A query from CNN's editorial staff and the Wagner chief's answer :

CNN : There is information that Wagner Group is executing recruited prisoners who refuse to fight or fulfill an order and declaring deceased fighters as missing to avoid insurance payouts. Could you please comment?

Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said :
"Gentlemen from CNN, do you really think that we will discuss our military issues with you while you are our open enemy. It would be like discussing military issues and sharing information with the CIA.
We can say with confidence that the Wagner PMC is a model military organization that complies with all the necessary laws and regulations of modern warfare.
However, if you somehow came across information that one of our fighters has not received insurance, then send a request to the press service, and we will gladly deal with it. To date, not a single case of non-payment of insurance amounts to the PMC Wagner has been recorded.

We would also like to make it clear that if American citizens, the readers of CNN, want to join the ranks of the Wagner PMC, they can send their request to the press service. We will certainly consider it. And then, after their return to their homeland, if the U.S. government does not prosecute these citizens, you can talk to them. Also get information from them or take an interview with them, if the disclosure of such data is not prohibited by the internal rules of the Wagner PMC and would not fall under military secrecy.

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The dollar's dominance of global trade and investment flows is facing a slew of new threats as many countries push plans to boost the use of alternative currencies.#dedollarization

Nations from China and Russia to India and Brazil are pushing for settling more trade in non-dollar units – with plans ranging from the use of local currencies to a gold-backed stablecoin and a new BRICS reserve currency.

Here are five currency projects from across the world that are ultimately aimed at undermining the dollar's supremacy.

1) Brazil and Argentina plan a common currency

Brazil and Argentina recently announced they are gearing up to launch a joint currency, named the "sur" (south), that could eventually become a euro-like project embraced by all of South America.

2) Russia and Iran eye a gold-backed stablecoin

Russia and Iran are working together on a cryptocurrency backed by gold — a 'stablecoin' that could replace the dollar for payments in international trade.The two countries, both of which have been hit by Western sanctions, want to issue a "token of the Persian region" for use in crossborder transactions, with a plan to launch it in a special economic enclave in Astrakhan in southern Russia, which already handles Iranian shipments

3) UAE, India look at using rupees in non-oil trade

Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates and India have floated the idea of conducting non-oil trade in rupees. The move would build on a free trade agreement signed last year, which aims to boost trade between the two countries.

4) China pushes for the yuan to replace the dollar in oil trades

China, for another, is looking to weaken the dollar by pushing for the yuan to replace the greenback in oil deals, given its increased trade with Russia after it invaded Ukraine. 
The move looks to chip away at the petrodollar regime in place since the 1970s, where global oil transactions are largely settled in dollars. 

5) Russia, China propose a new reserve currency

Last year, Russia and China kickstarted talks to develop a new reserve currency with other BRICS countries in a challenge to the dollar's dominance. 
The new reserve unit would be based on a basket of currencies from the group's members: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

Original article by : Business Insider

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🔞A Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in the Zaporozhye region. Apparently, the helicopter was carrying ammunition. The crew was killed.

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France announced that it would send 12 more Caesar 155-mm self-propelled guns to Ukraine. Earlier, Denmark also announced that it would supply all 19 Caesar self-propelled guns at its disposal.

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Zelensky decided to reduce forced mobilization in the Transcarpathian region. 

As analysts suspected, the Ukrainian leadership decided to lower the degree of tension in relations with Hungary, after information about the forced mobilization of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia into the ranks of the Armed Forces, was leaked to the media. 

According to Russian analysts' information, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has ordered to decrease the mobilization load on the territorial recruiting centers (military registration and enlistment offices) of the Transcarpathian region, at the expense of increasing the supply of mobilized men from other regions.

Recently, many videos from Odessa, where the military forcibly detains citizens right on the streets, have been appearing more and more on social media. This is related to the implementation of such a decision. 

As we know, in addition to the Odessa region, the redistribution of the mobilization load from Transcarpathia will also affect the activation of mobilization among residents of the Kiev, Nikolaev, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions.Now more people from these eastern regions will be sent to Donbass' meat grinder. 

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In honour of the Wagner PMC forces of the Russian Army liberating a Donbass settlement with my favourite name, Sacco & Vanzetti (Sakko i Vanzetti), here is one of my favourite songs, performed by Christy Moore.

Glory to the Liberators and the legends past and present!

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Wagner PMC can’t stop—they are programmed “for the next three [cities] already.” 😉

Which ones? Guesses welcome in the comments.

I would guess Seversk, Artyomovsk, and Chasov Yar, then reprogram for Konstantinovka, Druzhkovka, and the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration. Then keep reprogramming to the victorious end.

Two Ukrainian missiles were shot down over Belgorod, according to Governor Gladkov.

The governor of the Belgorod region reported that Russian air defense systems successfully operated over the Belgorod region's Shebekinsky district, shooting down two enemy missiles. According to him, the consequences on the ground are now being specified by operational services.

In addition, Gladkov said that at the moment there was no information about the victims and serious damage to the infrastructure.

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More Americans say the United States has provided too much aid to war-torn Ukraine, a shift in opinion due in large part to a growing partisan divide, according to the Pew Research Center’s latest polling.

Support for the Biden administration’s approach is fading, especially among Republicans, according to the survey released Tuesday. The poll found that about a quarter of Americans now say the United States is providing too much support to Ukraine, up six percentage points since September and 19 points since March, shortly after the war began. Meanwhile, 31 percent say it is giving the right amount. One-fifth of Americans would like to see the United States give Ukraine additional assistance, according to the poll conducted Jan. 18 to 24 among 5,152 U.S. adults. Over 20 percent said they were not sure

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The money earned by Roman Abramovich from the sale of Chelsea will be transferred to the Ukraine fund.

The Telegraph wrote that £2.3 billion (about $2.8 billion) frozen by the British government, which Roman Abramovich received after the sale of London soccer club Chelsea, may soon be transferred to Ukraine. However, this requires the final approval of the EU, which has not yet been obtained. 

The club was sold last spring, but the Russian oligarch had no access to the proceeds of billions due to the freezing of accounts. At the same time, in March 2022, the oligarch announced that the money would go to a charity fund "to help the victims of the conflict in Ukraine."

It is noteworthy that in 11 months, the fund "to help the victims" was transformed into the "Ukraine fund." The money from various types of "funds for Ukraine's reconstruction" will ultimately go to the European leaders. 

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 Austria will NOT send weapons to Ukraine.

Austria has joined Hungary, which has consistently taken a position of non-alignment with the global conspiracy against Russia.
Both of these countries will not send weapons to Ukraine to "prevent further escalation," the defense ministers of both countries said in statements.

It seems that in a war of empires that has been going on since 1914, Austria-Hungary has decided not to go to war with Russia at this stage. Well, rightly so.

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Rishi Sunak believes it is “not practical” to send British fighter jets to Ukraine, despite being keen to boost support to Kyiv to avoid a lengthy stalemate in the country’s war with 🇷🇺Russia

The Ukraine conflict is likely to grind on throughout 2023, western defence officials warned on Tuesday, even if both sides make territorial gains at different times.

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New York and much of the East Coast are at risk of a gasoline shortage this summer as the European Union’s ban of Russian fuel threatens to choke off the backup supplies the US relies on during peak driving season.

Seasonal gasoline stockpiles already are at the lowest in about a decade, and heavy winter maintenance at refineries may further trim inventories. The EU ban on Russian oil-product imports starting Feb. 5 will strain the region’s feedstock supplies, limiting how much gasoline the bloc can make for itself or the US East Coast, which increasingly relies on transatlantic imports in the summer.

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🇺🇦💥There is no hiding from ATGM: Soldiers from 🅾️ group destroyed an armored personnel carrier of Armed Forces of Ukraine carrying personnel

Intelligence revealed how Ukrainian militants were pulling armored vehicles with personnel to one of the sectors of the Kremennaya-Svatovo front.

The Shturm-S mobile anti-tank system set out to thwart the enemy's plan. As a result of an accurate hit, the Ukrainian armored personnel carrier was destroyed, and its crew sent into low Earth orbit.

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The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry warned the US government that any violation of Iran’s interests or territories will draw such a decisive response that would make the aggressors regret it.

In response to the threatening remarks from the US secretary of state and its national security adviser, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said on Monday that the US government must note the legal and international responsibilities of its threats against Iran and it must think more about the political consequences of such provocative statements.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Soldiers of the 1st Tank Army hit a Ukrainian T-64BV tank in the Svatovo direction with artillery fire.

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Commander of the Vostok Battalion of the DNR, Alexander Khodakovsky writes :

Yesterday, on the outskirts of Ugledar, prisoners were taken from among the mobilized.Their testimonies turned out to be quite interesting: the density of the defenders is high, according to them; the company in which they were listed has more than one and a half hundred people; and they are controlled not by their bosses but by military men unknown to them, who make sure that the mobilization cannot avoid their fate. Well, the war has every chance of becoming, indeed, a war to the last Ukrainian. Here the Balts came out in favor of abandoning the "red lines" in the war with Russia... Maybe it's time to return to talking about tactical nuclear weapons? Refusal, so refusal; why trifle? No matter how humane I may consider myself, I can’t calmly accept such statements, and in a fit of emotions, I’m ready to smash this nest to such an extent... But it’s impossible; emotions are not the best advisers.

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Unconfirmed reports of fierce fighting and strikes/explosions in Dzerzhinsk (Toretsk), west of Gorlovka.

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Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon called the majority of the Russian population "scums and fascists."

“My opinion about the majority of Russians is extremely negative. I will never call any nation bad, not one. The people cannot be bad. But I understood the main thing for myself: within the Russian people, unfortunately, most people are scum and fascists, he said.He added that his point of view will never change. "I will not take back these words ". And thanks to the Russians who chose Putin, now Russian soldiers are killing Ukrainian soldier.

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