⚡️ Ukraine to receive only half of Leopard 2A6 tank battalion - German Defense Minister

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Chinese refineries have resumed purchases of Russian Urals crude after a pause at the end of last year, Reuters reports.

The reason is recovering demand amid weaker quarantine in China.

The discount against Brent crude is $13, although two months ago it was at $7.

PetroChina expects to receive 1.5 million barrels of Urals crude at the end of the month, compared to 730,000 tonnes imported in October-November.

China's Sinopec refinery is also counting on a resumption of supplies.

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🇫🇲NATO to send 40,000 troops to the eastern part of Alliance - Stoltenberg

An additional 40,000 troops will be deployed to Europe and the number of battle groups will be doubled from 4 to 8. This correlates with the NATO Secretary General's announcement that Sweden and Finland will join the Alliance by the autumn, as 40,000 European fighters will be "settled" in the "new" lands of the West.

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"The issue of historical reunification with Belarus will be resolved very soon," says Dmitry Kuznetsov, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee.

Also on February 22–23, the issue of the accession of Abkhazia will be decided, according to some sources.

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Swedish media reported hacker attacks against Swedish companies and authorities yesterday. The attacks were claimed by an alleged group of Sudanese hackers, as retaliation fo the recent islamophobic incidents in the country. It didn't take long for, without any proof, the local media to accuse Russia.

This though is not an isolated incident. There is an ongoing approximation between Sudan and Russia. For example, though negotiations for Russia to supply them with weapons, in exchange for a base in the Red Sea. Russia is also a major supplier of grains and fertilizers to Sudan, which has been under sanctions by the "international community" for decades. Though poor, Sudan is a country with immense economic potential and a partnership benefits both sides.

This happens in contrast to the disgusting attitude of the collective west toward this country. The economic blockade was justified on the basis of the country being a tyrannic, islamist regime, but when the Sudanese people managed to defeat this government and stabilish a civil government, sanctions continued. While Russia is against this act of collective punishment by the rich countries, both Trump and Biden's governments blackmailed the country into paying "reparations" for victims of terrorist attacks committed by Sudanese citizens in the US and Israel, even though the current government was fighting precisely against those people. Wonder if they will ever seek reparations from Saudi Arabia for 9/11, for example.

Also, as published previously in our channel, while the richest countries in the world pretended to be worried about countries like Sudan in the entire Ukrainian grain farce, more of that grain went to Spanish pigs than to Sudanese people. As mentioned by us many times here, Russia is not only fighting for itself, but for the right of every country to have independent foreign policy and pursue their own interests. Long live the friendship between Russia and Sudan.

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Yesterday, Israel exported 500,000 barrels of its own oil for the first time.

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A total of 47 Leopards will try to turn the tide in Ukraine

Today, the Pentagon officially announced that only eight countries will transfer tanks to Ukraine. Among them are Germany, Poland, Canada, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. However, even despite the fact that these countries have plenty of tanks in total, there will be very few of them at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Readovka calculated that only 47 vehicles will now go to the battlefields, although the owner states will try to “finish off” their number to 62.

In total, the countries have at their disposal, by the way, a little more than 1,100 tanks - the leader in their number of the declared countries that will transfer the Leopard remains the country that produces armored vehicles - Germany. She has 312 cars at her disposal, 107 of which are serviceable. Spain has more tanks, 327, but it has absolutely all Leopards sent for long-term storage, so they still need to be restored.

In the bottom line, judging by the statements of the countries, each of them can transfer no more than 14 vehicles, and some have not yet decided how much equipment they are ready to part with. Among those “thinkers” are Denmark and the Netherlands, which have 44 and 18 units, respectively. So in the end, even with an urgent need and an incredible desire to give everything that is, no more than 247 tanks can be delivered to Ukraine. And when is the second question, because, as Readovka noted earlier, the logistics process is too complicated.

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The head of PMC "Wagner" held a field press conference

“From country clubs, from 500-meter rooms, during anti-aging or any other cosmetic massage, it is impossible to control soldiers in a war.

A soldier is not in a computer game, he does not have a second, third, fifth or tenth life, he dies once. He freezes in the cold, and after that his body needs to be warmed up in order to be placed in a zinc coffin and close the lid. And there are no ten lives, every soldier must be taken care of. You have a huge number of generals, colonels, divisional commanders, brigade commanders who understand this very well.

And if we stop sycophancy, excessive reverence and other negative factors in military formations today that affect the course of hostilities today, then our effectiveness will increase significantly.

We need to blow off all sorts of bubbles already, inflated from all sides like the cheeks of a lizard. If they hear every soldier and get out of the country clubs, then I think both Bakhmut and the surrounding area will be liberated, and all those combat missions that the population expects from us will be completed.

Although we did not invent this war, we went for it because it is our homeland and our duty. If one village went to fight with another, and at that time you were steaming in a bathhouse, take a ladle and go along with the rest. That, in fact, is the main thing that needs to be said, timed to the memory of our guys.

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The city of Artemovsk (Ukrainian name - Bakhmut) may be surrounded in March-April of this year, but the delivery of heavy weapons to Kyiv may affect the timing, said Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group.

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A brilliant video by Alexander Mercouris
(Here is the youtube link, go give him some love)

Russia Closes on Kupiansk Liman; UK MSM Admits NATO Can't Match Russia Ammo; US Depletes Oil Reserve

Zin Note: I find this very pleasant to start my day off with, and it helps one get up to speed on the events of the present time!

Link to the video on The Duran's Telegram Channel

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Sources in the Ukrainian Defense Forces revealed interesting details about balloons with reflectors, which in recent days have been launched by the Russians in order, as the Air Force of the AFU claims, to confuse the Ukrainian air defense. 

"Ukraine was the first to start using these balloons as early as last year. We were launching balloons over their territory, they watched and started doing the same thing. This is an ordinary gel balloon wrapped in foil, which flies at the speed of the wind and whose main task is to disorient the air defense. The radars perceive this balloon as a metal object and react to it. Remember, in early January, a small object appeared in the sky in Rostov-on-Don (seven kilometers from the settlement of Sultan-Saly, where the military airfield is located), which they shot down with their air defense. These were similar to our balloons launched from the eastern part of Ukraine. "They were frightened at first, and then they started launching the same balloons toward us," says the source.

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Stop slandering the journalist and his sources! The German government should disclose its findings about the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream, given that Seymour Hersh's revelations point to U.S. and Norwegian responsibility.

—Bundestag MP Sevim Dagdelen.

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Diplomat Gavrilov spoke about the impotence of the military industry of NATO countries

According to the Russian diplomat, the industry of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance is no longer able to cope with military orders that are used in the conflict in Ukraine

The head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov, in an interview with Zvezda, questioned the common sense of the diplomacy of the countries of the European Union and the NATO bloc

“ You know, very strange things are happening with Western European diplomacy, with EU and NATO diplomacy. Sometimes common sense, logic, diplomatic tact and so on are lost ,” Gavrilov said, answering a question about the words of the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, at today’s speech in the European Parliament

Thus, the Russian diplomat commented on the words of Borrell, who said that he did not understand those who want to stop arming Kyiv

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Ukrainian sources write :

Because of Bankova's attempts to hold Bakhmut, Ukraine has lost the strike potential that had been assembled to attack in the north along the Svatovo-Kreminna line. The AFU is experiencing a shortage of ammunition and artillery equipment. Moreover, losses in manpower exceed the rate of mobilization (which, as we know, is comprehensive, i.e., "kidnapping" everyone and everywhere). As a result, Bakhmut may become the new Mariupol, where more than 3,000 people were captured by the Russian Federation.

And we are already beginning to see the preconditions for such a development — after the loss of Krasnaya Gora (which the AFU still denies, which is similar to the similar situation with Soledar), the situation for the Paraskovievka garrison has become sharply more difficult.

Fighting is already taking place in the village itself, roads are being shot through from it, and the Slavyansk-Bahmut highway has not only come under fire-control of the Russians, but has actually been cut off. At the same time, Russian forces have already entrenched themselves in the northern districts of the city. Fighting is also taking place in the direction of Berkhovka. There is an obvious desire to get closer to the highway through Khromovo and take it under fire control to complete the operational encirclement of Bakhmut. To the south of the city, there are battles near Krasnye, Stupochka, and in the direction of Chasov Yar. Fighting also continues in the southern and southeastern districts of the city, where some advance by Russian forces is also noted. 

Meanwhile, The New York Times writes that the order for the volunteers to leave Bakhmut may be a prelude to the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces. The publication notes that the decision to close access to the city to volunteers indicates that the Ukrainian military cannot secure even areas of the city that had been considered relatively safe for several months, such as the areas on the western bank of the Bakhmutka River, which are further away from Russian artillery strikes.

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It's important to remember, Prigozhin is everything that the traditional Russian leadership is not. He tends to underpromise and over deliver. He has zero respect for nepotism and tradition. He modeled Wagner to be free from the grinding bureaucracy that is typical in the Russian military.

So it seems to me that he's purposely giving a pessimistic forecast in order to both regulate expectations and also to inflate the accomplishment if Artemovsk is surrounded in February.

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American journalist Seymour Hersh, who published an article about US involvement in the Nord Stream explosions, said that this was "only the first stage" and urged everyone to "stay tuned."
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Ukrainian Armed Forces lost two reconnaissance platoons in one area due to their own artillery fire: details

On February 7, between the villages of Orekhovo-Vasilevka and Berkhovka in the Bakhmut district, a reconnaissance group of the 93rd separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed by Ukrainian artillery fire. The unit received an order to mine the approaches to the Artyomovsk-Slavyansk highway, but did not manage to complete the combat mission.

The movement of the platoon was noticed by a Ukrainian drone, and the unit, which was mistaken for an enemy sabotage group, was fired from 152 mm howitzers. According to preliminary data, a reconnaissance platoon, mistaken for a sabotage group of the RF Armed Forces, was fired upon by the forces of the 62nd howitzer battalion of the 45th artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions between the settlements of Privolye and Bondarnoye.

Ten people, including the platoon commander, died on the spot, the rest were evacuated by the search and rescue group in civilian ambulances, which were taking the wounded from Artyomovsk to the fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Chasovoy Yar.

A week later, on February 14, 2 km from the place of death of a group of Ukrainian intelligence officers of the 93rd Brigade, another reconnaissance platoon of the 93rd Motorized Brigade, after mining the road, again came under artillery fire. Shooting at the group that emerged in the area of the disputed section of the Artyomovsk-Slavyansk highway was opened by a division of special power of the 43rd artillery brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions between the villages of Orekhovo-Vasilevka and Novomarkovo. The group was destroyed at the exit from positions abandoned due to Russian artillery fire.

As a result of the second "friendly" fire, 12 Ukrainian soldiers were killed and eight injured.
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