🇺🇸#USA 🇺🇦#Ukraine 🇩🇪#Germany
Blinken heads to Kyiv and Berlin
⚡️Russia could launch an attack on Ukraine “at any point,” a U.S. State Department official warned, as Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to Kyiv and Berlin for urgent talks aimed at heading off a possible new war in Ukraine.
Russian forces in Belarus are “neither an exercise, nor normal troop movement. It is a show of strength designed to cause or give false pretext for a crisis as Russia plans for a possible invasion," said the senior State Department official, speaking on condition of anonymity on January 18. "We are now at a stage where Russia could at any point launch an attack on Ukraine".

With Russia amassing some 100,000 troops along Ukraine's borders, and with a sizable new force deployed for snap exercises in Belarus, the West is sounding the alarm about the danger of a major new global conflict.

⚡️Блинкен летит в Киев и Берлин.
Госдепартамент #США предупредил, что #Россия может начать наступление «в любой момент»
Российские силы в Белоруссии — это «ни учения, ни обычное передвижение войск. Это демонстрация силы, предназначенная для того, чтобы вызвать или создать ложный предлог для кризиса, поскольку Россия планирует возможное вторжение», — заявил высокопоставленный чиновник Госдепартамента на условиях анонимности 18 января. — «Сейчас мы находимся на этапе, когда Россия может в любой момент начать атаку на Украину»

В связи с тем, что Россия сосредоточила около 100 000 военных вдоль границ Украины, к тому же значительные новые силы развернуты для внезапных учений в Беларуси, на Западе бьют тревогу из-за опасности нового крупного мирового конфликта.

⚡️🇩🇪#Germany may consider halting the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if 🇷🇺#Russia attacks 🇺🇦#Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz signaled on Tuesday after meeting with #NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Berlin

⚡️🇩🇪#Германия может "рассмотреть вопрос" об остановке газопровода «Северный поток — 2», если 🇷🇺#Россия нападет на Украину, заявил во вторник канцлер Германии Олаф Шольц после встречи с генсеком #НАТО Йенсом Столтенбергом в Берлине

⚡️Bloomberg: Germany ready to hit Nord Stream 2 to counter Russia

⚡️Bloomberg: Германия готова ударить по «Северному потоку — 2», чтобы противостоять России

🇩🇪#Germany 🇷🇺#Russia
⚡️Bloomberg: Germany’s top diplomat signaled that Pipeline may be targeted If Russia Invades Ukraine

⚡️Bloomberg: Высокопоставленный немецкий дипломат дал понять, что трубопровод может стать мишенью, если Россия вторгнется в Украину

🇬🇧#UK 🇺🇦#Ukraine
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace officially announced in the British Parliament the day before that the first systems had already been delivered to Ukraine on January 17.
British planes were forced to fly around the airspace of Germany, which had previously refused to supply weapons to Ukraine, but later denied information about the closure of the sky for the transport of weapons to Ukraine.
Its advantages:
1. NLAW is a short-range Javelin that hits the target with fire-and-forget technology. The operator looks into the Trijicon TA41 NLAW 2.5x20 computerized sight, marks the target, waits for the capture and presses the trigger, and the sight programs itself to calculate the lead, flight path, wind correction. The sight is optical, there is no laser rangefinder, and the grenade launcher's radiation detection system will not detect it.
2. Short reaction time. According to the data on the website of the Saab developer, from the moment you turn it on until the moment you capture the target and start, up to a maximum of 5 seconds is enough.
3. This is a grenade launcher for shooting from enclosed spaces, from behind shelters, from the upper floors of buildings or the basement. This is an important difference from conventional Soviet and Russian grenade launchers. The jet stream will not harm the operator, who will be able to choose reliable shelters in enclosed spaces, shoot even if the floor or ceiling are close, which is important for fighting in the city. Light weight - 12.5 kg - allows you to move quickly with it.
4. The maximum range of aimed fire is 600 meters for old modifications, 800 meters for new ones. The minimum launch range is 20 meters.
5. The grenade launcher has two firing modes. To destroy tanks, the attack mode from above is activated - the rocket will fly a meter above the aiming point, the charge will detonate to hit the tank from above. According to the manufacturer, the warhead will penetrate 500 mm of armor. And to defeat lightly armored targets or the walls of a building, the direct attack mode is activated. And then the warhead will detonate instantly upon contact.
However, the NLAW is not a consumable like the RPG-26 - it's a rather expensive melee weapon.

🔹Министр обороны Великобритании Бен Уоллес накануне официально сообщил в британском парламенте, что первые системы уже доставлены в Украину 17 января.

🇮🇳#India
🔥The explosion occurred on the destroyer D55 Ranvijay of the Indian Navy, killing three crew members and injuring dozens. The ship was not damaged

🔥На эскадренном миноносце D55 Ranvijay ВМС Индии произошел взрыв, погибли три члена экипажа, десятки ранены. Kорабль не пострадал

🇸🇾#Syria today
Nature has gone crazy!
Природа сошла с ума!

🇺🇸#USA
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' wax figures are now on public display at Madame Tussauds... it's the first time the famous wax museum immortalized a Veep.

В музее Мадам Тюссо поставили восковые фигуры Байдена и Харрис
По традиции музей выставляет фигуры каждого нового президента Соединенных Штатов.