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#Ukraine returns 101 more POWs from Russian captivity.

100 military personnel and one civilian were released from Russian captivity during a prisoner exchange on Feb. 16. The majority of military personnel are from Mariupol, including 63 Azovstal defenders.

Photo: Andriy Yermak/Telegram

President Biden says "nothing suggests" that the three objects shot down last weekend were related to China's spy balloon program https://cnn.it/3Egabuq

CEO pay is out of control. Just look at Amazon.

The company’s chief executive made $212.7 million in compensation in 2021 while the typical worker received $32,855.

That's a ratio of 6,474 to 1.
Learn more about the atrocious CEO-to-worker pay gap

https://www.asyousow.org/reports/the-100-most-overpaid-ceos-2023

Your Moment of Zen

A cat was saved from under the rubble in Turkey. It now refuses to leave its rescuer's side.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1626215158912622592

#Ukrainians apparently liberate what appears to be a morgue for Russian soldiers,....... and there's a lot of them.....

Caution, obviously, death

https://twitter.com/i/status/1625937739450396673

Parts of a highly anticipated report by a Georgia special grand jury on Trump and the 2020 election are made public. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/3HYJP0M

US home building fell again in January, marking five straight months of declines, even as mortgage rates moderated and inflation cooled https://cnn.it/3lGXL8r

A key inflation metric showed wholesale prices picked up in January from December but continued to cool on an annual basis, according to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics https://cnn.it/3XQjd8t

So far, #Ukraine will receive less Leopard 2 battle tanks than it was predicted.
Last week, 🇩🇪 Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced that Western partners could send the first battalion of 31 German Leopards to Ukraine in March-April.
However, after the meeting of the "tank coalition" in Brussels, he stated that at this point it was possible to collect only 14 tanks of the A6 model from 🇩🇪 and three from 🇵🇹.

"We haven't reached the battalion. There will be half a battalion," Pistorius said.

This morning's UK Ministry of Defence intelligence update on #Ukraine

One person was killed, three were injured, and one suspect is in custody after a shooting at a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, police said.
https://cnn.it/3I2b4YE

#CoSoPoliceDepartment

***ACTIVE SHOOTER***

#ELPASOSHOOTING

TEXAS | EL PASO | CIELO VISTA MALL |

PD is currently sweeping the mall. Initial reports of 3 victims. #Cosonauts in the area are advised to avoid the Mall.

Multiple agencies respond to a mall in El Paso, Texas, after shots were fired. Police ask people to avoid the area. https://cnn.it/3lGsjXW

from Chuck Pfarrer
#FighterJetsForUkraine
#Ukraine

from Chuck Pfarrer
Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko has been jailed for 6 years for reporting on the RU airstrike that deliberately targeted the Mariupol Theater!
#RussianRestiance
#MariaPonomarenko

Gunman Payton Gendron sentenced to life in prison without parole in anti-Black racist supermarket attack that killed 10 in Buffalo https://cnn.it/3RY3TFr

Meanwhile in Jezero, a few more frames have come down from Mars Helicopter flight 42. It is mostly the spindown after the flight.

This morning's UK Ministry of Defence intelligence update on #Ukraine

#PutinIsAWarCriminal
Maks_NAFO_FELLA: "Almost the entire Russian army (97%) is involved in the war in #Ukraine " - the British Defense Minister.
https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1625802128244498432