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🔹 On coming "Ramstein format" meeting Kyiv will try to build "air force coalition"; 🔹 Explosions in Kharkiv, air raid sirens were activated; 🔹 ZSU attempted an unsuccessful attack on Artemovsk front; 🔹 DPR official: Kyiv amassed forces near Vuhledar and Avdiivka for a offensive towards Donetsk; 🔹 Last evening ZSU rocket attack came on center of Tokmak (Zaporizha Oblast); 🔹 US journalist Seymour Hirsch: Over a half of world's population supports Russian special military operation.
🔹 During the night attack, Ukrainian UAV blew up fuel reservoir in Sevastopol, Crimea; 🔹 Governor Saldo calls "unrealistic case" possible ZSU plan to drown Russian defense line with water from Dnieper; 🔹 Russian UN embassy received many requests from Ukrainian refugees to help return children take from families by European authorities; 🔹 Two civilians wounded in Ukrainian Mikolaiv after grenade explosion; 🔹 Russian artillery destroyed ZSU fortified point near Vuhledar; 🔹 ZSU fired 60 shells on Russian part of Kherson Oblast.
🔹 Pushilin: Russian forces established fire control over ZSU positions in Maryinka; 🔹 IED exploded near residential building in Melitopol, killing a police officer, authorities describe this as a terrorist act; 🔹 ZSU step up movement of forces to Zaporizha front; 🔹 Kyiv does not confirm statements of NATO that Alliance delivered "nearly all" pledged weapons and military equipment; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed ZSU S-300 SAM and Gepard SPAAG in Kherson front; 🔹 DPR reports ZSU making attempts to counterattack on Vuhledar axis; 🔹 LPR reports ZSU foreign mercenaries are stationed near Russian border in Kharkiv Oblast.
🔹 ZSU shelled Leninsky village in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 Russian forces launched massive strike on ZSU positions in Vuhledar; 🔹 Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary demand EU to ban grain and other agricultural imports from Ukraine till 2024; 🔹 RIA: Russian top new tanks T-14 Armata are already being used for striking Ukrainian positions, but yet to take part in direct combat; 🔹 ZSU accumulates reserves in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Borrell reports that EU gave Kyiv 13 bln euro worth of weapons and military equipment and provided training of over 16 000 ZSU personnel.
🔹 Pushilin: Russian forces repel Ukrainian reconnaissance at Vuhledar; 🔹 IAEA Director Grossi will return back to Russia for further negotiations on Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Kyiv Foreign Minister says EU during conflict was more of worth than NATO; 🔹 Rogov: ZSU gather forces at the line of contact in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 DPR first vice premier Solntsev becomes head of government; 🔹 Kyiv declares possession of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church void; 🔹 LPR ombudsman: Russian prisoners tortured if they refuse to sing national anthem of Ukraine; 🔹 SBU creates team for implementation of NATO standards; 🔹 Kyiv receives a billion dollar grant from US.
🔹 Russian loitering munitions landed precision strikes on Kyiv and Dniepropetrovsk Oblast; 🔹 Der Spiegel: Germany to step up military aid to Kyiv to 15 bln euros; 🔹 Bulgaria can't give Kyiv more 155 mm munitions as it has not enough left in storage; 🔹 Head of DPR says ZSU lost around 30 troops near Vuhledar in an attempt to test Russian defenses; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities expect ZSU could stage a provocation during IAEA director visit to Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Petition with demands to ban depleted uranium munitions filed in Zelensky's web site.
🔹 Vladimir Putin visited Mariupol; 🔹 RuMOD published videos of Pacific Fleet Marine Troops Air Defense in combat duty near Vuhledar; 🔹 Zelensky says several Western countries pledged new military aid packages for Kyiv; 🔹 ZSU fired over 80 shells on civil infrastructure in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 ZSU launched 25 missiles and 3 shells on Kirovsk District of Donetsk.
🔹 RuMOD says Kyiv prepares a provocation to invade Transnistria; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Dniepropetrovsk and Kharkiv Oblasts; 🔹 Kyiv MOD decides to send military draft officials from four Oblasts to front lines; 🔹 Russian FSB security servics arrests a local from Energodar with a cache of antitank grenades and a pistol; 🔹 UK ready to send Kyiv more Challenger 2 tanks if first 14 pieces shall be destroyed in combat; 🔹 Russian servicemen received commendments for battle near Vuhledar.
🔹 UK MOD: Kyiv will get modern fighter planes only after the end of conflict; 🔹 ZSU used unidentified chemical weapons against Russian forces at Vuhledar; 🔹 Many EU countries who pledged tanks for Kyiv found that many tanks are in no condition for a fight; 🔹 Two explosions rocked critical infrastructure in Khmelnitsky in West Ukraine; 🔹 Rada speaker announced that Kyiv expects invitation to NATO by summer 2023; 🔹 Kyiv FM mulls "expedient shipments of weapons" with G7 colleagues.
🔹 Russia launched night attack on ZSU military installations in several regions of Ukraine with loitering munitions and precision missile strikes; 🔹 Ukraine launched an attack on Crimea with UAVs, Russian Air Defense repelling attack; 🔹 UK MOD Ben Wallace urged ZSU to "ration" artillery munitions; 🔹 Russian offensive on Vuhledar stalled in minefields around the town; 🔹 Kyiv forces General Staff expects Russian offensive on Kupyansk and moves equipment and personnel to left bank of Oskol river; 🔹 Germany MOD Boris Pistorius says NATO can give Kyiv only 17 Leopard 2A6 tanks, not promised "two battalions".
🔹 RuMOD reports ZSU retreated a few kilometers from positions in LPR; 🔹 In the night, ZSU shelling hit residential quarters in Aleshki and shop in Chaplinka (Kherson Oblast); 🔹 Die Welt: Netherlands and Denmark refused to give Kyiv their Leopard 2 tanks; 🔹 Zelensky issues a decree giving ZSU 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade the name "Edelweiss", just as SS Abwehrgruppe 218 death squads; 🔹 Loud explosion in Donetsk, Air Defense shot down ZSU missile; 🔹 DPR reports ZSU executed a group of medics who traveled to Vuhledar to evacuate wounded.
🔹 Stoltenberg: ZSU consumes munitions faster than NATO countries can manufacture; 🔹 NATO countries MOD summit shall discuss on fighter planes for Kyiv; 🔹 Reports that ZSU used new especially dangerous munitions; 🔹 Germany starts training ZSU servicemen with Leopard 2 tanks; 🔹 Kyiv MOD: Denmark gave all available CAESAR howitzers; 🔹 UN General Assembly special session on Ukraine to begin on February 22;
🔹 DPR says ZSU executed a group of foreign mercenaries in Vuhledar; 🔹 Novaya Kakhovka and 10 other settlements in Kherson Oblast without power after night shelling by ZSU; 🔹 Construction of shelling protection over key facilities of Zaporizha NPP in final stage; 🔹 First of four Canadian Leopard 2 tanks for ZSU came to Poland; 🔹 Arestovich acknowledged, that special military operation may end not the way Ukrainians want; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Kharkiv, Kirovohrad and Poltava Oblasts of Ukraine; 🔹 Sources report ZSU servicemen mangle with equipment to be spared from front lines.
🔹 Russia says IAEA never proposed to remove Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) from Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Odesa, Mikolaiv, Kirovohrad, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Washington Post: US may be able to supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine only by late 2023 or even later; 🔹 Ukrainian SAM missile hits residential building in Kharkiv; 🔹 Newsweek: US wants Ukrainian titanium to supply military-industrial complex; 🔹 Zelensky acknowledged that ZSU is in dire situation in Bakhmut and Vuhledar; 🔹 Head of Munich Security Conference advocates for sending fighter planes for Kyiv.
🔹 DPR reports Russian forces entered city of Vuhledar; 🔹 Canada to give Kyiv around 5 Leopard tanks; 🔹 RIA sources report SBU forces civilians to sabotage Russian forces; 🔹 Zelensky demands fighter planes and long-range missiles form NATO; 🔹 Hidden cache with foreign weapons found in LPR; 🔹 Mass demonstrations against sending tanks for Kyiv held in Munich; 🔹 Portugal FM says country can send Leopard tanks for Kiyv in 2-3 months.
🔹 Bloomberg: Germany tomorrow may permit Poland to send Leopard 2 for ZSU; 🔹 Sky News: Biden is ready to give ZSU 10 Abrams tanks to persuade Germany; 🔹 Boris Johnson called to accede Ukraine to NATO; Д 🔹 Metropol: Freight wagons with hundreds of dead Ukrainian servicemen found on Ukraine-Hungary border; 🔹 Citizens of Rovno Oblast attacked members of military conscription patrol who tried to enlist him, with a scythe; 🔹 RT: ZSU lost over 200 troops trying to counterattacks Russian forces near Vuhledar; 🔹 Ukrainian media reports that Zelensky can sack prime-minister Shmyhal; 🔹 Director of IAEA says inspectors did not find any military equipment in Ukrainian nuclear power plants; 🔹 Italy Parliament approves a decree on further military aid to Kyiv in 2023.