Pair of Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft Turkish the air force arrived in the Gambia.
The first batch of offensive UAVs Bayraktar TB2 for this African country is probably on board.
In October, a pair of Airbus A400M heavy transport aircraft of the Turkish Air Force arrived in The Gambia with unknown cargo on board.
In January 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the African country.
At the end of September 2021, after a special training course, a group of local security officials returned to their homeland trained in Turkey as instructors.
According to the Adviser, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Spokesman Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group Alexei Arestovich, Russian President Vladimir Putin's plans for a possible invasion of Ukraine do not take into account the real combat readiness of the troops. In an interview with Dom TV, he explained that Russian military leaders are afraid of Putin, and therefore reports that he has incorrect information about the level of combat readiness of units located near the Ukrainian border.
A Russian group near the border with Ukraine is not perfect enough to inflict a military defeat on Ukraine, he bluffs. If the Russian army still crosses the Ukrainian border, then it will end in Moscow with a grand defeat and a tough internal and external political crisis, “he said.
Arestovich is confident that if the conflict escalates, the Western Allies will help the Ukrainian army defeat the Russian group. “Russia will simply not be able to do anything with us, which is why the myth of the invincible Russian army is emerging,” said the adviser to the OP chief.
As The Hill states Andrew Lethem, an American professor at McAlester College in Minnesota who studies international relations, said that Russia on the international stage, no matter what Western politicians say, is certainly a superpower.
According to an international expert, all attempts by the Western press to convince the world community that the Russian Federation is in decline are false and completely unsustainable.
& quot; Stories of Russia's collapse spread with & nbsp; surprising perseverance since the USSR collapsed three decades ago … the successor to the Soviet Union was regularly described as “disappearing & # 39; & # 39 ;, ,, a former power & # 39; & # 39; and “ power is in & nbsp; bankruptcy & # 39; & # 39; … But these characteristics are & nbsp; misleading, – wrote in his article Lethem.
He stressed that all the talk about Russian bankruptcy & mdash; it's a myth.
“Russia is a superpower to be reckoned with,” he said.
Press Secretary of the President of Belarus Natalya Eismont told ONT that Western sanctions were nothing new to the country.
According to her, there is still pressure on Minsk. “Although we are already where we are used to living in such conditions and sanctions are nothing new to us,” she explained.
Eismont also accused the “fleeting opponents” of the Belarusian leader of announcing Lukashenko keeps his finger on the pulse.
US Vice President Kamala Harris Photo: Still from the video
Vice – US President Kamala Harris has threatened Russia with sanctions that Washington has not yet imposed. The United States may introduce them due to the situation in Ukraine.
In a CBS broadcast, she said the White House was coordinating its position with the Allies. Then he will bring her directly to the Kremlin. Washington therefore makes it clear that Moscow should not interfere with Ukraine's sovereignty.
Earlier, former Foreign Minister for Ukraine Kurt Volcker called on the US and Western authorities to impose sanctions. immediately against Russia. In his opinion, this will help prevent Moscow's alleged blackmail demands and also force it to compromise. According to politicians, such a plan in particular will help prevent the Kremlin from aggression in Ukraine.
Recently, discussions on the movement of Russian troops at Ukraine's borders have escalated. The West believes that this situation is causing international tensions and may result in an open confrontation.
However, the Kremlin believes that the movement of Russian troops on the country does not endanger anyone. Moscow also said reports of a military presence on the Ukrainian border were being used to “ build NATO forces & # 39; & # 39; & nbsp; in border areas.
Chechen leader Ramzan said that Ukraine “should be annexed to our country” if President Volodymyr Zelensky does not change its policy towards Russia.
“Ukrainians are our people, this is our territory. That is my opinion,” Kadyrov said. speak at a press conference. He added that he would have solved the problem with Ukraine long ago if he had been instructed to do so.
“But there are state agreements that do not allow such decisions,” Kadyrov said./p>
British authorities are preparing to evacuate their army. This will happen if the situation worsens.
According to the Daily Express, UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace spoke about the possibility of deploying British troops on Ukrainian territory in the event of an escalation. . He called it “extremely unlikely.”
At the same time, British commanders have already drawn up contingency plans. Currently, most British forces in Ukraine are located in the city of Yavoriv, Lviv region.
Formerly the British Commander in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, said that in the event of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, NATO would not intervene in the conflict. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense and the British Foreign Office did not say what measures the kingdom would take in the event of a conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
February 202 Ukraine may attack Russia, said State Duma MP Mikhail Deljagin. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are preparing for this. He added that “everything is bad enough to keep people subordinate” in Ukraine, and the only way is war.
Delyagin claims that Russia will enter the risk zone around the beginning of February and sit in this risk zone until the end of March. Among the possible targets is a member of parliament named Crimea, Rostov-on-Don, Belgorod and Bryansk, writes URA.RU.
Recently, the discussion about the movement of Russian troops at the borders of Ukraine has escalated. Some politicians and experts agree that this situation is causing international tensions and may result in an open confrontation.
At the same time, the Kremlin believes that the movement of Russian troops on the country does not endanger anyone. . Moscow also claimed that reports of a military presence near the Ukrainian border were used to “ build NATO forces & # 39; & # 39; in border areas.
President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky may actually come to the informal CIS summit in St. Petersburg. This was stated by the press secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov.
However, the Kremlin spokesman does not think that the Ukrainian leader will do it. He said this in an interview with Vladimir Solovyov for the Moscow program. Kremlin. Putin & quot; on the TV channel Russia 1, reports RT.
Peskov also said that several thousand NATO military instructors are already present in Ukraine. The alliance is gradually penetrating this country. And now, in fact, only the formalization of this process remains.
In addition, a Kremlin spokesman noted that the next round of the Donbas civil war was absolutely unacceptable because it would take place in the immediate vicinity of the Russian border. He also reminded that the Russians live in the southeast of Ukraine and Moscow can not be indifferent to their fate.
Member International Council Committee The Federation Sergei Tsekov said that the European Union has no moral and legal right to demand compensation from Moscow for the damage allegedly caused by the policy of import substitution.
According to him, if the West refuses to supply products to the Russian Federation as part of a sanctions policy, then it has the right to produce them itself. The senator also called on Brussels to first pay about a trillion dollars to compensate for the sanctions imposed on Europe.
The EU has previously submitted documents to the World Trade Organization (WTO). They estimated the loss from the inability to import goods to Russia at $ 290 billion. Now the WTO has promised that the case & nbsp; will consider.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova has responded to Russia's allegations of violations of WTO standards. According to her, if anyone violated international standards, it was the United States itself.
