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The new head of the National Bank promised the United States to stop "printing" the hryvnia next year
23:13, November 26, 2022 translated from Ukrainian website Strana.UA

The National Bank promised the US embassy to completely curtail the issue of the hryvnia from 2023 to cover the state budget deficit, which Ukraine launched since the start of the war.

This was reported on Facebook on Saturday, November 26 by the press service of the NBU following the official meeting of the head of the National Bank Andriy Pyshny and his deputy Sergey Nikolaychuk with the US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Ukraine Bridget Brink and Economic Adviser of the US Embassy in Ukraine Heather Gezert.

From February 24 to November 25, 2022, the printing press of the National Bank, according to official statistics, has already printed UAH 364.4 billion. For this amount, the regulator directly bought government bonds (domestic government bonds) of the Ministry of Finance, which was forbidden to the regulator before the war. This form of emission provoked the depreciation of the hryvnia and an increase in inflation, which reached 26.6% in October, and, by the end of the year, may exceed 30%.

Printing the hryvnia of the NBU is a necessary measure. On the one hand, the government needs to regularly cover the huge state budget deficit, and on the other hand, banks refuse to buy T-bills from the Ministry of Finance because of low rates.

Before Andrey Pyshny joined the National Bank, the rates on hryvnia government bonds were kept up to 16% per annum. And after its appearance a little over a month ago, they rose to 19.5%. The market is waiting for movement up to 20-21% per annum. This is not very good for the state budget, because the authorities will have to pay more on the public debt, but the NBU can reduce its purchases of government bonds (shifting part of them to banks), and hence the issue of the hryvnia.

This is exactly what Pyshny promised at a meeting with the Americans — first to reduce the issuance of the hryvnia until the end of 2022, and completely curtail it from the beginning of 2023.

"The 2023 budget does not provide for issuance financing. Today we are talking about a qualitative restart of the domestic debt market and the maximum use of its resources," Pyshny said.

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"Ami go home" - right-wing rally and strong counter-protest
Translated from WELT.de
Around 900 people, some from the right-wing spectrum, demonstrated in Leipzig for a troop withdrawal of American soldiers from Germany. The police said there had been riots during the “much larger” counter-demonstrations.

According to the police, several hundred people gathered in front of the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig on Saturday under the motto "Ami go home" — with strong counter-protest in the city. They called on the US to withdraw its troops and nuclear weapons to German soil. One of the speakers was the publisher of the right-wing “Compact Magazine”, Jürgen Elsässer. According to the police, the participants included right-wing groups.

During counter-demonstrations there were also sit-ins and riots, the police said. Pyrotechnics were set off during a counter-demo. For this reason, this elevator was stopped. A large banner of the counter-demonstrators read „Die Rechten zu Boden.“ ("The right hand to the ground." — not sure, what this means, could German comrades clarify, please) The counter-protest was "significantly larger" overall than the "Ami go home" demonstration, the police said.

The number of participants in the counter-protests is in the low four-digit range. The police estimated the number of demonstrators in front of the Federal Administrative Court at around 900. 15,000 participants had been registered. In the late afternoon, the participants moved together along the inner city ring road to the west of the city.

The police are in full force in the city. "We are prepared for everything - also for the course of the evening," said a spokeswoman.

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It looks like things are complicated in Germany... "Right" are against American presence and deployment of weapons, while "Left" — then what — pro-American? Somewhat confusing. Could somebody clarify it in comments, please.
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NATO is bombing Serbia's power grid. 22 years ago
Queues to ATMs are observed in Kyiv - the people of Kiev massively withdraw money from their accounts.

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Translated from Rybar:

On the situation with US Treasury bonds

Foreign holders of US securities are gradually selling them off. The volume of US government bonds in foreign accounts decreased over 9 months of 2022 by more than $365 billion. As of January 2022, their amount was $7.6 trillion.

According to data by the US Treasury, the central banks of Japan, China and South Korea are leading in reducing the US government debt on their balance sheets.

In 2022, the yen depreciated by 25% against the dollar, the yuan by 10%, and the South Korean won by 17%.

To maintain exchange rates, the central banks of these countries are forced to carry out foreign exchange interventions: they sell US government bonds and spend part of the dollars received on the purchase of local currency on the domestic market.

▪️The Central Bank of Japan reduced the volume of US Treasury bonds by $183 billion. $19.7 billion was spent on foreign exchange interventions in September alone. For the Bank of Japan, which has not interfered in the forex market since 1998, these are extraordinary measures.

▪️The volume of US public debt on the balance sheet of the Central Bank of China decreased by $127 billion.

▪️The reduction of US Treasury bonds on the balance sheet of the Central Bank of South Korea is $19.1 billion. More than $8.311 billion has already been spent to support the won.

🔺In 2022, the Fed consistently raises the discount rate, which increases the yield of Treasury bonds. Liquidity is shrinking and becoming more expensive. This provokes a drawdown in financial markets and leads to a flow of investments from risky assets (stocks) to more conservative bonds. Thus, the US Treasury gets the opportunity to place new volumes of government bonds on the market and compensate for the budget deficit.

For Japan, China and Korea, now is a good time to reduce the amount of US government debt on the balance sheet without fear of provoking a panic in the market.
So far, this is not a large-scale sale, but simply risk diversification and support for local currencies. But with further strengthening of the dollar and pressure on local currencies, sales of US Treasury bonds may become more widespread.

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Translated from Prigozhin:

“The media often give out wishful thinking. The information space is overflowing either with “entrances to settlements”, or with “cleansings”. All these informational noise has an extremely negative impact on the conduct of hostilities and confuses the Russian audience, it seems that the advance has been going on for months.
Now, as for Bakhmut. On August 5, a Wagner PMC unit entered Patrice Lumumba Street, and it was reported that they had entered Bakhmut. The way it is. The foot of the Wagnerite crossed the city limits. Bakhmut is a large, well-fortified area with roads, suburbs, and water barriers. The Ukrainian army is well prepared and offers worthy resistance. Our task is not Bakhmut himself, but the destruction of the Ukrainian army and the reduction of its combat potential, which has an extremely positive effect on other areas, which is why this operation was dubbed the “Bakhmut meat grinder”. In this regard, do not run ahead of the locomotive, it will happen — let's say, happiness loves silence. To all military reporters — no offense.

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The EU has no legal basis for recognizing a state as a sponsor of terrorism - even the US has refused to label Russia. The idea that someone from a blood-drenched NATO state would name someone else as a sponsor of terrorism before naming their own state is absurd. Mick Wallace

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🇪🇺 The European Parliament recognized Russia as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism”

The move is largely symbolic, as the EU reportedly lacks a legal basis for such recognition.

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"No chemical weapons"
This poster from 1984, by Koretsky

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⚡️ Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine
(27 November 2022)

Russian Federation Armed Forces continue the special military operation.

💥As a result of a Russian Aerospace Forces' high-precision weapons hitting on the temporary deployment locations of the so-called Foreign Legion fighters, up to 100 foreign mercenaries and six armoured vehicles were destroyed near Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).

In Kupyansk direction, artillery fire against the AFU's assembly areas thwarted the enemy attack at Novoselovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic). Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen and two pickup trucks were annihilated.

In Krasny Liman direction, preventive fire damage in Stelmakhovka and Ploshchanka (Lugansk People's Republic) foiled attempts of the AFU to launch an offensive with two company tactical units in the direction of Kolomyychikha and Ploshchanka (Lugansk People's Republic).

💥The enemy also made futile attempts to equip strong positions and gain a foothold close to Ploshchanka and Chervonopopovka.
As a result of artillery fire, AFU units were halted and pushed back to their initial positions. The enemy's losses in this direction amounted to over 50 Ukrainian personnel killed and wounded. Three armoured fighting vehicles and four special vehicles were eliminated.

In Donetsk direction, the AFU's counterattacks were repulsed near Soledar, Opytnoye, Kurdyumovka, and Mayorsk as a result of the Russian forces' fire defeat and decisive operations. Up to 70 Ukrainian personnel were neutralised, as well as two tanks, three armoured fighting vehicles, and five pickup trucks.

In South Donetsk direction, the enemy attempted to retake the lost position in Novomikhailovka, Pavlovka, and Shevchenko (Donetsk People's Republic). Artillery strikes and assault units repulsed all of the attacks, and the enemy was forced back to the initial positions. The Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered 60 casualties in this direction, as well as one infantry fighting vehicle, two armoured fighting vehicles, two MT-LB vehicles, and five motor vehicles.

💥Operational-Tactical and Army Aviation, Missile Troops and Artillery struck six enemy command posts in Sadovoye, Dudchany, and Zolotaya Balka (Kherson region), Yampol (Donetsk People's Republic), and Kislovka (Kharkov region), as well as 62 artillery units at firing positions, manpower, and military equipment in 137 areas.An ammo depot outside Dnipropetrovsk, which stored over 100 HIMARS multiple-launch rockets and over 7,000 foreign-made large-calibre artillery rounds, was destroyed. Four missile and artillery ammunition depots of the AFU Zaporozhye force grouping have been destroyed near Razumovka (Zaporozhye region).

💥Two HIMARS MLRS rockets were shot down by air defence near Bogdanovka (Kherson region). In addition, a Excalibur artillery giuded round was intercepted near Miropolye (Sumy region).

📊In total, 333 airplanes and 177 helicopters, 2,565 unmanned aerial vehicles, 390 air defence missile systems, 6,848 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 904 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,620 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,381 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

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The work of the Large Hadron Collider was stopped ahead of schedule
CERN shut down the Large Hadron Collider on November 28 to save energy

GENEVA, November 28 - RIA Novosti. The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) halted operation of the Large Hadron Collider on November 28, two weeks ahead of the originally scheduled date, in an effort to conserve energy due to the risk of a shortage.
Earlier, CERN said in a statement that the technical shutdown for the end of 2022 (YETS) will begin on November 28, that is, two weeks earlier than originally planned, and in 2023 the operation of the accelerator complex will be reduced by 20 percent.
CERN is the world's largest laboratory for high energy physics. The Large Hadron Collider was created by the European Organization for Nuclear Research with the participation of physicists from many countries, including Russia. It is located on the border of Switzerland and France.
With the help of the LHC, it was possible to make one of the most important discoveries of modern physics - to prove the existence of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle responsible for the existence of mass in other particles.

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Good morning from the Su-25 Russian Aerospace Forces.

💥 Attack aviation crews carried out missile and air strikes on military facilities and units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The missiles were launched in pairs from low altitudes. As a result of the combat use of aviation assets to combat camouflaged fortified field positions and armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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A representative of the US Defense Ministry: "The Pentagon is very concerned that Ukrainians are shooting at an exorbitant speed, especially in places like Bakhmut, based on the false assumption that ammunition stocks in the West are unlimited"😂👍
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Polish ambassador to NATO on the slowdown in military assistance to Ukraine:

1)"This is a kind of natural process, on the one hand we are dealing with the fatigue of public opinion" ...

2)"The second is the devastation of military equipment depots."

3)Warehouses of military equipment of NATO countries are empty because of assistance to Ukraine - Polish Ambassador to NATO Tomasz Szatkowski on RMF FM radio station

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Only three years ago, the same parliament voted on a resolution that shamefully distorted the origins of the Second World War by trying to equate the Soviet Union with Nazi Germany. Read the article

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Foreign Ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Iceland, Norway, Finland and Sweden arrived in Ukraine.

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"Points of invincibility" can crush the mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko.

In Ukraine, a conflict is breaking out between the administration of Kiev and the office of the president. The advertised "points of invincibility" turned out to be, for the most part, just cold tents.

Interestingly, these items have become a tool for undermining Klitschko's authority as mayor of the city.

"Somewhere there are three generators, but they are not connected, somewhere there is not a single generator, somewhere there is no Internet, somewhere there is no water." The head of the faction of the ruling "Servant of the People" party, David Arahamia, checked these points and accused Klitschko of inaction.

In response, Klitschko immediately tried to score political points for himself and accused the authorities of manipulations on this topic.

Elections are just around the corner and political opponents are already using the topic of hostilities to their full advantage.

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"Bloody whirlpool": named the reason for the heavy losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut.

The reluctance to leave the city is costing the Kyiv regime too much.

The number of casualties suffered by Ukrainian nationalists near Bakhmutov (Artyomovsk) in recent days is approaching 500. The New York Times published a headline that Bakhmut is becoming a "bloody whirlpool." At the same time, it is reported that only on November 25-26, 290 wounded were delivered to the Ukrainian rear, and their flow "seems to be endless."
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#Ukrainians conducting a suicidal attack on #WagnerPMC trenches

Attacked by
#Su25’s, infantry, heavy mortars, a tank, #MLRS and finally by a #Su34 sortie.

Heavy losses by the Ukrainians for absolute zero gain
General Sergei Surovikin radically changed Russia's operational plans in the war in Ukraine.
“Indirect action” aims to deprive enemy forces of the resources they need to continue the war by destabilizing them.

As a result, the Russian army temporarily abandoned large-scale offensive operations against the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Since November 10, Sergei Surovikin has worked to destroy the critical infrastructure of the kyiv regime with massive strikes against various energy installations. The actions of the Russian general also affect the physical and moral state of the enemy, and the effect will intensify as the weather cools. So don't expect Russian missile strikes to stop. Ukraine's critical infrastructure has been so weakened that every time the Russians carry out another airstrike, the Ukrainian national system crumbles. The most important thing now is that the switch in Ukraine is in General Surovikin's hand.
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