Times : There are 10,000 Russian troops massed on the other side of the border,” senior Ukrainian lieutenant Andrei Hulakov said.

“It’s the largest concentration there has ever been here. And they have built a field hospital,” he added, one of the key developments last year that helped persuade Ukraine’s security apparatus that the Russian build-up was not just an elaborate bluff. “That is a dead giveaway that they are planning action.”

Not only that, but the Russians have also been spotted laying gravel on the routes leading to the border along which any armoured vehicles would have to travel. Last year thick mud impeded their progress. This year the ground is as yet still hard in the sub-zero temperatures.

The more skilled of Russia’s operatives, its special forces commandos and intelligence agents, are already probing Ukraine’s defences.

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Scholz called on countries that have Western tanks to provide their tanks to Ukraine.

▪️ Germany itself intends to provide Ukraine with a battalion of 30 to 31 tanks, of which 14 are to be transferred from the Bundeswehr reserves, while for the rest, Berlin is waiting for agreement from its allies. 

At the Munich Security Conference
Scholz stressed that the aid program for Ukraine must be designed in such a way that European countries "could support it for a long time."
He added that prolonging the war would not put an end to military aid to Ukraine.

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Ukraine will not be able to win the war against Russia militarily.
Eirik Kristoffersen, Chief of the General Staff of the Norwegian Army, said

"There is no military solution to this conflict, I think." "In that case, it would take a very long time for one of the parties to defeat the other, and that would have terrible consequences for the people," Kristoffersen said.

However, the publication VG notes that the conclusion of the Chief of Staff of Norway contradicts the views of several other experts. 
In particular, Lieutenant Colonel Palle Ydstebø ,head of the Land Forces Department of the Norwegian Military Academy, believes that the scenario of Ukraine's victory in the war against Russia is realistic.

Ydstebø also believes that the Russia-Ukraine conflict cannot be resolved at the negotiating table.

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🇬🇧The head of the British Ministry of Defense, Ben Wallace, amid Kiev's claims that they have almost no ammunition left, urged Ukrainian troops to shoot more accurately so that they would waste less ammunition.

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Deputy Information Minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Daniil Bezsonov @NeoficialniyBeZsonoV writes :

According to our intelligence, Ukraine today began transferring several battalions to the Artemivsk (Bakhmut) direction. Apparently, Zelensky is ready to continue sacrificing his soldiers for the sake of media propaganda, sending them to their deaths. 

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Paraskovievka has been liberated! 

Wagner Chief Prigozhin's statement :
"The village of Paraskovievka is completely under the control of the Wagner PMC units. Despite the ammunition blockade, despite heavy losses and bloody battles, the guys have fully occupied the entire territory of Paraskovievka. Thanks to them! Heroes!".

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🇺🇸🇰🇿 The U.S. State Department will fund the "media influencers" (propagandists) in Kazakhstan.

The money will be allocated as part of a small grants program to build "strong democratic institutions" and supposedly build capacity in the field of ecology. 

💵 The specialists at the US Embassy in Kazakhstan will supervise all this. For this, they will invite local "civil society organizations and independent media." The grants for one participant range from $10,000 to $50,000. 

🤦‍♂️ By "providing money for democracy," it is meant "to destroy the economy of the country and turn it into a new anti-Russian entity. 

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According to the results of a recent opinion poll in Germany, the majority of the country's residents do not support the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine.

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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant spoke this morning at the opening of a security conference in Munich and said: "Over the past year, Iran has become a global exporter of lethal weapons and is negotiating sales (of weapons) with at least 50 countries." "Iran is supplying drones with a range of a thousand kilometers to Eastern European countries such as Belarus (previously no such supplies were reported) and in the past has also done so in South America—Venezuela."

"Iran is no longer a ‘local supplier,’ serving proxies in the Middle East. It is a ‘multinational corporation,’ a global exporter of advanced weapons. From Belarus in Eastern Europe, to Venezuela in South America, we have seen Iran delivering UAVs with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers,” he said.

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⚡️⚡️The West is once again hitting rock bottom in its hatred of Russia and Putin.

The Czech magazine Reflex published a provocative cover featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin in Nazi uniform with the caption, "I want to go to the Olympics."

So the Czech publication decided to make fun of the non-admission of Russian athletes to the Olympic Games.

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Politico— Senior Democrats' private take on Biden : He's too old

Senior Democrats support President Biden's re-election not because they think it’s in the best interest of the country to have an 82-year-old start a second term but because they fear the potential alternative: the nomination of Kamala Harris and election of Donald Trump.
Not that many of them will say it publicly, at least not that directly.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/16/senior-democrats-joe-biden-old-00083129
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Battle for Bakhmut
situation as of 20.00 February 17, 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin said that “the settlement of Paraskoviyevka is completely under the control of Wagner PMC units. Despite the blockade of ammunition, despite heavy losses and bloody battles, the guys completely occupied the entire territory of Paraskovievka. Thank them! Heroes! .

🔻The liberation of Paraskoviyivka, which was an important tactical hub in the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, significantly improves the position of assault detachments in the north of Bakhmut .

Clearing the triangle Krasnaya Gora - Podgorodnoye - Paraskovievka will increase pressure on Berkhovka , where fighting has been going on for the past few days, and confidently gain a foothold in the northern regions of Bakhmut.

Control over Berkhovka, as well as the neighboring village of Yagodnoye , may leave the Armed Forces of Ukraine without northern supply routes, which currently pass through the Berkhovka-Khromovo line. In the future, this will seriously affect the capabilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the defense of Bakhmut.

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