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38·8 days agoToday’s news from Russia’s special military operation.
Russian forces fully liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic city of Dzerzhinsk (AKA “Toretsk”). The Kiev regime had used the area as a firing position to shell the nearby DPR city of Gorlovka for over ten years: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250207/why-russias-liberation-of-dzerzhinsk-toretsk-is-a-terrible-blow-to-ukraine-1121546570.html
Russian drone operators destroyed another US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle in the DPR (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--🔞The-🇺🇸-M2A2-ODS-SA-Bradley-infantry-fighting-vehicle🔞:8
Plus, a little economic news. Despite all the Western sanctions, the Russian economy grew by 4.1% in 2024 (a higher growth rate than that of the Western countries applying the sanctions): https://www.rt.com/business/612331-russian-economic-growth-mishustin/
Today’s news and combat footage from Kursk oblast and the Donbass.
Russian defenders repelled a large Kiev regime attack in Kursk oblast, destroying another eight tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, and 30 other armored vehicles (videos included): https://southfront.press/ukrainian-columns-on-fire-another-kyivs-counteroffensive-turned-into-disaster/
More combat footage of Russian drones destroying Kiev regime armored vehicles in Kursk oblast today: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/06/1032457.html
A report revealed that before its liberation, Kiev regime troops massacred four civilian men in the basement of a shelter in the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Novogrodovka: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250205/refugee-describes-horrors-of-civilian-executions-in-dpr-by-ukrainian-forces-1121536951.html
Popular resistance is growing to the Kiev regime military’s conscription campaign. Plus, some combat footage.
Ukrainians have started blowing up Kiev regime military conscription offices in Pavlograd and Rovno. In another incident, a man with a hunting rifle shot and killed a conscription officer in Poltava oblast. An IED strike killed another in Kharkov: https://southfront.press/war-against-mobilisation-gains-momentum-in-ukraine/
Civilians captured and beat a Kiev regime conscription officer (18+ video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Zelensky-Gestapo-bastard-is-captured-by:3
Russian anti-tank mine destroys US-built “Bradley” infantry fighting vehicle (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/02/05/1030079.html
Russian drone strikes British-built Challenger 2 tank (video): https://www.rt.com/russia/612228-ukrainian-challenger-tank-drone/
Today’s news from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.
Russian forces continue advancing near the Kiev-occupied DPR city of Krasnoarmeysk (AKA “Pokrovsk”): https://southfront.press/russian-army-grinds-ukrainian-reserve-brigades-foreign-mercenaries-surrounds-pokrovsk1a/
The Western imperialist disinformation campaign about “North Korean troops in Kursk” is collapsing: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/cianyt-remove-north-korean-soldiers-from-ukraines-front-line.html
The West’s Ukrainian Nazi proxies brutally murdered 22 civilians in the Kursk oblast village of Russkoye Porechnoye (this atrocity is the true face of “Maidan democracy”): https://www.rt.com/russia/611953-kursk-village-ukrainian-massacre/
A little news from Kursk oblast.
Russian forces eliminated another Nazi (18+): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/28/1011722.html
Russian drone operators destroyed another Kiev regime T-64 tank (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,---Kursk-region,-Destruction-of-enemy-tank:a
Some videos for today from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.
Russian forces fully liberated the important western Donetsk People’s Republic town of Velikaya Novosyolka: https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Vid7.mp4?_=1
Russian drone operators destroyed more Kiev regime military vehicles near Dzerzhinsk (this DPR city is also close to being fully liberated): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/25/1006467.html
Russian drones destroyed two more US-built “MaxxPro” armored vehicles in Kursk oblast: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/26/1008016.html
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas released more combat footage, showing the elimination of Zionist troops responsible for Yahya Sinwar’s assassination (18+): https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/24/741529/Hamas-revenge-former-leader-Sinwar-kills-Israeli-commander-Major-Dvir-Zion-Revah
The footage is from before the current ceasefire.
Today’s news from Russia’s special military operation
Russian forces recently eliminated an Austrian Neo-Nazi and mercenary in Zaporozhye oblast (near Orekhov): https://nato.news-pravda.com/nato/2025/01/24/17128.html
A Russian Lancet destroyed a US-supplied M1A1 “Abrams” tank in Kursk oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/611589-abrams-tank-destroyed-russia-kursk/
Russian troops uncovered another Kiev regime atrocity in Kharkov oblast – two chained bodies of Ukrainian soldiers abandoned in a fortified position. The Kiev regime had tortured them and left them to starve to death for, presumably, refusing to fight: https://www.rt.com/russia/611565-ukraine-kharkov-troops-chained/
Another Kiev regime T-64 tank bit the dust: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/23/1001389.html
Today’s news from the Donbass.
Russian forces advanced inside the central area of the partially Kiev-occupied DPR town of Velikaya Novosyolka, fully encircling a pocket of Kiev regime troops in the settlement’s southern half. Kiev regime troops in the town’s northern half are also mostly encircled and under close fire control (map and 18+ videos included): https://southfront.press/ukrainian-garrison-divided-and-surrounded-in-velyka-novoselka-russians-gave-time-to-surrender-18/
More Ukrainian soldiers continue joining the Russian military to fight against the Kiev regime: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--A-group-of-Ukie-soldiers-defects-and-joins-the-Russian-army!!:4
Kiev regime Rada deputy Alexander Dubinsky stated that Zelensky does not have more than 280,000 troops left: https://tass.com/world/1902927
Russian shooting champion Anna Taranosova came to the front to help train troops on shooting down enemy drones: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/23/1001537.html
“HTS” = al-Queda + Boris Yeltsin. They stab their own country in the back – sell out to Western imperialists – while hiding behind the mask of religious sectarianism.
Some news and combat footage for today from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.
Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Volkovo, southwest of Kiev-occupied Krasnoarmeysk: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250121/russia-liberates-volkovo-in-donetsk-as-ukraines-losses-mount--1121478877.html
Russian forces are also close to fully liberating three important DPR settlements: Velikaya Novosyolka, Dzerzhinsk (AKA “Toretsk”), and Chasov Yar (videos included): https://southfront.press/battle-for-chasov-yar-entered-its-final-stage/
Russian drone operators continue hunting NATO military equipment in Kursk oblast (video): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Massive-defeat-of-NATO-equipment-by-the-56th-regiment:7
Today’s news from Russia’s special military operation.
Russian investigators discovered that Ukrainian Nazis and Western mercenaries massacred a group of elderly civilians (with their hands tied in the basement of a house) in the Kursk oblast settlement of Russkoye Porechnoye (18+): https://southfront.press/video-18-more-evidence-of-ukrainian-atrocities-in-russian-kursk-region-revealed/
A Kiev regime “HIMARS” rocket attack on a school in Bekhtery (in the liberated parts of Kherson oblast) killed two civilians this morning as students and teachers headed to classes: https://southfront.press/number-of-victims-of-ukrainian-terrorist-attacks-growing/
Russian forces recently captured a group of “Right Sector” Ukrainian Nazis (from the “Arey Battalion”) during the battle to liberate Plekhovo in Kursk oblast: https://southfront.press/ukrainian-nazis-who-murders-civilians-in-kursk-now-safe-and-sound-in-russian-captivity/
A Russian Lancet strike destroyed another US-built M109 self-propelled howitzer in Sumy oblast: https://www.rt.com/russia/611290-lancet-paladin-artillery-video/
Some news for today from Russia’s special military operation.
Russian forces recently liberated the Shevchenko Lithium Ore Field in the western parts of the Donetsk People’s Republic, which is a major loss for Western capitalists that wanted to exploit it: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250118/ukraine-losing-lithium-wealth-major-blow-to-the-west-1121457558.html
A Russian Iskander missile strike eliminated a NATO/Danish F-16 pilot and ‘instructor’ in Krivoy Rog: https://www.rt.com/russia/611145-danish-f16-instructor-killed/
Russian missiles struck the Kiev regime military’s Luch design bureau (that manufactures “Neptune” missiles) in Kiev (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/18/987365.html
Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Petropavlovka, northwest of Kurakhovo: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250118/russian-forces-strike-ukrainian-defense-sites-in-response-to-atacms-attacks-free-two-villages-1121455742.html
Great news for Nigeria and the BRICS!
The BRICS now have nine partner countries (junior members): Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan.
Plus the ten full members: Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates.
Note, Turkey and Vietnam also received invitations to eventually join as partner countries during the 2024 BRICS summit.
Today’s news from the Donbass.
Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Vremyevka, just west of Velikaya Novosyolka. Kiev regime occupation forces inside Velikaya Novosyolka are now mostly encircled (map included): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/17/983791.html
The details continue emerging of how Kiev regime troops (including Western mercenaries) massacred civilians in the DPR’s Selidovo before fleeing in late October: https://southfront.press/black-tuesday-how-the-afu-strewn-the-town-with-corpses/
A surrendered Ukrainian soldier stated that the Kiev regime is burning its dead troops’ bodies to avoid paying their families. They also burn Western mercenaries’ bodies to hide their presence: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250117/ukrainian-forces-burn-soldiers-bodies-to-avoid-paying-families---pow-1121442354.html
A combat summary for today (plus videos): https://southfront.press/overview-of-military-situation-in-ukraine-january-17-2025/
Two US journalists bravely called out “Secretary of State” Antony Blinken for being a war criminal today.
Max Blumenthal: https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879926469633487204
Sam Husseini: https://www.rt.com/news/611039-state-department-husseini-blinken/
Huge respect to these two guys for doing what is right.
Today’s news from occupied Palestine and Syria.
Social media users react to ceasefire with mix of relief, joy: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/15/740983/Gaza-won-Netizens-react-Hamas-Israel-ceasefire-genocide
The fascist and genocidal Tel Aviv massacred another 62 Palestinian civilians today, as the ceasefire negotiations continued: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/15/740980/Israel-Kills-62-Palestinians-despite-ceasefire-deal
Zionist aircraft have now intentionally attacked the “HTS” in Syria for the first time, killing two members in Quneitra province. I wonder how these new rulers in Damascus will respond to this blatant aggression. One frustrating aspect of the previous Syrian government is that they did not shoot back after these kinds of thuggish Zionist attacks: https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/15/740976/Syria-Israel-HTS-airstrike-Quneitra-Assad
Some news from occupied Palestine.
The Zionist regime admitted that yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters eliminated five more Zionist occupation troops in northern Gaza: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-takes-in-more-losses-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-nears/
Yemen fired another hypersonic Palestine-2 ballistic missile at the Zionist “Defense Ministry” headquarters in Tel Aviv: https://thecradle.co/articles/undeterred-by-us-led-war-yemen-targets-israel-three-times-in-12-hours
Zionist genocidal attacks massacred over 50 civilians in Gaza, including an attack on Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood that killed 11 people. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/14/740875/Israel-kills-50-Palestinians-Gaza-strikes
Special bonus video, a US activist correctly called out Blinken for being a brutal war criminal: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/14/977470.html
Today’s news and videos from the Donbass.
Russian forces liberated the western Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Neskuchnoye (southwest of Kiev-occupied Velikaya Novosyolka) and the northern DPR settlement of Terny (northeast of Kiev-occupied Krasny Liman): https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/russian-army-liberates-neskuchnoye-and-terny-settlements-in-donbass-1121427446.html
Russian air defenses shot down six US-supplied “ATACMS” missiles and eight British-supplied “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/ukraine-loses-over-1600-soldiers-in-battles-as-russia-liberates-two-settlements-1121427183.html
Russian self-propelled howitzer in action (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mat.mp4?_=3
Some videos for today from Russia’s special military operation.
Russian FSB recently arrested a Neo-Nazi that attempted recruiting for the Kiev regime’s Nazi “Azov Battalion” in Moscow (unsurprisingly, his body was plastered with one million Nazi tattoos): https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--An-Azov-supporter-who-was-trying-to-persuade-Russian-military:5
Russian drones destroyed Kiev regime armored vehicles inside a military warehouse: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Destruction-of-Ukie-militants’-equipment-in-Kharkiv-region:f
A Russian ground drone destroyed a Kiev regime fortified position: https://odysee.com/@Support4Z:b/📽️-A-🇬🇧-🇫🇷,--Courier-robotic-ground-drone-sneaks-inside-a-Ukie-bunker!:9
And a special bonus picture – the dictator Zelensky has become less popular in the US: https://news-pravda.com/img/20250210/536ad608efbd5a66fbb65d3ba3dfaa5d_o.jpg