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 Hello everybody! Just a short one today , because I’m short on time while there are ever more reports indicating something like ‘general counteroffensive’ of the ZSU in the Bakhmut area. https://pastelink.net/sids36ii Specifically: ZSU is heavily shelling the area east of the Shchedra Street (eastern Bakhmut), plus there are reports about destruction of multiple VSRF artillery pieces all the way from Pokrovske down to Vershyna (villages east of Bakhmut). Indeed, RUMINT has it the VSRF already had to withdraw one of its artillery brigades from there, because this was rendered unfit to combat due to the losses of its MSTA-S self-propelled howitzers. Apparently, one of its artillery regiments should be ‘on the way out’, too… Foremost, Ukrainian ground attacks are reported from: - North: in the Paraskoviivka area, - East: along the Patrice Lumumba Street, and - South: in the Optyne area. Details are still scarce, though, and there’s no true cross-confirmation, but multiple sources a...

 Good morning everybody! A short update, entirely focusing on the Bakhmut area (I might expand this one during the day, if there are any additional related news). Commander of the ZSU Ground Forces, Colonel-General Syrsky (first from the right on the photo below), seems to have visited the HQ of the ZSU’s Bakhmut Group. Some of Ukrainians are considering that top officers there are assessing the option of withdrawal, and thus Syrsky arrived to check the situation with his own eyes before bringing his decision. To explain this a bit: many of Ukrainians not in touch with anybody in Bakhmut, consider the situation there for ‘too critical’, and the town for ‘short of falling’. In comparison, troops inside the town seem to still be in high spirits. Ukrainian soldier with so-called ‘anti-material’ rifle. Here a brief report of a correspondent of Radio Liberty from inside the town. On the other hand, the situation within ranks of Russian VDV, VSRF and PMC-troops in the Bakhmut area is not...

 Hello everybody! I’m a little bit short on time, today, thus ‘just most important’ details and few thoughts… STRATEGIC Yes, there is a glimmer of hope — that at least few of idiots calling themselves ‘Western decision-makers’ might have understood what might matter in Ukraine. Correspondingly, there’s a — slowly, very slowly — growing number of reports about an increasing number of shipments on ammunition and heavy infantry weapons. Not going to post any of related links, because — in grand total — these are still too few. Foremost, such reports do not mean any of supplies in question have already reached the battlefield: there’s no reason even to be happy about them, because it’s still too few, too late. On the contrary: there’s only yet more reason for bitter critique. Just for example, and after all the marvelous announcements since ‘Rammstein Meeting, 20 January’, and all the public pushing, kicking and belittling of Germany, and critique for Scholz, it turned out that all the...

 Hello everybody! Reading different comments of the last days and weeks, it’s obvious that too many people have too much time, and everybody knows better, of course. ‘Instead’ of trying to find out what’s going on, there’s too much discourse on what and who is right, and what and who is wrong, and — especially — when and where is Ukrainian counteroffensive going to take place, and what is it going to look like. Indeed, there are characters explaining insanities like, ‘it doesn’t matter if Bakhmut holds, if Melitopol is still in Russian hands’. …There are people complaining about a ZSU officer being demoted for going public with his critique of superiors. But, best of all is when super-smart US advisors are complaining (in the public, even if ‘indirectly’) about the ZSU’s ammunition expenditure in the Bakhmut area, because — and this is super-morbid — ‘this is depleting stocks necessary for a counteroffensive’. And, of course, everybody is repeating this and the old one about ‘comm...

 Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, have complained of symptoms including headaches and difficulty breathing following a nearby train derailment that spilled millions of litres of industrial chemicals last month. Officials at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and local, state and federal agencies, as well as the train’s operator, Norfolk Southern, have been monitoring water and air quality in the town — but community. embers haven’t been satisfied with official reports claiming that levels of the chemicals are low and safe. https://pastelink.net/80m3xgg6 How a dangerous stew of air pollution is choking the United States Some independent researchers have arrived on the scene, hoping to help with more measurements and analyses. Others have been invited by residents who want a second opinion. The teams think they can help to fill the gaps left by authorities. “The residents had a disconnect between them experiencing some symptoms, and everybody telling them everything was o...