🇭🇺 🇺🇦Hungary is waiting for a convenient moment to capture Transcarpathia.

This was stated by a retired lieutenant general of the Ukrainian foreign intelligence, Vasyl Bogdan. Budapest is not supplying weapons to an already partitioned Ukraine in absentia, as it has its own plans for this conflict, he explained.

According to Bogdan, Hungary is waiting for the critical moment for Ukraine when it can "get its hands on Zakarpattya again."
 
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DPR chief Pushilin's latest statements about the battles for Artyomovsk and Ugledar:

Fighting is going on in the area of Paraskoviivka, whose capture will cut off the last supply route for Ukrainian troops in Artemovsk (Bakhmut).
Fighting unfolded in the southeastern part of Ugledar.

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Iranian-Chinese leaders meet in Beijing

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Russian companies did the most drilling at their oil fields in more than a decade last year, with little sign that international sanctions or the departure of some major Western firms directly harmed so-called upstream operations.

This helps to explain how the country’s oil production rebounded in the second half of 2022 even as further restrictions were imposed on its exports. 

“The industry largely continues working just like before,” said Vitaly Mikhalchuk, head of the research center at Business Solutions and Technologies, formerly the Russian unit of consultant Deloitte & Touche LLP. “Russia has been able to retain most oil-service competencies, assets and technologies.”

Europe also introduced “comprehensive exports restriction on equipment, technology and services for the energy industry in Russia.” 
Yet Russian oil rigs drilled a total depth of more than 28,000 kilometers last year, the highest in over a decade, according to industry data seen by Bloomberg. The total number of wells started rose nearly 7% to above 7,800, with most key oil companies beating their results of the previous year, the data show. 

Several factors have helped Russia keep its oil industry ticking over. 

First, top international providers accounted for only 15% of the country’s total oil-services segment in 2021, according to data from Vygon Consulting. The in-house units of domestic producers such as Rosneft PJSC, Surgutneftegas PJSC and Gazprom Group make up the bulk of the market, the data showed.  
Second, some of the most significant western oil-service providers didn’t leave the country. SLB and Weatherford International Plc continue Russian operations, with some limitations. 

SLB Chief Executive Officer Olivier Le Peuch said in July that his company’s unique corporate structure gives it flexibility to work in Russia while fully complying with US and EU sanctions 

Third, the two oil-service giants that did depart Russia — Halliburton Co. and Baker Hughes Co. — sold off their in-country businesses to the local management. This allowed the units to retain personnel and expertise, according to Victor Katona, a crude analyst at Kpler.

The main issue for Russia’s domestic oil industry has been obtaining western high-tech equipment, according to BST. Yet “these problems are resolved thanks to imports through intermediaries in friendly states or by finding alternative suppliers in China,” said Mikhalchuk.
Since hitting a post-invasion low of 10.05 million barrels a day in April, Russian oil production rebounded to around 10.9 million barrels a day at the end of 2022 and stayed close to that level in January.

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Explosion in Ukraine's kramatorsk

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⚡️ 🇨🇳🇮🇷 Iran and China signed 20 documents and memoranda of understanding at the meeting of the leaders and delegations of the two countries

According to the documents, Tehran and Beijing will improve cooperation in various fields, including crisis management, tourism, communication and information technology, environment, international trade, intellectual property, agriculture, exports, healthcare, media, sports and cultural heritage.Like Russia, China is interested in a stable Iran, which is an important pillar of the One Belt, One Road geostrategic initiative

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Moldovan authorities banned all spectators from the match between Sheriff Tiraspol and Partizan Belgrade less than 3 days before the match to avoid demonstrations of pro Russian feelings. Serbian supporters on the way to the game were banned from entering the country.

Sheriff Tiraspol is already being forced to play in Kishinev by UEFA, despite Priednestrovie not being a participant of the SMO.

The hilarious, absurd justification of the Moldovan authorities was that Ukrainian intelligence told them that saboteurs would come disguised as Serbian fans.

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Duma adopts appeal to parliaments of world on US biolabs activities

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted a draft appeal from the Russian Federal Assembly to the world’s parliaments in connection with US military biological activity outside its territory.

The document had been submitted by State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya and State Duma International Affairs Committee. Federation Council Deputy Speaker Konstantin Kosachev said the upper house of the parliament plans to consider the draft appeal at a plenary session on Wednesday, February 15

"The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation calls on the parliaments of the countries of the world that host US-controlled biological laboratories to give a legal and political assessment of the agreements that their national health services conclude with the US Department of Defense. These agreements are deliberately discriminatory in nature and are intended to hide from citizens the danger of the research that’s being conducted. That’s proved by restrictions or even complete prohibition of access to biological laboratories and to the work carried out in them, even for national security services," the draft appeal says.

The Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation would also call on the parliaments of the world to request information from national governments on the presence and nature of the activities of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the US Department of Defense, damaging their national sovereignty. "This will reveal the true content of the medical and biological projects implemented by the United States and prevent their covert military-biological threats and catastrophic consequences for the life and health of people," the draft says.

The document would be sent to the UN, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

The proposal to appeal to the parliaments of the countries of the world was voiced by State Duma Deputy Speaker Irina Yarovaya during the discussion of a DTRA report at a meeting of the commission to investigate the activities of biological laboratories in Ukraine last week. According to the lawmaker, the analysis of the report confirms that the Pentagon "purposefully and systematically created a global bioprospecting system."
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Wagner Chief Prigozhin stated that it will not be possible to take Artemovsk quickly; the heaviest combat operations are underway, and house after house is being stormed.

"I don’t understand where this nonsense comes from. In all directions, the enemy is becoming more active, pulling up more and more reserves. Every day, from 300 to 500 new fighters approach Bakhmut from all directions. Artillery fire intensifies every day.
To date, heavy fighting is going on in the north. There are no prerequisites for encircling the enemy in the northern regions. We have stormed house by house, square meter by square meter. Hard work is going on. Where the stories about some kind of encirclement and something else come from is not at all clear.
Bakhmut will not be taken tomorrow because there is heavy resistance and grinding; the meat grinder is working. In order for the meat grinder to work properly, it is impossible to suddenly take the towns and start celebrating a holiday. There won't be a holiday anytime soon. Therefore, there is absolutely no point in arguing and demoralizing everyone with your unfulfilled promises.
One gets the feeling that everyone has fled here and there is no one; Ukraine is empty, and we are almonding(we're sitting idly there) there—we can’t go in. We invite everyone who wishes: "Forward, we take machine guns and run to grab the "encircled" enemy by the ass!" Prigozhin said.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Russian artillery destroyed two American-made armored M1083A1P2 MTVs.

A Ukrainian nationalist complains that the positions of the Russian Armed Forces are only 300 meters away from him.

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