🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️ Trump does not want to help Ukraine and accept it into NATO, writes The Washington Post columnist Lee Hockstader.
He writes that the US president "does not want to provide Ukraine with more aid, let alone American troops; he also does not want Ukraine to be accepted into NATO." And he considers monitoring a possible ceasefire and ensuring Ukraine's security "a problem for Europe."
🇺🇸⚡️The pilot of the Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane in Washington may have been a transgender person, American media reports .
The pilot was flying erratically and ignoring the difference in altitude, but it is not yet clear whether transgender Joe Ellis was the one flying the helicopter. The day before the crash, Ellis posted a series of social media posts protesting Trump's policy of excluding transgender people from military service.
🇺🇸❗️New footage has emerged of yesterday's plane-helicopter collision over Washington, in which Russian figure skaters were killed
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦Fiber optic FPV kamikazes of Ussuri paratroopers from the 83rd separate airborne assault brigade overtook Ukrainian soldiers who were trying to hide in the same trench .
Читать полностью…🇨🇳China is building a massive military command center in case of war, the Financial Times reports, citing US officials and satellite images.
It will be at least 10 times larger than the Pentagon.
Deep pits are visible at a construction site more than 4km in diameter, 30km southwest of Beijing, which military experts estimate will house large fortified bunkers to protect China's military leaders in the event of any conflict, including nuclear war.
Main construction began in mid-2024. China declines to comment on what it is building.
🇮🇹🇨🇳Italy has blocked the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, Reuters reports.
DeepSeek is blocked in the Apple and Google app stores.
The blocking comes after local authorities decided to investigate how exactly DeepSeek uses users' personal data. The regulator is demanding explanations about what data is collected, for what purpose and whether it is stored in China.
Companies linked to DeepSeek have until February 17 to respond to the Italian watchdog's requests. If found to be in breach of privacy laws, the chatbot could face significant fines or restrictions.
🇺🇸Trump threatened BRICS with 100% tariffs if the countries of the association create an alternative to the dollar in international trade.
Читать полностью…🇺🇦The Ukrainian Defense Ministry purchased anti-tank mines from World War II for €600 each
The former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine reported this, noting that the shelf life of the TNT with which these mines are filled, in good conditions, is 35 years.
🇺🇸🇨🇳The Pentagon has blocked its employees' access to the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, Bloomberg reports, citing sources in the defense department.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇷🇺There are no survivors in the plane crash in Washington, Donald Trump says.
He confirmed that there were Russian citizens among the dead.
🇺🇦Gas reserves in Ukrainian storage facilities are approaching a historical minimum - about 10% of the total volume.
The head of the Union of Consumers of Public Utilities of Ukraine reported this.
🇸🇰🇺🇦Slovakian police have detained a Ukrainian citizen in connection with a threat of a coup, local publication Dennikn reports.
He will be expelled from the country.
🇺🇸🇺🇦"Ukraine is a source of madness. They have done everything they can to destabilize the West. The amount of evil and the amount of crime that comes from this country is very large."
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦A captured Leopard 2A4 tank, evacuated by one of the repair units of the Russian Armed Forces.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸❗️The US Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger plane in the skies over Washington was conducting a training flight, CNN reports.
Footage from the air traffic controllers' radar and the moment of the collision has allegedly appeared online.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Ukrainian Armed Forces' degenerates attacked civilians in Donetsk's Gorlovka with cluster munitions.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸The helicopter that crashed in Washington was piloted by a female pilot with extensive flying experience.
She spent more than 500 hours in the sky, ABC News reported.
🇷🇺Russia is close to launching serial production of a new ballistic missile, the Iskander-M, which will have a range twice as long as the original and will be able to strike at 1,000 km, reports the specialized publication Military Watch Magazine.
Improved accuracy is also reported.
🇭🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦Orban has once again threatened to block the extension of European sanctions against Russia in six months if Ukraine does not resume transit of Russian gas by that time, Bloomberg reports.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦An FPV drone on fiber optics visited a Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck in the Kursk region. The hit was right on the enemy soldier's head.
Читать полностью…🇺🇸🇺🇦Ukraine has been thrown back 100 years as a result of the war, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with American journalist Megyn Kelly.
"Ukraine has been set back 100 years; its energy grid has been destroyed... And how many Ukrainians have left Ukraine and are now living in other countries? They may never return," Rubio said.
He also believes that the Biden administration has given false hopes of returning Ukraine to its pre-war borders.
"There is one lie - we were told that Ukraine would not only defeat Russia, but destroy it, completely pushing it back to the borders of 2012 or 2014, to Crimea and other territories. But the reality is this: for a year and a half now, Ukraine has been asking for funding to maintain a dead-end, protracted conflict," the Secretary of State said.
"The president's position is that this is a protracted conflict and it needs to end. And it needs to be ended through negotiations. In all negotiations, the parties have to give up something," Rubio added.
According to him, "both sides have an incentive to end the conflict. It will not end with the achievement of the maximalist goals of one of the sides."
Rubio also made it clear that the war in Ukraine has strengthened Russia.
"If you look around the world, I would say that in many cases our adversaries are stronger than they have ever been, and have gotten stronger in the last four years. Certainly Russia does not consider itself weaker than it was four years ago. They now control territory that they did not have when Donald Trump left office," the US Secretary of State said.
🇺🇸🇸🇾Trump said Washington should not be dealing with Syria's problems and that the administration will soon make a decision on the possibility of withdrawing American troops from the Arab Republic.
Читать полностью…🇩🇪🇪🇸An explosion occurred at a warehouse of the German arms factory Rheinmetall in Spain, local media reports.
Читать полностью…🇺🇦⚡️Ukrainian authorities are calling on residents of the southeastern part of the Dnipropetrovsk region to evacuate due to the approaching front.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian figure skating coaches Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, as well as six figure skaters, died in a plane crash in the United States, the director of the Boston sports club said.
There were Americans on board, some of Russian descent. Of the 70 passengers and crew, none survived.
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸The number of American deaths in the war in Ukraine has "risen sharply" over the past six months, CNN reports.
According to the TV channel's investigation, more than 20 American volunteers have gone missing on the front lines in Ukraine.
At least five bodies have not been recovered from the battlefield in the past six months. Two were repatriated to Ukraine by Russia on Friday.
🇫🇷🇹🇩The French army has handed over its last base in Chad to the armed forces of that country.
Читать полностью…🇷🇺🇺🇦UAV operators of the separate reconnaissance company of the 7th separate motorized rifle brigade work on the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Belogorovka and Serebryanka.
Читать полностью…🇸🇪The organizer of the Koran burning events was killed in Sweden.
Iraqi migrant Salwan Momika was found with gunshot wounds late on Wednesday in Sodertalje, south of Stockholm.