06.02.2023, Moscow.
We publish a summary of events concerning the situation around Ukraine as of 10 p.m., February 6.
Political situation
Former Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Federation Security Council.
UN Secretary General Guterres has expressed his fear that the world is sliding into a “larger war” than the conflict in Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a telephone conversation with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the situation in connection with the earthquakes in Turkey, according to the press service of the Kremlin. Putin expressed his deep condolences to Erdogan because of the two earthquakes that caused numerous deaths in Turkey.
Four airplanes of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations have been sent to Turkey and Syria to help the earthquake victims, the press service of the ministry informed. Seven teams with rescue dogs, more than 100 rescue specialists, and necessary rescue equipment and machinery were sent to Turkey and Syria from Russia.
The world will see a great power competition as the old world order collapses, wrote Brandon J Weichert, an associate fellow at New College, Oxford University, and a research fellow at the Eurasia Research and Analysis Institute, in Asia Times: “The days of things being relatively contained in the Sino-American relationship are at an end. A new world order is being birthed before our eyes. In this new world order, the United States is no longer the dominant player. The world does not march to our drum. And other powers (like China) will compete with us for control. Those other powers may even win.”
He also added that “as this competition becomes more pronounced, with the United States generally being seen as a great state in decline and China in the ascendancy, Sino-American relations are about to take a darker turn than what we had previously experienced since the Nixon Administration accepted Mao Zedong’s offer to embrace China as a trading partner.”
The deployment of new types of missile weapons, including hypersonic ones, on Japanese territory would mean that the United States intends to intervene in the situation in Taiwan, the Global Times wrote. Earlier, some Western media reported that Washington and Tokyo intend to discuss the deployment of new US weapons on Japanese territory, including medium-range missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons.
Ukraine
11 million books in the Russian language were destroyed in Ukraine in 2022, said the head of the Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian Parliament – translator’s note] Yevgenia Kravchuk on her Telegram-channel on.
Verkhovna Rada has exempted the import of drones, infrared cameras, collimators, night vision devices and transceivers to Ukraine from VAT and duties. Also, bureaucratic restrictions on the import of these goods were removed, and the possibility of express consignments was granted, said MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
Ukraine will receive tactical aviation from partners, and what kind of planes it will be is being discussed. Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov said this at a briefing.
Israel will transfer missile and drone warning technologies to Ukraine, Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov said.
Almost half of Odessa remains without electricity due to an accident at a substation that occurred in the morning of February 4, Prime Minister Shmygal said.
Western countries and their supporters
Canada’s first Leopard 2 tank has arrived in Poland – Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand.
Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki called the situation around Ukraine a time of struggle for a new world order during a conference on Ukraine held in Warsaw. “We are facing a clear choice: either Russia’s victory and the defeat of the West, or the renaissance of Western civilization,” he said. “The present time can be called the time of struggle for a new world order.”
He also added that “Poland is ready to take joint responsibility for the formation of a new world order. Poland is ready to become one of the key links in post-imperial Europe.”
The US is preparing to slap a 200% tariff on Russian-made aluminum as soon as this week to keep pressure on Moscow, Bloomberg wrote.
The weight of Western tanks that Western countries are planning to supply to the Kiev regime is too high for successful maneuvering in the theater of military operations – Newsweek.
NATO is streaming military equipment and ammunition into Ukraine through Rzeszow airport in Poland, the Polish news portal Interia wrote. The Rzeszow airport has been very busy since February 3. At that time, planes loaded with military equipment and ammunition from various countries started arriving at the airport in large numbers.
The Czech economy is both in recession and has a high rate of inflation. Jan Schweinar, director of the IDEA Center at the National Economic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, stated this, Česká televize informed.
