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Up to a hundred militants are liquidated or wounded in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye directions per day - Russian Defense Ministry

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🇺🇦The head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense admitted that the military situation for Kyiv in the east is "difficult", and the tanks promised by the West will be ready for use only "by March"

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🇺🇸 In United States, under mysterious circumstances, 20 LNG plants have already burned down in a few months.

The same problem with the refinery. Just yesterday, one of the oil refineries on the border with Mexico burned down.

Update: Our dedicated users from comment section were unable to find more than dozen instances of similar incidents.

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In Ukraine, summonses for military conscription are now also handed out at church entrances.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry has notified Japan that it will not hold any consultations with it for overfishing in the South Kuril region.

The reason is quite obvious: Japan's anti-Russian stance. For the same reasons, any consultations on the status of the Southern Kurils, joint economic activities in the Kuril Islands, or even the possibility for the Japanese to visit the graves of their relatives in the Kuril Islands, have been halted.

Of course, there are zero prospects for any discussion of a peace treaty between Russia and Japan because of Japan's territorial claims against Russia, which Japan has not and will not give up.

Since there are no prerequisites for changing Japan's position, there is naturally no reason for Russia to discuss anything with Japan on the Kuril Islands, especially since Japan is revealing itself as a US satellite to be used in a war against China, which is friendly to Russia. Japan in the current circumstances makes no secret of its intentions of further militarization against China and North Korea (and in the long run, it will pose additional threats to Russia as well), so there is nothing to talk about with Japan in the current realities.

The moments when they could have bargained for two islands in the Southern Kurils have been missed.

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The Washington Post sums up the intrigue with deliveries of heavy tanks to Ukraine, analyzing the key but ambiguous role of the USA in this process.

The author boils it down to the fact that the US promise to supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine was made with the sole purpose: to induce Germany to deliver its Leopard tanks to Kiev. Chancellor Scholz was stubborn, and there was practically no other way to move things forward.  

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his idea of "long-term needs" played a crucial role here. This is the sauce under which America will send its tanks to Ukraine - and the wording suggests that it may not be in a particular hurry to do so. The US does not want Abrams on the front primarily because they are equipped with sophisticated depleted uranium armor, the composition of which is a top state secret. If the Abrams fall into Russian hands (which is more than likely during the fighting), the secret could be revealed.

Blinken's formulation gave everyone a way out, but is unlikely to hasten the arrival of tanks in the line of fire, The Washington Post concludes.

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Today's strikes on a munitions depot in the Iranian city of Isfahan were "phenomenally successful", according to the Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post.

"Four explosions were detonated at the site. The damage caused far exceeds the "minor roof damage" reported by the Iranians," the newspaper wrote.

Israel has refrained from commenting on the incident. But many Western intelligence officials and sources in Iran see similarities in today's action to similar strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz in July 2020 and in April 2021, and at Karaj in June 2021, which the paper recalls were carried out by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.

The Jerusalem Post points out there are other agencies in the world capable of such precise strikes besides Mossad.

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Accurate overlap of a pickup truck with AFU soldiers near the bridge in the village of Terny (Krasnolimansky direction). A very clear arrival.


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Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin commented on the information about the corpses of foreign mercenaries: 

"Today in Bakhmut, units of the Wagner PMC found bodies with severed heads and hands as well as telephones and other information that these bodies belonged to the foreign mercenaries. Due to the dense fighting, the enemy was unable to pull out these bodies and thus tried to hide the identities of these corpses. However, the electronic devices were found along with the bodies. "All the bodies and other evidence will soon be handed over to the investigating authorities for further decisions."

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Pictures : Bodies with severed head and hands

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Israel carried out a drone strike targeting a defense compound in Iran, as the U.S. and Israel look for new ways to contain Tehran’s nuclear and military ambitions, according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the operation — WSJ

Iranian officials said that the country’s air defenses had fended off an attempted attack by three small quadcopters targeting a munitions factory in the city of Isfahan, right next to a site belonging to the Iran Space Research Center, which has been sanctioned by the U.S. for its work on Iran’s ballistic-missile program.

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