Exhaustion and falling morale: Ukrainian soldiers share their frontline experiences with US media

Ukrainian troops are experiencing an acute shortage of infantry, the military is physically exhausted, and its morale is falling, the Washington Post reported, citing Ukrainian Army soldiers and commanders.

The Ukrainian military believes that the shortage of personnel could have a domino effect, especially in winter, when weather conditions are difficult.

The reports of acute troop shortages come as President Zelensky is reportedly preparing to replace his military chief, General Zaluzhny. The question of how many new soldiers Ukraine needs to mobilize has been among the major stumbling blocks between the two. Zaluzhny previously told Zelensky that Ukraine needs nearly 500,000 new troops, but the latter privately and publicly pushed back on that figure.

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❗️ The Russian Investigative Committee has identified Ukrainian officers involved in the shelling of Lisichansk from HIMARS, where 28 people were killed

🇨🇳🇷🇺 Xi holds a telephone conversation with Putin, according to China Central Television.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 Relations between Russia and China face new opportunities for development in the future - Xi Jinping

❗️ China and Russia must resolutely defend their sovereignty and resist the interference of external forces in internal affairs - Xi Jinping

❗️ China is ready to strengthen cooperation with Russia at the international multilateral level and advocate for inclusive economic globalization - Xi Jinping

Hundreds of mercenaries from Colombia have been joining the Ukrainian Army amid increasing losses during Russia’s special military operation, the AP has reported.

More and more Spanish-speaking mercenaries are being spotted in hospitals treating soldiers wounded in battle against Russian forces. One of these mercenaries, call sign “Checho,” found himself at the center of a rescue operation, endeavoring to aid another mercenary injured during three consecutive days of intense clashes with Russian troops. The group came under attack by Russian drones, and amid the chaos, shrapnel from a grenade dropped by one of the drones pierced his jawbone.

"I thought I was going to die," AP quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ukraine had stepped up its recruitment of mercenaries to hide its heavy losses during the failed counteroffensive. However, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu emphasized that the Russian Army has been successfully eliminating foreign mercenaries involved in the conflict.

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❗️ Putin said that Russia-China cooperation in all fields achieved fruitful results last year, China Central Television reported.

Putin also said that Russia adheres to the One-China policy and believes that any attempts to prevent reunification will be unsuccessful, the network added.

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📹 Russian artillerymen destroyed a concentration of enemy manpower and equipment in the Serebryansky forest

BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system crews from a motorized rifle regiment of the Central Military District destroyed a concentration of manpower, equipment and the area where Ukrainian forces were deployed in the Serebryansky forest area.

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❗️ On the night of February 8, Russian strikes in Nikolaev hit the Equator plant where drones were produced for Ukrainian forces, and the factory dormitory where foreign drone specialists and Ukrainian fighters were housed.

Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolaev underground, reported the results of the strike to Sputnik, citing data from his comrades from of the city itself who transmitted the corresponding photos and video footage.

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Kiev regime’s ‘kill list’ expanded over decade as US watchdogs turn blind eye. Part 1

🔺The American public is fuming over the fact that prominent US news commentator Tucker Carlson has been added to Ukraine’s Mirotvorets ("Peacekeeper") "kill list", a notorious online database that doxxes people who it calls "enemies of Ukraine". This site has been operating unhindered for almost a decade as an online lynch mob targeting opponents of the Kiev regime.

🔺Founded in March 2014, shortly after the Pro-Nazi February coup in Kiev, the Mirotvorets Center, a so-called public organization, is headed by Roman Zaitsev, a former employee of the Ukrainian special services.

🔺The Mirotvorets website, which is reportedly controlled by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), was created at the initiative of adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.

🔺The main page of the Mirotvorets website lists Langley, Virginia, the home of the CIA, and Warsaw, Poland as its official home base. It contains brutal, graphic images of dead and mutilated human corpses and calls for slaughtering Russians and other so-called "enemies" of Ukraine.

🔺An analysis of the network protocol used by the Mirotvorets site's domain indicates that it utilizes services from a tech company based in California.

🔺The Mirotvorets database consists of extensive personal information, including the names of Ukrainian and foreign journalists, politicians, opposition figures, bloggers, and even children. Shockingly, the "kill list" on this database includes the personal information of no less than 327 underage children, as reported by the Foundation to Battle Injustice.

⚡️UN: Israeli destruction of buildings in the Gaza Strip along the border amounts to a war crime

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🎞 Flashbacks from the past: Putin warns Oliver Stone after the interview that the West will make him suffer for what he's doing.

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📹 Russian Vostok Group of Forces' air defence systems Tor-MU SAM wipe out Ukrainian reconnaissance UAVs

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❗️US officials, on condition of anonymity, say reports that a Patriot missile was used to shoot down an IL-76 were accurate, the NYT reported.

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🇪🇺🇧🇾 How EU farming sizes up to farming in Belarus: President Lukashenko, a master of agriculture, demonstrates the ability to generate billions in revenue without relying on oil.

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British activist and TV host Russell Brand about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin: "The reason that the legacy media are terrified and quacking is because this could lead to a populist uprising and rejection of their myth. This is the hypocrisy that the legacy media continuously propagate, pretending that they're playing a different game with Russia and that Russia doesn't have a right to their own national identity to their own trajectory."

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