Here we go again-Ukraine once again

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been the best three day ran operation they are moving too fast they better slow down

[Jimbuna]

Russian soldier death rate highest since first week of war - Ukraine

By Laura Gozzi
BBC News

Russian soldiers are dying in greater numbers in Ukraine this month than at any time since the first week of the invasion, according to Ukrainian data.

The Ukrainian data shows 824 Russian soldiers dying per day in February.

The figures were highlighted by the UK's Ministry of Defence. The figures cannot be verified - but the UK says the trends are "likely accurate".

The increase comes amid talk of a spring offensive by Russian forces in the east of the country.

Last week, Ukraine's outgoing defence minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, said they were anticipating a new Russian offensive around 24 February - the anniversary of the full-scale invasion.

But some local politicians, including the governors of Luhansk and Donetsk, claimed the offensive had already begun.

Some of the fiercest fighting has been around Bakhmut in the east of the country.

On Sunday, the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary force said the group had seized a settlement near the devastated city.

Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Telegram: "Today, the settlement of Krasna Hora was taken by assault detachments of the Wagner PMC."

Mr Prigozhin also gave his group credit for the offensive on Bakhmut, downplaying the Russian army's role: "Within a radius of 50 km, plus or minus, there are only Wagner PMC fighters," he wrote.

The statement hints at longstanding tensions between the Russian military and Wagner.

When the town of Soledar was taken in January, Mr Prigozhin claimed his fighters were in full control there boasted that only his troops took part - a claim the Russian defence ministry questioned.

Bakhmut's strategic importance has been questioned, but the prolonged fighting has turned it into a symbolic prize.

According to the Ukrainian data, highlighted by the UK, 824 Russian losses a day is more than four times the rate reported in June and July, when around 172 Russian soldiers died each day.

The Ukrainian military claims 137,780 Russian military deaths since the full-scale invasion began.

The UK's MoD pointed out the recent increase could be due to "a range of factors, including lack of trained personnel, coordination, and resources across the front".

Ukraine "also continues to suffer a high attrition rate", the UK said.

Russian forces have made little progress in Ukraine since their retreat from the major southern city of Kherson last November.

Last month they captured the town of Soledar north of Bakhmut after an intense battle. Capturing Bakhmut could enable Russian forces to press on towards the bigger cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to Western countries to hurry sending heavy weaponry to Ukraine to help Ukraine repel Russia's expected offensive.

The US agreed last week to send long-range missiles that would enable Ukraine to double its attack range.

But President Zelensky wants the West to send fighter jets - saying during a visit to the UK Parliament this week that he was "thanking you all in advance for powerful English planes".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64616099

[Jimbuna]

Pregnant Russian women flying to Argentina for citizenship, officials say

By Laura Gozzi
BBC News

More than 5,000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say.

The latest arrivals were all in the final weeks of pregnancy, according to the national migration agency.

It is believed the women want to make sure their babies are born in Argentina to obtain Argentinian citizenship.

The number of arrivals has increased recently, which local media suggests is a result of the war in Ukraine.

Of the 33 women who arrived in the Argentinian capital on one flight on Thursday, three were detained because of "problems with their documentation", joining three more who arrived the previous day, migration agency head Florencia Carignano told La Nacion.

The Russian women had initially claimed they were visiting Argentina as tourists, she said.

"In these cases it was detected that they did not come here to engage in tourism activities. They acknowledged it themselves."

She said the Russian women wanted their children to have Argentinian citizenship because it gave more freedom than a Russian passport.

"The problem is that they come to Argentina, sign up their children as Argentinean and leave. Our passport is very secure across the world. It allows [passport-holders] to enter 171 countries visa-free," Ms Carignano said.

Having an Argentine child also speeds up the citizenship process for parents. As it stands, Russians can travel visa-free to only 87 countries.

Travel to many Western countries has become more difficult for Russians since their country invaded Ukraine last February.

Last September, the visa facilitation agreement between the EU and Russia was suspended, resulting in the need for additional documentation, increased processing times and more restrictive rules for the issuing of visas.

A number of countries have also suspended tourist visas for Russians, including all EU member states that border Russia.

A lawyer for the three women who were detained on Thursday said that they are being "falsely imprisoned", as they are being held on suspicion of being "false tourists". This is a term "which does not exist in our legislation," Christian Rubilar said.

"These women who didn't commit a crime, who didn't break any migratory law, are being illegally deprived of their freedom," he added.

The women have since been released.

La Nacion attributed the dramatic uptick in arrivals of Russian citizens to the war in Ukraine, saying that "besides fleeing war and their country's health service, [Russian women] are attracted by their [right of] visa-free entry to Argentina, as well as by the high-quality medicine and variety of hospitals".

"Birth tourism" by Russian citizens to Argentina appears to be a lucrative and well-established practice.

A Russian-language website seen by the BBC offers various packages for expecting mothers who wish to give birth in Argentina. The website advertises services such as personalised birth plans, airport pick-ups, Spanish lessons and discounts on the cost of stays in "the best hospitals in the Argentinian capital".

The packages range from "economy class", starting at $5,000 (£4,144), to "first class", starting at $15,000 (£12,433).

The website says its founder has been facilitating birth tourism and offering migration support since 2015, and the company says it is "100% Argentinian".

On Saturday, La Nacion reported that Argentinian police has been carrying out raids as part of an investigation into a "million-dollar business and illicit network" that allegedly provided pregnant Russian women and their partners with fake documents issued in record time to allow them to settle in Argentina.

Police said the gang charged up to $35,000 (£29,011) for the service.

No arrests were made, but police were said to have seized laptops and tablets as well as immigration papers and significant quantities of cash.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-64610954

[Jimbuna]

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[Rockstar]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Russia is draining a massive Ukrainian reservoir, endangering a nuclear plant
Russia appears to be draining an enormous reservoir in Ukraine, imperiling drinking water, agricultural production and safety at Europe's largest nuclear plant, according to satellite data obtained by NPR.

I’m no expert but I’m fairly certain it’s the massive reinforced concrete portion of dam structure below the flood gates that creates the reservoir and prevents it from being drained completely. The flood gates at the top of the dam’s structure are used to prevent water levels from overflowing the roadway built on top of it which connect both sides of the bank.

The only way to drain the reservoir completely is to blow up the dam.

[Jimbuna]

Russians purposefully commit ecocide by draining Kakhovka reservoir, - Vereshchuk

Deputy Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk emphasizes that the Russian invaders are deliberately and purposefully draining the Kakhov reservoir.

Vereshchuk wrote about this on Telegram, Censor.NET reports.

"Environmental war. The occupiers are draining the Kakhovka reservoir. A threat to the environment, water supply, and agriculture of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson region. The occupiers are deliberately and purposefully committing ecocide in the region, including the temporarily occupied territories.

They will not be able to hold the captured territories. Maybe they started to realize it. Therefore, they want to leave behind them a scorched earth, unfit for life.

Nothing will work for them. Everything can happen very quickly. Do you remember the liberation of Kherson?" she said. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3399381

[Jimbuna]

Total combat losses of Russian Federation since beginning of war - about 137,780 people (+900 per day), 296 aircraft, 3,280 tanks, 2,287 artillery systems, 6,488 armored vehicles. INFOGRAPHICS

As of the morning of February 12, 2023, the losses of the Russian occupiers are approximately 137,780 people.

This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to the press center of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

As noted, the total combat losses of the enemy from 24/02/22 to 12/02/23 are approximately:

personnel - about 137,780 (+900) people were eliminated,
tanks - 3280 (+13) units,
armored combat vehicles - 6488 (+14) units,
artillery systems - 2287 (+17) units,
MLRS - 465 (+2) units,
air defense equipment - 234 (+0) units,
aircraft - 296 (+1) units,
helicopters - 286 (+0) units,
UAV of operational-tactical level - 2007 (+10),
cruise missiles - 857 (+0),
ships/boats - 18 (+0) units,
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 5148 (+14) units,
special equipment - 215 (+1). Source: https://censor.net/en/n3399313

Credit Suisse froze over $19 billion of Russian assets

The Swiss bank Credit Suisse has blocked Russian assets worth more than 19 billion dollars (17.6 billion Swiss francs), which is a third of all declared Russian assets in Switzerland.

This is reported by the Sonntags Zeitung newspaper, Censor.NET reports with reference to Economic Truth.

Of the amount blocked by the bank, only 4.32 billion belong to persons previously included in the sanctions list by the Swiss authorities. The remaining 14.7 billion dollars concern persons who have been sanctioned in other countries. In addition, Credit Suisse froze the funds of the Russian Central Bank.

It is noted that earlier the State Secretariat of the Economy of Switzerland announced the blocking of Russian assets in the amount of 8.1 billion dollars and 15 real estate objects. The blocking of Russian assets took place within the framework of sanctions imposed on the Russian Federation due to a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3399379

Captured "Wagnerians": We thought that Armed Forces had left Ukraine, and we would have to fight with Poles and Germans

Former prisoners recruited by the "Wagner" PMC from Ukrainian captivity told journalists that they were going to "fight with Polish mercenaries" in Ukraine.

This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to CNN.

The TV channel reports that two "Wagners" were captured at the end of last year. One of them had previously served a 20-year sentence for involuntary manslaughter.

"There were 90 of us. Sixty people died in the first assault, they were killed by mortar fire. Several people were wounded," the occupier recalls his first assault in the Belogorivka district of the Luhansk region.

According to him, if one group fails, "they immediately send the second, and then the third.

The second says that he participated in the assault near Lysychansk, which lasted five days, allegedly "the first steps through the forest were difficult because of the mines laid there, seven of the ten boys died immediately."

They told journalists about a man who was afraid to go on an assault. He was taken 50 meters from the base and forced to dig his own grave, then shot.

According to them, they had so little idea of what was happening in Ukraine that they thought that the Ukrainian army had left the country: "We thought that we would fight with Poles and various mercenaries, Germans, we did not think that there was anyone from Ukraine left there army - we thought they had left the country."

The occupier also stated that "no one thought that the Armed Forces of Ukraine would really fight for their country, for their loved ones," and they allegedly learned about it only on the territory of Ukraine. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3399377

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Italians protest against Zelensky’s appearance at Sanremo festival

https://rumble.com/v2991zs-italians-...-festival.html

[Rockstar]

Video of m/v Ark Integrity pier side Port of Bremerhaven off loading combat vehicles bound for Ukraine. German language, English subtitles.

https://targum.video/v/2023/02/12/06...11731dc56d6aed

[Dargo]

British Military Intelligence: February 2023 is producing the second-highest daily death toll of the war so far for the Russian army after the catastrophic losses during the first week of the invasion


https://twitter.com/Biz_Ukraine_Mag/...39235906809870

[Skybird]

So now we hear, for the x-th time, one half of the truth. Where is the other half? Ukrainian losses. These are what likely is far more decisive for the going of the war than the Russian losses.

Just saying. This endless stream of videos showing how great it is going and marching music in the backgroudn and heroic pathetic phrasing have become tiresome to some degree. They are feel-well videos, so to speak. Mood-boosters. Maybe they mostly are not untrue - but they are only showing one half of the truth, which is no surprise since they do not come from neutral sources. Western European and American sources have a bias, Ukrainian sources have a heavy propaganda intention, and Russian sources are paste-and-copy jobs from patient records from mental asylums, of course they are the worst of the three. Ron Hubbard could have told no finer lousy fiction.

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Video of m/v Ark Integrity pier side Port of Bremerhaven off loading combat vehicles bound for Ukraine. German language, English subtitles. [...]