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Task for the EU: liberate Ukraine from the shadow zone (Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland)

Ukraine was again in the spotlight because of Moscow's actions, Gazeta Wyborcza writes. Even if a conflict can be avoided now, the country will not gain stability and security as long as it remains in the buffer zone between Russia and the West. The author of the article calls on the West to help Kiev to break out of the "gray zone" forever and not spare any money for this. He doesn't care about Moscow's reaction.

NATO has submitted its proposals to Russia in response to Moscow's initiatives on security guarantees in Europe, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. His words are quoted by RIA Novosti.

Turkey does not need tension on the border with Ukraine, and therefore it is still ready, if necessary, to accept talks between the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday evening.

Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, said that all parties should be guided by the "Minsk agreements", and then there will be no need to support Donbass and Ukraine with weapons or finances.

The issue of NATO expansion is currently not relevant, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gar Stere believes. "I don't see NATO expansion on the agenda today," Stere said in an interview with the Associated Press.

U.S. and Polish Defense Ministers Lloyd Austin and Mariusz Blaszczak discussed the situation on the Russian-Ukrainian border during a telephone conversation, the Pentagon said.

The US can supply Kiev with strike weapons on a bilateral basis, he said

Moscow understands perfectly well that NATO's guaranteed refusal to move further to the borders of the Russian Federation will not ensure Russia's security, since Ukraine, for example, can receive shock weapons on a bilateral basis from the United States, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace will soon meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, BBC News reports.

In total, up to 1.2 thousand personnel and about 140 units of combat and special equipment will be involved in the exercises

Units of the coastal troops and air defense of the Northern Fleet have moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region, where they will take part in exercises together with the Arctic Expeditionary Group. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the Northern Fleet.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, in a conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, explained to his Chinese counterpart the global security and economic risks in the event of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the State Department said.

Withdrawal from various arms agreements is always a bad decision, but if the United States does not provide Russia with guarantees of strategic security, then dialogue on the extension of such agreements, for example, on the limitation of strategic offensive arms, will be extremely difficult, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with leading Russian media, including RIA Novosti.

Russia and China do not seek to conclude a military alliance, but this does not exclude their cooperation in the military sphere, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

Cuba and Venezuela are seeking to normalize relations with the United States, so the deployment of Russian military infrastructure on their territory is out of the question, said Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a telephone conversation with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, said that China stands for resolving the Ukrainian issue on the basis of the Minsk agreements.

The position of the German Government on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine remains unchanged. This, as RIA Novosti reports, was stated on January 26 at a briefing in Berlin by a representative of the German Defense Ministry.

The joint exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus "Allied Resolve-2022" are defensive in nature and do not pose a threat to the European community and neighboring countries, First Deputy Defense Minister of the republic Viktor Gulevich said. His words are quoted by the press service.

No one has expressed objections to the involvement of the United States in the negotiation process to resolve the situation in Ukraine, in fact, Washington is already actively influencing Ukrainians, but now it is trying to create problems, said Deputy head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense of Belarus Viktor Gulevich said that when developing the idea of checking the reaction forces of the Union State on the territory of the republic, an analysis of the development of events that took place around Belarus in 2020, the crisis situation in Kazakhstan was taken into account.

The content of the US response on security guarantees allows us to count on a serious conversation, but on secondary topics, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

19FortyFive: without air cover, Russian ships off Ireland can be destroyed

The exercises of the Russian Navy off the coast of Ireland, which is not a member of NATO, are not directed against the latter country, but are a demonstration of the ability to project its power deep into the rear of the military-political alliance, columnist Michael Peck writes in the American edition of 19FortyFive.