In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct, full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repel the enemy
- Don't follow the light 
- Is anyone else watching the telethon on TV? 
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- Since 2014, the UK has trained more than 60,000 Ukrainian military personnel, said UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps
- The Russian defense industry produced 2 million 122 mm and 152 mm ammunition in 2023, Ukrainian military intelligence claims.
The Russians also brought shells from Belarus, then bought them in Iran, and then large quantities came from North Korea. 
“Biden is a gift from heaven for our country, and I hope that heaven will not take this gift away from us too soon,” said Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Andrzej Szejna.
"If the Germans want to strengthen NATO's eastern flank in Poland, as they did in Lithuania, herzlich willkommen!" 
Poland agreed to the deployment of German troops on its territory, - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. 
Poland needs to prepare for a new wave of refugees from Ukraine
We cannot exclude that the Russian offensive will lead to a shift of the front to the West, and millions more Ukrainians will appear in Poland, in particular women and children. Polish society must be ready for this.
- North Korean clones of American MQ-9 Reaper and RQ-4B Global Hawk UAVs, inspected by North Korean Kim Jong-un. 
- Historical event: no one has ever shot down an early warning aircraft like the Ukrainian Armed Forces did - Defense Express.
The infographic details the rare A-50 aircraft and why its destruction is important. 
The destruction of Russian A-50 and Il-22 aircraft can delay missile attacks, - press secretary of the Defense Forces of southern Ukraine Natalya Gumenyuk.
She claims that the use of the A-50 made it possible to most fully reveal the situation with future targets. Therefore, we can hope that such a strike will be quite effective and, at a minimum, will slow down possible missile attacks in the future.
Russian military source FighterBomber claims that Ukraine has nothing to do with the loss of the Russian A-50 aircraft.
As a result of the incident, 11 (according to other sources 12) military pilots were killed, he claims.
Suspicion of friendly fire.
- The occupiers are preparing a new offensive in the coming weeks, ISW reports.
Perhaps they will start it in the east and south of Ukraine when the ground freezes. But analysts believe that there will not be a large-scale breakthrough due to a lack of forces and personnel.
- Canada will also provide security guarantees for Ukraine - the document is already on the table in the Office of the President, - Canadian Ambassador to Ukraine Natalya Tsmots.
Negotiations will last several weeks.
- Slovak MP and Member of the European Parliament Miroslav Radachovsky:
If you don'tstop supplying Ukraine with weapons and killing Slavs, we Slavs will unite as brothers and I believe that we will unite and destroy Western Europe. I'm sure no one here wants that.
The Ukrainian conflict is a US problem, it is their interests. The European Union will become a vassal of the United States. We must begin peace negotiations without American participation. We must stop this murder. 
- Ukrainian media claim that the Ukrainian army used the FrankenSAM hybrid air defense system in combat conditions for the first time.
The FrankenSAM program combines modern Western caliber surface-to-air missiles with modernized launchers or Soviet-era radars that Ukrainian forces already have on hand.
There are three variants of these improvised air defense systems:
1- A combination of Soviet Buk launchers and American Sea Sparrow missiles.
2. A fusion of Soviet-era radars and American Sidewinder missiles.
3- Unknown air defense system with missiles and elements from Patriot. 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces used the FrankenSAM air defense system for the first time in combat conditions. She shot down Shahed from a distance of 9 kilometers.
FrankenSAM is an air defense system created as a result of cooperation between the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Ministry of Strategic Industry. This hybrid system includes three air defense systems: the Soviet Buk with American RIM-7 Sea Sparrow missiles, AIM-9M air-to-air missiles using Soviet radars, and air defense systems based on Ukrainian legacy systems using elements and Patriot missiles . 
- All attention to Russia and Ukraine
More than 400 satellites of NATO countries are operating against Russia, 70 of them are de jure military, the rest are commercial, says Andrei Ilnitsky, adviser to Russian Defense Minister Shoigu. 
- New Ukrainian UAV with a jet engine. 
- The German Bundestag refused to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Out of 666 deputies, 178 voted in favor, 485 voted against, and three abstained. 
- US-supplied MIM-23 Hawk medium-range anti-aircraft missile in Ukraine. 
- Now the occupiers are actively preparing for possible military operations in Yevpatoria and are installing fortifications.
According to ATES, the following are being built there:
▪️ firing points at construction sites located on the coastline
▪️ long-term firing points
▪️ secret positions
▪️ "dragon teeth" with wire 
- “Zelensky said that people are needed, and in Europe there are about 800,000 people who broke the law and fled the country. We need to help Ukraine return these people,” Member of the European Parliament. 
- 🤦 According to Reuters, there is not a war in Ukraine, but a crisis
They called what is happening between Israel and Hamas war. 
- Near Avdiivka, the invaders attempted to break through with a column of armored vehicles, DeepState reports.
South of Merry Katsap, a column with more than 10 weapons and military equipment tried to pass the dachas and enter the city itself. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were repelled by Bradleys and FPV drones, and the Resists retreated. 
- Poland strengthened the law on mobilization
According to the new law, persons who evade conscription during hostilities or mobilization are subject to punishment of at least 5 years or morefreedom. In the event of mobilization, a citizen who has received a summons marked “immediately” is required to appear within six hours.
Poland will soon begin conscripting 230,000 people, including men born in 2005. 
- 14% of citizens of the superpower do not have a flush toilet
That is, more than 20 million Russians simply have a hole in the ground instead of a toilet. 
- The terrible consequences of a missile attack on Kharkov, - publishes OVA.
The occupiers fired two S-300 missiles from the direction of Belgorod.
17 people were injured, 13 of them are now in hospital. 
- Consequences of night shelling in the Odessa region
4 cars were burned, another 8 were damaged by the blast wave. A gas pipe, 2 balconies, an apartment on the second floor of a 5-story building caught fire, the façade of the house was partially destroyed. 
- France will provide Ukraine with 40 additional SCALP cruise missiles, - Macron.
France will also supply Ukraine with hundreds of bombs, and Macron will visit Kyiv in February, where he will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukraine. 
- Germany will almost double its military assistance to Ukraine, - Scholz.
The government will allocate more than 7 billion euros for military support in 2024 instead of 4 billion, as previously planned. 
- Hungary is ready to lift its veto on funding for Ukraine
Orban was afraid that his right to vote would be taken away. 
- TCC employees do not have the right to check the documents of citizens and forcefully detain them for mobilization, - Ombudsman Lubinets. 
- Russian channels have published a preliminary list of pilots of Russian A-50 and IL-22 aircraft that were demilitarized by the Ukrainian Armed Forces 
- The Russian Ministry of Defense reports a UAV attack in the Moscow region and, for the first time since the beginning of the war, over the Leningrad region
A UAV with 3 kg of explosives was aimed at the Petersburg Oil Terminal, the largest in the Baltic region (throughput capacity 12.5 million tons/year). 
- Damaged and destroyed military facilities in Crimea for 2023:
+ships, bridge and oil depots. 
- Poland has tightened the law on mobilization
According to the new law, during war or mobilization, all draft dodgers will face at least 5 years in prison.
The law also specifies that the mark “immediately” on the summons means that the mobilized person must appear at the place of appearance no later than six hours from the receipt of the summons. 
- Turkish and Chinese banks began to strictly monitor transactions with Russians due to US regulatory measures
Turkish companies exporting goods to Russia have encountered difficulties with payments due to inspections and audits by the authorities. The country has tightened control over transfers from Russia, Mustafa Gültepe, chairman of the Turkish Exporters' Assembly, told Reuters.
According to him, difficulties with Russian payments have become more frequent over the past 15-20 days. Gültepe noted that such situations had not previously arisen when working with Russian companies not included in Western sanctions lists.
Problems with money transfers from Russia to Turkey arose against the backdrop of regulatory measures by the Administrationtions on control of foreign assets of the US Treasury, a source in the Turkish banking industry told TASS. He noted that due to the “too broad wording,” Turkish banks, fearing secondary sanctions, had “the need to obtain additional clarification” from American officials.
Due to the same US regulatory measures, Chinese state banks have tightened the conditions for providing services to Russian clients, Bloomberg writes, citing sources. Over the past few weeks, at least two Chinese banks have begun rethinking their interactions with Russia and, most notably, cross-border transactions.
Chinese credit institutions are going to sever relations with clients from the sanctions lists, the agency notes, and stop providing any financial services to the Russian military sector, regardless of currency and location of operations.
In addition, Chinese lenders will strengthen due diligence on clients and determine whether they have ties to Russia. The checks will also affect foreigners who do business in Russia or supply critical goods there.
- Recently, the SBU reported the detention of a saboteur who installed GPS trackers near power line supports. It seems like nothing interesting, BUT:
This method of “targeting” indicates a huge CEP (Circular Probable Deviation) of the missile or Shahed-136 during an attack.
For at least some accuracy, they have to use radio beacons as a guidance method.
And here, at least partially, the consequences of the sanctions are visible - due to the replacement of original components, the performance characteristics are deteriorating.
Also, something interesting - judging by open data from the Internet, on January 13 (recent missile attack) 3-4 missiles fell on the territory of the Russian Federation, not reaching Ukraine.
At the same time, about 40 missiles were launched that day, and this indicates a significant percentage of missile production defects.
- According to some reports, the commander of long-range aviation of the Russian Air Force, Lieutenant General Oleg Vladimirovich Pchela, was on board the A-50 aircraft. 
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- How the A-50 was shot down according to Forbes:
Ukrainian Su-24s attacked the occupied Crimea. Several radars were disabled, suppressing Russian ground radar coverage;
Russian commanders ordered the A-50U to move further north to expand radar coverage over much of Crimea. Along with it was an Il-22M air command post;
The northernmost flight path of the A-50 is within the Patriot's range;
Patriot and S-300 were likely operating, turning on the latter's radar for a few seconds to obtain target data. And then they started launching rockets. 
- Vadim Khrasko, convicted of donations, died in a Belarusian colony. He became the fourth political prisoner to die in prison 
On the night of January 9, 50-year-old political prisoner Vadim Khrasko, who was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony in the case of donations, died in the Belarusian colony No. 3 “Vitba”. The official cause of death is pneumonia, the Belarusian service of Radio Liberty reports.
According to the Viasna human rights project, Khrasko had several diseases that began to progress after he ended up in the colony. The man became ill on the night of January 8th and was taken to the hospital, where he died from complications.
Vadim Khrasko was sentenced to three years in prison in the case of financing extremist activities (Article 361-2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus) in August 2023. The reason for the case against the man was donations, which, according to investigators, he sent to several organizations banned in Belarus.
Khrasko did not admit guilt and filed an appeal against the court decision. In October last year, the Supreme Court panel upheld the earlier sentence, despite the man's serious illness.
Khrasko, according to Viasna, became the fourth Belarusian political prisoner to die in prison.
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- Iran has never supplied Russia with drones and missiles for use in Ukraine, - Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian
“Ukraine has not provided Iran with any evidence that the Russian Federation is using Iranian weapons during a special operation,” he added. 
