#Ukraine

At the front, 50% of the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remain empty due to a lack of personnel!
The General Staff cannot fill the gaps, as the million-strong army exists only on paper, while the actual number of military personnel is 200-300 thousand.

Trump unhinged 🤦‍♂️ Cognitive dissonance?

It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President - ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!! President DJT

So on one hand he blames Biden for not allowing Ukraine to attack Russia, on the other hand he said this war would never happen if he was a president?! Did he mean he would let Ukraine to attack Russia from the start?
Worth remembering that it was Trump in his first presidential term who started sending lethal weapons to Ukraine...

#Gaza #Israel

Interesting if true...

Tel Aviv is paying close attention to a new player in Gaza: the Ahmat-Haji Kadyrov Foundation has launched a large-scale humanitarian operation expected to reach over one million people. The aid includes 50,000 ready meals, hundreds of tons of rice, flour, sugar, and pasta, along with 500 tons of drinking water.

Senior Chechen officials are directly overseeing the effort. Akhmed Dudayev, Chechnya’s Minister for National Policy and External Relations, and Zamid Chalayev, commander of the Chechen special battalion, are both on the ground in Egypt to coordinate logistics.

The foundation frames the operation as a humanitarian mission to ease Gaza’s suffering. But for Israel, the presence of an external actor, especially one with political and military ties to Russia, raises strategic questions. It’s not just about aid delivery, but about influence: who’s allowed to operate in Gaza, under whose authority, and with what long-term agenda.

Israel now faces the optics of a Muslim-majority force with Kremlin links stepping into a vacuum it created, and doing so in coordination with Egypt, not Tel Aviv. The operation sets a precedent: Gaza’s humanitarian corridors aren’t controlled exclusively by Western NGOs or Israeli checkpoints anymore. Other actors are entering, and they’re doing it openly.

https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1958465447872860259?t=uGjhfL9EzWVKa5lsGPJcMg&s=19

Perfect answer!

India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:
If you have a problem buying oil from India, don’t buy it. Nobody forced you.

Italian professor Alessandro Orsini, on the pages of the newspaper il Fatto Quotidiano today, presents 10 facts proving that Russia is defeating NATO:

1) Russia's military industry dwarfs that of NATO, as Mark Rutte declared on January 13, 2025: "Russia's military industry produces in three months what NATO produces from Los Angeles to Ankara in a whole year";
2) the Russian military is well-armed and motivated;
3) Europe's air defense is incapable of intercepting Russia's most advanced missiles; 4) Europe counts for nothing militarily and politically, so much so that Europe has been excluded from talks on Ukraine's future; 5) the Russian economy supports the war effort despite Western sanctions;
6) Russia is perfectly integrated into the international system and can boast a very long list of friends and allies, including China, Brazil, and India;
7) Putin is a fearsome strategist, not the clueless man described by  Corriere della Sera  in its 2022/23 articles;
8) the Russians are aligned with Putin and hate NATO;
9) NATO calls for a ceasefire, and Russia refuses;
10) Trump begs Putin to stop, and Putin continues bombing, heedless of all threats.

After listing the ten facts demonstrating Putin's triumph over NATO, we can draw an initial conclusion: Trump is not the man of peace; he is the man managing NATO's strategic defeat in Ukraine at the hands of Russia.

#Ukraine

Former Azov chief of staff Bohdan Krotevich stated that currently the Armed Forces of Ukraine have no reserves, and those being redeployed were taken from somewhere else.
On the front line, brigades are only at 30% of their full strength.

"Brigades are positioned on the front line at 30% of capacity. According to regulations, they are completely combat ineffective. However, they constantly receive orders to advance, restore tactical positions, retake positions, and so on. But they can't even defend themselves," added the former Azov chief of staff.

Sergey Lavrov called Zelensky an illegitimate president according to the Ukrainian constitution in an interview with the American TV channel NBC. The Russian Foreign Minister also stated that, despite this, Russia recognizes him de facto as the "head of the regime" and is ready to hold a meeting. Key points:

— A meeting between Putin and Zelensky was not discussed in Alaska; this issue was raised later.

— Russia will inevitably participate in negotiations on security guarantees for Ukraine.

— Ukraine has the right to exist provided it "releases" the people who determined their own fate in referendums and whom the Kyiv regime is trying to destroy.

— Russia has never and under no circumstances intentionally targeted anything not related to Ukrainian military forces.

— Our intelligence has reliable information, and we strike exclusively, as I said, either military enterprises, military facilities, or industrial enterprises directly involved in the production of weapons for the Ukrainian army.

— I do not recall Western media expressing any concern about the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces when, for example, a year ago they invaded the Kursk region, where there are no military targets at all. All the targets they strike daily are civilian.

— If you seriously believe that the presence of American, Hungarian, or any other capital in an enterprise producing weapons to kill Russians grants immunity to those who create weapons to kill us, I do not think so and do not consider such an approach fair. I would call it an imperialist approach.

Sergey Lavrov also said that a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Zelensky was not discussed in Alaska. In addition, he added that the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will continue meetings in Istanbul — where they will discuss specific military and humanitarian issues.

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

#Russia

Lavrov:

"We recognize Zelensky as de facto head of the regime, and in this capacity we are ready to meet. But when it comes to signing documents, we would need a clear understanding the person signing is legitimate. And according to Ukraine's constitution, Mr Zelensky is not."

Journalist:

Why Putin doesn't want to meet Zelensky?

Trump:

Because he doesn't like him ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

US forever wars.

At least he is honest...

Trump wants to restore the Pentagon’s original name:
the Department of War, which it held until 1949.

“War Department sounds better than Department of Defense. I don’t want only defense. We want to go on the offensive too”

#US weapons #Ukraine

LCI:

"All European weapons are controlled by Americans. Even those in Ukraine’

'All European weapons are controlled by Americans. Even those in Ukraine' - LCI has realised the obvious.

- There is another, more serious point - if you read the article in the Wall Street Journal: this chain of command, if you like, concerns not only American missiles. It extends further. Storm Shadow and SCALP, although Anglo-French missiles, contain American components. Today, we in Europe are essentially saying to Trump and his entire entourage: 'Okay, be nice to us, because we are going to spend a lot of money on defense, many European countries are willing to pay a lot of money to buy your weapons'. Now imagine what will happen if someone there has had three bourbons and says: 'No, you can't use this'.

Part 1.

#US weapons. #Ukraine

Part 2.

- Yes, and that says a lot about our dependence. Forgive me, of course, but in Europe we like to make fun of the Americans: they say they had a scandal with *Signal*, as you reminded, they say he [Pentagon chief Hegseth] is too fond of the bottle. But in the end, it is he who decides. It is he who presses 'yes' or 'no'. And we understand that the serious person in this story is he, not us. We are discussing here, and the decision is made by 'Uncle Sam'.

- Now the weapons that the Ukrainians do not have the right to use, we will buy from the Americans. To store and maintain them. Trump played smart. We understand the whole chain: we buy from the Americans, pay the Americans, overpay the Americans - and at the same time, it is they who give permission 'yes' or 'no'.

- Absolutely. And it goes even further. What will happen? We will receive these weapons, they will end up in Ukraine. And under whose command will they be?

- Under the American.

The Russian Army eliminated one of the moderators of the famous Ukraine’s DeepState mapping resource.

https://24tv.ua/ru/bogdan-kolcov-jeks-moderator-deepstate-pogib-na-fronte-chto-izvestno-24-kanal_n2901078

US forever wars are about oil.

US warships are headed to Venezuela.

Officials cite security concerns, but here's what they won't tell you:
ExxonMobil pays think tanks $900k/year to push military pressure after Venezuela nationalized oil.

Next time you hear calls for confronting Venezuela, follow the money.

Russia’s postal service joins others worldwide in halting parcel delivery to the US after Trump ends the de minimis duty-free rule (imports under $800). For nearly 90 years, the exemption has allowed packages valued below $800 to enter duty-free. Not after Friday.

What exact sort of 'peace deal' does Trump have in mind?! To continue the war but just at the EU & NATO expense?!

FT reports that the US has said it's prepared to provide intel assets & battlefield oversight to any Western security plan for postwar Ukraine & take part in a European-led air defence shield for the country, supplying “strategic enablers” (surveillance, recon, command & control).
This is another reminder of how far apart the White House and the Kremlin really are. Putin's vision is a Ukraine without any Western military presence at all. It's a mystery how Trump thinks "Putin is willing to do a deal, crazy as it sounds."

Bloomberg:

The EU is proposing removing all tariffs on US industrial goods by the end of the week in attempt to meet Trump demand.

The European Union will seek to fast track legislation by the end of the week to remove all tariffs on US industrial goods, a demand made by President Donald Trump before the US will lower its duties on the bloc’s automobile exports.
The commission will skip conducting an impact assessment — the normal procedure in these situations — on the proposal in a bid to move forward quickly.