🇷🇺🇺🇦 Arrival at the target in the Kramatorsk area.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainian MiG-29 was shot down in an air battle in the Cherevkovka region, and in the Slavyansk region, the enemy lost a Mi-8 helicopter.

🇮🇷🇨🇳 Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi has arrived in China. Today, he is negotiating with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

China and Iran have signed a strategic partnership agreement for 25 years, trade is constantly growing, China buys a significant part of Iranian oil, and military-technical cooperation is increasing.

Like Russia, China is interested in a stable Iran, which is an important pillar of the One Belt, One Road geostrategic initiative.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Half of the garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine left the "half-cauldron". Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) is being prepared for surrender - Yuriy Podolyaka

The Ukrainian command no longer considers Artyomovsk as a defensive point and will no longer attempt to counterattack the Russian troops clamping the city in pincers, military observer Yuriy Podolyaka said.

“I think that in the coming days we will see the denouement, which will already be obvious to everyone,” Podolyaka said.

🇺🇦⚡Kiev will receive Leopard tanks in March, said the head of the Polish Ministry of Defense

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian media and telegram channels massively report on the flight of Russian reconnaissance UAVs over the Zhytomyr, Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. The video shows an attempt to shoot down drones with small arms fire.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇲 The New York Times published footage of the arrival of the Kornet ATGM in the car of foreign mercenaries in Bakhmut. Then the head of Global Response Medicine, American Pete Reed, died, five more were injured.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied by our military.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡The total death toll during the earthquake in Syria and Turkey has exceeded 38,500 people. The total number of wounded and injured is 193,000 people

🇷🇺🇺🇦 UAV-kamikaze "Lancet" strikes the Ukrainian boat BMK-2000 with troops.

🇷🇺🇨🇳💵 Russia-China trade skyrocketed in 2021. This was a general trend among Emerging Market economies. Now, China is exporting so much to Russia that its exports (blue) in December 2022 almost surpassed imports (black).

China's exports to Russia are a major boon, allowing Russia to shift trade away from the West and towards China. Increasingly this bloc looks like its a separate entity to the West.

🇺🇸 In the US, there's a rising incidence of industrial accidents and construction embarrassments.

Ohio chemical explosion
Airline runway incidents
Failed high speed rail
Fires from mismanaged forests
Million dollar toilets
$300M bus lanes
$3.5B subways

Why is this happening?

- Balaji