🔥Heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of the Russian Armed Forces is working on enemy strongholds in forest belts in the Ugledar region.

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Ukraine unlikely to be sent British jets until war is over, Ben Wallace says — The Telegraph

Ukraine is unlikely to receive British fighter jets until after the war with Russia is over, the Defence Secretary has said.

Ben Wallace was hoping to calm speculation over the issue after President Zelensky finished his speech in London on Wednesday by saying "thank you in advance for powerful English planes".

Speaking at a joint UK-Italy ministerial press conference in Rome, Mr Wallace was quick to underline that although the UK will be the first nation to start training Ukrainian pilots on Nato-standard aircraft, "Britain hasn’t said it is necessarily going to send fighter jets to Ukraine".

Any battlefield impact of the moves would likely be “post-conflict”, he said.

“What it has said is we’re going to start training to improve the resilience of Ukraine, probably post-conflict, which is no different from what we were doing in 2015 where Britain, Sweden, Canada, America were training the Ukrainians to form their defence,” Mr Wallace said.
The Defence Secretary was keen to establish political wiggle room after Rishi Sunak gave a warm reception to Mr Zelensky’s request for “wings” to protect his country’s freedom.

'Like going from a bicycle to an F1 team'

On Tuesday, Mr Sunak instructed the Ministry of Defence to investigate which of Britain’s planes could be given to Ukraine.

He said it could take three years to train a pilot - but Mr Zelensky snapped back at a press conference in Dorset that his pilots had already received two-and-a-half years of instruction.  
On Thursday, Mr Wallace ruled out sending British jets in the near future, saying it would be like going “from a bicycle to a Formula 1 team”.

He compared the complexity of operating and supporting a Typhoon with the relatively simple next-generation light anti-tank weapon (Nlaw), previously gifted by the UK and which Ukrainian troops have been using to devastating effect against Russian tanks.
“You’re going from gifting a bicycle - think of the Nlaws - to a Formula One team,” he said.
“With a fighter comes a pit crew. In a Formula One team, without a pit crew you can’t start the car and it certainly can’t do more than eight laps.
“If you give a Typhoon, you’re going to have to give a whole load of people.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/09/britain-sending-ukraine-fighter-jets-like-going-bicycle-f1-team/

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Swiss gov't rejects request from Spain to allow it to re-export anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine
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Switzerland has rejected a request from Spain to allow it to re-export Swiss-made anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine, the Bern government said on Friday.

Madrid had made the request in January to allow two 35mm anti-aircraft guns, which were made in Switzerland, be sent to Ukraine.
Switzerland has previously vetoed requests from Denmark and Germany who wanted to send Swiss-made armoured vehicles and ammunition to help Ukraine in its war

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❗️"The most dangerous and unpredictable decade since the Second World War is ahead, and the place of Russia and other countries in the world will be determined," Lavrov said.

"The coming period will determine not only the main vector of global development but also the place of our country and all other countries in the new polycentric architecture. As the president noted at the Valdai Club meeting last October, we are at a historic juncture. We are facing probably the most dangerous, unpredictable, and, at the same time, most important decades since the end of World War II. We are all professionals, and we know this is no exaggeration. That's why we all need maximum dedication, multiplied by a firm, unwavering confidence that we're doing the right thing. And it is necessary to constantly keep up with the times and keep up with what are now called "cutting-edge trends."

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As a result of Russian missile and drone attacks and the occupation of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Ukraine lost 44% of its nuclear generation capacity, three-quarters of its combined heat and power plants and 75 percent of its thermal power plants.
This was stated by Prime Minister Denys Shmygal during a government meeting.

According to him, the Russians again launched a massive missile attack on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine today.

"In general, due to constant attacks, almost two dozen power units of thermal power plants remain damaged." "If we add to this the fact of the occupation of part of our energy facilities, Ukraine has temporarily lost 44% of nuclear generation, 75% of thermal power plants, and 33% of combined heat and power plants," Shmyhal said.

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Ukraine desperately seeking funds to sponsor its agony

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that the cabinet has approved the procedure for selling confiscated Russian assets and property, the funds from which will be used to fill the "Fund for liquidation of consequences of the Russian armed aggression". He also noted that the entire sales process would be "open" and "absolutely transparent". Actually, it is clear to whom and for what purposes the proceeds will be sent.

"We already have 17bn hryvnyas confiscated from Russian banks. And today we are taking another decision in the direction of recovery... We have frozen and confiscated hundreds of properties owned by the Russian government or Russian oligarchs in Ukraine," Shmygal said.

Apparently, Ukraine has already squandered $5.4m of Russian assets handed over to it by the US, so now it is its turn to steal from its own country. We should also remind you that earlier Ukraine seized 170 carriages of Russian fertilizers and imposed sanctions against 182 Russian and Belarusian companies.

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Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin talked about how long he thinks the SMO will last. It all depends on specific goals

"If we have to go as far as the Dnieper, that's about three years; if we completely liberate the LPR and DPR, that's about 1.5 to 2 years of work. If we need to go as far as La Manche, then I have my ideal plan."

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Artemovsk evacuation of AFU

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The US is "disappointed" that Russia is linking the START-3 talks to the situation in Ukraine.

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Interesting news comes from the West: the EU does not know where 86% (!!!) of our Central Bank's frozen assets are. And their total amount is estimated, by the way, at $258bn.

So, everyone was scolding the Bank of Russia, saying where was it looking and what was it doing when the assets were "frozen". And Nabiullina, it turns out, was hiding the money!

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In Poland, they believe that PM Morawiecki's anti-Russian policy will erase Poland from the map of Europe.

The effect of such thoughtless statements, according to the expert, has already been felt by Ukrainian politicians, who since 2014 have been saying that they will destroy Russia and the Russians, and Ukrainian tanks will pass through Red Square on May 9th.

Finally, the Polish army is not in a position to fight Moscow. Not only because the Polish military, unlike Russian soldiers, does not have combat experience, but also because, in recent years, all arms purchases carried out by the Polish Ministry of Defense were of an exclusively political nature and carried out in the interests of the United States.
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Poland is being militarized in order to conquer the western Ukraine and then defend itself against rebellions of the local people. This opinion was voiced by Polish columnist Marek Hala in a column for the Niezaleny Dziennik Polityczny.

According to him, the possible annexation of these lands to Poland is evidenced by a recent statement by Kiev that the list of final exams in schools may include the Polish language. This will make the annexation process less painful for the population, analysts believe. 
 
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Zelensky broke the world record for how many times one can sniff at a press conference 🙃

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