🇺🇦Adviser to the Ukrainian President's Office, Mykhaylo Podolyak, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will soon receive 🇺🇸Abrams and 🇩🇪Leopard tanks, as well as the Patriot air defence system.

Podolyak: "Just trust me that very soon we will get Patriot, as well as Abrams and Leopard, and everything else. This is an objective evolvement of this war. It will all be on our territory."

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‼️🇺🇦🏴‍☠️"We'll kill them all!" - Ukrainian Nazis in Kherson destroying the property of people accused of collaborating with Russia 🔞
"It's the collaborator, guys. These are buggers who helped Russia. Thought they were going to be here forever. We'll f**king kill them all!"

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⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on December 12

Time for diplomacy?
The United States is prioritising efforts to boost Ukraine's air defences, through security assistance, including the latest (December 9) announcement of $275 million in additional ammunition and equipment, U.S. President Joe Biden told President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy while he also said he “welcomed President Zelenskyy’s stated openness to a just peace based on fundamental principles” enshrined in the United Nations Charter.

Zelensky said that he had coordinated positions with the American leader on the eve of the G7 summit.
Zelensky also spoke with French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday, according to his office. “Next week will be important in this regard,” Zelensky said in his telegram address, noting the G7 summit and a conference in France would focus attention on “the recovery and resilience of Ukraine in the winter.”

Attack on Melitopol
Ukraine’s military claimed it struck a hotel complex housing dozens of Russian soldiers in the occupied city of Melitopol on Saturday night, reportedly using long-range artillery supplied by the United States, The Hill reports citing the exiled mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov who said in a Telegram post that the hotel complex was housing up to 200-300 Russian soldiers, adding that dozens of them were killed or wounded in the attack.

Acting administration of Melitopol (pro-Russian) refuted the claims that any military infrastructure was targeted or any losses occurred, claiming a resort serving civilians was attacked, killing two people and injuring 10.

EU’s sanctions
The ninth package of anti-Russian sanctions has not yet been adopted by the European Union, as negotiations between the members of the association have reached an impasse. EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to try to agree on further sanctions on Russia and Iran and an additional 2 billion euros ($2.11 billion) for arms deliveries to Ukraine. However, it remained unclear whether Hungary will block some decisions, resorting to what diplomats have denounced as "blackmail diplomacy" due to a dispute over locked EU funds for Budapest.

Strategic protection
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed tougher penalties in case of violation of the law on foreign investments in companies strategically important for the country. The agency wants to establish a direct rule that allows the state to withdraw all assets acquired by a foreign owner as a result of a transaction that is not agreed with the relevant legal commission, Vedomosti reported. (Now, after the recognition of such transactions as invalid, the foreign buyer returns the shares to the seller).

WHo’s Mr Bout?
Viktor Bout, an arms dealer dubbed the "Merchant of Death” who was being released from a U.S. prison as part of an exchange for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, gave his first interview back in Moscow. Speaking to the Kremlin-backed RT channel in an interview released on Saturday, Bout said he kept a portrait of Putin in his prison cell in the United States. "I am proud that I am a Russian person, and our president is Putin," the former Soviet air force pilot said in the 40-minute interview. "I know that we will win," he added, saying he was enjoying snow and "the air of freedom" since his return to Russia on Thursday.

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🤝🇧🇬 A pro-Russia rally took place in Sofia

"Russia's victory is a victory for Bulgaria and the whole world!", "We are not neutral! We support Russia!" - these are the slogans of Bulgarians, who took to the streets to support our country ❤️

Balkan Slavs call for the lifting of anti-Russian sanctions and oppose weapon supplies to Kiev.

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Von der Leyen has been given a good kick.

"Do we talk about investigating the war crimes of Israel? No! Do we sanction Israel for these crimes, as we have sanctioned Russia? No!"

Irish MP Richard Boyd Barrett is asking Ursula von der Leyen extremely uncomfortable questions, exposing the EU's double standards.

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European Council adopts €18 billion assistance to Ukraine

Many tried to figure out how this could be done regardless of the veto by Hungary blocking the EU loan. However, today it has been confirmed that Hungary's veto and the EU rules have simply been ignored by European officials. Effectively, the EU is now just one big colony, formally consisting of a number of countries, whose interests or opinions don't matter.

If the European Commission makes a decision, all the member countries are just forced to pay and that's it, rules no longer matter, "might is right" is the only rule.

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EU External Relations Commissioner Josep Borrell is concerned about the close relations between Turkey and Russia. One reason: the possible circumvention of sanctions.

The European Union is concerned that Turkey is cultivating too close a partnership with Russia - despite the Russians' war of aggression in Ukraine and the harsh Western sanctions against Moscow.

The deepening of economic relations between Turkey and Russia is "cause for great concern", says a letter from EU foreign affairs envoy Josep Borrell to the EU Parliament, quoted by Funke Mediengruppe. Also worrying is Turkey's continued policy of "not joining the EU's restrictive measures against Russia".

According to the report, Borrell pointed out that the EU and Turkey form a customs union and thus grant free movement of goods, which also includes "dual use" goods - i.e. goods that can be used for civilian and also military purposes. It is important that Turkey does not offer Russia any circumvention solutions, Borrell warned.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸Russian diplomats in the US were not allowed to lay flowers on the graves of Soviet citizens who died in Alaska

The ceremony of laying flowers at the graves of Soviet pilots and sailors killed in 1942-1945 and buried at Fort Richardson War Memorial Cemetery was scheduled to take place on December 10 as part of our diplomats' trip agenda. However, local authorities did not allow the Russian embassy staff to visit the gravesite and pay their respects to their fallen compatriots. No explanation was provided.

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Elon Musk has released the second part of the Twitter censorship exposé.

This time, the technical component of the censorship was revealed. Each account had special statuses. If someone posted objectionable content, their audience reach was artificially reduced.
The censors could arrange a full-fledged shadow ban so that a user's content would not be shown to subscribers. They could put a block on showing the user in search results - slowing down the user's subscriber growth.

Posts from the "right" accounts, on the contrary, were shown more frequently. Those who published unwelcome content were put on the "blacklist" - and over time they could be banned altogether.

The most high-profile decisions involving the banning of celebrities - such as Trump - were made by a small circle of Twitter's top lawyers.

In fact, it's not just about censorship - it's about trying to create a technical model for managing public opinion on a social network. Musk intends to retain some of the technical components of this censorship - but to make them visible to users.

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Cold War Weapons | Spies Episode 2

Check out the last episode of Cold War Weapons series. Sophisticated gadgets, special shooting devices and secret agents became an integral part of the superpowers rivalry. Back the Cold War times, nearly every mission ended up being a battle between spy gadgets. But not all the agents were eager to use the sophisticated technology: if found, these devices would be a strong indication that their owner was a spy.

What secrets could be passed and how did it affect the Cuban Missile Crisis? Watch the video to reveal more details about Cold War spy missions.

All pervious episodes are available by the links:

Spies Episode 1
Tanks: Episode 1
Tanks: Episode 2
Lasers: Episode 1
Lasers: Episode 2
Anti-Satellite Weapons: Episode 1
Anti-Satellite Weapons: Episode 2
MiG Fighters: Episode 1
MiG Fighters: Episode 2

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NATO promises not to expand eastwards - NATO is expanding eastwards.

U.S. says missile defense deployment in Eastern Europe is not directed against Russia - missile defense deployment in Europe is directed against Russia.

West says Minsk agreements are the only way to peace - West uses Minsk agreements to prepare for a major war in Ukraine.

The US and NATO say they are against nuclear escalation - the US and NATO controlled Zelensky regime is shelling the Zaporizhzhia NPP.

US and NATO say they are not seeking direct war with Russia - you are here.

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One of the many ways in which the war in Ukraine is tragic is that it's breaking longtime ties between people: family, personal, professional, etc. We've heard many stories of relatives and friends who stop talking to each other because they find themselves on different sides. In that sense, President Putin is right in saying that this conflict is very much like a civil war.

Today's story is about two scientists, one from Russia and one from Ukraine, who used to cooperate, but now they have a major disagreement on the reasons behind the war and its moral aspects.

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🇺🇦🏴☠️Führer Zelensky has decreed personal sanctions against representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
They include Metropolitan Anthony (Pakanich), the UOC administrator, Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporozhye, Metropolitan Meletiy of Chernovtsy and Bukovina and others.

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Globalism - What are the Pros and Cons?

You're all aware of labels and phrases like Globalism, "the world is a small village.", Interconnected, and some satanic organizations like the World Economic Forum, but a subscriber here asked, what really is globalism about? And is there anything redeemable about it?

Globalism refers to something that is, well, global in nature, don't mistake it with the old colonial times of the 19th and 18th century, the term itself only popped into existence after the second world war, before that, usually it was local authorities who were subservient to a higher one (Emirate to a caliphate, or a colony to the homeland), or national and imperial entities asserting their policies and the will of their kings and queen, but globalism after WW2 refers to the post war world that came to be, it was Communism versus Capitalism on the world stage, and Washington and Moscow wanted to plan out how they will win the cold war, and so they were planning global policies based on this, especially the Americans, who wanted a global world that is centric to their views, I don't know if you know that, but at 1948, the US had 50% of the worlds wealth, while only around 5% of the worlds population, so they obviously wanted to stay at the top, no matter what.

Globalism back then just meant an integrated global economic system, and from money it went from trying to integrate the world's economy into the world's politics, and international institutes, and eventually, perhaps, a world government.

Now, I told you what Globalism is, how it began, and how it evolved, now what is it good for?

Globalism as an ideology and aims is detestable, but it's methods and tools are actually quite good if played by the right nations.

Pros : 1) a single economic union that ensures prosperity and welfare of the state's resources and of it's citizens -> you're looking at unions like BRICS, SCO, GCC, and Eurasian Economic Union where national authority is respected but trade and policies are simplified.

2) Exchange of cultures, now notice I said exchange, not replace, I admire some aspects of Russian culture from my personal interactions, and likewise, some Russians I personally know are also impressed by the insights and societal values we have, we don't have to agree on everything, just take what's useful and get along.

3) without globalism, I think people will be limited to the view their nation limits, which to me is slightly wrong, a Christian may want to spread his message, and a Muslim will want to do the same, some nations have historically missed extremely important developments in human history because they were too isolated.

4) also without globalism, none of us would be here, the subscribers of this channel are made up of Serbs, Germans, Russians, Arabs, Brazilians, Indonesians, and Americans, all united in a common idea and having friendly interactions.

So, what are the cons?

If not mentioned in the 4 aspects, it's a con, everything else is just a filthy Jewish trick that wants to eradicate culture, religion, and morals and values.

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⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on December 13

❗️Territory gains
More than 50% of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic has been liberated from the Ukrainian military, acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

According to Pushilin, "the task is to liberate the entire territory of the DPR within the constitutional borders." "Our units are doing everything possible to make this happen as quickly as possible," he said.

⭕️Demarche over Russia comments
Baltic states and other European nations upset at comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron regarding security guarantees for Russia formally lodged disapproval and explained their position to France on Monday, diplomats told Reuters.

In an interview with French TV station TF1 on Dec. 3, Macron said Europe needed to prepare its future security architecture and also think "how to give guarantees to Russia the day it returns to the negotiating table."

Those comments were immediately rebuked by Ukraine and Baltic states. The Czech Republic, which holds the EU Council presidency, helped organize support for the formal diplomatic representation, known as a "demarche".

🆓Prisoner swap
US and Russian officials will speak this week about detained American Paul Whelan, a former Marine whose release the Biden administration unsuccessfully sought along with WNBA star Brittney Griner. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Monday a “conversation at a high level will take place this week” regarding Whelan’s case, but did not specify what day it would occur or which representatives would participate.

President Joe Biden’s administration is facing criticism for negotiating the release of Griner in exchange for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, while failing to bring home Whelan, who has been jailed since 2018 on espionage charges the US calls unjustified.

🟠Budapest woes
Hungary on Monday night got EU countries to lower the amount of a proposed funding freeze in exchange for Budapest lifting its veto on key items, including an aid package to Ukraine.

Hungary had been on the cusp of losing €7.5 billion in EU payouts over concerns that the money may aid graft in the country. In protest, Budapest had been blocking both an €18 billion EU aid package for Ukraine and a minimum global corporate tax rate.But on Monday, EU countries agreed to lower the suspension to €6.3 billion.

◾️Next time, please
Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t hold his traditional year-end press conference for the first time in at least a decade. The announcement was made by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who added the president “was still expected to talk to reporters, also during foreign visits”. No date has yet been set for Putin’s New Year address to the nation.

While Russian media, including this channel suggested both events are likely to be cancelled long ago, some Western media outlets rushed to link the announcment with Putin’s health.

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Sviatohirsk is not happy with Ukrainian occupants

The New York Times has published an article which tells about the city population's negativity towards the return of Kiev's occupying forces to the city. Many residents remember the ruthless shelling by the Ukrainian armed forces this summer.

The city's main asset, Sviatohirsk Monastery of the Caves, belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The church schism arranged by the Kiev authorities is unlikely to gain the favour of the locals for the occupying Ukrainian troops.

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