Abrams and Leopards for Ukraine, the US Ministry of Justice demanded to dismember Google and what to expect from the reports of Bigtehs

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Western allies of Ukraine were able to agree on the supply of modern tanks to the country. The Americans, at the request of Germany, agreed to transfer to Ukraine to 30 Abrams M1 tanks, and Germany in return put the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the LEOPARD 2 and allow other countries to the transfer of Leopards to Ukraine. In total, Ukraine expects to get about 100 tanks from Western allies - this is three times less than the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but such an amount can play a role in the war, experts say.

The fact that Germany finally agreed to transfer to Ukraine its own Leopard 2 tanks, Der Spiegel reported tonight. According to the publication, we are talking about at least one company of tanks of modern modification Leopard 2 A6 (10-14 tanks). Officially, the German government has not yet stated anything, according to Der Spiegel, the decision can be announced on Wednesday.
A couple of hours before the news about the supply of German Leopard The Wall Street Journal, citing American officials, said that the White House is inclined to put the “essential number” of the American main combat tanks Abrams M1. An ad can be done this week.
The United States consent to the supply of Ukraine Abrams as a condition for Germany’s consent to the supply of “leopards” was discussed on January 17 in the conversation of Joe Biden with Olaf Sholts. The Pentagon considered the idea of inappropriate. But Germany did not want to be the only country that would agree to supply modern tanks. Now, according to Politico, the Americans consider the transfer to Ukraine to 30 Abrams M1. The Politico source says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can be transferred in the export version that the United States will buy from one of the countries with Abrams in service (for example, from Poland).
A senior Ukrainian source today told the ABC television channel that the Armed Forces of Ukraine after a decision of Germany expect to get 100 Leopard 2 tanks from 12 countries. In addition to Germany itself, the Netherlands (18 cars), Poland (14), Norway (8) and Finland promised to transfer the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. The Ukrainian source ABC claims that Spain and Denmark can put tanks to Ukraine (both have Leopard 2). Challenger will put UK to Ukraine another 14 own tanks - this was announced last week.
On the supply of modern tanks to Ukraine, ministers of defense of Western countries unsuccessfully tried to agree at the next meeting in German Ramstein last Friday. In December, the commander -in -chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny stated that Ukraine needs at least 300 tanks from allies. Zelensky in Ramstein spoke of "hundreds." 100 tanks that Ukraine now counts on is the minimum number of machines necessary for the new cars to play a significant role on the battlefield is written in mid -January by analysts of the British International Institute for Strategic Research (IISS).
IISS expert Johan Mikheo told AP that the supplies of the Leopard will allow the APU to organize a spring offensive (most experts believe that he should wait in the Zaporizhzhya region in the direction of the Melitopol - to try to cut off the Crimea). But the new tanks, of course, will not become a panacea - they must also be correctly used and integrated into the troops, said Niclas Mazur, a researcher at the Security Center for Safety of the Higher Technical School.

What does it mean?

While the Western countries were negotiating to supply Ukraine with tanks, the United States convinced Ukraine that the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stuck in a bloody and low -contrasting battle for Bakhmut, should change tactics, writes CNN. Washington believes that Ukraine has several weeks to plan and implement a quick offensive in the south, in which it will be possible to use the offensive potential of new weapons transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine by Western allies. Last week to Kyiv, in order to convince Vladimir Zelensky of the correctness of such tactics, three American emissaries - the deputy Minister Colin Kal, Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Bayden adviser John Feiner, specially flew. However, the same few weeks will be needed in order to transfer new tanks to Ukraine and train crews.

US arguments are also based on Washington's information about Russian plans for new mobilization, CNN writes. In Washington, it is believed that within a few weeks in the Kremlin they can decide on the need for a new draft, during which up to 200 thousand people will get into the army - but there will be no high -profile ads this time. Press Secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov considered it necessary to make a refutation of this message.

Signals

Confiscation for "watering mud"

The ideas of the Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin about the seizure of the property of “traitors” develop before our eyes. Back in mid -January, Volodin spoke only about making a clause on the confiscation of property in the articles of the Criminal Code on extremism, rehabilitation of Nazism or discrediting the army. Today, Volodin has already made a more creative proposal - to divide two groups from Russia: those who are “silent”, and those who “pour mud on the country”. The latter, according to Volodin, must be threatened with confiscation. The head of the State Duma Committee on Culture, Elena Yampolskaya, clarified: it is necessary to disable “power sources” in Russia for “those figures who consider their country to the feed base.”

Techno

USA against Google

The US Ministry of Justice dropped an official Google challenge: the department filed a lawsuit in which it demands to divide the company's advertising business into several parts. According to officials, Google has been abused for 15 years by its dominant position in the Internet advertising market, obtained from anti-competitive transactions. As a result, now Google takes at least 30 cents from each dollar that American companies spend on advertising using its instruments, the lawsuit said. The trial will last many years and become a precedent-this is the first antitrust lawsuit in the United States, requiring the forced separation of a large corporation since the 1980s.

INVESTMENTS

What to expect from the reports of the Bigtehs

So far, shares of technological companies have demonstrated a good start in 2023. But a serious test awaits them ahead - reporting, warns The Wall Street Journal. Even after the sale in 2022, the share of the five largest American companies - Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway - in the S&P 500 index is 18.9%. This is significantly higher than the historical value at the level of 15%. The large weight of these companies in the index makes a wide market vulnerable to sale if investors are disappointed in their results.

Nevertheless, the expectations from the Bigtehs are low, the publication notes. Analysts predict that the revenue of the four largest technological companies on average will grow by 2%, and net profit will fall by 26%. After closing the trading on Tuesday, Microsoft will be the first to report, the rest of the Tekhi will publish their results next week. Microsoft will probably show the slowest increase in sales over the past six years, the newspaper writes . According to market forecasts, revenue over the past quarter will grow by less than 3%, and net profit will decrease by 8%, since the demand for the company's products falls.

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What else happened

The author of the amendments on the reservation of the time of intersection by car, the deputy Yevgeny Moskvichev devoted all day to the denial that his bill aims to complicate the Russians with leaving the country. Firstly, the amendments will enter into force only on September 1, and not from March 1, 2023, Moskvichev said. And secondly, the proposal concerns only freight vehicles, he said . But this does not directly from the text of the amendments - it says that the mechanism will concern both carriers and individuals.
The largest Russian retailer X5 Group connected a decrease in food demand of 2.7% in the fourth quarter of 2022 with the departure of Russians from the country. Prior to this, the influence of the Russians departure on the financial result recognized the “ABC of Taste”.
The reserves in the yuan of $ 45 billion will allow Vladimir Putin to cover the budget deficit over the next three years, Bloomberg calculated . This will be possible at the current price of Urals oil at $ 50. If at the end of the year it falls to $ 25, Russia can waste all its yuan this year, the agency believes.