🇬🇧🇺🇸The fastest training program for F-16 pilots is about 35 months.

This was stated by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's official spokesman,according to Sky News.
"We will continue to listen to the Ukrainians and consider what is right in the long term." "But it's worth understanding the situation and that the fastest training program for a new F-16 pilot is about 35 months," the prime minister's spokesman said.
He noted that the current UK high-speed jet training program lasts five years.

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An interesting statement from Biden: “More than half of the women in my administration are women.”

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The West should give all weapons except "nuclear weapons" to Ukraine, says newly elected Czech President Petr Pavel.

📝 "As for conventional weapons, I really see no reason to put up boundaries." "Ukraine cannot fight such a strong enemy without tanks, drones, artillery, long-range missiles, and possibly supersonic aircraft," said Pavel.

In the past, this man was the head of the NATO military committee as well as the general staff of the Czech army. 

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Map of countries supplying weapons to Ukraine

Of the European countries, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Moldova still observe conditional neutrality.
Pakistan and Morocco were among the countries in Asia and Africa that helped the Ukrainian Nazis.

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Fighters of the Wagner PMC captured a Turkish Kirpi near Blagodatnoye.

After the capture of the settlement, the Wagner fighters began mopping up the village. During one of the fights, an armored car in good condition was seized. 
The armoured vehicle was handed over to paratroopers near Kremenna.

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Russian military shot down another huge Ukrainian drone

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🔞Dead Ukrainian militants

Russian troops captured Ukrainian positions and destroyed some Ukrainian militants near the Svatovo-Kremennaya area.

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Switzerland is reviewing its famous neutral policy after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine. The parliament in Bern tomorrow will discuss a call by politicians to consider legislative changes that would allow other countries to transfer Swiss-made weapons to Ukraine. The current policy states that Swiss weapons cannot be transferred to countries at war.

Moreover, it has just been revealed that leading Swiss politicians are now calling for the sale of 96 mothballed Swiss Leopard 2 tanks for just one symbolic franc to Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, replacing the tanks their governments plan to send to Ukraine.

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Serbian president Vucic on anti-Russian sanctions: "We chose a good policy."

The Serbian President stated that it is necessary to maintain good relations with Russia and China. He stressed that Belgrade has not experienced the consequences, which shows that Serbia has chosen a good policy.

"There will be less and less food in Europe and everywhere. For many reasons I don't want to explain it, the military conflict will be broader and larger, and when we want to hide, we can't. "We have too clear a position, and with regard to sanctions, because we have seen what they look like," Vucic said, commenting on calls by some MPs for sanctions against Russia.

The Serbian leader stressed that Serbia's interest is in the EU, but there are also Kosovo, Metohija, and other vital and national interests for which Belgrade needs to maintain good relations with traditional partners.

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Destroyed Range Rover of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artemovsk. All passengers were killed. 

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Ukraine needs about 3 billion dollars of foreign funding every month — Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Finance, Olga Zykova.

According to her, at the moment, the government already has obligations totaling $30 billion from the EU and the US for 2023.

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Russian frigate to launch Tsirkon missile during international drills— TASS

Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate, which is currently on a long-distance training voyage, will perform a training launch of a Tsirkon hypersonic missile during a joint exercise with South African and Chinese navies, a source close to Russia’s defense industry has told TASS.

"During the upcoming exercise with the navies of South Africa and China, a training launch of a Tsirkon hypersonic missile will be carried out, to be the first-ever during an event of this kind," he said.
According to the official, the missile is to hit a surface target located at the distance of over 500 km.
TASS has been unable to officially confirm this information at the time of the publication.

The voyage of a task force comprising The Admiral Gorshkov frigate and medium class sea-going tanker The Kama began on January 4 under the command of Captain 1st Class Oleg Gladky, the commander the Northern Fleet’s division of missile ships.

On January 25, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the frigate had practiced a strike with a Tsirkon hypersonic missile on a sea target more than 900 kilometers away in the western part of the Atlantic. The Defense Ministry also said that a number of joint exercises are to be held off South Africa in February, jointly with the South African Navy and the Navy of the People's Liberation Army of China.
The Admiral Gorshkov is the lead multi-purpose frigate of project 22350 meant for operation in the blue water zone. Built at the Severnaya Verf shipyards (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), it joined the Russian Navy in July 2018.

The Tsirkon (Zircon) is Russia’s new generation hypersonic missile designed and manufactured by the Military-Industrial Corporation Research and Industrial Association of Machine Building (MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia, part of the Tactical Missile Weapons Corporation, KTRV) in Reutov, near Moscow.

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Sales of fertile land, timber cropping up in Ukraine — Putin

Cases of fertile land and timber being sold in Ukraine are emerging, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at a meeting with representatives of patriotic and youth organizations.

"I do not know who is selling Ukraine’s fertile land but the fact remains that it is happening. They are also selling timber, although there is not too much of it, not like in Siberia. The Carpathians will soon be bald there," Putin said.

Sales of fertile land in Ukraine are still taking place, the Russian leader noted. "It is up to them," he added.

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The British Army reportedly has no heavy guns left anywhere in the country after handing them all over to Ukraine to assist in the efforts against the Russian invasion — Daily Mail

Defence chiefs have pledged all 30 working AS90s to Kyiv and are now urgently seeking K9 Thunders and Archer guns to replenish their stocks.

♦The British Army reportedly has no heavy guns left after donation to Ukraine 
♦There are concerns the decision could leave Britain in a vulnerable position
♦But the consensus is Ukraine needs the weapons more to stave off Russia 

In an unprecedented intervention, Gen Sir Patrick told troops: ‘Giving away these capabilities will leave us(Britain) temporarily weaker as an Army, there is no denying it.

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The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the Liman direction

🔹 There is reason to talk about a serious advance of our troops in the Liman direction. Parts of the 144th Motor Rifle Division, advancing from the Chernopopovka area, advanced up to two kilometers in the direction of Yampolovka-Terny and entrenched themselves on the achieved lines.

🔹 Moreover, judging by the preparation and nature of the operation, this is clearly only its first stage.

🔹 What could be next? Obviously, moving south of the point of attack in order to form a “northern claw” of the encirclement of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Seversk.

🔹In the west, it will soon be possible to force the line of the Zherebets River.

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Biden sent the head of the CIA, Burns, to Kyiv in January with a proposal to give the Russian Federation 20% of the territory in exchange for a cessation of hostilities. At least, this is what the Swiss publication Neue Zürcher Zeitung claims, citing two sources in German government circles.

According to the interlocutors of the publication, Burns voiced the same proposal to Moscow, but both sides refused it.

It is with the failure of Burns's diplomatic efforts that the Neue Zürcher Zeitung links the acceleration of the resolution of the tank issue for Ukraine. Biden allegedly decided to give in to Scholz, and approved the supply of Abrams tanks. This is what unblocked Berlin's decision to allow the provision of Leopard 2.

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