The Swiss army will deploy 5,000 troops ahead of the World Economic Forum’s next meeting in Davos. Authorities indicated the troops were authorized to utilize coercive police measures to fulfill their security mission.

“The Federal Parliament has set a ceiling of 5,000 troops who will serve in support during the WEF, which will run from January 10 to 26. Some of them will be stationed directly in Davos, where the annual meeting will be held from January 16 to 20,” the statement read.

According to the statement, other servicemen will provide logistics and air force operations support throughout Switzerland. Soldiers will be authorized to “use coercive police measures to carry out their respective tasks,” the government said.

There will also be snipers on the roofs of most buildings, and in previous years the Swiss Police have shot drones from the sky.

The WEF predicts that soon everyone will be able to ‘rent’ anything they need under the cover of ‘sustainable development’ (SDGs) and ‘saving the planet’ (Net Zero). There is no doubt that the tiny elites who rolled out the Great Reset will own it all.

The number of participants in the forum is currently unknown. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, and Colombian President Gustavo Petro will attend the Davos forum personally, according to the latest information. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves will also be attending.

Zelensky will also speak at the World Economic Forum’s Davos meeting alongside CNN anchors and NATO chiefs.

Only distinguished delegates were allowed to fly in and out of Davos last year due to a no-fly zone.

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Fighters from the Wagner Group have completely surrounded the Donbass town of Soledar and are now clearing the extensive tunnel network in the town's salt mines, the head of private military company, Evgeny Prigozhin, claimed on Wednesday.

The news came after weeks of intense battles in an area which sources from both sides, but especially those which are pro-Kiev, have described as a "meat grinder." Despite the sustained, albeit slow, Russian advance, the Ukrainian authorities have chosen not to retreat at the cost of tremendous losses. 

“I want to repeat that Soledar has been fully liberated and cleared of Ukrainian army units,” Prigozhin said in a statement on Wednesday evening. “The Ukrainian troops that refused to surrender have been destroyed.”

Prigozhin estimated that 500 Ukrainian troops died in the final stages of the fighting, after Wagner forces encircled them. That's on top of others who perished previously. 

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Russia's military says it has captured the Ukrainian salt-mine town of Soledar after a long battle, calling it an "important" step for its offensive.

The victory would allow Russian troops to push on to the nearby city of Bakhmut, and cut off the Ukrainian forces there, a spokesman said.

This was a very confident and ambitious statement from Moscow.

But Ukrainian officials said the fight for Soledar was still going on and accused Russia of "information noise".

The battle for Soledar has been one of the bloodiest of the war. 

The town is relatively small, with a pre-war population of just 10,000, and its strategic significance is debatable [????*]. But if it is confirmed that Russian forces have seized control of it, then there will likely be a big sigh of relief in the Kremlin.

Divisions have emerged between regular Russian forces and the notorious Russian Wagner paramilitary group throughout the battle, with a jealous turf-war developing over who should take credit for the advance. 

Barely any walls in Soledar remain standing, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week. Describing almost apocalyptic scenes, he spoke of the nearby terrain as scarred by missile strikes and littered with Russian corpses.

Speaking during his nightly address from Kyiv on Friday, Mr Zelensky said the battle in the region continued to rage, but avoided any reference to Russia's claims of control over Soledar.

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"Leaflets" and radio orders are distributed among the Ukrainian armed forces, with calls for increased vigilance, about the infiltration of special forces of the Wagner Group behind the Ukrainian defenses west of Soledar.

« The enemy entered the firing positions of the 17th Tank Brigade. They reached the battalion command post (probably through the gaps in the defense), armed with silenced pistols. Casualties among 17th Brigade personnel specified ».

The fighters of the Wagner group are equipped with Ukrainian military uniforms (pixel model), use yellow or green flags, typical of the Ukrainian armed forces, border police or territorial defense. When coming into contact with a large group of Ukrainians, the Wagner military uses the expression “Good evening” (a typical Ukrainian military greeting).

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Fighters from the private military company Wagner Group have played a major role in liberating the strategic Donbass town of Soledar, the Russian Defense Ministry declared in a Telegram post on Friday. The statement follows an announcement by the ministry that the town was now under the full control of the Russian forces.

“As for the … assault on the urban quarters of Soledar, occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, this combat mission was fulfilled through the courageous and selfless actions of the volunteers from the Wagner Group strike teams,” the ministry said.

The private military company was the first to claim control over the city earlier this week. The news was confirmed by the defense ministry on Friday.

Responding to questions from reporters about who made up the troops that took part in liberating Soledar, the defense ministry said it was a “mixed group of forces,” including aviation and artillery units.

The city had a pre-conflict population of around 10,500. It is part of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), but had been held by Ukrainian troops since 2014, when the DPR seceded from the country following a coup in Kiev. The DPR became part of Russia after holding a referendum in September.

The capture of the town by Russian forces came as both sides are involved in heavy fighting over the nearby city of Artyomovsk, which has been going on for months. An important supply hub for the Ukrainian forces, the city could open up a channel for the Russian troops to other Ukrainian-held cities like Slavyansk and Seversk.

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APPARENTLY, THE TOWN HUGE SALT MINES (MORE THAN 300 KMS OF TUNNELS) CAN BE USED AS WEAPON STORAGE THAT CANNOT BE DESTROYED BY THE ENEMY.... THUS THE RUSSIAN AMMUNITION DEPOT CAN GET MUCH CLOSER TO THE "NEXT" ACTION.... HENCE ITS STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE [????*].

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American actor and director Sean Penn will premiere a documentary he filmed in Kyiv featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at next month’s Berlin film festival, organisers have said.

The 73rd-annual Berlinale, as the February 16-26 event is known, will shine a spotlight on the war, which will mark the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during the event.

Penn’s “Superpower”, billed as “the chronicle of a film project that reality forced to change into something less controllable but more meaningful”, will be the most prominent among the Ukraine entries at the festival.

Penn was in Kyiv to shoot a documentary in late February 2022 when the Russian invasion began.

The two-time Oscar winner was photographed attending a government news conference in Kyiv, and could be seen meeting with Zelenskyy in a video posted to the Ukrainian president’s Instagram account.

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Hollywood's film academy said on Friday it was reviewing this year's campaigns for Oscar nominations, a day after a media report raised questions about the surprise nod for British actress Andrea Riseborough.

On Tuesday, Riseborough was nominated for best actress for playing an alcoholic single mother in To Leslie, a shock to awards pundits.

The film was not widely released, earned less than $30,000 at the box office and Riseborough's name was not in the mix at previous awards ceremonies that led up to the Oscars, like the Golden Globes and the Critics Choice awards.

The academy issued a statement on Friday that said the organisation was "conducting a review of the campaign procedures around this year's nominees, to ensure that no guidelines were violated."

The statement did not name Riseborough.

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IT'S AMAZING THAT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY HAS NOT BEEN OSCAR NOMINATED FOR HIS RENDITION OF A "DRUNK WITH POWER" DESPOT, APPEARING IN 147 (I MADE UP THIS NUMBER — IT COULD BE LESS OR MORE) VIDEO CLIPS ON VARIOUS CHANNELS, EVEN ON RUSSIAN TV BEFORE HE GOT "KILLED OFF"...

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MEANWHILE IN RESPONSE TO ZELENSKY'S BOMBING OF A RUSSIAN HOSPITAL, IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT HELL IS FALLING ON UKRAINE.... NO NEWS ABOUT IT SO FAR EXCEPT ON RADIO....

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