Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said he expects a serious escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.

"Western tanks are fantastic—"Challengers," "Leopards," and "Abrams"—all these are great vehicles, but they will not be enough." After that, I expect a decision on sending [F-16 fighters] from the Americans and a complete escalation of the war. "I expect a lot of bad news, and I think it's important to leave our personal interests aside, because we don't have a spare Homeland."

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According to a Ukrainian MP, the hryvnia exchange rate will not be returned to the level of early 2022.

The head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax, and Customs Policy, Hetmantsev, said that the Ukrainian currency will never return to pre-SMO values.

📝 "While the war is going on, the pressure on the exchange rate will remain, but if the aid will come in the same volumes, I don't see any strong prerequisites for a significant correction of the official exchange rate." We had a positive balance of payments during the third and fourth quarters of the previous year, which is also good. "That's why I don't see any reasons for a significant drop in the exchange rate, but I also don't see any reasons for the exchange rate to go back to the pre-war period," said Getmantsev.

In January 2022, the exchange rate was about 27 hryvnias per dollar. Now the currency is trading at 40 hryvnias per dollar.

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Relatives of captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers are asking not to return them home. First Deputy Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said:

"It is getting to the point where the mothers and wives of Ukrainian soldiers, in their appeals to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, are asking to leave their loved ones in our country so that they are not sent back to fight."

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Former advisor to the Ukrainian president's office, Arestovich, has begun to prepare Ukrainians for the worst. He said: "87% of our society says that the liberation of all Ukrainian territory by military means is our goal." Another 4% say they are ready to bargain for Crimea, but Donbass is definitely a military option. Now the question is, what if that doesn't happen? What will happen to the society, which had inflated expectations and, as a result, received the conditional Minsk-3? It's the return spring of unrealized expectations that will kick us, our morals, and everything else, so much so that we'll just be stunned. That's why the way out of this war may be quite different from what we all thought six months ago, or even three months ago. And not because the insidious Americans don't give us weapons, but because, in principle, we need about 400 thousand perfectly trained troops, armed from head to toe with NATO weapons. to seriously grind it all up and liberate the territory. Do we have it? No. Will we have it in the next year? not going to happen. So the moral of this fable is simple. Are we, as a society, ready for a different outcome than we thought we'd get? We're not. [Not ready because no one has ever talked about it in principle.] So I decided to talk about it.
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Ukraine may already have nuclear weapons.

This was stated by the former commander of the ground forces of Poland, General Waldemar Skrzypczak, in an interview with Radio ZET.
"I do not rule out that Ukraine has nuclear weapons, because Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories, and the technology." That is, they have everything they need to have such a weapon.
"In principle, today no one will forbid Ukrainians to have it," he said.

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The U.S. intelligence community has linked the Chinese spy balloon shot down on Saturday to a vast surveillance program run by the People’s Liberation Army, and U.S. officials have begun to believe allies and partners who have been similarly targeted.

The surveillance balloon effort, which has operated for several years partly out of Hainan province off China’s south coast, has collected information on military assets in countries and areas of emerging strategic interest to China including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines, according to several U.S. officials, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

Officials have said these surveillance airships, operated in part by the PLA air force, have been spotted over five continents

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🇺🇦 Bodies of the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are found without vital organs in the morgue of the city hospital in Nikolaev.

Corpses of soldiers without organs or signs of injury appeared in the city morgue on Volodarsky Street.

📝 "We have already begun to see how corpses of fighters without injuries are used for organ harvesting," said the activist of the Nikolaev underground.

The Ukrainian authorities often do not include the mobilized citizens of the region in any government list or record, and when they are killed, the Ukrainian authorities neither investigate the circumstances of death nor care for the storage and handling of corpses. Illegal transplantologists take full advantage of this crisis. 

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Arrestovich on Zelenski's psychology: Zelenski is a weak man, he has two keys - petty ego and fear. The guards do not let anyone near him. They break him psychologically and put him in fear. And at the same time, he arrives at the 95th quarter performance, jumps on stage, and dances, the president of the country, in front of the audience. Psychologically speaking, this means a split personality. He lives in two worlds. In one, he is scared and attacked by villains. On the other, he is loved and there in a familiar atmosphere. And no one tries to build bridges between these worlds, they are carefully broken.

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🇺🇦 "Did I call you??": the summoner drags the connoscript into the car

Harsh reactions of "voluntary" mobilization in Ukraine.

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Biden delivered his annual State of the Union address yesterday. What he said about Ukraine:

1. Called the Russian invasion a "test of the century" for the United States and the world, and promised to support Ukraine for as long as it takes.

2. He stated that the States united NATO and created a global coalition to counter Russia in Ukraine.

3. Biden attributed record inflation to the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The words "Ukraine" and "Ukrainian" are mentioned three times in Biden's speech, Putin's name - four times, and the word "Russia" - never. The word "China" - six times.

As for China, the United States, according to Biden, does not seek conflict, but competition with China. "Today we are in the strongest position in decades to compete with China or anyone else in the world," the president added.

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Ukrainian armed forces face an acute shortage of officers and enlisted personnel in the SMO zone - Marochko

LNR military officer Andriy Marochko has said that the Ukrainian militants have an acute shortage of qualified specialists both among their rank-and-file and officer personnel. According to him, the shortage of highly specialized military personnel amounts to 50%.

"Around 65% of officers have no special education (courses at best), most of them have less than a year of military service, and about 80% gained combat experience in the course of the SMO," Marochko said.

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AFU soldier hit by Ru sniper.

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