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In recent years, Russia's arms exports have almost halved, and France has overtaken it in the rankings of arms suppliers. At the same time, Ukraine has become the largest arms importer in Europe.

Japan and the United States are discussing the possibility of cooperation in the field of military equipment to provide Ukraine with more ammunition and expand Japan’s capacities to repair American warships and fighter jets.

The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, received the President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen, in The Hague to discuss, among other things, the ongoing war in Ukraine, and also had a meeting with the President of Israel, Yitzhak Herzog, to talk about the situation in Gaza.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKilQLQ20Z0 Placed on YouTube channel of Andrei Illarionov Andrei Illarionov's conversation with Lyudmila Nemirya. Part 2 Recording on February 27, 2024 Translation into English – privateer station 00:05 – Changes in Europe’s attitude are caused by recent Trump’s comment 02:40 – Changes in trends in NATO military expenditures have been caused by Trump, too 03:55 – Based on Stoltenberg’s data, the share of military spending in European NATO GDP in 2024 will fall 07:30 – Two camps’ race in production of artillery shells 13:00 – Anders Aslund's disinformation 14:50 – Fate of US military aid to Ukraine; in May 2023 the Biden administration decided to end aid to Ukraine by November or December 2023 16:25 – Putin told Carlson about his negotiations with the Biden administration on stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine 21:25 – Who read the text of the Security Supplemental Bill? 23:40 – There is no $60 bn of military aid to Ukraine in the bill 33:30 – In the best case, US administ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hi8mWG9Tn4 Placed on YouTube channel of Andrei Illarionov Andrei Illarionov's conversation with Lyudmila Nemirya. Part 1 Recording on February 27, 2024 Translation into English – privateer station 0:17 – Where are we now with the war? 1:49 – Putin announced the Russian-Ukrainian war in Yeisk on September 17, 2003 6:43 – Putin-Kuchma meeting on the Biryuchiy Island; 12:13 – Tuzla conflict 14:01 – Three stages of the war 19:00 – Third stage of the war 22:30 – The “broken glass” theory; the lack of an adequate response to aggression leads to its escalation 23:58 – Russia has become stronger economically 30:55 – Russia vs West: balance of military potentials 35:07 – Russian political regime has become tougher, repressions wider 37:53 – Policy of Western leaders is to prevent Putin's fall 38:55 – Enormous Western financial assistance to the Putin regime 40:35 – Military and economic assistance to Ukraine and Russia in 2023 43:20 – Historical examples of the share of military expend...

In 2023, about UAH 30 billion in the Russian assets seized in Ukraine was spent by the Ukrainian government on the country’s recovery efforts.

While performing an oversight based on the monitoring activity results in 2023, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has determined a list of critical payment infrastructure objects in Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden has extended for one year the national emergency in the country over the "unusual and extraordinary threat" to the national security and foreign policy of the United States because of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Canada will decide on the transfer of decommissioned CRV7 air-to-ground rockets to Ukraine in the coming days.

The Ukrainian side will later announce the amount of damage caused by the blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border, but Poland is losing more than Ukraine.

The fallout continues over a recording of Luftwaffe officials discussing options for giving Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine.

Prime Minister of Ukraine, Denys Shmyhal, hopes Ukraine will be able to obtain a negotiating framework for joining the European Union as early as this March.

Belgium is ready to allocate part of the EUR 1.7 billion profit derived from frozen Russian assets for covering Ukraine’s defense needs.

French President Emmanuel Macron's statement about the potential possibility of sending troops to Ukraine shows that the understanding of the importance of Kyiv's victory in the war has reached Western policymakers so they are ready to do more.

The recent publication by Russian propagandists of the content of communications between Bundeswehr officers is part of a large-scale disinformation campaign run by Russia against Germany and other Western partners of Ukraine but the attempt to destabilize the situation will not make Berlin refuse from supporting Kyiv.

On Saturday, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen called on Western countries to increase support for Ukraine.

Ukraine is waiting for the vital supply of weapons from its partners, including the United States.

Since the beginning of this week, Russia has already used almost 400 glide bombs, more than 50 Shahed one-way attack drones and more than 40 missiles against Ukraine.

Ukraine will continue to develop the Grain from Ukraine humanitarian program.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan believes that in the war launched by Russia against Ukraine, the parties have reached the limit of the results that can be achieved by military means, so a dialogue on a ceasefire should be started separately from territorial issues.