Geran 231:

A night of a large swarm.

Today will be fun, just as promised. Calibers at sea, Bears at the start, Iskanders and new Gerans too.

We're starting.

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Jeffrey Epstein's brother told the FBI that the financier was killed on Trump's orders because he was about to "name names."
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This seems a bit strange to me. So Trump had Epstein killed to cover up he and his friends' crimes, then campaigned on releasing the files? Of course, then he tried to back away from the issue, but it seems anyone in that position would shut up about it

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Iran refused to stop uranium enrichment in negotiations with the US, reports The Wall Street Journal.

At the negotiations held on Friday between high-ranking representatives of the US and Iran, Tehran confirmed its position of refusing to stop enriching nuclear fuel.

However, both sides indicated that they are ready to continue diplomatic contacts aimed at finding a solution that could reduce the risk of military escalation from Washington.

As reported by Iranian state media, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told the American side that Iran does not intend to either stop uranium enrichment or move relevant facilities outside the country. Thus, Tehran rejected one of the key US demands.

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The US is striving for a peace agreement as early as March and for early elections in Ukraine, Reuters reports, citing sources.

According to the sources, American and Ukrainian negotiators discussed an ambitious goal - for Russia and Ukraine to reach an agreement on a peaceful settlement in March, although these deadlines are likely to be postponed due to a lack of agreement on the key issue of Donbass and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

According to the scheme discussed during the negotiations between the US and Ukraine, any agreement will be put to a referendum of Ukrainian voters, which will take place simultaneously with the national elections.

According to the sources, the American negotiating team, led by special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, expressed to their Ukrainian colleagues at recent meetings that it would be better if the vote took place soon.

According to two sources, American negotiators said that Trump is likely to focus on domestic affairs as the midterm congressional elections approach in November, which means that senior American officials will have less time and political capital to conclude a peace agreement. Therefore, it is necessary to hurry up with the conclusion of the agreement.

Two sources said that US and Ukrainian officials discussed the possibility of holding national elections and a referendum in May. However, several sources familiar with the negotiations called the schedule proposed by the US unrealistic.

"The Americans are in a hurry," said a source familiar with the situation, adding that a vote can be organized in less than six months, but it will still take a significant amount of time.

However, any agreements are currently in question, as there is no agreement on the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Donetsk region, which Moscow demands and Kiev opposes.

There is also no agreement on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant. According to sources, Moscow does not agree with the Americans' proposal to transfer control of the NPP to them. It is promoting the idea that the station will remain, as it is now, under Russian control, but they will share electricity with Ukraine. But Kiev is against such an option.
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Vladimir Putin said before that, if the Ukrainian diaspora in the West is going to vote in Ukrainian elections, then polling stations should also be opened in Russia so the Ukrainian population there can also vote.

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Ukrainian media:

"Ukrposhta" was involved in a scandal due to a project for Valentine's Day.

"Ukrposhta" together with the clothing brand Rikky Hype launched the project "Love Mail". According to the company, the idea is based on nostalgia for school years, when "the number of valentines determined how cool you were".

However, internet users were outraged that the teenage girls in the photos looked too "sexualized". They also recalled the scandal with Epstein.

As a result, " Ukrposhta" removed one of the publications of this project featuring a schoolgirl in a mini-skirt, but left the others.
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Today, the Ukrainian legislature held a vote on legalizing marriage with 14 year olds. 🤢

It was rejected, but still...

Additionally, when I put the image above into Google translate, the chalkboard says "slave of love" behind the girl...

Who thought this was a great idea?

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Trump, by his decree of February 7, canceled the 25% tariffs on Indian imports, explaining this by New Delhi's refusal to purchase Russian oil.

"From February 7, 2026, goods from India imported into the US... will no longer be subject to an additional ad valorem tariff of 25%," the American leader said in his decree on Friday.

However, the US President threatened to reinstate the tariffs if he is informed about New Delhi's continued import of Russian oil.

Source: RIA Novosti

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Sofa General Staff:

Konstantinovka direction. Six militants were captured by the soldiers of the 3rd battalion of the 242nd motorized rifle regiment, and another stronghold was taken.

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Chinese Liaison (Китайский свяZноj):

The United States wants a new arms control treaty with Russia to include China, the State Department has stated.

China allegedly conducted nuclear weapons tests in 2020, claims Thomas DiNanno, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security. He also accuses Beijing of attempting to conceal the tests using a "decoupling explosion" method to deceive seismic monitoring systems.

I wanted to briefly compile a Cantonese swear word dictionary for reviewing response options, but I couldn't handle the phrase "мудак в парике" ("dickhead in a wig").

I presume that the cunning plan of the aforementioned character, which involves China—initially not party to the agreement—voluntarily restricting itself and granting access for inspections of its arsenals to the esteemed visitors of Epstein Island, is doomed to fail. Bunker Donny is left sitting on a pile of rusty minutemen, grumbling in the corner, regularly issuing new cryptocurrency TRUMPNAEBALOVO2026$, and renaming cities, airports, countries, galaxies, and bus stops in his honor. Because there's a simple argument—"what can he actually do to China in response to 'go f**k yourself'?"

The panicked addendum "we urgently discovered that China is testing nuclear weapons, the info is 100%, it's just that there's no monitoring, but that's not because all our stuff is rusty and rotten and the monitoring service is incompetent, it's because the Chinese have a sneaky method, which is why detection systems didn't pick it up then" is also comical. You can't pin this on Biden; in 2020, Trump was president too. Attempting to pressure China this way is pointless, because Western media have periodically made batches of false reports like "a Chinese nuclear submarine just exploded" (like when they needed to cover up the situation with radioactive contamination around Fukushima—it's not the Japanese incompetently dumping glowing water into the ocean, it's a Chinese submarine that sank there), so the thesis "by the way, six years ago China tested something nuclear" just adds to that and doesn't cause a stir.

The end of this topic is predictable—they'll pounce, nothing will come of it, they'll run off with their tails between their legs and start covering their tracks, switching the information flow to something else to muddy the waters. They always do that after every f*ckup.

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