🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Footage of the balloon being shot down

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- There is an alleged third Chinese balloon flying outside the United States.

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Earlier today, the IDF raided a hideout for the Al-Qassam Brigade in Jericho, resulting in a clash between Palestinian and Israeli forces

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- China released a statement saying they are “strongly discontented” with the shoot down of their balloon and reserve the right to “any necessary reaction to this incident.”

🇺🇦⚡️ - Alexei Reznikov has resigned as Ukraine's Minister of Defense.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Kirill Budanov, Ukraine's new Minister of Defense, has said he expects a Russian offensive this month.

Some commentators have said that Russia will look to open a second front near the Russian-speaking region of Sumy, in the northeast of Ukraine, whereas others have predicted that a second front will be opened in the west of the country, perhaps with the goal of capturing Kiev or Lvov. At this stage, it's too early to tell what will happen.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- The mayor of Slovyansk has called for total evacuation of the city.

🇮🇱🇺🇦⚡️- Benjamin Netanyahu stated in a press conference that he is “strongly considering” sending Iron Dome defense systems to Ukraine

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - It is now fair to say that Ukraine has solidified its position as the loser in its protracted conflict with Russia.

At this point, with the ongoing Ukrainian withdrawal from Artyomovsk and the evacuation of Slavyansk (an ethnically Russian town, by the way), it's probable that Russia will liberate the whole of the Donetsk People's Republic and may even liberate some of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast during the coming months.

Since the beginning of the SMO, Artyomovsk has the main Ukrainian stronghold in the Donbass, and by holding it, Ukraine prevented Russia from liberating the entirety of the Donetsk Oblast. The West (including Israel, the Little Satan) ramping up the quality of their aid to Ukraine shows they are aware that a total catastrophe in the Ukrainian Armed Forces is only an inevitability at this point.

As such, we can predict that the SMO will significantly escalate by late February, and that Ukraine's losses will only increase throughout spring and summer.

🇹🇷⚡️ - As a result of the quake, a gas explosion took place in Kahramanmareş.

🇫🇮⚡️- Finland is prepared to join NATO without Sweden.

🇬🇧 - British singer and LGBT ideology activist Sam Smith dressed as the Devil in a performance at the Grammys last night.

🇸🇾⚡️- Iran, Iraq, Russia, India, and the United Arab Emirates are sending humanitarian aid groups and rescue teams to Syria to assist the people devastated by the earthquake.

🇹🇷⚡️- This happened in Turkey, right before the earthquake.

🇳🇮⚡️ - Daniel Ortega's far-left Nicaraguan government has jailed Fr Oscar Benavidez for 10 years. Pray for him.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- US Navy recovery of the Chinese balloon.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- There have been constant drone and air attacks against Kharkov for the last 24 hours.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Six missile arrivals in Kharkov

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukrainian troops seen retreating from northern and southern Artyomovsk.

🇩🇪🇷🇺⚡️- The German Defense Minister stated that “Ukraine will never be able to recover Donbas and Crimea.”

Additionally, the Defense Minister recently insinuated that “Russians are not human.”