#Ukraine #Zelensky dysfunctional army units are falling apart.

For the second time in a month, a newly formed Ukrainian army brigade is disintegrating as it deploys to the front line.
This newly formed brigade did not undergo the necessary combat training but it was immediately sent to the hottest areas, including Pokrovsk.
The situation in the 157th Mechanized Brigade mirrors that of other brigades in the 150th series. Soldiers were taken during the formation process, units hastily deployed to the front and thrown (into Zelensky's meat grinder) without proper training, resulting in heavy casualties.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/01/27/another-ukrainian-brigade-is-disintegrating-as-it-deploys-to-pokrovsk/

#Trump freezes relations with the European Union, preferring direct ties with EU member states.

The EU is being frozen out by Trump’s administration in favor of national leaders and ministers.
Cold shower: It’s a radical shift from the friendly relationship that Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and other top EU figures had with Biden’s administration.

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/musk-fuels-far-right-fears-in-germany/

#Germany #DeIndustrialisation

Volkswagen is prepared to let Chinese electric carmakers take over production lines in its struggling factories

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/27/vw-prepared-to-hand-factories-to-chinese-electric-car-maker/

https://news.1rj.ru/str/malinka202/8152

🤡 #Budanov change of promises

May 2022
"By the end of the year, we must, at least, enter the territory of Crimea. The turning point is expected in August, when the new Western weapons will be in the hands of the Ukrainian military and will begin to be actively used."

https://www.rbc.ua/rus/news/budanov-vozvrashchenii-kryma-vsu-mogut-zayti-1653383477.html

January 2023
"This spring, the Ukrainian Armed Forces expect to intensify military operations and go on the offensive. Events in March will be the hottest, and in the spring, the Ukrainian Armed Forces plan to conduct a serious offensive. This will happen throughout Ukraine, from Crimea to Donbass. And the goal is to reach the 1991 borders. I promise that now this will not drag on for long, and every taxpayer in the United States will be able to see where every cent went"

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/04/01/2023/63b5723c9a79476691b72bf3

June 2023
"Ukrainian troops will enter Crimea when it is still warm."

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/09/06/2023/6482d3c19a79478e3ce10481

January 2024
"Their offensive is still ongoing. Somewhere in early spring, it will dry up completely. Now it is the enemy's turn. It will end, and, I think, ours will begin."

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/01/31/7439657/

January 2025

"If there are no serious negotiations before the summer, then very dangerous processes for the very existence of Ukraine may be launched" (according to an unnamed MP).

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/01/27/7495459/

US neocons, NATO and EU project "#Ukraine" is crumbling but they still try to throw more taxpayers money into the 🇺🇦 black hole to prolong war as long as it possible

https://www.economist.com/europe/2025/01/27/amid-talk-of-a-ceasefire-ukraines-front-line-is-crumbling

#Auschwitz #AnnalenaBaerbock

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1883930606368919711?t=68wRSq4cw73mPekazOQsbQ&s=19

#Germany's manufacturing industry, the world's third largest, has shrunk steadily for seven years. And Germany's economy as a whole has contracted for the past two years, marking only the second back-to-back annual contraction in records dating back to 1951, according to Germany's federal statistics agency.

https://archive.is/0olvb

US officials 'shocked' by Trump's foreign aid freeze.

A number of officials in Washington believe that freezing around $60 billion could provide an opportunity for China and other rivals on the world stage to "squeeze out" the United States as the most reliable partner of a number of countries.

https://archive.is/Agakm

#Israel holds 3376 hostages - Palestinians held without charge. Of those more than 300 are CHILDREN. In total, Israel holds 10400 people who have no civil liberties courtesy of living in an apartheid state, under military occupation.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/26/why-are-there-so-many-palestinian-children-in-israeli-prisons

#Latvia suspended training of #Ukraine medics due to Trump’s executive order freezing aid to foreign states. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/28.01.2025-trampa-lemums-iesaldet-arvalstu-palidzibu-skar-vaivaru-atbalstu-ukrainai.a585437/