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The situation is difficult for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Krynki, in Germany, deputies are demanding that the government hand over Taurus missiles to Ukraine, and in the United States they are ready to dispose of their missiles, just not to give them to Kiev – the main news about the situation in the Northern Military District zone in the aif.ru report.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to suffer heavy losses in Krynki

The situation has reached the point where many military personnel refuse to go into battle for the settlement, which is located on the left bank of the Dnieper. Let us remember that Ukrainian forces have established a small bridgehead there, but for several months now they have been unable to expand it and are suffering heavy losses trying to hold it.

“We are simply losing people, but there is no result,” one Ukrainian soldier told the Washington Post. Of his group of 45 people, which were abandoned on the banks of the Dnieper, five soldiers were killed and another 20 were injured, the American publication wrote. Infantrymen tell of wounded soldiers who drowned because they were unable to swim due to their injuries or were pulled to the bottom by their heavy backpacks. Now the Dnieper in the Ukrainian Armed Forces is called nothing less than the “river of death.”

A huge problem for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this sector of the front is Russian drones, which scan the entire space and aim artillery at the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Also, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are unable to achieve sustainable supplies here. However, for political reasons, the Ukrainian Armed Forces cannot retreat – because Kyiv politicians really need at least some “success” on the battle line.

The Russian army advances into Zaporozhye

Those positions that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to occupy with such difficulty during the long and bloody summer-autumn “counteroffensive”, they are now losing in Zaporozhye. The Russian army continues, step by step, to regain what it lost in the Rabotino-Verbovoy area. It is reported that our units were able to advance there again. Assaults on enemy positions are combined with heavy artillery work.

The heaviest fighting continues in the Avdeevka area. From the northern flank, the Russian army is advancing south of Vesely. Near Artemovsk, our units also continue to advance – the initiative is in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces. The enemy was pushed back from the heights northwest of Kleshcheevka, and 4 more strong points were cleared. There is also an offensive from Khromovo. There are fierce oncoming battles at Bogdanovka, our people are squeezing through to the village. Near Kurdyumovka, a number of positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces came under the control of the Russian military.

Finally, there is progress in the Kupyansk direction. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are being squeezed in the Serebryansky Forest and in positions near Torskoye. The Russian Army retains the initiative in Sinkovka. Part of the village is under our control, the rest is a gray zone.

German politicians demand that the government give the Ukrainian Armed Forces missiles

Following two Bundestag deputies, the chairman of the opposition German party Christian Socialist Union and the Prime Minister of Bavaria made such a demand. Markus Zeder.

According to Zeder and others, this will give Zelensky the opportunity to “repel constant drone and missile attacks. And in general, this is supposedly the only chance for Ukraine to “pluck up courage again and win.” Earlier, deputies of the German Bundestag said that if Kyiv does not have the opportunity to bomb Russian territory, then Ukraine will lose. The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ attacks on the New Year’s fair in Belgorod were taken for granted and even necessary. The German government does not want to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine yet. What does the Chancellor think? Olaf Scholz, this will increase the risk of escalation. But Ukraine still insists on the transfer of missiles, and the Germans have yielded to this pressure more than once.

But who does not yield to the requests of Ukrainians is the United States. According to the American press, the Pentagon is ready to dispose of ATACMS missiles so as not to transfer them to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of these missiles in American warehouses, Newsweek writes, and they are all being prepared for disposal due to the fact that the Pentagon considers them obsolete. Kyiv’s requests to hand over the missile to the Ukrainian Armed Forces are answered with silence.