Special measures are being taken to clean up designated areas. The fighters of the OMON "AKHMAT-Krepost" (on transport) and the OMON "AKHMAT-Grozny", together with the employees of the Dagestan "Yastreb", revealed a large cache of weapons and ammunition during a cleansing operation in the Zaporozhye region.

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The Russian Defense Ministry publishes footage of loading an intercontinental ballistic missile of the Yars complex with a nuclear warhead into the underground silo.
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The New Year is approaching. The main Christmas tree of the country has arrived in the Kremlin. According to tradition, it will be installed on the Cathedral Square.
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Volunteers of the "Golden Hands of an Angel" movement united people from young to old in 90 cities of Russia.
Even the smallest contribution brings our victory closer.
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NATO’s humiliation in the Ukraine is pushing NATO leaders to try to prove their “martial valor” and “manhood” by, quote, “every now and again the United States has to pick up a crappy little country and throw it against a wall just to prove we are serious“ (Michael Ledeen). And, again, the AngloZionists want to attack a Orthodox country to “show Russia” what could happen to her next (Strobe Talbott). Read the article
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Russia is destroying Ukraine’s economy, raising costs for U.S. and allies
By Jeff Stein and David L. Stern for The Washington Post

Two months of relentless missile and drone attacks by Russia have decimated Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and blown a hole in previous economic forecasts. Before those strikes, Kyiv expected to need at least $55 billion in foreign assistance next year to meet basic expenses — more than the country’s entire annual prewar spending.

Now, with its energy systems severely battered, and more Russian attacks likely, some officials believe Ukraine could end up needing another $2 billion a month, and political leaders have begun trying to brace Western supporters for such worst-case scenarios.

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We certainly will agree with the authors, that it is an economic and humanitarian disaster happening in the Ukraine right now. What we will not agree with, is the traditional blaming for it of the Russian Federation and Putin. Certain Western elites have weaponised Ukraine against Russia and the Ukrainians themselves lost realistic perception of reality. The evidence of that is the continuation of the shelling of Russian Donetsk and other regions.
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Poland holds up Ukraine aid and Hungary plans over tax concerns

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is expected to escalate the issue at a meeting of EU leaders Thursday

By Paolo Tamma for POLITICO

Poland tonight refused to back a package deal to release €18 billion in European Union aid for Ukraine as well as two unrelated but linked decisions on Hungary over concerns about a separate minimum corporate tax rate plan, four EU diplomats told POLITICO.

“There’s a lot of frustration with Poland jeopardizing Ukraine aid by blocking the minimum tax,” said an EU diplomat, describing the move as “another hostage-taking situation.”

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Xi Jinping Doubles Down on His Putin Bet. ‘I Have a Similar Personality to Yours.’

The Chinese leader has long admired Vladimir Putin. Now, he is strengthening ties between the two nations with increased trade and energy partnerships.

By Lingling Wei and Marcus Walker for the Wall Street Journal
China’s leader Xi Jinping has in recent months tried to put public distance between Beijing and Moscow...

Behind the diplomatic appearances, however, Mr. Xi is deepening his long-term bet on Russia.

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98 Russian volunteer athletes from the Union of Martial Arts decided to stand up for the Motherland.

The volunteer detachment includes masters of sports, first-class athletes from all over the country. Now they are undergoing combat training at the Special Forces in Chechnya.
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EU members fail to reach agreement on new Russia sanctions - diplomats

BRUSSELS, Dec 15 (Reuters) – European Union member states failed to agree on a ninth package of Russia sanctions in talks late on Wednesday, diplomats said as EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for their last summit of the year.

Countries moved closer to a deal in Wednesday's negotiations but Poland and some other countries still have objections, one EU diplomat told Reuters, adding a new draft was expected to be circulated on Thursday evening.

Fresh sanctions on Moscow have been held up by disagreement over whether the EU should make it easier for Russian fertiliser exports to pass through European ports, even in the case when the fertiliser companies are owned by blacklisted oligarchs.

Some say EU restrictions pose a food security threat to developing countries, while others argue that relaxing them would allow Russian oligarchs who own fertiliser businesses to dodge EU sanctions against them.

One EU diplomat said Poland and the Baltic states are telling other countries that they are deluding themselves if they think a relaxation on Russian fertilisers is not going to be abused as a loophole for oligarchs.

Some member states want the World Food Programme involved on authorisation for exports of fertilisers to countries that need it.

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The new list of "sanctioned" people includes not so many "oligarchs" (by the way, there are no oligarchs in Russia, well, almost*) but "influencers", including Telegram channels admins. That certainly is a new European high/low on the freedom of speech.
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* Oligarchs should have access to the power outside of their, business, minor or major bribery does not count. One of the greatest achievements of Putin was removal of that access.
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Nine people were injured during the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops
During the shelling of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, nine people were injured, including a child

MOSCOW, December 15 - RIA Novosti. The number of people injured during the shelling of the Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine has grown to nine people, the headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR reported on Telegram.
"Nine people were injured, including a child born in 2012," the statement said.
As the mayor of the city Oleksiy Kulemzin pointed out in his Telegram channel, on the morning of December 15, Ukrainian troops launched the most massive strike on the city center since 2014.
So, according to the information of the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine, at 07:00 the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired 40 rockets from the Grad MLRS at Voroshilovsky and Kievsky districts of Donetsk, and at 08:02 – three more shells of NATO caliber 155 millimeters in the Kyiv district.

Kulemzin specified that the square at the intersection of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Avenue and Universitetskaya Street, Shkolny Boulevard, Naberezhnaya Street and the area of the Covered Market in the Voroshilovsky District came under fire. There are hits in residential buildings – along Vatutin Avenue, Shkolny Boulevard, Mira Avenue, 50 Years of the USSR Street, Shevchenko Boulevard, Theater Avenue, near the railway hospital and campus. Kindergarten No. 15, school No. 2, Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, several buildings of DonNTU, student hospital were damaged.

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