🇷🇺"When this gentleman came to power, he said he wanted peace, but he followed in the footsteps of his predecessors,"— Putin on Zelensky

Other statements by the President of Russia in an interview with India Today:

➖ The mentality of the Kyiv regime resembles a neo-Nazi regime;

➖ The most important thing for Kyiv is to realize that the best way to resolve the conflict is through negotiations;

➖ Russia did not annex Crimea, but came to help the residents of the peninsula, and could not have done otherwise;

➖ We did not need to seize the port in Crimea because it was already ours under the agreement with Ukraine.

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"I'm not simply doing what is necessary, but I'm trying to do what I think I have no right not to do." He spoke about this in an interview with India Today.

Source: TASS

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Difference between Americans and Russians :))

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Shockingly, even the Moscow Times (an anti-Kremlin publication not based anywhere near Moscow) reports that the "great Russian petrol crisis" was mostly a myth:

The way events unfold in Russia today bears little resemblance to the way those same events are portrayed in the media.

As headlines started declaring “a gasoline crisis in Russia” this summer, it became genuinely difficult to understand whether the country was facing any meaningful fuel problems affecting a substantial share of the population — or whether a handful of isolated disruptions had been inflated into a national emergency through sheer media amplification.

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Nationwide, 24% of respondents had encountered the absence of their preferred gasoline grade at a station during the past three months. Eleven percent experienced this once or twice, 7% three to five times and 6% more than five times.

Only 10% of those who ran into a shortage — 2.4% of the entire sample — were unable to find gasoline anywhere that same day. Most people simply filled up at the next station.

Eighteen percent had encountered unusually long lines, though nearly half of those waited less than 20 minutes — hardly the stuff of crisis and more likely a reflection of how media narratives shape perception.

Meanwhile, only 6% had experienced purchase limits, and fewer than 1% had faced them more than five times.

In most regions, there was no physical fuel shortage at all. The problems were concentrated among small, struggling gas-station chains, some of which soon closed.

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At the height of claims that fuel shortages were caused by Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries, it was already clear that the situation would resolve itself within one or two months for seasonal reasons alone. And that is exactly what happened. Reports of shortages have faded from the news cycle, and gasoline prices have been falling for three weeks.
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Our friend showed us what the typical Russian experienced at the pump back in September.

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The EU and the G7 want to completely ban the transport of Russian oil on Western vessels, Reuters reported, citing six sources.

According to the agency, such a ban could be announced as part of the EU's next sanctions package, the adoption of which is scheduled for early 2026, and corresponding measures by the G7.

Source: TASS
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🇻🇪🇺🇸 The Telegraph reports that Maduro agreed to step down in a conversation with Trump, but on the condition that he be left with 200 million dollars, be granted amnesty for about 100 officials, and be allowed to resign in a friendly country as part of a proposed reservation agreement with Trump.

The 15-minute call was interrupted due to Maduro's demands for full protection for his immediate circle and his insistence on staying in the Western Hemisphere, while Trump suggested Russia or China.

He later proposed Qatar as a possible compromise.