⚡️⚡️Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on December 28

🔴Oil price cap response
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of crude oil and oil products from Feb. 1 for five months to nations that abide by the cap.

Moscow banned exports of Russian crude oil and refined products to foreign buyers that adhere to a price cap. The restriction on Russian crude exports will begin on Feb. 1 and last until at least July 2023, according to the decree published Tuesday. The ban on oil products will start at a date to be determined by the Russian government, but not earlier than Feb. 1. 

However, Bloomberg notes, the general guidelines avoid extreme measures that the market feared would further upend trade, such as designating a minimum price for its crude or bans on specific countries from buying Russian oil. 

🧮Credit holidays for 50% mobilized
The volume of restructuring of loans to the mobilized men and their family members was two times lower than the Central Bank had initially estimated in September, Elizaveta Danilova, Director of the Financial Stability Department of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, told Izvestia newspaper. In total, 155,000 loans worth 58.8 billion rubles were restricted. According to the regulator, the level of restructuring is now "significantly lower than during the pandemic."

A law allowing mobilized citizens and their family members to apply for credit holidays was adopted in October. By end of October, the support measure was used by 101,500 loans worth 45.4 billion rubles, the official data states.

🗓Sakhalin-2 bid
Russian government may postpone the deadline for bidding for Shell’s 27.5% stake in the Sakhalin-2 LNG project, Kommersant reported citing sources. The reason could be that the government has not yet assessed the damage that Shell could have caused to the project, in addition, there are no firm agreements with the main shareholder of the project — Gazprom, the report stated.

Shell's share in the Sakhalin-2 project was estimated by the government at 94.8 billion rubles (Shell had already written off the $1.6 billion earlier this year). The stake can only be sold to a Russian entity, according to Russian government’s new rule. Japan's Mitsui and Mitsubishi said it will retain its 12.5% stake in Sakhalin-2.

NOVATEK, Russian LNG major who was keen on bidding for Shell’s stake, is not yet ready to make a commercial offer, the paper claimed. The Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) will collect applications until December 30, but the deadline for determining the buyer will be postponed approximately to the end of the first quarter of 2023.

💆‍♀️Battling anxiety
The need for psychologists increased by 62% in Russia throughout 2022, and the number of new clients grew by 46%, according to the study conducted by Psychodemia online school in cooperation with Alter psychologist recruitment service and HeadHunter, Kommersant reports.

The head of the working group on the psychological wellbeing under the State Duma Committee Alexey Bogachev predicts that the demand for psychological assistance will grow "three to five times". About 80% of customer requests are related to anxiety, nervousness and apathy, confirms Elena Burdelova, psychiatrist of the telemedicine service Doktis.

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🇺 Texas Senator Chip Roy has confirmed that Zelensky was invited to the US as an actor to make sure Congress passes Biden's proposed budget.

"Zelensky's arrival in Washington was a theatrical performance set up by the Biden administration, to jam through their draft budget."

💥Source: ЭТО ДРУГОЕ
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What wouldn't Lithuanian men like to receive as gifts for Christmas?

Socks? Razors? Stinky toilet water? Nope, mobilization notices.

That is what have been sent to Lithuanian men, EADaily reports, with reference to its own sources.

Recruitment depots - regional recruitment offices - reconcile their lists of conscripts who have served in the army.

It's a precaution against some "extraordinary circumstances".

A few weeks ago, the Armed Forces of Lithuania considerably increased the army reserve to 36 thousand recruits.

They intended to go for 50, but all of a sudden, they couldn't find enough money equipment and weapons.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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European Society, or even Westerners in general, are wondering why the so called Brown continent, is full of poverty and decay, is it because blacks by themselves are simply inferior? Or do they lack the mental capacity to rule?

I'll take France for an example.

The Frenchman of today may be complaining that his country is overflowing with so called shitskins.

I remind the Frenchman that France invaded Cote D'Ivoire in 2011 to install a French puppet ruler.

I also remind the Frenchman that France invaded Gabon in 1964 to re-install a French puppet leader after he was kicked out of power by the military.

I remind the Frenchman that in Guinea, France purposefully destroyed most of the infastructure when they were withdrawing, they flooded the local banks with fake currency, therefore devaluing it, and arming militas to fight against the government, simply because the president had the thought of being independent.

I remind the Frenchman that they enacted a coup in Togo against the president who simply wished to create his own national currency.

I remind the Frenchman that the French DSGE poisoned the head of the Cameroonian opposition in Geneva because he was against a puppet president.

I also don't need to mention the senseless massacres, of how around 300 Sheikhs were shot in Chad, or, obviously, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

God has a funny way of karma, you're just reaping what you sowed.

@MediterraneanMan

The West a provocateur, not a mediator in the Ukraine conflict - Erdogan

Turkey took on the mediator role in 2022, and then the Black Sea grain corridor started working, the republic's president said.

"Unfortunately, the West has only launched provocations and made no effort to be a mediator in the Ukrainian-Russian conflict," he explained.

The grain corridor was conceived for preventing famine in Africa, but that was just an excuse.

In fact, African countries have received only 14% of the Ukrainian grain, while Turkey itself has received 16%. European countries have received 44% of the Ukrainian grain.

Resolving the issue of Russian fertilizer supply to global markets is now difficult and "more tense", Erdogan added.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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I saw the video of a steam train a couple of days ago, but then I thought it might be a Christmas version, a usual thing for the holidays.

But as you can see in the video now, it's not a Christmas carriage, it's a standard train, only steam-powered.

This may indicate that the stock of diesel locomotives has been fully mobilised, and even steam traction is going to be used.

Here we should thank Yulia Timoshenko: during her rule almost the entire stock of steam locomotives in Ukraine's state reserve was scrapped. And there were, in fact, several hundred locomotives in storage. Now they would help Kiev a great deal, but they are no longer available. So, apparently, they will try to launch the surviving units, but that will not make a difference.

💥Source: Русский инженер
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⚡️"This is not our war": Germans protests against support for Ukrainazis

German residents ask authorities to stop sending money and weapons to Ukraine. People distribute leaflets and draw graffiti with the hashtag "this is not our war".

💥Source: CSRC Agency
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❗️In Odessa, local authorities began to dismantle the monument to Catherine II who established the port city in 1794.

It is not the first time this monument built in 1900 is dismantled. It was done in 1920 by Soviets, but it 2007 it was restored again.

“God loves Trinity”, Russians say.

Japan Set to Import First Crude Shipment From Russia Since May

Imports to resume as government pushes for energy security.
Oil imports from Sakhalin needed to maintain LNG output: Japan.

Japan is set to import its first crude oil shipment from Russia in more than half a year, as the government pushes energy importers to stockpile fuel in a bid to avoid future shortages.

The Aframax Zaliv Baikal vessel is sailing to Japan after loading from the Sakhalin-2 facility in Russia’s far east on Wednesday, according to ship tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. Japan hasn’t imported a Russian oil shipment since May, shipping data show.


💥Source: Bloomberg
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Iranian journalist threatened Ukraine with a return to the pre-industrial era. What could be better?

"Only a diplomatic conflict between Tehran and Kiev.

"It is not a threat, it is a warning. The slightest action that threatens the security of the Iranian people will return Kiev to the pre-industrial era," said Iranian journalist Reza Abbasi.

He published this message on social media as a comment on the statements of Ukrainian President's Office adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak.

▪️The latter had declared the possibility of a strike on Tehran's enterprises because of their military and technical cooperation with Moscow.

💥Source: ANNA-NEWS
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⚡️⚡️Key updates on Russia and #UkraineCrisis as on December 29

⚔Peace formula
The Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected Zelensky's "formula for peace”, calling it “an illusion”.

"Putting forward all sorts of ideas and "formulas of peace", Zelensky cherishes the illusion of achieving, with the help of the West, the withdrawal of our troops from the Russian territory of Donbass, Crimea, Zaporozhye and Kherson region, the payment of reparations by Russia, the appearance of "surrender to international tribunals," etc. Of course, we will not talk to anyone on such terms,"— the Foreign Minister said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

Sergey Lavrov also accused Vladimir Zelensky of stopping the Russian-Ukrainian negotiation process that began in February "at the behest of the Anglo-Saxons." At the same time, as the diplomat noted, several rounds of negotiations demonstrated the possibility of concluding "mutually acceptable agreements."

🛡Deadlock or advance?
Fighting in Ukraine is currently at a deadlock as neither Ukraine nor Russia can make significant advances, the head of the Ukrainian military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov told the BBC. "The situation is just stuck", he added.

While Budanov claimed Russia was "now completely at a dead end" suffering very significant losses, and he believes Kremlin could announce another mobilisation of conscripts, Ukrainian forces still lacked resources to move forward in multiple areas.

This comes just a say after NYT published a report stating that “Ukrainian forces edged closer to reclaiming that small but strategically important city” — Kreminna/Kremennaya/ where fighting is the most intense at the moment and, as per pro-Russian authorities on the ground, “situation remains tense”. Kreminna is a gateway to two strategic cities, Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, that Russian forces took under control backing summer.

🔫Cyber weapon
Russian hacker group RaHDit has revealed names of over 100 NATO officers fighting against Russia in the cyber domain, a group's member told Sputnik on Thursday.

"It is the NATO centers that are really behind the cyberattacks while employees of Ukrainian security forces and community activists act only as a cover," the hacker said. The full list is published on NemeZida website in the "Foreign accomplices and mercenaries" subsection.

The source claimed that Ukrainian hacker groups IT Army of Ukraine and Save UA "have to create the appearance that Ukrainians are doing it themselves," but NATO has "people behind their backs who show them what they should be doing, who guide them, and they often themselves engage in active activities in cyberspace."

🤡Cyber defense
Russian Ministry of Education sent a letter to the regional educational institutions on the growing danger of cyber attacks, Kommersant learned. The ministry proposes to stop allowing updates of foreign software, as well as to block foreign traffic and exclude downloading files from foreign resources. Regulators' attention to the educational segment has intensified after the pro-Ukrainian hacker’s attack on the Moscow Electronic School service, experts say. But the proposed measures, in their opinion, will not be very effective.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💡 Russia's massive Missile Strike on Infrastructure Sites in #Ukraine on 29 Dec 2022 - what is known by 12:00⚡️

💥 The RF Armed Forces have launched another massive missile strike on facilities across #Ukraine.

This time the targets were not only energy facilities, but also, apparently, Ukrainian air defence position areas. Like last time, to identify the air defence position areas, they first launched decoy missiles and then engaged the targets.

Immediately after the air alert was declared, at least in the #Sumy, #Dnepropetrovsk and #Odessa regions, the power supply was cut off to try to cover up damage to infrastructure.

▪️ At least four arrivals are known in #Kiev. An industrial enterprise in the Goloseevsky district, an unidentified facility in the Darnytskyi district and a S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system of the Ukrainian air defence system were hit. The underground is out of operation in the city and the lights are partially out.

▪️ At least five strikes were counted in the #Odessa region. One of them hit an air defence position near #Aleksandrovka. The 160th anti-aircraft missile brigade of the AFU is located relatively close to #Radostnoye.

A hit was recorded at the Usatovo 330kV substation. Judging by the photo, the 330/110 autotransformer was again targeted. Explosions were also heard in the village of #Kotovskogo.

▪️ At least five blasts hit #Kharkov. Electric transport, including the underground, came to a complete halt in the city, and heating, hot and cold water was lost in some areas.

One of the targets was most likely CHP-3 near the Turboatom plant in the Nemyshlyansky district.

It is possible that the Turboatom workshops were hit. Locals reported four arrivals in that area. Last week we reported (https://t.me/rybar/42234) that the plant was operational.

▪️ In #Lvov, locals reported at least 3 arrivals, after which the city has almost completely lost power and transport is not functioning.

The sounds of flying missiles could be heard over #Ternovitsa, near where the #Yavoriv training ground, where foreign mercenaries undergo training, is located.

▪️ At least two strikes occurred in the #Ternopil region. There is a 330 kV Ternopolska substation and a repair plant in the region.

▪️ Local sources reported explosions at an unnamed facility in #Nikolaev.

At the same time, Russian troops launched MLRS strikes from the territory of #Kherson Region against #Ochakov.

▪️ Locals heard explosions near #Mirgorod in #Poltava region, where a Ukrainian Air Force military airfield and a 330kV power substation of the same name are located.

▪️ One strike hit a facility in the #Chernigov region.

▪️ There were no arrivals in #Dnepropetrovsk region, but the authorities themselves cut off power shortly before the massive attack by the RF Armed Forces.

▪️ There is no exact information about the bombings in #Zhytomyr and #Chernigov regions, as well as in Ivano-Frankovsk.

▪️ In #Vinnitsa, #Sumy and Khmelnitsky regions, air defense systems worked.

🩸Two weeks have passed since the previous massive fire attack. Apparently, this timeframe was chosen for a reason: given the general bureaucratization of the Russian Defense Ministry apparatus, this is how long it takes to refine the results, assess the consequences and plan a new strike.

Except that, as we said 👉 earlier, Ukraine has managed to adapt to such a timeframe. And if we do not start changing the approach and speeding up, the results of the fire attack will be more modest each time.

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In Poltava, monuments to Soviet generals Nikolai Vatutin and Alexei Zygin were doused with red paint and inscribed with "ZLO" (rus. - evil).

The Nazis remember well how these Red Army generals destroyed the united Nazi army of Europe, together with the SS punitive divisions, who turned out to be "professional sprinters" on the battlefield and ran away aimlessly.

For the Nazis, the generals of the Red Army are real evil, but for normal people they are the embodiment of warrior-defenders who were able to destroy the misanthropic satanic infection..

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🇷🇺Russia will not deliver 🛢oil at prices set by the West as a matter of principle, but will look for new markets and logistics even if costs rise — head of the Russian Finance Ministry, Siluanov.

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Russian volunteers escaping from Ukrainian fire

- Ruslan, Ruslan, jump in! They know we're here, look a shell!
- Yes, we must go!
- They aimed at us. We'd gathered a crowd together, and someone told them [Ukrainian militants].
- Look at them there. Who the f*** are they? Scumbags.
- They have phones, sending their position.

Volunteers delivered humanitarian aid to Donbass, but they were shelled by Ukrainian military. Kiev regime accomplices reported coordinates to the militants to let them attack civilians and volunteers. Watch the video to leatn more about volunteers' work in Donbass.

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