😈 GRAB THE BULL BY THE HORNS: Take your place as part of gun crew on Russian Hyacinth heavy-artillery gun, taming the beast and flinging shells at WHIRLWIND speed toward Ukrainian troops unlucky enough to be manning their posts, with crew firing up to 90 shells per day to keep Kiev’s soldiers’ heads down as Russian-led forces continue advance on their positions.

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⚡️🏭 Reactors at Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, South Russia, on cooldown following Ukrainian strikes - Rosenergoatom, Russia's Nuclear Energy Agency

Rosenergoatom says almost all power lines around Plant have been destroyed, and Ukrainian armed forces not allowing them to be repaired, but plant is in stable condition.

UPDATE: Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant reconnected to Ukrainian power grid - media reports.

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⚡🔋 It’s very difficult to determine who is shelling Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant - International Energy Agency Chief (IAEA) Grossi

I can't determine it, we don't have the funds for this, you would need to monitor the military operation in the region, which is not only beyond the mandate of the IAEA, but would also require huge resources - Grossi.

UPDATE:🗣 IAEA experts at Zaporozhye Plant know perfectly well who is shelling it, but IAEA chief does not say it directly because of he is not allowed - Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations Ulyanov.

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⚡🇧🇾🇺🇦 Ukraine must end conflict, everything is now in its hands - Belarusian President Lukashenko.

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⚡🇪🇺 EU will not rest until Ukraine wins military victory over Putin - Head of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen

Ursula von der Leyen also says EU already working on 9th package of anti-Russia sanctions.

UPDATE:🗣 We are working hard to hit Russia where it hurts to blunt even further its capacity to wage war on Ukraine - von der Leyen.

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⚡🪫 All Ukrainian nuclear power plants will resume operations before end of today - Ukrainian Energy Minister

Earlier, all 3 Ukrainian nuclear plants were forced to make EMERGENCY shutdown following WAVE of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

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⚡🇷🇸 EU Parliament should deal with inflation and energy prices, not resolutions against Russia - Serbian President Vucic

Earlier, EU Parliament recognized Russia as "State Sponsor of Terrorism", in symbolic move as EU lacks legal framework to back up resolution.

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⚡ EU attempt to set price cap on Russian gas on grounds of THIEVERY creates a dangerous precedent and threatens world with global recession - Russian Foreign Ministry.

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🇷🇺🇹🇷 Turkey's ground operation in Syria will increase tension in region and also lead to increase in terrorist activity - Russian Foreign Ministry

Earlier, Turkish President Erdogan said Ankara intends to begin new cross-border ground operation at appropriate time in order to clear out terrorists from Syrian cities.

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🇺🇦🪫 Satellite imagery circulating on social media claims to show Ukraine plunged into darkness overnight following Russian strikes on energy infrastructure

🗣 Russian forces inflicted massive strikes on Ukrainian army command and control systems, as well as energy facilities, disrupting transfer of Ukrainian troops and equipment by rail, and Russian forces did not inflict a SINGLE blow on targets within boundaries of Kiev, all destruction within city was result of Ukrainian and NATO-supplied air defense missiles falling on residential areas - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡ Ukrainian leadership has every opportunity to resolve situation in such a way as to fulfil requirements of Russia and end suffering of its population - Kremlin Spokesman Peskov

🗣Putin will hold meeting of Russian Coordination Council on needs of special operation in Ukraine - Peskov.

UPDATE:🗣 Impact of oil and gas price cap on markets still difficult to assess, but Putin has given instructions that Russia would NOT supply oil and gas to countries that would join price cap - Peskov.

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⚡🇭🇺 Hungary to provide $195 million in financial aid to Kiev - Hungarian government decree

Budapest allocating funds as its contribution to planned EU support package worth up to 18 billion euros in 2023, which has been approved by EU Parliament but now requires approval from EU member states.

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🥺 WE’LL TAKE ANYONE: Who’s Russian and "disgusted" by conflict in Ukraine says CIA Deputy Director of Operations David Marlowe, who adds the US foreign intelligence agency’s "open for business" if Russian officials and business execs want to hop over to the other side - America’s doing all it can to turn Russians against their own by propagating FAKE NEWS and Russophobia like there’s no tomorrow but with CIA chiefs openly BEGGING for more Russians seems their attempts aren’t bearing fruit.

Not to mention CIA’s still SALTY over whistleblower Edward Snowden for exposing American WAR CRIMES 🫡🇺🇸

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⚡ Prisoner exchange takes place between Russia and Ukraine, with 50 soldiers swapped from each side - Acting Head of Donetsk People’s Republic Pushilin

Yesterday, similar exchange took place with 35 servicemen from each side.

UPDATE:🗣 50 Russian soldiers return from Kiev captivity - Russian Defense Ministry.

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⚡🇷🇺 Rivalry between countries is fierce, and place of Russia in the world, our sovereignty, security and viability, all depend on what results we can achieve - Putin

Putin says it is necessary in next 10 years to ensure mass introduction of artificial intelligence in all fields in Russia.

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🔥 LIKE A SHADOW: Donetsk Republic Sparta battalion unmanned drone quietly follows Ukrainian soldiers, accurately dropping bombs even on moving targets making the enemy drop like flies as Kiev's soldiers COWER down to save their lives but to no avail.

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⚡🇪🇺 EU Energy ministers unable to agree on gas price cap at meeting in Brussels, talks will continue in December - Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto.

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⚡🇷🇺🇪🇺 EU Parliament votes to BAN issuance of Schengen zone visas on Russian passports provided in new Russian regions, as well as from Crimea and partially-recognized states of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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⚡🚨 Air raid alerts sound in Central and Eastern Ukrainian regions following reports of increasing military aircraft activity in Russian regions bordering Ukraine.

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