North Korean 122mm Rockets Found in Russian Service, Most of their Markings Already Removed. Likely refurbished munitions originally delivered to Iran from North Korea.
@UAWeapons: #Ukraine: For the first time, ammo produced by the DPRK was spotted in the hands of the Russian military- North Korean 🇰🇵 R-122 122mm rockets recently started to be issued to Russian BM-21 Grad crews. Ac...…
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Germany moving forward on potentially offering Ukraine Taurus Cruise Missiles.
Ukrainian Fuel Depot in Northwestern Ukraine Struck by Iranian Shahed Drones.
First documented loss of a Russian Eleron T-16 UAV capable of both recon and coming with weapon hardpoints!
Donbass Separatist Commander Alexander Khodakovsky talks about how he and his comrades motivate Russian troops with low morale.
Long post reportedly discussing how Russian officers fabricate documentation of Ukrainian equipment losses to impress higher up Russian military command.
Associated Press reports on thousands of Ukrainian civilians being held in Russian prison camps and detention centers, doing forced labor for the Russian military.
AP News said:
The Ukrainian civilians woke long before dawn in the bitter cold, lined up for the single toilet and were loaded at gunpoint into the livestock trailer. They spent the next 12 hours or more digging trenches on the front lines for Russian soldiers.
Many were forced to wear overlarge Russian military uniforms that could make them a target, and a former city administrator trudged around in boots five sizes too big. By the end of the day, their hands curled into icy claws.
Nearby, in the occupied region of Zaporizhzhia, other Ukrainian civilians dug mass graves into the frozen ground for fellow prisoners who had not survived. One man who refused to dig was shot on the spot — yet another body for the grave.
Russia reportedly plans on establishing at least twenty five more prison colonies and six more detention centers in occupied Ukraine and across Russia, capable of 'serving' many more Ukrainian civilians who have no apparent legal status in Russia. Due to the establishment of martial law, Ukrainians are able to be imprisoned for almost any offense, real, imagined or exaggerated including speaking the Ukrainian language. The United Nations has
documented over seventy cases of Ukrainian civilians being executed by Russian liberators (pdf).
AP News report is based on interviews with twenty former civilian detainees, freed prisoners of war, intelligence officials, prison negotiators as well as social media posts, satellite imagery, and government documentation delivered by the International Red Cross.
AP News said:
The building in Rostov is among at least 40 detention facilities in Russia and Belarus, and there are 63 makeshift and formal ones in occupied Ukrainian territory where Ukrainian civilians are held, according to an AP map built on data from former captives, the Ukrainian Media Initiative for Human Rights, and the Russian human rights group Gulagu.net. The recent U.N. report counted a total of 37 facilities in Russia and Belarus and 125 in occupied Ukraine.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are being detained across Russia and the Ukrainian territories it occupies, in centers ranging from brand-new wings in Russian prisons to clammy basements.
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