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Moscow has never closed the door to dialogue to end the Ukraine conflict, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday, reiterating that the country's key goal remains stopping NATO’s unchecked expansion towards its borders.
Lavrov rejected a recent claim by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who alleged that Moscow has shown no “willingness… to engage, to negotiate in good faith” to end the conflict with Kiev.
“It’s not true,” Lavrov stressed, adding that Russia has always been ready to discuss “any serious proposal” that addresses the situation on the ground and the root causes of hostilities. Moscow is also willing to reach a solution “which would guarantee legitimate national interests of Russia and the Ukrainian people,” the diplomat stated.
Lavrov reiterated that Russia is prepared to listen to anyone interested in establishing “justice” in relations between Moscow and Kiev. He insisted, however, that this would require the West to stop its policy of “using Ukraine as an instrument of war against Russia.”
Lavrov recalled that Russia has long voiced concerns about NATO expansion. “The goal is very simple… we’ve been warning publicly since 2008… that NATO’s expansion against all promises [to Russia and the Soviet Union]… was going too far,” he said. - RT
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Major Breakthroughs as AFU Defense Collapses in Avdeevka
Firstly, Ukrainian comms were intercepted in the south of Avdeevka around this Tsar’s Hunt area. The exchanges point to heavy problems, a lot of dead and wounded amongst the AFU, as well as anger and disagreement with the command staff:
Secondly, as Russian forces moved up, several batches of AFU surrendered, seemingly corroborating the disintegration of their lines hinted at in the radio exchanges above. Here, the Russian 80th Regiment troops of the 90th Guards Tank Division take in their haul of POWs in Avdeevka:
There’s potential that this could domino into a huge collapse of several at-risk cauldrons which are now forming for the AFU.
Russian troops have moved along Yasinovskaya toward the west, and now along the Tsar’s Hunt nearby. This has created a small cauldron in the center that can potentially be collapsed.
In the south, the entire area north of the missile defense can potentially be collapsed and taken over.
Here’s why that could bring AFU close to losing Avdeevka.
It should also be mentioned all the areas being captured behind the Tsar’s Hunt are on high-ground, which is giving another advantage and likely contributing to the snowball effect of AFU’s collapse: And the Ukrainians bitterly admitted to Russia’s success here in their daily update:
Lastly, there are also reports of advances on the eastern side of Avdeevka.
Last time we spoke of the big Kharkov strike on French mercenaries. France tried to deny it, but oddly enough new information continues to trickle in reportedly confirming many of the names of deceased Frenchmen.
Following this, Russia has now carried out a new devastating ballistic strike on the HQ of the Ukrainian 110th brigade in Mirnograd:
Up to 40 AFU troops were said to have been eliminated, as reported by several Ukrainian sources including ex-Rada Deputy Ihor Mosiychuk:
In the meantime, Russia gets stronger each day. A new batch of the latest 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV platforms was seen heading to the front, proving these systems are now in mass production as Russian defense officials promised last year:
This is now the world’s most powerful and advanced artillery system. It has a totally new liquid-cooled barrel, and those big square blocks on the front are its own ballistic radar units which record the trajectories of each shot, calculating miniscule deviations from air pressure, wind, atmospherics, etc., and then automatically computing that into the next shot. It makes each subsequent shot more accurate than the last. But of course the biggest difference of all is the new barrel can handle far more powerful powder charges, which vastly increases its range. No one quite knows what it is for regular rounds, presumably 30-40km. But for special RAP rounds it’s reportedly in the 70-80km range, which would allow it to surpass any of the vaunted NATO weapons like the French Caesar, Phz 2000, etc., and more importantly fire from the deep rear where Ukrainian drones can’t reach.
In a new interview, Zelensky ridiculously claimed that he doesn’t need a 500k man mobilization, and tried to pass that idea entirely off on ‘others’. It’s very clear he’s desperate to absolve himself of any of the most ‘difficult’ decisions which can be construed by society as justifications for his overthrow.
Russian forces continue to deliver items to troops in the middle of trench assaults:
More AFU were captured near Ugledar as well:
There have been a lot of captures the past few days as Russian troops advance nearly everywhere.
AFU’s head of aerial recon center for Berdiansk-in-exile says Russia is pulling away in drones and EW tech: - Simplicius
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