"In Britain's cost-of-living crisis, working parents find it hard to feed their children": The New York Times writes that children in Britain are starving - after the bills are paid, parents' wages are not even enough to eat. So many only eat a hearty meal once a day at school, unless, of course, breakfast is stolen.

"Food banks are claiming that more and more people are turning to them - and increasingly not the unemployed. A kindergarten teacher in London, Aislinn Cory, says her lunches are often reduced to "pasta and macaroni" and sometimes she skips them altogether so that the children have more food. Food and heating costs have been breaking records in recent months, and signs of distress are visible everywhere. Some schools have turned off their batteries. In Britain, one of the richest countries, one of the most shocking signs of the crisis is that more and more workers are struggling to feed their children. Inflation hit a 41-year high a few months ago. As it is driven by energy and food costs, low-income families have been disproportionately affected. There is growing evidence that children are starving at home. Teachers report that children steal food from classmates to take home. And for some, school meals have become the only nutritious meal of the day. Cashier Sharon Grant says that because of expensive electricity, she often has almost no money for food. On the worst nights, she has nothing to give the children for dinner: "They're starving".

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦Putin prepares new offensive, war could drag on for years - Bloomberg

The US publication Bloomberg writes that the Russian president is preparing a new offensive, which could start as early as February or March before Kiev receives weapons from the US and Europe.

"Putin believes he has no alternative but to win the conflict, which he considers existential. A new round of mobilization is possible as early as this spring, according to Bloomberg sources, and the economy and society are increasingly adjusting to the needs of the war," the US publication said.

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❗️Ex Pentagon Major General Marks (nicknamed "Spider") has predicted an offensive by the Ukrainian armed forces in Crimea with American and German tanks:

"The offensive will be renewed, and I would say for sure that it will be renewed. It will start in the Donbass area or slightly to the north, but also Ukraine will send troops to reinforce its presence within the land bridge and in the Crimea area. Obviously, the Ukrainians have the opportunity to try to divide the forces in two directions. But once they do, they will have a hard time, because they cannot do everything at once. And that means that the offensive in Crimea will be very difficult.

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⚡️⚡️Russian troops continue to advance in the Zaporozhye direction.

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The EU wants to impose a new package of sanctions against Belarus - the association accuses the country of "playing a role in the Ukrainian conflict".

The EU intends to ban Belarus from exporting dual-use goods, which are used for military purposes and can strengthen the country's industrial potential, Bloomberg reported. They also want to impose restrictions on oil, coal, steel products, gold, luxury goods, investments, and the provision of certain services.

For the sanctions to take effect, the support of all European Union member states, which are now working on another package of restrictions on Russia, is needed. It is expected to take effect on 24 February.

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An international tribunal or its equivalent may start its work in the summer of 2023 to hold the Russian Federation accountable for war crimes in Ukraine. US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland has said this.

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Russian troops have killed Lieutenant-Colonel Vitaliy Vlasenko, a senior officer of the Special Forces of the Ukrainian State Border Service, near Kremenna. A native of the Volyn Region.

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🇷🇺🚀 Surface—launched hypersonic missile "Zircon" will be adopted by the Russian Navy in 2023 - manufacturer

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Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manh: "As soon as the allies extended their little finger to him (Zelensky), he already demanded a whole hand." Demanding the West supply combat aircraft and long-range missiles soon after receiving the promise of tanks sounds more like blackmail.

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The sad fate of the Poltava Terodefense

"Appeal of the remnants of the 1st company of the 144th territorial defense battalion of the 116th brigade to the Commander-in-Chief.

At the time of the large-scale offensive and armed aggression of Russia, I and hundreds of men and women joined the ranks of the 144th Territorial Defense Battalion. We were sympathetic to the lack of VVK, the lack of adequate weapons and uniforms. From February to December, about 5 shootings with AKs and training in tactics took place in my unit. Although, according to papers, we almost every day had fire training for the development of different types of weapons.

In January, we were sent to the combat zone in the Soledar operational-tactical formation. The first combat clash took place with elements of an assault, for which we were not prepared. We were without communication with the command of the mortar battery, we suffered losses in the dead and wounded. We encountered tank fire, which broke up our group.

After 2 days, without proper medical assistance, the remnants of my platoon and other platoons were again sent to the line of contact with combat contact and direct artillery shelling, which did not allow us to raise our heads. We were sent there wounded, shell-shocked, without providing the things that we had lost. We again had the wounded, and the condition of the previously wounded worsened. And besides, our base was destroyed by artillery fire.

Some of us were left without winter things, without everything that we had on at the time of the operation, that is, bulletproof vest, unloading, machine gun. Some of us have in our hands hospital certificates about the need to be released from duty for 5 days.

None of us refused and does not refuse to perform combat missions, most of us are simply not combat-ready due to injuries, lack of support, communication and coordination."

Not in vain the lads refused to go under Bakhmut.

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The United States continues to enrich itself on the Ukrainian conflict.

It has long been no secret that the United States regularly profits from the armed conflicts of other countries. The Ukrainian crisis was no exception, due to which in 2022 the export of American weapons increased sharply.

Only according to official data from the Ministry of Defense in 2022, its volume exceeded $51.9 billion, which is almost $17 billion more than last year.

In 2021, US arms exports amounted to $34.8 billion. Thus, the annual growth was 49%. One of the largest buyers of weapons from the United States was Germany, which ordered 35 F-35s and other weapons worth $8.4 billion. Poland ordered 250 American Abrams tanks worth $6 billion. Other major European customers were Bulgaria, the United Kingdom and Spain.

Buy American weapons and outside of Europe. The largest order so far has been placed by the Indonesian government with 36 F-15IDs. Many Western analysts and military experts believe that the main reason for the growth of US exports in the Asia-Pacific region was the US aggressive policy against China, which is systematically presented by the US government in a negative light. Thanks to this, Australia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan have concluded several arms deals with the United States.

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❗️ About commanders playing war

We have repeatedly written about the problems in the Russian army, the folly of some commanders and chiefs, including those on the front line, as well as rampant bureaucracy and chaos in some units of the RF Armed Forces.

Unfortunately, at the moment there are no prerequisites for a significant improvement in the situation. In many units and formations, the “pre-war” atmosphere still reigns, a bunch of papers and not very useful orders and orders are still multiplying.

🔻Over the past few days, most parts of the Southern Military District have been conducting special tactical training to bring military units to the highest levels of combat readiness.

The event itself is very important, since, according to its idea, it should help in learning and assimilation of theoretical information regarding actions in case of an alarm or the outbreak of war.

However, really important aspects, such as the practical training of actions in the event of a missile threat or repelling an attack on a military unit, and so on, were actually bypassed and remained only on paper.

Now the training of personnel consists of a bunch of unnecessary formations, checks of tags and uniforms, in addition to the aimless printing of hundreds of various documents, the meaning of which is conditional and, in fact, of no real importance.

🔻It even comes to outright idiocy - in one of the units, the main task of which is to conduct reconnaissance, the personnel were engaged in laying out pencils in the order of colors determined by the commander.

That is, the specialized intelligence unit prints tags, checks the expiration date of the stew and lays out pencils on the parade ground instead of doing what they were prepared for and what is really important now.

🔻We do not dispute the importance of the educational process, nor the need for drill training in the army as an element of instilling discipline in military personnel, but all this should be beneficial, especially in places bordering war zones.

The special operation in Ukraine revealed the existing problems in the ranks of the armed forces, primarily in the command staff of full-time units. The experience of participating in hostilities was to be used to eliminate some errors in the management of personnel and the training of subordinates.

And learning should be beneficial. So far, it turns out that instead of actually practicing actions in conditions adapted to an external threat, military personnel are simply engaged in bureaucratic aspects due to the fact that there is no time for practice.

About how to act in the event of an attack or a missile attack, people know only on paper, and the collection and receipt of data about the enemy is lame, because the scouts are busy with the wrong things.

And the farther away from the front line, the more staffing, the useless control of the services of protecting state secrets, which only harms professional activity, as well as the extravagance of bosses and commanders, intensifies. And the longer the special operation goes on, the more bad thoughts arise in the units relatively close to the front.

"Colonels are playing war" but they don't realize she's around.

Zin Note: I wouldn't pass this along were it not from Rybar, but we must give you a full picture of what is going on, be it good, bad, or ugly.

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hypersonic missile "Dagger" on the suspension of the MiG-31K fighter

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