🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺Polish media reported that two of the missiles fired today at Ukraine's energy infrastructure fell near the town of Grubieszów in Poland's Lubelskie Voivodeship, on the border with Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇵🇱Official comment by the Russian Ministry of Defence:

- Statements by the Polish media and officials about the alleged landing of "Russian" missiles near the village of Przewodów are a deliberate provocation to escalate the situation;

- There have been no strikes against targets near the Ukrainian-Polish State border by Russian weapons;

- The wreckage published in the Polish media from the site of the incident in Przewodów had nothing to do with Russian weapons.

No doubt they are trying hard to pin this event on Russia. Courtesy of t.me/rybar

⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on November 16

🔴No Article 5, for now
A missile that killed two people in Poland was probably not fired from Russia, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday after holding talks with leaders of Western allies pouring cold water on the idea of NATO invoking Article 5.

Earlier on Wednesday, Polish President Andrzej Duda said: “We do not have conclusive evidence at this time of who launched the missile,” although he said the missile was “probably” Russian-made. He added an investigation was ongoing. According to U.S. officials, initial findings suggested that the missile that hit Poland was fired by Ukrainian forces at an incoming Russian missile, the Associated Press said.

The explosion on Tuesday at a grain facility near the Ukrainian border came as Russia renewed its strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure on Tuesday, after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed G20 summit with a speech that Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov called “Russophobic”.

Russian MoD on Tuesday evening accused Polish mass media and officials commit for committing “deliberate provocation to escalate situation”.

🧨Two-sided escalation
“Instead of peace-keeping and conflict prevention –​ CSDP​ missions'​ tasks​ set out in Article 42 of the​ Treaty on EU –​ #EUMAM​ Ukraine​ is aimed at escalation​ ​ under the #EU flag.​ Another step to enhance the EU involvement in the conflict in #Ukraine,” said Russian mission to the EU, commenting on EU’s newly launched mission to train Ukrainian military.

☘️Climate hypocrisy
As UN Climate Summit in Egypt (COP27) gets overshadowed by development around #UkraineCrisis, activists point out “there's some hocus-pocus going on with the emissions reduction numbers the European Union is proudly touting at the COP27 climate summit”, Politico writes.

The EU says it's one of the few parties to the Paris Agreement to actually follow the rules and beef up its Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) — U.N.-speak for the promises made under the 2015 pact. The bloc's original proposal was to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade, but three new rule changes boost that to 57%.

🕹World of OTHER tanks
Games developer Lesta Games, which was a division of the Belarusian company Wargaming before the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, will invest $100-150 million in 2023 in the development of the projects "World of Tanks", "World of Ships", "Tanks Blitz" and new games for Russian and Belorussian markets. After being separated from “Wargaming” as a part of company’s withdrawal from Russia and Belarus, Lesta is experiencing a shortage of developers as well as a lack of infrastructure, the company may need to develop new games since Wargaming may revoke the license for Russian versions of famous games, Kommersant writes.

A Kommersant source close to Wargaming says that the company's global revenue from the World of Tanks project reached up to $800 million, while Russia and Belarus accounted for about 50%.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦In Germany there's a wish to make a stronger distinction among Soviet soldier remains between Russians and Ukrainians

The German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge) wants to "differentiate" the remains of soldiers and concentration camp prisoners into Russians and Ukrainians when caring for war graves in cemeteries in Hamburg.

"We are starting to differentiate," said managing director of the Volksbund, Christian Lubcke.

However, this is difficult because the nationality was mostly listed as "Russian" or "Soviet" in German documents as well as in those of the Western Allies.

Lubcke estimates the number of Soviet war dead buried in Hamburg at 1400. According to him, joint commemoration of Ukrainians and Russians was difficult even before the Russian attack of February 24th, so even the dead lying next to each other pose difficulties.

In recent years, the "Immortal Regiment" has been held at the Ohlsdorf cemetery several times. According to Lubcke, this "movement has nationalist and partly historical revisionist undertones", so the Volksbund did not take part in it.

By Lubcke's account, there are more than 62,000 war dead from both world wars in Hamburg. They are spread over 36 war gravesites.

🧐 The Soviet dead are mostly buried in the New Cemetery in Bergedorf. According to the Volksbund, there are graves of 652 POWs and forced laborers. In Ohlsdorf, at least 524 dead are buried. Two-thirds of them were prisoners of war at the Sandbostel camp near Bremervorde. Other dead from the Soviet Union lie in Harburg and, according to Lubcke's estimates, in ten other locations in Hamburg.

❗️Jail for supporting Russia, or how Germany fights dissent

In the last six months, the number of high-profile criminal cases brought in Germany against those who support Russia or disagree with the sanctions policy has increased dramatically. Without discussion with professional society, a number of amendments have been introduced that work to suppress an alternative point of view on the Ukrainian events.

Over 140 criminal cases involving Russian and German citizens have been filed. A striking episode was the recent disappearance of pro-Russian activist Yulia Prokhorova in Germany.

Experts from Moscow Bar Association "People's Advocate" conducted their own investigation in order to find out how Germany became such a dramatically Russophobic country.

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💥Translated by @Node_of_Time_EN

Lavrov's statements at the G20 summit:

🔹Despite US statements at the G20 summit, other countries are increasingly convinced that the conflict in Ukraine was instigated by Washington;

🔹The US and the EU handed the UN secretary-general written promises that restrictions on Russian grain and fertilizer exports would be lifted; let's see how that's implemented;

🔹Ukraine's conditions for starting negotiations are knowingly unrealistic and inadequate to the situation;

🔹Russia does not refuse to negotiate with Ukraine;

🔹The EU and NATO have long been parties to the hybrid war in Ukraine.

Zelensky announces 10 conditions for "Ukrainian peace formula" at the G20 summit:

Ukraine's radiation and nuclear security,
Food security of Ukraine,
Energy security of Ukraine,
Release of all prisoners and deportees - exchange of all for all,
Implementation of the UN Charter and restoration of Ukraine's territorial integrity and the world order,
Withdrawal of Russian troops and cessation of hostilities,
Restoration of justice,
Countering ecocide,
Preventing escalation,
Setting the end of the war.

NATO's political technologists, however, almost blew the whistle on the demand to "restore world order", and the rest of the points are just ridiculous.

Zelensky himself was asking, above all, to get Ukrainian grain out of the country, to create a nuclear bomb and to engage in undermining the infrastructure. And Zelensky is hardly even aware of the meaning of "justice"!

⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on November 17

🇺🇦🇷🇺Peace talks
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated during interaction with reporters that negotiations with Russia should be "public, not behind the scenes." He confirmed that he had received certain signals from the leaders of other countries regarding possible negotiations with the Russian side (Earlier, the Wall Street Journal, citing its sources, reported that Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Advisor, recommended that Volodymyr Zelenskyy's team start thinking about realistic requirements for negotiations with the Russian Federation, including a review of Ukraine's stated goal of returning Crimea). Zelenskystressed that Kyiv had demonstrated its readiness to sit down at the negotiating table, and said that it had been notified of a similar readiness on the part of the Russian Federation.

⏪Kremlin reacts
The spokesperson of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov commented on the US statement that regardless of the results of the investigation of the Poland incident, Russia is to be blamed. “Whatever the final conclusions may be, it is clear that the party ultimately responsible for this tragic incident is Russia, which launched a barrage of missiles on Ukraine specifically intended to target civilian infrastructure,” the statement reads.

Peskov said that in this case, it can be stated that the root cause of everything is NATO and the United States. "Americans speak in the paradigm of "if that didn’t happen, then this wouldn’t happen. Then it makes sense to backtrack, and we will see the root cause of everything — it is NATO and the United States at the helm of it,” Peskov told RIA Novosti.

🛢Oil trade on hold
Indian refiners are wary of buying Russia crude oil loading after Dec. 5 when European Union sanctions take effect, pending clarity on the proposed G7 price cap mechanism, according to sources familiar with the refiners' crude purchase plans, Reuters reports. It states Reliance Industries Ltd, operator of the world's biggest refining complex and a major customer for Russia, has not placed orders yet for Russian cargoes loading after Dec. 5, two sources familiar the refiner's purchase plans told Reuters. Neither has state-run Bharat Petroleum Corp (both companies did not respond to Reuters email seeking comments).

🌾Grain deal
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said an agreement with Russia that has allowed Ukraine to export its massive stocks of cereals by sea is likely to keep running once its first phase comes to an end on Saturday. "We have ongoing discussions and as of now I am of the opinion that this [the deal] will continue," Erdoğan told reporters in Bali, Indonesia. The Turkish leader added that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave him "some green light" on the prospects of renewing the deal when they spoke recently.

📮Russia post goes delivery
After international courier services terminated operations in Russia, some Russian retailers and manufacturers faced difficulties in supplying small batches or samples of products from abroad. State-owned Russian Post has decided to launch its commercial delivery service from China and Europe, Kommersant reports. Experts believe such a service is particularly relevant for small and medium-sized businesses. However, Russia Post will face difficulties created by Western sanctions against Russian carriers and problems with payments via SWIFT.

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How Ukraine produced happy gatherings in Kherson.

In the video filmed by "France press agency" the excited alleged Kherson citizen states that there is no light, no water, no communications, but he is very happy that he is liberated from the Russians.

The man is recognized as a Mr. Pondin Evgeny Nikolayevich, living in Kiev. Evgeny is a commander of a National Guard company (military unit 3030). Perhaps he arrived in Kherson to conduct repressions. And he acted in western videos as well.
💥 Source: @Republic_Of_GaGauZia
💥Translation: @Node_of_Time_EN

For all the Ukrainians on the front line, the American New York Times ran a motivational article: "The war in Ukraine is a beta test for Western weapons".

At first we even thought of writing about American cynicism, but it turns out the article quotes Ukrainian deputy PM, Mikhail Fedorov.

"Ukraine is the best proving ground, as we have the opportunity to test all innovations in combat and come up with revolutionary changes in military technology and modern warfare."

And a little further on there is this from Dalia Grybauskaite:

"We are learning how to fight in Ukraine and learning how to use NATO equipment. And, yes, this is a training ground." And after a pause (so the text says) she added: "Too bad the Ukrainians are paying with their lives for this training of ours."

The Ukrainian soldiers must have thought that they were dying for independence, and now the American press, and their own officials, are explaining to them that they are as expendable as landfill.

💥Source: https://t.me/orda_mordora

The European Union must create its own military force by 2023

We are talking about a "rapid reaction force" — the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell stated.

The first "defense concept" of the European Union was approved back in March.

It includes creating common European military groups which will be able to conduct military operations independently and which will "complement NATO".

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
💥Translation: @Node_of_Time_EN