Harold Turner | NATO Chief Mark Rutte is telling media outlets the following about the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, and it's potential settlement. Almost EVERYTHING he says is already flatly rejected by Russia! | The "peace" plan involves U.S. / NATO troops and air defense missiles in Ukraine, combined with attempts to impugn Russia for Ukraine / US / NATO / UK attacks, are further evidence that the "peace" talks are a sham. Russia knows this. ■ As per the proposal, any Russian breach of ‌a ceasefire would prompt a response within 24 hours, starting with a diplomatic warning and, if necessary, action by Ukrainian army to halt the infraction, the newspaper said. If hostilities continued beyond that, the proposal would move to a ⁠second phase of intervention using ​forces from the so-called coalition of ​the willing, which includes many EU members and the UK, Norway, Iceland and Turkey, the report ‍said. The report ⁠added that in the case of an expanded attack, a coordinated response by a Western-backed force, incorporating ⁠the U.S. military would be triggered 72 hours after the initial ‌breach."

✅ NATO will appear in Ukraine “on land, in the sky, and at sea” (Elena Panina)

■ Zakharova: NATO plans overt military intervention in Ukraine (TACC.ru) | The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the words of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that after a peace agreement on the Ukrainian conflict is reached, certain troops, weapons, aircraft, and naval forces from the so-called coalition of the willing will immediately appear there. ■ Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called plans to deploy troops from a “coalition of the willing” in Ukraine an undisguised military intervention.

Zakharova noted that the name of this coalition “took on new meaning” after the publication of information about the Western NATO elite from the files of financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was convicted of sex crimes, including pedophilia. (DeepL + Grammarly)

Israeli warplanes have carried out heavy strikes on tents housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Yunis, killing civilians and overwhelming local hospitals, in clear violation of the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas. | Medical and local sources said on Wednesday that Israeli fighter jets bombed displacement tents in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis, twice within a short period, setting fire to shelters and killing people who had sought safety there. Hospitals in Gaza later confirmed that the death toll from attacks across the Gaza Strip had risen to 20. ● Health officials said 13 of those killed were from the al-Tuffah and al-Zeitoun neighborhoods of Gaza City, where homes and streets came under fire. ● Among the dead was a one-month-old infant, killed during the same wave of attacks that struck residential areas and civilian gatherings.

A criminal court in Nice has sentenced pro-Palestine activist and mother Amira Zaiter to 15 months in prison for social media posts denouncing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, as part of a broader effort to suppress anti-genocide speech and silence voices supporting Palestine. | The ruling, delivered on Friday by the Nice criminal court, stands among the harshest penalties imposed in France in recent years for online political expression. ● Human rights advocates warn that the sentence reflects a dangerous shift toward criminalizing dissent when it challenges Israeli policies. ● Zaiter appeared before the court on January 23 after spending nearly two months in pretrial detention, a period during which authorities separated her from her young daughter and severely limited her contact with the outside world.

The core claim of Russian interference was false and exemplified Brussels’ use of political censorship, the document said | The European Commission used unproven claims of Russian interference to overturn the results of Romania’s 2024 presidential election, a US House report has suggested. ● Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the election’s first round after intelligence services alleged anti-establishment candidate Calin Georgescu’s lead resulted from foreign meddling. A House Judiciary Committee report cited the case on Tuesday, calling it the “most aggressive censorship steps” taken by the EU executive in recent years.