🇫🇷🇷🇴⚡ France expressed its readiness to send a contingent of troops under NATO command to Romania.

🇧🇪⚡The Belgian army is preparing for "conflict scenarios" in connection with the situation around Ukraine and Russia, said Admiral Michel Hofman, head of the Belgian armed forces.

"The current uncertainty is so high that it is necessary to prepare for collective defense missions, that is, situations of high intensity conflict," the admiral said in an interview with La Libre Belgique newspaper.

🇸🇪🇺🇦⚡Sweden will not supply weapons to Ukraine - Foreign Minister

🏳️‍🌈NATO is strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe in connection with the situation around Ukraine.

🇩🇰 Denmark sends a frigate to the Baltic and 4 F-16 fighter jets to Lithuania;

🇪🇸 Spain is sending ships and is thinking about sending fighter jets to Bulgaria;

🇫🇷 France announced its readiness to transfer forces to Romania;

🇳🇱 The Netherlands sends 2 F-35 fighters to Bulgaria and puts the ship and ground forces on alert;

🇺🇸 The US is exploring the possibility of expanding its military presence on the eastern flank of the alliance;

And what sanctions are the EU and the US planning against Ukraine if the Armed Forces of Ukraine start full-scale hostilities in the Donbass?

The question is rhetorical.

None.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡Russia will take adequate response measures in the event of the transfer of US military forces to the Baltics and Eastern Europe - head of the State Duma Committee on Defense

In Lviv, in 2013, a guy told me he'd pick up a gun and go to war if Russia ever touched Ukraine.

A few years later, I got a LinkedIn alert mentioning him: He was working for VK, in St Petersburg.

100% this. In fact, “Russia Watcher” should be a pejorative term, given the dangerous lack of genuine expertise on the country in the Anglosphere & level of disinformation in US/UK media.

If it were raining soup, most of these quacks would be out on the street with forks.

🇷🇺🇺🇲⚡️NATO attributes aggressive intentions to Russia to justify its military activity on the eastern flank - Grushko

🇧🇫⚡The military in Burkina Faso say they are in charge of the country now.
▪️A transitional governing body will be established.
▪️The Western African country will remain committed to all its international obligations, the military said.

🇺🇦 Members of the Territorial Defense detachments of Ukraine, in anticipation of the "Russian invasion", are being trained in handling the Degtyarev light machine gun of the 1927 model.

🇪🇺🇩🇪⚡️Germany, as part of the discussion of possible sanctions against the Russian Federation, removed the issue of disconnecting from Swift from consideration - EU diplomat

🇭🇺 We do not want a new Cold War in Central and Eastern Europe - Hungarian Foreign Minister

🇱🇹 Lithuania will hand over U.S. Stinger man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS) to the Ukrainian army as Russia is concentrating forces on the Ukrainian border, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday.

The same MANPADS will be allocated to Ukraine and Latvia, and Estonia plans to transfer Javelin anti-tank missiles. Such assistance is provided upon approval by the US Government of the transfer of US-made equipment to a third country.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said that American Javelin anti-tank missiles are already in Donbass

🇦🇺🇺🇦⚡Australia begins evacuation of families of diplomats from Kiev, recommends its citizens to leave Ukraine

🇪🇺⚡The EU will allocate 1.2 billion euros in aid to Ukraine, the head of the European Commission said.

🇩🇪⚡Relatives and friends of German diplomats in Ukraine who wish to leave the country can do this at the expense of the German Foreign Ministry - a representative of the department

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡The threat of provocations from Ukraine in Donbas is now higher than before, Peskov said

🇷🇺⚡Putin is taking the necessary measures to ensure that the security and interests of the Russian Federation are provided at the proper level, the Kremlin said