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eng.mil.ru | Report by Russian Defence Ministry on progress of special military operation (22 February 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces hit formations of two territorial defence brigades close to Izbitskoye and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU lost up to 40 troops, an armoured personnel carrier, an artillery gun, and an electronic warfare station.
As a result of decisive actions, the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Novolyubovka (Lugansk People's Republic).
Russian units hit manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades,
an assault brigade of the AFU, and a national guard brigade close to
Topoli, Kondrashovka, Golubovka, Novay Kruglyakovka, Borovaya, Shiykovka
(Kharkov region), Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic) as well as
Serebryansky forestry.
The enemy's losses amounted to more than 200 troops, a U.S.-made M113
armoured personnel carrier, five motor vehicles, and five field
artillery guns, three of them manufactured by NATO countries. Three
electronic warfare stations and an ammunition depot were neutralised.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous
lines and positions. Russian troops engaged manpower and hardware of
four mechanised brigades, an airmobile brigade, two assault brigades of
the AFU, and foreign legion units near Seversk, Reznikovka, Slavyansk,
Vasyukovka, Kramatorsk, Novomarkovo, Belokuzminovka, Chasov Yar,
Stupochki, Konstantinovka, and Ulakly (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 220 troops, an infantry fighting
vehicle, nine motor vehicles, and six field artillery guns including a
U.S.-made 155mm M777 howitzer. One electronic warfare station and one
ammunition depot were neutralised.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the
tactical situation. Ten mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade, an
airmobile brigade, two assault brigades, an assault regiment of the AFU,
a marine brigade, and a national guard brigade near Shcherbinovka,
Dimitrov, Krasnoarmeysk, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Novoandreyevka, and
Andreyevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy lost more than 375 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles
including a U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured vehicle, five motor vehicles, and
seven field artillery guns including a U.S.-made 155mm Paladin
self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing
into the depth of enemy defences. A mechanised brigade, an air assault
brigade of the AFU, and three territorial defence brigades were hit near
Konstantiopol, Bogatyr, Burlatskoye (Donetsk People's Republic),
Temirovka, and Gulyaypole (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 160 troops, two tanks including a
German-made Leopard tank, three motor vehicles, and two field artillery
guns.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware
of a mountain assault brigade of the AFU and two territorial defence
brigades close to Malaya Tokmachka, Shcherbaki, Lobkovoye (Zaporozhye
region), Sadovoye, and Dneprovskoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 85 troops, six motor vehicles, an
artillery gun, three electronic warfare stations, and an ammunition
depot.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile
Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the
infrastructure of military airfields, strike drones stocking and
training sites, ammunition and fuel depots of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
as well as temporary deployment areas of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in
157 areas.
Russian air defence systems shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft, two
French-made Hammer guided bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles,
and 58 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 656
aircraft, 283 helicopters, 44,190 unmanned aerial vehicles, 596
anti-aircraft missile systems, 21,698 tanks and other armoured fighting
vehicles, 1,521 MLRS combat vehicles, 21,948 field artillery guns and
mortars, and 32,033 units of support military vehicles have been
neutralised.
WaPo | Elon
Musk, the head of the U.S. DOGE Service, announced Friday that he would
rehire a staffer who resigned after he was tied to a social media
account with a history of racist posts.
“He will be brought back,” Musk wrote on X, the platform he owns. “To err is human, to forgive divine.”
CTH | Yes, the Govt is in crisis, and just as
sure as you are reading this, the administrators within the IC already
have the solution ready to roll.”
♦ RESULT
– “We will use advanced technology and non-partisan AI programming, to
make the government more efficient and ensure this level of corruption
and wasteful spending never happens again.”
Every dollar will be tracked, monitored
and oversight will be transparent and available for everyone to see.
Just ignore the part where the same efficiency system is monitoring your
real ID, connecting your personage to the new govt and private sector
interfaces, and click “I agree” on your next federal tax filing. Trust
us Comrade citizen, the new technologically advanced DODGE approved govt
system cares about responsible stewardship and you. Swear.”
The process starts by downloading government data to an AI enhanced database for review and filtration.
Good Stuff – […] Trump created DOGE through
a day one executive order with a stated mission to cut government
waste. Musk and his aides have assumed control of federal IT
infrastructure as his team swiftly blitzes through departments and
agencies. Trump, with Musk’s guidance, this week gutted the
United States Agency for International Development and merged it into
the State Department. The president has signaled he might try to eliminate the Department of Education by executive order next.
“They’re
putting a shot across the administrative state’s bow,” Steve Bannon,
Trump’s former chief strategist, said last week of the mass federal
buyout plan on his “War Room” podcast. “That’s DOGE signaling to you
that they’ve got a plan of how to take the personnel down.”
[…] Federal
employees who want to remain in the federal workforce were told in the
“Fork in the Road” email they must return to in-person work, embrace new
“performance standards” and be “reliable, loyal and trustworthy” in
their work. The email also warned that most federal departments and
agencies will be “downsized through restructurings, realignments, and
reductions in force.”
Some federal employees said they were alarmed at the short timeframe they were given to make their decisions.
“I
have invested way too much time and energy and interest into my career
to just say, ‘hell with it’ and leave when I only have, like, five to 10
years left before I retire,” one federal worker said. “I’m not taking
the resigning bait. So, I guess I’ll essentially just ride down with the
ship if they decide to get rid of us,” the worker added, though he
acknowledged some less experienced colleagues might take the buyout. (more)
The streamlining and
downsizing of government through the use of AI systems is a good thing,
perhaps a very good thing. However, watch out for deployment into the
DHS apparatus because that will give rise to the newly expanded
Surveillance State.
Peaceniks don’t build
bombs; and those who genuinely believe in liberty do not build nor
support domestic surveillance networks that can be weaponized depending
on who is in power.
JONATHAN TURLEY ON DOGE: THE TERROR ALERT IN WASHINGTON IS QUITE ASTONISHING
“You have people all over the Beltway breathing in paper bags right now because of the idea that they could bring in these people, and that they're going to think outside the box.
pro publica | On President Donald Trump’s authority alone, Elon Musk, the world’s
richest man, has been unleashed on federal agencies. Employees from
Musk’s companies and those of his allies, as well as young staffers he’s
recruited, are wresting authority from career workers and commandeering
computer systems.
While some have been public about their
involvement, others have attempted to keep their roles secret, scrubbing
LinkedIn pages and other sources of data. With little information from
the White House, ProPublica is attempting to document who is involved
and what they are doing.
Musk’s team, known as the Department of
Government Efficiency, has already thrown entire swaths of the federal
government and its programs into disarray — programs that serve millions
of Americans.
Musk himself has made no secret of his intentions,
saying that DOGE is a “wood chipper for bureaucracy” and that he is
“deleting” agencies.
A White House spokesperson wrote, “Those
leading this mission with Elon Musk are doing so in full compliance with
federal law, appropriate security clearances, and as employees of the
relevant agencies, not as outside advisors or entities.” None of the
people identified responded to requests for comment.
wired | As one of his first acts after being sworn in, President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by reorganizing and renaming an existing entity, the US Digital Services (USDS), as the US DOGE Service. And while some have noted that this version of DOGE moves away from the sweeping vision of deregulation outlined
in a November Wall Street Journal op-ed, it's a move that will give
centibillionaire Elon Musk and his allies seemingly unprecedented
insight across the government, and access to troves of federal data.
“It’s
quite a clever way of integrating DOGE into the federal government that
I think will work, in the sense of giving it a platform for
surveillance and recommendations,” says Richard Pierce, a law professor
at George Washington University.
Soon after his election victory, Trump announced that he would form DOGE, led by Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to provide
"advice and guidance from outside the government"—something that
would generally require it be formed as a federal advisory committee.
The idea was that DOGE would provide recommendations for how to cut some
$2 trillion from the federal budget. (Shortly before Trump’s
inauguration, Ramaswamy exited the DOGE project.)
But
under the Federal Advisory Committee Act, committees of the sort DOGE
seemed to be shaping up to have several legal requirements, including
making all meetings publicly accessible and requiring a diversity of
perspectives on the committee itself. By repurposing the USDS, which was
already part of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Trump
managed to skirt both the requirements of a formal advisory committee
and the Congressional oversight required when creating a new federal
agency. In short, it meant DOGE would get more access to sensitive data
than an advisory committee would likely have, while offering less
transparency.
The USDS was created by former president Barack Obama to untangle dysfunctional or failing technology across the federal government
in the wake of the disastrous rollout of HealthCare.gov. The Service’s
mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government
agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of
helping to streamline or reform existing systems.
Under
the executive order, DOGE teams, which “will typically include one DOGE
Team Lead, one engineer, one human resources specialist, and one
attorney” will be dispatched to various agencies. They will be granted
“access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT
systems,” ostensibly with the goal of streamlining data sharing across
federal agencies.
A
former USDS employee who spoke to WIRED on condition of anonymity
called the repurposing of the Digital Service an “A+ bureaucratic
jiu-jitsu move.” But, they say, they’re concerned that DOGE’s access to
sensitive information could be used to do more than just streamline
government operations.
“Is
this technical talent going to be pointed toward using data from the
federal government to track down opponents?” they ask. “To track down
particular populations of interest to this administration for the
purposes of either targeting them or singling them out or whatever it
might end up being?”
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