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Stalingrad events see Putin warn of response to western ‘aggression’
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Vladimir Putin has said Russia is being threatened by German tanks “again” as it was during the second world war, warning that Moscow is ready to respond to aggression from the west.
Speaking at events marking the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s victory over Nazi Germany in Stalingrad, known today as Volgograd, Putin drew parallels between the Soviet Union’s fight in the second world war and Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine.
“It’s unbelievable but true. We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks,” he said in the southern city. “Again and again we are forced to repel the aggression of the collective west.”
“We aren’t sending tanks to their borders but we have something to respond with, and it won’t be just about using armoured vehicles. Everyone should understand this,” Putin added. “A modern war with Russia will be completely different.”
Since sending troops to pro-western Ukraine last February, Putin has repeatedly threatened to use nuclear weapons against the west if the conflict escalates.
“Readiness to go until the end, to do the impossible for the sake of the motherland, for the sake of truth was and is in the blood, in the character of our multinational people,” he said.
The 1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad raged for nearly six months and when it was over, the city was in ruins and more than a million soldiers and civilians had lost their lives.
The Red Army’s victory marked a turning point not only for the Soviet Union, which had suffered several heavy defeats, but also for the allied forces.
The commemorations in Volgograd come as the Kremlin looks to step up its offensive in Ukraine, bolstered by tens of thousands of army reservists mobilised last autumn.
Russia has claimed recent gains near the hotspot town of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Moscow recently announced the capture of the eastern town of Soledar as it seeks to wrest control of the entirety of Donetsk – a region it claims to have annexed. Although the significance of capturing the salt-mining town is disputed, Soledar was the first major victory for Russia’s forces following a series of setbacks on the ground.
On the eve of Putin’s arrival, a bust of dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in Volgograd. Since Putin took power in Russia in 2000, a growing chorus of Russians is taking a positive view of the despot’s role in history, and analysts have pointed to the creeping rehabilitation of Stalin in the country.
Nostalgic for the superpower status of the USSR, many Russian officials have been promoting Stalin as a tough leader who led the Soviet Union to victory in the second world war and presided over the country’s industrialisation.
The Soviet Union lost an estimated 20 million people in the war and the legacy of what is known in the country as the Great Patriotic war is venerated.
Officials declared Wednesday and Thursday public holidays in Volgograd following a request from war veterans. The city was renamed Volgograd in 1961, eight years after the death of Stalin.
Since 2013, the city is temporarily renamed Stalingrad several times a year, including on 2 February and on 9 May, when Russia holds nationwide celebrations on the anniversary of the Soviet victory in the second world war.


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Analysis: Ukraine's new weapon will force a Russian shift
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WASHINGTON/KYIV, Feb 2 (Reuters) - The United States has answered President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's plea for rockets that can strike deep behind the front lines of the nearly year-long conflict with Russia.
Now Russian forces will need to adapt or face potentially catastrophic losses.
The new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), will allow Ukraine's military to hit targets at twice the distance reachable by the rockets it now fires from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). If included as expected in an upcoming weapons-aid package first reported by Reuters, the 151 km (94 mile) GLSDB will put all of Russia's supply lines in the east of the country within reach, as well as part of Russian-occupied Crimea.
This will force Russia to move its supplies even farther from the front lines, making its soldiers more vulnerable and greatly complicating plans for any new offensive.
"This could slow down [a Russian assault] significantly," said Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Ukraine's former defence minister. "Just as HIMARS significantly influenced the course of events, these rockets could influence the course of events even more."
GLSDB is GPS-guided glide bomb that can manoeuvre to hit hard-to-reach targets such as command centres. Made jointly by SAAB AB (SAABb.ST) and Boeing Co (BA.N), it combines the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the M26 rocket motor, both of which are common in U.S. inventories.
It is not yet compatible with HIMARS, but the United States will provide Ukraine new launchers for the rockets, said sources. GLSDB could be delivered as early as spring 2023, according to a document reviewed by Reuters.


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When the United States first sent HIMARS launchers in June, it supplied rockets with a 77 km (48 mile) range. This was a major boost for the Ukrainian military, allowing it to destroy Russian ammunition dumps and weapons storage facilities.
Once Ukraine has the new glide bombs, say military experts, Russia will need to push its supplies even farther away.
"We are currently unable to reach Russian military facilities more than 80 kilometres away," said Ukrainian military analyst Oleksandr Musiyenko. "If we can reach them practically all the way to the Russian border, or in occupied Crimea, then of course this will lower the attacking potential of Russian forces."
Crucially, Ukraine will soon be able to reach every point of the occupied overland route to Crimea via Berdiansk and Melitopol. That will force Russia to redirect its supply trucks to the Crimean bridge, which was badly damaged in an attack in October.
"Russia is using Crimea as a big military base from which it sends reinforcements for its troops on the southern front," said Musiyenko. "If we had a 150km (munition), we could reach that and disrupt the logistical connection with Crimea."
Beyond the logistical impact, the addition of a longer-range weapon to Ukraine's arsenal could help shake Russian confidence.
Tom Karako, a weapons and security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that while Ukraine would benefit from an even longer range weapon, GLSDB is "a really important step to give the Ukrainians longer reach and to keep the Russians guessing."

NO ATACMS - YET
For the Biden administration, the decision to send GLSDB to Ukraine represents a step toward meeting Ukraine's demand for the 185-mile (297km) range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missile, which the administration has so far declined to provide, fearing a further escalation of the conflict.
The glide bombs, while not as powerful, are much cheaper, smaller and easier to deploy than ATACMS, making them well suited for much of what Ukraine hopes to accomplish: disrupting Russian operations and creating a tactical advantage.
Still, said Karako, it is possible the Ukrainians could end up receiving an even longer range weapon in the future.
"Time and again, we've seen the administration say that they would go up to a certain point, but not beyond," he said. "Then, as the situation has deteriorated, they've found the necessity to, in fact, go further."
This was the case with HIMARS, the Patriot missile defence system, and, just this month, Abrams tanks, all initially off-limits to Ukraine before the administration ended up approving shipments.
But for now, the focus will be on how quickly the new glide bombs can arrive in Ukraine, said Zagorodnyuk.
"If they speed it up...this could hugely change the situation on the field of battle."


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Украинские журналисты и эксперты требуют запретить Telegram как соцсеть, созданную россиянином и контролируемой спецслужбами РФ
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Американские биолаборатории в Украине, желание украинцев войти в состав РФ, военные преступления ВСУ, провокация мирового продовольственного кризиса – это неполный список лжи и измышлений, которыми бомбардирует украинцев и граждан стран Запада российская пропаганда, выявленный украинскими исследователями. Мониторинговая организация VoxCheck проанализировала более 5,5 тысячи сообщений из почти 60 российских и пророссийских соцсетей и выделила 19 основных дезинформационных неправд. Украинские журналисты и медиа-эксперты требуют немедленного запрещения соцсети Telegram, где пропаганда страны-агрессора, по их мнению, чувствует себя наиболее вольготно.
С начала полномасштабной фазы войны России против Украины 24 февраля минувшего года телевидение перестало быть главным источником информации для большинства украинцев. Теперь жители страны узнают новости преимущественно в социальных сетях. В связи с этим возросла и опасность распространяемой из России имперской агрессивной пропаганды, дезинформации и лжи, утверждают украинские исследователи информационного пространства. По их данным, Москва пытается манипулировать сознанием как украинцев, так и жителей стран Запада, отметил программный директор организации «Детектор медиа» и автор блога о российской пропаганде для зарубежной аудитории Вадим Миськый:


И это же не только пропагандистская сеть. Сюда вовлечены и политики, которые озвучивают эти сообщения своим ртом, будучи избранными в парламенты своих стран, и специально обученная пресса, и это также работа на дипломатическом уровне. Это огромный спрут, у которого очень много щупальцев. Я приведу пример телеканала RT-France, у которого недавно были арестованы счета. Он в самой Франции уже давно не мог выходить в эфир. Но сидя во Франции его творцы производили программы и продолжали вещание на франкоязычные страны Африки. Огромная территория, огромное количество людей на глобальном юге были отравлены телепродукцией, созданной в цивилизованной стране. Только сейчас его удалось прикрыть и мы еще не знаем, как мимикрирует, эволюционирует и во что перепакуется этот канал.

На этом фоне в Украине создано уже несколько общественных и правительственных организаций, занимающихся отслеживанием, выявлением и опровержением российской пропаганды. Представитель Центра противодействия дезинформации при Совете нацбезопасности и обороны Украины Марина Воротынцева заявила, что благодаря этой работе за минувший год удалось заблокировать работу сотен каналов распространения вражеской дезинформации:

Только за прошлый год заблокирована более 100 YouTube-каналов. Мы верифицируем эти каналы, определяем их администраторов и далее работаем с администрацией Google. Я не могу сказать, что удовлетворяются все наши просьбы, но когда мы аргументируем и готовим доказательную базу, канал блокируется. Так же мы работаем с мировыми корпорациями, которые блокируют доступ к пропагандистским сайтам. За последние месяцы удалось заблокировать сеть из 300 таких сайтов, имитирующих европейские издания. Они сделаны очень красиво, написаны на хорошем языке. И если, например, немецкоязычный или испаноязычный человек находит этот сайт, то для него он очень похож на нормальное издание. Но если его почитать некоторое время, вы увидите там все любимые российские пропагандистские темы. Там будут и масоны, и украинские нацисты-фашисты, и украинские женщины, которые забирают мужчин из европейских семей, и биолаборатории...

Согласно последнему исследованию, проведенному общественным проектом VoxCheck, о котором сообщила аналитик этой платформы Мирослава Маркова, были вскрыты факты о ведении Россией подрывной пропаганды и фактически информационной войны против Украины и всего цивилизованного мира. Для этого, по словам Марковой, используются как официальные российские, так и пророссийские каналы распространения информации:

Пророссийские больше пытаются продвигать эти темы не так прямо, пытаются посеять недоверие к украинским источникам, пытаются посеять мнение, что правда, как таковая, существовать не может, и пытается размыть вообще понятие правды и неправды. Подменяется само понятие правды. Самой популярной среди той дезинформации, которую мы выявили, стали утверждения о якобы существующих в Украине опасных биологических лабораториях. Это более чем 900 таких случаев. Еще более 500 случаев – это дезинформация о том, что Украина якобы совершает террористические акты и является государством-террористом. Кроме того, распространяются измышления в оправдание российской агрессии против Украины. Выявлено более 400 попыток убедить людей, что это украинская политика вынудила Россию начать войну. Еще было более 300 попыток переложить на Украину вину за мировой продовольственный кризис и оправдать виновную в этом на самом деле Россию. Примерно такое же количество попыток было о якобы желании украинцев присоединиться к России. Большинство из них касались псевдореферендумов на временно оккупированных территориях. Но было и много попыток показать мнимую массовую поддержку российской армии в Украине и якобы активных приветствий ее присутствия в стране. Очень распространенной дезинформацией, которую подхватили не только пророссийские, но и официальные российские издания, стали утверждения, что Россия вообще не совершает военные преступления в Украине.

Если в большинстве соцсетей и Интернет-ресурсах возможно отследить и отреагировать на океаны лжи и измышлений российской пропаганды, то в соцсети Telegram это практически невозможно из-за позиции ее собственников, отвергающих любые попытки редактирования сообщений, отметила руководитель проекта VoxCheck Светлана Слипченко:

Но целью нашего исследования, того, что мы накопали в Telegram, было показать, что есть каналы, мимикрирующие под вполне украинские ресурсы. Они будто бы пытаются писать об украинских делах и доносить некую своеобразную альтернативную информацию. Однако по факту, как показало наше исследование, выявилось, что они являются ретрансляторами российских тем.

С весны минувшего года большинство украинцев стали пользователями именно соцсети и мессенджера Telegram, установили авторы исследования. Но именно здесь чувствует себя комфортнее всего и российская пропаганда, поскольку отсутствие цензуры развязывает руки пропагандистам и дает им больше методов для влияния на умы людей, предостерегла представитель Центра противодействия дезинформации Марина Воротынцева. Она отметила, что для манипуляций с сознанием пользователей, российские пропагандисты не гнушаются использованием самых современных методов искажения действительности и взяли на вооружение передовые достижения в деле разработки искусственного интеллекта:

Когда вы вступаете в какие-либо дискуссии в Telegram-чатах или где-то еще, в комментариях под постами в Telegram, вы можете до пятого комментария общаться с интернет-ботом. И вы не заметите того, что с вами дискутирует машина, что с вами дискутирует робот. И что вы тратите свою эмоциональную и психическую энергию на то, чтобы дискутировать с программным обеспечением.

Популярность соцсети Telegram среди украинцев объясняется тем, что там мгновенно появляются сообщения о взрывах и ракетных атаках России против мирного населения Украины. Люди находят там оперативную информацию, которая позволяет удовлетворять их потребность в безопасности, сказала исполнительный директор украинского Института массовой информации Оксана Романюк. Она выразила сожаление о том что новый украинский закон «О медиа» не касается Telegram. Критикуя этот закон, многие украинские медиа-эксперты и правозащитники призывают запретить эту соцсеть, как абсолютно закрытую структуру, «созданную россиянином и контролируемой российскими спецслужбами» .


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Ярослав Качиньский перечислил более 10 тыс. евро Вооруженным силам Украины
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31 января председатель правящей в Польше партии «Право и справедливость» Ярослав Качиньский перечислил Вооруженным силам Украины 50 000 злотых (10,6 тыс. евро). Генеральный секретарь «ПиС» Кшиштоф Соболевский заявил: «Можно сказать, что таким образом положен конец спору (между Ярославом Качиньским и Радославом Сикорским. — Ред.) в контексте заявления Радослава Сикорского».
Соболевский напомнил, что такое решение предложил сам депутат Европарламента, бывший министр иностранных дел РП и видный деятель оппозиционной партии «Гражданская платформа» Радослав Сикорский.
Дело касается интервью 2016 года, в котором Ярослав Качиньский назвал ошибки, которые, по его словам, допустило правительство РП (тогда в нем министром иностранных дел был Сикорский) после Смоленской катастрофы 2010 г. Радослав Сикорский подал в суд на Ярослава Качиньского за эти слова.
В 2020 году Апелляционный суд в Варшаве обязал Качиньского принести извинения. В декабре прошлого года судья также присудил Радославу Сикорскому компенсацию в размере более 700 000 злотых (149 000 евро), чтобы покрыть судебные издержки. В ответ Сикорский предложил Качиньскому поддержать украинскую армию, а взамен он обещал отказаться от своих претензий.


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В завершении поста, примечательная статья об «энергетической коллекторской практике» в Британии, когда при неуплате за электричество, нанятые поставщиком электроэнергии электрики, после ухода собственников жилья, взламывают жилища в отсутствии хозяев и принудительно ставят счётчики, которые работают только после предварительной оплаты энергии.
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British Gas debt collectors broke into vulnerable customers’ homes to ‘force-fit’ energy meters

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Debt collectors working on behalf of British Gas broke into vulnerable customers’ homes to “force-fit” pre-pay energy meters, it has emerged.
An investigation revealed that agents were forcibly installing meters when people fell behind on energy bills, even when customers were known to have “extreme vulnerabilities”.
An undercover reporter for the Times worked for debt collecting contractor Arvato Financial Solutions and accompanied agents who used court warrants to gain entry into customers’ homes.
Once it was clear the property was unoccupied, the reporter accompanied a locksmith who forced their way in and install a prepayment meter. It reported that the locksmith said: “This is the exciting bit. I love this bit.”
Some of the “vulnerable” customers the Times reporter came across included a single father with three young children and a mother with a four-week-old baby.
Chris O’Shea, the boss of Centrica, which owns British Gas, told the BBC: “The contractor that we’ve employed, Arvato, has let us down but I am accountable for this.
“This happened when people were acting on behalf of British Gas. There is nothing that can be said to excuse it.”
Centrica announced it was suspending “all warrant activity” after the newspaper’s article was published. The parent company will also launch an investigation into the claims.
Ofgem has also launched an investigation while the energy giant will also be hauled in front of Energy Minister Graham Stuart to explain itself.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said: “Forcibly switching customers should only ever be a last resort.”
Energy companies can obtain court warrants which give them legal rights to enter people’s homes and fit prepayment meters if customers have not paid their bills. Customers must then top up to continue receiving gas supplies and, if they fail to do so, they risk their heating being cut off
An Ofgem spokesman said: “These are extremely serious allegations from The Times which we will investigate urgently with British Gas and we won’t hesitate to take firm enforcement action.
“It is unacceptable for any supplier to impose forced installations on vulnerable customers struggling to pay their bills before all other options have been exhausted and without carrying out thorough checks to ensure it is safe and practicable to do so.
“We recently announced a major market-wide review investigating the rapid growth in prepayment meter installations and potential breaches of licences driving it.
“We are clear that suppliers must work hard to look after their customers at this time, especially those who are vulnerable, and the energy crisis must not be an excuse for unacceptable behaviour towards any customer – particularly those in vulnerable circumstances.”
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said: “Forcibly switching customers should only ever be a last resort.
“The Energy Minister will be meeting with British Gas in the coming days and will be demanding answers to ensure this systemic failure is addressed.”
Simon Francis, co-ordinator of the End Fuel Poverty Coalition, said: “Ministers have fallen for the energy industry’s spin that they don’t use court warrants to install prepayment meters on vulnerable customers.
“The investigation reveals this not to be the case.
“It is time that the Government stood up to energy firms and banned the forced installation of prepayment meters and the forced switching of smart meters to prepayment mode.
“We also now need a formal inquiry into the prepayment meters scandal and the role of the courts in enabling this practice.”
Mr O’Shea said: “Protecting vulnerable customers is an absolute priority and we have clear processes and policies to ensure we manage customer debt carefully and safely.
“The allegations around our third-party contractor Arvato are unacceptable and we immediately suspended their warrant activity.
“Having recently reviewed our internal processes to support our prepayment customers as well as creating a new £10 million fund to support those prepayment customers who need help the most, I am extremely disappointed that this has occurred.
“As a result, on Wednesday morning, we took a further decision to suspend all our prepayment warrant activity at least until the end of the winter.
“More broadly, there are clearly significant challenges around affordability and, unfortunately, we don’t see that changing any time soon.
“We need to strike a balance between managing spiraling bad debt and being aware that there are those who refuse to pay and those who cannot pay. We think government, industry and the regulator need to come together to agree a long-term plan to address this and ultimately create an energy market that is sustainable.”
Arvato Financial Solutions has been contacted for comment, as has Energy UK, which represents suppliers.
Hundreds of thousands of customers have been switched over to more costly prepayment meters, often unwillingly and without the offer of support, after failing to keep up with rising energy payments.
Some have found their smart meters switched to prepayment mode remotely while others have been confronted at their door by teams sent by energy companies – armed with magistrates’ court warrants – to physically make the change.
Just last week, Ofgem said it is to review the checks and balances that energy firms have around placing customers on prepayment meters, warning it will take further legal action if it finds they are not taking due care.
In a blog, the watchdog’s chief executive, Jonathan Brearley, said he is concerned about the “sharp growth in households struggling to pay their bills being switched over to pre-payment meters, sometimes without their even knowing about it, leaving them without heating”.
It followed Business Secretary Grant Shapps’ demand that energy suppliers stop forcing financially-stretched households to switch to prepayment meters.
He also vowed to “name and shame” the worst offenders.
Mr Brearley wrote: “The numbers of forced installation of prepayment meters is extremely high. It is simply not acceptable that vulnerable customers are left in the dark and cold in winter.
“This review will focus specifically on self-disconnections, remote switching and forced installations, and the checks and balances companies have around any decision to put a customer on a prepayment meter.
“If we find that they have not taken due care in this process, we will take further legal action against them.”
Campaigners say those switched often then go without power as they cannot afford to keep the meter topped up – something that is referred to as “self-disconnection”.
It comes after energy bills have soared due to rampant inflation and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (выделено а.п.).


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The U.S. Air Force moved F-22 Raptor stealth fighters into position to be ready to shoot down what American officials say is a Chinese government high-altitude surveillance balloon over Montana. The balloon remains in U.S. airspace after the decision was made not to destroy it, at least for the time being. The Pentagon has downplayed the overall significance of the balloon's presence and stated that this has happened multiple times before. The latter is new official information as far as we can tell at this time.
Pentagon Press Secretary U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder and a senior U.S. defense official provided details about the balloon and what the response has been to its presence to The War Zone and other outlets at a press conference this evening. They both stressed that the balloon is currently at an altitude that is keeping it well away from commercial air traffic and that it does not currently present a threat to anyone on the ground.
"We are confident that this high-altitude surveillance balloon belongs to the PRC [People's Republic of China]," the senior U.S. defense official said. "Currently we assess that this balloon has limited additive value from an intelligence collection perspective. But we are taking steps, nevertheless, to protect against foreign intelligence collection of sensitive information."
"First, our best assessment at the moment is that whatever the surveillance payload is on this balloon, it does not create significant value added over and above what the PRC is likely able to collect through things like satellites in Low Earth Orbit," the official added. "But out of an abundance of caution, we have taken additional mitigation steps. I'm not going to go into what those are.
"We know exactly where this balloon is, exactly what it is passing over," the continued. "And we are taking steps to be extra vigilant so that we can mitigate any foreign intelligence risk."
The idea that a terrestrial aerial platform in close proximity and floating for long periods above major military installations and other sensitive locales is not significantly more of a threat than what can be collected by satellites in orbit is a debatable claim.
No more specific details about the balloon, including its size or its assessed capabilities were provided. Monitoring of the balloon has been conducted using crewed aircraft and other unspecified means, according to the senior U.S. defense official. Video footage, seen in the Tweet below, from KULR-8 News, an NBC affiliate in Billings, Montana, suggests that it is still floating over that state.
"Clearly they're trying to fly over sensitive sites," the senior defense official said. They added that the balloon's current anticipated flight path takes it over a number of locations of potential interest, but would not specify what those were. It was noted during the press conference that Montana is home to Malmstrom Air Force Base with well over 100 silos holding nuclear-tipped Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles belonging to the 341st Missile Wing.
"We have engaged PRC officials with urgency through multiple channels," the senior defense official said. "They've been engaged both through their embassy here in Washington and through our embassy in Beijing. We have communicated to them the seriousness with which we take this issue. But beyond that, I'm not going to go into the content of the message. But we have made clear we will do whatever is necessary to protect our people and our homeland."
It is not immediately clear when the balloon first entered U.S. airspace, but the senior U.S. defense official said it had arrived "a couple of days ago."
Reports of an unidentified spherical balloon with a large equipment array hanging below it floating near Billings, Montana, first emerged yesterday. The array appears to include solar panels, which would be a sensible way of powering various kinds of systems, including sensors and datalinks, during a long-duration flight.
A separate earlier report from NBC News citing unnamed U.S. officials says that it first passed over Alaska's Aleutian Islands and parts of Canada before it reached Montana.
NBC News also reported that F-22 Raptors from Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, along with at least one E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) radar plane were sent to the area as deliberations were ongoing about whether or not to try to bring it down. Nellis is not home to any combat-coded units equipped with the F-22, suggesting those aircraft may have been diverted from the ongoing Red Flag 23-1 exercise being run from that base. The War Zone reached out to the Pentagon for more information, but was told no additional details could be provided at this time.
Sending F-22s, in general, makes sense in this case given that they can operate and maneuver at higher altitudes than any other U.S. fighter. The balloon is likely soaring at well above 50,000 feet given the Pentagon's assurance that it is high enough to not pose any hazard to commercial air traffic. This would have put it beyond the reach of F-15C/D Eagles or F-16C/D Vipers that might have been based closer by.
At the press conference this evening, the senior defense official described the movement of the F-22s and other aircraft as a "mobilization of a number of assets" in order to "put some things on station in the event that the decision was made to bring it [the balloon] down while it was over on Montana." This made it unclear whether or not an actual intercept of the balloon was conducted, but the video seen in the Tweet below shows that this was the case.
Whatever action was taken did prompt a so-called 'ground stop' at Billings Logan International Airport, halting all commercial flight activity within a 50-mile radius around the airport for approximately two hours, according to KFBB television, an ABC/Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliate in Great Falls, Montana. Two flights were diverted and one outbound departure was delayed.
Air traffic controllers said this was necessary due to a "special military mission," NBC News reported today.
At tonight's press conference, the senior defense official said that President Joe Biden asked the Pentagon yesterday to present potential military options. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who was traveling in the Philippines at the time, convened a senior leadership meeting to discuss the situation.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley and Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and the U.S.-Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), were among those who advised against a "kinetic response" due to safety concerns, including the potential impacts of debris falling in around the Billings area. The decision was ultimately made not to "take the shot" due to the potential risks involved.
The senior U.S. defense official noted that not shooting down the balloon is also offering an opportunity for "tracking what abilities it could have." Though they did not elaborate, it's also worth noting that surveilling the craft and its payload both visually and electronically at close proximity would be critical to assessing its capabilities. If shot down prior to this, that intelligence could be degraded or lost.
Online flight tracking software showed that there were at least three KC-135 aerial refueling tankers flying over northern Montana earlier today. It's unclear whether or not they were directly supporting the ongoing monitoring of the balloon, but that would seem likely.
Perhaps most interestingly, Pentagon Press Secretary Ryder and the senior U.S. defense official both said suspected Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloons have been monitored passing over the continental United States in recent years on multiple occasions. This includes instances that took place before Biden took office in 2021. Neither of them would say exactly how frequently this has occurred or provide details about any past incidents. They did say that the balloon that is currently inside U.S. airspace has been here longer than others in the past.
This all is very intriguing given a very similar response, including the scrambling of F-22 Raptors, to the appearance of another spherical balloon floating off the coast of Hawaii nearly a year ago. To date, U.S. officials do not appear to have disclosed the origin or suspected origin of that balloon. The War Zone reached out to the Pentagon to ask whether this was also a suspected Chinese surveillance asset, but was again told that no additional information could be provided at this time in response to this query. That balloon was floating off Kauai not far from a sensitive missile test site.
In addition, a point was raised during tonight's press conference about whether such balloon activity could potentially be the source of at least some reported sightings of what are now are officially referred to as unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs. Previously such objects were commonly described as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs.
In January, the Pentagon’s newly formed All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and ODNI’s National Intelligence Manager for Aviation (NIM-A) jointly released an unclassified version of an annual report to Congress on UAPs. That report said that there had been 366 newly cataloged UAP incidents in 2022 – including older incidents AARO and NIM-A were not previously aware of – 163 of which were said to have been "balloon or balloon-like entities."
The War Zone has outlined in extreme detail in the past how a significant number of reported UAP sightings are very likely instances of people actually spotting surveillance assets, especially drones and balloons, operated by potential adversaries like China. To fully understand just how complex this issue is and how a very real threat to national security has existed for some time, make sure to read our in-depth feature here.
In the nearly two years since we filed that feature, much more evidence has come to light regarding active surveillance of America's most critical military assets by unmanned aircraft.
This particular incident over Montana also recalls the still unexplained reported sightings of what might have been swarms of drones over areas of Colorado and Nebraska between December 2019 and January 2020. Some of those incidents were near Minuteman III silo fields, too.
There have been other similarly concerning incidents in the United States in recent years related to critical civilian infrastructure. The War Zone was the first to report on drones swarming over the Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant in Arizona across multiple nights in September 2019.
Regardless, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), together with ostensibly civilian entities with close ties to it, is also known to be heavily investing in high-altitude lighter-than-air platforms, such as blimps and balloons, that could be used for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance purposes, among other missions, as you can read more about here.
A sighting in December of what appeared to be a high-altitude airship in the vicinity of the northern Philippine island of Luzon near the South China Sea, called new attention to growing Chinese capabilities in regard. This is an area of the world that is of great strategic importance to the government in Beijing,
Balloons that appear to have a very similar overall configuration to the one spotted over Montana have appeared in the skies over India and Japan – both countries of strategic interest to China – in recent years, as well.
It is worth noting that the U.S. military is actively testing how it might use similar high-altitude balloons, with the ability to navigate long distances to areas of interest and hold station against prevailing winds, to perform various tasks. This includes intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, but also a range of other potential mission sets like communications relaying and long-range strike, as you can read more about here.
Companies in the United States and elsewhere have also been developing similar systems for commercial purposes, too.
Whether or not another less risky opportunity to shoot down the apparent Chinese balloon will appear and be taken advantage of remains to be seen. In addition, with the disclosure that this incident is not the first of its kind, it will be interesting to see what new details about Chinese high-altitude balloon surveillance activities, more generally, might now emerge.
We are on this story and will update this post in the coming hours with new information if we get it.

Author's note: Tyler Rogoway contributed to this report.

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We cannot confirm these details at this time, but there may be another aerial intrusion underway in Canada, which is partners with the USAF in NORAD. Washington Post's Andrew deGrandpré also mentions highly strategic Guam as being a past target area for similar balloons, which is unsurprising.
Master aircraft tracking sleuth Steffan Watkins also has an interesting thread that may point to Canadian CF-18s having intercepted and tracked this balloon days ago. This would make sense based on what we currently know about the balloon and its track.


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"Уважаемый Владимир Александрович, к вам многие обращаются с просьбой вывести войска из Бахмута. Не делайте этого. Артемовск - главное событие этой войны. Мы должны биться дальше. Вы проявите трусость. Вас перестанут уважать. Украинский народ не простит вам сдачи Артемовска частной военной структуре. Сопротивляйтесь. Боритесь до конца.

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Gen. Skrzypczak: Obrona Bachmutu jest nieuzasadniona
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- Nikt nie podda Bachmutu. Będziemy walczyć tak długo, jak to możliwe – powiedział w piątek prezydent Wołodymyr Zełenski na konferencji prasowej po historycznym szczycie Ukraina-UE w Kijowie. Eksperci wojskowi zwracają jednak uwagę na bardzo trudne położenie ukraińskich wojsk w tym rejonie.
- Wydaje się, że Bachmut jest sprawą przesądzoną. Bachmut jest prawie okrążony, a zatem obrona Bachmutu moim zdaniem jest nieuzasadniona, ponieważ to jest skazywanie tego wojska po raz kolejny na ogromne straty, jak było w Mariupolu i ewentualnie nawet pójście do niewoli tego wojska - ocenił w podkaście „Układ otwarty” gen. Waldemar Skrzypczak. - Jako dowódca podjąłbym decyzję o wycofaniu tego wojska, żeby tego wojska nie okrążyć - dodał były dowódca Wojsk Lądowych.
Generał zwrócił uwagę, że „Rosjanie cały czas szukają takich rozwiązań, które pozwolą im dojść do celu zasadniczego, jakim jest wschodnia Ukraina”. - Rosjanie będą szukali cały czas rozwiązań, które pozwolą im na to. Wielu spekuluje, że ofensywa rozpocznie się 24 lutego. Ja bym się tutaj do żadnej daty nie przywiązywał. Ja bym się przywiązywał raczej do warunków pogodowych, które pozwolą na przeprowadzenie ofensywy wielkoskalowej - tłumaczył były dowódca Wielonarodowej Dywizji Centrum-Południe, zwracając uwagę, że „to nie termin 24 lutego decyduje o tym, kiedy ofensywa będzie, a warunki pogodowe, które pozwolą na użycie dużej masy wojsk pancernych i zmechanizowanych, które Rosjanie nieustannie przygotowywali”.
- Media podają, że Rosjanie mają armię 500-tysięczną. Niemożliwe. Nie mają tyle sprzętu, żeby taką armię wyposażyć, tę nową armię odwodową, ponieważ wprawdzie rosyjski przemysł zbrojeniowy wielokrotnie zwiększył swoje możliwości remontowe i produkcyjne, to jednak nie są w stanie wyposażyć armii półmilionowej - podkreślił generał. - Natomiast na pewno w tej chwili na froncie, który w tej chwili jest czynny, czyli na wschodzie mają około 100 tys. żołnierzy, którzy walczą z armią ukraińską, może i więcej nawet, a w odwodzie mają armię nawet do 150 tys., która jest wyposażoną, przygotowaną, wyszkoloną. Plany są gotowe, czekają tylko na właściwy moment, kiedy uderzyć - ocenił Waldemar Skrzypczak.


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D. China-Russia entente raises concerns for NATO
Beijing and Moscow’s declaration of a “no limits” strategic partnership, and China’s pro-Russian neutrality regarding Moscow’s war on Ukraine raise significant concerns for NATO allies. Greater Russian-Chinese defense industrial cooperation on sensitive technology, such as theater hypersonic weapons, counterspace capabilities, and submarine technology, would present significant challenges for the Alliance. Beijing and Moscow have stepped up the frequency and scale of joint military exercises, including in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, complicating NATO defense planning, which has been based on the premise that Vladimir Putin’s Russia posed the only serious threat to allies’ territorial integrity, and that Russia stood alone, without militarily capable allies. Moreover, there are signs that the China-Russia entente is changing the risk calculus of both parties, possibly leading to reckless behavior that could imperil Alliance security.8 NATO officials are concerned that Moscow and Beijing are “sharing a toolkit” of strategies to undermine NATO members.9

Implementing NATO’s China policy

Seek to limit China’s strategic partnership with Russia, including by taking advantage of Chinese concerns over Russia’s war in Ukraine, especially Putin’s nuclear bluster; continuing to distinguish between Russia as an adversary and China as a competitor; and designing incentives and disincentives to draw China away from Russia. The US National Defense Strategy’s description of Russia as an “acute” threat and China as the “pacing challenge” makes this distinction clear, and indicates that Chinese efforts to develop and maintain a long-term partnership with Russia will only keep the transatlantic community united against them.

In the longer term, the Alliance must square a triangle of issues: maintaining confidence that the United States can adequately uphold its commitments in both the North Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific; ensuring Europe’s capacity to defend itself against Russia and manage a range of additional crises, many along its southern periphery; and addressing European aspirations for greater strategic autonomy. Should a conflict simultaneously break out with China in Asia and Russia in Europe, the United States may not be able to deploy adequate reinforcements to Europe. That means European allies need to be able to pick up the slack, in two ways. Over the coming decade, they should build their conventional military capabilities to a level that would provide half of the forces and capabilities, including the strategic enablers, required for deterrence and collective defense against Russian aggression. In addition, Europe should become the “first responder” to most crises along its southern periphery. European allies should develop capabilities to conduct crisis management operations without today’s heavy reliance on US enablers such as strategic lift, refueling, communications, and intelligence.

NATO nations have a particular opportunity to weigh in with Beijing with regard to Russia’s war on Ukraine. China has walked a fine line, parroting Moscow’s justification for the war but providing little material support for Putin’s war effort. Beijing is clearly uneasy with the war. With Europe’s help, there is a real opportunity for greater NATO cooperation with Beijing on this issue.

At Madrid, Allied leaders essentially declared the Indo-Pacific and European theaters to be increasingly linked. An ambitious effort to implement the Strategic Concept’s plan for China is needed. It will take time, and immediate crises like Putin’s war on Ukraine will have priority. But NATO cannot let the agenda for implementation slip. Priorities should be set. The Alliance should start with an agreed intelligence assessment and new bureaucratic focal points in NATO headquarters and SHAPE to implement the plan. Establishing mechanisms to avoid further dependencies is a top priority, as is establishing a formal defense partnership between NATO and Indo-Pacific countries. Rapid establishment of a NATO-China council should also be a top priority. This much can be accomplished within a year.
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How Putin’s plans to blackmail Europe over gas supply failed
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The worst-case scenarios piled up over the summer months. Germany’s economic minister warned of “catastrophic” industrial shutdowns, fraying supply chains and mass unemployment. France’s president urged citizens to turn down the heating. Spain asked why countries that hadn’t got hooked on Russian gas should bail out neighbours who had lectured them about fiscal discipline in the past.
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, meanwhile, gleefully predicted that Europeans would be “freezing in their homes” because they hadn’t thought through the consequences of throwing their support behind Ukraine. “The cold is coming soon,” he said, menacingly, in June last year.
But as the European Union enters the last month of the meteorological winter in 2023, signs are becoming clearer that its members have weathered an historic crisis – and not just because “General Frost” has proved a milder adversary than Medvedev predicted.
Within eight months of Russian troops setting foot on Ukrainian soil, the bloc of 27 European states replaced about 80% of the natural gas it used to draw through pipelines with Russia, by rapidly building up new infrastructure for liquid natural gas, finding creative ways to help each other out amid shortages, and successfully pursuing energy-saving policies.
The Netherlands, for example, the EU’s largest natural gas producer, had relied on Russian gas for 15-20% of its supplies as it wound down its huge Groningen field, but doubled its LNG import capacity with storage and regasification units in Rotterdam and Eemshaven.
It used the extra capacity to meet domestic demand – which it managed to reduce by 22% compared with previous years’ averages – and supply surplus gas to the Czech Republic, Germany and France. As elsewhere, consumer energy prices soared, but were subsidised and capped.
“There was a point last autumn when I worried that some European governments would respond to the crisis by prioritising their own energy supplies and stop sharing with their neighbours, which would have been economically and politically devastating,” said Simone Tagliapietra, an energy expert at the Brussels-based thinktank Bruegel.
“But Europe managed to avoid the temptation of protectionism and managed to keep its internal market intact.”
Gas spot prices dropped to about €55 a megawatt hour (MWh) on Monday, a level last seen before the start of the war in September 2021, down from €330/MWh at the end of last August.
Over the course of the whole of last year, gas demand in the European Union was 12% lower than the average from the period 2019 to 2021, Bruegel estimates.
Germany, always destined to bear the brunt of Putin’s gas blackmail effort due to its high reliance on energy exports from Russia, managed to use 14% less gas in 2022 than it had done on average in the years from 2018 to 2021. It enters February with its gas storage tanks 80% full, compared with 36% at this point last year.
Even though high gas prices have taken their toll on German industry, the damage has so far not been catastrophic. While GDP in Europe’s largest economy fell by 0.2% from October to December, the government last week improved its forecast for the coming year, predicting the recession to be “shorter and milder” than expected.
The Nordic countries were even more successful at reducing gas consumption, with Denmark cutting total demand – for power generation, industry and domestic heating – by 24%, Sweden by 36% and Finland by a mighty 47% (although natural gas accounted for only 5% of its overall energy needs).
Last summer, some southern European states had initially signalled reluctance to equally share the burden of energy saving. Spain agreed to a 7-8% reduction in gas use after arguing that the uniform 15% target was simply not fair on countries which, like itself, were not heavily dependent on Russian gas and that had “done our homework” when it came to diversifying energy supplies.
Yet it didn’t shy from the task. In July, the socialist-led coalition government announced a series of measures intended to help reduce the country’s energy consumption and its use of Russian oil and gas. Many of the initiatives were based on thrift and common sense.
The measures, which will remain in place until this November, set strict limits on air conditioning and heating temperatures in public and large commercial buildings.
Under the decree, heating in shopping centres, cinemas, theatres, rail stations and airports should not be set above 19C in winter and air conditioning should not be set below 27C in summer.
As a result, Spain ended up meeting the very target to which it had been reluctant to commit: between August and November, the country reduced its demand for natural gas by 15% compared with the level of consumption for the same period in the last five years.
In France, the energy-saving effort became an uphill struggle because several key French nuclear reactors were undergoing maintenance or safety work just as they were needed more than ever.
From the start of May to the end of October, about half of France’s 56 reactors sat idle due to repair works, turning the country from Europe’s biggest electricity exporter into a net importer. One of the countries upping its electricity exports to France in that period was Germany, which in turn imported more gas from its western neighbour.
After French local officials had prepared contingency plans for the worst-case scenario of power cuts in December, the situation has stabilised. By mid-January, 73% of France’s nuclear fleet was back in operation, helping it to regain its spot as the EU’s top exporter of electricity.
When nuclear plants struggled, renewables came to the rescue. According to an analysis by thinktank Ember Climate, the European Union in 2022 drew 22% of its electricity from solar and wind power, with renewables surpassing gas for the first time.
Remarkably, Sweden, with an energy mix long-dominated by nuclear and hydropower, became Europe’s largest power exporter in 2022, selling 20% of its output abroad – in part thanks to the rapid growth of onshore wind.
Wind is now Sweden’s third-largest source of electricity and scheduled to expand further. Finland’s wind power capacity increased by 75% last year alone, allowing the country to increase energy self-sufficiency “at a really good pace”, officials said.
Plans to expand renewable energy production have, in fact, been radically accelerated by the energy crisis in all three Nordic countries, with onshore wind and solar power now forecast to more than double by 2030 and wind the dominant energy source.
Ultimately, Vladimir Putin’s energy war decision will have helped put Sweden on track to produce 65% of its energy from renewables by the end of the decade, Finland 51%, and Denmark 55%.
A year of rethinking energy supplies has not made Europe cleaner across the bloc. In Poland, which still relies on coal for much of its heating needs, the government has introduced a coal allowance and frozen electricity prices for individual households. After small and medium-sized businesses were struggling with energy bills multiple times the size of those in previous years, the government introduced a freeze for them.
The crisis has meant a slowdown in plans in numerous countries to phase out coal, with the issue slipping further down the agenda in Poland, while in Bulgaria MPs voted recently to postpone plans to phase out coal-powered plants.


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Chinese spy balloon – live: Beijing mocks US ‘hype’ over airship incident
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China’s foreign ministry has accused American officials of excessively “hyping” the balloon incident.
Top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi said: “China is a responsible country and has always strictly abided by international law. We do not accept any groundless speculation and hype.
“In the face of unexpected situations, what both parties need to do is to maintain concentration, communicate in a timely manner, avoid misjudgments, and manage and control differences.”
Meanwhile, a second Chinese spy balloon has been spotted moving across Latin America, the Pentagon announced on Friday night.
It is unclear exactly which country in the region the balloon is hovering over.
Earlier, a senior Pentagon official flatly rejected Beijing’s claims that a Chinese airship spotted flying over sensitive US military sites was a meteorological research balloon.
Defence officials have said the balloon’s flight path had taken it over “a number of sensitive” military sites, including the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, which houses 150 nuclear warheads.
On Friday, US secretary of state Antony Blinken postponed a planned trip to China after Beijing admitted ownership of the balloon.


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China has called for calm amid a growing diplomatic row with the US over suspected spy balloons.
It comes after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, indefinitely postponed a planned visit to Beijing after a large balloon was spotted in US airspace.
On Friday, a day after the first high-altitude balloon was identified over Montana, the Pentagon reported a second suspected spy balloon flying over Latin America.
Amid growing tensions between the two countries – and Republican party claims that the Biden administration is not doing enough to deter its adversaries – China called for a “cool-headed” handling of the dispute.
The Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Saturday that Beijing “never violated the territory and airspace of any sovereign country”.
The ministry said China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, had spoken with Blinken in a phone conversation and emphasised the importance of maintaining communications. “Especially in dealing with some unexpected situations in a calm and reliable manner,” it added.
Beijing “would not accept any groundless conjecture or hype”, it added, accusing some US politicians and media of using the incident “as a pretext to attack and smear China”.
Mike Pompeo, the secretary of state under Donald Trump and former CIA director, said on Saturday that Blinken’s cancellation of his planned trip to Beijing was “not remotely enough”, describing the incident as an “intentional incursion” into US airspace.
Asked whether the balloon should be shot down, Pompeo told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Shut down by whatever means is most likely to achieve a couple of goals. One, to let the Chinese Communist party know that we’re serious. Two, to find out what it is that they’re collecting … and finally to do so in a way that is safe for everyone on the ground.”
He added: “We should defeat this Chinese spying effort. We can do it, it’s not that complicated. Pull it off, pull it down and let the Chinese Communist party know that they’re not going to walk all over us.”
Citing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and the 13 US troops killed in Afghanistan in 2021, he said: “This administration is suffering from a lack of deterrence.”
He added: “The whole world is watching to see if the United States is serious. The Chinese are probing, they are prodding, they are trying to figure out how far they can go.”
Following the second balloon sighting, the Pentagon confirmed its existence but not its precise location.
“We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America,” the spokesperson Pat Ryder said. “We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon.”
Speaking in South Korea on Friday, Blinken said he had spoken with Wang and “made clear that the presence of this surveillance balloon in US airspace is a clear violation of US sovereignty and international law”. He said it was unacceptable and “even more irresponsible coming on the eve of a long-planned visit”.
Blinken had been due to visit Beijing on 5-6 February for talks on a wide range of issues including security, Taiwan and Covid. The trip would have been the first high-level meeting between the two countries in years.
Police in North Carolina warned people not to take “pot shots” at the balloon, as it was predicted to cross the area on Saturday. And police in Gastonia city asked people not to call them with sightings, saying they “don’t have the capability to respond to an altitude of 60k feet to check it out”.


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Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed Friday that he postponed his planned trip to Beijing after the discovery of a high-altitude balloon flying over the U.S. that came from China.
Why it matters: China's Foreign Ministry said the balloon — which U.S. defense officials say will be over the country for a "few days" — originated in China, but claimed it is a civilian airship for "mainly meteorological" purposes.
• Blinken's trip would've been the first visit by a top U.S. diplomat in six years.
• Pentagon officials in announcing the balloon's location Thursday said it does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.
The latest: Blinken said during a briefing Friday that he made clear to Wang Yi, China's top foreign affairs official, that the surveillance balloon in U.S. airspace "is a clear violation of U.S. sovereignty and international law."
• "We concluded that conditions were not conducive for a constructive visit at this time,” he added, calling it “detrimental to the substantive discussions that we were prepared to have.”
• Pentagon press secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder said during a press conference earlier Friday that the balloon is being "closely" monitored by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
• He said the airship was drifting east at an altitude of 60,000 feet and was over the center of the continental U.S., but he didn't give an exact location.
• A National Weather Service (NWS) station in Kansas City said it has received reports of and could see a large balloon near its station on Friday and confirmed it was not an NWS weather balloon.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon said Friday night that a second Chinese balloon was traveling south of the U.S.
• "We are seeing reports of a balloon transiting Latin America," Ryder said in a statement to Axios. "We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon."
• "We have no further information to provide at this time,” Ryder added.
As for the first balloon, a senior U.S. defense official alleged with "very high confidence" on Thursday that it is flying over sensitive areas to collect information, according to AP.
• The balloon was spotted in Montana, the location of one of the three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base.
What they're saying: "The airship is from China," China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
• "It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes. Affected by the Westerlies and with limited self-steering capability, the airship deviated far from its planned course."
• "The Chinese side regrets the unintended entry of the airship into US airspace due to force majeure. The Chinese side will continue communicating with the US side and properly handle this unexpected situation caused by force majeure."
Ryder said the Pentagon was aware of the statement from the Chinese Foreign Ministry but rejected its claims that it wasn't used for surveillance.
• "The fact is, we know that it's a surveillance balloon, and I'm not going to be able to be more specific than that," Ryder said. "We do know that the balloon has violated U.S. airspace and international law, which is unacceptable."
The big picture: Ryder said on Thursday the balloon was traveling above the U.S. "at an altitude well above commercial air traffic and does not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground."
• The Pentagon decided against shooting the airship down over safety concerns for people on the ground, according to NBC News.
• The Canadian Armed Forces said it was also monitoring "a potential second incident" regarding a high-altitude surveillance balloon.


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Balloon downing deepens fault lines in China-US relations: analysts
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Washington’s decision to shoot down a Chinese balloon on the weekend will deepen the gulf of suspicion between the two powers, making it much tougher to improve the worst bilateral ties between them for decades, according to analysts.
The US sent an F-22 fighter jet to bring down the balloon with an Aim-9X Sidewinder missile on Saturday after the Pentagon claimed the unmanned airship was surveilling strategic sites in the country.
Zhu Feng, a China-US relations expert and international affairs professor at Nanjing University, said the Pentagon admitted that the balloon did not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground and the decision to shoot it down would only strengthen Americans’ perception of China as a threat.
“The US has ceaselessly exaggerated and propagated the ‘China threat’ theory … It is an overreaction that does no good to China-US ties,” Zhu said.
“Both sides need to progressively lessen adversarial rhetoric and action, because it is unnecessary for China and the US to be [further] affected by the finger-pointing [in] this incident.”
The downing of the balloon ended an episode that prompted US President Joe Biden’s administration to postpone a visit to Beijing by his top diplomat.
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said that on Biden’s orders, and in coordination with authorities in Canada, the military waited until the balloon was over US territorial waters off the coast of South Carolina to ensure that the apparatus it was carrying would not threaten people on the ground.
Canadian news network CTV News reported that Ottawa had been tracking the balloon through Canadian airspace since last weekend.
Xu Qinduo, a political analyst at the Pangoal Institution, a Chinese think tank, said the event was “entirely politicised” and a “worrisome example” of the confrontations between the two countries.
“Incidents of foreign objects entering sovereign airspace have occurred in the past and are not unusual, but they were largely handled in a discreet manner,” Xu said.
But he added that Washington’s reaction this time was wrapped in “nationalism” rather than professionalism.
Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder said on Thursday that balloons had come close to or crossed over the US border in the past, and that this one did not present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.
Associated Press had also quoted Craig Singleton, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies, as saying Chinese surveillance balloons had been sighted on numerous occasions over the past five years in different parts of the Pacific, including near sensitive US military installations in Hawaii.
Beijing said the downing was an overreaction and it “reserves the right to use the necessary means to deal with similar situations”.
Xu, who is also an adjunct professor at Renmin University of China, said ties could deteriorate further in a range of areas, including education, investment and personnel exchanges.
“If it did choose to retaliate, Beijing could take similar action against US assets in the South China Sea or Taiwan. In this sense, US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s potential visit to Taiwan could become even more worrisome in destabilising the region as well as damaging the bilateral relationship,” Xu said.
But S. Mahmud Ali, a Sino-US relations scholar at the University of Malaya’s Institute of China Studies, said the takedown was expected and, given domestic criticism of President Joe Biden as too soft on China, any conciliatory moves were “impossible”.
“Facing strong critique from the Republicans, the administration could not respond by allowing the balloon to proceed along the jet stream unmolested,” Ali said.
“It was, after all, seen as collecting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data on the US terrain that it overflew, including several intercontinental ballistic missile silos.”
Ali said the rhetoric on both sides had hardened, especially since the suspension of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Beijing and the “potent military action” of using a fifth-generation fighter jet to fire a precision air-to-air missile at the balloon.
“The episode highlights the essential fragility and fraught nature of Sino-US relations. The essence of this dynamic is structural … the US is determined to retain its sole-superpower status indefinitely,” he said.
Diplomacy could turn rancorous, but Beijing will avoid openly military measures as a means of retaliation, according to Ali, who suggested that Beijing may be prompted to move closer to Moscow.
“At the systemic or grand-strategic level, this could entail deepening Sino-Russian coordination below the level of military cooperation [or] China could encourage and help enable Russia to move towards stabilising the Ukraine conflict, although that would pose complex challenges,” Ali said.


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South Carolina Rep says balloon reaction reminded him of movie Independence Day
South Carolina Republican Representative Russell Fry appeared on Fox News saying that the reaction to the Chinese balloon reminded him of the movie Independence Day.
The balloon was shot down off the coast of his home state, and Mr Fry said people pulled off roads and came out on their porches to watch it come down.


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Rubio questions Biden’s handling of balloon information release
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, questioning the timing of when President Biden chose to release information regarding the balloon.
“How late into January did they already know that there was a high-altitude balloon and what its trajectory was and where it was headed? Why didn’t they take action at that time?” the senator asked.


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Chinese spy balloon – live: Defence official says balloons were in US airspace three times during Trump admin
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In the wake of a Chinese spy balloon entering US airspace this week, a senior defence official is now saying Chinese spy balloons previously entered US airspace three times during Donald Trump’s presidency,
This comes as Mr Trump and other Republicans have rejected such assertions, attempting to blame the incursions on Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
The Defence Department said in a statement on Saturday that “Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration”.
Yet another balloon entered US airspace previously during Mr Biden’s time as president, the Associated Press reported.
Mr Trump appeared to be outraged at the statement from the Defence Department and the reporting of it, writing on Truth Social on Sunday morning that “the Chinese Balloon situation is a disgrace, just like the Afghanistan horror show, and everything else surrounding the grossly incompetent Biden Administration”.
The previous four violations of US sovereignty didn’t go on for as long as the most recent incursion, which ended Saturday when the balloon was shot down by the US military off the coast of South Carolina.


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Republican representative calls on Biden to resign over Chinese balloon: ‘Catastrophic spectacle’
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Republican South Carolina Representative Joe Wilson has called for President Joe Biden to resign over his handling of the Chinese spy balloon, which was shot down by the US military off the coast of Mr Wilson’s home state.
“The catastrophic Chinese Spy Balloon spectacle clearly threatened American families from Alaska to my home community in South Carolina and confirms President Biden and Vice President Harris should resign,” Mr Wilson tweeted on Saturday night after the balloon had been taken out of the sky.
“My call for their resignation was valid in August 2021 due to the surrender and disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan, creating a safe haven for terrorists to attack American families. It was not political in 2021, when the succeeding President, then Speaker Nancy Pelosi, would have been a Democrat, or now in 2023 with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a Republican,” he went on to claim.
Mr Wilson continued: “It is irrelevant for American families which party is in power because the first criteria of a leader should be their capability, regardless of party, and sadly Biden and Harris are failures. Resignation now is further reinforced as their open border policies have allowed hundreds of identified terrorists into America to commit mass murder.”
“When the domestic attack occurs, Biden and Harris will not be able to adequately respond. Credible leadership is imperative to protect American families,” he concluded.
Mr Wilson gained notoriety in September 2009 when he shouted “you lie” at President Barack Obama during his first speech before a joint session of Congress.
“There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants,” Mr Obama said at the time. “This too is false.”
“The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally,” he added amid groans from the Republicans.
“You lie!” Mr Wilson shouted, loudly enough for everyone to hear.
“That’s not true,” Mr Obama responded and continued with his speech.
The Defence Department has said that Chinese balloons entered US airspace at least three times during the administration.
“The balloon did not pose a military or physical threat. Still, its intrusion into American airspace over several days was an unacceptable violation of US sovereignty,” the department’s website states, noting that an official said that “Chinese balloons briefly transited the continental United States at least three times during the prior administration”.
President Joe Biden said on Saturday afternoon that he “ordered the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday as soon as possible”.
He added that military leaders chose to wait until the balloon was above water as it was “the safest place to do it”.
“They successfully took it down and I want to complement our aviators who did it,” he said after getting off Air Force One on his way to Camp David, according to the Associated Press.


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Taiwan says Chinese balloon ‘should not be tolerated by the civilized international community'
Taiwan’s ministry of foreign affairs has issued a statement harshly criticising China’s actions in connection to the spy balloon shot down off the east coast of the US, arguing that it “should not be tolerated by the civilized international community”.
“Such actions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government contravene international law, breach the airspace of other countries, and violate their sovereignty,” the ministry said in a statement. “The CCP regime should immediately cease conduct of this kind that encroaches on other countries and causes regional instability.”
The ministry said on Saturday that China should cease actions that create instability in the region and that “encroaches on other countries”.


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China’s Xi Jinping a little sobered by Ukraine war, CIA chief William Burns says
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CIA Director William Burns said on Thursday the intelligence agency assesses that China’s President Xi Jinping has been a little sobered by the war in Ukraine, but that it would be a mistake to underestimate Beijing and Moscow’s commitment to partnership.
Burns, speaking at a foreign policy event at Georgetown University in Washington, also said Xi maintains serious ambitions over Taiwan and warned that conflict over the island nation would be “deeply unfortunate” for all involved.
China, which signed a “no limits” partnership with Russia last year, has refrained from condemning its invasion of Ukraine even as Western countries, led by the United States, imposed sweeping sanctions against Moscow.
But Burns, who travelled to Ukraine recently to meet the country’s president, said Xi was likely to be surprised and unsettled by what he described as the poor performance of Russia’s military.
Burns added that Russia and China’s friendship is not totally without limits.
Speaking on Moscow’s invasion, Burns said the next six months will be “critical” for Ukraine, where Moscow has been making incremental gains in recent weeks.
Burns also spoke on issues in the Middle East.
He said Iran’s government was increasingly unsettled by affairs within the country, citing the courage of what he described as “fed up” Iranian women.
Burns also said he was concerned about prospects for greater violence between Israelis and Palestinians.


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The former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett has said in an interview that Vladimir Putin told him he would not try to kill Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a promise made during a trip to Moscow shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year.
Speaking on a podcast with the Israeli journalist Hanoch Daum, published on Sunday, Bennett said he received assurance from Putin that the Ukrainian president’s life was not at risk during a secretive visit to the Russian capital last March aimed at mediation during the war’s early days.
“I asked: ‘Are you planning to kill Zelenskiy?’ He said: ‘I won’t kill Zelenskiy.’ I then said to him: ‘I have to understand that you’re giving me your word that you won’t kill Zelenskiy.’ He said: ‘I’m not going to kill Zelenskiy.’”
Bennett said he then called the Ukrainian leader on his way to Moscow’s airport, who asked: “‘Are you sure?’ and I told him: ‘Yes, 100%, he won’t kill you.’”
Bennett’s comments come after claims to the BBC last week from the former British prime minister Boris Johnson, who said Putin had threatened him with a missile strike that would “only take a minute”. The Kremlin said Johnson was lying.
Also on Sunday, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that Putin “has not made any threats against me or Germany” despite Scholz’s repeated and direct criticism of the invasion to the Russian leader.
According to Bennett, during his mediation efforts Zelenskiy agreed to give up the idea that Ukraine would join Nato, and Putin dropped a vow to seek Ukraine’s disarmament in order to end the war. “Everything I did was coordinated with the US, Germany and France,” he said.
Ultimately the Israeli leader’s efforts did little to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine, where the war is now approaching its first anniversary. He is now a private citizen, having stepped away from politics before November’s election, but his comments shed light on early backchannel efforts to de-escalate the situation.
Bennett – a prime minister largely untested on the international stage and whose government lasted just a year before collapsing in June 2022 – became an unlikely mediator at the beginning of the conflict. He was the first western-aligned leader to meet Putin in Moscow, seeking to balance Israel’s need for Russian cooperation for its military operations in Syria while mediating on behalf of western allies.
The country’s current prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who returned from a brief stint in opposition after his far-right and religious bloc won last year’s election, has largely continued with Bennett’s policies.
Israel has repeatedly rebuffed requests from US and Ukrainian officials to send weaponry and air defence systems to Kyiv, focusing instead on humanitarian and medical aid.
Russia’s deployment of Iranian armed drones in Ukraine, however, was met with anger in Israel, where Tehran is viewed as an existential threat.
Israel has reportedly shared intelligence on Iran’s drone programme with Ukrainian officials, and has offered to assist Kyiv in creating a “lifesaving civilian early-warning system” to protect against aerial attack.


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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Russian President Vladimir Putin has never threatened him or Germany, following claims by Boris Johnson that Putin threatened the former U.K. prime minister with a missile strike.
“Putin didn’t threaten me or Germany” in the phone conversations the chancellor has had with the Russian leader, Scholz told German newspaper Bild in an interview published Sunday.
In a British documentary that aired last week, Johnson revealed that Putin threatened him in a long phone call in February 2022 just before Russia invaded Ukraine. “He said ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute’ — something like that,” Boris said in the documentary, referring to Putin.
Johnson said he took the Russian leader’s threat to be “playing along” with attempts to get him to negotiate over Ukraine. The Kremlin has denied any threat.
Pushed in the Bild interview on whether Scholz had also received similar threats during phone calls with the Russian leader, the chancellor said “no.”
In his phone calls with Putin, “I make it very clear to Putin that Russia has sole responsibility for the war,” Scholz said. “In our telephone conversations, our very different positions on the war in Ukraine become very clear,” he said.
The chancellor also denied that Germany’s decision to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine was a threat to Russia.
He said that Germany is delivering battle tanks to Ukraine, along with other allies including the U.S., so that Kyiv “can defend itself.”
“This joint approach prevents an escalation of the war,” Scholz said.
Scholz’s comments come as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that “the situation is getting tougher” on the front lines of the war in the east of the country. Moscow is throwing in “more and more of its forces to break our defenses. Now, it is very difficult in Bakhmut, Vuhledar, near Lyman, and other directions,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address late Saturday.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense said on Sunday that Bakhmut “is increasingly isolated” following Russian advances in the area. “The two main roads into the city for Ukrainian defenders are likely now both threatened by direct fire, following the Russian advances,” the ministry said in a tweet.
As battles rage in eastern Ukraine, an early mediator between Russia and Ukraine at the start of the war — former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who served for just six months last year — revealed that Putin early in the invasion had promised not to kill Zelenskyy. In an interview with the Associated Press published Sunday, Bennett said that during a visit to Moscow in March 2022 he asked Putin if the Kremlin was planning to try to kill the Ukrainian leader.
“He said ‘I won’t kill Zelenskyy.’ I then said to him ‘I have to understand that you’re giving me your word that you won’t kill Zelenskyy.’ He said ‘I’m not going to kill Zelenskyy,’” Bennett told the AP. Bennett said that after his meeting, he called Zelenskyy to inform him of Putin’s comments.
The Kremlin has previously denied Ukrainian claims that Russia intended to assassinate Zelenskyy.


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Ukraine army discipline crackdown sparks fear and fury on the front
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KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy refused to veto a new law that strengthens punishment for wayward military personnel on Thursday, rejecting a petition signed by over 25,000 Ukrainians who argue it’s too harsh.
“The key to the combat capability of military units and ultimately of Ukraine’s victory, is compliance with military discipline,” Zelenskyy said in his written response to the petition.
Ukrainian soldiers have stunned the world with their resilience and battlefield successes, withstanding a year-long onslaught from Russian troops. But among Kyiv’s forces, made up largely of fresh recruits lacking previous military experience or training, some are struggling to cope. There are those who have rebelled against commanders’ orders, gotten drunk or misbehaved; others, running low on ammunition and morale, have fled for their lives, abandoning their positions.
Seeking to bring his forces into line, Zelenskyy in January signed into force a punitive law that introduces harsher punishment for deserters and wayward soldiers, and strips them of their right to appeal.
The law aims to standardize and toughen the repercussions for rule-breaking, improving discipline and the combat readiness of military units. Disobedience will be punishable by five to eight years in prison, rather than the previous two to seven; desertion or failure to appear for duty without a valid reason by up to 10 years. Threatening commanders, consuming alcohol, questioning orders and many other violations will also be dealt with more harshly, potentially with prison time; those who broke these rules in the past may have gotten away with a probation period or the docking of their combat pay.
Those who lobbied in favor of the new law, such as the Ukrainian Army General Staff, argue it will make discipline fairer: Previously, because courts adjudicated infractions on a case-by-case basis, some perpetrators were able to escape punishment for serious rule-breaking entirely, while others received harsher sentences for less significant violations, according to an explanatory note that accompanied the new law.
But soldiers, lawyers and human rights watchdogs have slammed the measures as an inappropriate and blunt instrument that won’t deal with the root causes of military indiscipline — and over 25,000 Ukrainians called on the president to veto the law altogether in a petition submitted to the president late last year.
The new punitive rules remove discretion and turn courts into a “calculator” for doling out punishment to soldiers, regardless of the reasons for their offenses, lawyer Anton Didenko argued in a column on Ukraine’s Interfax news agency.
“This law will have negative consequences for the protection of the rights of military personnel who are accused of committing a crime and will reduce the level of motivation during service,” an NGO, called the Reanimation Package of Reforms Coalition, said in a statement. “This can carry risks both for the protection of human rights and for the defense capability of the state.”
“The army is based on discipline. And if the gaps in the legislation do not ensure compliance, and refuseniks can pay a fine of up to 10 percent of combat pay or receive a punishment with probation, this is unfair,” argued the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhnyi in a video in favor of the new rules.
Zelenskyy, in his response to the popular petition asking him to scrap the changes, agreed that disciplinary action against military personnel should take into account their individual circumstances, and promised that the cabinet of ministers would further consider how to improve the disciplinary mechanism — though he did not specify when this work might be done; nor suspend the law in the meantime.

Army of civilians
Ukraine’s armed forces have swelled rapidly to over a million soldiers in the year since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 — up from 250,000 personnel.
The influx of hundreds of thousands of new recruits, whom Ukraine has had to equip and train while withstanding the barrage from Russia, has compromised the usual vetting process and meant some unsuitable soldiers have ended up in combat, Valerii Markus, the chief master sergeant of the 47th Separate Assault Brigade, told subordinates in a lecture about “desertion at the front,” posted to his YouTube channel in January.
“We were trying to vet the candidates as well as we could in those circumstances,” Markus said. “However, many people in our own brigade don’t want to be there.” He said some of those who had joined up for the wrong motivations, such as for a pay check, subsequently “break down under pressure and want to flee; start to revolt.”
Markus said commanders frequently didn’t understand the problems and shortages faced by their troops on the ground due to local sergeants failing to communicate with them. He played videos of soldiers complaining about a lack of weapons or inappropriate or illegal orders from their commanders, before telling those in the audience that most problems could be resolved internally through the proper channels, while publicly airing complaints discredited Ukraine’s army and undermined attempts to help troops.
“Do I recognize the existence of problems that lead to the arbitrary abandonment of positions? Yes,” Zaluzhnyi said in his video supporting the reforms. “Am I working on their elimination? Successful operations to liberate the territories of our state are a confirmation of that.”
But members of Ukraine’s armed forces, many of whom have expressed respect for Zaluzhnyi, were deeply disappointed by his support of the new law.
“It is very demotivating. This is such a striking contrast with Zaluzhnyi’s human- and leader-oriented ‘religion,'” said Eugenia Zakrevska, a human rights lawyer who enlisted in the war effort and is now a member of the 92nd Ivan Sirko Separate Mechanized Brigade. This was a pointed reference to an interview the commander-in-chief gave to the Economist in December, in which he said that unlike the Kremlin, the “religion” he and Ukraine practised was “to remain human in any situation.”

Treating the symptoms, not the disease
Those who oppose the new law argue that Ukraine needs to deal with the underlying causes of desertion and misbehavior, rather than punishing soldiers who break the rules more harshly.
A Ukrainian army officer who recently left the frontline city of Bakhmut (and requested anonymity as officers are not authorized to speak to the press) told POLITICO: “Sometimes abandonment of positions becomes the only way to save personnel from senseless death. If they cannot deliver ammunition or [relieve troops], when you sit in the trenches for several days without sleep or rest, your combat value goes to zero.”
The officer added that many discipline problems are rooted in ineffective or careless command, as well as the strain placed on Kyiv’s forces battling a far larger army of invaders, meaning they are not rotated as often as they ought to be.
“Fatigue and trauma lead to mental disorders, and bring chaos, negligence and even depravity into a soldier’s life. This strongly affects fighting qualities and obedience,” the officer said.
Zakrevska, from the Ivan Sirko brigade, said Ukrainian soldiers rarely abandon their positions — continuing to fight even when outnumbered and carrying significant casualties.
“Once, I had to call the command and ask for our sergeant to be ordered to go to the hospital — because he refused evacuation even though he was badly wounded,” Zakrevska said. “He stayed with us, although he could not get proper medical help as our doctor was also injured.”
It is only out of sheer desperation that soldiers leave their posts, Zakrevska argued, adding that to prevent desertion, commanders should rotate fighters more frequently. But she acknowledged that in many places, R&R for the troops is impossible due to a shortage of combat-capable fighters.
Most brigades are full, Zakrevska said — but some of those in them aren’t fit to fight, and “it is impossible to fire them. Because no one can be fired from the army at all. Only after a verdict in a criminal case. Such a system also greatly undermines morale. Because it turns service in the army from an honorable duty into a punishment.”
“In the situations of despair and complete exhaustion, fear of criminal liability does not work,” Zakrevska argued.


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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis, the head of the Anglican Communion and top Presbyterian minister together denounced the criminalization of homosexuality on Sunday and said gay people should be welcomed by their churches.
The three Christian leaders spoke out on LGBTQ rights during an unprecedented joint airborne news conference returning home from South Sudan, where they took part in a three-day ecumenical pilgrimage to try to nudge the young country’s peace process forward.
They were asked about Francis’ recent comments to The Associated Press, in which he declared that laws that criminalize gay people were “unjust” and that “being homosexual is not a crime.”
South Sudan is one of 67 countries that criminalizes homosexuality, 11 of them with the death penalty. LGBTQ advocates say even where such laws are not applied, they contribute to a climate of harassment, discrimination and violence.
Francis referred his Jan. 24 comments to the AP and repeated that such laws are “unjust.” He also repeated previous comments that parents should never throw their gay children out of the house.
“To condemn someone like this is a sin,” he said. “Criminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice.”
“People with homosexual tendencies are children of God. God Loves them. God accompanies them,” he added.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, recalled that LGBTQ rights were very much on the current agenda of the Church of England, and said he would quote the pope’s own words when the issue is discussed at the church’s upcoming General Synod.
“I wish I had spoken as eloquently and clearly as the pope. I entirely agree with every word he said,” Welby said.
Recently, the Church of England decided to allow blessings for same-sex civil marriages but said same-sex couples could not marry in its churches. The Vatican forbids both gay marriage and blessings for same-sex unions.
Welby told reporters that the issue of criminalization had been taken up at two previous Lambeth Conferences of the broader Anglican Communion, which includes churches in Africa and the Middle East where such anti-gay laws are most common and often enjoy support by conservative bishops.
The broader Lambeth Conference has come out twice opposing criminalization, “But it has not really changed many people’s minds,” Welby said.
The Rt. Rev. Iain Greenshields, the Presbyterian moderator of the Church of Scotland who also participated in the pilgrimage and news conference, offered an observation.
“There is nowhere in my reading of the four Gospels where I see Jesus turning anyone away,” he said. “There is nowhere in the four Gospels where I see anything other than Jesus expressing love to whomever he meets.
“And as Christians, that is the only expression that we can possibly give to any human being, in any circumstance.”
The Church of Scotland allows same-sex marriages. Catholic teaching holds that gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, but that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered.”


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