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Multiple explosions and a huge inferno hit a Russian industrial zone on Saturday 21 January, the latest in a spate of mystery fires disrupting Vladimir Putin’s economy.

Footage shows a blaze in a fuel storage depot ignited tanker train carriages filled with oil in key supply hub Angarsk.

Thick black smoke from the disaster was seen 27 miles away in Irkutsk.

The explosions - reported by locals in Angarsk - is the third major incident in the region in five weeks.

It came  amid multiple explosions and fires in key Russian facilities and suspicions of "sabotage" of key facilities.

President Zelensky says Kyiv is aiming to reclaim Crimea which was annexed by Russia in 2014.  Meanwhile, the Kremlin has warned that any Ukrainian attacks on the Russian-annexed Crimea would be “extremely dangerous”. The Kremlin’s statement came Russia's former president, Dmitry Medvedev, has warned of a "nuclear war" if the country is defeated in Ukraine. Watch the video to know more about the ongoing war in Ukraine.
#russiaukrainewar #putinzelensky #worldnews


0:00 - INTRODUCTION
1:04 - UKRAINE WILL RECLAIM CRIMEA: ZELENSKY
3:46 - KREMLIN URGES UKRAINE TO ACCEPT RUSSIAN DEMANDS
5:06 - US DEFENCE SECRETARY MEETS NEW GERMAN COUNTERPART
5:57 - POLISH PM LOSING PATIENCE OVER THE GERMAN TANK DELAY?
7:45 - WAGNER CHIEF PRAISES UKRAINE ARMY

ABC News analyst Mick Mulroy discusses Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s comments on retaking control of Crimea as the U.S. Coast Guard monitors a suspected Russian intelligence ship off Hawaii.

Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman joins Andrea Mitchell following her visit to Ukraine, amidst reports that some U.S. officials are for the first time considering helping Ukraine target Russian bases in Crimea.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Western supplies of weapons must outpace Russia’s attacks. Speaking at the WEF in Davos, the Ukrainian President also alleged that the Kyiv helicopter crash was not an accident. Ukrainian military expert Petro Chernyk claims that Russia’s Wagner group has lost some 40,000 troops in the war. The Russian police detained four people at an improvised memorial for Dnipro attack victims, the OVD-Info rights group said. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reportedly told his US counterpart Joe Biden that Berlin is ready to send leopard tanks to Ukraine. The US is set to finalise a huge military aid package for Ukraine totaling approximately $2.5 billion worth of weaponry. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine needs a "significant increase" in weapons at a pivotal moment in the war. Russia’s envoy to the US has claimed that Moscow will destroy any weapon that the West sends to Ukraine.
#Ukraine #Russia #Stryker #NATO #Germany #Leopardtanks #Putin #Zelensky #WorldNews


00:00 - “Helicopter Crash Not an Accident”, Says Zelensky
2:51 - “Wagner Lost Two-thirds of Its Soldiers”
3:55 - Four Detained at Moscow Memorial for Dnipro Victims
4:49 - Scholz Sets Conditions on Leopard Tanks for Kyiv
7:21 - Stryker Vehicles to Ukraine Soon?
8:35 - NATO Pushes for More Weapons’ Deliveries to Ukraine
10:25 - “Russia Will Destroy Any Weapon That West Sends to Kyiv”

"I believe that Ukraine will liberate Crimea by the end of August."

When Crimea becomes 'untenable' for Russian forces, the Donbas will 'return to Ukrainian sovereignty,' explains Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Wednesday that Western support for Ukraine seems to be growing a little 'tired' and showing less 'emotional' involvement in the ongoing war. Poland has been a key hub for the transfer of western military aid to Ukraine. Now, the key NATO member is rallying the west to send as many as 100 tanks to help Ukraine fight back the Russian onslaught.

#War  #Fatigue #UkraineFatigue #UkraineWar #Poland #PolishPM #NATO #Zelensky #UkraineAlly #Allies #US #usa #RussiaUkraine #War #Tanks #AndrezjDuda #Morawiecki #MateuszMorawieck #NatoMember

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused United States-led European countries of solving "the Russian question" in the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a "final solution" to eradicate Europe's Jews.  Lavrov said Washington was using the same tactic as Napoleon and the Nazis in trying to subjugate Europe in order to destroy Russia. The Russian Minister's statement drew a sharp rebuke from the U.S. with White House national security spokesman John Kirby saying 'how dare he compare anything to the Holocaust?' Watch Lavrov's statement here.

#SergeiLavrov #RussianQuestion #Europe #RussianForeignMinister #Russia #RussiaUkraine #UkraineWar #USA #us #russiaversusus #USVsRussia #EU #NATO #Hitler #AdolfHitler #Napoleon #Holocaust #Nazis #Nazi #Nazism

In an exclusive DW interview with Political Correspondent Anja Köhler, Ralf Stegner, parliamentary leader of the Social Democrats, talks about future military deliveries to Ukraine and why Germany continues to be cautious.
 
He also argued for a more varied approach to the conflict. "We not only have the military dimension of working together but we also have the political, diplomatic, economic dimension."
 
When asked how diplomacy could look like, he maintained "the problem with diplomacy is, if it wants to be successful, it has to be behind closed doors."
 
He also questioned whether the war could be won by military means. "I am very skeptical that it will be the military that decides about the future peace order in Europe."
 
In defense of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz he also said, "our chancellor, who is always criticized for being too slow, deliberating, (…), that has a lot of support in the public, our public, our population, people you talk to on the streets and you see that in the polls. Therefore we should be calm and do what we have done so far."
 
He further warned that "We have a lot of common interests with Ukraine, but the interests are not identical", referring in part to the no-fly zone that Ukraine asked for and emphasizing the importance of NATO not being pulled into the conflict.
 
Commenting on the remarks of a Duma representative that called for attacks on Foreign Minister Baerbock in Kharkiv, Stegner responded: "This is outrageous."
 
In light of recent pressure to send further military equipment to Ukraine, he also maintained "It's not smart to follow up on public pressure, we won't do that."

He says Putin is a war criminal and his imperialistic war cannot be allowed to succeed, yet speaks about diplomatic solution. I really don't see how these two things can exist together.

"If they don't get this combined arms capability together, they’ll continue this attritional model. That would come back to a phrase of Putin's, which is ‘the chicken pecks’."

Russia will try to wear down Ukraine by reductionism, former senior British Military advisor Major General Chip Chapman tells #TimesRadio.

"This is opening a spigot politically and probably psychologically amongst the free minded Western nations that they need to get more and heavier ordnance to Ukraine."

The Challenger 2 tanks sent to Ukraine are the first of many, says Brigadier General Peter Zwack on Frontline with Lucy Fisher.

Wagner group has delivered the promised pardons to the inmates recruited for Russia’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine. The prisoners-turned- combatants have reportedly been offered amnesty in exchange for six-months of service in Ukraine. The move was announced by Wagner boss, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a video released on January 5. Watch the vide to find how Wagner recruited russian prisoners for the war.

#russiaukrainewar #warinukraine #YevgenyPrigozhin #wagner #russianwagner #warnews

00:00 -INTRODUCTION
02:08 - ANGER IN RUSSIA OVER PRISONERS’ RELEASE
03:50 - HOW WAGNER RECRUITED RUSSIAN PRISONERS FOR THE WAR
05:35 - THE MAN BEHIND THE WAGNER GROUP

The fact he had to tell them, not to **** women, says all you need to know...wow

It’s not hard to read the writing on the wall by the law abiding back in Russia.  Former convicts, pardoned after fighting in an imperialistic war with no rules, then returning back into an economically depressed Russian economy with little hopes of finding a job.    Not hard to see how bad this is going to be.

For anyone wondering what legality means in Russia, it means whatever serves the persons on top, not anything universal

Let’s pardon convicted murdered and rapists after subjectibg them to true warfare terror leaving most with PTSD and alot of pent up anger. What can go wrong?!

To even think that the thought of raping is treated a little like an after thought is disconcerting.

In March, former U.S. Marine Andy Milburn came to Ukraine to cover the war as a freelance journalist. He quickly realized he wanted to do more. Together with fellow marines, he organized training sessions for the Territorial Defense Forces while Kyiv was under siege. Shocked by what they had seen in Bucha, the ex-military decided to stay in Ukraine to help. Thus, The Mozart Group was created - a volunteer organization that trains the Ukrainian military and evacuates civilians from the most dangerous places near the frontlines.
hromadske spent two days with The Mozart Group's evacuation team, led by Irishman Dathan, in Bakhmut and Soledar. See in hromadske's video how foreigners with military experience found themselves in a humanitarian mission in Ukraine.

Ukraine's Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'

Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, led the delegation to Israel.

A delegation from Ukraine's Azov Regiment visited Israel in recent days, meeting with officials and IDF reservists and speaking about the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The delegation arrived in Israel on Thursday and was led by Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko, one of the soldiers who barricaded themselves beneath the Azovstal steelworks during attempts to protect Mariupol from the Russian invasion earlier this year. Joining him in leading the delegation was Yuliya Fedosyuk, deputy head of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, now in day 297, continues to go badly for Moscow. And now the U.S. is set to send patriot defense missile systems to Ukraine, a major game changer. Former Ambassador John Bolton, who also was the former president’s National Security Advisor for a time, reacts to the latest on the war, and also Iran's increasing role.

Russian forces have not made any significant territorial gains on the front since July, when they took Lysychansk. Putin has tried to present the illegal annexation of parts of Ukraine’s Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions as a significant victory, but the announcement caused discontent among the Russian elites.