Zelensky held a council with generals and the Minister of Defense, they say without Zaluzhny, where he instructed to build defense lines from Kupyansk to Ugledar in the east, and in the north of Ukraine - along the borders with Belarus and the Russian Bryansk and Kursk regions.
But that’s not all, the “Zelensky line” will be created in the Nikolaev region and in sections of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
The total length of the defensive lines that should be created by order of Zelensky can be from 2.8 thousand km.
It is estimated that to make fortified areas for 2.8 thousand kilometers it will be necessary to spend at least 10 billion dollars.

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⚡️Biden said he had approved a new $200 million military aid package for Ukraine, according to the White House press pool.

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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson - on Zelensky's failure to convince him:

We need a clear articulation of a strategy that will allow Ukraine to win, and so far the answers have been inadequate. They have not given us the clarity and detail that we have asked for time and time again, having started asking for it literally 24 hours after I became spokesman. The Biden Administration appears to be asking for billions of dollars without specifics, without a clear strategy to win, and without the answers I believe the American people deserve.
I have also made it clear from day one that our priority in considering any supplemental homeland security package is first and foremost our own homeland security. The border is an unmitigated disaster right now, and the policies of the current administration are to blame. Last week we had 12,000 illegal crossings in just one day.

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Geraniums head to their resting place in Starokonstantinov! I'm calling it now. They're definitely heading towards the Khmelnitsky region.

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Ukrainian channel Strana:

Vladimir Zelensky published a video of his meeting with Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson.

“He spoke about the achievements of Ukrainian defenders, victories in the Black Sea and the great efforts of Ukraine aimed at reforming and returning our state to economic self-sufficiency in the future,” the president said.

We wrote earlier that Johnson did not change his opinion regarding the terms of assistance to Ukraine after this meeting.

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Vladimir Rogov reports:

🇷🇺💥🇺🇦☠️The Russian Army has completely liberated Marinka!

Our soldiers drove the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants out of this regional center, located near Donetsk.

Units of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division and the 5th DPR Brigade coordinatedly attacked the enemy positions, knocking out the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the last ruins that the Nazis controlled on the outskirts of the city.

During the battle, some of the militants were destroyed, some were captured, and some fled.

Our fighters wisely used weather conditions; due to bad frosty weather, the enemy was unable to actively use drones and paid the price.

The enemy's line of defense now runs outside the city.

Thank you that I am no longer Mar'inka!

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And Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin reports:

They report further advances of the Russian Armed Forces in Marinka and the loss of some more positions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northwestern part of the city. The enemy admits the loss of positions, but claims that he is still clinging to individual positions on the outskirts, although this is no longer particularly important - the main positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already to the west of Marinka.

Apparently, there is not long left before the official announcement of the liberation of Marinka. But let's wait for the official announcement from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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"Hush up!".... Biden's manners....

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The footage of New Year's Eve delivery robots with sledges from December Moscow goes viral on international social media segment

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Unique footage of "aerial mining" and its results

The engineers of the 1st Tank Army do not stand aside while technological progress is marching through the trenches. We came to the operators of FPV drones with a rational proposal: let's make a miner drone. And they did.

First, a copter was manufactured with a drop under the POM (anti-personnel fragmentation) with a tension target sensor. A month later, appetites increased and discharges for PMN-4 (antipersonnel pressure) were developed - up to ten pieces at a time. Further - more: anti-tank PTM-3 and PTM-4.

They work effectively from closed positions mainly along the routes of rotations, evacuations, and post changes.

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Today, Russian hackers paralyzed several mobile phone providers, as well as banks in Ukraine. In some parts of Ukraine, airborne alarms also did not work. All this is happening while Zelensky is in Washington.
The Wagner+Akhmat detachment is advancing on the front line. Frontline is very active and the intensity is increasing every day.

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In the Donetsk direction, the next prisoners were taken by the guys from Storm Z

update: footage is from mid October

Russian Federation Sanctions
Authorized Under the National Emergency Act
Manufacturing Date: 20 June, 2000
Expiration Date: __________

The National Emergency, A Catch-22 in the WIld
National Emergencies are pernicious and invasive form. They hide under a mantle of authority and governmental legitimacy. Only congressional resolution can cut them out. Of course, this overide comes with a catch. The catch is, Congress passes a resolution adopted by both the house and senate which may be vetoed by…yeah, the President.

The abuses of power by US Presidents under the mantle of "National Emergency" prior to 1976 are long: to suspend habeus corpus, at the onset of the American Civil War, to intern the Japanese during World War II, and to force commodity production of steel during the the Korean War, etc.

The National Emergencies Act was meant to end all national emergencies prior to its existance. Up to that time presidential decrees of national emergency had no expiration date unless explicitly given. The act was to provide Congressional oversight, and requires annual approval by the President of all National Emergencies still in existinence. Since it's enactment, 60 national emergencies have been declared with over half still in effect.

But one might argue that all those powers expressly given to Congress cannot be take by the White House. This has lead the executive branch to seek exploitation of loopholes. The most memorable of these is how a President wages war, one must US citizens regard as commonplace, by simply never declaring war.

Spending has always been a major hurdle in any presidential mission. President Trump made a noble effort to overcome Congressional budgetary constraints on his borderwall project. His attempt to use the Natoinal Emergency Act to fund the wall was struck down because he had already sought and gained approval from Congress, it just wasn't enough.

One can't help but ask, why did he even go to Congress in the first place? Wasn't that his sin? The saying goes, it's better to ask forgiveness than permission. Had he just declared a National Emergency he could've just leapt over that hurdle to begin with and spend by means of Presidential Discretion.

The National Emergencies Act has "no substantive criteria that must be met; the president need only publish a proclamation in the Federal Register and transmit it to Congress," this according to analyst, Elizabeth Goitein, at the Brennan Center for Justice. And as we've already seen, decleration of war, threat of war, imminent threat, terrorism, and all other previously ill-defined conventions are consolidated into one meta-definition, National Emergency.

She paints a post-Orwellian scene here with a list of scenarios in which a president might use this power, "...for instance, the Communications Act of 1934 allows the president to take over or shut down radio communications during a national emergency. If he declares a threat of war, the president can also take over or shut down wire communications facilities—a power that could be interpreted today to give the president control over U.S.-based Internet traffic. Another law allows the president to suspend the prohibition on government testing of chemical and biological agents on unwitting human subjects."

Russian sanctions, oh yeah...See Page 2

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Tomorrow will deliver page 2 on Russian Sanctions, in which we might see some actual discussion on the topic of Russian sanctions and how and why they pertain to Executive Powers, specifically in regards the National Emergency Act.

More prodigious students than myself may work ahead of in source materials. Assigned reading is every article of US legislation ever written which might or does pertain to discussion of sanctions on Russia.

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Breaking White house press release!


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NGP RaZVedka:

⚠️ Based on the situation in the Avdeevsky direction.

Extremely unfavorable weather conditions have established on the southern flank - snow and freezing rain, aerial reconnaissance equipment, as well as FPV drones cannot operate fully (the icing problem does not bypass any aircraft), adjusting fire is extremely difficult for both sides, nevertheless , our tigers managed to knock out the Ukrainian from the first line of defense in the SNT Vinogradniki area south of the industrial zone, occupy an entire street and reach the eastern outskirts of the quarry, as well as clear out occupied lines on the outskirts of Avdeevka and strengthen their positions.
Khokhol actively snarled with cannon artillery fire, but not being able to properly adjust fire from the air and use kamikaze drones, he was unable to force the withdrawal of our troops.
In response, our gods of war launched massive rocket artillery attacks on the squares from which the enemy was firing.
Khokhol is fully preparing for urban battles, according to the Artemovsk and Mariupol scenarios, setting up firing points and positions in close proximity to the civilian population.

The enemy command is trying to prevent the collapse of the front on the southern flank and hastily transfers reinforcements, continuing to expose other directions, in particular Zaporozhye and Artemovsk.
Thus, units from the 79th Airborne Brigade, 31st Infantry Brigade, as well as some other individual units were transferred and reinforced.
These units were thrown into battle from the wheels and have already suffered significant losses in two days of active fighting.

The Ukrainian military “genius” is making the traditional bet on stopping our army with cheap infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, trying to repeat last year’s scenario, but in the presence of glide bombs, adjustable MLRS and other things, such a bet has extremely dubious effectiveness.

Everything will be as Russia needs!

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Ukrainian channel Legitimny:

Our source reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have time to remove all damaged military equipment from the line of combat contact for repair and restoration.
About 20% were taken out, another 30% remained “there”, and 50% can no longer be restored, since the Russians are now knocking out the “armor”, finishing it off until it is completely burned. Drones help them with this. If the crew survived and evacuated, but forgot to close the hatches/doors, then guess what, the armor will be burned to the ground.
Nowadays there is a very strong shortage of heavy/medium and even light equipment on the LOC. In fact, you have to fight with infantry everywhere.
The situation is complicated, and will become even more complicated in the future. In fact, now we will fight with 85% infantry and 15% artillery/armor and aviation.


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