The tenth EU sanctions package, scheduled to coincide with the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, will be "not a real 'package', but rather a correction of existing restrictions, since there is nothing more to add," writes the American newspaper Politico, citing diplomats.

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Statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart:

◾️ It is important for the Russian Federation and Iraq to secure cooperation from illegal sanctions of the West;

◾️ Russia and Iraq expect to soon agree on the date of the next meeting of the intergovernmental commission, which will be held in Baghdad;

◾️ The Russian Federation expressed its full support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to ensure security and combat terrorism;

◾️ The meeting of the Russian-Iraqi intergovernmental commission will be held in Baghdad this year.

Statements by Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein:

◾️ Iraq fully supports ceasefire initiatives in Ukraine;

◾️ Iraq notes the positive role of Russian oil companies in the field of investment;

◾️ The Iraqi government is considering ways to pay off debt to Russian oil and gas companies;

◾️ The Iraqi delegation will discuss in Washington cooperation with Russian companies in the light of the sanctions.

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❗️❗️❗️❗️ The goal of the West was to disrupt the Minsk agreements in order to arm Ukraine and destroy all the rights of the Russian-speaking population living there, Lavrov said during a meeting with the Iraqi Foreign Minister.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry also said that he had given his Iraqi counterpart concrete examples of such illegal steps by the Kyiv authorities, for example, numerous laws that infringe on Russian speakers.

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🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian units are advancing in Kharkiv region

Yesterday, our troops managed to enter Sinkovka, and a curious incident occurred: powerful Lvovichi literally fled the village in civilian clothes. There are assault operations in the area of the village of Dvurechnoye (not to be confused with the settlement of Dvurechnaya) and Gryanikovka. A likely development of events in the near future will be the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops across the Oskol River.

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❗️ 🇧🇾 A sudden combat readiness check among cadets has been announced in Belarus

By decision of the Minister of Defense of Belarus, the verification takes place at the Military Academy of the Republic of Belarus.

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The position of the armed forces of Ukraine has seriously deteriorated in Ugledar; Ukrainian troops are mining high-rise buildings in case of retreat, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said. 

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A new earthquake of magnitude 7.8 was recorded in the central part of Turkey at 13.24 Moscow time.

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Video : In Syria, a child trapped under concrete slabs on the upper floors of an earthquake-damaged building cries for help.

This harrowing footage, filmed in Idlib, shows a boy trapped under the slabs of an apartment building. The child is hanging practically head down and screaming in pain, with a man in the background talking to him, apparently trying to calm him down until help arrives.
The Syrian Ministry of Health has now reported 326 dead and 1,042 wounded.

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Odessa residents have found new ideas to save themselves from mobilization. 

The man in the video makes a good point: get yourself a big, angry dog, and the military commissars won't even risk approaching you, let alone shoving you on the bus.

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Russian forces on Sunday occupied nine more structures in the Mariyanka direction, which the AFU soldiers used as fortified positions, said the acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin.

"As for the Marinka direction, fierce fighting continues there as well," he said. "The enemy is still trying to hold positions; yesterday, another nine structures were liberated, where the enemy (AFU) equipped its positions there and held them quite seriously."

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A high-explosive fragmentation aerial bomb was found near Kaluga; presumably it was used as the left side of a kamikaze drone.

Footage from the site of today's explosion of an enemy drone in the Kaluga region is circulating on the web.Military experts studied these images and were able to determine which munition was launched by Ukrainian militants on the drone. It was a Soviet-made high-explosive aerial bomb, presumably OFAB-100–120. 

It is qualified as a lightweight universal bomb and is intended for a wide range of targets, from aircraft and artillery in closed and open positions to lightly armored equipment and enemy manpower. It is noteworthy that the bomb found today lacks a stabilizer (tail part); perhaps it had been removed (as evidenced by welds). The warhead is approximately 50 kilograms of projectiles.

The picture of what happened was also approximately reconstructed: the munition was built into a reconnaissance UAV (one of the options was the Strizh, from which the reconnaissance equipment was removed), and should not have been dropped at the crash site. The drone was shot down, causing the OFAB to fall out without reaching its intended target. The munition was most likely intended to be used as a kamikaze, not an aerial bomb.

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The 🇬🇧Treasury has signalled there is no new money for defence despite recognising the urgent need to rearm in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine, defence sources have said —Sky News

At the same time, the sources said a "refresh" of UK defence policy - that was meant to inform the spending plans of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - could be delayed until after the March budget because an initial draft failed to reflect sufficiently the transformed security environment in Europe, where a land war is raging.

Now, defence sources are warning that Britain will be unable "credibly" to offer as many troops as NATO allies would expect to a major new force structure that is being drawn up by the alliance to bolster its defences in response to the war in Ukraine.

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 🇵🇱 PM Morawiecki: "The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state."

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urged Zielensky to "temporarily transfer" the territories of western Ukraine to Poland.
📝 "I don't think Putin would dare attack a country that is a current NATO member." He is anything but suicidal. "The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state," he said.

Poland won't miss its chance. .. 
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🇵🇱 Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki said that there is no decision yet on the transfer of Western fighter jets to Ukraine.

"All decisions on fighter jets will be made within NATO, and at the moment there is no agreement on which we could say anything else." "There is no such decision," Morawiecki said in response to a question about whether Poland is in favor of transferring the fighter jets to Ukraine.
 
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