⚡ Acting Head of Donetsk People’s Republic Pushilin announces prisoner exchange with Ukraine taking place today, where 35 servicemen from each side will be swapped.

UPDATE:🗣 35 captive Russian servicemen in MORTAL danger returned from Kiev regime as a result of negotiation process - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡🇪🇺🇷🇺 European Parliament recognizes Russia as "State Sponsor of Terrorism"

Move largely symbolic as EU reportedly does not have legal framework to back up such recognition.

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🇷🇸🇽🇰 Negotiators from Serbia and partially-recognized Kosovo to travel for talks in Brussels - EU Commission

Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo mounting over Kosovo’s plans to fine ethnic Serb residents who refuse to surrender their Belgrade-issued car number plates, with Kosovo agreeing to delay implementation of measure and EU and US seeking negotiations to avoid unrest between countries.

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⚡🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian Sabotage and Reconnaissance group DESTROYED in Zaporozhye region, South Ukraine, Russian air defenses shoot down 5 drones over gas fields in Black Sea and Sevastopol region, Crimea, and Russian forces continue offensive in Donetsk People’s Republic, killing over 60 Ukrainian soldiers - Russian Defense Ministry.

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🗣 US making strenuous attempts to maintain dominance in rapidly changing world, in doing so they caused DEGRADATION of Ukraine by cultivating extreme nationalism in country - Russia’s foreign intelligence service chief Naryshkin.

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⚡🇷🇺🇦🇲 Putin arrives in Yerevan and is welcomed by Armenian PM Pashinyan, as Russian President takes part in Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) - Eurasian military alliance - meeting in Armenia.

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⚡🇺🇦 Footage allegedly captures Russian cruise missile SOARING toward military target over Kharkov region, East Ukraine, as air raid alerts across entire country warn of Russian strikes.

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💀 LITTLE GIFTS: Christmas comes early for Ukrainian saboteurs trying to sabotage Russian defenses but step on little but lethal presents called mines, left by Russian forces for those who cannot MINE-D their own business, leaving the enemy saboteurs dead in the forest.

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⚡🪫 LIGHTS OUT: Say goodbye to electricity In Kiev after Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, with even capital’s metro system suffering from outages, as Odessa, South Ukraine, joins list of country’s cities lacking power.

Even parts of Moldova lose energy, as locals report power outages across capital Chisinau and Northern regions of country.

UPDATE: Kiev, Kharkov, Khmelnitsky, Nikolaev, Lvov and Kiev-controlled Zaporozhye left partially without electricity while Sumy, North Ukraine suffering from TOTAL blackout.

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⚡🪫 Unconfirmed reports of EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN at South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant after Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure, leaving MAJOR cities including Kiev without power.

UPDATE:🗣 There will be no electricity throughout Ukraine for 24 HOURS - Ukrenergo (Ukraine's electricity transmission company).

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🙅‍♂️ NO CAN DO HOMIE: is basically what the Croatian President Zoran Milanovic's response is to his defense minister's request to approve training of Ukrainian soldiers in Croatia as he throws it straight into the BIN 🗑

Milanovic's office, in a statement, says that defense minister is NOT even authorized to demand such a thing according to the Constitution, adding that the President will NOT allow training of Kiev forces in Croatia.

Well that's one way of keeping Russian missiles away from your country if it all goes down 😁

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⚡🇨🇭🇷🇺 Switzerland approves introduction of price cap on Russian oil - Swiss Economy Minister

EU and US discussing price cap on Russian oil between $65-$70 a barrel, a cap seen by some experts as too high to have any effect on Russia’s oil trade.

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⚡🇦🇿 No consensus within Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on Azerbaijan's aggression against Armenia, which damages image of organization - Armenian PM Pashinyan speaking at CSTO summit in Yerevan.

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🇺🇦🪫 Map reveals extent of damage to Ukrainian infrastructure across entire country

At least 2 power plants hit by Russian strikes in Kiev, leading to severe power and water outages across Ukrainian capital, as Nikolaev, South Ukraine entirely without power following EMERGENCY shutdown of South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant, confirmed by Ukrainian state energy giant Energoatom.

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ENDLESS AND RELENTLESS: strikes of Russian Grad ("Hail") multiple launch rocket system on Ukrainian army positions as projectiles race to annihilate the enemy, reaching for the skies to descend on Ukrainian soldiers, reminding them to be GRAD-EFUL for every day of their life.

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⚡Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) prevents TERROR attack on energy infrastructure in Voronezh region, West Russia

FSB says ringleader and accomplices of attempted sabotage killed by officers in armed confrontation.

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