RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 22.01.2025
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Ukraine Loses Up to 630 Soldiers as Russia Liberates Village in Kharkov Region.
Russia's Tsentr group of forces has eliminated up to 630 Ukrainian military personnel over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.
"The enemy lost up to 630 military personnel, a tank, five armored combat vehicles, including two US-made M113 armored personnel carriers, six cars and three artillery pieces," the statement said.
Russia's Zapad group has eliminated over 460 Ukrainian soldiers, while the Yug group of forces has eliminated up to 250 Ukrainian soldiers, the ministry said.
Russian forces took control of the Zapadnoye village in the Kharkov region, the ministry said.
Ukraine Was Always Just Anti-Russian 'Battering Ram' to US - Ex-Pentagon Analyst.
The Trump administration has little interest in wasting money on Ukraine, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik while commenting on Trump’s decision to suspend US foreign aid programs.
Withholding monies to Ukraine is a “starting point in explaining to Zelensky that the gravy train is over,” the expert thinks.
It has become increasingly obvious that the United States “doesn’t care for Ukraine,” regarding the latter merely as a “battering ram,” a “tool” to be used against Russia, Kwiatkowski remarks.
“So if Ukraine is a tool, it's now a tool that is no longer very useful. It's a tool that is hard to maintain. It's not worth it. So we're going to throw that tool away,” she says.
US Senator Lindsey Graham’s declaration about fighting Russia “to the last Ukrainian,” however heartless it may sound, “reflects how the Senate and how the politicians and the oligarchy in the United States really feel about Ukraine,” she added.
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The Ukraine conflict is reshaping the global order: Here’s how.
The crisis has benefited the US in the short term, but risks eventially severing transatlantic ties in the long run.
By Andrey Sushentsov, program director at the Valdai Club.
The era of monolithic “Atlantic solidarity” is over, and Russia has been a major catalyst for this erosion. The United States has emerged as the primary beneficiary of the Ukraine crisis. Relations between Russia and Western Europe have been disrupted, energy infrastructure has been undermined, and the EU has been compelled to overpay Washington for military and energy supplies. However, the Americans will derive limited benefit from a deep normalization of relations: ties with Moscow will remain distant, and the tools for pressuring its European NATO allies will weaken.
The interaction between the US and its European “friends” has long been viewed as a unified “transatlantic project,” based on a shared vision of security and common values. But the rise of incoming US President Donald Trump exposed fractures within this construct. His November election win was warmly welcomed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who anticipated economic gains for his country. In contrast, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed concerns and urged EU partners to consolidate against the unpredictability of Trump’s foreign policy, calling for a more united and sovereign Western Europe.
Trump’s provocative actions, such as the proposal to annex Greenland, part of NATO ally Denmark, or his threats to withdraw the US from the bloc if European countries do not increase their financial contributions, were not mere eccentricities. These statements represented a departure from the traditional American strategy of acting in cooperation with allies and offering a framework of engagement where loyalty to Washington came with shared benefits for all parties.
It has become clear that the US now prioritizes its national interests above the collective goals of the Euro-Atlantic community.
For decades, the West pursued the idea of an expanding “golden billion,” where the transatlantic project sought to absorb more states through economic integration and the spread of liberal democratic values, or military alliances. The goal was to showcase a high standard of living, ideological greatness, and technological superiority to the rest of the world, gradually integrating them into the Western order. Russia’s “red lines” and its push for a multipolar world order – rooted in cooperation with countries of the “world majority” – significantly limited this expansion. A clash became inevitable: the West’s support for nationalist forces in Kiev was aimed at swiftly integrating Ukraine into Euro-Atlantic structures. Moscow, however, saw this as a direct threat to its security.
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Today, Trump’s rhetoric has reinforced a “every nation for itself” mentality among European leaders, pushing them toward national self-interest. Political forces in Germany, Italy, and Hungary are increasingly questioning the unconditional support for Washington’s policies. Western Europeans are becoming less enthusiastic about sanctions and military aid to Kiev, while major EU players are calculating how to ensure their own security and economic stability. Although these sentiments are not yet mainstream among Western elites, voices are growing louder that blame the West for deepening the Ukrainian crisis and advocate for rapprochement with Russia.
The era of monolithic “Atlantic solidarity” is undeniably over, and Moscow has played a key role in this transformation.
Meanwhile, Kiev itself has refused to negotiate with Russia and rejected the settlement formula discussed during the Istanbul talks. Vladimir Zelensky’s political survival depends on continuing the war, regardless of the toll it takes on Ukraine.
This impasse, coupled with America’s strategic gains from the conflict, makes a meaningful resolution unlikely in the near term.
The root of the Ukrainian crisis lies in the collision of two grand geopolitical projects: the rigidly homogeneous transatlantic solidarity of the West and Russia’s vision of a multipolar world that embraces the natural diversity of national identities. Ukraine, especially after the 2014 Maidan coup, has become the central battleground for this competition, a test of which system is more durable and adaptable and which vision better understands global realities and offers the most effective solutions in a world growing increasingly complex and diverse. These questions remain unresolved.
Ukraine has become both a key instrument and a weak link in the American strategy. Washington’s attempt to use Kiev as leverage against Moscow has faced staunch resistance from Russia and growing divisions within the transatlantic alliance. The outcome of this struggle may lead to a broader transformation of international relations, with a shift toward a multicentric world order and a rethinking of the US role in Europe.
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'EU Turns a Blind Eye to National Minorities Being Oppressed in Ukraine.'
Brussels “only cares about its ideological agenda, which is to support Ukraine and to maintain this myth that Ukraine is some kind of a democratic paradise,” George Szamuely, a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute, tells Sputnik.
The Kiev regime’s pursuit of the so-called ‘Ukrainization’ policy that “limits the use of non-Ukrainian languages” in the country has a negative impact on minority groups.
“When you enter a store, for instance, you have to speak Ukrainian. If you start speaking in some other language, then you are liable to be fined. In all sorts of ways, this Ukrainian migration policy violates minority rights,” Szamuely emphasizes.
The rights of national minorities living in Ukraine have long been a bone of contention, and since the onset of the Russian special military operation, this matter has gained renewed attention.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin recently reiterated that while tackling the root causes of the Ukrainian crisis, it is important to seek a long-term peace based on respect for the legitimate interests of all people and all nations living in the region.
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Loss of Russian energy triggered ‘sky-high costs’ – von der Leyen.
Doing away with cheap fossil fuel deliveries from Moscow has come at a price, the EU commission chief has admitted.
Energy prices across the EU have skyrocketed due to the disruption of cheap supplies from Russia, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has admitted.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, von der Leyen acknowledged that the loss of Russian supplies has exacerbated the bloc's energy crisis. “Freedom came at a price. Households and businesses saw sky-high energy costs and bills for many are yet to come down.”
Before 2022, the EU was receiving 45% of its gas and 50% of its coal from Russia, while Moscow was one of the bloc’s largest oil suppliers. “This energy appeared cheap, but it exposed us to blackmail,” she claimed.
Von der Leyen also asserted that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cut us off his gas supplies” after the conflict in Ukraine erupted in February 2022.
“Our gas imports from Russia went down by roughly 75%. And now we import from Russia only 3% of our oil, and no coal at all,” she stated.
The EU has imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia, targeting its industry, as well as energy and financial sectors. In 2022, Russia suspended the flow of gas to Germany through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline, citing routine maintenance and problems with the delivery of Western-made equipment due to the sanctions.
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In September 2022, the twin Nord Stream pipelines, which run under the Baltic Sea, were hit by sabotage. While no one took the responsibility for the attack, Moscow has since claimed that the US and the UK were behind it. Both London and Washington have denied any involvement.
In her speech in Davos, von der Leyen argued that the EU could further replace the supplies from Russia with renewable and nuclear energy. “We will have to invest in next-generation clean energy technologies, like fusion, enhanced geothermal, and solid-state batteries,” the European Commission chief said.
Hungary and Slovakia have been increasingly calling on Brussels to review its sanctions policy and seek a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine.
On January 1, Ukraine halted the transit of Russian gas to EU countries through Soviet-era pipelines, after Kiev decided not to renew a deal with the Russian state-owned gas operator Gazprom. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico threatened to suspend humanitarian aid and cut electricity supplies to Ukraine unless Kiev continued the transit.
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VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
GEOPOLITICAL BABY TRUMP IS EITHER COMPLETELY MISINFORMED ABOUT RUSSIA IN RELATION TO UKRAINE OR UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS OF CREATING ‘ALTERNATIVE FACTS’.
