Key statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

- This year's main result is that is has been finally clarified who can be trusted and who cannot.

- Russia's actions have ensured the failure of the West's geopolitical game.

- The West's hysterical reaction to Russia's special military operation confirms that it was absolutely necessary.

- The West's silent support for Kiev's murder of the Russian population shows that Nazis are once again on the rise in the world.

- The transition to multipolarity will be a long era, the West will resist.

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The US military industrial complex threw a lavish banquet in honour of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

The US military industrial complex is profiting from weapon supplies to Ukraine and has no intention to hide it.

▪️ An expensive party was held in Washington on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the US administration members and Ukrainian diplomats invited.

▪️The expenses were paid by major US arms corporations: Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney and Lockheed Martin.

▪️The companies even put their logos on the invitations.

▪️The situation where weapon producers throw a banquet for the country they arm has caused a great resonance.

"Ukrainian diplomats should have known better than throwing celebrations with contractors who are raking in the cash thanks to this terrible war," Breitbart quoted Carnegie Center scholar Matt Dass as saying.

▪️Such cynicism shows once again that for the US Ukraine is just a way to make "blood money".

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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🇺🇦Ukrainian song about Turkish Byraktars.On NATO equipment there are runes and German Wehrmacht crosses.

The same mess is in people's heads 🤦‍♂️

🎶 Ukraine will win.
We will help with this.
And Rusland will soon
drown like a ship in the sea.
Out! Out! Glory to Ukraine!
You'll never defeat the Armed Forces!
Bye, bye, our Byraktars
chase the orcs to hell.
Out! Out! Glory to Ukraine!
You'll never defeat the Armed Forces
Bye, bye, our Byraktars
chase them out.

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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦The USA cannot guarantee sustainable aid for Kiev

"Ukraine’s counteroffensive, so successful when launched in late summer, has stalled along both the southern and eastern fronts, allowing Russian forces to dig in. The cold winter has slowed the fighting, but Ukrainian military officials warned that recent Russian troop and tank movements could telegraph another major assault in the weeks ahead, perhaps even toward Kyiv," Politico claims.

In the event of such a scenario, Biden faces a significant problem. How will Congress (with a Republican majority) behave? It has already announced the intention to reduce financial and military support to Ukraine, or to launch inspections and audits of this aid.

💥Source: RVvoenkor
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⚡🇺🇸 ☠ American Citizen is going to be executed very soon in Egypt, his deportation is confirmed.

First of all, he did not just "live" in the US, he actively defected to the United States Air Force in 2003, and we still remember that very clearly, we swore that traitors who cooperate with the Anti-Christ and Jews are going to be dealt with, no matter what.

How do we know he's going to be executed? Because he already has been, in absentia, treason is a serious offense.

Your American passport is not protecting you, Johnny boy.

Now, they're trying to publicize his case in NYT, The Guardian, And Washington Post to gather sympathy.

Well, fuck you!

❗❗We should note that although we do not agree with the religious aspects of this post, The United States is well known for giving citizenship to multiple spies from foreign countries in order to protect them, Russian traitors have also been given American passports, only to die in suspicious circumstances.

41 seconds of pure hypocrisy!

Watch: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's completely different views on a similar issue, but in different countries: Iran and his own country, the UK.

💥Source: CSRC Agency
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The number of homeless Ukrainian refugees in the UK has risen by almost 30% in a month, The Times reports.

According to the publication, this is due to the fact that host British families stopped supporting them and the "Home for Ukraine" refugee assistance programme has come to an end.

The newspaper quoted government figures as saying that over 2,000 families with children and another 900 people were officially homeless.

The British media earlier warned that around 50,000 Ukrainian refugees in the country may be left homeless because the government has no plan to house them alternative to the "Home for Ukraine" programme.

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NATO weapons struck Donetsk's Shesh-Besh restaurant, where Dmitriy Rogozin was celebrating his birthday.

▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the local restaurant with fire from US 155mm howitzers.

▪️It is reported that the chairman of the DNR government, Vitaly Khotsenko, was wounded, his security guard and one other person were killed. Rogozin appears to have been unhurt.

💥 Source: RVvoenkor
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🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ We are ready to share our Victory equally with all 52 countries, - Ukrainian Defense Ministry

"The invaluable contribution of each of our partners will mean to us eternal brotherhood in the fight for Freedom," Ukraine's military department declared.

This is how Russia is now at war with Ukraine and 52 countries.

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🇺🇸The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021 has referred Donald Trump to the justice department to pursue criminal charges against him.

The former president is suspected of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress and conspiring to defraud the U. S. people.

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🇷🇺🇩🇪🇵🇱Russia received an application from Germany and Poland for shipment of oil for the next year

Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev said: “They announced that they would take no more oil from Russia from January 1. But now, we have received applications from Polish consumers: They are asking us to give 3 million tons next year and 360 thousand tons for December. And Germany has already submitted an application for the first quarter - they are asking us to give them oil too."

💥 Source: RVvoenkor
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A conference in the United States called for the truth about Ukraine

Canadian journalist Eva Bartlett, who has traveled to war zones, called on the journalistic community to speak together and in full voice about the genocide of the people of Donbas and "to stop whitewashing Ukraine's deeds."

▪️Bartlett, who covers events in the Donbass, spoke at a video conference organized by the Schiller Institute in Florida. She stated that there is an "indirect U.S. war against Russia" in Ukraine.

The Kiev regime is carrying out a real genocide of Ukrainians and Russians in the Donbass, for which it must necessarily be held accountable. After all, about eight thousand people have been killed there over eight years, and since February the AFU has intensified shelling.

Bartlett urged Western journalists to work together to crack down on the propaganda-distorted information space and start telling the truth about Donbass and Ukraine.

▪️The opinions of Western journalists are indeed capable of pulling European or American ordinary people out of the cocoon of lies. The mass of viewers from around the world who watched the film of another journalist, Frenchwoman Anne-Laure Bonnel, who went as a war correspondent to the Donbass, thanked her for the truth and the realization of what is really happening in Ukraine and what the reasons are.

Despite the West's concerted lies and propaganda against Russia, the truth about what is happening in Donbass is still seeping through to a thinking Western audience. There are journalists who are honestly and selflessly doing their duty.

💥 Source: ANNA-NEWS
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The EU countries have agreed on a lower gas price cap than previously proposed

On the previous day, the European Union agreed on a gas price ceiling of around €1900 per thousand cubic meters.

▪️The measure will be introduced from February 15. The restriction will come into effect if prices stay above the agreed level and €35 above the average cost of LNG on the world market for three days.

▪️Over-the-counter transactions (including long-term contracts) are excluded from the mechanism. For those, no approval from Brussels is required.

The measure is expected to have serious consequences for the European energy market. Earlier, the European Commission proposed a higher limit of €2900.

▪️ A group of countries headed by Germany opposed the adoption of the price ceiling. The Germans requested guarantees to suspend the mechanism in case of negative market consequences.

However, in the end Berlin gave its consent.

💥 Source: ANNA-NEWS
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⚡️⚡️ Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on December 23

⚔Different goals
Russia said that supplies of Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine by the United States, announced during President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to Washington, would not help settle the conflict or prevent Moscow from achieving its goals.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed it as "quite old", telling reporters Moscow would find a way to counter it. At the same time, he said Russia wants an end to the war in Ukraine and that this would inevitably involve a diplomatic solution.

"Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war," Putin said. "We will strive for an end to this, and the sooner the better, of course."

🥷Training troops
The Pentagon is considering training the Ukrainian armed forces to operate the Patriot missile defense system at a military base in the United States, according to two Defense Department officials, Politico learnt.

It noted this would be the first time when Ukrainian armed forces could be trained in the U.S. — before it only happened at NATO bases in Eastern Europe, Germany and the United Kingdom.

The report states no final decision has been made, despite the news comes just a day after the Biden administration announced that it would provide one Patriot battery which Kyiv has asked for months.

One thing holding up a U.S. decision was the complexity of the system and the lengthy training process required to operate it, Politico notes. Operating the Patriot takes at least 90 troops, the Pentagon has said, so training Ukrainian servicemen will require a lot of people and time. For this and other reasons, as many Russian and even Western analysts pointed out, getting Patriots on Ukrainian soil will not happen in the near future.

💰Paying for the war
The Senate unanimously backed a plan to use confiscated Russian assets to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia. The amendment is attached to the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that passed the Senate 68-29 on Thursday.

The House is expected to pass the spending package, which will include the amendment, ahead of a Friday deadline to keep the government funded. President Biden supported using proceeds from seized Russian assets to help Ukraine and is expected to sign the spending package into law.

The United States and its allies targeted Russia and its oligarchs with a host of diplomatic and economic sanctions after the start of invasion (some of them after the 2014 Crimea takeover). The head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen proposed to create a special fund from the frozen €300 billion of Russian assets and €19 billion of private assets of Russians. EU estimated the damage to Ukraine from the conflict with Russia at €600 billion.

🇺🇸🇰🇵Dragging North Korea
The White House said Thursday that the Wagner Group, a private Russian military company, has taken delivery of an arms shipment from North Korea to help bolster its forces as it fights side-by-side with Russian troops in Ukraine. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said U.S. intelligence officials determined that North Korea completed an initial arms shipment that included rockets and missiles last month.

According to Washington's estimates, 50000 Wagner fighters are involved in the military operation in Ukraine, and the monthly expenses of the PMCs reach $100 million.

The World Organization stated that they have no information about the sending of weapons by North Korea to the PMCs. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner PMC, denied allegations.

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Medvedev held talks with Xi Jinping in Beijing

The deputy chairman of the Security Council conveyed to the Chinese president a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed the Ukrainian crisis in Beijing.

As the secretariat of the deputy chairman of the Security Council reported on Wednesday, the visit took place on December 20-21. "Medvedev conveyed to the Chinese head of state a message from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The message, in particular, noted the unprecedented level of Russian-Chinese political dialogue and practical cooperation and expressed confidence in the continued progressive development of interstate and inter-party relations, in close cooperation with the new CPC leadership elected by the recent Chinese Communist Party forum," the secretariat said.

💥Source: TASS
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The Armed Forces of Ukraine use Polish (or some other WTO country's) T-72 tanks in Bakhmut (Artemovsk).

The enemy is actively preparing for combat operations in residential areas.

Interesting fact: additional grid screens on the rear projection of the turret and hull. The main purpose of these is to break the shaped jet of rocket-propelled grenades, and to calm the crew a bit.

💥 Source: ANNA-NEWS
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