Comments by "Levan Gudadze - Opinion" (@LevanGudadze) on "Military Summary" channel.

  1. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that the US and EU strategy of funding Ukraine’s battle with Russia, in the hope that an unlikely battlefield loss will bring about regime change in Moscow, is futile. Instead of trying to localize the conflict, the West decided to escalate, making it global, Orban said last week at an event celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Swiss conservative weekly Weltwoche in Zurich.
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  2. Up to 70% of Bakhmut is already under the control of Wagner PMC, media reports here in Russia today. I suppose there is reason to believe that the Ukrainian garrison in Bakhmut is gradually collapsing, as I predicted on my channel many times. Today, adviser to the acting head of the DPR, Yan Gagin, said on the Russia 24 TV channel that Russian units took control of about 70 percent of the territory of Artemovsk (the Russian name for Bakhmut). "If we talk about Artemovsk: our forces now control about 60 percent, maybe even more - up to 70 percent of the city itself," he said.
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  3. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the storage facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with 70,000 tons of fuel. According to a Russian source, ammunition depots and heavy weapons were also destroyed at the same time.
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  4. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 66,000 military personnel and over 7,000 military equipment since the start of the so-called counteroffensive, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
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  5. China is willing to allow “plenty of space” for peaceful reunification with Taiwan, but will not tolerate separatist activities, government spokesperson Chen Binhua warned on Monday. The official was responding to comments by Taiwanese pro-independence politicians ahead of a presidential election on the self-governing island.
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  6. Fighters of the Russian volunteer brigade "Wolves" during heavy fighting in the direction of Soledar in the DPR captured a group of Polish mercenaries.
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  7. I said today on my channel in an update that according to Russian data, a day after the address of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly on February 21, an unscheduled meeting will be held by the Russian State Duma and the Federation Council. The question arises, what will Putin talk about, that the Russian parliamentarians should gather the next day? My assumption concerns two topics, the first is that Putin will announce the start of a new wave of mobilization, the second is that Putin will change the status of a special military operation. Or maybe both will happen. Let's see. It will be interesting.
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  8. Today, information was circulated in a telegram, including from journalist and politician Anatoly Shariy, that Russia could launch an offensive from Belarus before the end of the year. I talked about this in more detail on my channel, but I wonder what Dima, the host of the Military Summary, will say on the issue.
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  9. Russia's GDP growth exceeded two percent in seven months.
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  10. Mass protests are taking place in the capital of Armenia after the start of the operation of the Azerbaijani military in Nagorno-Karabakh, protesters are storming the government building, which I will also talk about on my channel, because in theory it may well turn out that while Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is in the USA, there may be a regime change in Armenia..
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  11. Вreaking News of last hour Gazprom, in the course of work on the last operating Nord Stream gas pumping unit, discovered damage, until the repair of which it is forced to completely stop pumping through the gas pipeline, the holding said in a statement. P.s. It looks like "Nord Stream 1" is stopping the flow of gas to Europe for a long time..
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  12. Footage of the first British "Challenger 2" tank destroyed in Ukraine appeared on the Internet today.
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  13. Russia and China have almost completely abandoned the US Dollar in mutual trade, says the Russian Foreign Ministry.
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  14. French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna paid a visit to Nigeria on Friday, urging African nations not to develop relations with Moscow instead of Paris.
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  15. To tell the truth, today's speech by Putin before the federal assembly was quite ordinary, no harsh statements about red lines against the Western elite, no statements about changing the status of a special military operation, no tough statements in principle, about anything, and this probably creates a sense of strangeness from his speech, given the circumstances.. I talked about this in more detail on my channel in an update, and although not all subscribers understood and accepted my observation, some even left, I will share my thoughts here too, with you. Tell me, what is your impression of Putin's statements?.. It will be interesting to read..
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  16. NATO leadership states that Ukraine can join the alliance if it cedes certain territories to Russia, which I will talk about in more detail on my channel, because I am not sure that Moscow will agree to less than control over all of Ukraine, possibly with the exception of the Western part of this state..
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  17. Am I mistaken in the assumption, which I also spoke about on my channel in today's update, that by regrouping a significant part of the reserves of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Chasov Yar area, the Zelensky regime is preparing the withdrawal of forces from Bakhmut and a new line of defense to prevent a lightning-fast Russian breakthrough deep into the territory of Ukraine, which is undoubtedly can happen if the Russian side does not meet serious resistance after Bakhmut? I wonder if Dima will say anything on this topic..
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  18. Hungary's parliament speaker has accused the European Union of launching a “hybrid war” against his country.
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  19. Two Il-76 aircraft will deliver 28 tons of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reports..
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  20. It looks like units loyal to Zelensky have already lost up to 1200 soldiers killed and wounded and up to 50 units of military equipment today.. An expensive price for the first day of the offensive doomed to failure..
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  21. Former US Secretary of State (2018-2021) and ex-head of the CIA (2017-2018) Mike "We lied, we cheated, we stole" Pompeo will take a seat on the board of directors of one of the largest mobile operators in Ukraine, Kyivstar.
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  22. Air defense systems intercepted 28 Ukrainian drones overnight over the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions and the Black Sea, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Tuesday
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  23. The authorities of Poland and the Baltic countries should withdraw foreign military from their territory before demanding the withdrawal of Wagner PMC fighters from Minsk, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said.
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  24. Ukraine tried to carry out another drone attack on Moscow and Crimea. According to the latest data, 2 drones were destroyed by Russian air defense in the Moscow region and 11 in Crimea.
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  25. ❗“We’re not crazy,” this is how the head of Georgia’s ruling faction responded to the opposition’s proposal to impose sanctions against Russia. 📌 The chairman of the ruling faction, Mamuka Mdinaradze, said that Georgia will not impose sanctions against Russia, since this is comparable to suicide for the entire country.
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  26. Over the past 24 hours, Russian helicopters and attack aircraft of the army group "West" carried out 24 strikes on the personnel and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansky direction, RIA Novosti reported, which I will also talk about on my channel, because the Kupyansky sector is considered by many military experts to be the most likely direction of a large-scale Russian offensive..
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  27. Meaningful negotiations with the US are impossible under the current circumstances, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday. “I don’t think that, in the foreseeable future, the dialogue will return to how it was before its unilateral suspension by the US,” Ryabkov told reporters on the sidelines of an international policy forum in Moscow.
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  28. The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral of the Dutch Navy Rob Bauer, said on Saturday that the volumes of military assistance requested by Ukraine exceed the production capabilities of the alliance countries, which I will talk about on my channel too, because the Western media and the so-called elites do not stop promoting the narrative that it is not NATO countries but Russia that is experiencing a shortage of capacity for the production of weapons and ammunition..
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  29. Algeria has turned down a request from France to fly over its airspace for a military operation in Niger.
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  30. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 750 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  31. The looming delivery of US-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will not prevent the “collapse” of the country's military and will only benefit the military-industrial complex, Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Junior has claimed, which I will talk about and on my channel today too, because the topic is quite relevant.
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  32. The Russian Armed Forces destroyed four Ukrainian S-300s and one "Gepard" in the direction of Kherson in the last 24-48 hours.
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  33. Poland for the first time openly declared its intention to enter into a conflict in Ukraine, as I predicted on my channel many times. Polish Ambassador to France Jan Emeryk Rosciszewski said on the air of the LCI TV channel that if Kyiv fails to "defend independence" on the battlefield, then the Polish army will have to become a direct participant in the conflict with Russia. This is reported here in Russia by almost all the media. I think it's only a matter of 3-5 months and Warsaw will bring Polish troops into the territory of Ukraine, perhaps even take a chance and attack Belarus, together with the Baltic republics.
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  34. Armenia, Treaty ally of Russia to hold joint drills with US later this month, which I will also talk about on my channel, because lately a number of steps taken by Yerevan have unequivocally annoyed Moscow and raised questions about the relationship between the two countries..
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  35. Over the past 24 hours, Russian air defense shot down 2 Ukrainian Su-27 fighters/interceptors in the Kherson sector of the front and one MiG-29 fighter in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry reports.
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  36. The first Russian serial missiles of the fifth-generation Sarmat strategic missile system will be put on combat duty in the very near future, the Ministry of Defense reported.
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  37. Ukraine's losses from the embargo on agricultural products imposed by Slovakia, Hungary and Poland could cost it up to $230 million a month.
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  38. Four Ukrainian aircraft-type drones were shot down off the western coast of Crimea last night and two more drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
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  39. For military experts, it is obvious that Ukraine will not be able to win on the battlefield, only Western politicians do not dare to admit this, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
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  40. About 500 Ukrainian military, Two of the three airmobile battalions, refused to go on the offensive in the Zaporozhye direction, said the Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region Yevhen Balitsky.
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  41. You may already know about this, but if not, I’ll tell you that today, here in Russia, the media report that, according to the statement of the head of the PMC Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, the armed forces of Ukraine lose 10-11,000 soldiers every month in the direction of Bakhmut killed and many times more wounded. Of course, I will talk about this topic on my channel in tomorrow's update in more detail, but even now we can say that Bakhmut really became a place of destruction of the Ukrainian army and the fighting spirit of the Ukrainian military. According to Prigozhin’s statement, the Zelensky regime has concentrated about 70,000 soldiers in the direction of Bakhmut and plans to launch a counteroffensive to deblock this city.
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  42. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 1,150 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  43. India is set to purchase 12 Russian-designed warplanes as part of a 450-billion-rupees ($5.4 billion) spending package approved by the country’s defense ministry on Friday. The Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter jets will be built under license for the Indian Air Force by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). Over 60% of the jets’ components will be indigenous to India, and the 12 warplanes will be “the most modern Su-30 MKI aircraft of the Indian Air Force, equipped with multiple Indian weapons and sensors,” ANI news agency reported, citing defense officials.
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  44. Some may not know that the government of Ukraine could face a shortage of money and not be able to pay salaries if the US Congress fails to approve another injection of funds into the Ukrainian economy, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, which I will talk about on my channel too, because even if the taxpayers of Western countries do not like it, they need to know that the US and other donor nations currently pay the salaries of some 150,000 civil servants in Ukraine as well as over half a million teachers, professors, school workers in general, hundreds of thousands of military personnel and in general everyone who receives a salary from the state budget, that is, over a million people..
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  45. A cargo ship carrying 25,000 tons of humanitarian wheat from Russia will arrive in Somalia in the next few days, the East African nation’s news agency, SONNA, has reported..
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  46. London may surrender its lead as one of the world’s finance capitals, a status it shares with New York, according to a majority of executives at corporate majors polled by Lloyds Bank. The bank’s financial institutions sentiment survey showed that 64% of sector leaders think that the City of London will stagnate as a global hub compared to its rivals, business-focused newspaper City A.M. reported earlier this week. The City of London, widely referred to simply as the City, is a historic financial district and home to both the London Stock Exchange and the Bank of England.
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  47. Russian supplies of liquefied natural gas (LNG) may still be shipped to German terminals despite pledges by energy major Uniper, according to its chief executive, Michael Lewis.
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  48. The Czech Republic announced on Wednesday that it would not send military-age men who arrived as refugees back to Ukraine to be conscripted. Germany, Austria and Hungary have already made similar declarations. European conventions exclude extradition for charges such as desertion or draft evasion, Czech Justice Ministry spokesman Vladimir Repka told the outlet iDnes. However, he added that if Ukraine files individual extradition requests citing a specific criminal act they may have committed, Prague may give them more consideration.
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  49. Russia declared two US Embassy employees persona non grata and demanded that they leave the country.
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  50. The Russian armed forces destroyed an oil depot in the Rivne region of Ukraine in an initial strike on the military and logistical infrastructure of the Zelensky's regime..
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