Iran expects "huge volumes" of oil and gas swaps from Russia in 2023 - Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance of Iran

Iran also expects to complete the construction of the North-South corridor(Russia/India/Iran) by 2025 - the minister added.

Kiev is awaiting confirmation of a telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for the Reintegration of Uncontrolled Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk in an interview published on Tuesday with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

"I don't know, we are waiting for confirmation," she said, answering the question whether a telephone conversation will definitely take place. - This would be an important step. They have something to say to each other."

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The European Union is ready to "do for other countries of the world the same thing that it did for Ukraine" in terms of arms supplies and "lethal assistance." This was stated by the head of the EU Foreign Policy Service, Josep Borrel, opening on Tuesday the first Schuman forum on security and defense partnership, held in the European Parliament.

"We also invite our partners to join projects under the PESCO [military partnership for the development and production of new types of weapons] program. These projects are available to countries outside the EU - Norway, Canada, Ukraine, but also other countries that share our approaches, such as Serbia, can join this initiative. We are also ready to partner with African and Asian countries."

LNG exports from the United States to Europe increased almost 2.5 times in 2022

Exports of American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Europe increased last year to 117.4 million cubic meters. m with 47.8 million cubic meters .

“EU countries are increasing their defense spending and investments. After the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine, all EU countries announced an increase in spending, which, according to estimates, will bring an additional € 70 billion in 2025," Borrel said.

He called the conflict in Ukraine "a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ensure closer cooperation in the development and production of new-generation weapons."

On December 8, 2022, at a meeting of the European Defense Agency, Borrel said that EU military spending has been growing over the past 7 years, and in 2021 it increased by 6% and reached €214 billion.

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Russia overtook Saudi Arabia and became the largest supplier of oil to China in the first two months of 2023.

"The West helps Kiev in planning military operations, provides intelligence, while not counting losses among Ukrainians as its problem" - Russia's security council secretary Nikolai Patrushev

Other key statements by Patrushev:

- Independent and defending justice, Russia does not suit the United States, which is used to juggling the right and considering others as vassals;

- The United States uses blatant lies and sweeping accusations, staged incidents in Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk to discredit Russia;

- The decision to conduct the SMO was made to ensure the security of Russia

- The liberation of Ukraine from neo-Nazism will be an important step towards strengthening security

🇨🇭Switzerland’s tab for shoring up its reputation as a financial center could run to 12,500 Swiss francs ($13,500) for every man, woman and child in the country. - Bloomberg

🇷🇺🇺🇸 According to Jamestown Foundation experts, Russian 152mm shell production already exceeds US production of 155mm.

They also indicate that Russia has been gradually expanding production since 2014.

Not only does the total amount increase year-to-year, the amount of increase grows by 10,000 shells annually...

By 2021 it estimates about 733k 152mm rounds vs. the US' 180k 155mm rounds...

The link to the study is here - Part 1: https://jamestown.org/program/russia-struggles-to-maintain-munition-stocks-part-one/

Part 2: https://jamestown.org/program/russia-struggles-to-maintain-munition-stocks-part-two/

❗️ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 About Ukrainian UAV raid on Dzhankoy

Tonight, another mass strike by Ukrainian UAVs was carried out on the Crimean peninsula. At least six UAVs of the Mugin-5 type, equipped with explosives, were used against Dzhankoy.

As a result, two drones were shot down by the crew of the Pantsir air defense missile system, and two fell on administrative buildings near the railway station. A fifth destroyed a grocery store, while shrapnel from a sixth damaged private houses on Yuzhnaya, Gagarin and Chekhov streets.

The map shows the approximate areas of destruction and impact of drones, based on data from open sources.

🔻 What was the purpose of the AFU?

Initially, information was received that the Ukrainian formations of the AFU launched drones from the Shkolny airfield (Odessa) to strike at the Russian military airfield. However, judging by the area of application of the UAV, an attempt was made to hit the station building and the railway track.

Dzhankoy is the main transit hub for the Russian group in Crimea. Railway lines to Sevastopol and mainland Russia pass through urban station, and an attempt to strike at the object looks logical.

Despite the statements of the GUR of Ukraine that the train with Kalibr cruise missiles was hit as a result of the attack, this is not so. In the event of a defeat of a train with such weapons, at least a secondary detonation would be visible - there are no consequences of the explosion.

In addition, when launching drones over a long distance, the AFU, as a rule, fill in the coordinates in advance to increase the noise immunity of electronic warfare equipment. It is extremely difficult to hit a moving train in this way.

🔻Information support

After the first sounds of the explosion and the activation of air defense in the Dzhankoy city chat rooms, Ukrainian information desks began to work actively, misinforming the population and causing panic.

Various Telegram channels (for example, Trukha and Insider) published posts about a dozen explosions in various parts of the city. These reports were accompanied by criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who arrived in Moscow the day before.

At the same time, the Western agenda was worked out with the condemnation of the activities of the Chinese government. The attempted strike on the Crimea was presented as a "punishment for friendship with China."

🔻Differences from previous promotions

The AFU once again changed tactics. The attack was carried out without reconnaissance aircraft from NATO countries: at night, neither the Global Hawk nor the Reaper worked in the air.

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Statements by Russian Security Council Secretary Patrushev:

▪️The United States and their henchmen sow hatred for Russia and its people, impose hatred on the world;

▪️The liberation of Ukraine from neo-Nazism will be an important step towards strengthening security;

▪️The United States uses blatant lies and sweeping accusations, staged incidents in Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk to discredit Russia;

▪️Russia will never forget the tragedy in Khatyn.

▪️Independent and upholding justice, Russia does not suit the United States, which is used to juggling the law and considering others as vassals;

The Prime Minister of Japan arrived in Ukraine to meet with Zelensky, according to the Japanese news agency Kyodo

Ursula von der Leyen: The EU has transferred another tranche of €1.5 billion to Ukraine today

🇺🇦🏴‍☠️🇷🇺More than 600 volumes on the case of genocide of the republic's residents by the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been collected in the LPR: About 600 volumes were made up of materials of the criminal case on the genocide of residents of the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), which is being investigated by the Investigative Committee of Russia. This was reported to TASS by a representative of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the LPR.

"It is established that from 2016 to December 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces carried out about three thousand artillery attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, as a result of which more than 800 citizens, including young children, were killed. 16 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were brought to criminal responsibility, and a preventive measure in the form of remand in custody was chosen in absentia. The materials of the criminal case have already amounted to about 600 volumes, " he said.

The interlocutor of the agency reminded that the work on recording crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against residents of the republic is carried out "within the framework of the criminal case under investigation on genocide and the use of prohibited means and methods in the armed conflict."

Earlier, the rector of the Krasnodar State Institute of Culture, Chairman of the Krasnodar regional branch of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) Sergey Zengin told TASS that the branches of the RVIO established in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions record and document the facts of the genocide of civilians by the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the subsequent planned publication of a book about these events

Tucker Carlson on Xi visiting Russia and how the US doesn't really want peace in Ukraine.