📹 Russian 152mm Giatsint-S self-propelled gun crews in combat action as part of the special military operation (video by Russia's MoD)

Personnel apply roving gun tactics: within one minute, they fire 5 or 6 shots, and change their positions.

Fire adjustment is performed by reconnaissance groups with unmanned aerial vehicles.

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Turkiye Has Many Allies in NATO, Not Reliant Only on US, Ankara Says

"There are hundreds of issues which are taken by NATO bureaucracy and agencies. So, the US is not Turkiye's only ally in NATO. We have many ongoing and functioning mechanisms within NATO with other members and other allies," Cagri Erhan, a Foreign Policies Council said. The official noted that US activities in Syria are a clear example of this kind of non-friendly actions against Turkiye. And its backing of Greece in the Aegean Sea and eastern Mediterranean is also creating some concerns in Ankara.

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❗️Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️The Russian Army eliminated up to 45 Ukrainian soldiers, two armored combat vehicles and three pickups close to Kupyansk;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed up to 160 Ukrainian soldiers, one tank, three infantry fighting vehicles, five armored fighting vehicles, three other vehicles and a Grad multiple rocket launcher system close to Krasny Liman;

▪️ In Donetsk region, the Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 225 Ukrainian troops, five infantry fighting vehicles, nine armored fighting vehicles, five pickups, four other vehicles, a Uragan MLRS rocket and a D-30 howitzer. In addition, an ordnance depot and US-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar was destroyed;

▪️ Russian artillery neutralized up to 65 Ukrainian personnel, two armored fighting vehicles, two pickups, as well as the fighting vehicles equipped with Uragan and Grad MLRS in South Donetsk and Zaporozhye direction;

▪️ In Kherson direction, Russian troops destroyed three armored fighting vehicles, eight motor vehicles, and an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer;

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▪️ A self-propelled launching ramp of Ukrainian Buk-M1 air defense missile system was destroyed in the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, a guidance radar of the Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile system was destroyed near Andreyevka in DPR;

▪️ A US-manufactured AN/TPQ-37 counterbattery warfare radar was destroyed in Zaporozhye direction;

▪️ Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down a Su-27 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force in Zaporozhye region. In addition, one Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter has been shot down in the DPR;

▪️ Russian air defense facilities shot down a MiG-29 airplane of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR;

▪️ Russian troops destroyed 15 rocket-propelled projectiles, launched by HIMARS and Uragan MLRS, as well as nine unmanned aerial vehicles in Kharkov region in the LPR, in DPR, Zaporozhye and Sumy regions.

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Russia’s Kalashnikov Plans to Roll Out Advanced Fire Control System for Small Arms

The Kalashnikov Concern is developing a sophisticated fire control system for small arms, the company’s spokesman Sergey Urzhumtsev told Russian media

“The idea of creating such a system looks attractive because it is capable of integrating all tasks a sniper needs to implement when on a mission. In particular, he needs to understand the distance to the target, select the desired aiming angles, as well as allow for wind and precipitation. At present, all this is conducted by the sniper himself, along with a fire controller,” the experts said.

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Finland Seeks to Reduce Economic Dependency on China

Half of the cell phones used in Finland come from China, as do about two-thirds of all laptops and numerous other key goods, which puts a question mark over the sustainability of the Finnish economy.

Finland is heavily reliant on China, and it is high time to tackle the situation and take a closer look at this dependency, Nina Vaskunlahti the Finnish Foreign Ministry has stated.

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Riga court keeps Sputnik Lithuania editor Kasem in prison for another 2 months

A Latvian court upheld its previous decision on Monday to leave Sputnik Lithuania editor Marat Kasem in prison for another two months, denying the appeal to change the measure. Kasem will have to stay in Riga Central Prison for another 60 days, after which he will be allowed to appeal again.

Kasem is a citizen of Latvia and has been living and working in Moscow for several years in the Rossiya Segodnya media group, which also includes Sputnik Lithuania. On December 30, the journalist arrived in Latvia for family reasons. He was detained, and on January 5, the Riga court took him into custody.

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🇺🇸🇹🇷🇸🇾 US Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake has been asked for clarification in connection with the visit of US Chief of Staff Mark Milli to northeast Syria on March 4, sources in the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

Officially, Damascus also criticized the visit, calling it a blatant violation of sovereignty.

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Charlie Bronson Hopeful for Parole After Nearly 50 Years in Jail

Charles Bronson, who is now 70 years old, has been incarcerated for almost his entire adult life due to a series of violent crimes committed against fellow prisoners, staff, and visitors. Initially sentenced to seven years in 1974, his term has been repeatedly extended.

As his next parole hearing approaches, Bronson has expressed optimism about the possibility of being granted parole after almost five decades behind bars.

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📹 Combat use of new-generation precision-guided munitions (video by Russia's MoD)

The ammunition was fired at a hangar established by intelligence, in which the Ukrainian military hid armored vehicles while they carried out maintenance and repair.

💥 The high-precision munition broke through the ceiling and exploded inside the hangar. As a result, the armored vehicles and vehicles of the Ukrainian army located there were destroyed.

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🇮🇳India intends to purchase jetpacks to patrol its borders from the air.

A week ago, a special jetpack demonstration took place at the Indian Army Airborne School (AATS) in Agra.

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📹 The Russian duo of Vovan and Lexus are famous for having pranked via phone a number of high-profile politicians, such as Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace, US special envoy Nikki Haley, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, among others.

📍 Sometimes they speak on behalf of their previous "victims": for example, last year, they talked to George Bush, J.K. Rowling and Ian McKellen using the personality of the president of Ukraine. Often during the pranks, it is possible to learn funny or shocking things from unsuspecting "victims" that are usually not talked about publicly: Sputnik presents a selection of five funny pranks from the duet.

By the way, do you know what does “anglichanka gadit” from the conversation with Priti Patel mean? 😉

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❗️ The United States did not issue visas to Russian diplomats who were going to take part in a UN event in New York, a representative of the Russian delegation said.

Managing Editor of CovertAction Magazine Jeremy Kuzmarov joined us to discuss German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s quiet meeting with US President Joe Biden in Washington, as well as the German’s attitude to the tight bilateral relationship

💬”This is causing many, many people to question the issue of sovereignty and how close actually Germany are to the United States. And many voices are saying they should take a more independent path,” he stated

🎧Listen to more of Kuzmarov’s analysis in our podcast Fault Lines

🌍🇷🇺 Russia's former president Dmitry Medvedev says that French influence in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is drastically declining as truly sovereign countries are not afraid of the dictates of the “collective West."

▪️According to him, national interests outweigh sanctions opposition.

🗣 “The Central African Republic and Mali, without much ceremony, have already shown their French military contingents the door, and the government of Burkina Faso has generally decided to denounce the Military Assistance Treaty signed in 1961,” he posted on the social media platform VK. “The influence of the Fifth Republic in Asia, Africa and Latin America, like all other obese Western masters who have lost their vitality and social rhythm, is shrinking like ‘shagreen leather’ [a reference to French writer Honore de Balzac’s novel ‘The Magic Skin and The Wild Ass's Skin’].”

▪️ Apart from that, he noted that "the time has come for surgery to remove the malignant tumor of the colonial past."

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Independent Journalist and writer Sonja Van Den Ende joined us to discuss Germany’s dependence on the US, with the blowing up of the Nord Stream 2 pipelines demonstrating that US has total control over the country

🎧Listen to more of Van Den Ende’s views in our podcast The Backstory

🎬 Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu visits special military operation zone to assess infrastructure restoration efforts in Donbass

Shoigu arrived in Mariupol, where he toured a multifunctional medical center, emergency services center, and a residential quarter with 12 new buildings.

The defense chief was also briefed about the construction of a biomedical complex, another quarter with six buildings, schools, and kindergartens in the city.

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