То есть те, кто им как бы «выгоден» и родился на Украине, кого-то они вписывают в национальную славу и гордость своей страны. А кто родился на той же самой Украине, но не выгоден, того вымарывают. Каков этот критерий?

В г.Ирпень Киевской области с расположенного на братской могиле памятника советским воинам была удалена надпись: «Слава героям, павшим за Родину в Великой Отечественной войне 1941-1945 гг.». В городе также снесён барельеф Ордена Победы.

Кто это мог сделать, как не неонацисты? Вдумайтесь только. Ведь за всем этим стоит Банковая, то есть те, кто являются нынешними правителями Украины. Как их по-другому назвать? Если бы они были просто полоумными, наверное, их бы не встречали в Европейском союзе, в Брюсселе, в Вашингтоне, в Лондоне, в Париже. Значит, там их рассматривают, как неких верифицированных правителей. Значит, это их идеология? А как она называется? Когда сносят памятники тем, кто сражался с нацизмом до последней капли крови, жертвуя свою жизнь на это благородное дело. Как их по-другому назвать? Тех, кто хочет полного уничтожения – от физического до морального – всего того, что связано с движением антифашизма. Их можно назвать только неофашистами, неонацистами.

В с.Молучки Ровенской области власти демонтировали памятные надписи на монументе в честь погибших в боях с нацистами солдат, в с.Крюковщина Киевской области – барельеф ордена Отечественной войны с мемориала воинам-освободителям, в с.Путила Черновицкой области – (даже не знаю, как это назвать – снесли, срубили, оторвали) голову у статуи солдата на мемориальном комплексе павших советских воинов. На мой взгляд, это уже настоящий сатанизм – вот так глумиться над мемориалами погибшим.

19 ноября с.г. горсовет Одессы утвердил новую редакцию «Устава территориальной общины» города. Как думаете, что изъято из этого? Как Вы помните, город уже изъял статую основательницы города Екатерины II. Теперь город изъял из текста Устава упоминание о Российской империи, СССР. Изъято упоминание Екатерины Великой, других неразрывно связанных с ним выдающихся исторических фигур.

В Уставе не осталось даже намёка на русский язык как составляющую культурного наследия «южной Пальмиры».

Интересно, когда они напишут новые учебники, как они будут рассказывать, кто основал Одессу? Видимо, формулировка будет такая – «Одесса возникла сама по себе». «Волною город принесло на берег». Что ещё? «С неба упало». Как будут обозначать, что великий город с потрясающими памятниками архитектуры, зодчества, с красивейшими улицами и проспектами, с памятниками, музеями, торговыми рядами, не был связан с Российской империей и Советским Союзом? Интересно, какую дату напишут? Думаю, поработают какие-нибудь неонацистские, украинские, бандеровские «историки» и «откопают» что-нибудь из времён неолита с подписью «Здесь был Мыкола и основал Одессу».

Новым гимном города вместо утверждённой в 2011 г. «Песни об Одессе» из оперетты «Белая акация» в исполнении Т.И.Шмыги (на музыку И.О.Дунаевского и слова В.З.Масса и М.А.Червинского) была выбрана переведённая на украинский язык легендарная песня «У Чёрного моря», написанная в 1951 г. одесситами – поэтом С.И.Кирсановым и композитором М.Е.Табачниковым специально для другого одессита – знаменитого эстрадного артиста Л.О.Утёсова. Долгое время это лирическое произведение служило визитной карточкой «жемчужины у моря». Теперь одесский гимн называется «Край Чорного моря» в украинской фольклорной аранжировке. Это даже не квазинаучно или антиисторично, это безумно, то что происходит.

Такой прием, очевидно, был заимствован из игры КВН, в которую в молодости играла команда В.А.Зеленского, и программы «95-й квартал» – в которой сочинялись новые тексты на мелодии популярных советских и российских шлягеров. Но в КВН и в других развлекательных программах это делалось как раз для сатиры, юмора, для того, чтобы люди смеялись, не воспринимая это всерьёз. Здесь речь идёт об издевательстве над памятью города, над памятью тех людей, которые слагали его славу, величие. Это издевательство над теми, кто воспевал столетиями красоту Одессы. Пришли вурдалаки и всё переписали.

А зачем это делается – тоже понятно. Цель этих примитивных манипуляций – лишить Одессу и одесситов подлинной истории.

Едва ли такими мерами Банковая завоюет расположение одесситов. Напротив, эта отчаянная борьба с собственным прошлым ускорит разложение и крах прогнившего киевского режима.

Списки на «декоммунизацию» и «деколонизацию» у современных последователей С.А.Бандеры и Р.И.Шухевича и прочих фашистских коллаборационистов – немалые. Там работа «кипит». Это же не строить, не сеять, не пахать. Это просто писать списки, а потом их реализовывать, имею в виду уничтожать памятник за памятником, объект за объектом. По сути их используют как прикрытие, в том числе и для воровства денег. Эта функция освоена на Украине до совершенства.

Чем малочисленнее население и его культурный уровень, тем лучше для киевских временщиков. Но именно они сами в конечном итоге станут «пылью истории». Мемориалы и памятники будут восстановлены, а украинский народ спросит за всё с цепляющихся за власть узурпаторов, в том числе за глумление над историей, осквернение памяти своих предков-героев, за издевательство над выдающимися сынами прошлого.

С 17 по 19 ноября с.г. в Вашингтоне находилась группа священников ряда православных церквей с целью повысить осведомлённость американских официальных лиц о вопиющих нарушениях прав верующих на Украине и обсудить механизмы защиты канонической Украинской православной церкви. С инициативой такой поездки выступила Национальная федерация молодых республиканцев США. Церковные деятели в ходе встреч с членами Палаты представителей и официальными лицами Белого дома апеллировали к важности подключения Вашингтона к усилиям по отмене закона 2024 г., нацеленного на запрет УПЦ, по освобождению заключённых священнослужителей, оказанию жертвам преследований юридической и медицинской помощи, а также прекращению мобилизации клириков канонической церкви в ряды ВСУ. Отдельный пункт – проработка гарантий неиспользования направляемого Киеву иностранного финансирования на притеснения христиан, на уничтожение православных святынь, храмов, монастырей. Дошло уже и до прямого физического измывательства и, к сожалению, убийств священнослужителей.

В поддержку и защиту этой благородной миссии от нападок русофобов и сторонников киевского режима выступил ряд христианских общин, а также законодатель-республиканка А.П.Луна. С трудом просочившиеся в местное медиапространство свидетельства о репрессивных действиях Киева против УПЦ, по имеющейся информации, привлекли внимание вице-президента США Дж.Д.Вэнса, получили подсветку в интервью репортёра Т.Карлсона с известным адвокатом интересов УПЦ Р.Амстердамом, в красках рассказавшим о том, что в реальности происходит на Украине в религиозной сфере. В декабре с.г. на Капитолии планируется дальнейшее обсуждение между законодателями и православными христианами со всей Америки мер по защите УПЦ.

А обсудить есть что. С 2022 г. под сфабрикованные уголовные дела на Украине уже попало более 200 православных священников, 40 из них приговорены к разным срокам лишения свободы. За что? За то, что они священнослужители. Украинские раскольники, радикалы и силовики продолжают циничное «рейдерство». 11 и 16 ноября с.г. были захвачены еще два храма УПЦ – иконы «Чернобыльский Спас» в Черкассах и Преображенский собор в с.Мошны Черкасской области.

17 ноября с.г. опубликован приказ руководителя Госслужбы по этнополитике и свободе совести Украины В.Е.Еленского с перечнем религиозных организаций, признанных «аффилированными с иностранной религиозной организацией, деятельность которой запрещена на Украине», читай, с Русской православной церковью. В него вошли Киевская Митрополия и Корецкий Свято-Троицкий женский ставропигиальный монастырь УПЦ. По «антицерковному» закону 2024 г. их деятельность подлежит запрету в судебном порядке. Заседание по соответствующему иску в Киевском административном суде состоится 11 декабря, но упомянутая Госслужба уже сейчас пытается давить на судебную инстанцию и форсировать события, чтобы поскорее приступить к расправе с Киевской Митрополией, а затем и со всей УПЦ.

Никак не могла понять, почему они так назвали Госслужбу – украинская Госслужба по свободе совести. Видимо, потому что Госслужба Украины давно сама себя освободила от совести.

Перечисленные факты подтверждают актуальность задач по денацификации и демилитаризации Украины и устранению угроз, исходящих с её территории. Все эти цели, как неоднократно заявляло российское руководство, будут выполнены.

💬 Extract from the briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, November 27, 2025

Ukraine update

The neo-Nazi Kiev regime continues to commit war crimes and acts of terror. Over the past week, 53 people came under attacks by the Ukrainian artillery and drones; seven were killed and 46, including five children, were injured. In order for the international community to know the truth, we will present several facts, first, live and then in writing. Our briefing is translated into several languages. This information will definitely reach every corner of the planet so that people know what the neo-Nazi Kiev regime of the first quarter of the 21st century is all about.

Belgorod Region. On November 21, Ukrainian militants cynically directed a kamikaze drone at a young family with a four-year-old son travelling in a car in the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka. The Ukrainians knew they were targeting unarmed civilians, a family with a child. The boy suffered severe injuries but survived. His parents didn’t. On November 20-25, more than 20 people came under fire in various localities across six municipalities of that region. Four of them died in the attacks.

Bryansk Region. On November 22, a man was wounded in a kamikaze drone attack on the village of Azarovka. On November 23, a civilian was injured in a Ukrainian artillery attack on Belaya Beryozka. On November 25, a kamikaze drone wounded a man in the village of Kozhanovka.

DPR. One person was wounded in an artillery attack on Gorlovka. The detonation of unexploded ordnance in Svetlodarsk and the village of Krasnaya Polyana injured two people, including a teenager born in 2011.

Krasnodar Territory. Six civilians were wounded and at least 20 buildings in five municipalities were damaged in a barrage of drones on the night of November 25. The enemy targeted residential areas of Novorossiysk and Tuapse, and the outskirts of Gelendzhik.

Kursk Region. On November 23, in the village of Biryukovka, a 68-year-old civilian was severely injured when he picked up an explosive device lying on the ground in his yard. On November 25, three people were injured in enemy attacks on the town of Lgov and the Lgov District.

Rostov Region. On the night of November 25, Ukrainian forces attacked Taganrog and the Neklinovsky District. Three people were killed and at least eight were injured. A kindergarten, a college building, public buildings, four blocks of flats, 12 private houses, and industrial premises were damaged.

Chuvashia. On November 26, two people, including a teenager, were injured in a drone attack in Cheboksary.

Kherson Region. On November 20-25, at least 16 people were injured in drone strikes and artillery shelling targeting residential areas, public buildings, social facilities, and motor roads.

These are the deadly “accomplishments” of the terrorist Kiev regime. This terrorism can rightfully be referred to as international terrorism, considering that the funding comes from its foreign sponsors from the EU and NATO. Civilians, children, and entire families are included in the performance reports submitted by Bankovaya Street to their sponsors. Justice will be served for all of this.

Russian courts continue to hand down sentences to Ukrainian neo-Nazis and mercenaries.

For war crimes committed in the Kursk Region, captured Ukrainian militants have been sentenced to long prison terms. Sergey Pronin was sentenced to 17 years; Alexander Brodovoy, Maxim Onishchenko, Sergey Voitovich, Stanislav Kostenko, and Yevgeny Martynenko to 16 years each; and Yury Pogorely and Georgy Karakulin to 15 years each.

A Swedish mercenary, Erik Hall, who took part in hostilities on the side of Ukraine, was sentenced in absentia to 13.5 years in prison. He has been placed on an international wanted list.

The bloodthirsty coalition of the willing held a meeting amid these developments. On November 25, an emergency online meeting took place under the chairmanship of the UK, Germany, and France who have not yet had their fill of blood and crave more. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined this format for the first time. The discussion of the security guarantees for Ukraine and long-term funding for Ukraine, including through the “full use of frozen Russian assets” took centre stage. Ukrainian President Zelensky addressed the participants with yet another call to increase military and financial assistance to Kiev.

The outcomes of the meeting were summed up by French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. According to them, the coalition decided to create, in the near future, a working group on security guarantees for Ukraine which will closely cooperate with the United States and Türkiye. In addition, London and Paris demanded that the members of this platform give firm commitments with regard to potential deployment of military contingents in Ukraine, as if they haven’t heard what Russia had to say.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who participated in the meeting, remarked that the “coalition” concentrated on the issue of Ukrainian settlement. In her distorted perspective, the “path to peace in Ukraine” inexplicably necessitates escalating pressure on Moscow and the introduction of yet another – the 20th – package of anti-Russian sanctions. A recently made observation was quite pertinent: if you have failed 19 times, perhaps there is no merit in attempting a 20th? Perhaps it is time to assess what is flawed in your approach? After all, it does not yield the desired outcome. The real question, however, is what outcome they seek?

Supporters of the European war party are fixated solely on causing harm to our country.

On November 24, the 4th “parliamentary summit” of the anti-Russian Crimea Platform project convened in Stockholm under the leadership of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk. The gathering included the usual participants from the collective West and its allies, representatives of parliamentary bodies of the EU, the Council of Europe, NATO, the OSCE, and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, attending both in person and virtually. Joining this assembly online was Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Republican Mike Johnson.

The remarks of those assembled offered nothing new. The same fabricated allegations about the “occupation of Crimea,” “persecution of Crimean Tatars,” and “mass human rights violations” on the peninsula were reiterated. They even resurrected their favourite fabrication – the “tragedy in Bucha” and “20,000 kidnapped Ukrainian children.” No surnames have ever been disclosed, no list published, but apparently, this is now the figure. They also spoke of other vague “Russian crimes,” though they themselves have perpetrated hundreds of thousands of transgressions warranting scrutiny.

The tone of the discussion was further set by the ever-present Vladimir Zelensky, who abruptly intervened. He insisted that the international community must not relent in exerting pressure on Russia, must confiscate its frozen sovereign assets abroad, and must not allow Moscow to evade punishment for its “aggression against Ukraine.” Ruslan Stefanchuk echoed these sentiments, once again clearly articulating the Kiev regime’s ambition to “liberate” Crimea by force. “The war will end when Ukraine regains Crimea,” he summarised. In other words, they have effectively admitted that it will never end. They do not wish it to conclude because they are acutely aware that Bankovaya Street will never reclaim Crimea. Because Crimea is not just territory. Crimea is its people – the current generations, the future generations, and those who defended, built, and truly loved it.

In reality, this “summit,” much like the Crimea Platform itself, conceived to propagate anti-Russian narratives, has nothing to do with Crimea or Sevastopol. In 2014, faced with mortal threats from the nationalist radicals who seized power in Kiev through an armed coup – threats to “drown the peninsula in blood,” as they explicitly warned the Crimeans – the people of Crimea chose reunification with their historical homeland, Russia. The examples of Donbass, against which the Kiev regime waged a war of annihilation, and Ukraine itself, whose citizens have become hostages to a corrupt, anti-people, neo-Nazi clique, prove that the choice made by the Crimeans in the 2014 referendum was the only correct one.

The true attitude of the Vladimir Zelensky regime towards the residents of Crimea and Sevastopol – whom those on Bankovaya Street claim they intend to “liberate” – was laid bare on the very day of this gathering in Sweden, when the AFU attempted a mass missile and drone attack on civilian targets on the peninsula. All aerial threats were neutralised by Russian air defence systems.

Such is the “care” shown by the Vladimir Zelensky regime towards those they claim to wish to “liberate.” Through murder?

According to the available information, the United States has launched a campaign in the Philippines to hire local residents for participation in the hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The candidates are selected by RMS International (Florida) specialising in security services. The preference is given to former personnel of the Philippine law enforcement agencies and retired servicemen. They promise them a monthly pay of about $5,000. Before their departure to the conflict area the mercenaries undergo training supervised by US instructors at a training centre in the suburbs of San Fernando, Pampanga.

Those who signed the contract are issued a working Schengen visa at the consular section of the German Embassy in Manila.

Well, how do you like it? Beautiful, isn’t it? People come to the EU countries’ embassies for visas to visit these countries with peaceful purposes: go to museums, theatres, to buy something, travel somewhere, have some rest, visit relatives and friends. If they want to get some medical or educational services, all that is called “humanitarian purposes,” they are boorishly denied because they are Russian citizens, and now this attitude is documented in the decisions of the European Commission. Our compatriots, our fellow citizens are being humiliated and ridiculed, accused of some notorious “Russian aggression” and denied visas because the European Union cannot let them in as they allegedly pose some kind of threat.

I will repeat it again for those, who maybe failed to understand it. The German Embassy in Manila, Philippines, is issuing Schengen visas to the contract servicemen, who are going to take part in the armed conflict on the side of the terrorist Kiev regime. Who do you think is indicated in the documents as the employer? Possibly, this may be a surprise for the Italians, Spaniards, French and residents of other EU countries. After all, these Filipinos are invited to enter the territory where these Europeans live, into the common Schengen area. Who do you think is listed as the employer? Berlin private security agencies.

On arriving in Germany, the recruited service members are transferred to other EU countries, Poland, for example, and then to Ukraine. What are the guarantees that they will not be sent to any other place? No guarantee. But the main thing is different. This is the reason for PACE and all the other institutions that have emerged in Western Europe (the ECHR and others) to discuss the situation. How did it happen that Americans are recruiting Filipinos in the Philippines and the German Embassy issues them Schengen visas under an absolutely false pretext, indicating false information in the relevant documents?

In Ukraine, the campaign against Soviet historical and memorial heritage persists. It is as though this frenzy is driven by their realisation that the Bankovaya authorities have little time left, and they must act swiftly and forcefully to erase what remains of Ukraine’s true historical memory, of its history.

In the city of Chernovtsy, a commemorative plaque honouring Hero of the Soviet Union and Italy, Fyodor Poletayev – a valiant participant in the Italian Resistance who fought selflessly alongside Italian partisans and perished in battle against the Nazis in 1945 – has been removed. (We have spoken repeatedly about Fyodor Poletayev during our briefings.)

In the city of Nikolayev, a plaque commemorating the birthplace of the renowned Russian and Soviet transport scientist, Academician Vladimir Obraztsov, has been dismantled. What – are they no longer proud of such scholars in Ukraine? I simply cannot grasp the logic. That is to say, those who are deemed “useful” to them and were born in Ukraine are somehow inscribed into the national glory and pride of their country. But those born in the very same Ukraine, yet deemed “unuseful,” are expunged. What kind of criterion is this?

In the town of Irpen, Kiev Region, an inscription on a monument at a mass grave of Soviet soldiers – “Glory to the heroes who fell for the Motherland in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” – has been erased. The town authorities have also demolished a bas-relief of the Order of Victory.

Who could have done this, if not neo-Nazis? Just consider it. Behind all this stands Bankovaya – that is, those who are the current rulers of Ukraine. What else can they be called? If they were merely deranged, they would likely not be welcomed in the European Union, in Brussels, in Washington, in London, in Paris. Evidently, they are viewed there as some sort of verified rulers. So, is this their ideology? And what is it called? When monuments to those who fought Nazism to the last drop of blood, sacrificing their lives for this noble cause, are torn down – what else can they be called? Those who seek the complete destruction – physical and moral – of everything associated with the anti-fascist movement. They can only be called neo-fascists, neo-Nazis.

In the village of Moluchki, Rovno Region, the authorities have removed commemorative inscriptions from a monument honouring soldiers who fell in battle against the Nazis. In the village of Kryukovshchina, Kiev Region, a bas-relief of the Order of the Patriotic War was stripped from a memorial to the liberator soldiers. In the village of Putila, Chernovtsy Region – (I scarcely know what to call it – they torn down, cut off, ripped away) – the head of a soldier’s statue at a memorial complex for fallen Soviet warriors. In my view, this is nothing short of satanism – to so mock the memorials of the dead.

On November 19, the Odessa City Council approved a revised version of the Charter of the Territorial Community of the city. What, do you suppose, has been excised? As you may recall, the city has already removed the statue of its founder, Catherine the Great. Now, the city has purged from the Charter’s text any mention of the Russian Empire or the USSR. References to Catherine the Great and other historical figures inextricably linked to Odessa have been erased.

The Charter no longer contains even a hint of the Russian language as part of the cultural heritage of the Southern Palmyra.

It will be curious to see how, when they write new textbooks, they will explain who founded Odessa. Presumably, the wording will be: “Odessa arose of its own accord.” “The waves brought the city to the shore.” What else? “It came out of the blue.” How will they account for the fact that this great city, with its stunning architectural and artistic monuments, its beautiful streets and avenues, its memorials, museums, and market halls, was in no way connected to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union? I wonder what date they will assign? No doubt some neo-Nazi, Ukrainian, Banderite “historians” will dig up something from the

Neolithic era with an inscription: “Mykola was here and founded Odessa.”

The new anthem of the city which replaced the anthem approved in 2011 - Songs about Odessa from the operetta White Acacia performed by Tatyana Shmyga, music by Issak Dunayevsky and lyrics by Vladimir Mass and Mikhail Chervinsky - was replaced with a Ukrainian-language version of the legendary song By the Black Sea, written in 1951 by Odessa poet Semyon Kirsanov and composer Modest Tabachnikov specially for the famous Odessa resident, performer Leonid Utesov. For a long time, this lyrical work served as the hallmark of “pearl by the sea.” Now the Odessa anthem is called The Edge of the Black Sea in the Ukrainian folk-style arrangement. It is not even quasi-scientific or anti-historical, it’s a craze.

This technique was obviously borrowed from the KVN game, which was played by Vladimir Zelensky's team in his youth, and the Kvartal 95 show, in which new lyrics were composed to the melodies of popular Soviet and Russian hits. But in KVN and other entertainment programmes, this was done just for satire and humor, for people to laugh without taking it seriously. Here we are talking about mocking the memory of the city, the memory of those people who made up its glory and greatness. This is a mockery of those who have been praising the beauty of Odessa for centuries. Ghouls came and rewrote everything. And why this is done is also clear. The purpose of these primitive manipulations is to deprive Odessa and its residents of their true history.

It is unlikely that Bankovaya Street will win the favour of Odessa residents with such measures. On the contrary, this desperate struggle with one’s own past will accelerate the decay and collapse of the rotten Kiev regime.

The modern followers of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych and other Nazi collaborators have lengthy lists of “decommunisation” and “decolonisation.” There is a lot of work going on there. It is not like building, sowing, or plowing. It’s just writing lists and then implementing them, I mean destroying monument after monument, object after object. In fact, they are used as a cover, including for stealing money. This function has been mastered to perfection in Ukraine.

The smaller the population and its cultural level, the better for Kiev’s timeservers. But it is they who will eventually turn into the “dust of history.” Memorials and monuments will be restored, and the Ukrainian people will hold the usurpers clinging to power accountable for everything, including for mocking history, desecrating the memory of their heroic ancestors, and insulting the outstanding sons of the past.

From November 17 to 19, a delegation of clergy from several Orthodox churches visited Washington with the objective of raising awareness among American officials regarding the egregious violations of believers’ rights in Ukraine and discussing mechanisms to safeguard the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church. This initiative was proposed by the Young Republican National Federation of the United States. During meetings with members of the House of Representatives and White House officials, the church representatives underscored the importance of Washington’s involvement in efforts to repeal the 2024 law targeting the ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, secure the release of imprisoned clergy, provide legal and medical assistance to victims of persecution, and halt the mobilisation of clerics from the canonical church into the ranks of the AFU. A separate point involved exploring guarantees to prevent foreign funding allocated to Kiev from being used to oppress Christians or destroy Orthodox shrines, churches, and monasteries. The situation has escalated to direct physical abuse and, regrettably, the murder of clergy.

In support and defence of this noble mission against attacks by Russophobes and adherents of the Kiev regime, several Christian communities, as well as Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna, have spoken out.

Scattered reports of Kiev’s repressive actions against the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which have barely penetrated the local media landscape, are understood to have captured the attention of US Vice President JD Vance. These issues were also highlighted in an interview by Tucker Carlson with Robert Amsterdam, a prominent lawyer representing the interests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, who vividly described the realities of religious persecution in Ukraine. Further discussions between legislators and Orthodox Christians from across America on measures to protect the Ukrainian Orthodox Church are planned for December this year on Capitol Hill.

And there is much to discuss. Since 2022, over 200 Orthodox priests in Ukraine have faced fabricated criminal charges, with 40 sentenced to various prison terms. Why? Because they are clergy. Ukrainian schismatics, radicals, and security forces continue their cynical raiding. On November 11 and 16, two more Ukrainian Orthodox Church sites were seized – the Chernobyl Saviour Icon Church in Cherkassy and the Transfiguration Cathedral in the village of Moshny, Cherkassy Region.

On November 17, an order was published by the head of Ukraine’s State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, Viktor Yelensky, listing religious organisations deemed “affiliated with a foreign religious organisation whose activities are prohibited in Ukraine” – in other words, with the Russian Orthodox Church. This list includes the Kiev Metropolia and the Korets Holy Trinity Stavropegial Convent of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Under the 2024 anti-church law, their activities are subject to judicial prohibition. A hearing on the relevant lawsuit in the Kiev Administrative Court is scheduled for December 11, but the aforementioned State Service is already attempting to pressure the judiciary and expedite proceedings to swiftly dismantle the Kiev Metropolia and, subsequently, the entire Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

One might wonder why they named it the Ukrainian State Service for Freedom of Conscience. Presumably because the State Service of Ukraine long ago liberated itself from conscience.

The aforementioned facts underscore the urgency of the tasks of denazification and demilitarisation of Ukraine and the elimination of threats emanating from its territory. As the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated, all these objectives will be achieved.

❗️Вниманию граждан Российской Федерации!

📌 С 12 ноября 2025 г. на российско-польском погранпереходе «Мамоново – Гжехотки», с 13 ноября – на российско-польском погранпереходе «Багратионовск – Безледы», с 17 ноября – в варшавском аэропорту им. Ф.Шопена и в аэропорту «Ольштын-Мазуры», с 19 ноября – в аэропорту Варшава-Модлин начал действовать обновленный порядок контроля въезда и выезда для граждан стран, не входящих в ЕС, что связано с очередным этапом запуска общеевропейской системы «Entry/Exit System» (EES).

📌 Первый этап внедрения системы начался в Польше
12 октября 2025 г. на некоторых наземных погранпереходах с Белоруссией и Украиной.

📌 EES предназначена для автоматической регистрации данных лиц, въезжающих в Шенгенскую зону на срок до 90 дней в течение 180-дневного периода, независимо от того, имеют ли они краткосрочные шенгенские визы или используют безвизовой режим.

📌 В базе фиксируются данные загранпаспорта (имя, фамилия, дата рождения, гражданство), время и место пересечения внешней границы ЕС, биометрические данные (фото лица и отпечатки пальцев), сведения об отказах во въезде.

🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin's answers to media questions (December 2, 2025, Moscow)

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❓ Question: In a few hours you will meet Stephen Witkoff, who has travelled to Moscow specifically for the negotiating process. In fact, it now involves only the American Side. Why are the Europeans silent, why are they so detached from this process?

💬 Vladimir Putin: The Europeans are not silent. They are offended that they have supposedly been excluded from the negotiating process. Let me be clear: no one excluded them – they excluded themselves. At one point we maintained close contact with them, and then they abruptly cut off relations with Russia.

Why did they do this? Because they adopted the idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia and, apparently, still live under this illusion. Although they understand – rationally understand – that this is long in the past, that it was impossible. They mistook wishful thinking for reality at the time, but cannot and do not want to admit it to themselves. They removed themselves from this process – that is the first point.

The second point – seeing that they are also unhappy with today’s outcome, they have started to hinder the efforts of the current US Administration and President Trump to achieve peace through negotiations.

They refused peace talks themselves, and now they are obstructing President Trump.

The third point – they have no peace agenda, as they are on the side of war. And even when they ostensibly try to introduce some adjustments to President Trump’s proposals – we see this clearly – all these adjustments are aimed at one thing only: to block the entire peace process, to put forward demands that are absolutely unacceptable to Russia (and they know this), and then to blame Russia for derailing the peace process. That is their goal.

If they wish to align themselves with reality – with the situation that exists “on the ground”, as they say – they are welcome. We do not rule this out.

❓ Question: Péter Szijjártó said today that Europe could find itself in a state of war with Russia. He says NATO, its European part, plans to bring its troops to full combat readiness by 2029, and that by 2030 there is a risk of armed conflict. Are we preparing for anything of this kind?

💬 Vladimir Putin: We have no intention to fight Europe – I have said this a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly decides it wants a war with us and starts one, we are ready right now. There can be no doubt about that.

The only question is this: if Europe does start a war with us, I believe events might escalate very quickly. This won't be Ukraine. In Ukraine, we are acting with surgical precision, carefully. It is not a "war" in the direct, modern sense of the word.

But if Europe were to start a war with us, the situation could very quickly reach a point where there is... simply no one left for us to negotiate with.

❓ Question: Could you comment on the attacks on tankers off the coast of Türkiye? There was another such incident today.

💬 Vladimir Putin: The Ukrainian armed forces have previously tried to strike our seaports. We responded – we did not initiate these operations – with similar strikes. This primarily concerned vessels delivering military equipment, hardware, and ammunition to Ukraine. Ukraine’s armed forces have crossed into piracy.

What response measures are available to us?

❗️ We will expand the range of our strikes against port facilities and against vessels and ships entering Ukrainian ports.

If this continues, we will consider – I am not saying we will do it, but we will consider – taking retaliatory measures against ships of those countries that assist Ukraine in carrying out these piracy attacks.

The most radical option is to cut Ukraine off from the sea entirely. That would make piracy impossible in principle. But all this would be escalatory.

I hope that the Ukrainian military and political leadership, as well as those standing behind them, will reflect on whether it is worth continuing this practice.

📰 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article 'The Degradation of the OSCE: The Price of Serving Western Interests'

Published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on December 3, 2025 ahead of the OSCE Ministerial in Vienna

✍️ In just a few days, on December 4-5, the OSCE Ministerial Council will gather in Vienna for an annual meeting. Russia has traditionally been active in this consultative mechanism. Considering the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki Final Act, the Russian delegation will focus on the origins of the current state of affairs at the Vienna platform.

I will say right away that the situation is desperate.

The pan-European process was launched at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s to:

• overcome Europe’s division,
• alleviate military-political confrontation,
• to promote trade and economic cooperation.

After the Cold War and bloc confrontation ended, there was a chance to form pan-European architecture of equal and indivisible security. The OSCE could well have become its cornerstone. Upon its establishment in 1994, it brought together former members of the Warsaw Treaty Organisation, NATO members, as well as neutral states. At the top level, the OSCE agreed on a crucial political commitment not to strengthen one’s security at the expense of the security of others. <...>

The problem is that the OSCE participating states representing the collective West did not honour this commitment and instead opted for a European security system based on NATO. From the mid-1990s onward, they carried out NATO’s eastward expansion contrary to the assurances once given to the Soviet leadership not to do so. <...>

NATO and EU members, not Russia, dismantled the OSCE’s politico-military dimension. <...>

Despite resistance from NATO and the EU, Russia has so far managed to prevent the abolition of the consensus rule in the work of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) which is the OSCE’s main platform for addressing military security issues. <...> Hope that this format would facilitate military-to-military contacts failed to materialise.

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The organisation’s critical functions as envisioned by its founders include early warning and dispute resolution. The OSCE has failed to become an honest broker in resolving regional conflicts. <...>

The OSCE abandoned the principle of impartiality in the Ukraine crisis with Berlin and Paris turning a blind eye to Kiev sabotaging the 2015 Minsk Agreements and the crimes committed by Ukrainian armed formations against civilians in Donbass, starting with the 2014 “anti-terrorist operation” to this day.

This Ukrainisation has affected the economic dimension as well. The OSCE has discarded previous achievements on combatting corruption, advancing the digital economy, and building transport infrastructure. It has reached the point where, contrary to the spirit and letter of Helsinki, unilateral coercive measures are being justified at the Vienna venue. <...>

The situation with the human dimension, i.e. the third basket, which the West used to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union and modern-day Russia, is not any better. Urgent tasks such as promoting intercultural dialogue, combatting manifestations of neo-Nazism, Islamophobia, and Christianophobia, and protecting the rights of ethnic minorities and believers have been wiped out from the agenda. <...>

The OSCE is also looking the other way when it comes to censoring Russian media in the West even though its documents clearly state that each participating state must ensure free access to information.

Using the visa lever, Russian civil society representatives are prevented from attending the OSCE events. Clearly, the organisers fear hearing the truth about what is actually happening in our country.

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I’d like to close by reiterating that there is no cause for optimism.

Preventing the OSCE’s collapse, at least now, is still possible. To achieve this, all participating states must return to observing the Helsinki principles of equal and mutually respectful dialogue.

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⚡️ Statement by Aide to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov on President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with the Special Envoy of the US President Stephen Witkoff (December 3, 2025, Moscow)

💬 Yuri Ushakov: The conversation was very useful, constructive, substantive, and lasted five hours. This made it possible to thoroughly discuss prospects for further joint work aimed at achieving a long-term peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.

Naturally, together with our American colleagues, we discussed the contents of the documents that the US had handed over to Moscow some time ago. We did not discuss specific wording or specific American proposals – we discussed the substance behind the proposals contained in these documents.

There were points with which we could agree, and the President confirmed this to his interlocutors; and there were points that drew criticism, and the President likewise did not conceal our critical, even negative, attitude to a number of proposals.

What matters most is that the discussion was very productive. And most importantly, I would stress once again that both Sides expressed readiness to continue joint work to achieve a long-term peaceful settlement in Ukraine.

Specific territorial issues were discussed, since without addressing them, we do not see a way to resolve the crisis. Of course, the enormous prospects for future economic cooperation between Russia and the US were also discussed. By the way, this has been raised repeatedly at earlier meetings. But today it was emphasized that if we genuinely want to cooperate – and the opportunities for this are immense – then real determination must now be shown, both in Moscow and in Washington.

Overall, it was a very useful, positive conversation. And, of course, the meeting began with the Trump representatives conveying greetings and best wishes from their President to Vladimir Putin. In turn, our President asked them to convey his friendly greetings to President Trump. Moreover, he passed on not only friendly greetings, but also a number of important political signals, which will be delivered to Washington.

Answers to media questions:

• It was agreed that at the level of aides and other representatives we will continue contacts with the US Side, including Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner who visited the Kremlin today. As for a possible meeting at the presidential level, this will depend on the progress we manage to achieve along this path as we work persistently and consistently through the channels of aides, foreign ministries, and other agencies.

• There was a document containing 27 points. It was handed to us, and we studied it. Although we did not work on the specific wording or engage in discussions with our American colleagues on that matter. Then we received several more documents – four documents, to be specific – which were also discussed today at the meeting . All of them concern a long-term peaceful settlement of the crisis in Ukraine. Initially there was one version; then that version was revised, and instead of one document, four appeared.

• A compromise version has not been found yet. However, some of the American ideas look more or less acceptable, but they require discussion. Some of the proposed wording does not suit us.

• We agreed with our US colleagues that we will not disclose the substance of the talks. This is perfectly reasonable. The talks were completely closed and confidential. Considerable work still lies ahead, both in Washington and in Moscow. This was agreed, and contacts will continue.

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#АндреевСергейВадимович

📑 Указом Президента Российской Федерации №885 от 2 декабря 2025 года Сергей Вадимович Андреев был освобожден от обязанностей Чрезвычайного и Полномочного Посла Российской Федерации в Республике Польша.

#Россия #Польша

#SiergiejWadimowiczAndriejew

📑 Dekretem Prezydenta Federacji Rosyjskiej Nr 885 z dnia 2 grudnia 2025 roku Siergiej Wadimowicz Andriejew został odwołany ze stanowiska Ambasadora Nadzwyczajnego i Pełnomocnego Federacji Rosyjskiej w Rzeczypospolitej
Polskiej.

#Rosja #Polska

#YourNameIsUnknown
#YourFeatIsImmortal

🕯December 3 marks the #DayOfTheUnknownSoldier in Russia, honouring the feat of all soldiers who perished for the Motherland, yet whose names remain unknown.

#OTD in 1966, to mark the 25th anniversary of defeating Nazi invaders near Moscow, a ceremony of the burial of an unknown soldiers' remains was held in the Alexander Garden near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Those remains were originally located in a mass grave on the 41st kilometre of the Leningrad Highway — exactly the place that saw the fierce fighting between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht troops during the Battle of Moscow in November−December 1941.

On December 3, 1966, at a mourning ceremony, the Unknown Soldier’s coffin was mounted on an armoured personnel vehicle with a red banner, which proceeded through Gorky Street (now Tverskaya Street) to the Alexander Garden under the sound of the military march.

In the Alexander Garden, the Unknown Soldier was met by members of the USSR leadership, as well as the legendary Marshals of the Soviet Union — Georgy Zhukov and Konstantin Rokossovsky.

On May 8, 1967, ahead of #VictoryDay, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was unveiled as a memorial architectural ensemble. Soviet newspapers reported back then: “He perished for his Motherland and for his home city of Moscow. That is all we know about him.”

The granite tombstone bears the famous inscription: “Your name is unknown. Your feat is immortal.”

The Eternal Flame was lit up near the Memorial.

💬 Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky:

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the walls of the Moscow Kremlin will immortalise the glorious heroes who perished on battlefields for their Motherland.

Now, the ashes of one of those who shielded Moscow from the enemy, are buried here.

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In total, approximately two million Soviet and Russian citizens were reported missing in action during the wars and conflicts of the 20th and 21st centuries. The Russian Ministry of Defence carries out on a regular basis search operations to perpetuate the memory of heroes who perished for the Motherland.

Russian diplomats abroad are engaged in extensive efforts aimed at preserving historical memory, countering attempts to distort the history of #WWII and to question the Great Victory of the Soviet people. Thanks to their efforts, Soviet-Russian military monuments and mass graves are maintained and restored in foreign countries.

❗️ Regrettably, as part of a disgraceful campaign to distort history of #WWII, a policy of state vandalism is being pursued in certain countries of Eastern Europe, in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in particular, with the one aim — to eradicate Russia's memorial heritage — the monuments to Soviet Heroes and Liberators. With the consent of the official authorities there, vandals desecrate mass graves, the remains of perished soldiers are being barbarically exhumed for further “reburial” in designated places.

Thanks to joint efforts, including by our compatriots living abroad and concerned Europeans who are not indifferent to our common memory, the records of the monuments and graves, data and images, are uploaded to the special web-portal 'Mesto Pamyati' (A Place for Memory).

***

🎖 On November 4, 2014, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law on Amendments to the Federal Law 'On Days of Military Glory and Memorial Dates of Russia', to mark December 3 as the Day of the Unknown Soldier.

💬 Extract from the briefing by Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Saint Petersburg, December 4, 2025

Ukraine update

The neo-Nazi regime in Kiev continues targeting Russia by perpetrating war crimes and acts of terrorism. Over the past week, 102 civilians suffered from shelling and drone strikes by Banderites, leaving eight people dead and 94 wounded, including 7 children.

I keep citing facts about these monstrous manifestations of neo-Nazism so as not to leave any doubt abroad that this is the kind of reality which results from the funding provided by the so-called collective West.

Belgorod Region. On November 28 and 29, 2025, a young woman died, and three civilians were wounded, including a five-year-old child, following drone strikes against residential houses in Dragunskoye, Arkhangelskoye and Glotovo. On November 30, drone strikes against Beryozovka, Moshchyonoye and Graivoron left two people dead and five wounded. On December 1, a woman died and her husband was wounded when a drone hit a passenger car in Gruzskoye.

Kherson Region. On November 27, enemy shelling in Dnepryany and Velikiye Kopani left two people wounded. On November 28, a 17-year-old young man was discovered and rescued near the river Dnieper in the Gornostayevsky District – he suffered a severe wound after coming across a Lepestok (Flower Petal) anti-personnel land mine.

Bryansk Region. On November 29, two civilians were wounded in a drone attack targeting the village of Strativa. On December 1, the enemy used a kamikaze drone against Miratorg, an agro-industrial holding, in the Klimovsky District – a driver was wounded.

Volgograd Region. On November 29, five people suffered in an enemy drone attack in Volgograd, and four apartment blocks were damaged.

Rostov Region. In the early hours of November 29, Taganrog suffered yet another drone attack, this time without any casualties, although several residential buildings and a college dormitory were damaged.

DPR. On November 30, two people suffered in a drone attack, which also damaged an apartment block.

Sevastopol. On November 30, a 15-year-old girl was wounded by fragments from an intercepted airborne target following an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Dagestan. On December 1, the effort to fend off a Ukrainian drone attack left a 12-year-old girl wounded in Kaspiysk.

On November 30, the Foreign Ministry released a comment on the terrorist attacks by the Kiev regime against two tankers, Kairos и Virat, along Türkiye’s Black Sea coast, as well as the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, an international facility in the port of Novorossiysk. It seems that Kiev opted for ignoring the straightforward response by Ankara and Astana to these attacks by sanctioning yet another attack on December 1. It used unmanned surface vessels to target MIDVOLGA-2, a commercial Russian ship, which was 80 nautical miles away from Türkiye’s coastline. Fortunately, neither the crew nor the vessel suffered any substantial damage. All these terrorist attacks are designed to derail the nascent peace process for settling the conflict, while also seeking to disrupt navigation safety in the Black Sea.

There is a terrorist regime in Kiev. No matter how much Western masterminds try turning a blind eye to this truth, no matter what they do to mislead their own people, more and more facts are emerging to demonstrate that these atrocities are real, artificially created. That said, all this will not go unpunished.

Russian courts continue to deliver verdicts against Ukrainian neo-Nazis and mercenaries.

We do not report on every sentence but provide a representative selection so that our foreign partners, the Global Majority, and the sponsors of this terrorist scourge are aware of the truth.

AFU militant Rostislav Karpusha has been sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for the terrorist attack in Sevastopol on June 23, 2024, when, on his orders, servicemen of AFU’s 4th Missile Division of the 19th Missile Brigade launched six tactical ATACMS missiles. As a result of the detonation of one missile over the territory of the urban beach in Uchkuyevka, Sevastopol, four people, including two children, were killed, and 113 civilians were injured. Rostislav Karpusha has been placed on the international wanted list.

Another life sentence was handed down to SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) recruit Ignat Kuzin, who carried out a terrorist attack resulting in the death on April 25 of this year of Lieutenant General Yuri Moskalik, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has in absentia charged Sergey Filimonov, commander of the 108th Separate Assault Battalion within the 59th Assault Motorised Infantry Brigade of the AFU, under whose leadership on March 15 of this year, Ukrainian militants conducted an attack on the village of Zhelannoye (DPR) using strike UAVs equipped with glass vials containing prohibited choking agents, with the intent of mass poisoning the civilian population.

The first quarter of the 21st century was drawing to a close. All this is being done with the money of the so-called “civilised,” the “bloated golden billion from their beautiful garden.” They have sunk so low in their degradation as to sponsor terrorists who deploy choking and poisonous substances against civilians.

Sixteen people were harmed in this crime. Efforts are underway to identify and prosecute the remaining Ukrainian neo-Nazis involved in this war crime. Sergey Filimonov has been declared internationally wanted.

On November 30, the so-called combat group Getica, fighting on behalf of the AFU and composed of Romanian and Moldovan nationals, posted footage on a social network – recognised as extremist and banned in Russia – showing drone strikes against Russian servicemen in the zone of the special military operation. The publication was cynically titled “Exterminating Lice.” In the upper right corner of the material, the emblem of the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Strike Aircraft Systems, the so-called Birds of Magyar, of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, is visible. It cannot be ruled out that some of the footage was produced by the Romanians themselves. The commander of Getica, using the call sign Geto-Dac, has repeatedly stated in media interviews and on his website that some mercenaries serve in the AFU as operators of strike UAVs.

Our law enforcement agencies are monitoring the war crimes committed by the AFU and foreign mercenaries in the zone of the special military operation.

There is no doubt that those responsible will sooner or later answer for their actions.

Supporters of the European “war party” continue to flood the Ukrainian Armed Forces with armaments. On November 27, Latvian authorities in Riga confirmed the delivery of the final batch of their drones to the Kiev regime – 1,300 units of the 12,000 promised for 2025. That same day, President Zelensky awarded the visiting Latvian Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže, the Order of Merit, 2nd Class. Minister Braže also attended a ceremony to hand over 42 Latvian-made Patria armoured personnel carriers to Ukrainian forces, where she made one of her now-familiar Russophobic statements reiterating the need to weaken Russia and increase aid to Ukraine.

Also on November 27, London and the Kiev regime signed a license agreement for the production of Ukrainian Octopus interceptor drones to be built in the UK. According to Ukrainian Defence Minister Denis Shmygal, this will supply several thousand of these UAVs to Ukrainian forces each month. On November 30, Shmygal signed a similar deal with his Norwegian counterpart, Tore Sandvik. This agreement outlines plans to establish a pilot production line for Ukrainian drones by 2026.

The following day, December 1, in Brussels, Shmygal signed another UAV agreement, this time with the Acting Dutch Defence Minister, Ruben Brekelmans, who also announced a new 250 million-euro support package for purchasing American weapons via NATO’s Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative. The funds are earmarked for air defence systems and ammunition for F-16 fighter jets. This follows The Hague’s earlier contribution of 500 million euros to the same mechanism in the autumn.

Later that same day, after the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, European Commission spokesman Thomas Regnier informed journalists that the national plans of 15 EU member states include support for Ukraine running into “billions, not millions.” Imagine these commitments being made against a backdrop of economic crisis, stagnation, and the myriad of other challenges currently facing EU nations and their citizens.

And of course, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, who has long lost touch with reality, just had to weigh in with more anti-Russia statements.

Earlier today, during the conference’s plenary session, a representative of Kyrgyzstan – a figure instrumental in fostering anti-fascist (anti-neo-Nazi in modern language) movements across the CIS – actually laughed at Kallas’s claim that in the past 100 years, Russia had attacked 19 countries – or attacked them 19 times, or made 19 attacks, targeting some of those countries several times… He made an incisive point: For decades, we were part of a single state with Russia, and I cannot recall a single instance of Russia ever attacking anyone.

Shortly before the Brussels meeting I mentioned, EU High Representative Kaja Kallas reiterated accusations against Russia, arguing that “Russia does not want peace” and Europe must “make Ukraine as strong as possible.”

But how, exactly? This call echoes a monstrous logic one hears from advocates of a “new normal,” or “new ethics,” who claim, “the fewer mouths to feed, the more for the rest – the family grows richer.” It is a perverse calculus. Is this their plan for a stronger Ukraine? That fewer Ukrainians somehow mean a richer and more powerful nation – according to Kallas, anyway? That Ukraine’s vast mineral wealth and resources will simply be divided among a diminished population of this once truly strong and prosperous country? This is Nazism, just in a new guise. The cynicism is breathtaking – a cold, immoral stance. Hiding behind a facade of “concern for people’s well-being,” one certainly feels free to make any outrageous statement they please. Kallas proudly noted that EU aid to the Kiev regime has now surpassed 187 billion euros. She omitted, however, what that aid has truly achieved.

On November 27, in Kiev, at the initiative of the Vladimir Zelensky regime and Finland, a memorandum was signed to establish a “civil protection shelter coalition.” Belgium, Ireland, Lithuania, and Sweden also joined this initiative. The European Union will be represented at the appropriate level. The stated objective is to enhance the safety of the civilian population from “Russia’s ongoing missile and drone attacks” by creating a network of underground and other protective structures, with a focus on border areas and the regions most exposed to shelling.

Whom precisely do they intend to protect? Ukrainian civilians? Where will all this be constructed? Closer to Western countries? These very nations have just allocated yet more weapons and funds to enable the Kiev regime to carry out its bombardments. Now, suddenly, they are concerned about preventing harm to Ukrainian citizens. What is the source of their suffering? Retaliatory strikes. But evidently, no one in Brussels is contemplating that.

Finland contributed the most to this effort, pledging an additional 11 million euros – on top of the 2 million euros previously allocated for the development of bomb shelters in Ukraine. Sweden is prepared to transfer 7 million euros, Belgium and Lithuania 2 million each, and Ireland 500,000.

The EU, the European Investment Bank, and the World Bank also intend to participate in the financing. One cannot help but ask: why? They have already built fences, strung barbed wire, dug some pits.

Amidst rampant embezzlement by Kiev’s corrupt officials of foreign aid, it is difficult to believe that the funds allocated under this mechanism by Euro-sponsors will be used as intended. There is no shortage of examples of lining pockets through all manner of projects, from the post-Maidan scandals surrounding the construction of the “Yatsenyuk Wall” on the border with Russia to defensive fortifications in Donbass. It is evident that yet another “coalition” to support Ukraine will become yet another scheme to siphon off the money of ordinary Europeans and enrich war lobbyists “until the last Ukrainian.”

Ukrainian media have once again begun discussing lowering the mobilisation age. On November 26, “war correspondent” Yulia Kirilenko declared on a local television channel that recruiting 18-year-old boys was necessary, going so far as to call this step inevitable. Supposedly, “the children will have to fight anyway.”

But it is you yourselves (I am referring now to those Ukrainian citizens who serve the Kiev regime) who are dragging yourselves into this reckless venture, which is pulling you into yet another monstrous confrontation. You yourselves have handed over your territory for NATO’s experiments. You yourselves have destroyed Ukrainian statehood and offered up its territory for endless NATO encroachments.

Against this backdrop, young Ukrainians are choosing to leave the country. In an interview with the NTA television channel on November 28, Verkhovna Rada deputy Roman Kostenko acknowledged that 121,000 individuals aged 18 to 22 departed the country over the autumn.

Simultaneously, the Ukrainian information space has seen increased discussion of what is being framed as an all-but-finalised decision by Vladimir Zelensky to begin mobilising women. This topic was stoked by the American newspaper The Washington Post, which published an article on its website on November 28 (in print on November 30) about an AFU unit composed of female FPV drone operators. The headline was fitting: “We won’t win this war without women.” Preparing its audience for the “normalcy” of sending Ukrainian women to the front, the publication reported that approximately 70,000 women already serve in the AFU, 5,500 of whom are performing combat duties.

Given the catastrophic situation of the AFU on the frontlines, mass desertions, and the increasingly precarious position of Vladimir Zelensky, news of impending large-scale female recruitment may well prove true. To preserve his own power, the ringleader of the Kiev regime continues to sacrifice Ukrainian citizens indiscriminately.

The Verkhovnaya Rada has adopted a law to remove Russian from the list of languages protected under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. Recently held opinion polls show an increase in the number of Ukrainian citizens, especially the young people, who speak Russian. This fact was confirmed by Commissioner for the Protection of the State Language Yelena Ivanovskaya, whose daughter, surprise, runs her social media accounts in Russian.

With Ukraine pursuing a policy of eliminating everything Russian, and despite constitutional protections for the Russian language, the Verkhovnaya Rada’s decision was expected. It shows unequivocally that an entirely anti-popular regime has grabbed power in Kiev.

How is this possible? More people in Ukraine are speaking Russian, yet the Kiev regime is trying to eliminate the Russian language, as if oblivious to the fact that the people of Ukraine speak and think in Russian. No one is saying, though, that people must speak only one language.

Our country set an example of how different ethnicities, based on their culture, identity, traditions, the specifics of their particular regions, and their historical context, can study, speak, and receive instruction in different languages. The language-related mayhem in Ukraine is sheer madness.

These steps also show that the Kiev regime is not committed to a peaceful settlement predicated on cancelling discrimination against the Russian language and Russian-speaking citizens and respecting the rights of the people of all ethnicities residing in Ukraine. We call on international institutions to provide an objective assessment of this decision and to encourage Bankovaya Street tenants to comply with their human rights obligations.

Look at the intensifying corruption scandal involving Timur Mindich and the other members of that predatory gang. International and intergovernmental bodies designed to fight corruption abound. Why haven’t we seen a single session dedicated to this scandal? This is not just another case of corruption in Ukraine, where they stole funds allocated for construction or education purposes. This is different. It’s about corruption being intertwined with the ongoing war effort, blood money, and illegal, audit-free, and unaccounted for supply of weapons. The international community that has spawned inordinate numbers of entities, organisations, committees, and commissions, including various executive boards combatting international corruption is nowhere to be seen. We are looking at a stark case of international corruption. Where does Ukraine get its money from? Where do dollars and euros come to Bankovaya Street from? Have they earned this money? No, they have not. They exchange the lives of their people for this money. Where does the money come from? Is it from abroad? Who allocates it? Some people may think that those who give the money to Bankovaya Street may be unaware of the corruption sweeping Ukraine. Their doubts can be dispelled by one simple argument: the West allocates these funds to the Kiev regime, but deliberately avoids audits. They do not have monitoring or analytical mechanisms in place to track the money, because they operate as part of a single corruption chain. The latest facts involving Brussels bureaucracy clearly prove it. Look at the corruption scandal involving Federica Mogherini. She was not alone in it but part of a group.

On November 30, an anti-Russia action was organised in Kiev outside the literary memorial house which was once the home of the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. Its participants accused him of “Russian chauvinism” and demanded to “rid” Ukraine of him.

To provide “evidence” of the “crimes” committed by Mikhail Bulgakov, a native of Kiev, the Banderites cited his novel The White Guard with unflattering descriptions of Ukrainian nationalists Hetman Pavel Skoropadsky and Simon Petliura. Back in 2024, the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory put Bulgakov on the list of “symbols of Russian imperial policy.” It is unsurprising, therefore, that the Russophobes never stop to attack the museum in Kiev in an effort to erase all traces of the shared history of Ukraine and Russia from people’s memory.

On December 1, Ukrainian media reported the unveiling of a sculpture of Hetman Ivan Mazepa on the grounds of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. This pseudo-event was hypocritically described as a “victory of the historical truth” and a “symbol of the continuity of the Ukrainian tradition.” The very fact of elevating to a pedestal a figure known for betraying everyone and everything is humiliating as is and, above all, for the Ukrainian people. The choice of the location is even more cynical. The Russian Orthodox Church anathematised Mazepa, so erecting a monument to him on the grounds of a major Orthodox holy site is particularly sacrilegious and underscores the dismal level of the Kiev regime’s obscurantism.