⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a significant decline in internet connectivity in St. Croix, the U.S. Virgin Islands; the incident is attributed to a water infiltration in the system due to high winds and rain at the Estate Richmond Power Plant per the Water & Power Authority ⚡️

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — Israeli Prime-Minister Netanyahu to Sky News Arabia: The Israeli army received orders to prepare to move into the city of Rafah

https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1755287814739042400

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ — Israeli Prime-Minister Netanyahu: The Final Victory is within reach for Israel, it's a matter of months

🌍🔥❗️ — 🇺🇳 Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres:

"Our world is entering an age of chaos."

⚠️ Confirmed: Network data show a series of ongoing disruptions to leading #Poland internet provider Play/P4; the incident is attributed to a cyberattack by Russia-linked hackers and hacking group Anonymous Sudan seeking to hinder remote repairs of NATO equipment in Ukraine 📉

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇨‼️🇷🇺 — The US affirms that it will send to Ukraine the Russian weapons that Ecuador will deliver to Washington.

➡️ The Russian military equipment that Ecuador announced it would deliver to the US in exchange for more modern ones could be sent to Ukraine, said Kevin Sullivan, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the US State Department, in an interview with the Ecuadorian television channel Teleamazonas. "It is an arrangement to transfer equipment to the Government of Ukraine," he said.

⚠️ At the same time, the US official acknowledged that a decision has not yet been made, and that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa is studying it. "These are decisions of the Ecuadorian Government and are still under consideration," Sullivan stated.

🔼 Regarding the assistance to be provided to Ecuador, the Deputy Secretary pointed out that bilateral cooperation will focus on security and economic cooperation.

"We were all shocked by the attacks in Ecuador, and we want to further improve cooperation. We are reviewing the security programs we have to strengthen law enforcement capabilities in dealing with criminal organizations and also to support the Government of Ecuador in finding solutions to economic challenges."

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🇮🇱📉 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | In A First, Moody's Downgrades Israel Credit Rating As War Takes Toll | February 10, 2024:

"For the first time in its history, the State of Israel has seen its credit rating downgraded, as Moody's on Friday took the country's rating down one notch to A2, and said the rating outlook going forward is negative.

The country's ongoing war with Hamas and occupation of Gaza will “materially raise political risk for Israel as well as weaken its executive and legislative institutions and its fiscal strength, for the foreseeable future,” said Moody's, which added that the conflict will create deficits over upcoming years that “will be significantly larger than expected before the conflict.”

The war, now in its fifth month, began on Oct. 7, when Hamas militants shocked Israel with an invasion from Gaza in which military raids and terrorist acts took the lives of 1,139 people, including 695 civilians. The death toll from the Israel Defense Force's retaliation is now reportedly approaching 28,000."

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🇭🇺💬🇦🇹 — 🇷🇺 Russian media TASS on Telegram:

"🗣 The main statements of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a conversation with former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel:

▪️The European Union is not strong enough for Russia to take it seriously;

▪️The Russian Federation will never accept Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO; the chance for Kyiv’s integration into these structures was missed at the North Atlantic Alliance summit in Bucharest in 2008;

▪️Serbia must join the European Union as quickly as possible, otherwise Belgrade will choose cooperation with other partners, and Brussels will lose this country;

▪️The conclusion of a direct agreement on the security architecture in Europe between Russia and the United States without the participation of the European Union is the main danger for the EU;

▪️The Ukrainian conflict will not end this year, but Budapest will do everything possible for a ceasefire and the start of peace negotiations;

▪️The era of Western dominance in the global economy is over, its center of gravity is shifting to the Asia-Pacific region.‌‌"

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