🇺🇸❌🇨🇳❗️ — 📰 Washington Post Journalist: U.S. intelligence official tells the Washington Post that similar balloons have been spotted previously over Hawaii & Guam

🇺🇸❌🇨🇳❗️ — 📰 Fox News Journalist: Senior US official tells Fox News biggest consideration for not shooting down the Chinese spy balloon over continental US is the potential for civilian (American) casualties on the ground.

Heavy equipment hanging from underneath the balloon could create a large debris field.

🇨🇳❌🇺🇸📃 — Mainland China’s Foreign Ministry said that a balloon the U.S. suspects of conducting surveillance was a civilian “airship” used for research, mainly meteorological purposes. The Mainland China MFA Spokesman says it regrets the unintended entry of the airship into U.S. airspace.

🇺🇸❌🇨🇳 — Former US President Donald Trump calls to shoot down the stratospheric baloon from Mainland China on his Truth Social social media.

🇭🇺❌🇺🇸 — The Hungarian Foreign Minister has said the opinions of the US ambassador are “irrelevant” and that he should not interfere in Hungary's internal affairs.

— ''It is completely irrelevant what (US Ambassador to Hungary David) Pressman or any other ambassador thinks about the domestic political process in Hungary because it has nothing to do with him. It is not his place to interfere in Hungary’s internal affairs,'' said Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto.

"We do not accept governors or regents. He was not sent to tell us how to live in our own country. That era is over. Hungary is a sovereign country, and no one from outside can tell us how to live," he added.

🇪🇹🕊🇪🇹 — 🇶🇦📰 Al-Jazeera: The Ethiopian Prime Minister holds the first meeting with the leaders of Tigray since the peace agreement

🇷🇺🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — On February 2, 2023, the press service of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the CEO and Commander of the Wagner Group PMC, published that PMC assault groups took the village of Nikolaevka, which is about 2 kilometers from Sacco and Vanzetti taken yesterday

Alongside the statement, Mr. Prigozhin Media published a video of a Assault detachments of PMC "Wagner" after seizing control of the village of Nikolaevka north of Soledar

The village is located next to Sacco and Vanzetti, which was seized by Wagner Fighters, near the railway.
Pro-Russia channels hinted that the next strategically important point of defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by rail in the direction of Seversk is Razdolovka.

🇷🇺🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — On February 3, 2023, Pro-Russia channels published a footage showing Stormtroopers of Wagner PMC demonstrating samples of weapons that were captured during the assault on Soledar against positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

Among the captured trophies are US-made M2 Browning, M240 machine guns and Yugoslav copies of the MG-42 machine gun, as well as various grenade launchers, including the RGW-90 MATADOR and AT-4.