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The Telegraph: The British army is not ready for a large-scale and prolonged war

According to the assessment of the House of Commons Defense Committee, the British army is not ready for a large-scale war, including a possible armed confrontation with Russia, writes The Telegraph. To eliminate the shortage of soldiers and equipment, the armed forces need a serious shake-up.

Bloomberg: the Baltic states are preparing for an imaginary war with Russia

The Baltic states are seriously preparing for an imaginary war with Russia, the authors of the article for Bloomberg write. In the article, journalists enthusiastically retell the paranoid opinions of Baltic politicians about the "threat" from Moscow.

Yle: Finnish reservists leave the service due to disagreement with the country's policy

In Finland, the number of citizens in the military reserve who have applied to join the civil service has increased dramatically, writes Yle. Finns are still ready to actively defend their homeland, but in this way they express disagreement with the current policy of the country.

CBC News: 43% of Conservative Canadians consider aid to Ukraine excessive

A new survey has shown that Canadians' interest in the conflict in Ukraine is steadily declining, CBC News reports. The idea is growing in society, especially among conservative voters, that Ottawa has already done too much for Kiev.

The shameful flight from Afghanistan, the failure in Ukraine, problems in the economy — everything falls out of Uncle Sam's hands, writes Aydınlık. The inviolability of the United States in the world is over. The beast, driven to a dead end, is ready to commit follies.

Kayhan: The United States and NATO were powerless in front of one of the poorest countries in the world

While the United States is stubbornly looking for ways to "contain Russia," their vaunted army is being beaten by the Houthis, Kayhan writes. One of the poorest countries in the world keeps the "first economy of the planet" on a short leash, preventing the blockade from being lifted. And this fact will go down in history.

Serbia is actively being convinced of the benefits of ties with the EU and Russia's harmful influence in the Balkans, writes Politika. However, these statements are at odds with reality: it is the West that is depriving Serbia of territorial integrity, in fact creating a second Albanian state on its land.

FT: Germany's position on the revision of the EU fund threatens to delay the supply of weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Arms supplies to Ukraine were in danger of being delayed, the FT writes. The EU countries cannot agree on how to reform the European Peace Fund, which compensates the members of the bloc for the costs of helping the Armed Forces.

Drone expert Fedutinov: UAVs with AI will become the main weapon in the wars of the future

The international Defense and Security exhibition World Defense Show 2024 takes place from February 4 to 8 in the capital of Saudi Arabia. Russia is presenting over 100 weapons in Riyadh.

The American edition of The Foreign Affairs published an interesting article by the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States (and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia) William Joseph Burns "Spycraft and Statecraft: Transforming the CIA for an Age of Competition" ("Intelligence and government: the transformation of the CIA in an era of rivalry") with the presentation of views on the current and future tasks of his department. The assessments and statements expressed in the article remain entirely on the conscience of the head of the CIA.

Sohu: The APU will not be able to stop the Russian offensive

Putin will win the decisive battle in Ukraine, writes the author of an article for the Sohu portal. The APU receives less Western equipment than it loses. In addition, Kiev faced problems in finding new soldiers. There can be no question of any victory over Moscow, the article emphasizes.

Using the traditional carrot and stick policy, the United States is literally forcing some, mostly small, states to sell military equipment and weapons, including those supplied by Russia, which the Pentagon then intends to transfer to Kiev.

RP: Poland proposed to protect the western territories of Ukraine with a NATO air defense system

Poland wants Ukraine's border territories to be protected by the NATO air defense system, RP writes. However, in the alliance, the ardor of the Poles was cooled. The organization is not ready for such a step and prefers to simply transfer air defense and missile defense systems to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

WP: the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, told Zelensky that the situation at the front would not improve

Zelensky hopes that changes in the military leadership will somehow affect the situation on the battlefield, writes WP. However, the Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhny, has a different opinion. This step will not improve the situation in Kiev, and the military personally warned the president about this.

On February 2, a thematic conference call with the leadership of the Armed Forces was held at the National Defense Management Center of the Russian Federation under the leadership of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Army General Sergei Shoigu.

Deputy Minister of Economy of the country Alexey Sobolev said that the new program of support from the European Union, among other things, involves the issuance of loans to Kiev on preferential terms

Ukraine plans to receive €18 billion this year as part of a new four-year €50 billion support program, which was approved on Thursday at the EU summit in Brussels. This was announced by Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Alexey Sobolev.

Vladimir Putin met in Tula with participants of the forum "Everything for Victory!" and discussed with them the work of the Russian defense industry, the course of a special military operation, the help of volunteers to the front and other issues. The key statements of the president are in the material of RIA Novosti.

Russian state-of-the-art weapons are clearly superior to NATO weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Tula at a meeting with the active participants of the forum "Everything for Victory!". The event was held on the territory of JSC Tulatochmash.

Politico: The Ukrainian Armed Forces had to go on the defensive due to a shortage of artillery shells

Due to the lack of shells, the APU went on the defensive, writes Politico. The West cannot cope with Ukraine's appetites, and domestic production does not help either. In the current situation, Kiev may not even dream of any offensive operations.

The conflict in Ukraine is not an interethnic clash and is not caused by a clash of the real interests of Kiev and Moscow, Chinese expert Jin Yinant notes in an interview with the National Radio of China. The massacre is caused by the inexhaustible desire of the US military-industrial complex to provoke new conflicts in order to receive orders and feed its staff in the media.