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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²βš”οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ – New cargo plane arrives in Rzeszow, Poland with new batch of
US-made ammunition for Ukraine


Note: the US Department of Defense is currently engaged in a war against DOGE and other infiltrated government agencies β€” seems like the US Army is in power.

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πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ίβš”οΈπŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ – EU discusses European rearmament bank and UK-led EU
defence fund
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β—οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ USAF B-52's nuclear capable long-range bombers over Eastern Poland πŸ‡΅πŸ‡±

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JUST IN πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¨πŸ‡³ – Former Russian Defense Minister Shoigu arrived in Beijing to meet with Xi Jinping and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, the press service of the Russian Security Council reported.

During the talks, it is planned to discuss bilateral security issues, international and regional problems.

This is Shoigu's second visit to China in the last 3 months.


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βš“πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Russian Baltic Fleet corvette "Boykiy" today passed through the Great Belt Strait on a course to exit the Baltic Sea. The mission is unclear.

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BREAKING – British PM Keir Starmer says that Britain could be ready to "put boots on the ground" to support a peace deal in Ukraine

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βš”οΈπŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ The German Armed Forces Procurement Office (BAAINBw) has commissioned the Bremen-based start-up company POLARIS to develop a two-stage, horizontally launching and fully reusable hypersonic research aircraft. As the company further writes on the Linkedin platform, the contract includes not only the design but also follow-up options for the production and flight testing of the full-size aircraft, - Hartpunkt wrote

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NEW – Russian president Putin and senior Russian officials continue to reject US negotiating terms and demand that Ukraine surrender territory that Russia does not occupy.


β–ͺ️ Putin stated in his February 27 address to the Federal Security Service (FSB) board that Russia will continue to strengthen FSB operations in Donbas and "Novorossiya." Kremlin Spokesperson Peskov similarly claimed on February 27 that Donbas and "Novorossiya" are an "integral" part of Russia.

β–ͺ️ Putin and other Russian officials have previously defined "Novorossiya" as all of eastern and southern Ukraine (including Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, and Mykolaiv oblasts), although its precise borders are disputed among Russian ultranationalists.

β–ͺ️ Putin has previously demanded that Ukraine surrender all of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts even though Russian forces do not occupy large parts of Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia oblasts.

β–ͺ️ Putin and other Russian officials have routinely indicated that they aim for territorial conquest beyond the administrative boundaries of these four illegally annexed oblasts.

Renewed official Russian statements that the invented region of "Novorossiya" is part of Russia indicate that Putin maintains his maximalist territorial ambitions and is unwilling to offer territorial concessions.


πŸ”— Institute for the Study of War

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βš“πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³βš‘πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί – Map from Chinese media showing the route followed by the PLA Navy task force operating off the coast of Australia

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Massive news from Berlin: β€˜whatever it takes’ 500bn+ defence fund & debt brake reform

- 500bn infrastructure fund (also so badly needed in πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺ) to be spent over 10 yrs incl for civil protection

Agreed by Merz (CDU) SΓΆder (CSU) & Klingbeil (SPD)
- waiting on Greens


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πŸ‡©πŸ‡ͺβš‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ – The German Ministry of Defense stated that Germany has exhausted its capacity to provide Ukraine with additional weapons from its existing reserves.

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πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅βš‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Defense spending is determined by Japan, not based on the opinions of other countries - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in response to Elbridge Colby's call to increase Tokyo's defense spending to 3% of GDP

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As the US suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine, France is prepared to fill the gap. French Defense Minister Lecornu announced that Paris will supply Kyiv with its own intelligence resources.

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BREAKING – Deployment of peacekeeping contingents from NATO countries in Ukraine will mean their official involvement in the conflict – Lavrov

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βš”οΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡΅ France could significantly increase its military spending.

According to the Minister of the Armed Forces, SΓ©bastien Lecornu, the French army "could reach an optimal budget of around 90 billion euros per year".


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πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ͺβš”οΈπŸ‡΅πŸ‡± – Sweden to provide Gripen fighter jets to the airspace of Poland, - Swedish Foreign Minister Stenergaard said

Stockholm plans to provide up to 8 aircraft, she said. The government is also proposing that Sweden provide air and sea surveillance assets, as well as airborne transport assets.

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­ The Swiss Parliament is questioning the purchase of the F-35s in the face of political uncertainties linked to Donald Trump and a possible increase in costs of one billion.

Some elected officials are calling for a re-evaluation of the project or a European alternative.


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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έβš”οΈ πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό Taiwan said it fired new US-made TOW 2B anti-tank missiles at the Jiupeng military base yesterday

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²βš‘πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί – The US will not hesitate to impose new sanctions on the Russian energy sector if this will speed up the ceasefire in Ukraine. As Bloomberg writes, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this while speaking at the Economic Club of New York.

❕Sanctions against Russia "will be used explicitly and aggressively for immediate maximum impact" at the direction of president Trump, Bessent said.


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French Mirage 2000 fighters, transferred to Ukraine a month ago, repelled a Russian attack for the first time tonight, - Air Force

❗In addition to the French, American F-16s were also involved.


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#BREAKING – Poland considering withdrawal from conventions banning anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, PM Tusk says

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