🇷🇺20 warships, boats and vessels of the Russian Baltic Fleet took part in the exercises at sea

🇺🇲 NATO launched the Neptune Strike military exercise in the Mediterranean with the participation of the US aircraft carrier Harry Truman.

According to the Pentagon, the maneuvers were planned in advance, but when deciding to start them, the situation around Ukraine was taken into account, during the exercises it is planned to work out "long-range strikes" and anti-submarine warfare techniques.

🇧🇾🇺🇦 Lukashenka: we will have to deploy a whole contingent of the Belarusian army near the Ukrainian border

🇷🇺⚡ The Bank of Russia decided not to purchase foreign currency on the domestic market as part of the implementation of the budget rule mechanism from 15:00 Moscow time on January 24, 2022.

This decision was made in order to increase the predictability of the actions of the monetary authorities and reduce the volatility of financial markets.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡Intelligence of the People's Militia of the LPR revealed the armored vehicles of the Ukrainian security forces in a residential area of ​​the city of Popasnaya in the Donbass - the press service of the department

🇵🇱🇺🇦⚡Poland is considering the possibility of military assistance to Ukraine, but not the direction of the contingent - the head of the special service

🇷🇺 The Duma Council decided in February to consider a draft appeal on the recognition of the LPR and the DPR, the first deputy head of the Communist Party faction in Kolomeitsev told RIA Novosti

JUST IN - Biden administration is writing up military orders for units to be sent to Eastern Europe (CNN)

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🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡Biden administration in final stages of identifying specific military units that will be sent to eastern Europe. Next steps include preparation & deployment orders.

🇷🇺🇨🇺 Putin held telephone call with Cuba President - Kremlin

🇨🇿 Czech Republic MoD Jana Černochová: "Let me be clear, Ukraine is our ally. If there is war, we are ready to offer a refuge to their woman and children. No Ukrainian request for sending military yet, but if they do so, we will discuss it." 

🇺🇲 Allied ships from STRIKFORNATO & US Sixth Fleet kicked off a series of patrolling activities across the Mediterranean featuring the deployment of USS Harry S. Truman.

It's the 1st time since the Cold War that a full 🇺🇸carrier group comes under NATO command

📎 NATO Press

🇳🇴🇺🇦⚡Norway MFA advises against unnecessary travel to Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Kadyrov: Now they came up with Ukraine. And what, Russia should give way to Western countries, which are 9 thousand kilometers away? Who does not understand that America does not want anything good for Ukraine? In order to dictate their terms to Russia, they need a state to set up bases there. If there are people in Ukraine, they must resist this. And if not, then Russia must take action. If I had been instead of the president, I would have taken Ukraine a long time ago, sent troops there, and put things in order. If crazy, corrupt people are at the head of the state and threaten our security, should we be silent or what? If they had not been stopped in Syria, it would have all passed to us in Russia. In the same way, everything from Ukraine will pass to us, we need to take preventive measures.
I serve my people, I'm Putin's infantryman, don't joke with us! Russia was, is and will be a great power.

🇺🇲🇷🇺⚡The United States is interested in finding a solution with the Russian Federation at the negotiating table, and not in the course of a full-scale confrontation

US Ambassador to the UN

— 🇺🇦⚔ Deployment of territorial defense troops is ongoing around the clock - Defense Minister of Ukraine Reznikov

Russian build-up accelerated implementation of a law “on territorial defense”, which came into the force on 1st January