Russia continues to rebuild Mariupol. The new apartments are already occupied by people.
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#USA The F-35B Lightning II fifth-generation fighter incident at Air Force Base in Texas

An abnormal situation occurred while performing a vertical landing. The pilot ejected, although there was no apparent reason for this.

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It is already the second occasion recently of the forward wheel of of the undercarriage "folding in". Something is certainly wrong with this aircraft. As for the ejection, there was a recent footage of Russian Su-25 landing without any undercarriage at all. The pilot risked his life to save the aircraft.
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An interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, head of Ukraine’s armed forces

These are edited highlights of our interview with General Valery Zaluzhny, on December 3rd 2022 to the Economist

Valery Zaluzhny: For us, for the military, the war began in 2014. For me personally in July 2014. And I had no idea what war really was in 2014.
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Russians and any other enemies must be killed, just killed, and most importantly, we should not be afraid to do it. And this is what we are doing.
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With all due respect to Mr Surovikin [the commander of Russian forces in Ukraine], if you look at him, he is an ordinary Petrovite commander from Peter the Great’s time, shall we say, a derzhimorda [a brutal martinet in Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”].
You look at him and understand that either you complete the task or you’re fucked. And we had long realised that this does not work.
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I trust my generals. Since the start of the war I fired ten of them because they were not up to it. Another one shot himself.
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I have no doubt about it, it is most likely that somewhere beyond the Urals, they are preparing new resources. They are 100% being prepared.
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Our troops are all tied up in battles now, they are bleeding. They are bleeding and are being held together solely by courage, heroism and the ability of their commanders to keep the situation under control.
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I am not an energy expert but it seems to me we are on the edge. We are balancing on a fine line. And if [the power grid] is destroyed…that is when soldiers’ wives and children start freezing. And such a scenario is possible. What kind of mood the fighters will be in, can you imagine? Without water, light and heat, can we talk about preparing reserves to keep fighting?
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In order to reach the borders of Crimea, as of today we need to cover a distance of 84km to Melitopol. By the way, this is enough for us, because Melitopol would give us a full fire control of the land corridor, because from Melitopol we can already fire at the Crimean Isthmus, with the very same himars and so on.
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When they say, “You get 50,000 shells”, the people who count the money faint. The biggest problem is that they really don’t have it.
With this kind of resources I can’t conduct new big operations, even though we are working on one right now. It is on the way, but you don’t see it yet. We use a lot fewer shells.
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Russian mobilisation has worked. It is not true that their problems are so dire that these people will not fight. They will. A tsar tells them to go to war, and they go to war. I’ve studied the history of the two Chechen wars—it was the same. They may not be that well equipped, but they still present a problem for us. We estimate that they have a reserve of 1.2m-1.5m people… The Russians are preparing some 200,000 fresh troops. I have no doubt they will have another go at Kyiv.

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Well, if you have got used to read between the lines, you can get an insight into how the Ukrainian military machin is working. The first thing you can make out is that it is completely dependent on the western military aid: resources and analysis. Ukrainian soldiers are not important, as long as they provide enough of the cannon fodder... It is a war of resources, and currently Russia is slowly but surely winning it.
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Yakutsk Ice Swimmers Start Season With Freezing Dip

The Russian ice swimmers’ club ‘Sakha morzhi’ took a dip in a Yakutsk ice hole to mark the start of winter. While the air temperature was a chilly -32°C (-25.6°F), the water was a much more manageable -3°C (26.6°F).

The swimmers commented that the water was ‘lovely’ (making onlookers question their sanity), and praised the health benefits of sub-zero swimming, but they didn’t elaborate on which parts of them ended up turning blue.
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Russian diplomat accused Germany, Japan and Italy of blasphemy

UN, December 16 – RIA Novosti. Deputy Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Gennady Kuzmin accused Germany, Japan and Italy of blasphemy, which voted against the resolution on combating the glorification of Nazism.
Earlier, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution of the Russian Federation on combating the glorification of Nazism. 120 countries voted for the resolution, 50 were against, 10 abstained. Among those who were against were Germany, Italy, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Hungary, Japan, Latvia, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, Britain, the USA. Many of them explain their position by saying that Russia is using the resolution to justify its special operation in Ukraine.

"The states that opposed the resolution, primarily Germany, Japan, Italy, showed open blasphemy against the memory of the victims of German Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese militarism," Kuzmin said at a meeting of the General Assembly.

According to him, the position of these, as well as a number of other states that fought during the Second World War against the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition, clearly showed the prematureness of discussions regarding the exclusion of the wording of "enemy states" from the text of the UN Charter.
"By voting against, do you think that you thereby condemned the Special Military Operation of Russia in Ukraine? No. In fact, you showed your true nature and the dominant views in the ruling elites. For you, the policy of revising and denying history, the policy of tolerance for racist and xenophobic rhetoric, is the norm, a policy of arrogant superiority," he stressed.

"The results of this year's voting are simply shocking. For the first time in the history of the UN, states – former members of the Axis voted against a document condemning Nazism, as well as confirming the inviolability of the results of World War II," Kuzmin said.

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This is how the results of the vote at the UN General Assembly on the resolution submitted by Russia on "Combating the glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to the escalation of modern forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance" looked like.

The Greens — supported the resolution.

Red — voted against the adoption of the resolution.

Yellow — abstained.

And now who is interested, open the history textbook and see which countries supported Hitler in World War II. You will be very surprised, or not. But everyone who is highlighted in red in this vote is the descendants of those who then plunged the world into the darkness of fascism!!

History is cyclical...
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Consequences of attacks on targets in Ukraine: critical infrastructure facilities were hit, entire regions were de-energized

Report based on Ukrainian sources

The Russian army fired more than 70 missiles at targets in Ukraine in an hour. As a result of massive strikes, critical infrastructure facilities were hit, and entire regions were de-energized.

Energy Minister of Ukraine German Galushchenko confirmed that power facilities in the east and south of the country were damaged.

Zelensky's office said emergency shutdowns after strikes were being introduced across the country.

About 15 missile strikes were recorded in the Zaporozhye region, the head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Starukh said.

The head of the Kharkiv region, Oleg Sinegubov, announced 10 missile strikes. Critical infrastructure facilities have been hit, there is no electricity in Kharkiv, power supply is intermittent in the region.

The Krivorozhskaya TPP, which is the most powerful solid fuel power plant in Europe, was struck.

In all districts of Kyiv, interruptions in water supply were recorded due to damage to energy infrastructure. Mayor Klitschko urged residents to prepare a supply of drinking and technical water.

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Map of the strikes at the infrastructure of the energy system of Ukraine (by Rybar)
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Comments from Rybar:

Although the missile attack cannot be called the most massive in recent months, the number of missiles fired and the geography of targets are still impressive.

This confirms the systematic nature of fire damage.

A new tale has appeared in the Ukrainian information field: people in chat rooms convince each other that the electricity is turned off on purpose even before the strikes in order to mislead the enemy. Someone even writes that power plants are specially stopped during a fire raid.

There is no practical sense from such events. But the Ukrainian population believes in such tales and convinces each other that the strikes of the Russian Armed Forces are futile.
And this is not so...

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This is how the explosions in Ukraine look from the window of an airplane in Moldova.

Video: ICTV Facts.

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President Putin had a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Modi

MOSCOW, December 16 - RIA Novosti. Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said.

"At the request of Narendra Modi, Vladimir Putin gave fundamental assessments in the context of Russia's line in the Ukrainian direction," the Kremlin's press service said.

The leaders of the two countries expressed satisfaction with the high level of cooperation between the states, which is developing on the principles of a particularly privileged strategic partnership.
"The leaders discussed in detail the prospects for practical cooperation in such areas as mutual investment, energy, agriculture, transport and logistics," the Kremlin press service added.

Putin and Modi also noted the importance of continuing close coordination, taking into account India's G20 and SCO presidency.

The leaders agreed to continue personal contacts.

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Do you remember certain rumours that Mody refused to meet with Putin? That was called "misunderstanding" by Kremlin and stated, that such a meeting has not been planned...
Well, it looks like all is well in Russia-India relations.
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Ukrenergo has declared a state of emergency

MOSCOW, December 16 - RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian national company Ukrenergo has declared an emergency due to the loss of more than 50% of the consumption of the interconnected energy system, local media reported.

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That is an immediate effect of the Russian strike on Dneproges HPS and the other infrastructural objects of the Ukrainian energy supply system.

What does an energy emergency mean?

"Due to damage to substations and generating capacities, it is not technically possible to provide electricity to more than 50% of the country's consumers (!) (including critical infrastructure). That is, there is no way to either generate more energy or transport it," Director of the Ukrainian Energy Research Center Kharchenko.

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Kiev subway won't start today – dispatcher's announcement in the subway.

The metro cannot resume work due to a shortage of electricity, said the chief engineer of the Kiev metro, Viktor Vygovsky.

Reported by an Ukrainian channel.
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Dostoevsky.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, born on 11th of November, 1821, is one of the main icons of Russian literature, alongside the likes of Leo Tolstoy and other great literately figures.

He is generally known to talk about what man and his purpose is, like an existentialist, and dwell on philosophical and religious questions, and did not care very much about materialistic things.

He was, at first, not the prime material to be a writer, his family consisted of merchants and priests, and his father was a doctor, he was in a hospital that catered not to the nobility or the high ranks of society, but for commoners like you and me, this was one of the main influences on his early life.

His nanny told him magnificent fairy tale stories, and his parents introduced him to the Bible, the works of Pushkin, and Ann Radcliffe, all when he was a kid.

His parents wished for him to be educated in a fine institution, do they sent him to an established boarding school, he felt out of it, and was also one of the main influences on his early life, there was also this one time he had to get his father to take care of a young girl who was sexually harassed by a much older man, all of these events played into themes in his novels and works.

He then went to a military academy, and although he disliked the institution, he still excelled in it and graduated with a commission, he started his literary career by translating other works, which were not really succesful.

He released his first novel in 1845, which became a literary and commerical success, Poor Folk was a novel that showcased, well, poor people, their relationship with other people of all classes, and poverty and hardship.

He left the army, wrote another novel, the Double, was about a man who found an exact replica, the replica was better than him and then overtook him in his life, and the original man was carried off to a mental institution, you can guess the theme for that one.

Our friend here had revolutionary aspirations, and he was part of an organization that was viewed as Anti-Tsarist, so he was arrested, sentenced to death, and was quite literally saved at the last second because the Tsar was too kind and commuted his sentence and the sentence of his co- conspirators, and so he was off to Siberia, with hard labor, and, as you can tell, this was also a main theme in one of his novels.

He was released, served conscription , left the service, sweet talked the military and Government into letting him actually live a normal life (albeit with under police surveillance), got married, visited Western Europe, shit talked alot of things there, his wife and brother, unfortunately died, so be married again, had his first kid, who died an infant and he was extremely depressed, had another kid, and another one, and his financial situation up to that point has been shit for 10 or so years, keep in mind he was also a chronic gambler.

He was eventually introduced to high society, including the Tsar and the royal family, and he made many more acquantices, but eventually every man met his end, after facing health issues for most of his life, he died in 1881.

His novels, like The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, Demons, Brother Karamazov, are quite simply, good, and I encourage you all to read them, they have great values in them.

Crime and Punishment talks about the moral and ethical dilemmas a man has in wether the ends justify the means,

The Idiot is about how society can view good natured and naive people.

Demons takes a good look at soy nihilists and how moral degradation is bad

And the Brothers Karamazov is, basically, a big drama, like War and Peace, with themes of God, free will, morality, and how tradition and modernity should go facing each other.

Well, besides that, I guess I can't say much, he was obviously a very religious man, he loved Jesus, and he expressed great admiration to Islam and Prophet Mohammed, and he wanted to see his country to be the best it can be - a true patriot.

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