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Shoigu invited Wallace to Moscow

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has accepted an invitation from his British counterpart Ben Wallace to hold talks on topical security issues, The Independent wrote on Saturday, citing a source in the British Ministry of Defense.

The State Department, according to media reports, is going to urge Americans to leave Ukraine if possible

The US State Department has decided to begin the evacuation of the families of its embassy staff in Ukraine in the near future, Fox News reported on Saturday, citing unnamed American officials.

The German authorities are preparing a plan to evacuate the families of diplomats from the territory of Ukraine in case of escalation of tension, the Bild newspaper reports.

Kiev has concentrated about 120 thousand troops at the contact line in the Donbass

Donetsk is not preparing for an offensive, despite the statements of the Western media, said the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin.

Russia's policy towards Ukraine became the main topic of discussion at the meeting of US President Joe Biden with members of the National Security Council (NSC), the White House said.

A photo of a manual for the Ukrainian military on the use of the British NLAW ATGM appeared on the Web. The manual is written in a lively syllable and provided with illustrations, and the Ukrainian language gives the document a unique charm.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to instruct Defense Minister Ben Wallace to accept the invitation of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to hold talks in Moscow, Sky News channel reported on Sunday, citing sources.

London declares the UK's readiness to support Ukraine, but considers it extremely unlikely that it will be possible to send its military to the border in the event of a suspected Russian invasion, Sky News channel reported on Sunday.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk considers the resignation of Kai-Achim Schoenbach from the post of commander of the German Naval Forces an insufficient step to restore full confidence in Berlin.

Former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hop Scheffer said that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO in the near future. "In the foreseeable and unforeseen future, they (Ukraine) will not become a member of NATO. And I think the whole group at the table in Bucharest (in 2008) knew that. It was already clear that for the opponents (of Ukraine's membership in NATO), this (delay in joining the alliance) will last until hell freezes over," the Financial Times newspaper quotes the ex-Secretary General.

Russia will not wait indefinitely for a response from the United States and NATO on security guarantees and will protect its security by other methods, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said on the Izolenta live YouTube channel.

France's withdrawal from NATO would be "the biggest gift that can be given to Russia," he believes

The French leadership does not expect an open conflict between Russia and Ukraine, but the EU should be ready to react at any moment in case of a complication of the situation, according to the Secretary of State for European Affairs at the French Foreign Ministry Clement Bon.

Ukraine will not be able to join NATO in the foreseeable future, former Secretary General of the organization Jaap de Hop Scheffer said.

To participate in the combat readiness check of the reaction forces of the Union State, an echelon with military personnel and military equipment from Russia arrived at the Polonka railway station in the Brest region on Sunday. Information about this was reported on January 23 by the official Telegram channel of the branch department of Belarus.

Yemeni rebels used not only drones, but also ballistic and cruise missiles during the attack on Abu Dhabi this week, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Wednesday, citing the UAE Ambassador to the United States, Yusuf al-Uteib.

The process of delimitation of the Azerbaijani-Armenian border should be carried out without any preconditions, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Ceyhun Bayramov said.

The US administration informally considers the end of January-beginning of February as the deadline for negotiations

The Vienna negotiations on the agreement on the Iranian nuclear program (JCPOA) have reached the stage closest to both the successful completion of consultations and their complete failure, the Axios portal reports.

EU Diplomacy Chief Josep Borrel discussed the Ukrainian crisis and Russian proposals on European security with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau.

The eighth flight to Ukraine in the last three days was carried out by heavy military transport aircraft C-17A Globemaster III of the British Royal Air Force, according to data from Western aviation resources.

The Drive: NLAW missiles will act as a balancer for the Ukrainian military

The United Kingdom on military transport aircraft C-17 Globemaster III delivered to Ukraine, probably hundreds of portable anti-tank guided missiles Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon (NLAW). Defensive weapons will act as "a means of deterring future Russian aggression," says The Drive.