🇺🇸🇹🇷 US Congress approves sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey

The American Embassy reports a successful deal for the sale of 40 new and 79 fighter jets undergoing modernization.

“This week's decision by Congress to approve Turkey's acquisition of 40 new and 79 upgraded F-16 aircraft is a major step forward. Turkey's F-16 fleet is critical to NATO forces in ensuring future interoperability between allies,” said Jeffrey Flake, head of the diplomatic mission in Ankara.

The process of considering the request lasted only a couple of weeks (from January 26). None of the congressmen objected to the deal.

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🇺🇸💵🇺🇦🇮🇱 US senators supported the bill on funds for Ukraine and Israel during a procedural vote, its final consideration is pending.

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🇫🇮 Centre-right Alexander Stubb wins the presidential election in Finland, defeats Green party candidate Pekka Haavisto.

❗️Like his rival Haavisto from the Greens, the conservative stands for a tough stance towards Moscow.

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🇵🇱😭🇺🇸🔴 This is crossing borders - Polish authorities criticized Trump for “encouraging Russia”.

Poland’s Foreign Minister Andrzej Szejna was outraged by Donald Trump's words that he is ready to encourage Russia in the event of an attack on NATO members who do not pay mandatory contributions.

“Even taking into account the conditions of the heated election campaign in the United States, that part of the statement in which Donald Trump unequivocally stated that he would even “encourage” Russia to conflict and attack is crossing certain boundaries that should never be crossed,” he said head of the Polish diplomatic service.

🔻Seemingly, paper tiger and NATO boot lickers, Poland are all mouth and can’t do anything unless someone holds their hand...

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🇺🇸🏥 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin was again hospitalized, this time for examination due to sudden bladder problems, the department reported.

At the same time, the Pentagon clarified that Austin continues to perform duties despite his hospitalization.

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🇺🇸❌🇷🇺 Elon Musk denied the supply of Starlink satellites to the Russian army

Earlier, photographic proof of the presence of these satellites in the arsenal of the Russian Armed Forces circulated online.

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🇪🇺😭 The EU must invest more in its defense - EU head Charles Michel

With these words, he commented on Trump’s statement that he would encourage a Russian attack on NATO.

🔻EU beggars can’t accept the NATO gravy train will be buried by Trump.

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We were reminded of our old postcard. Odessa 1894.
Population
1. Russians 188082
2. Jews 112235
3. Poles 13462
4. Germans 8897
5. Greeks 5272
6. French 1129

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Avdeevka is about to collapse. This is a significantly important strategic city in Eastern Ukraine.

It is currently operationally encircled, and Russian troops are in the centre of the city. But you would never know it from Western Media. Sounds familiar, right?

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🇺🇦 They say a criminal always returns to the scene of the Crime.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: February 11-12 (Recap)

1️⃣ At least 50 people have been killed in Israeli air and sea attacks on Rafah tonight, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

2️⃣Israel’s planned ground offensive on Rafah will “blow up” the captive exchange negotiations, the Al-Aqsa television channel quoted a senior Hamas leader as saying on Sunday.

3️⃣ US President Joe Biden tells Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu that a military ground assault would need a “safety” plan for more than 1 million people sheltering in Rafah.

4️⃣ A shipment with a month’s supply of food for Gaza is being blocked in Israel’s Ashdod Port, says UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini.

5️⃣Australian senator David Shoebridge has decried the bombardment on Rafah and questioned the timing while viewers in the United States watch the Super Bowl. “The attack on Rafah happening at 2am Gaza time while the US is watching the Superbowl is utterly horrific and devastating,” said Shoebridge.

6️⃣ The Wafa news agency has more details on the areas of Rafah targeted by bombardment from Israeli warplanes and navy ships tonight.They include:

◾The Al-Rahma mosque in Al-Shaboura and Al-Huda mosque in the Yabna camp where dozens of people were sheltering.
◾Central Gaza near the headquarters of the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Areas close to the border with Egypt.

7️⃣The US is a participant in this attack,” Mustafa Barghouti of the Palestinian National Initiative tells Al Jazeera after Biden discusses a “safety” plan for an assault on Rafah with Netanyahu.

At least 28,176 people including more than 11,500 children, have been killed and over 67,784 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧❌⚖️ Assange's Extradition: A Litmus Test for Western Hypocrisy

In a stark call to the UK's conscience, UN special rapporteur on torture, Alice Jill Edwards, stands as a beacon of justice against the impending doom awaiting Julian Assange. With the UK magistrates poised to revisit the High Court's refusal of Assange's appeal on February 20 and 21, the clock ticks ominously for the WikiLeaks founder. Edwards' plea to halt the extradition is a dire warning against the backdrop of Assange's deteriorating mental health and the monstrous prospect of a 175-year sentence looming in the US—a grim testament to the lengths the West will go to muzzle the messengers of truth.

Since his ’19 arrest, Assange's saga has been a sordid tale of Western double standards. Imprisoned in the bowels of Belmarsh for exposing the true face of US military and diplomatic machinations, his only 'crime' has been to hold a mirror to the West's war crimes. From the bloodstained sands of Iraq to the shadowy corridors of global diplomacy, Assange's leaks ripped the veil off the sanctimonious facade of the freedom-loving West, revealing a ghastly portrait of power unchecked and accountability scorned.

The proposed extradition is nothing short of a judicial farce, a damning indictment of the UK and US's contempt for human rights and press freedom. As Edwards rightly points out, the diplomatic assurances from the US are but a thin veil over the barbaric reality awaiting —a reality of isolation, despair, and a Kafkaesque trial. This charade lays bare the grotesque hypocrisy of Western powers, who brandish the torch of human rights with one hand while suffocating dissent with the other. How laughable then, their sanctimonious critiques of Russia, China, and Iran, when they orchestrate the slow-motion crucifixion of a man whose only endeavour was to shine a light on their darkest deeds.

The saga of Assange is a clarion call to the world, a test of our collective moral fibre in the face of the West's duplicity.

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The social network X writes that the photo of the first F-16 fighter with the insignia of the Ukrainian Air Force and a pilot with the call sign “Phantom” next to it, published by Western and Ukrainian media, did not pass authentication and verification in a graphic editor.

The areas highlighted in contrasting colors are located exactly where the Ukrainian Air Force insignia is located in the photo of the fighter jet and pilot's suit.

This tool shows the presence of compression artifacts from another image, which may indicate that both the “Ukrainian F-16” and its “pilot” were simply photoshopped with Ukrainian flags.

Ukraine, of course, is still wishful thinking, but this does not mean that F-16 fighters will not be transferred to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Frontline #Summary for the Morning of 12 February 2024; pub. 08:00⚡️

🔹In the #Zaporozhye Direction, the RF Armed Forces managed to ⚠️retake their previously lost positions northeast of #Novoprokopovka.
💥 The AFU was under attack in #Lobkovoye, #Novoandreyevka, Malaya Tokmachka, #Charovnoye and #Gulyaypole.
💥 Ukrainian artillery worked on the RF Armed Forces in #Kopani, #Novoprokopovka and #Verbovoye. (Fig.1)

🔹In the #Ugledar Section, Russian troops advanced 1km towards #Vodyanoye (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name on the Donetsk direction). The goal is to reach the rear of the AFU in the town. In fact, this is the junction with the #Donetsk direction south of #Novomikhaylovka.
💥 The AFU is under attack in #Rovnopol, #Staromayorskoye, #Blagodatnoye, Zolotaya Niva, #Prechistovka and #Ugledar.
💥 The RF Armed Forces, in #Priyutnoye, Zavetnoye Zhelaniye and #Nikolskoye. (Fig. 2)

🔹On the #Donetsk Front, Russian forces, supported by artillery, are attacking #Novomikhaylovka from the east. There are similar actions at #Georgiyevka. There is an ⚠️advance in the latter area. ⚠️As well as at #Nevelskoye and #Pervomayskoye (👉 Extra Report). The AFU ⚠️repelled attacks on #Tonenkoye and #Severnoye (a settlement west of Avdeyevka). In #Avdeyevka, Russian forces, supported by long range weapons, achieved ⚠️tactical success from the northeast. Also, after shelling, they attacked near the AFU-controlled #Novobakhmutovka (the settlement of the same name to the east is behind the RF Armed Forces). Here the ⚠️frontline did not change.
💥 The AFU came under attack in #Konstantinovka (not to be confused with the settlement of the same name southwest of Bakhmut), #Maksimilyanovka, #Netaylovo, #Berdychi, #Keramik and Nyu-York (#Novgorodskoye).
💥 Ukrainian artillery worked on the RF Armed Forces in #Maryinka, #Donetsk, and the village of #Krasnogorovka. (Fig. 3)

🔹In the #Bakhmut Direction, Russian forces supported by long range weapons attacked near #Andreyevka and ⚠️advanced east of #Kleshcheyevka. Similar actions near #Ivanovskoye, #Bogdanovka and #Razdolovka were ⚠️not successful. (Fig. 4)

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