Re: Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Mr Badger]

/ — Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian: 'An official invitation was conveyed from President Ebrahim Raisi to President Assad to visit Iran.'

https://t.me/MilitaryPOV/1250

[Milla]

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
In the Kupiansk direction units of the "Western" group of forces repelled five attacks by assault groups of the 30th, 32nd, 43rd, 44th mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Tabaivka, Ivanivka and Synkivka in the Kharkiv region.
The enemy lost up to 210 servicemen and three vehicles.
In the Krasnolimansky direction units of the Center group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Dzerzhinskoye of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as the Serebryansky forestry.
In addition, in the areas of the settlements of Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People's Republic, two attacks by assault groups of the 60th and 63rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled.
The enemy's losses amounted to 120 servicemen and three vehicles.
In the Donetsk direction units of the "Southern" group of troops defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Novoye, Krasnoye, Klishcheevka, Kurdyumovka of the Donetsk People's Republic and repelled 11 attacks by formations of the 24th, 42nd mechanized, 79th Air Assault Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 114th Territorial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Bogdanovka, Mayorsk, Leninskoye, Novgorodskoye and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 325 servicemen killed and wounded, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, six vehicles and a D-30 howitzer.
In the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction units of the Vostok group of troops, supported by artillery, defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Shevchenko, Vodiane of the Donetsk People's Republic and Priyutnoye of the Zaporozhye region.
The enemy's losses amounted to 150 servicemen and three vehicles.
In the Kherson direction Units of the Russian group of troops, with the support of artillery, repelled the attack of the 117th Mechanized Brigade near the village of Novopokrovka, Zaporizhzhia region, and also defeated the manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Verbovoye, Rabotino in the Zaporizhzhia region, Tyahinka, Ivanivka, Lviv, Beryslav and Mykhailivka in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 50 servicemen, nine vehicles, a US-made M777 howitzer, as well as a D-20 gun and a D-30 howitzer.
Operational-tactical aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groups of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation hit the command post of the 3rd Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the village of Novogrodovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, a warehouse of aviation weapons, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 119 districts.
Air defense systems shot down 30 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Orlyanskoye in the Kharkiv region, Proletarka, Peschanovka, Novaya Mayachka, Druzhbovka, Obryvka in the Kherson region, Krivosheevka in the Lugansk People's Republic, Klishchievka, Kamenka and Artemovsk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

[Milla]

In addition to successes in Avdiivka and its environs. Our army on the western flank of the direction managed to make considerable progress in Pervomaiskoye and to the south near Nevelskoye.
The enemy confirms our success. It is reported that the Russian army is actively using armored vehicles and a large number of manpower. The offensive continues.

[KneelB4Zod!]

-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - --
@GeromanAT
Ukrainian TG channel reports:
(and partly confirms my earlier report)

Operational situation in Pervomaisky

🟡 In Pervomaisky, the enemy advanced along Pershotravneva Street to the T-shaped intersection connecting with Voroshilov Street. The fighting continues.

🟡 Between Pervomaisky and the ravine, Russian troops occupied a section of the road from the intersection with Voroshilov Street to the ravine. The enemy continues attacks with the support of armored vehicles east of Nevelskoye. According to footage from drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, 2 tanks and 1 armored vehicle were destroyed in the area.

[Milla]

Ukraine’s David Arahamiya - leader of Zelensky's party - debunks BoJo & Sunak’s lies
When we returned from Istanbul, Boris Johnson came to Kiev and said that we will not sign anything with them - and let's just go to war.
Johnson and Sunak have categorically denied this happened - dubbing it Russian propaganda

[Milla]

The elderly cannot pay for heating from their pensions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs does not have money to repair police cars, the growth of crime coexists with mass layoffs. All this is a description of the everyday life of citizens not of some Third World country, but of the leader of the European economy, Germany.
In January 2024, Bild reported that heating prices in Germany are rising in such leaps that people are becoming desperate. Often, the only thing left for them is to wrap themselves up to their ears and seek payments from the state.
According to economists, Germany will again face an explosive rise in prices for central heating in 2024. The fact is that since January, the country has abolished the threshold for energy prices. In addition, the government has increased the tax on CO2 emissions, which will also fall on consumers' wallets. From March, the government wants to return VAT on heating at the full rate - 19% instead of the current preferential 7%.
The crisis in Germany is so pervasive that its impact is being felt in a variety of areas, such as occupational deaths. According to Der Spiegel, one worker dies on construction sites in Germany every five days. The reason is complex: due to the crisis, contractors save on materials, use faulty equipment, and do not monitor the condition of scaffolding.
Healthcare is also lame: according to the German Federal Association of Pharmaceutical Associations (ABDA), 559 pharmacies closed in the country in 2023. The last time this was observed here was in the post-war 1949. Today, there are 17,571 pharmacies in the state, the lowest figure in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The reason for the closures is rising costs and the lack of economic support from the state in an already unfavorable financial environment. It's only supposed to get worse.

[Milla]

The enemy reports a significant advance of our army in many sectors of the front. In many directions, there is a critical situation for the enemy, which the enemy cannot stop, there is simply nothing to stop.
The situation for the enemy on the battlefield will only get worse every day, this trend remains the same.

[Milla]

Egypt is ready for a new war with Israel.
Cairo has threatened to tear up the peace treaty signed at Camp David in 1978 if the IDF deploys forces to Rafah and the Philadelphia Corridor.
Syria has waged several wars against Israel and is ready for new ones - Foreign Minister

[Milla]

The Russian army confidently cuts Avdiivka into 2 parts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine bring in fresh forces, trying to stop our troops
Russian units have powerfully wedged themselves into the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the north and are building on their success, having crossed the railway with battles, are approaching cutting the "road of life" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, storming the motor depot and knocking the enemy out of their dachas.
There is also an advance on the flanks. So, during the storming of Pervomaiskoye, our troops advanced and took new quarters.
Ukrainian propagandists publish new maps and scream more and more hysterically about the dire situation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdiivka:
In the northern part of Avdiivka, the Russian Armed Forces advanced along the streets of Lesya Ukrainka, Donetskaya, Chistyakova and Zheleznodorozhny Lane in a section up to 1.1 km wide to a depth of up to 700 m," they wrote yesterday morning, now the advance is even greater.
The enemy continues to advance deep into the city. Summer cottage villages to the south of Avdiivka Coke, several streets in the city, positions in the direction of the non-standard equipment plant and Industrial Avenue were lost," other Ukrainian military analysts report.
The Russians continue to advance with the private sector in the southeast of Avdiivka Coke, capturing a significant part of it. In the direction of the fire station, they advanced 200 meters," others echo them.

[KneelB4Zod!]

"Safari gone wrong" ....Oksana before and after https://t.co/WAgIGFO9HL

— Amin Dada - Emu Cavalry Advisor (@kambrone64) February 11, 2024

Black Diamond
@blackdiammon
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The famous Donetsk beach in Avdeevka came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. Soon the entire quarry will be completely covered along the perimeter.

Apparently, trying to extort money from Ru POW's family is a common occurrence with ukrops.

His family quickly reached out to Shamsail Saraliev (Akhmat POW negotiator) who acted quickly and managed to negotiate and save Artyom Stepanov, and he was brought back to his family. pic.twitter.com/BbDrk7BNTK

— T (@hy3ze0_m) February 11, 2024

[KneelB4Zod!]

https://twitter.com/i/status/1756722627375174055

[KneelB4Zod!]

Russian Market
@runews
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French President Emanuel Macron cancels his visit to Ukraine.

[KneelB4Zod!]

Special shock force unit of Espanyol's volunteers. pic.twitter.com/FffyrsB5c3

— SlavicFreeSpirit (@SlavFreeSpirit) February 11, 2024

[Mr Badger]

A Statement that has just been published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt.

"Egypt rejects the Israeli calls for a military invasion in the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, and we warn of its dire and severe consequences."

The ministry in the statement states that Rafah is now home to over 1.4 million refugees, and that the Israeli attempts to occupy Rafah is an attempt to eradicate the Palestinian cause in Gaza by evicting its residents to outside their homeland.

"The Arab Republic of Egypt reiterates that it is working towards a ceasefire and an exchange of hostages."

https://t.me/intelslava/55259

@themediterraneanman

[Böhse Tante]

https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaidenChat/4958

Basic laws of human stupidity
 Carlo M Cipolla
We know from Darwin that we share our origins with other species in the animal kingdom, and every species, as we know, from the worm to the elephant, must endure its daily dose of tribulation, fear, frustration, pain and hardship. Human beings, however, have the privilege of having to subject themselves to an additional burden, an extraordinary dose of daily misery, inflicted by a group of people who belong to the same human race. This group is much more powerful than the mafia or the military-industrial complex or the Communist International. It is an unorganized group that is not part of any hierarchy, that has no head, no president, no statute, yet it manages to function in perfect harmony, as if guided by an invisible hand, so that the activities of any one member potentially contribute to the strengthening and expansion of the activities of all the others. The nature, character and behaviour of the members of this group are the argument in the following pages.
At this point, it should be emphasized that this essay is neither the product of cynicism nor an exercise in social defeatism - like the book on microbiology. In fact, the following pages are the result of a constructive effort to explore, recognize, and therefore eventually neutralize one of the most powerful and obscure forces that impede the growth of human well-being and happiness.
In a country in decline, the percentage of stupid individuals is always equal; however, in the remaining population, one can observe, especially among individuals in power, an alarming proliferation of violent individuals with a high percentage of stupidity (sub-area Bs of quadrant B in Figure 3) and, among those not in power, an equally alarming increase in the number of naive ones (area H in the base graph, Figure 1). Such a change in the composition of the non-stupid population inevitably strengthens the destructive power of the stupid faction and brings the country to ruin.


https://t.me/BeornAndTheShieldmaidenChat/4959

https://sakerlatam.org/as-leis-fundamentais-da-estupidez-humana/

............ 

Unfortunately in Italian. 

[Mr Badger]

/ — According to new reports (unconfirmed), at least 11 Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush by the Palestinian resistance in Khan Yunis.

*Note: We will know the exact details tomorrow morning.

https://t.me/MilitaryPOV/1267

[刘汉]

BREAKING:

The French Embassy in Congo is under attack.

Parts of it have been set on fire #FreeCongo pic.twitter.com/Uk432ejjYW

— AfricanNews (@AugusNE001) February 11, 2024

[刘汉]

[刘汉]

Massive explosion and gunfire in Baghdad, Iraq.
Developing... pic.twitter.com/WmQowi2wMX

— Terror Alarm (@Terror_Alarm) February 11, 2024

[刘汉]

#BREAKING Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs:

We are ready for war against Israel, but we will decide when and how we will enter this war. pic.twitter.com/XyPI8h3tHt

— War Intel (@warintel4u) February 11, 2024

[Zambeezi]

— NOW: 'Today, at approximately 2:20 pm, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was transported by his security detail to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to be seen for symptoms suggesting an emergent bladder issue.' - U.S. Department of Defense

@MilitaryPOV

[Zambeezi]

Occupation forces are heavily bombing Rafah, southern #Gaza Strip. Some sources report that the bombings coincide with heavy combat in the city which borders Egypt.

[Zambeezi]

BREAKING| Violent bombardment and fire belts in the vicinity of the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah right now.

[Zambeezi]

BREAKING| Violent and unprecedented airstrikes on Rafah right now.

[Zambeezi]

‍ A large number of martyrs and injured were transferred to the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah

Zionist raids on the Egyptian border with Gaza

@stayfreeworld

[Mr Badger]

BREAKING| Violent and unprecedented airstrikes on Rafah right now.

— So far, 50 attacks have been carried out on Rafah within half an hour. - According to Israeli sources.

[Mr Badger]

— The number of martyrs has risen to 22 and dozens were wounded as a result of the Israeli attack on the city of Rafah, according to various sources.

https://t.me/MilitaryPOV/1279

[Zambeezi]

Special Operation, 11 Feb 2024, Main; pub. 20:09:zap:

Tula paratroopers planted the Russian flag in the center of the recently liberated village of #Veseloye, at the memorial to those killed in the Great Patriotic War, dedicating this victory to their grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought in that war;

Several infrastructure facilities were damaged in the #Nikolayev region after explosions, Ukrainian authorities said. Earlier, explosions were also reported in #Dnepropetrovsk;

Former first deputy defence minister of #Ukraine Pavlyuk was appointed commander of the ground forces instead of Syrsky, who became commander in chief. Kiev also replaced the commanders of the air assault troops and the AFU joint forces;

Peskov, when asked about the possibility of new peace negotiations with #Ukraine, replied that now the reality is completely different, the Kiev Regime will have to recognise it. Ukraine could have reached peace agreements at a lower cost in March 2022, but at the request of the Anglo-Saxons it abandoned the achieved results, the presidential press secretary said;

Peskov noted that achieving goals for #Russia is preferable through peaceful means, but if it is rejected by the other side, the SMO continues;

The #EU will not be able to allocate financial resources to #Ukraine that would allow it to achieve a military victory in the conflict with #Russia, the Hungarian PM is convinced;

Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of #Ukraine Danilov said that the situation on the frontline is "very difficult". According to him, it will become even more difficult if the West does not significantly increase the supply of weapons and ammunition;

As reported by the RF MoD, Ukrainian troops lost 855 militants in all directions over the day, Russian units destroyed 3 armored vehicles and 4 field artillery guns;

Operational-tactical aviation, UAVs, missile forces and artillery hit manpower and military equipment of the AFU in 119 districts. Russian air defence shot down 30 Ukrainian UAVs in the SMO zone.

t.me/sitreports /@rian_ru/#new/
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[Zambeezi]

This is a fantastic resource

"People do not want genocide profiteers on their doorstep, and this map will enable communities to take action against the companies that are complicit in war crimes in their local area"

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has released an interactive map of all the locations across the UK where F35 components are made.

https://caat.org.uk/news/campaign-against-arms-trade-releases-interactive-map-of-every-f35-component-manufacturer-in-the-uk/

[Zambeezi]

Javier Milei Plays The Apocalypse: The Argentinian President Wants The Construction Of The Third Temple Of Jerusalem

https://southfront.press/javier-milei-plays-the-apocalypse-the-argentinian-president-wants-the-construction-of-the-third-temple-of-jerusalem/