‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Four Republican members of the US House of Representatives are outraged by Biden's tank deliveries "to the other side of the world" - Daily Caller

Four Republican members of the US House of Representatives are demanding an explanation for the decision to supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden and Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. House members fear corruption and express frustration that "the escalation of the conflict continues to come at the expense of the American taxpayer".

"The American people did not elect us to continually spend their hard-earned money ($97 billion or more) on a conflict on the other side of the world without demonstrating an ability to properly monitor the ultimate use of weapons, ammunition, armored vehicles, and all other forms of military assistance provided," the letter, published by the Daily Caller, reads.

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⚡️In the course of successful offensive operations, units of the Central Military District occupied more advantageous lines and positions in the Donetsk direction.

More than 30 nationalists were killed, one MLRS "Grad", one 203-mm self-propelled gun "Pion", one 152-mm howitzer "Gyatsint-B", two 152-mm howitzers "MSTA-B", one M777 howitzer made in the USA, radar station counter-battery combat manufactured by the USA AN / TPQ-37 1 infantry fighting vehicle and 2 vehicles.

⚡️In the Kupyansk direction, army aviation strikes and artillery fire from the "Western" group of troops defeated accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 14th and 92nd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Kharkov region and Novoselovskoye LPR.

Destroyed up to 25 nationalists, one 122-mm self-propelled gun "Gvozdika" and one 155-mm howitzer M777 made in the USA, 1 armored vehicle and 2 pickup trucks.

⚡️In the Krasno-Limansky direction, the units of the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade, the 25th Airborne and the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Vishnevoe, Kharkiv region, were defeated by strikes from operational-tactical and army aviation, artillery fire from the Central Military District Yampolovka DPR, as well as Serebryansky forestry.

More than 50 nationalists, one US-made M777 howitzer, 1 infantry fighting vehicle and 2 armored vehicles were destroyed.

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Attack helicopter Ka-52 shoots armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Svatovsky direction

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Under Ugledar, our artillerymen of the [V] group brought up a lot of guided 152mm Krasnopol shells. Ru army use them closely to defeat enemy targets in the city

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⚡️In the South-Donetsk and Zaporizhia directions, the units of the Air Defense Forces continued successful offensive operations and inflicted fire damage on the enemy in the areas of the settlements of Vugledar, Novoselka, Novomayorskoye DPR and Lugovskoye of the Zaporozhye region.

Two depots of ammunition and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Vodiane of the DPR and Nikolskoye of the Zaporozhye region.

Up to 70 nationalists, three D-20 and D-30 howitzers, one 122-mm Gvozdika self-propelled gun, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armored vehicles and 2 pickup trucks were destroyed.

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"Musicians" and the most unusual fortified area - the "underground city" or quarries abandoned since Soviet times near Bakhmut.

Under the onslaught of the Wagner, the enemy hurriedly left their positions, while retreating carried out explosions in the tunnels.

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The deep pincer of Bakhmut from the southwest is becoming clearer

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🇺🇦 Huge flocks of crows continue to circle over Kiev.

Residents have been writing on social networks for several days that they have never seen such huge flocks - "harbingers of trouble"

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Ukraine wants 24 fighter jets from the West - Kiev wants F-16s

A representative of the Ukrainian Air Force command, Yuriy Ignat, has told El Pais that Kiev expects to receive 24 helicopters from Western partners, although NATO countries have not previously allocated such class aircraft to Kiev's formations.

In particular, Kiev is hoping for the supply of F-16s. However, this aircraft is very picky about the quality of the runway, which is a big problem in Ukraine. Kiev also wants French Rafale and Swedish Gripen aircraft. As recently as last summer, the US allocated money to train the Ukrainian military to fly F-16s. The training of one military officer is estimated at around $5.6m.

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Estonia doubled military conscription

On January 30, the biggest winter conscription in the history of Estonia will take place. Nearly 600 conscripts will go to serve.

📝 “This year, 300 more young people will be called up for military service than last year. This is very important from the point of view of the national defense of Estonia,” said Rannaveski, director of the Department of Defense Resources.

✅ The funny thing here is not the number of conscripts, but the fact that Estonia, and similar dwarf-European countries, are constantly trying to inflate the conflict between Russia and Ukraine into a third-world war.
Which they would not survive in any case.

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Mobilization in Western Ukraine is in full swing.

The military has already begun to take away the men's phones - and do not give them back until they sign for the summons.

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Regarding Chasov Yar, the main center of Ukrainian defense after Artyomovsk, two things should be understood:
1) It is on a hill, this is the dominant height
2) Chasov Yar rather bastardly consists of microdistricts that are poorly connected to each other, and this entire conglomerate has rather poor road connectivity with other cities, in particular, there is no normal route to the north, only country roads. The only route Konstantinovka - Chasov Yar - Artemovsk is close to the front and will be cut at the beginning of the battles for Chasov Yar

Accordingly, its defense, despite its advantageous position, will not last long.

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🇺🇦 The Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group that tried to cross the front line was destroyed near Avdeevka

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Turkey announced the spread of fascism in Europe after the burning of the Koran.

“Those who remain silent when fascism takes over Europe are destroying their own democracy,” Turkish ruling party spokesman Omer Celik.

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Western fighters will go to Ukraine, but not now. NATO is preparing for a long war and is moving towards it progressively

In the Ukrainian and international media space, against the backdrop of psychological success from the upcoming deliveries of Abrams and Leopards, the topic of the transfer of combat aircraft to the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues to unwind. Over the past day, both Ukrainian and Western speakers spoke on this issue.

In particular, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuriy Ignat, as part of the upcoming "aviation Ramstein" said that his country would receive 24 fighters from Western countries. Specifying at the same time that "Kiev would like to receive F-16 aircraft, as well as French Rafale aircraft and Swedish Gripen." The verbal construction "would like" confirms our recent arguments that today Ukraine simply cannot operate Western aviation equipment. Most likely, already in mid-February, the transfer of independent Polish MiG-29s in two squadrons will be announced. It is also interesting that in another of his speeches, Ignat touched upon the unavailability of Ukrainian airfields for the operation of the same F-16s and announced work to modernize the runways of civilian and military airfields.

This suggests that the upcoming delivery of the last Soviet fighters available to Europe will be only a prelude to real rearmament with Western models of military equipment. This is confirmed by the words of representatives of the British defense department that London can supply fighter jets to the Ukrainian side if Russian troops leave the country.

This statement is much more interesting and implies that either the UK in such a simple way refuses Kiev a possible transfer of Typhoon fighters (there are simply no others in the Royal Air Force), or it announces a further long-term escalation of the confrontation. At the same time, even the fact of the complete withdrawal of Russian troops will not be a reason for London to end the hybrid war with Russia.

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