🇺🇸⚡️- 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.

🇷🇸⚡️- President of Serbia Alexander Vucic has stated that Serbia will “not join NATO” and will remain neutral

🇺🇸⚡️- Radical leftist Antifa activists doxed Dalton Clodfelter, a leader of the Ye is Right campaign, and his wife, on Twitter.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Classical liberal speaker Jordan Peterson called for the West to “overthrow the Iranian government” on his podcast yesterday, saying that “The West needs to get its act together.”

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Explosions in Kupyansk, controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces (VSU).

🇩🇪⚡️ - The Bundeswehr (German army) has been calling up members of its reserves for training. German commentators have speculated that this may be because of a planned German intervention in the Ukraine war.

🇺🇸⚡️- Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez has said that “removing Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee is racism against women of color”