❗️More key takeaways from Russian President Vladimir Putin's statements at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club:

▪️The West’s geopolitical greed is the true source of recent conflicts, from Yugoslavia to Ukraine

▪️There is a conflict between the vast majority of the world’s population and a global minority concerned with maintaining its dominance

▪️The BRICS model represents a new, free, non-bloc nature of relations between countries

▪️No one should feel disadvantaged in the new emerging world, and no country should be considered a loser

▪️No country should impose its patterns on all others

▪️The crisis of international law is a crisis of growth, a rise of nations and cultures

▪️The world moves towards a “polyphonic” order “where all voices must be heard”

▪️NATO is the world’s only remaining bloc, which is “outright anachronism”

▪️Some NATO member states show interest in BRICS, and their number may grow

▪️European leaders complained about the US scaring them with Russia even before the current conflicts

▪️The West escalated the situation to a coup in Ukraine, forcing Russia to begin the special military operation, thus achieving its goal in this sense

▪️The gap between the “golden billion” and other people aggravates migration problems

▪️Russia never initiates the use of force, but is ready to take all measures to defend itself

▪️Russia has repeatedly stopped those seeking world domination and will continue to do so

▪️Ukrainians have been turned into cannon fodder and cynically trained against Russians

▪️The stereotype of the “civilized West” and the “barbarism” of other nations is a racist ideology

▪️Russia’s existence is a guarantee of the world’s successful development

▪️It is useless to pressure Russia; it is necessary to come to terms with it

▪️Putin blamed the West for its creeping intervention aimed at humiliating and destroying Russia

▪️Russia fights not only for its own freedom, but also protects universal rights and freedoms, seeing this as its mission

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Donald Trump’s win marks the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war
The Spectator

Donald Trump’s election victory heralds the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war – and is likely to leave Vladimir Putin in control of most, if not all, of the territory he has seized in nearly three years of bloody conflict. To many Ukrainians, such an outcome will be a betrayal of their struggle, a stab in the back by the West that will sow decades of anger and resentment. To others, though, a swift end to the conflict before more land is lost and tens of thousands more young Ukrainians die represents the best hope of actually salvaging a decent future for their country before their infrastructure, economy, and an entire generation are annihilated completely.

There is one indisputable danger for Ukraine in Trump’s victory

‘At this stage we are talking about survival, not victory,’ says a former senior member of Volodymyr Zelensky’s cabinet who is now forming an opposition party in Kyiv. ‘What is important today is not fighting forever for lost territory. It’s making sure that Russia is no longer a military threat to us. That can only be done diplomatically, not militarily.’

Will Trump be a backstabber or a peacemaker? In public, Kamala Harris has come out as the stronger supporter of Kyiv, slamming suggestions that Ukraine should cede territory for the sake of peace with Moscow as ‘dangerous and unacceptable’. ‘They are not proposals for peace,’ Harris said in September, ‘they are proposals for surrender.’ Yet in practice, the Biden administration has effectively ignored Zelensky’s October peace plan, dialled down aid from $60 billion (£47 billion) to $7.9 billion (£5.5 billion), and much of that non-lethal, and crucially refused to allow the Ukrainians to use long-range Western-supplied missiles to hit targets inside Russia. In other words, Harris’s plan was to continue funding Ukraine’s war effort indefinitely, but inadequately.

Trump, on the other hand, has promised to broker a swift end to the conflict. ‘They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians,’ Trump told a CNN Town Hall meeting in May 2023. ‘I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done – I’ll have that done in 24 hours.’ But rather than preside over a Ukrainian capitulation, Trump claims that he will be tough on both sides. ‘I would tell Zelensky: “No more. You got to make a deal,”’ Trump told Fox News in July. ‘I would tell Putin: “If you don’t make a deal, we’re going to give [Zelensky] a lot. We’re going to [give Ukraine] more than they ever got if we have to.”’

In other words, Trump’s plan is to push Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate by threatening to open the aid spigots for Ukraine – while also pressing Zelensky to the table by threatening to withhold aid. And many of the people tipped for Trump’s cabinet are strong Russia hawks, not appeasers. Both former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a possible defence secretary, and former national-security adviser Robert O’Brien, tipped for secretary of state, have criticised the Biden administration for restricting the use of US weapons and called for more sanctions on Russia. Indeed, Pompeo has backed creating a $500 billion (£390 billion) lend-lease programme to help Ukraine defend itself and also supports giving the country Nato membership – though O’Brien said last month that would be ‘too provocative at this point.’

Zelensky told the New Yorker that Trump ‘doesn’t really know how to stop the war’
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Despairing Dems point to rejoicing in Moscow over Trump’s victory as evidence that a great betrayal is coming. ‘Kamala is finished… Let her keep cackling infectiously,’ gloated former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who has frequently threatened nuclear strikes on the West. ‘The objectives of the Special Military Operation remain unchanged and will be achieved.’ Conservative Russian friends of mine have bombarded me and their social media accounts with memes of a young Trump holding a white dove of peace, accompanied by hopeful messages of the imminent end of sanctions and the resumption of flights from Russia to Europe.

But despite years of Democratic accusations that Trump is a Putin shill or even agent, his first-term track record on dealing with Russia is actually pretty hawkish – despite the unfortunate optics of a 2018 summit in Helsinki where Trump appeared unduly sympathetic to the Russian leader. It was Trump who gave the green light for the United States to provide lethal aid to Ukraine in 2017, something Barack Obama had refused to do because of concerns about provoking Moscow. This April, Trump also came out as a supporter of the idea of a half-trillion-dollar lend-lease package for Ukraine as an alternative to aid grants. Trump also recently called Putin’s conditions for peace talks ‘not acceptable’.

After a September meeting with Zelensky at Trump Tower, Trump claimed that ‘we both want to see this end, and we both want to see a fair deal made…It should stop, and the President [Zelensky] wants it to stop, and I’m sure President Putin wants it to stop and that’s a good combination,’ Trump said. In contrast, Zelensky told the New Yorker magazine that Trump ‘doesn’t really know how to stop the war’ and called Vice-President-elect JD Vance ‘too radical’ and ‘dangerous.’

In 2016, the Kremlin and its media were openly triumphant about Trump’s first victory. At the time, I attended an official US election party in Moscow, co-hosted by the Rossiya-1 TV channel, which featured large heroic oil paintings of Putin, Trump, and Marine Le Pen. ‘The world is going our way,’ was the refrain of many of the conservative American revellers interviewed that night, and of the Kremlin’s TV coverage. This time round, however, the Kremlin has been far more cautious. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Putin will not congratulate Trump because the US is an ‘unfriendly’ country – but said that Russia is ‘open to dialogue’ even though peace cannot be achieved ‘overnight.’

There is one indisputable danger for Ukraine in Trump’s victory, however. Between now and the moment Trump takes office, the clock will be ticking for Putin’s forces to try to seize as much Ukrainian territory as possible before a ceasefire is brokered. It’s a critical moment for the Ukrainian war effort. According to Western militaries, up to 8,000 North Korean special forces have deployed in Kursk (inside Russia proper, not so far inside occupied Ukraine) to repel a pocket of Ukrainian counter-invaders. Up to 80 per cent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been destroyed or damaged. If back-channel negotiations currently under way in Qatar between Russia and Ukraine on suspending mutual attacks on energy infrastructure fail, Russian attacks threaten to make major towns and cities effectively uninhabitable during the winter. A grinding Russian push through the northern Donbas is gaining momentum and could eventually threaten Ukraine’s second city, the largely Russian-speaking Kharkiv, with encirclement.
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Ultimately, with the practical prospect of Ukraine being able to recapture its lost territories standing at less than zero, it is hard to see any difference between the final deal Harris would make and that which Trump will likely broker. What’s on the table is de facto rather than de jure partition of Ukraine along the line of control – wherever that may be at the moment of armistice – plus security guarantees for Ukraine short of full Nato membership. The only difference is that Trump’s threats to go full tonto on Putin’s backside if he fails to wind up his invasion are more credible than Harris’s empty promises ever were.

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The Russian Armed Forces continue their steady advance in the Kurakhove direction. In Novoselidovka, soldiers of the 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Russian Army have planted a flag in the centre of the village and are advancing further up to 1,000 metres. Military sources report that the village has been liberated. This strengthens the Russian Army's position north of Kurakhovo and creates conditions for further military action.

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⚡⚡Strike on the Banknote and Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine.

Tonight, November 12, 2024, at about 3:00, Russian attack drones struck the territory of the Banknote and Mint of the National Bank of Ukraine in Kyiv, one of the key objects of the country's financial infrastructure.

Coordinates: 50.5104529, 30.6324872

Reports from the ground suggest that the attack resulted in serious damage to two production workshops used for printing banknotes and minting coins. At the moment, it is confirmed that the strike disabled the equipment for printing banknotes, which poses a threat to the stability of money circulation amid the current economic difficulties in Ukraine.

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NEBENZYA AND UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS FOR THE USA.

Vassily Nebenzya asked the representatives of the US and Japan - who carried out the nuclear strike on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

There was silence in response....

The silence is more eloquent than any words.
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A series of strikes on the port of Odessa

Waves of "Geraniums" on the port of Odessa are coming one after another.

An eyewitness counted four explosions in the port in less than a minute. The total number of explosions exceeds several dozen.

Swedish-built landing and assault boats of the CombatBoat 90H (CB90H, Stridsbåt 90H) type are reported destroyed. 12 November 2024 during a visit to Odessa by the commander of the Danish Navy, Rear Admiral Henrik Rüberg. Today, part of it . Part of it is damaged.

Eyewitnesses report that one of the German 35mm Gepard anti-aircraft guns covering the port was firing non-stop until it was interrupted by one of the explosions. Preliminarily, the anti-aircraft gun may have been destroyed by a direct hit.

Earlier, several dry cargo ships carrying weapons were hit in the port of Odessa.

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The Russian military liberated the village of Grigorovka in the Donetsk people's republic.

In addition, the liberation of Yurievka in the Krasnoarmeyskiy direction, Makarovka and Leninskiy in the Donetsk people's republic, and Dorozhnyanka in the Zaporizhzhya region is reported.

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🔥 American MLRS M142 HIMARS destroyed in Zaporizhia region by Lancet strike.

#Russia #Ukraine #SMO #HIMARS
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🇺🇸 The Times mocked zelensky for announcing a new "resilience plan."

The image shows a huge bear destroying industrial and energy facilities with a sledgehammer.

In the lower right corner, a small pink rabbit with zelensky's face is walking. He is beating a drum with the words "resilience plan" written on it.

Another video of Russian strikes on Dnepropetrovsk...

Again from Ukrainian channels. More clear. Although, the essence of it does not change. A very sensitive blow was dealt to the Yuzhmash plant (as they write from the city).

Judging by the lack of clear comments from Kiev, everyone there is in shock and does not know how to react correctly. It would be stupid to continue to say "we shot everything down".

It does not matter at all whether RS-26 missiles were used or not. But the videos show that the objects were not hit by a "monoblock" (single warhead) .

Yuri Podolyaka

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Orbital bombardment with the aim of bringing the lost branch of humanity to Agreement.

PS. Anything that lies below the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons can and will be used in Ukraine.

Boris Rozhin

Translated from Svodki
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Paratroopers of the 51st Regiment of the 106th Division planted the Russian flag and the Airborne Forces banner on an agricultural enterprise in the village of Daryino, which may indicate the liberation of the village.
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🇷🇺 Images of the Russian flag hoisting in Kopanki settlement

SMERSH Blizko
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Reports from the front

For this month
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