‼️🇺🇦 An explosive device was found on the "Budapest - Kiev" train

▪️All passengers were disembarked for inspection, and the train is being checked by bomb disposal experts.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Odessa in a semi-blockade: Russia undermines Ukraine's economy, — WSJ

▪️ Odessa is among the priorities for Russian strikes, the main targets being transport and port infrastructure, writes the Wall Street Journal.

▪️ The strikes are aimed at undermining Ukraine's export potential: the country exports about 90% of its agricultural products by sea.

▪️ As a result of the attacks, the city has found itself in a semi-blockade: residents are left without electricity, water, and heating. Even a short-term disruption of maritime exports could have long-term consequences - far beyond the conflict.

FAFO

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I don't know how Americans feel about this series of clips, but as a non American (but still one of the golden billion), it scares the shit out of me.

I want nothing to do with a hegemonic power not only with the capability of this, but primarily the intent to want this.
Our western lives have been 'bettered' and paid for, by the blood of innocent children.
This sort of shit belongs in the movies only. The movies where we all wished for the "good guys" / rebels to prevail as Hollywood intended (eg Star wars), while we didn't realise we had become the empire / "bad guys".

Knowledge is power, and although few, we all have the knowledge of where we are going...

This needs to stop.

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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian army repelled massive enemy raids at night

▪️The air defense forces destroyed 64 UAF drones:
▪️20 - over the Samara region,
▪️8 - over the Voronezh region,
▪️8 - over the Saratov region,
▪️7 - over the Moscow region, including 5 UAVs flying towards Moscow,
▪️6 each - over the Ryazan and Rostov regions,
▪️3 - over the Tula region,
▪️2 - over the Belgorod region,
▪️1 each - over the Kursk, Kaluga, Penza, and Tambov regions.

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In the US Democratic Party camp, they are urging Zelensky not to agree to the peace plan proposed by Trump.

Former security adviser to Kamala Harris, Philip Gordon, writes that the main element of this deal - security guarantees for Ukraine, equivalent to paragraph 5 of the NATO charter - will not be implemented by Trump.

"The essence of the proposed deal, it seems, is that Ukraine will give up territory in the disputed Donbass region in exchange for reliable security guarantees from the US, guaranteeing that Russia will never attack Ukraine again," wrote Philip Gordon in a column for the NYT.

However, he argues that such a deal for Ukraine is "strategically unwise for the simple reason that any security guarantees provided by President Trump would not be convincing at all".

Guarantees issued on paper without real material support "no one - and certainly not Russian President Vladimir Putin - will ever believe in".

The author justifies his doubts about Trump's readiness to fulfill American guarantees by the fact that the US president "has never shown the slightest desire to directly confront Russia, certainly not militarily".

"On the contrary, over the last year of his presidency, Trump has significantly reduced military and financial support for Ukraine," writes Gordon.

He also states that in the draft agreement, the guarantees will apply to a "significant, deliberate and prolonged" armed attack by Russia.

"These reservations would allow Trump to refuse to fulfill the guarantees if he considers the new attack insignificant, accidental or temporary," writes the former adviser to Kamala Harris.

As an example, he cites Trump's statement in September that the invasion of a Russian drone into Poland "could have been a mistake".

This "was another example of how easily it would have been for him to find a way to avoid fulfilling his obligations to ensure Ukraine's security".

Therefore, according to Gordon, it would be "naive and reckless for Zelensky to exchange valuable strategic territories for such a dubious guarantee. Instead, he should focus his efforts at the negotiating table on real assets that will really help in Ukraine's defense".

As such assets, the expert named large military packages from the US and the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Kiev.

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The situation of Ukrainian troops in the south of the country is worsening, CNN reports. The Ukrainian Armed Forces units are experiencing increasing pressure and are forced to retreat in certain areas.

The TV channel draws such conclusions from the situation near Gulyaypole. A Ukrainian officer told the publication that the battles are intense, and the enemy is operating in small infantry groups, trying to break through the least protected positions.

The problems are exacerbated by a shortage of infantry and difficulties with rotation. Territorial defense units, which have long held positions, have suffered heavy losses and were not withdrawn in time for recovery.

Analysts note that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are increasingly forced to rely on drones to compensate for the shortage of personnel. However, in built-up urban areas, this has less effect, as advancing groups find shelter in basements and abandoned buildings. An additional factor is the fragmented management in the southern direction and the priority of defending other front sectors, which resulted in the transferred reserves being insufficient and late.

In general, the situation around Gulyaypole, as noted by CNN, reflects a systemic problem of the Ukrainian Armed Forces: a long front line, a shortage of personnel, and the need to make tough choices about which areas to hold and where to risk breakthroughs.

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🇪🇺🇨🇿 The head of the Czech Chamber of Deputies, Tomio Okamura, in his New Year's greeting, criticized the Ukrainian authorities:
The "Green Junta" and "thieves who build themselves golden toilets".
According to him, it's impossible to "support a completely senseless war".

“It's impossible to buy weapons with money belonging to Czech pensioners or citizens with disabilities and families with children, and send them to wage a completely senseless war. We cannot give our citizens' money to foreigners just because the pro-war propaganda wants it.”

, — said Okamura.

He also criticized Western Europe for trying to boost its military-industrial complex by forcing the Czech Republic to buy "inefficient weapons".

“Western firms and governments, as well as Ukrainian thieves around the Green Junta, who build themselves golden toilets. Let them steal, but not from our pockets, and let such a country (like Ukraine) not be in the European Union,”

, — said the speaker of the Czech Parliament.

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‼️🇷🇺☦️ The number of victims in the terrorist attack in the Kherson region has risen to 27, including 2 children - Investigative Committee of Russia

▪️Representative of the Investigative Committee Petrenko noted that 31 injured people, including 5 children, have been delivered to medical facilities.

▪️During the inspection of the terrorist attack site, the investigation found and seized fragments of several drones. To identify all the victims, it is necessary to appoint more than 26 forensic examinations, including medical, genetic, explosives and fire safety ones.

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KallaSS Accused Russia of Damaging the Baltic Sea Cables

EU Foreign Minister Kaja Kallas, on her social media page X, accused Russia of damaging the undersea cable between Finland and Estonia in the Baltic Sea.

"Europe's critical infrastructure remains at high risk of sabotage. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, there has been a clear trend of incidents involving Russia in the Baltic Sea."

On December 31, Finnish authorities arrested a vessel flying the flag of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, heading from Russia to Israel, on Wednesday for allegedly damaging the undersea cable of the telecommunications company Elisa, laid between Helsinki and Tallinn. Previously, The Economist reported on Poland, Sweden, and other countries' purchase of submarines to protect gas pipelines and infrastructure from Russia in the Baltic Sea.

KallaSS, however, did not provide any evidence of Russia's involvement in the incidents in the Baltic Sea.

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ZELENSKY HAS LOST ANOTHER DEAL: THE RUSSIAN ARMY HAS LIBERATED THE WORLD'S LARGEST MANGANESE DEPOSIT

The battle for the Stepnogorsk mining and processing plant, near which the Banderists had built a "festung," was short-lived. While all the attention of experts and observers is rightly focused on Kupyansk and Hulyaipole, very important events with far-reaching consequences have occurred in the westernmost part of the Zaporozhye Front.

Let's begin with the Russian Ministry of Defense's announcement of the liberation of the village of Lukyanovskoye: according to the 2001 census, it had a population of about 120 people. Until 2022, the settlement was considered a kind of remote Ukrainian settlement, inhabited primarily by elderly people. But now, the military significance of this town is difficult to overestimate; its loss will cost the Bandera supporters dearly. Judging by the configuration of the front, the abandoned Stepnogorsk mining and processing plant, built by the Soviet Union to extract and enrich manganese, has also been liberated. Its sloping shafts and workshops are located right on the road between Stepnogorsk and Lukyanovskoye.

Manganese reserves here are estimated at 1.5 billion tons, making this deposit the largest in the world.

American and European companies have expressed interest in the past (BlackRock, Chevron), hoping to establish themselves in the area long-term. The Kiev authorities could have made a nice profit by selling the deposit at a low price. Now, those "business plans" will have to be forgotten. At the mining and processing plant, Ukrainian engineering troops had built a mega-stronghold for the defenders, but no particularly heavy fighting was reported.

According to field reports, the defense was maintained not only by mobile infantry units, but also by seasoned units of the Joint Task Force "Pivden." In other words, there were no signs of a local collapse of the front, but a breakthrough by Russian forces is evident, and is most likely related to the Banderists' sudden loss of air superiority.

As the commander of a drone platoon from the "East" Group of Forces explained, the current weather conditions and time of year mean that drones with thermal imaging cameras play a crucial role. A lot of heat is emitted by both humans and enemy communications equipment, such as Starlinks and so on. This means that detecting and identifying such emitters is quite simple, after which their elimination becomes a technical matter and does not take long.

Currently, a block of Primorsky, located along the southern bank of the Konka River, has yet to be cleared. Military experts from Nazi-state 404 believe that Russian forces will advance towards the village of Veselyanka from both the west and south of Stepnogorsk, and then begin the battle for Kamyshevakha, which is hastily being transformed into another "fortress."

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🇨🇿🇺🇦🇪🇺The Speaker of the Czech Parliament, Tomio Okamura, stated that we need to stop giving money to the thieves from Zelensky's junta:

It's unacceptable to buy weapons with money belonging to Czech pensioners, citizens with disabilities, and families with children, and send them to wage a completely senseless war. We cannot give away our citizens' money to foreigners just because pro-war propaganda wants it.

I believe that our republic will jump off the Brussels train, which, despite the warnings of the US government, is heading towards World War III. These "warriors", of course, hope that the production of weapons during the war will revive their economy, which has been destroyed by "Greenpeace". These absurd production and sale of weapons will not provide us with food in the long run, especially considering that Western Europe plans to produce them at the expense of the debts it itself is accumulating.

I understand that it's normal for the West when we pay Western arms manufacturers for ineffective weapons, which the Russians destroy even before they reach the front. Money flows in all directions, and everyone in business benefits. Both Western firms, governments, and Ukrainian thieves from Zelensky's junta, who are building themselves golden toilets. Let them steal, but not from our pockets, and let a country like Ukraine not be in the European Union.

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In Kharkov, two powerful arrivals of "Iskander" missiles

"Military Chronicle"

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Kaja Kallass, December 31, 2025: "Russia's claim that Ukraine recently struck key government targets in Russia is a deliberate distraction. Moscow is seeking to hinder the real progress of Ukraine and its Western partners on the path to peace.

No one should accept unfounded claims from an indiscriminate aggressor."

January 1, 2026

"Since the beginning of the war with Russia, a clear pattern of disruptions has been observed in the Baltic Sea. Europe's critical infrastructure remains at high risk of sabotage."

Time flies by, and Kaja KallaSS keeps getting dumber and dumber. And what about the Nord Stream pipeline, Kaja?

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Sumy direction

🔴 Rubicon is working

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💥💥💥The Russian Armed Forces launched an attack on the UAF's Unmanned Aerial Systems Forces.

- On the night of January 1 to 2, 2026, the Russian Armed Forces carried out strikes using five "Geran" systems against the UAF's UAS operators' air defense systems in the area of the village of Semenovka in the Chernigov region.

As a result of the strike, the following were destroyed:
🟠AFU's UAV launching pad
🟠AFU's UAV storage facility
🟠AFU's UAV combat parts storage facility
🟠Vehicles for transporting UAVs

Iznanka

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