🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Almost no one thinks that Kellogg will be able to stop the Ukrainian conflict in 100 days, writes The Wall Street Journal.
It is noted that Trump intends to personally control the course of the negotiation process on Ukraine.
🇺🇦The Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny topped the Ukrainians' trust rating according to the research company Socis.
According to the study, Zaluzhny enjoys the trust of almost 72% of Ukrainians in one way or another.
In second place was the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, with a result of 46.7%.
Vladimir Zelensky rounds out the top three, with 40.8% of respondents expressing their trust in him.
🇭🇺🇺🇦Ukraine has lost a fifth of its country and their industry lies in ruins.
They cannot provide for their own existence, but they behave as if they are able to dictate their terms to Europe.
In fact, they are in the position of a petitioner, but one must also know how to ask.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
🇷🇺🇺🇦Russian troops are tightening the ring at Velikaya Novosyolka. The remnants of the 110th Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are effectively trapped in the village between the Kashlagach and Mokrye Yaly rivers.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦A couple of Russian T-72B3s with "tsar-barbecues" and electronic warfare systems somewhere at the front.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸⚡️ Trump announced the creation of the Stargate company in the US, which will invest $500 billion in the development of AI
The project will be backed by OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. It will help create about 100,000 jobs. The data centers will be built in Texas.
🇨🇿🇺🇦The Czech Republic will stop supplying shells to Ukraine if the opposition comes to power.
This was stated by the head of the shadow government of the largest opposition party of the Czech Republic ANO, Karel Havlíček, the publication Denik N reports.
Havlíček, who is also vice-president of ANO, the movement of former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, said the movement would not continue the initiative with ammunition for Ukraine if it entered the government.
"We will not continue the ammunition initiative. Not at all," Havlicek said.
🇺🇦🇷🇺🇪🇺There are about 30 military factories in Russia, 45 in Europe, but Europe cannot keep up with the pace of Russia's military production, Zelensky
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸Trump is "not confident" that the ceasefire in Gaza will last, CNN reports.
"I'm not sure. This is not our war, this is their war," the US president said from the Oval Office.
He noted that after 15 months of bombing, Gaza had become like a "place of mass destruction" and would have to be "rebuilt from scratch."
CNN notes that the peace deal with Hamas has left "extremist right-wing Israeli politicians" unhappy, believing that the ceasefire was a capitulation.
Netanyahu said on Sunday that "both President Trump and President Biden fully supported Israel's right to resume hostilities if Israel concludes that Phase B negotiations are futile."
Let us recall that today Israel announced the beginning of an Israeli "counter-terrorist operation" in the West Bank of the Jordan River, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️Netanyahu announced the start of Israel's "counter-terrorism operation" in the West Bank, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
He described the goal of Operation Iron Wall as "strengthening security."
During the war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel has repeatedly carried out military raids into the West Bank, claiming Palestinian attacks from there.
Recall that Israel recently reached an agreement with Hamas on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and an exchange of hostages. However, the Israeli far right, including members of the government, were unhappy with the deal.
🇺🇸⚡️Trump signed executive orders recognizing only two genders (male and female) in the United States and resuming the death penalty at the federal level.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸❗️ Elon Musk responded to accusations against him for making a Nazi gesture after Trump's inauguration:
Frankly, we need more effective dirty tricks. The "you're all Hitlers" attacks are so boring.
🇺🇸🇨🇺Trump reversed Biden's January 14 decision and returned Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Reuters reports.
It was Trump who added Cuba to this list in 2021.
The Cuban president called the US president's decision "an act of mockery and insult." Biden's decision last week came after Havana agreed to release more than 500 prisoners from its jails.
By the way, Trump's candidate for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, is an ethnic Cuban.
🇷🇺🇺🇦An armored vehicle Iveco LMV of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that did not quite make it to the destination.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦"I have half a day left." Trump responded to a question about whether he could end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, as he had previously promised.
He said he had only been on duty for half a day and added jokingly, "I still have half a day left."
Asked when he plans to resolve the conflict, Trump replied: "We will try to do it as quickly as possible."
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️Trump orders his special representative Kellogg to resolve the conflict in Ukraine in 100 days — WSJ
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️The United States has withdrawn all applications for the transit of goods in the interests of Ukraine through Rzeszow, Constanta and Varna.
All shipments of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine have been stopped at NATO bases in Europe.
According to preliminary estimates alone, we are talking about several thousand tons of weapons and military equipment.
All Pentagon employees involved in arms supplies to Kyiv have been fired or suspended.
A large-scale audit of the misuse of funds for aid to Ukraine begins.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Detection and destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' forward command post, several enemy UAV crews, and river boats hidden under a camouflage net under the arches of the bridge. All this - under the Antonovsky Bridge.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦The Pentagon has fired or suspended everyone who was responsible for Ukraine, Ukrainian journalist Roman Bochkala, who is currently in the United States, reported.
"Everyone who was responsible for Ukraine has been fired or suspended. Or they will be transferred to other positions somewhere. A complete reboot. So there will definitely be changes. A new format of relations," he wrote on Facebook following a meeting with journalists from The Washington Post.
Earlier today, Secretary of State Rubio said that ending the war in Ukraine would be a key point of US policy.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️ The issue of further US arms supplies to Kiev is under consideration — Trump
He also called the introduction of new sanctions against Russia “likely.”
But only if the Russian leadership does not agree to negotiations on Ukraine.
🇺🇦🇪🇺Here's a meme: Zelensky wants Europe to send at least (!) 200 thousand peacekeepers to Ukraine to guarantee security after the end of the war.
This is despite the fact that Europe as a whole has no more than 300 thousand combat-ready people.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces liberated the village of Nikolayevo-Daryino in the Kursk border region.
Читать полностью…🇸🇰Fico said that the Slovak opposition is “preparing for the Maidan.”
"I can't name names, I can't name circumstances, but I can say with all seriousness that the Slovak opposition is preparing for the Maidan. The Slovak opposition is preparing to occupy government buildings, will resist the work of the government, will cooperate with foreign forces," the Slovak prime minister said at a press conference with Orban.
Before this, Slovak counterintelligence announced the preparation of an operation to destabilize Slovakia.
Let us recall that the Slovak opposition visited Kiev last week, where they met with Zelensky.
🇵🇱🇺🇸Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has asked Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to advise Polish consulates in the United States to be prepared for possible deportations of Poles from the United States.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺Russia's external debt as of January 1, 2025 decreased by $27.5 billion to $290.4 billion — Central Bank of the Russian Federation
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇸After Trump's inauguration, the ruble strengthened against the dollar.
On the international Forex market, the dollar exchange rate fell to 100 rubles/dollar for the first time since December 27.
🇺🇦🇷🇺In Smolensk, a drone hit an apartment building at night. Several apartments caught fire.
Presumably, the target of the attack was the Smolensk aircraft plant.
🇺🇸One of the first executive orders signed by Trump was to suspend all U.S. foreign aid programs for 90 days to assess their consistency with U.S. national interests and foreign policy goals.
Currently, Ukraine is one of the main recipients of aid from the United States.
🇺🇸Trump announced the start of a trade war with his neighbors - Canada and Mexico. He also threatened to start a trade war with the European Union and the BRICS countries.
Trump announced that he plans to impose a 25% tariff on all goods from Canada and Mexico starting February 1.
The US may impose trade tariffs of at least 100% on the BRICS countries, Trump said.
He also said that the US could impose tariffs on European goods. To prevent this from happening, Trump demanded that Europe buy more oil and gas from the US.
Trump also confirmed that he will require NATO countries to spend at least 5% of GDP on defense.