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Analysts of the monitoring group Ukraine War Disinfo Working Group, who have been studying Kremlin propaganda in Central and Eastern Europe for 6 months, provided their recommendations for countering it in the future.  The recommendations are based on the findings regarding Russian propaganda, tracked by CSOs and think tanks in 15 countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Georgia. Thus, in the final report, analysts suggest that the network of Russian propaganda in the future will focus its efforts on spreading calls for peace, but on Russia’s terms, with an…

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has stated that the international community should accelerate its support for Ukraine because a “prolonged stalemate” in the war would only benefit Russia. According to The Guardian, a British prime minister's spokesperson said this in a statement. “He [the Prime Minister] said since becoming prime minister he had reviewed the UK’s approach and concluded that a prolonged stalemate in the conflict would only benefit Russia. Which was why he had decided there was an opportunity to accelerate UK support working closely with our allies to give Ukraine the best chance of success and make the…

The United States is preparing more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include missiles with a range of 150 km. “The aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week,” two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. It is also expected to include support equipment for Patriot air defense systems, precision-guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank weapons, they added. Read also: White House to announce new military aid package for Ukraine soon According to one of the officials, a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion,…

In Kharkiv, rescuers retrieved fragments of the body of an elderly woman from under the rubble of a residential building hit by a Russian missile on the night of January 29. The press service of the State Emergency Service’s Main Department in Kharkiv region wrote this on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. "As of 16:30 on January 31, the second day of search and rescue operations ended at the site of a four-story residential building destroyed by an enemy missile in the Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv. The rescuers managed to dismantle most of the emergency structures, to clear a significant part of…

France will send 12 more Caesar self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine. According to Le Monde, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said this at a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov. Lecornu noted that the transfer of 12 Caesar self-propelled howitzers would be financed from a EUR 200 million fund that was approved by parliament. Read also: Reznikov, Macron to discuss F-16 deliveries to Ukraine in Paris - media According to Lecornu, France will also send 150 military specialists to Poland to train 600 Ukrainian soldiers per month and train a total of 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers by summer. As…

In the first wave of supplies, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive from 120 to 140 tanks of modern Western models – Leopard 2, Challenger 2, M1 Abrams. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said this at an online briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. He noted that the January decisions on weapons indicate a new Euro-Atlantic consensus of partners: the stronger Ukraine is, the sooner this criminal war will be put to an end. A vivid embodiment of this rule is the formation of an international tank coalition which already includes 12 participants, Kuleba noted. "It is…

The country's authorities are discussing the issue of Poland's F-16 jets supply to Ukraine with NATO allies. Warsaw does not publicly reveal the details of its security assistance to Ukraine. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Zbigniew Rau said this at a joint press conference with foreign ministers of the Baltic states in Riga, answering questions about Poland's F-16 jets supply to Ukraine, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. As the Polish minister noted, all of Poland's supplies to Ukraine are carried out "in close coordination and agreement with NATO allies." "As you know, the issue of aircraft is being discussed with…

The Russian military shelled a church in the town of Oleshky on the occupied left bank of Kherson region. "Today, the occupiers shelled a church of the Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate in the town of Oleshky," Oleshky Mayor Yevhen Ryshchuk posted on Telegram. In turn, the Kakhovka town territorial community posted on Facebook that the Russians hit a Kakhovka gymnasium on the morning of January 30. Private houses nearby were damaged. Nobody was injured. As reported, the Russian military wants to create a "grey zone" on both banks of the Dnipro River, so they shell the temporarily occupied bank…

The Armed Forces of Ukraine over the past day destroyed five light motor boats carrying enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups. That’s according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Ukrinform reports. The enemy intensified the operations of their sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area of islands at the mouth of the Dnipro. Read also: Top spy believes Ukrainian troops crossing into Crimea not to trigger nuclear strike "Over the last day, the Defense Forces of Ukraine destroyed at least five light motor boats with such groups," the General Staff noted. As reported by Ukrinform, the Defense Forces of…

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, Kyrylo Budanov, has denied the assumption that the advance of Ukrainian forces into Crimea would provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin to deploy nuclear weapons against Ukraine. That’s according to Budanov’s interview with The Washington Post, Ukrinform reports. “This is not true. And Crimea will be returned to us. I’ll tell you more: It all started in Crimea in 2014, and it will all end there,” Budanov said, answering a journalist question of whether Russia could nuke Ukraine if the latter’s army enters the temporarily occupied Crimea. “It’s a scare…