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Politico: Orban questioned the viability of Ukraine as a sovereign state

Viktor Orban openly doubts the viability of Ukraine as a sovereign state, writes Politico. Although some consider his position a "political ploy," he "likes to speak openly on issues" that others are afraid to talk about.

According to Prime Minister Jonas-Gar Stere, the specific contents of the package and its cost will be made public in early February

The Norwegian authorities will send a "package of long-term assistance" to Ukraine and the countries affected by the consequences of the Ukrainian crisis. This was announced by the Prime Minister of the kingdom Jonas-Gar Stere in an interview with Agence France-Presse published on Wednesday.

SCMP: Xi Jinping's visit to Russia will prove that China supports the special operation in Ukraine

China has always declared a neutral position on Ukraine, but there are signs that it has sided with Russia, writes SCMP. The most obvious of them is Xi Jinping's recently scheduled visit to Moscow. This is how the Chinese leader makes it clear to the West who he has bet on.

The special military operation in Ukraine shows that domestic aerial bombs remain one of the most effective means of destruction in the arsenal of the Aerospace Forces. With their help, you can deliver a high-precision strike on critical infrastructure, cut off supply routes, destroy the accumulation of equipment and manpower of the enemy. About the most powerful and high—tech aerial bombs of the Russian Aerospace Forces - in the material of TASS.

Onet: the Western view of the conflict in Ukraine is becoming less popular in Poland

The attitude of Poles to the conflict in Ukraine is becoming different, writes Onet. There is an increase in support for Russian views on the events taking place in the country. The authorities call this a successful work of Russian propaganda.

Iltalehti: Finland was given a decisive role in the war with Russia

The Baltic Sea can almost already be considered an internal sea of NATO, writes the author of the article in Iltalehti. As proof, he gives details of the exercises that took place using Swedish submarines off the Finnish peninsula of Hanko. The Americans, in turn, worked out the transfer of armored vehicles there and the landing of troops.

The Polish authorities decided to transfer to Ukraine a batch of Soviet-made T-72 tanks and Polish PT-91 Twardy tanks. This was stated by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, speaking to reporters during a visit to Lithuania.

European governments have stopped paying attention to their voters in favor of the United States

The anti-war demonstration held in Nuremberg, Germany, marked a new stage of discontent and fatigue of Europeans from the crisis in Ukraine.

Kiev's Western allies are seriously concerned about the buildup of the Russian army in Ukraine, which is a clear sign of a large-scale offensive of the Russian Armed Forces soon. In an effort to somehow help the Armed Forces at least to hold the existing defense lines, NATO countries are increasing the supply of weapons, removing more and more restrictions on their type. At the same time, European allies are in a hurry to help the Ukrainian command to cover the shortage of military personnel, who are increasingly out of action, especially in the battles on the Donetsk sector of the front.

A detailed map of the supplies of two weapons systems that changed the course of the conflict in Ukraine shows a complex network of companies experiencing an increasingly significant burden as [American - approx. bmpd] industry is returning to the rails of wartime, the authors of the Financial Times newspaper write in an article titled "How arming Ukraine is stretching the US defense industry."

Croatian President Milanovic said that Crimea will never be Ukrainian

Croatian President Milanovic, in defiance of NATO, said that the Crimea "annexed" by Russia will never return to Ukraine, Business Insider reports. However, the Prime Minister of the country did not agree with him, noting that his comments only undermined the country's foreign policy position.

There are practically no anti-aircraft missile systems with the potential of non-strategic missile defense in the APU

At the end of January, the representative of the Ukrainian Air Forces, Yuriy Ignat, said that the AFU does not have the means to counter Iranian ballistic missiles. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok - about how the opinion of the Ukrainian military corresponds to reality.

Reuters: longer-range GLSDB missiles will be included in the new US aid package to Ukraine for the first time

The United States is preparing a new package of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of $ 2.2 billion, writes Reuters. It is expected that for the first time it will include longer-range missiles - small-diameter ground-based GLSDB bombs that can hit targets at a distance of 94 miles (about 150 km) and "undermine Russia's positions in the rear." However, for the time being, the United States is not going to transfer ATACMS missiles with a range of 185 miles (297 km) to Kiev, which the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives of the American Congress, Michael McCaul, proposed to use for strikes on Crimea.

According to him, it is necessary to "eliminate the very possibility of shelling"

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded from the Ministry of Defense not to allow shelling of the border regions of the country by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the priority task of the Ministry of Defense is to eliminate the very possibility of shelling. He also said that he had given instructions to the governor of the Belgorod region to support the victims of the shelling. On February 1, Ukrainian troops also shelled the Druzhba oil pipeline in the Bryansk region, and the day before - villages in the Belgorod and Kursk regions.

Below is a transcript of the speech by Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, as presented by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

We are talking about the production of 155 mm shells

The authorities of France and Australia have agreed on the joint production of 155 mm shells for their delivery to Ukraine. This was announced on Monday by French Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecorny at a press conference in Paris following the results of negotiations in the "2 + 2" format with Australian colleagues.

The German government has previously confirmed that it will send 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and issue permission to other countries to re-export these vehicles

Germany could transfer 10 times more Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine than the promised 14, Deputy Foreign Minister of the country, former Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk said in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel Rada on Monday.

According to the German Chancellor, in such important things as weapons, it should be about facts, about rational consideration

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz literally lost his temper, showing obvious irritation, after a question from journalists about the supply of fighter jets to Kiev, asked him during a visit to Chile as part of a tour of Latin American countries. This was reported on Monday by the newspaper Die Welt .

The USA needs Ukraine for cheap titanium, and Europe needs it for cheap steel

The military crisis around Ukraine is dragging on. And gradually there are new confirmations that the US and its NATO allies supporting the Kiev regime are guided primarily by economic benefits.

The country's Defense Ministry noted that another such vehicle was handed over to the Ukrainian side a few weeks ago

Israel has transferred three armored medical ambulances to Ukraine as part of humanitarian aid. This was reported on Monday by the press service of the Israeli Defense Ministry.