A high-explosive fragmentation aerial bomb was found near Kaluga; presumably it was used as the left side of a kamikaze drone.

Footage from the site of today's explosion of an enemy drone in the Kaluga region is circulating on the web.Military experts studied these images and were able to determine which munition was launched by Ukrainian militants on the drone. It was a Soviet-made high-explosive aerial bomb, presumably OFAB-100–120. 

It is qualified as a lightweight universal bomb and is intended for a wide range of targets, from aircraft and artillery in closed and open positions to lightly armored equipment and enemy manpower. It is noteworthy that the bomb found today lacks a stabilizer (tail part); perhaps it had been removed (as evidenced by welds). The warhead is approximately 50 kilograms of projectiles.

The picture of what happened was also approximately reconstructed: the munition was built into a reconnaissance UAV (one of the options was the Strizh, from which the reconnaissance equipment was removed), and should not have been dropped at the crash site. The drone was shot down, causing the OFAB to fall out without reaching its intended target. The munition was most likely intended to be used as a kamikaze, not an aerial bomb.

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The 🇬🇧Treasury has signalled there is no new money for defence despite recognising the urgent need to rearm in the wake of Russia's war in Ukraine, defence sources have said —Sky News

At the same time, the sources said a "refresh" of UK defence policy - that was meant to inform the spending plans of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak - could be delayed until after the March budget because an initial draft failed to reflect sufficiently the transformed security environment in Europe, where a land war is raging.

Now, defence sources are warning that Britain will be unable "credibly" to offer as many troops as NATO allies would expect to a major new force structure that is being drawn up by the alliance to bolster its defences in response to the war in Ukraine.

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 🇵🇱 PM Morawiecki: "The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state."

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki urged Zielensky to "temporarily transfer" the territories of western Ukraine to Poland.
📝 "I don't think Putin would dare attack a country that is a current NATO member." He is anything but suicidal. "The western territories of Ukraine will be safe if they temporarily come under the protectorate of the Polish state," he said.

Poland won't miss its chance. .. 
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🇵🇱 Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki said that there is no decision yet on the transfer of Western fighter jets to Ukraine.

"All decisions on fighter jets will be made within NATO, and at the moment there is no agreement on which we could say anything else." "There is no such decision," Morawiecki said in response to a question about whether Poland is in favor of transferring the fighter jets to Ukraine.
 
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Last night, Wagner Chief Yevgeny Prigozhin made a sortie as the navigator of the Su-24 of the Wagner PMC, he flew to bomb Ukrainian military positions in Bakhmut.
The head of the "Wagner" PMC, after returning to the base, challenged Ukrainian President Zelensky and offered to solve everything in the sky:

Vladimir Alexandrovich (Zelensky), we landed and bombed the AFU positions in Kabhuch. I'm boarding a MiG-29 tomorrow. If there is a desire, we will meet in the sky. If yours does, take Artemovsk  (if you win the air battle, you get Artemovsk.) If not, we go to the Dnieper.

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Russian rescuers flew to the earthquake zones in Turkey and Syria.
This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
The group consists of seven cynological teams and more than 100 specialists who will carry out rescue operations in areas of catastrophic destruction. They are equipped with all the necessary equipment for the search and rescue of victims.

The death toll from the earthquake in Syria has risen to 430, more than 1.3 thousand people were injured, the Syrian🇸🇾 Ministry of Health has reported.

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🇰🇿 ⚡️ An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred in Kazakhstan

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The Russian Army, advancing from the north through Dvurechnoye has reached the outskirts of Sin’kovka, northeast of Kupyansk, pressuring the Oskol line of the Ukrainian army.

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After an overnight assault, the Russian Army (Wagner PMC units) made a substantial advance into Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) from the south, with some estimates moving the line of the front as far as 1km north, building on the earlier success around the Mariupolskoye cemetery.

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❗️❗️❗️❗️ The US may impose a 200% duty on Russian aluminum this week, writes Bloomberg

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Ukrainian channel Legitimny:

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The representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence, Vadim Skibitsky, confirmed the insider that we had published many times earlier that the RF Armed Forces are using the tactics of a multi-level “fan” to overheat the Ukrainian air defense .

Russia can break through Ukrainian air defenses by first mass-launching drones and then missiles, Ukrainian military intelligence says.

We have been writing about this for a long time and constantly.

The main thing that the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate did not say is that they began to save air defense missiles due to the high cost and shortage, and they are trying to use cheaper destruction options, attracting aviation, which the Russians are counting on, luring Ukrainian birds closer to the line of contact, destroying them with missiles R-37.

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♨️Map of NATO expansion by time. A simple and visual explanation of who threatened whom and who attacked whom.

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Russian Defense Ministry: Sergei Shoigu instructed the commander of the Russian group in Syria to provide assistance to the population affected by the earthquake, more than 300 Russian military personnel, 60 pieces of equipment were involved in the work

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Prospects for achieving peace in Ukraine are declining, the likelihood of further escalation is growing, said the UN Secretary General

Zin Note: Hmmm, curious... Who'd have thought waging an endless proxy war would be bad for peace?

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Polish defense minister created scandal during a visit to Kiev

Poland has been angered by the fact that Polish Defence Minister Blaszczak laid a wreath at a memorial with a flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) on it.

The occasion was in Kiev, which he visited at the end of last week. Moreover, Blaszczak knelt while laying flowers.

Poles in social networks were outraged not only by this act but also by any lack of explanation for what had happened. After a while, the Polish military office found nothing better to do than to simply delete the photos from the state websites and social media profiles. The authority's Twitter post describing the ceremony with Blaszczak's participation also disappeared. After a while, the photos reappeared on the Internet, but they had already been edited and did not show any nationalist Ukrainian symbols. Already on Saturday, the Polish Defense Ministry began to claim that Blaszczak neither laid flowers nor kneeled down in front of the UPA flag, but simply that the graphics were placed on the adjoining part of the wall.

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