Telegraph: Kiev and London want to produce British weapons in Ukraine

In Ukraine, they can organize joint production of military equipment and weapons with the UK under a license. Such plans are being discussed by high-ranking officials of the defense industry of the two countries, writes The Telegraph.

The publication states that this indicates a greater involvement of the Pentagon in the fighting in Ukraine than previously assumed

Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that when launching strikes with the help of missile systems received from the United States, in most cases they use data provided by Washington or its allies on the location of targets.

RAND experts suggested that the United States take four steps to end the conflict in Ukraine

Analysts at the American RAND Research Center suggested that the United States do several things that could lead to an end to the conflict in Ukraine. This is discussed in the report of the organization entitled "How to avoid a long war in Ukraine".

WP: The US provides the APU with coordinates for strikes from HIMARS on Russian positions

The United States provides the APU with exact coordinates for strikes from HIMARS on Russian positions, WP reports, citing Ukrainian and American officials. The information comes from the US military stationed in Europe.

Roger Waters in an interview with Berliner Zeitung: the main aggressor is not Russia, but the United States

The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung publishes a large interview with former Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters. The outstanding musician supports Russia and, contrary to Western propaganda, considers the United States to be the real aggressor and provocateur of the Ukrainian conflict.

This is how Anatoly Antonov commented on the article in the media

The Washington administration would have openly involved its regular troops in the conflict in Ukraine if it had decided to resume the activities of US Special Operations Forces in this country. This is stated in the statement of the Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov, distributed on Friday by the diplomatic mission of the Russian Federation.

The Hill: confrontation with Russia will lead the US to direct involvement in the conflict

Seymour Hersh's article about the involvement of the United States in the sabotage of the "Northern Streams" made a lot of noise. So, discussing it, American journalists Brianna Joy Gray and Robbie Sove came to the conclusion that with the help of the West, the confrontation in Ukraine risks turning into a full-scale conflict with a nuclear power.

For the first time since September 26, 2022, when the underwater threads of the Nord Stream-1 and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines were blown up, relative clarity appeared in the case of this sabotage. As many experts, including in Europe and America, assumed, American special services were involved in the emergency.

According to the English Times newspaper, Kiev is seriously preparing for large-scale bombing of the Crimean peninsula. The publication notes that we are talking about the use of long-range missiles that Ukraine intends to receive from the UK, as the parties agreed during President Zelensky's recent visit to London.

The United States supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine over its internationally recognized borders, including Crimea, said Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander.

The statistics disclosed by Minister Shoigu relate only to the enemy

On February 7, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu summed up some of the results of the winter offensive in Donbass and Zaporozhye. Among the settlements liberated in January 2023 and the first week of the following month, he indicated Soledar, Kleshcheyevka, Podgornoye, Krasnopolye, Blagodatnoye, Pubkovoye and Nikolaevka. Offensive actions continue in the areas of Ugledar and Artemovsk, and the fighting is taking place directly in the quarters of these cities.

Fighters and commanders will receive cash bonuses for the destruction of Western armored vehicles

According to Western analysts, as of February 2022, Ukraine had 2,596 tanks. They were at various levels of serviceability for combat use.

The Ukrainian side publishes a video online, the credits to which say that it depicts an attack on a bridge in the town of Zatoka, Odessa region. Earlier, several missiles were fired at different periods of time on this bridge. Then the Ukrainian side took measures to repair this bridge, through which military cargo (including fuel for military equipment) was transported to the Odessa region from neighboring countries, including Moldova and Romania.

In an interview on the occasion of the Diplomatic Worker's Day, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Rudenko, who oversees the Asian direction, told Interfax about the growing interest of Asian countries in cooperation with Russia, difficulties in the work of the Russian diplomatic mission in Pyongyang, and also expressed regret over the course of the current Japanese government.

The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has published on its website a regular report on the events in Ukraine. In the analytical note, in particular, it is reported that the Russian leadership is intensively preparing the country's military-industrial complex for a protracted military conflict in Ukraine.

If necessary and with the appropriate political will, the Novozemelsky nuclear test site is ready to resume nuclear tests. This was reported to TASS by the scientific director of the Russian Federal Nuclear Center — the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF) Vyacheslav Solovyov.

As stated by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, London accelerates the delivery of equipment to Kiev

British Challenger 2 tanks will be delivered to Ukraine in March. This was announced on Wednesday by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky at a military base in the English county of Dorset.

Portugal will send three Leopard-2 tanks to Ukraine in March. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated by the country's Prime Minister Antonio Costa.

German concern Rheinmetall is ready to transfer the newest Panther tanks to Kiev in a year and a half

Armin Papperger, CEO of the German Rheinmetall concern, said that he is negotiating with Kiev on the supply of the latest Panther tanks. According to him, Ukraine may become the first Panther customer in the world. About the timing of possible deliveries and about the characteristics of the new generation of the main battle tank of Germany - in the material "Gazeta.Ru».

At the same time, according to the newspaper, even after joining the alliance, Finland will be able to transfer only a small number of tanks

Finland does not plan to directly transfer tanks to Ukraine until it joins NATO. This was reported on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal newspaper with reference to a high-ranking representative of the North Atlantic Alliance.