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Moscow confirms Putin interview with Tucker Carlson
Kremlin said interview was granted because Carlson was neither pro-Russian or pro-Ukrainian, unlike, it said, other western media

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 16:39 schreef BlaZ het volgende:
Oekraïne gaat verder mobiliseren:

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27739

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 20:16 schreef Bensel het volgende:
Schijnt iets groots in de fik te staan in Izhevsk. Zou een raketfabriek zitten, die putin eens bezocht heeft: https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/a9q9Np6_460svav1.mp4

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 21:09 schreef Cilantro het volgende:
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Zo ne grote vuurbal jonge BAM !

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 17:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Lijkt me terecht. Andere propagandisten staan ook op de shitlist.

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 21:05 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Ja de fabriek voor intercontinentale ballistische raketten.

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 21:14 schreef Anton91 het volgende:
Zullen zometeen wel wat tweets voorbij zien komen van een Russische burgemeester dat alle drones uit de lucht geschoten zijn en dat er een beetje debris op de fabriek is gevallen maar dat er niemand gewond is geraakt.

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 21:14 schreef Anton91 het volgende:
Zullen zometeen wel wat tweets voorbij zien komen van een Russische burgemeester dat alle drones uit de lucht geschoten zijn en dat er een beetje debris op de fabriek is gevallen maar dat er niemand gewond is geraakt.

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Hoe verzinnen ze het toch telkens

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 21:14 schreef Anton91 het volgende:
Zullen zometeen wel wat tweets voorbij zien komen van een Russische burgemeester dat alle drones uit de lucht geschoten zijn en dat er een beetje debris op de fabriek is gevallen maar dat er niemand gewond is geraakt.

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 22:30 schreef ach het volgende:
Dat zou toch gewoon een statische test van een raketmotor kunnen zijn? Aangezien het 'uitgaat' en het geluid een constant geraas is

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Op woensdag 7 februari 2024 22:30 schreef ach het volgende:
Dat zou toch gewoon een statische test van een raketmotor kunnen zijn? Aangezien het 'uitgaat' en het geluid een constant geraas is

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NATO allies warn Hungary not to hold up Sweden’s membership as US patience wears thin
BRUSSELS — U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that he and his NATO counterparts cautioned Hungary on Wednesday against further delaying Sweden’s membership in the military alliance, and he warned that patience in Washington has its limits.

Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán boycotted an emergency session of parliament on Monday where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden’s bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda, adding to 18 months of delays that have angered Hungary’s allies.

The governing Fidesz party, which holds an absolute majority in Hungary’s parliament, has stalled Sweden’s bid since July 2022, alleging that Swedish politicians have told “blatant lies” about the state of Hungarian democracy. The party insists that Sweden’s prime minister must come to Hungary first.

“We heard security adviser after security adviser say that it’s past time for Sweden to get in, and to directly address the representative from Hungary,” Sullivan told reporters after a meeting of the organization’s top security officials at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Sullivan said that he and his colleagues had impressed upon Hungary that “it’s a matter of credibility and obligation that they take the necessary steps” to complete the parliamentary procedures to ratify Sweden’s accession.

Sweden, along with neighboring Finland, set aside decades of military nonalignment to seek protection under NATO’s collective security umbrella after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

Finland has since joined the trans-Atlantic alliance. The country, along with the other 30 allies, must all agree that Sweden should stand among NATO’s ranks. Hungary is the only member standing in its way.

Sullivan said that he wouldn’t “stand here today and make particular threats, or speculation about steps that we would take down the road, but of course our patience on this can’t be unlimited either.”

He said the U.S. will “continue to watch it carefully, but hope that there is a constructive resolution to this issue in the very near term.”

Orbán, who has broken ranks with NATO allies by adopting a Kremlin-friendly stance toward Russia’s war in Ukraine, has said that he invited Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to Budapest to discuss “future cooperation in the field of security and defense as allies and partners.”

Unless another emergency session of Hungary’s parliament is called to debate Sweden’s bid, the assembly is due to sit for its regular session on Feb. 26.

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Senate blocks bipartisan $118bn bill on US-Mexico border and Ukraine
Bill would have granted president new power to shut border, and provided billions for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza and West Bank

The Senate blocked a bipartisan border and national security bill from advancing on Wednesday, as Democrats accused Republicans of bending to the political wishes of Donald Trump at the expense of their constituents.

The vote was 49 to 50, with 45 Democrats and four Republicans supporting the bill’s advancement. Sixty votes were needed to begin debate on the bill.

Most of the Republican conference opposed the bill’s advancement after complaining that the legislation did not go far enough in addressing the needs at the US-Mexico border, where arrests for illegal crossings have hit record highs. Five members of the Democratic caucus also voted to block the bill, out of concern about the severity of the border-security measures and the added funding for Israel’s military amid the war in Gaza.

The Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer of New York, initially supported the bill’s advancement but then changed his vote – a procedural maneuver that would allow the chamber to revisit the proposal in the future.

The $118bn bill would have granted the president a new power to shut down the border when daily crossings pass a certain limit while also expediting the asylum review process, which could have led to quicker deportation for many migrants. The bill would have provided $60bn in military assistance for Ukraine, $14bn in security assistance for Israel and $10bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians affected by wars in Ukraine, and Gaza and the West Bank.

With the border deal dead, the Senate attempted to advance a separate foreign aid package that would include only the funding for US allies outlined in the bipartisan bill. There was some apparent confusion over how much support that bill had, forcing senators to keep an initial vote on the proposal open for four hours as they debated the best path forward.

When the vote finally closed on Wednesday evening, 58 out of 100 senators were on record supporting the bill’s advancement. But 60 votes will be required to start debate on the bill, so it currently lacks the necessary support to pass the Senate. Taking to the Senate floor on Wednesday evening, Schumer announced the chamber would reconvene Thursday to vote on the bill again.

“We will recess until tomorrow and give our Republican colleagues the night to figure themselves out,” Schumer said. “We’ll be coming back tomorrow at noon, and hopefully that will give the Republicans the time they need. We will have this vote tomorrow.”

However, it remained deeply unclear whether a foreign aid package without border measures could pass the Senate, which considered a similar proposal back in December. Republicans, who insisted that the legislation must address the border, previously blocked that package from advancing.

Some hard-right Republicans had already indicated that they would oppose the standalone bill, demanding more concessions from Democrats on border policy. Senator Mike Lee, a Republican of Utah, said members of his party should not approve the bill without “language conditioning any Ukraine funds on the achievement of border-security benchmarks”.

On Tuesday, Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, had tried to pre-empt a potential foreign aid package by holding a vote on a bill that would only provide funding to Israel. The bill was designed to appeal to hard-right Republicans, who have grown increasingly resistant to Ukraine funding, but the House voted it down on Tuesday evening.

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‘Show a little courage’: Biden attacks Republicans for ‘caving’ to Trump on US-Mexico border security bill
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In a pointed speech delivered at the White House on Tuesday, Joe Biden blamed the border bill’s expected failure on Trump, who had encouraged Republicans to oppose the deal. Writing on his social media platform Truth Social on Monday, Trump dismissed the bill as “nothing more than a highly sophisticated trap for Republicans to assume the blame on what the Radical Left Democrats have done to our Border, just in time for our most important EVER Election”. Echoing Trump’s concern about the impact that the bill’s passage could have on the presidential race, some Republican lawmakers have suggested border security should not be addressed until after the November election.

“All indications are this bill won’t even move forward to the Senate floor. Why? A simple reason: Donald Trump. Because Donald Trump thinks it’s bad for him politically … He’d rather weaponize this issue than actually solve it,” Biden said on Tuesday. “Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his Maga [Make America great again] Republican friends.”

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Massive attack on Ukraine: more than 40 victims in Kyiv, Kharkiv Oblast was fired upon by missiles produced in the DPRK
On February 7, Russian forces launched a series of attacks across Ukraine, targeting civilian homes and properties. Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat confirmed the strikes, noting casualties.

Russian forces have targeted private properties and homes of Ukrainians, as stated by Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. Serhii Bolvinov, the head of the investigative department of the Kharkiv region police, reported that two of the five missiles launched by Russian troops on February 7 at Kharkiv were manufactured in North Korea.

Russian attacks on Ukrainian private property
In Mykolaiv, 71 residential buildings sustained damage due to the impact. Yuri Ignat, speaking on Channel 24, questioned whether the targets of Russian attacks have shifted. He noted that occupiers are launching rockets and drones at private properties and houses of Ukrainians. Ignat highlighted the tragic incident where a newborn child was killed by an S-300 missile during a previous terrorist attack by the occupiers.

Similarly, during the shelling on the morning of February 7, a Kh-22 rocket caused serious destruction in a settlement in the Mykolaiv region.

Overview of Russian attacks on Ukraine
On February 7, the aggressor country attacked six regions of Ukraine with drones and missiles of various types. The majority of missiles were launched at Kyiv, where Serhii Popko, head of the KMVA, reported that air defense forces destroyed about 20 missiles.

The attack resulted in the deaths of four people and more than 40 injuries in the capital. Furthermore, Serhiy Bolvinov confirmed that two of the five missiles fired at Kharkiv on February 7 were produced in North Korea. Metal fragments of ballistic missiles collected by explosives experts in the industrial zone indicate preliminary conclusions of specialists point to North Korean HWASON 11GA (KN-23) missiles. This isn't the first time Russia has used missiles from North Korea.

Earlier, Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin provided evidence of missile launches at Kharkiv from North Korea.

The White House stated on January 4 that North Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic missiles and launchers for use in its war against Ukraine. However, both Russia and North Korea deny supplying ballistic missiles for use by the Kremlin in the war in Ukraine. In Mykolaiv, Russian forces targeted residential buildings, resulting in significant damage.

Mayor Oleksandr Sienkovych reported that 71 buildings were damaged, with three completely destroyed. One person died, and more than 10 others were injured during the morning attack. Psychological assistance was provided to 60 residents. The mayor stated that assistance is being provided to those whose homes were damaged by the explosion, with offers of resettlement, though many have refused.

Polish Defense Minister Władysław Kosyniak-Kamysh commented on the missile attack on Ukraine, noting that Russia had replenished its losses suffered at the start of a full-scale invasion. He emphasized that Poland should be prepared for any scenario.