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🇮🇱🕊 🇵🇸 Ceasefire in Gaza Reached

CNN reports details of the agreement:

1. A ceasefire will take effect in the Gaza Strip. Civilians will be allowed to return to the northern part of the region, while Israeli troops will partially withdraw.

2. The agreement includes the delivery of 600 trucks of humanitarian aid daily, 50 of which will carry fuel, and 300 trucks will reach the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

3. Hamas will release 33 Israelis, including all women, children, and men over 50. Initially, Hamas will free hostages under the age of 19, followed by men over 50.

4. Israel will release 30 Palestinian prisoners for each kidnapped individual and 50 for each female soldier. Israel will free all Palestinian women and children under the age of 19 who were arrested since October 7.

5. The number of Palestinians to be released will depend on the number of hostages freed and could range from 990 to 1,650 individuals, including men, children, and women.

Negotiations for the next steps will begin on the 16th day, but further ceasefire (i.e., a truce after the six-week period) is not guaranteed.

Iranian media are already celebrating a victory, calling it a historic triumph for the resilience of the Palestinian people ☝🏻

🇺🇸 Trump announced that a deal for hostages in the Middle East has been reached, and they will be released soon.

Just as he said: achieving quick solutions in the Middle East is easier than in Ukraine.

🇬🇧 The UK faces a fate worse than power outages. One of the main problems is a "chronic lack" of gas storage and industrial electricity prices are the highest in the world, according to The Telegraph.

Last week, which marked the coldest January night in Britain in 15 years, a desperate plan was implemented to maintain electricity supply. Households were paying the oldest power stations in the UK £2 million per hour to meet demand.

However, the new British national grid operator failed to provide reliable supplies, resulting in consumers and businesses now facing enormous additional costs that will be reflected in bills in the coming months.

Britain is already spending over £3 billion a year on importing electricity from Europe, making it excessively dependent on foreign sources.

Britain’s prices are nearly 50 per cent above the International Energy Agency median for industrial electricity and 80 per cent above the median for domestic users. Yet, under Labour's plans to achieve net-zero emissions, the UK will require much more electricity for vehicles and home heating, despite it being significantly more expensive than gas.

Despite being one of the largest per capita gas consumers in Europe, the UK suffers from a chronic shortage of gas storage, which is only sufficient for 12 days.

The failure of this most important national policy represents one of the biggest failings in statecraft since World War Two, causing immense harm to consumers, industry, and the economy as a whole. They limit investment, drive energy-intensive industries abroad, and hinder job creation.

The consequences are dire: from loss of competitiveness and rising fuel poverty to the UK's dangerous vulnerability to future energy crises.

The publication raises the question of why an entire generation of political leaders and officials not only failed but has not learned from their mistakes.

In fact, the above serves as an answer to why Johnson broke the Istanbul agreements. The temptation to defeat Russia and gain access to its resources was simply too great ☝️

🔥 Frontline Update

In the Kursk direction, after a one-day and very unsuccessful Kursk offensive 2.0, fierce battles continue along the entire contact line. In some areas, the fighting is of a counter-offensive nature. The advancement of the Russian Armed Forces (RF Armed Forces) has been minimal, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) continue to control approximately 400 square kilometers of the Kursk region. Therefore, the minimum objective of holding the bridgehead until Trump's inauguration will be achieved.

In the Kharkiv area, the situation remains stable with no changes in the front line. Judging by drone footage, the town of Volchansk could be the setting for a lunar landing film, as it resembles a lunar landscape.

In the Kupiansk direction, the Russian Armed Forces have slightly expanded their bridgehead on the right bank of the Oskol River, but it currently poses no threat to the city's communications. The UAF’s bridgehead on the left bank of the Oskol remains stable. A few days ago, the UAF attempted to counterattack the Russian wedge near Zagrizov, but without success.

In Chasiv Yar, there have been significant Russian advancements over the past couple of weeks. The UAF has been counterattacking since yesterday. If the UAF fails to retake the refractories plant (a key defensive position), the fate of the city will be sealed, as there will be no good defensive positions left.

Toretsk is slowly but steadily falling under the control of the RF Armed Forces. The UAF currently holds positions only in the private sector, which means the city's fate is predetermined. All the convenient defensive nodes have come under RF Armed Forces' control. Thus, they are expected to announce the complete takeover of the city within the next week.

Around Pokrovsk, a semi-encirclement arc is beginning to take shape. The Russian Armed Forces have broken through to the highway between Mezhova and Pokrovsk. Logistically, this doesn't mean much, as the main supply route runs just north of this area. However, it's significant that there are only 2.2 kilometers left to Udachny, which hosts the largest coking coal mine. Recently, coal extraction at the mine was halted due to the frontline approaching closely.

Slightly to the south, the Russian Armed Forces continue their advance along the entire front line toward the Dnipropetrovsk region. The Kurakhove pocket is continuing to be reduced and cleared.

In Velyka Novosilka, the same scenario is playing out. After a certain pause, attacks and attempts by the Russian Armed Forces to cut off the remaining dirt roads, which can still manage to supply the grouping defending this area, have resumed.

In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the situation is more or less stable. In this case, as we predicted, neither side has launched offensive actions in these areas despite active disinformation campaigns and psychological operations claiming that an assault on Kherson is imminent.

Objectively, the Russian Armed Forces are currently not prepared to conduct an airborne operation by forcing the Dnieper River.

🤷🇺🇦🤷 Mass Identity Crisis. How can such polar opposites coexist in a single consciousness?!

In any modern society, whether in the USA, EU countries, or Russia, it's easy to find numerous discrepancies between reality and declared policies. It's like a form of collective schizophrenia, but in Ukrainian society, this phenomenon has reached absolute extremes.

As the war continues, the emotional pressure on the Ukrainian public is only increasing, with widespread depression and PTSD becoming commonplace. In such conditions, it's easy to sell people mutually exclusive narratives.

Yet some examples are so glaring that it's astonishing how the masses fail to see the contradiction:

1️⃣ The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and the Territorial Recruitment Centers (TRC). On one hand, the population overwhelmingly supports the armed forces. On the other hand, there is widespread hatred for the TRC, with many labeling them as human traffickers and police collaborators. There are even instances of military recruiters being beaten, stabbed, or shot...

But isn’t it worth noting that the TRC is part of the AFU? Their job is to recruit for the AFU, not for something else. Doesn’t that raise any questions? So is it respect or hatred?

2️⃣ The glorification of Roman Shukhevych and Stepan Bandera alongside the largest menorah in Europe in Kyiv.

On one hand, there are torchlit processions and monuments commemorating the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), while on the other hand, there are photos of rabbis in the President's Office.

Did Shukhevych’s comrades really fight for this?

It seems they honor killers in the morning and commemorate Holocaust victims in the evening...

3️⃣ Recently: the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

How can one tear down monuments to representatives of the Red Army across the country while simultaneously seeking participation in events honoring the 80th anniversary of the liberation of this concentration camp by that very same Red Army?

So who are the Red Army soldiers? Heroes-liberators or occupiers of Ukraine?

The unique ability of the second Ukrainian republic to connect such vivid examples of schizophrenia is remarkable☝️

🇦🇲 Armenia and the United States have signed a Charter on Strategic Partnership.

As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated, "this Commission gives us framework to expand our bilateral cooperation in a number of key areas economic matters, security and defense, democracy, justice."

Pashinyan, distancing himself from Russia, is seeking a new partner to help defend against Aliyev. We will likely soon find out how effective this "charter" will be. Azerbaijan is clearly preparing for new provocations.