🇪🇺🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — The Guardian:

The European Union Weighs Plan to Deploy 120 Fighter Jets to Protect Kyiv and Western Ukraine from Russian Strikes

🚢🇷🇺🇨🇳 OFAC Sanctions Reveal Houthis Coordinated Safe Passage for Russian and Chinese Ships Through Red Sea

New sanctions by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have revealed that Houthi leaders actively coordinated with Russian and Chinese officials to ensure their vessels would not be targeted during the group’s ongoing maritime attacks in the Red Sea.

According to Treasury documents, Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, a prominent member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, explicitly guaranteed safe passage for Russian vessels while maintaining drone and missile attacks against other commercial shipping in the region. Al-Houthi has also been planning discussions with Russian officials regarding military aid to the Houthi group.

“Amid the Houthis’ ongoing maritime attack campaign, Mohamed Ali has communicated with officials from Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to ensure that Houthi militants do not strike Russian or PRC vessels transiting the Red Sea,” OFAC stated in its announcement. “Speaking on behalf of the Houthis, Mohamed Ali has outlined the Houthis’ commitment to guarantee safe passage for Russian vessels.”

https://gcaptain.com/ofac-sanctions-reveal-houthis-coordinated-safe-passage-for-russian-and-chinese-ships-through-red-sea/

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Institute for the Study of War on X: Putin notably has not made any ceasefire offers since Trump assumed office on January 20. Kremlin officials instead formally rejected the possibility of a ceasefire on any terms other than Ukraine's and the West's complete capitulation in late February 2025.

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The focus will be particularly on 'violent content,' and for now, the response will be limited to warnings; however, Reddit may consider adding 'additional actions' in the future.

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🌕 Intuitive Machines is targeting their Moon landing no earlier than 12:32 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 6.

🚀 NASA’s PRIME-1 suite recently completed its health check during transit, meaning the payload is ready for operations upon landing.

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sets-coverage-for-intuitive-machines-second-private-moon-landing/

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🌐❌🇷🇺 — Russia’s Sergey Lavrov:

“If European troops enter Ukraine, this won’t be a proxy war anymore. It’ll be NATO fighting Russia directly”

🔗 Open Source Intel (@Osint613)

🏳🗣🇺🇸🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 🏳 Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a interview to Fox News said that the war in Ukraine is a proxy war waged by USA against Russia:

“President Trump views this as a protracted, stalemated conflict, and frankly, it’s a proxy war between nuclear powers: the United States, helping Ukraine, and Russia”

🇺🇸🇷🇺❗️The US and Russia need to reset relations to end the conflict in Ukraine, said Trump's special envoy Kellogg.

🇧🇪🇺🇦❗️Belgium has again postponed the delivery of F-16s to Ukraine

Earlier, it was reported that the delivery would be postponed until the end of the year, and today at the EU summit, Prime Minister Bart de Wever announced that this would not happen before 2026.

🇺🇸📞🇺🇦❗️ — Trump envoy General Kellogg:

Resumption of US military aid to Kyiv depends on its readiness to settle and sign a deal on fossil fuels and minerals

🏳🗣🇺🇦❌😵‍💫 — 📰 Politico | Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents | As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team | March 6, 2025:

"KYIV — Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job.

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert.

The discussions centered on whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections. These are being delayed in line with the country’s constitution because Ukraine remains under martial law."

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🇷🇺❌🇪🇺🕊 — Russian MFA rejects ceasefire talks, calls it unnaceptable

➡️ Moscow has flatly rejected proposals for a one-month halt in fighting or a pause in aerial and naval attacks, dismissing calls from Zelensky and Macron.

➡️ Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova made it clear: Russia won’t accept a “respite” without firm agreements on a final settlement.

🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸🇸🇦 — 🇫🇷 AFP on 𝕏:

"#BREAKING US envoy says pleased by Zelensky 'apology' over White House row"

🔗 AFP News Agency (@AFP)

"#BREAKING Ukraine, US delegations are expected to meet Tuesday in Riyadh, a senior Kyiv official tells AFP"

🔗 AFP News Agency (@AFP)

🇨🇳🪶🗯🇺🇸 — 🇨🇳 Chinese Embassy in US quoting on 𝕏 the MFA of China ["Spokesperson发言人办公室"]:

"If the U.S. truly wants to solve the #fentanyl issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals.

If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end."

🔗 Chinese Embassy in US (@ChineseEmbinUS)

"The fentanyl issue is a flimsy excuse to raise U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. Our countermeasures to defend our rights and interests are fully legitimate and necessary.

The U.S., not anyone else, is responsible for the #FentanylCrisis inside the U.S. In the spirit of humanity and goodwill towards the American people, we have taken robust steps to assist the U.S. in dealing with the issue. Instead of recognizing our efforts, the U.S. has sought to smear and shift blame to China, and is seeking to pressure and blackmail China with tariff hikes. They’ve been PUNISHING us for helping them. This is not going to solve the U.S.’s problem and will undermine our counternarcotics dialogue and cooperation.

Intimidation does not scare us. Bullying does not work on us. Pressuring, coercion or threats are not the right way of dealing with China. Anyone using maximum pressure on China is picking the wrong guy and miscalculating. If the U.S. truly wants to solve the fentanyl issue, then the right thing to do is to consult with China by treating each other as equals.

If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we’re ready to fight till the end."

🔗 Spokesperson发言人办公室 (@MFA_China)