❗️One of the strikes hit an industrial facility in the Kievsky district of Kharkov - all six arrivals at facilities in the city were confirmed

Terekhov, the head of the Kharkiv administration, confirmed that the Ukrainian air defense had failed to cope with the strike. All six missiles reached their targets - one of the strikes hit an "industrial facility in the Kievsky district of the city."

In addition, information about a fire that had started at the place of arrival was confirmed.

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❗️ China rejected a Pentagon request for a closed-line conversation between US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese National Defense Secretary Wei Fenghe after US fighter jets shot down a Chinese balloon on Saturday: US Department of Defense statement.

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With respect to settling the war by which of the Kims can learn Ukrainian faster, the above statistic should be instructive: It will not be the blowhard from Nikolaev.

The situation in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut), according to the Idi i Smotri TG channel, by the evening of February 7, 2023.

The city is 75% surrounded, the situation is critical for the Ukrainian fighters.

Blue marks the only remaining potential escape route, through Artyomovskoye (Khromovoye) to Chasov Yar.

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Iskanders being launched from Belgorod region towards Kharkov....local reports say at least 6 were launched

Writer of the conservative American publication 19fortyfive Ted Galen Carpenter compares Zelensky to the odious Angolan oppositionist Jonas Savimbi, whom the United States supported in the last century.

As Carpenter stresses, Savimbi's supporters inside the U.S. have praised him for his astonishing persistence while refusing to see that his UNITA party in the territories it occupies does not adhere to the democratic values the rebel leader swore to defend from the rostrum.
According to the expert, it is approximately the same thing that is happening today to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who is extolled as a "champion of democracy." He says that Zelensky's government is not afraid to use authoritarian tools against its opponents, but his fans in the United States do not want to see that.

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Russia plans to create all-weather remote sensing satellite system

Of the really interesting things Sergei Shoigu said yesterday at a conference were the plans to create an all-weather remote sensing satellite system in the interests of the Russian Defense Ministry. 
By the time the full-scale hostilities started in Ukraine, the Russian orbital constellation had only a few remote sensing satellites of the Kanopus-B type capable of providing at least some acceptable resolution of imagery and only one satellite with adequate resolution (Resurs-P). By comparison, western remote sensing satellite constellations not only had many times as many modern satellites, but they were also far superior to their Russian counterparts in resolution. 

This caused the Russian army to fall behind in acquiring high-quality images of Ukraine's territory in a timely manner using its own resources and forced it to look for workarounds to obtain materials from Western ERS satellites. Western countries, in turn, could afford to keep several RS satellites simultaneously over Ukrainian territory and Russian border areas (not counting military ones) in order to receive promptly the required images in high resolution and share them with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This role of Western satellite intelligence in the success of Ukrainian counterattacks was repeatedly stated in the world press. In addition, many times we observed that the West photographed strategic Russian facilities before the subsequent attack by the AFU and then, after the strikes, repeatedly photographed them to confirm the result.
Despite the fact that at the moment the system announced by the Russian Minister of Defense is only at the stage of experimental development without specifying a specific timeframe, it is undoubtedly a step in the right direction. It is obvious that this constellation most probably will not have time to be deployed by this conflict, but if such plans are implemented, we will get our own constellation of remote sensing satellites in sufficient numbers and with good resolution of imagery. 

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Soviet S-60 Model 1950 57 mm antiaircraft guns on a train somewhere in Russia

As it turned out, a certain number of these guns were in storage and had been transferred to the front as fire support equipment. 

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he expects a serious escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.

"Western tanks are fantastic—"Challengers," "Leopards," and "Abrams"—all these are great vehicles, but they will not be enough." After that, I expect a decision on sending [F-16 fighters] from the Americans and a complete escalation of the war. "I expect a lot of bad news, and I think it's important to leave our personal interests aside, because we don't have a spare Homeland."

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According to a Ukrainian MP, the hryvnia exchange rate will not be returned to the level of early 2022.

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy, Hetmantsev, said that the Ukrainian currency will never return to pre-SMO values.

📝 "While the war is going on, the pressure on the exchange rate will remain, but if the aid will come in the same volumes, I don't see any strong prerequisites for a significant correction of the official exchange rate." We had a positive balance of payments during the third and fourth quarters of the previous year, which is also good. "That's why I don't see any reasons for a significant drop in the exchange rate, but I also don't see any reasons for the exchange rate to go back to the pre-war period," said Getmantsev.

In January 2022, the exchange rate was about 27 hryvnias per dollar. Now the currency is trading at 40 hryvnias per dollar.

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