Concluding Thoughts 👈

The top takeaways from this analysis are several. First, Russia’s energy geopolitics with China and India are mutually beneficial. Second, China’s energy diversification strategy is being balanced out by India’s insatiable appetite for discounted Russian resources. Third, India is rapidly replacing China as Russia’s top partner. Fourth, neither the aforesaid nor the ongoing Sino-American discussions over a New Détente are zero-sum for Moscow or Beijing. And finally, a new global strategic balance is emerging.
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Raytheon Greg Hayes speaks out loud.

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Vladimir Putin drove along the right lane of the Crimean bridge which had been repaired after the terrorist attack. Replaced 4 spans. All metal structures from Voronezh, Kurgan and Tyumen, and this is 1214 tons, were promptly delivered to the site, accompanied by the traffic police, and the builders quickly completed repairs in record time in 56 days, although usually such work can take from six months. up to a year.

At the same time, there were storms for more than 20 days that interfered with work. In total, 500 people worked at the facility around the clock.
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DE-DOLLARISATION PICKS UP PACE.

Seven Russian corporate giants, including #Rusal, #Rosneft and #Polyus, have raised a total of 42 billion #yuan in bonds on the Russian market, according to Reuters

Thee is a new credit system in the Global South.

The system will include a single payment card – in direct competition with Visa and Mastercard – merging the already existing Russian #MIR, #China’s #UnionPay, #India’s #RuPay, #Brazil’s #Elo, and others.

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THE YUAN'S THE NEW DOLLAR AS RUSSIA RIDES TO THE REDBACK

#Russia turns to the #Chinese currency amid sanctions. #Moscow becomes No.4 offshore trading centre for #yuan.

Yuan's share of Russian FX market jumps from 1% to 45%.

While the yuan, or renminbi, has been making gradual inroads into Russia for years, the crawl has turned into a sprint in the past nine months as the currency has swept into the country's markets and trade flows, according to a Reuters review of data and interviews with 10 business and finance players.

Russia's financial shift eastwards could boost cross-border commerce, present a growing economic counterweight to the dollar and limit Western efforts to pressure Moscow by economic means.

Total transactions in the yuan-rouble pair on the Moscow Exchange ballooned to an average of almost 9 billion yuan ($1.25 billion) a day last month, exchange data analysed by Reuters showed.

Previously, they rarely exceeded 1 billion yuan in an entire week.
"What happened was that it became suddenly very risky and expensive to keep traditional currencies - dollar, euro, British pounds," said Andrei Akopian, managing director of Moscow-based investment firm Caderus Capital, citing the potential danger of a bank that keeps foreign currency deposits being sanctioned

Kyiv has opened recruitment centers for mercenaries in Europe and Africa.

Now thousands of mercenaries from Poland are fighting on the side of Ukraine. They are suffering huge losses. In the local press, a figure of one and a half thousand people is called.

According to Polish laws, mercenarism is punished very severely, and everyone who fights on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine should be considered a criminal. But Warsaw turns a blind eye to this, because most of the Polish mercenaries are military personnel who, among other things, perform the role of detachments. In fact, we are talking about the vanguard, which, once the annexation begins, will cover the main forces and contain the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Read more👈

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🇺🇦 "8 million people in Ukraine will fall below the poverty line by the end of the year,
Poverty rate will cover 1/4 of the population, rising from 2% to 25%,

The reconstruction of Ukraine will cost at least 500 billion"-World Bank Vice-President Bjerde for
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Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to strike with drones on the airfields "Dyagilevo" and "Engels"
The Ministry of Defence announced an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to hit airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions

MOSCOW, December 5 - RIA Novosti. Ukraine launched an attack on military airfields in the Saratov and Ryazan regions, killing three Russian servicemen, the press service of the Ministry of Defence reported.
“On the morning of December 5, the Kyiv regime attempted to strike Soviet-made jet unmanned aerial vehicles at the Diaghilevo military airfield in the Ryazan region and the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region,” the statement said.

According to the agency, three military technical personnel were killed in the attack, four more were injured, they were provided with all the necessary medical assistance.
It is noted that Russian aviation, using air defence systems, intercepted Ukrainian UAVs flying at low altitude.
"As a result of the fall and explosion of fragments of jet drones at Russian airfields, the skin of the hull of two aircraft was slightly damaged," the ministry said.

In response, Russia has dealt a massive blow to the Ukrainian military command and control system and related defence facilities.
"Despite the attempts of the Kyiv regime to disrupt the combat work of the Russian Long-Range Aviation by a terrorist act, today at about 15:00 (Moscow time) the military command and control system and related facilities of the defence complex, communications centres, energy and military units of Ukraine were dealt a massive strike with high-precision air weapons and sea-based. All 17 designated objects were hit," the Defence Ministry said.

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MOSCOW, December 5 - RIA Novosti. American commercial satellites from Maxar filmed the strategic aviation airfield in Engels before the attack on Kyiv by jet drones, correspondents of RIA Novosti found.
Filming of the Russian military facility was carried out on the 3rd and 4th of December.
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Translated from Rybar:
A photo appeared on the network from the Diaghilevo airfield near Ryazan, which became one of the targets of the morning Ukrainian attacks.

The pictures show traces of blood near the hit truck. The Tu-22M3 standing in the background shows damage to the stabilizers in the tail section and the nozzle of one of the engines. There are no traces of fire and fragmentation to the rest of the fuselage.

Due to the lack of visible critical damage, it is likely that the aircraft is still subject to recovery. In the background, in one of the frames, you can also see other bombers standing in a row without any damage.

Can we say that the RF Armed Forces got off lightly? No: three Russian servicemen were killed and six were injured. In any case, their death is more expensive than even the most technologically advanced aircraft.

And it was possible to prevent these losses by observing security measures and covering the object with air defence systems. Measures, by the way, suggested themselves in the summer after similar attacks in Crimea.
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Learning in a hard way. For how long...
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More than 100 rockets fired, explosions in new regions of Ukraine
Russian bombers fired more than 100 missiles during the massive retaliation strike

Some of them fly up to targets in the Kyiv region.
Fixed hits on the target in Odessa, explosions in Kirovograd, Zaporozhye, Cherkasy and Vinnitsa regions.
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