British mercenary Joseph Macdonald - about the extent of the theft of Western weapons in Ukrainian units.
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British mercenary Joseph Macdonald spoke to journalist Nicholas Loyd about the experience of the "international legion" in Ukraine.

"There was an awful lot of looting, a lot of looting. It turns out that many people who voluntarily went to help the Ukrainians were also kleptomaniacs. Or just complete scoundrels who went there to rob. Do you understand? It was a problem of the (international) legion that lasted several months. People who just came to the robbery."

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Nebenzya at the UN Security Council said that he would not listen to the "bilious eloquence" of the permanent representative of Ukraine, and left the hall.
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“Vladimir Zelensky’s goal is not to defend Ukraine, but to sacrifice his people to the detriment of Russia.”

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, a member of the French National Assembly and a former presidential candidate, shared his opinion with the Financial Times.
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Translated from RVvoenkor:

Russian soldiers return home

Today there was an exchange according to the formula 60 to 60 with the Ukrainian side. Russian servicemen will be sent for medical examination and rehabilitation, and after that they will all go home to their families.

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Translated from RVvoenkor:

Terrible footage of the massacre in Donetsk: Ukrainian terrorists continue to kill residents of the DPR capital...

Consequences of the Ukrainian strike on the building of the youth centre of the DPR, it is partially destroyed. At least 3 people died. Among them is Maria Pirogova, deputy of the People's Council of the DPR. The terrifying situation inside the building - Vadim Lobuzov, the ex-guitarist of the Performance Joe group and the frontman of the Rezonans group, was killed there.
In total, according to the latest data, 8 people became victims of today's shelling of Donetsk, at least 11 were injured.

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Ukraine's population has already halved. How many of them can survive the winter?
The West and the leadership of the Independent are literally ready to sacrifice the Ukrainian nation for their own purposes. Winter has already come, the front near Donetsk is crunching under the onslaught of Russia. Will Zelensky be able to continue to deceive the freezing people under such conditions?
Valentin ALFIMOV for WWW.KP.RU:
Russia is attacking Ukraine's energy infrastructure, methodically knocking out substation after substation. Reports say that cities and even entire regions remain immersed in darkness. Transport, public utilities do not work... At the fronts, Russia also began to pressurize the Ukrainian army, recapturing village after village. Even the West is in a panic — is it necessary to continue to contain such a black square hole. And winter is ahead.

Will Ukraine be able to survive it? With this question, we turned to the ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the former speaker of the parliament of Novorossia Oleg Tsarev.

WE SHUT OFF, THEY REPAIR
— Why has Russia already delivered several massive strikes specifically on the energy facilities of Ukraine?

— Because these are the objects that are the easiest to disable. Where the effectiveness of missile attacks is maximum. These are transformer substations. Such transformers are not produced in Ukraine. I myself once built a factory. I know how much networks cost — design, manufacture, order, installation. Very long and expensive. That's why the strikes go to substations.

— We beat, the light goes out, and after a day or a week everything is in order: the television is working, the heat is supplied. All is repaired.

— Thanks to Ukrainian propaganda for the good picture. We (and Ukrainians too) see only a small part of what is happening in the Ukrainian energy sector. Light in houses is not the main thing. Most of the energy goes to industrial facilities. And they suffer. And it's getting harder and harder to repair. We know this in civilian life: a transformer broke down, spare lines were turned on, electricians arrived, inserted new parts — and that's it. But today these stocks are less and less. And they themselves say that a few more blows — and the system will fall. There will be no unified energy system, only islands throughout Ukraine will remain, which will supply electricity sporadically.

— No light — everything will stop?

— I remember it well from Lugansk, Donetsk, Crimea. Our civilization is based on electricity. It will not be - we are falling into the stone age. Mobile communications, metro, sewerage, heating do not work (pumps must pump water), there is no water, business stops, there is nowhere to work, get paid.

— Will the trains stop? And the supply of weapons from the West?

— Since the blessed Soviet times, we have left a huge number of diesel locomotives that were in reserve at the junction stations. They were kept especially in case of war. So, alas, they will provide the minimum cargo flow.

"HOW LONG DO YOU WAIT?!"
— What do people think? What are their moods?

— Of course, life without light and without work does not inspire optimism. Yes, propaganda assures that, on the contrary, this will strengthen the resolve of Ukrainians and mobilize them. This is not true. My Ukrainian friends perceive all this as a catastrophe that is looming, and it is not clear when there will be a way out and an outcome.

— Why then did many decide to stay in Ukraine?

— Firstly, people cannot leave. Secondly, there is still hope. Look at the authorities — they don't say there will be a catastrophe. They say that victory is coming soon. Many believe and wait.

— And there are those who are waiting for Russians to come?

— I have a lot of appeals: “Stop shelling us, it’s better to come quickly, occupy the territory. How long do you have to wait?

— Are there really many?

— I will not say that the majority, but they are. That's for sure.

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— And what do people in Ukraine think about now? About politics or how to keep warm?

— When the lights go out, people begin to be interested in the simplest everyday things: how to eat, where to charge the phone, when to get water. Turning off the heating in the cities is yet to come. It will be a total disaster. But now people pay less attention to front-line reports. They don't watch politics on TV. And the TV itself rarely works. I have no doubt that Zelenskiy's office is worried about this.

FRONT IN HIBERNATION
— What to expect in the winter on the fronts?

— I can only guess. But, apparently, the strategy is to strengthen the defences in Zaporozhye with the Luhansk region and move the front line away from Donetsk so that there are no shelling of the city. Ideally — to reach Slavyansk and unblock the water supply to Donetsk. The water canal is blocked by Ukraine exactly there.

— That is, you do not expect active movement?

“So far, there’s nothing to be seen to indicate that. It is clear that our Ministry of Defence does not lay out plans, but we are used to the fact that foreign intelligence services are closely monitoring the entire theatre of operations and leaking data on the movements of our troops to the press. But for now, they are silent.

THE WEST TAKES IT EASY
— The West has completely taken over Ukraine. Gives weapons, money. Will it have enough supplies and patience to feed Ukraine this winter?

— We have heard statements that "the West is getting tired of Ukraine." But there is an important factor. From the point of view of the West, the conflict with Russia in Ukraine is actually a confrontation between Russians and Russians. Ideally — for Russian money. They themselves spend a meagre amount on this compared to Afghanistan, the war in which, according to various estimates, cost from a trillion to three trillion dollars. The West has spent so far only 100 billion on Ukraine.

— And what does “for Russian money” mean?

— The West has arrested half of Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves. This is 300 billion dollars. And he is preparing to confiscate this money. Plus, the assets of Russian corporations and businessmen have been arrested for another 200 billion. Compare — the European Union has allocated only 18 billion to Ukraine so far. This is even less than the interest accrues on the capital arrested from us. For the West, such a conflict in Ukraine is beneficial.

— Do we have the ability to prevent the confiscation of our reserves?

— For example, in response, we have not yet arrested anything from the West on our territory. On the contrary, we paid $250 billion in loans alone this year. This is very big money. Perhaps this attitude can be reconsidered.

DRY RESIDUE
“They will feel what they themselves did with the Donbass”

— Yes, Ukraine will be able to survive the winter, — sums up Oleg Tsarev. — Albeit without many benefits of civilization. Whoever says no, should look at the territory of Donbass. There are now almost the same problems with electricity, water, heating. Ukraine hits the transformers and other infrastructure of the cities of the DPR and LPR in the same way. For Ukraine, this will be an unusual, terrible life. But many in Kyiv, Kharkov, Nikolaev will be able to feel for themselves what they themselves did for eight years with Donetsk and Luhansk.
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Consequences of Systematic Russian Strikes on Ukraine's Energy System - Rybar's Analysisby the end of December 6

Rybar's team continues to analyze the consequences of systemic fire damage to Ukrainian energy system facilities.

Yesterday's strikes occurred in Lviv, Vinnitsa, Odessa, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions. But the rest of the regions also got it: they were affected by the consequences in the form of overloads and emergency shutdowns.

▪️The most difficult situation continues to be in Kiev, Sumy and Odessa regions.

Up to half of consumers are deprived of power supply, and the rest are supplied at limited intervals. But due to the state of networks, outage schedules are rarely maintained: very often emergency shutdowns occur due to overloads of networks and equipment.

▪️Yesterday, we assumed that autotransformers were hit again, and it is unlikely that substations will be critically damaged.

Today we can state that this assumption turned out to be correct: by the morning, power supply was restored in some districts of Odessa and critically important infrastructure facilities. The remaining operational autotransformers continue to transmit electricity to the 110 kV grid.

▪️Despite the information vacuum around Kyiv, it seems that the main blow fell on him, and not on Odessa.

Despite the developed network of substations and the presence of several thermal power plants and the Kyiv hydroelectric power station, the situation with electricity supply in the city and the region cannot be stabilized. Apparently, the accumulative effect has worked and the consequences of previous strikes on the objects of the capital's energy infrastructure are affecting.

▪️In the Sumy region, there is practically no own generation (with the exception of the low-capacity Sumy CHPP): the region is very dependent on electricity supplies from the centre and west of the country.

Therefore, with powerful strikes on the Sumy 330 substation and the Sumy Severnaya 330 substation, almost the entire region remains without electricity. Something can be transferred over 110 kV networks, but their bandwidth cannot compensate for the loss of 330 kV transmission.

🔻Despite panic reports from Ukraine about almost eighty rockets fired, yesterday's strike was neither the most massive nor the most destructive. Due to the competent work of Ukrainian power engineers, the consequences were mitigated, but by no means completely levelled.

If a month ago, the energy system of Ukraine was comfortably holding on to planned outages of consumers, now everything is already so rosy. Outages across the country are emergency and unpredictable. The full-fledged work of industry and transport in such conditions is difficult, although still possible.

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Footage of the “Lancets” striking Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile system S-300 and two radars stations.

Moscow requested a meeting of the UN Security Council for December 9 due to the supply of weapons to Kyiv
Permanent representative of Russia Nebenzya: Moscow requested a meeting of the Security Council on the supply of weapons to Kyiv on December 9

UN, December 6 - RIA Novosti. Moscow has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on the issue of supplying Western weapons to the Kyiv regime for December 9, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the organization, said in a Telegram channel.
"In our speech at the meeting of the Security Council, we requested another meeting of the Security Council on Ukraine on December 9. The topic is the supply of Western weapons. There is something to talk about here," he said.

As Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya noted at a meeting of the Security Council, by increasing the supply of weapons to Kyiv, the West is signing in an effort to further escalate the conflict, as well as to destabilize the situation on the European continent.

“The uncontrolled pumping of weapons into the Kyiv regime is becoming a global problem, without having a decisive impact on the situation “on the ground.” Evidence is mounting that Western weapons destined for Ukraine are increasingly falling into the hands of bandits and terrorists of various stripes, not only in Europe, but also in the Middle East and Africa," he said.
According to the diplomat, Nigerian President Mohammadu Buhari confirmed that the conflict in Ukraine is the main source of weapons for terrorists in the Lake Chad basin.

“Transnational criminal groups are involved in smuggling and money laundering, and officials of the states sending weapons are clearly involved. This problem poses a real threat to international peace and security and deserves the focused attention of the Council, therefore we ask the Indian Chairmanship to convene a separate meeting of the Security Council on it on Friday, 9 December," summed up Nebenzya.
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BBC: Fascist salute was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to, 2012

From BBC's 2012 documentary, Stadiums of Hate, produced back when the UK state broadcaster acknowledged the real influence of Ukrainian neo-Nazis
quote:
"The fascist sieg heil "was a gesture I would see at every Ukrainian [soccer] game I went to"

Bare in mind that almost all the Ukrainian volunteer battalions in 2014 were formed from the football hooligans. This BBC exclusive just shows the state of the football culture in 2012. It was rotten to the core and it was a fertile land to grow neo-nazi battalions to fight in the Ukraine Civil war of 2014-2022

Nebenzya - at the meeting of the UN Security Council:

All the goals of the special military operation will be fulfilled one way or another. If these goals cannot be achieved peacefully, turning Ukraine into a normal, good-neighborly state, from which there will be no threat to Russia, then this goal will be achieved by military means.

The responsibility for the fact that, due to the thoughtless actions of their vassal rulers in relation to the West, the civilian population of Ukrainian cities suffers, lies with the Zelensky regime and its Western sponsors, who intend to defeat Russia on the battlefield. It's their choice, not ours. Until they finally see the light in Kyiv and in the West, we will defend our interests.

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The US defense budget in terms of volume could become a record in the history of the country. Read the article 👈

The committees of both houses of the US Congress on military affairs have agreed on a draft defense budget for fiscal year 2023 (it started on October 1) in the amount of $858 billion, which could be a record in the history of the country. Now congressmen and senators will have to vote for the agreed document, after which it will be signed by the country's leaders, Joe Biden.

In particular, the amount of 858 billion dollars includes the cost of operation and maintenance, the maintenance of military personnel; military purchases; Research and development; activities in the field of atomic energy, as well as military construction and family housing.

Also, the draft budget, in particular, provides for the allocation of $6 billion to “contain” Russia in Europe, an additional $800 million to help Ukraine, a five-year extension of the ban on US cooperation with Russia in the military sphere, as well as an order to seek exclusion of Russia from the largest international organizations, including the G20.
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"Nano, nono - I dont know"

Biden spoke very "intelligibly" about the development of nanotechnology in America.
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