MK broadcasts events in Ukraine online. Day 362 is approaching. The day before, US President Joe Biden visited Kyiv and promised new military aid to Ukraine. The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said after a meeting of EU foreign ministers that a new package of sanctions against Russia will be adopted by February 24. To date, the investigative committee has opened more than 150 cases of discrediting the Russian military, said department head Alexandr Bastrykin.
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12:29 Russian President Vladimir Putin said in his message to the Federal Assembly that Western countries are ready to use anyone, even a “bald line” against Russia. According to him, Western countries do not specifically perceive “whose heirs the neo-Nazis consider themselves to be.”
12:02 Aircraft and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces hit 94 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine daily. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
11:58 Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Putin's message to the Federal Assembly will last about an hour. “MK”; broadcasts the message online.
11:31 Deputy Vitaly Milonov told reporters that he would like to “control the ghoul” – US President Joe Biden. He made such a loud statement before the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly, reports the Telegram channel Shot.
11:20 Poland believes that in accordance with the Western military-political NATO bloc Ukraine can acquire any weapon, Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Pawel Yablonsky said on Polish Radio.
10:55 Retired lieutenant colonel of the LPR People's Militia Andrej Maročko said that the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) are counting on the opening of a “second front” after Biden's visit to Kyiv the day before.
10:40 Italy can transfer long-range missiles to Ukraine, writes Corriere della Sera.
10:20 The first trial for looting will be held in the Kursk region. The accused is a 68-year-old resident of the village of Tetkino. Investigators learned that after one of the arrivals from APU on November 3, a man opened the door to the survivor's apartment in a two-story building. He brought out a microwave oven, four radiators, a gas boiler and a boiler. The damage caused is estimated at 31 thousand rubles. The accused faces up to six years in prison.
10:00 Former US President Donald Trump accused incumbent President Joe Biden of “getting closer to World War III”. He wrote about it on his social network Truth Social.
9:38 a way for the movement of military units in the region for 3.5 years in a colony with a strict regime.
9:33 AFU conducts exercises in the closed zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, writes AFP.
9:04 Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the DPR, said that the United States is trying to “quench the hunger for shells” Ukraine is providing new military aid.
9:00 The Council of the European Union approved the extension of sanctions against Russia until the 24th. February next year.
Meeting of the President of Ukraine with the Prime Minister of Italy in Kyiv < p > The Italian authorities are planning to officially recognize the famine of 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The corresponding draft resolution should be discussed in the country's parliament.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi announced this during a joint briefing with Italian Prime Minister George Meloni.
According to Zelenskyi, such recognition is very important for Ukraine , because this year will be 90 years since the tragedy.
“The Prime Minister informed me that yesterday the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Parliament of the Republic already voted for it. important decision, now we hope that in the near future the corresponding resolution will be approved by the Italian parliament,” Zelenskyy said.
Note that according to demographers, the number of victims of the famine is from 3.5 to 5 million people, including direct excess mortality in the Ukrainian SSR is from 2.6 to 3.9 million people. In 2013, the M.V. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine held an international scientific conference “Famine in Ukraine in the first half of the 20th century: causes and results (1921-1923, 1932-1933, 1946-1947)”, where estimates were published demographic losses due to the famine of 1932-1933: the excessive number of deaths of the population of Ukraine amounted to 3 million 917.8 thousand people, Russia – 3 million 264.6 thousand people, Kazakhstan – 1 million 258.2 thousand people, in total in the entire USSR – 8 million 731.9 thousand people.
US President Joe During his speech in Poland, Biden said that the United States will always abide by Article 5 of the NATO Charter for the Protection of Allies.
According to Biden, Russia and the whole world know about it.< /p>
“If Russia attacks at least one NATO country, it will be considered an attack on the entire NATO bloc. We will defend every centimeter of the alliance's territory,” he said.
He also said that no one is going to destroy and attack Russia.
EU diplomacy chief Josep Borrell spoke about his conversation with Wang Yi, the head of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, regarding arms supplies to Russia. and Ukraine.
“We had a frank conversation in Munich,” Borrell said at a NATO press conference, adding that Wang Yi had assured him that China was not supplying Russia with weapons and had no intention of doing so. in accordance with the principle of his foreign policy.
According to Borrell, however, Wang Yi then asked the question: “Why are you worried that I can give weapons to Russia if you give weapons to Ukraine?”
The boss of European diplomacy said that he then had to explain the “big difference”.
US President Joe Biden, who is visiting Warsaw, said the United States is still ready to discuss arms limitation issues with the Russian Federation at any time, RBC reports.
Earlier, during the announcement of the report to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of participation The Russian Federation on the START Treaty – the last of the existing agreements of this kind between the Russian Federation and the United States. This was followed by a prompt response from the head of the State Department, Anthony Blinken, in the same vein as the current one from his patron.
At the same time, Blinken made it clear that Washington would not want some of the existing disagreements between the countries to affect the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) discussion ).
American veteran writer Noctis Draven tweeted that he wanted to hug the Russian leader after Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech to the Federal Assembly.
Draven recalled that he had written some time ago that he wanted to shake Vladimir Putin's hand.
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“I want to retract that statement. Now I want to hug him like a brother,” wrote the former US soldier.
He explained that one can only truly appreciate Putin living in America where the media and leaders lie all the time .
Draven added that he loves his country, but he would choose Russia in his next life.
Lt. Retired LPR colonel Andrey Marochko said that the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) are counting on the opening of a “second front” after the previous visit of US President Joe Biden to Kiev.
According to Marochko, Ukrainian militants who are at the forefront are actively discussing the visit of the American leader to Kiev, and many of them hope to open a “second front” that could “make things easier for them”.< /p>
As noted by the retired Lt. Col. this informational opportunity to increase the morale of his subordinates. In addition, Marochko added that there are rumors that “something serious” should happen by the end of this week.
Poliologist Fyodor Lukyanov: “Today's realism is the willingness to continue with upheavals”
Being at the epicenter of political cataclysms of historical scale, it is difficult to understand what exactly is happening. You only see what is shaking around. But why it shakes, where it shakes, how long it will continue to shake and what will remain intact when the underground and aboveground geopolitical upheavals finally end – all this is usually beyond human understanding.
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Fyodor Lukyanov, chairman of the presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, director of research of the Valdai Club, is also no “superman” from political science, but an ordinary person deprived of the telepathic gift. But he has another gift – the ability to penetrate into the very essence of events, to separate the main from the private, the grain from the chaff, the ability to quickly formulate insightful conclusions to which everyone else must go and go.< /p>
And also Fedor Lukyanov, who remains a fairly significant figure in the modern Russian political system, he is not afraid to share these prescient conclusions of his. Here's what a respected political scientist, for example, thinks about the interim results of the NWO and what lies ahead for Russia and the world.
– I estimate such chances as quite high, unfortunately. With the involvement of various interests – direct and indirect participants – the conflict took on a very significant scale. The Ukrainian question itself, and of course it exists, is only part of it.
Ukraine seems to have become a kind of testing ground, if you will, a construction site where a new international hierarchy is being built. And no one hides that anymore. But such a process is obviously lengthy and tedious, so estimating time perspectives is almost useless. There may be breaks, but hardly for long. In general, I am afraid that in a year there will be something to discuss on this topic.
— Many different materials are produced under the Rand Corporation brand, it is really an influential and very professional analytical center, where they try to look at the situation from different angles. The report you mention is the view of specific employees, respected specialists, which can be classified as moderate. And they, yes, pay attention to the risks that the prolongation of the conflict brings to America, especially with regard to unexpected plot twists, and they can never be ruled out.
But in the same Rand, especially in other centers, there is also an opposite view – war until the strategic defeat of Russia. And this view dominates.
Objectively, the United States bears the least cost of all those actively participating in the confrontation. And the potential benefit. There are some signs that the risk assessment is gradually shifting to a slightly higher level of concern, but so far it's just a breeze.
– I had in mind a very specific thing, a political one: the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation, as understood in Europe, makes it possible to put aside differences, marginalize dissidents and rally under the slogan “enemy at the gates”. And it works even if the cracks are visible. But they do not expand, they are held by the cement of this conflict.
Once hostilities cease, no matter how they end, or rather where they end, the internal strife in Europe will surface. On various topics. Precisely for the reason that Europe is objectively bearing the enormous costs of the breakdown of the usual socio-economic model that has allowed it to flourish for decades. The continuation of the armed confrontation freezes the internal contradictions in Europe, but it is not forever.
— I am not an optimist in the sense that the world has entered a period of transformation and upheaval, a certain cycle has ended and the transition to another will inevitably be accompanied by cataclysms. The Russian-Ukrainian one is not the first, although the scale was unprecedented for many decades, but certainly not the last.
There is no need to wait for a return to the old order or the establishment of a new one, you just need to understand it well. This understanding is realism, as well as readiness to continue upheavals.
– They are closely connected, I already mentioned it above – Ukraine has become a space for clarifying relations between the “big” in which Russia is an active participant.< /p>
For the United States or even Europe, Ukraine can, cynically speaking, be considered a negotiation, that is, its fate for the fate of the West is important, but not decisive. Due to cultural, historical and internal factors, the outcome of the battle for Ukraine is of great importance to Russia. In any case, this is a widely held and deeply held view among us.
Failure in Ukraine will hit Russia's position in the world hard as the (non-Western) world evaluates power and effectiveness – they could/they couldn't. Especially since they themselves challenged the Western Goliath.
But success in Ukraine, especially if incomplete and achieved at too great a cost, would not necessarily automatically mean Russia's rise in the world hierarchy. In addition, this story can be viewed as follows: in recent years, at least since mid-2010, Russia has declared itself as a global player, especially in the Middle East, but not only. This was generally accepted by all, although many were not happy.
And now the West has locked Russia into a local problem, forcing it to spend a lot of effort and money on a problem that is not of the greatest global importance. That means he sent her down a floor. Of course, all this is speculative thinking, it can turn differently. But the fact is that Russia is now completely focused on the Ukrainian issue and is forced to isolate its other demands in the rest of the world. Be that as it may, there is no turning back. The position will need to be rebuilt. And of course that will be much easier if the campaign ends successfully.
– As for modernization – not much in my opinion yet. I didn't mean, of course, the signs of the comfortable life we'd just been enjoying for the previous ten or fifteen years. We are talking about the efficiency of the state and economic structure, the military organization, which needs a new transformation.
The world is already changing very quickly and we cannot keep up with the pathos of traditionalism and conservative aspirations. The campaign and the economic war that accompanies it are forcing us to quickly reorganize our lives, but so far only the most basic things are being read.
— As I said, this is partially true. The importance of one task is so great that all others recede into the background. And that must be experienced, i.e. solve this problem so that I can later work on others again.
— As for the last nail, I wouldn't rush. Heavy crutch – yes. But we still have to work and work on the coffin.
The world order was headed for a crisis even without the decisions made a year ago. In a sense, these decisions by Moscow itself are just a product of the crisis. Like many other manifestations.
Was it possible to wait for the accelerated degradation of international systems without resorting to such drastic actions, just to wait for the corpse of world hegemony to float by? I don't know, maybe it would be a long wait.
I would venture to say that, contrary to the statements of Russian leaders, especially the president himself, that we have no choice, the situation contained options for behavior. And assuming a smoother game. However, this can no longer be verified and proven. Now the game will be retired and it would be unforgivable to leave before the world order finally stops working. Russia appears to have contributed decisively to this, but others will reap the benefits. Since we have risked it, we should not despair before the bet is played.
– No, that's not clear. Whether something that can be called a device will even come is unclear. Long-term instability begins based on the interaction of so many players of varying caliber and aspirations. And it can be quite a stable picture, such constant upheavals, but one can adapt to it.
Well, I'm sure that in the next few years or even longer, selfishness and concern only for one's own needs, securing one's own development will be an absolute must for everyone, no matter how beautifully packaged it is.
– China is certainly carefully studying the military component of the conflict, but even more so – the punishing economic one. How to avoid something like this, if Beijing has to go into a sharp conflict with the United States, what write-off mechanisms can be used.
By the way, the Americans do not hide the fact that they expect sanctions against Russia in order to intimidate China. And in a sense it worked, the PRC thinks and calculates. However, Beijing does not intend to abandon any of its strategic goals.
“I don't understand economics very well, so I'm speaking as a layman here. Yes, I was pleasantly surprised. The resilience and adaptability of our economic system gives us hope for the best, although it is clear that sanctions will not go unnoticed.
“I don't think there is a chance of complete success. The “neutrals” are very upset about the US trying to dictate how they should behave. They want to have a free hand and decide for themselves what and how to do in the situation of the blockade of Russia from the western side. I think that, as with the West in the previous stages, in the non-Western world they know how to evaluate the benefits. And if it exists, no hegemons will force it to be abandoned. Tacking – yes, losing what floats in your hands – no.
– Sanctions like knockout, knocking down didn't work. Penalties such as long holding in a match will have a cumulative effect. Not fatal, but escalating, especially in the next two or three years.
— He was growing. This, as I said at the beginning, is a large-scale conflict about the distribution of places in the world hierarchy. And that is always dangerous. And in itself the fact of a creeping escalation between two nuclear powers, one of which is fighting directly, the other indirectly, is a rather unprecedented situation with different scenarios up to a direct clash. Such a reckoning was inevitable. But the timing and forms could have been different, probably less dangerous.
Zelensky's facial expression during Biden's visit to Kyiv: ecstatic
Western Media White the House announced that the White House was coordinating with Moscow for US President Joe Biden's visit to Kiev, prompting jokes about the Russian counterpart's request for permission to travel. However, many wonder why the Russian side agreed to this step, writes RIA Novosti columnist Irina Alksnisova.
From the point of view of experts, one of the key reasons is Moscow's strategy to work in the information field, aimed at undermining the media-political system of the West , the author of the material shared the details. In recent years, it has become clear before the eyes of the world community that the successful machine of influence and brainwashing built in the West is losing its effectiveness, the journalist believes, and its faith in the all-encompassing power of its propaganda. The dumber the West uses its tools, the faster their effectiveness declines, the article argues.
Furthermore, focusing on trying to use ineffective tools deprives Western adversaries of the opportunity to find the most effective methods of combating geopolitical competitors.
So the American leader's visit to the Ukrainian capital will not bring changes to reality, and his goal may rather be to show Moscow its information strategy, which may be more effective than the usual means of Western propaganda.
The Council of the European Union approved the extension of sanctions in  ;RF until 24. February next year. The EU document states that it was adopted “on the basis of a review of the decision and taking into account the ongoing illegal actions of Russia against Ukraine.” Russia. However, he expressed his belief that restrictive measures will be agreed upon by February 24.
Let us remind you that on February 24, exactly one year will pass since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine. The West wants to demonstrate its support for the Kyiv regime on this day.
15. on February, Bangladesh joined US and EU sanctions against 69 Russian ships — they are prohibited from importing, stopping for refueling, anchoring in the area and using sea lanes. The ban applies to a wide range of vessels, including oil tankers and cargo ships operated by seven companies.
Estonia revoked the residence permit of the head of Russian Compatriots in Europe. and “Immortal Regiment” organizer Sergei Chaulin.
New Zealand has imposed sanctions on 8 Iranian individuals and entities linked to Russia's war against Ukraine, including the head of the Department of Supply, Research and Industry of the Ministry of Defense and Logistics of the Iranian Armed Forces. forces, the commander of Iran's air force and the companies responsible for the production of drones
