⚡️ Donetsk City, Donetsk Republic, West Russia once again rocked by cruel Ukrainian shelling of residential areas.

UPDATE: Civilian dies in the attack.

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🤦🏻‍♂️🏆 Financial Times announces Zelensky - Person of the Year

According to the article, Zelensky is a symbol of the global confrontation between LIBERAL democracies and authoritarianism; compares him to Winston Churchill, while noting that after the end of the conflict, Zelensky, like Churchill, may be DEFEATED in the elections - SO MUCH FACE-PALMS 🤦🏻‍♂️

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⚡️🔌 Emergency power outages begin in many regions of Ukraine due to damage to energy infrastructure facilities - Ukraine's electricity transmission company Ukrenergo.

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⚡️Putin personally drives down Crimea's only bridge to Russian mainland, inspecting its rebuilding after Kiev's murderous October TERROR attack.

🗣UPDATE: Against the backdrop of ongoing threats from Ukraine, Putin emphasizes importance of the bridge lifeline - Kremlin Press Secretary Peskov.

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⚡️💥 Death toll as result of Ukrainian SAVAGE strikes on Alchevsk, Lugansk People's Republic, West Russia rises to 10 KILLED, 24 injured

6 missiles from NATO-supplied HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems fired at the city.

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⚡️🗣 Poland supports Georgia's desire to become a member of EU and NATO - Polish President Andrzej Duda.

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⚡️🗣 Komatsu - top Japanese manufacturer of construction equipment, which has a plant in Yaroslavl north of Moscow is NOT considering complete suspension of activities there, or withdrawal from Russia - company boss Hiroyuki Ogawa.

This is despite rising difficulties in diplomatic relations between Tokyo and Russia.

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⚡️🌉 Car traffic RELAUNCHED along restored section of Crimean Bridge.

UPDATE:🗣 Work on restoration of left side of lifeline to be completed at the end of March - Russian Deputy PM Khusnullin.

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💨🚀 Ukrainian US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher systems SECRETLY MODIFIED to stop them firing long-range missiles at Russia.

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⚡️🗣 Putin's statements at the Volunteer of the Year award ceremony

◾️More than 21 million volunteers in Russia, a whole huge army

◾️The support of special operation soldiers and their families by volunteers is especially valuable

◾️The volunteers who went to Donbass at the call of their hearts deserve the highest awards

◾️Volunteers help to preserve the national identity of the Russian Federation, which is the basis of the country's power.

The annual ceremony acknowledges not only Russian volunteers - the awards are global, with many international guests in attendance.

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⚡️ Volunteer of the Year award goes to.... Vladimir Taranenko, who personally evacuated 30,000 people from Donetsk People's Republic.

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Putin congratulates Russian volunteers

🗣 Our volunteers, and there are more than 21 million of them - this is more than 15% of our country, this is a whole army, a huge army.

⚽️ 🇮🇱 "FREE PALESTINE": Israel is biggest loser at Qatar's World Cup, with Arab fans separating themselves from their government's NORMALIZATION of Tel Aviv by REFUSING to acknowledge its very EXISTENCE, and English fans trolling Israeli journalist by chanting the LAST thing he wanted to hear.

Imagine the scenes if Israel actually qualified to play in Qatar's stadiums! 🤯🥳

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🇨🇦🇷🇺 Canadian Foreign Ministry SUMMONS Russian Ambassador Oleg Stepanov

Earlier, Russian ambassador in Ottawa was also summoned to the Canadian Foreign Ministry in protest of Russian parliament approving a bill banning LGBT propaganda.

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⚡️💥 Ukrainian drones fired at Russian airfields, intercepted by Russian air defenses

Kiev, on the morning of December 5, made attempts to strike aircraft at the Diaghilev, Ryazan region, and Engels, Saratov region, military airfields.

These are within 300km of Moscow.

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⚡️Footage showing DEVASTATING consequences of Ukrainian SAVAGE strikes on the Kievsky and Voroshilovsky districts of Donetsk City, Donetsk Republic, West Russia.

UPDATE: Death toll in the center of Donetsk rises to 4, with 3 injured.

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