🇷🇺🔫🇺🇦 Russian Airborne Snipers somewhere in the SMO zone.

Via: @russian_airborne

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Biden extended anti-Russian sanctions for a year due to the situation in Ukraine - White House

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🇺🇦Vladimir Zelensky replaced one of the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Alexander Yakovets was appointed instead of Dmitry Gerega, according to the decrees on the president’s website.

Yakovets was previously the chief of the engineering troops - the head of the engineering troops department in the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺The New York Times doubts that Taurus missiles, if provided by Berlin to Kiev, will have any decisive value for Ukrainian troops.

“It is far from clear that even if Germany provided Ukraine with Taurus missiles, as President Volodymyr Zelensky called for, this would be decisive in the conflict,” the publication says.

As an example, the publication notes that Germany’s decision to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine last year did not help the Ukrainian Armed Forces carry out a successful counter-offensive.

The NYT writes that “at best, Germany has about 100 Taurus missiles.”

What Ukraine needs most, U.S. officials say, is old-fashioned artillery shells to counter slow Russian territorial advances, as well as air defense against missile and drone attacks.

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🇪🇺🛢🇷🇺The EU will abandon Ukrainian gas transit from 2025 and is exploring the possibility of using Ukrainian storage facilities to store gas reserves.

This was announced by European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson.

In addition, she stated that the European Commission intends to introduce a directive banning Russian LNG supplies to the EU in April. But she admitted that some EU countries do not support a ban on the purchase of Russian LNG.

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🇷🇸(🇽🇰) Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti:

"The EU and NATO should apply the same approach to Serbia as they do to Russia."

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🇫🇷 France has officially become the first country in the world to make abortion a constitutional right.

In Russia, 2024 was declared by President Vladimir Putin to be the "Year of the Family".

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🇷🇺🇪🇺 Dmitry Medvedev on X

💬 "Ambassadors of the EU states to Russia declined a meeting with the Russian minister of foreign affairs. Allegedly, following some advice from Brussels. This goes totally against the very idea of existence of diplomatic missions and assignments of ambassadors.

In reality, all these ambassadors should be kicked out of Russia, and the level of diplomatic relations should be demoted.
These are not ambassadors, but political imbeciles who do not comprehend their real tasks.

Europa mortua est.
Gloria magistratus."

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🇷🇺 At the entrance to Avdeevka, instead of Ukrainian flags, flags of the units that liberated the city are now flying.

Via: @Ukraina_ru

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🇫🇷❌🇺🇦France will not send troops to Ukraine anytime soon.

This was stated by French President Macron, the Czech publication Novinky reports.

“The fact that we are discussing this does not mean that we are considering the possibility of sending French troops to Ukraine in the near future, but it does mean that we are starting a discussion and thinking about everything that can be done to support Ukraine, especially on Ukrainian territory.” , said Macron.

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🇺🇸❌🇺🇦The States once again stated that there will be no American troops in Ukraine.

“I would like to note that President Biden has made it clear that we are not sending troops to Ukraine,” US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a briefing.

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🇵🇱🇪🇺🇷🇺🇧🇾Poland calls on EU to ban food imports from Russia and Belarus.

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🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺Scholz found a new reason not to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine

He stated that the transfer of such weapons is excluded, since it requires the control and participation of the German military , and Germany will not send military personnel to Ukraine.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺American F-35s actively participate in missions over the territory of Ukraine: they determine the exact location of Russian air defense systems.

This was announced by the Minister of Defense of Singapore Ng Eng Hen, writes Bulgarian Military.

"During recent activities, the US mobilized its F-35s to identify the deployment of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems in Ukraine. The collected intelligence is subsequently disseminated to NATO countries," Ng Eng Hen said.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦Europe lacks the capacity to produce ammunition and gunpowder for its manufacture

This could delay the production of artillery shells for Ukraine, AFP reports.

According to Jean-Paul Molny of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS), there are very few gunpowder manufacturers in Europe.

Molny notes that many governments are now working to move production from abroad.

European Union Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton considers the main problem to be the lack of raw materials for the production of gunpowder in the EU.

"This requires a certain type of cotton, which mainly comes from China. The supply of this [gun]cotton from China was stopped several months ago, as if by accident," notes Breton.

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🇪🇺🇩🇪🇷🇺Western intelligence agencies have long distrusted Germany due to leaks to Russia - source BILD

“If you want something to end up in Moscow, give it to the Germans!” – writes Bild columnist Peter Tiede, adding that for almost 80 years, no Western country has been subjected to such intensive and successful intelligence processing by Moscow as Germany.

" Nobody from the CIA or MI5 comes and openly says that we are no longer trusted. It is a gradual process: you are invited less, you find out about important meetings on certain topics only later. In the world of intelligence agencies we are considered second class, and we are treated accordingly <...> But in Germany it’s not like that, here it [information] is not protected, every secret threatens to become public.”

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🇺🇦💰🇺🇦The Cabinet of Ministers is preparing a bill on military duty for private entrepreneurs to ensure additional revenues to the budget.

This was stated by the head of the Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Hetmantsev, during a telethon.

According to him, the government has prepared a set of proposals, thanks to which it is planned to replenish the budget by UAH 44 billion.

“The Cabinet of Ministers... will propose it as a bill. We expect this bill already in March,” Getmantsev added.

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🇺🇸🇪🇺💰🕳🇺🇦 Ukraine's budget gap is about $37 billion this year,Ukraine Prime Minister says.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺The Pentagon denied information that the United States is using the F-35 in Ukraine.

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🇺🇦🇪🇺Zelensky thought he would receive the shells for free, but it was a mistake - Franceinfo

Speaking on Franceinfo, European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton said that Kiev must purchase part of the promised 1 million ammunition on its own:

“The reality is that in March last year, 27 member countries decided to supply 1 million shells per year... I said “ deliver”, not “transfer”.

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