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Ukraine Situation Report: Downed Kinzhal Warhead Recovered In Kyiv
The intact warhead, found after being shot down during a deadly Russian missile attack on Jan. 2, could offer intel about the Kinzhal.

krainian sappers have been very busy during this conflict and on Friday found themselves working to disarm the warhead of a Kh-47 Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile. It was one of 10 that were claimed to have been shot down over Kyiv on January 2nd.

The Mobile Rescue Center’s explosive ordnance disposal team (DSNC) from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) worked in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district to neutralize the warhead, the service said. It published photos showing the excavation of a huge crater and its bomb disposal team carefully removing the large warhead.

DSNC downplayed the challenges of removing the munition.

“Dealing with various types of ammunition, missiles, and improvised explosive devices is a routine task for the DSNС engineers, who are doing it for the safety of the Ukrainian people,” DSNC stated.

Regardless of the DSNC's nonchalance, finding an intact Kinzhal warhead represents yet another opportunity for foreign material exploitation (FME) of Russian hardware. It will almost certainly be taken apart and examined for insights into its capabilities, manufacturing processes and sourcing, as well as clues on how to improve efforts to defeat it. Much of the data discovered will likely be shared with the U.S. and allies as well, if those countries are not leading the effort already.

The Kinzhal, or “Dagger” missile, has a 480 kilogram (about 1,100 pound) high-explosive warhead and was designed to be launched from MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors. The War Zone was the first outlet to identify it as a modified Iskander-M tactical ballistic missile adapted for air-launch. The MiG-31's ability to reach high-speed and high-altitude prior to release gives Kinzhal a major boost in range and speed over the ground-launched Iskander. It also can modify its trajectory outside of a traditional ballistic arc. This and its hypersonic (or near hypersonic, depending on the flight profile) terminal velocity make it challenging to intercept.

The Kinzhal was part of a massive and deadly barrage fired by Russia. As we reported, in addition to the 10 Kinzhals, the latest wave also consisted of 70 air-launched cruise missiles, including Kh-101s, and three ship- or submarine-launched Kalibr cruise missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force said that its air defenses destroyed all the Kinzhals and Kalibrs as well as 59 of the subsonic air-launched cruise missiles.

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Ukraine special forces launch daring raid inside Russia
Operatives from Ukraine’s military intelligence agency launched a daring cross-border raid into Russia, it was claimed on Friday.

They were said to have inflicted an undisclosed number of losses on Russian forces in the frontier region of Belgorod, according to a post by Ukraine’s military intelligence agency on Telegram.

Video footage, shot from a helmet camera, shows Ukrainian troops mining a road in the Grayvoron district that was said to have been inspected by Russian commanders because of poor conditions in the area.

At one point, an exchange of gunfire can be seen as Kyiv’s troops move through a heavily-wooded area.

There have been several cross-border incursions into Russia since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion.

The most notable was a raid by a Kyiv-backed Russian opposition group, which involved Western armoured vehicles, in May last year.

Ukraine launch daring raid in Russian border region

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Leading chess site bans Russian Grandmaster over visits to occupied Ukraine
Online chess portal Chess.com has banned Russian Grandmaster Denis Khismatullin after he visited Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, the player said in a statement on Thursday.

Khismatullin’s ban comes in the wake of Polish number one Jan-Krzysztof Duda refusing to shake his hand before their first-round match at last month’s World Rapid Chess Championship in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Since then, Khismatullin’s support for Russia’s war in Ukraine has come under increased scrutiny.

Following the incident in Samarkand, “a heated debate began on social media, where facts emerged that I … had been on a number of humanitarian missions to the special military operation zone,” Khismatullin explained.

While Khismatullin said that he disagreed with Duda’s actions, he defended “his right to act this way, expressing disagreement with my position” and called on the media not to insult the Polish Grandmaster.

Chess.com confirmed that it had banned Khismatullin “from prize events and social activity on Chess.com,” in a decision that it described as “consistent with our policies and prior actions regarding players who support the war.”

The world of chess has been rocked by scandals since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine. Chess.com was banned in Russia in April 2022 after the platform condemned the war, while Russian and Belarusian players participating in International Chess Federation competitions must compete under a neutral flag.

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"Being Ukrainian is crime" - Russians plan ethnic cleansing in Ukraine's occupied territories
The Russians are actively changing the ethnic composition of the population in the occupied Ukrainian territories. As reported by the Mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, the process has intensified in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

“At first, they impoverished the residents. Now, through the occupational employment center, they offer the unemployed to work in Russia. Instead, they bring ‘tourists’ from the Russian Federation,” wrote Fedorov.

Fifty percent of Melitopol’s population is already non-local. Before the full-scale invasion, the city had a population of 150,000 people. Over the two years of occupation, about 90,000 have left for other cities in Ukraine and abroad, said Fedorov.

“In Melitopol, only 60,000 local residents remain, but approximately the same number has arrived from the hostile country,” added the mayor.

The Russians seek to expedite the integration of the temporarily occupied territories in the south and east of Ukraine into a unified political and legal system within Russia, according to the National Resistance Center (NRC).

“However, at present, occupiers are facing significant challenges in recruiting a qualified workforce due to the lack of the necessary number of collaborators,” emphasized the NRC.

Meanwhile, from Ukrainians who have not left the occupied territories, Russians demand testimony against Ukraine. Occupiers claim to be gathering evidence of crimes committed by Kyiv and promise to provide ‘assistance’ in exchange for obtaining such information,” reported the NRC.

“Russia is synonymous with cynicism. On February 24, 2022, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin declared war. Hundreds of thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of buildings destroyed, and millions of refugees – Russia now tries to shift the blame onto its victims. Yes, on the temporarily occupied territories in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the occupation administration promises to assist those ‘affected by Ukrainian aggression,'” says the NRC.

The sole condition for receiving funds is to testify against Ukraine, which would serve as undoubtedly fake evidence of Russians’ propaganda claim that Ukraine allegedly attacked the region and is shelling its own civilian population, explained the NRC.

“In other words, on the territory recognized by the entire world as Ukraine’s, Russians speak of ‘Ukrainian aggression,'” states the NRC.

Also, Russia continues to suppress resistance among the Ukrainian population and prepares for repression. Occupiers have created a database of over 100,000 residents of the temporarily occupied territories whom they suspect of ‘disloyalty.’

The database is managed by GRU and FSB operatives with the support of local occupation administrations. Currently, it contains information on over 100,000 residents. In the future, occupiers will have access to it at checkpoints.

“In essence, Russia turns the captured lands into an open-air prison where being Ukrainian is a crime. This is a deliberate policy of the Kremlin, which seeks to eradicate us on our native land,” concluded the NRC.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:46 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Er staat nog wat achtergrond informatie in het artikel. Met een beetje geluk zal deze raket belangrijke informatie blootgeven. Waar Oekra�ne en het westen gebruik van kunnen maken. Al is de Kinzhal tot nu toe niet echt indrukwekkend te noemen natuurlijk. En het gaat om de kop. Niet om de thrusters enzo helaas. Dus geen idee wat het ons zou kunnen leren.

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 08:02 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:57 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 5 januari 2024 19:03 schreef slashdotter3 het volgende:

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Hoe kan het dat Amerika driekwart jaar achter loopt op de training van Ukrainers op de Europeanen? 🤔

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:13 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 13:59 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://www.nu.nl/binnenl(...)ten-in-oekraine.html

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 13:34 schreef slashdotter3 het volgende:
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Russia Got 7,500-Pound Rockets From North Korea - And promptly Blew Up A Pair Of Ukraine Supply Bases

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 14:18 schreef StateOfMind het volgende:

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Zou toch zijn als Geranimov binnenkort een tuintje met geraniums op zijn buik heeft

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Rusland heeft een nieuwe tactiek gekozen om Oekra�ne zo hard mogelijk te raken en de geest te breken

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 10:36 schreef byah het volgende:

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Nu nog een paar van die NK raketten onderscheppen, die hebben inmiddels ook een methode om hun raketprogramma live te testen en te verbeteren

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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 06:57 schreef Delenlill het volgende:
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Op zaterdag 6 januari 2024 15:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het valt me op dat ik w��r gelijk had toen ik vorig jaar zei dat het een proxy oorlog van Iran en Noord-zkorea tegen het westen was. Die vechten door tot de laatste Rus.