before being repulsed by the 3rd Airborne Assault Brigade, using Bradley’s. These regained some 150m of ground and added to Russian losses - so far averaging 645 men per day in Avdivka area alone.
In the south they continue to press the area of the Zenit defences.
The Ukrainians seem to be letting the Russians pour in every last bit of their manpower in the hope that sooner or later it runs out and then they’ll strike back harder.
Meanwhile Russian aviation lobbed 60 FAB bombs into the area - several of them clearly hitting their own forces - but they don’t seem to care about it and it doesn’t stop them.
Russia continues to press hard in the Kupiansk area too, along with two other areas on the eastern front. Holding back the Russian advance on Chasiv Yar has also becoming challenging.
The use of meat waves in the Kupiansk region continues to be the problem of the moment. Endless numbers of troops sent to their deaths for small gains in territory is a price Russian commanders are willing to pay. Their soviet era blocking troops force men forward and there is no way out. I wonder often how the Russian men and women back home would truly react if they knew how these battles were being conducted. This isn’t a defence war, it’s a war of conquest and prideful violence.
Wherever we look things are tense. Politics in America cannot be divorced from what is happening on the frontlines. Donald Trump is sacrificing Ukraine for his own ends - he controls what the Republicans do. American aid is crucial and he is stopping it.
Yet there has been good news. Allied nations are doing their utmost to push ammunition supplies higher and ramp up production but building the facilities takes time and money. Germany is doing its best, Finland is building new factories to build shells for Ukraine.
But it’s America that has the extraordinary industrial and military reserves that make the difference. 41% of global defence spending is American. Without America the tide of this war cannot be fully turned. But it doesn’t mean Russia wins. Ukraine will grind them down and make them pay for every meter of territory they take.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!

Newlyweds

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To Trump, they are both troublesome women, therefore interchangeable

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They gave him a week. He took 3 days.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/jack-smith-strikes-back-4/54542/

Consequences of the Russian night missile attack on Ukraine

🔺Lviv
3 people were injured. There is a hit to an infrastructure object. In 16 residential buildings, part of the windows were blown out by the blast wave, cars were damaged. Previously, more than 10 rockets flew to the region, the head of the OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi, said.

🔺Kharkiv region
1 person died in the city of Chuguiv - an apartment building was destroyed and 3 private houses were damaged. Window glazing and roofs were damaged in 7 houses, Oleg Sinegubov, head of OVA, informs.

🔺 Zaporozhye
4 people were injured, wrote Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the city council. There is a hit on an infrastructure object. Apartment buildings, an educational institution and premises of a trade facility were damaged.

🔺 Khmelnych region
2 people were injured, said Serhiy Tyurin, the first deputy chief of the OVA. Damage to civilian objects. There was no information about the victims.

🔺Dnipropetrovsk region
Objects of civil infrastructure were attacked, the head of Dnipropetrovsk OVA reported.

🔺 Poltava region
A warehouse in the Myrhorod district was hit - a fire on an area of ​​100 m² was recorded. There were no victims, reports the
head of OVA Philip Pronin.

🔺 Kyiv region
All the missiles flying at Kyiv were shot down, the KMVA claims. There are no casualties or damage. In the region, fragments of downed rockets fell in 2 settlements: 7 houses, several farm buildings and a car were damaged, reported the head of OVA Ruslan Kravchenko. People are whole.

Good morning. A bit colder this morning. By Saturday it will be 20⁰.

Russia wants to install nukes in space

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