🇵🇱⚡️- Poland to increase its annual defense budget by 4% and double its active manpower this year.

🇧🇷⚡️- Lula has stated that Brazil will not be sending any foreign aid to Ukraine.

🇺🇸⚡️- An American KC-135 Stratotanker flying over the Persian Gulf has just declared an in-flight emergency.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ - Washington has confirmed its support for Israel, stating that its position is not contingent on who holds power in the Zionist "state".

🇺🇸⚡️- Biden has announced he will end the “COVID-19 public health emergency” on May 11th, 2023.

🇦🇹🇭🇺⚡️- Austria and Hungary both rule out weapons donations to Ukraine “to avoid further escalation in the conflict.”

🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡️- France to send 12 CAESAR howitzers to Ukraine

🇺🇸⚡️- National Socialist shock streamer “GypsyCrusader” has been released from jail.

🇺🇸⚡️- George Santos has recused himself from committee assignments.

🇬🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Greece, a NATO ally with the largest tank fleet of any member state, has refused to send tanks to Ukraine.

🇨🇦⚡️- British Columbia has decriminalized heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and other drugs beyond Schedule II.

🇺🇸 - Nikki Haley is set to announce her run for the Republican nomination on February 15.

🇸🇴⚡️- Mogadishu has been shelled this morning during a summit to discuss a new offensive against al-Shabaab.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The Ukrainian 46th Regiment has said that Bakhmut is “operationally cut off.”

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran has officially blamed Kurdish separatists for the Isfahan attack.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Red alert in Southern Israel near the Gaza Strip.

🇷🇺🇮🇱🇺🇦⚡️- Lavrov has warned against Israel supplying arms to Ukraine.

🇪🇬🇧🇸 ⚡️- A tanker flying the Bahamas flag, Grace Emilia, has become stuck in the Suez Canal.

🇷🇺 - The abortion rate in Russia over the last 10 years decreased by more than 50%, according to the Russian Ministry of Health.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - Israel attacked Palestinian military facilities in Gaza.

🇷🇺⚡️- Today is the eve of the anniversary of the Soviet victory in Stalingrad. The now city of Volgograd has opened statues to Stalin, Zhukov, and Vasilevky.