"Much of the battle for Bakhmut is fought underground, in bunkers where Ukrainian solders use real-time feeds from consumer drones to direct artillery attacks."

https://twitter.com/mickbk/status/1597874772809072641

Guangzhou city. Reportedly many are having their health passports revoked and they end up homeless.

Just a meme. Kanye did not attack Assad.

Russia Now Says US & NATO "Directly Participating" In Ukraine War

Earlier this week CNN reported that the Biden administration is considering "dramatically" increasing its training of Ukrainian forces. The proposal would involve US advisers training "much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics" at American installations in Germany, and possibly other locations in Europe. This could involve as many as 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers trained by US advisers a month, which over a half-year period would total 15,000 going through the proposed ramped-up US program.

This report and others, which have also detailed expanding military training programs for Ukrainians in Europe overseen by UK and other NATO-member militaries, has prompted a Friday response from the Kremlin. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov alleged Thursday that the US and NATO are now directly participating in the Ukraine war.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-now-says-us-nato-directly-participating-ukraine-war

"Ukraine to prepare law banning churches 'affiliated' with Russia

The Ukrainian government will draw up a law banning churches affiliated with Russia under moves described by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as necessary to prevent Moscow being able to "weaken Ukraine from within."

In a move condemned in Moscow, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council told the government to draft the law following a series of raids on parishes that Kyiv says could be taking orders from Moscow as Russia wages war on Ukraine."

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-orders-probe-into-russian-linked-church-says-zelenskiy-2022-12-01/

🇷🇺 Kadyrov posted footage of the cleansing of villages in the Zaporozhye region:

"Planned cleansing operations continue in the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region. This time, the fighters of the AKHMAT-Krepost OMON (in transport) and the AKHMAT-Grozny OMON worked as efficiently as possible in the village of Kamenka-Dneprovskaya."

🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to Western experts, the daily losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut reach a battalion (500-800 people), hospitals in Konstantinovka are overcrowded, and schools are being converted into hospitals.

"Two of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear bombers reportedly damaged as ‘explosions rock military bases in Russia’

Two Russian nuclear bombers were reportedly damaged on Monday as media reported explosions air bases in Russia.

The Tu-95 planes - known as Bears - are the only propeller-powered strategic bombers still operational today.

Details were scarce but two servicemen were reported wounded and hospitalised.

Videos showed a huge flash at the high-security airbase in Saratov region used by Vladimir Putin's strategic fleet.

There were no reports of nuclear contamination.

The early morning blast was reported at the Engels-1 airbase in the Saratov region of Russia. It is around 460 miles from the border with Ukraine."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/two-vladimir-putin-nuclear-bombers-131159508.html

Bakhmut now.

"In Ukraine, a new approach to modern conflict is emerging

A new approach to modern conflict is emerging along with a new way for how the transatlantic community better positions itself to leverage its technology advantage to overcome shared challenges.

Even before the Russian invasion, technology companies had worked closely with the Ukrainian government to maintain and secure the country’s digital infrastructure. After Russia invaded, Ukrainians used smartphones and a variety of apps to share with the world — daily — the story of what was happening on the ground. They used secure communications to open supply lines and coordinate resistance to Russian efforts. Ukrainian volunteers even developed a smartphone app that allows citizens to report on the location of Russian attacks, tanks, missiles, and drones.

For Ukraine, broad access to these off-the-shelf technologies has proven crucial, allowing Ukrainians to knock the Russians off balance and fight the larger aggressor in a conflict that Putin thought would last days.

Armed with smartphones and internet access, Ukrainian civilians and NGOs have documented and shared Russian war crimes and troop positions, sometimes in real time."

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/3763715-in-ukraine-a-new-approach-to-modern-conflict-is-emerging/