#BREAKING Houthi sources report explosions in Hodeidah, Yemen.

Ukraine wants A-10s & Apaches

Ukraine's ground forces commander Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi said Kyiv needed more military aircraft for its war effort, such as U.S. A-10 attack jets to support infantry and planes that could fire long-range cruise missiles.

"I would talk about A-10s as an option if they'll be given to us ... this is not a new machine, but a reliable one that has proven itself in many wars, and which has a wide array of weapons for destroying land targets to help the infantry."

Syrskyi said the A-10 would provide crucial support for ground forces as they attempt to seize the initiative against a well-resourced enemy.

"It is for destroying land-based targets: tanks, artillery ... everything that counters the infantry," he said.

Sirskyi added that attack helicopters such as the AH-64 Apache and AH-1 Super Cobra, as well as the UH-60 Black Hawk, could also play an important role.

Yemen's Houthis “mistakenly” targeted a tanker carrying Russian oil in a missile attack, British maritime security firm Ambrey reports.

#BREAKING Turkish fighter jets strike terror organization PKK/YPG controlled Qahtaniyah, eastern Syria. An oil field has been hit along with several other targets.

6 Turkish soldiers were killed today during a clash with PKK terrorists trying to infiltrate a base area in northern Iraq.

Treatment of 7 wounded soldiers, 2 of them seriously, continues.

Ouda oil field controlled by terror organization PKK/YPG in Qahtaniyah, eastern Syria on fire after Turkish fighter jet strikes.

U.S. conducted another strike against against a Houthi radar site in Yemen last night carried out by by USS Carney (DDG 64) using Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles.

CENTCOM says the strike was a "follow-on action on a specific military target."

Satellite images of Houthi military sites in Yemen before and after they were targeted by US-British strikes.

Israeli model Natali Dadon carrying a gun on live TV.

Iranian F-4 Phantom and F-14 Tomcat in a dogfight. This is still possible only in Iran.

Russian soldier gets his arm torn off by Ukrainian FPV drone. He walks for a while, but then falls. His comrades abandon him.

Russian T-90M "Breakthrough" tank gets out of control after being shot by Ukrainian Bradley IFVs.

Somalian man, who is now captured by Ukrainian forces, says he joined Russian Army "for money".

Germany plans to send F124 Sachsen class Hessen air-defense frigate to the Red Sea to participate in a military operation to intercept missiles and UAVs of Yemen's Houthis.

Welt report says the frigate is scheduled to be sent to the region on February 1.

A decision on the launch of a new EU naval operation aimed at protecting merchant ships in the Red Sea from ongoing Houthi attacks is expected at a meeting of EU foreign ministers on February 19, with the operation itself expected to begin at the end of February.

Turkish MoD says it has successfully prevented an infiltration attempt by a 12-member terrorist group in northern Syria.

9 PKK/YPG terrorists were neutralized.

"We think that the State of Israel has failed to present compelling arguments. We believe that the Court can be able to find in our favour."

South African Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola spoke to TRT Arabi about his nation's genocide case against Israel’s war on Palestine’s Gaza in the Hague, Netherlands.

Taiwan elects Lai Ching-te, who rejects China’s territorial claim, as president

Lai has pledged to follow former President Tsai’s careful balancing of the US and China, in which she avoided formalising Taiwan’s de facto independence – and antagonising Beijing – by saying Taiwan was already a sovereign nation, and defending the status quo.

Beijing claims Taiwan as part of its territory and has vowed to “re-unify” it with China, and has not ruled out the use of force to achieve that aim.

China has called Ching-te’s DPP “a party of separatists”, detests Lai, and has twice sanctioned his new vice-president, Hsiao Bi-khim, who until recently served as Taiwan’s envoy to the US.