⚡️ On January 28, Ukrainian forces launched a HIMARS rocket at a hospital in Novoaydar in the LPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The MoD announced that:

▪️14 hospital patients and medical personnel were killed and 24 others were wounded as a result the attack;

▪️The hospital staff have assisted the local population and military personnel for months;

▪️The deliberate attack on an operating medical facility is a severe war crime by the Kiev regime;

▪️Those behind the attack will be found and held responsible.

Truth About Tanks: How NATO Lied Its Way to Disaster in Ukraine

💬 "Training is expensive. NATO is currently providing Ukraine with three types of Western main battle tank: the British Challenger 2, the German Leopard 2, and the American M1A2. There is no unified training course — each tank requires its own unique training prospectus that is not directly transferable to another system," writes Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer.

❗️"The decentralized training processes created by such a diverse approach promotes inefficiencies and generates discrepancies in outcome—one crew will not be like another, which in combat, where units are supposed to be interchangeable to promote predictable outcomes if all other circumstances remain the same, is usually fatal."

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❗️LPR authorities have published a video showing the consequences of a HIMARS rocket strike on a hospital in Novoaydar

What is Russia’s T-90M Tank and How Does It Stack Up Against NATO’s Top Armor?

Can the US and its NATO allies flood Ukraine with enough heavy armor to defeat Russia's T-90 main battle tanks? If so, how? If not, why not?

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Protesters rallied around the White House in Washington, DC on Friday following the release of body cam footage of Tyre Nichols being beaten by police

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💬 Russia's ex-President Dmitry Medvedev lambasts German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for her remark about the EU “fighting a war against Russia”

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Senior US General Predicts War With China in 2025, Urges Airmen to Prepare to Come Home in Body Bags

China is making preparations to invade Taiwan and this will lead to a shooting war involving the US, and airmen should get their earthly affairs in order accordingly, Air Force Mobility Command chief General Mike Minihan has said.

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🇬🇷 Greek island of Zakynthos ravaged by torrential rains

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Is Ex-President Out of Luck? Not So Fast: What US Polls Say About Trump, DeSantis' 2024 Bid

A number of conflicting surveys have emerged, with some concluding that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis would beat Donald Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination by landslide numbers, while others say the former president leads his competitor by two-digit points.

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EXCLUSIVE: Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Blasts Berlin's 'Extremely Dangerous' Decision on Tanks for Kiev

💬 “A large proportion of German citizens are truly appalled that the German government of Chancellor [Olaf] Scholz and the Greens’ Foreign Minister [Annalena] Baerbock has agreed to this delivery of weapons and tanks from Germany,” former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache told Sputnik’s German sister agency, SNA.

The former vice chancellor fears that Russia can now freely characterize Berlin’s actions as those of a warring party, and that the tank delivery could not only escalate the crisis in Ukraine, but threaten to turn the security crisis into a full-blown European war.

Strache called for the creation of a “strong German, international and non-partisan peace movement” which can resist further escalation. “We will be able to end the madness of war and prevent the conflict from escalating only through peace negotiations,” he stressed.

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Why Biden Administration is in Panic Mode Over Forthcoming Debt Ceiling Battle With GOP

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is "nervous" about the probability of the US defaulting on its debt which could translate into nothing short of a "catastrophe" for the nation, she said during her Africa trip.

However, regardless of apocalyptic scenarios depicted by the Biden administration, the Republicans are sharpening their spears for the upcoming debt ceiling fight, according to the US press.

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🇦🇴 🛰 Angola opens its first satellite control center

Inaugurated by the country’s President Joao Lourenco, the station’s main task is to monitor the activity of the satellite “ANGOSAT 2,” launched in October 2022 with the help of Russia.

🗣 “With the launch of this satellite and its commissioning, Angola will win in all services, so we will improve our telecommunications and our social communication and will also benefit from this important project,” the president said.

Lourenco pointed out that his government will continue making “further investments to ensure that our telecommunications contribute to the development of the country and the services of our economy.”

The southern African country launched its first satellite “ANGOSAT 1” in December 2017 with the help of a Russian rocket, but the satellite run out of control as soon as it entered orbit.

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📹 Russian MiG-31 crews patrol the skies over the special operation zone (video courtesy of Russia’s MoD)

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🏆 The Chinese Olympic Committee on Saturday expressed its agreement with the stance of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) to allow, among others, Russian and Belarusian athletes to participate in international tournaments under neutral status.

The statement also said that the committee would "actively support the IOC and the OCA's initiatives and decisions" and was ready to establish a platform for the joint protection of all athletes, including professional Russian and Belarusian athletes, to protect Olympic values.

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🤖 Japanese robotics start-up develops spider-like robots to maintain sewer pipes

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Russian Diplomat: US Complicit in Ukrainian HIMARS Attack on Donbass Hospital That Killed 14 People

The Ukrainian troops targeted a hospital in Novoaydar in the Lugansk People's Republic (LPR) using the US-made multiple rocket launcher system HIMARS, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday. As a result, 14 people were killed and 24 others injured.

Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky has blamed the United States for the Ukrainian attack on a hospital in the Donbass, saying that the use of the HIMARS rocket launchers was green-lit by Washington, which made the US "directly complicit."

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💃 Hey, Big Spender: West pops its cork for Ukraine

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Russia Unwilling to Hold Talks With Tokyo on Fishing Near Kuril Islands

Moscow has informed Tokyo that, due to anti-Russian measures taken by the Japanese government, Russia cannot agree on the holding of intergovernmental consultations on marine fishing cooperation in the area of the southern Kuril Islands, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik.

"In the context of the anti-Russian measures taken by the Japanese government, which obviously run counter to the spirit and letter of the 1998 agreement on strengthening and developing good neighborliness, the Russian side has informed Tokyo that it could not agree on holding intergovernmental consultations on the implementation of this agreement," the ministry said in a statement.

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❗️A bus plunged off a bridge and burst into flames, local media has reported.

"The dead bodies... are beyond recognition," Hamza Anjum, a senior official of Lasbela district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province said.

The bus was believed to have been carrying 48 passengers when it hit a pillar on the bridge and fell off.