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.

https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2023/01/31/2845834/iran-warns-us-of-crushing-response-to-any-aggression
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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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Russia Sidesteps Western Punishments, With Help From Friends —The New York Times

Russian trade appears to have largely bounced back to where it was before the invasion of Ukraine last February. Analysts estimate that Russia’s imports may have already recovered to prewar levels, or will soon do so, depending on their models.

In part, that could be because many nations have found Russia hard to quit. Recent research showed that fewer than 9 percent of companies based in the European Union and Group of 7 nations had divested one of their Russian subsidiaries. And maritime tracking firms have seen a surge in activity by shipping fleets that may be helping Russia to export its energy, apparently bypassing Western restrictions on those sales.

Some companies, including H&M, IBM, Volkswagen and Maersk, halted operations in Russia after the invasion, citing moral and logistical reasons. But the Russian economy has proved surprisingly resilient, raising questions about the efficacy of the West’s sanctions. Countries have had difficulty reducing their reliance on Russia for energy and other basic commodities, and the Russian central bank has managed to prop up the value of the ruble and keep financial markets stable.

On Monday, the International Monetary Fund said it now expected the Russian economy to grow 0.3 percent this year, a sharp improvement from its previous estimate of a 2.3 percent contraction.

The I.M.F. also said it expected Russian crude oil export volume to stay relatively strong under the current price cap, and Russian trade to continue being redirected to countries that had not imposed sanctions.

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Russian troops are trying to surround Bakhmut from the south and north and occupy the routes that connect with the city. From the north, they're trying to control the highway from Slavyansk to Bakhmut, and from the south, from Konstantinovka to Bakhmut, Lieutenant Roman Konon of the Svoboda battalion of the National Guard of Ukraine has just reported in a live broadcast on the Ukrainian media.
Therefore, Russian troops have intensified their offensive actions on these very routes. At the same time, Russians are constantly fighting and attacking Ukrainian positions on the outskirts of Bakhmut. 

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Human Rights Watch: Ukrainian Forces Have Used Banned Mines

Human rights researchers say they’ve documented “numerous cases” in which Ukrainian forces fired banned anti-personnel mines at Russian military positions in the fierce battle for the eastern city of Izyum last year.

A report, released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch and including multiple, detailed accounts by researchers, raises questions about Kyiv’s credibility and intentions as NATO allies pour billions of dollars’ worth of aid and weapons into Ukraine as the Russian SMO nears the one-year mark.

“They may get some very difficult questions from the people who've been supplying them with other types of weapons about their ability to use them in a way consistent with international humanitarian law,” Steve Goose, director of the arms division at Human Rights Watch, told VOA ahead of the report’s release. That office of the rights watchdog promotes humanitarian disarmament. The rights group is calling for an investigation in Ukraine.

Between April and September, residents told researchers, rockets launched from Ukrainian-held territory scattered thousands of Soviet-era PFM-1 “butterfly mines” over Russian military facilities in Izyum, which Russian forces entered in April.

Researchers in the city in Ukraine’s Donbas region spoke to health care workers and counted 11 civilian deaths caused by mines, and 50 wounded civilians. Half of those cases involved amputations of the foot or lower leg — a common injury caused by anti-personnel mines. At least five of the wounded were children.

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❗️Marine Le Pen warned of the outbreak of the third world war if NATO is fully involved in the conflict in Ukraine. Because of this danger, the politician called for a peaceful settlement of the situation.

According to the politician, the continuation of the conflict could forever change the balance of power in the world. She also drew attention to what the rupture of ties between the European Union and Russia has already led to: Moscow has become a privileged partner of India and China.

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Poland aims to get training time on Leopard tanks(for Ukrainian tankers) down to 5 weeks : Reuters

Poland aims to get training time on Leopard 2 battle tanks down to five weeks at a centre where Ukrainian soldiers are likely to be taught how to operate the Western battlefield workhorse against Russia's special military operation.

Soon, the training period will be reduced to five days😁

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The US authorities, who are apparently facing problems recruiting personnel for the U.S. Army, are forced to turn to the elderly population. They promise a bonus of up to $50,000 when they (retired or elderly people) sign a contract.

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The Brazilian President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, said he would be willing to mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelensky, if necessary.

"If I can help, I will help." But if there is a need to negotiate with Putin and Zelensky, I will be ready to discuss efforts for a peaceful settlement, no problem. What we really need is to get a group of people together who are strong enough to be respected at the negotiating table. "And we need to engage with both of them," Da Silva said at a joint press conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

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⚡️⚡️Only nuclear weapons can give Ukraine security guarantees ; Ukraine is now demanding nuclear weapons

Oleksiy Makeyev, Ukraine's ambassador to Berlin, unequivocally explained why his country needs nuclear weapons:

"The security guarantees are what we thought we got from the Budapest Memorandum back in 1994, but unfortunately they were not security guarantees;  And we found out that Russia unfortunately violated the Budapest Memorandum, and we didn't get full security support from the United States, the United Kingdom, and the other nuclear powers. It was a bad signal to all the countries of the world that realized that, in fact, only nuclear weapons could save them from an attack by such an aggressor. That is why we will want to begin this discussion."

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The United States admits that it worked with Kyiv on a number of "research" projects in the field of "pandemic prevention," the activities in which were then terminated, while bioweapons were not developed in such laboratories, says John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the US National Security Council.

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