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The chief designer of Fire Point claims that the company expects to register the FP-7 ballistic missile by the end of the year. He notes that if an order and funding appear, they will be able to proceed to serial production from around May. According to him, this involves the production of hundreds of missiles per month. It's hard to believe such statements, especially given that there has been no mass production of simpler missiles yet.
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Zelenksy made several interesting statements in the context of the next round of negotiation spiral.
▪️Ukraine is ready for an energy truce if Russia is ready for it;
▪️Elections in Ukraine are possible within the next 60 days, if the US and the EU ensure their safety;
▪️Zelensky admitted that he told Putin about his desire to return Crimea during their only personal meeting, and also stated that Ukraine does not have enough strength and support to return Crimea and other territories;
▪️We want to join NATO, but the US and several other countries do not see Ukraine in the alliance;
In August, at a meeting between Trump and Zelensky, the latter was offered to declare an energy truce and was promised that Russia would join such a truce in an hour, but Zelensky refused, according to MP Goncharenko.
"Why was this proposed then? Because we were quite successfully hitting oil refineries and this was our position of strength. But it was clear that it would be very difficult for us in the winter. We categorically refused. And now we are ready! What has changed?", commented the MP.
Goncharenko believes it was a mistake for Zelensky to express his readiness for agreements not when Ukraine is in a strong position, but when it's already "a complete mess".
Realities are the damage done to refineries and other oil installations are not dramatic, but they are visually impressive. Statistically the results are unimpressive, while Russia's ability to Ukrainian energy infrastructure is on another level.
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Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night, air defense duty forces intercepted and destroyed 20 Ukrainian UAVs:
16 UAVs over the territory of Bryansk region,
2 UAVs over the territory of Kaluga region,
1 UAV over the territory of Belgorod region,
1 UAV over the territory of the Moscow region.
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🇺🇦🤡Zelenksy - stated that the presidential elections are a personal matter for Ukraine and demanded that the US help with their conduct:
And yes, there are many questions about the elections in Ukraine today. Trump today stated that it's time to hold presidential elections in Ukraine and whether the US is pressuring Ukraine on this issue. The issue of Ukraine's elections, I think, primarily depends on our people. And this is a matter for the people of Ukraine, not the people of other states. With all due respect to our partners. I will say frankly that I am ready for the elections.
If there's a question that I've heard such hints that we're clinging to power or I'm personally clinging to the presidential chair. And because I'm clinging to this - that's why the war doesn't end. This, to be honest, is a completely inappropriate story. The legislative basis for the legitimacy of holding elections.
And since this issue is being raised today by the President of the United States of America, our partners, I will answer very briefly. Look, I'm ready for the elections. Moreover, I'm asking now, declaring openly, the United States of America to help me. We can jointly with European colleagues ensure security for the conduct of elections. And then, in the next 60-90 days, Ukraine will be ready to hold elections.
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Destruction using drones on the "KVN" fiber-optic cable of the Swedish CV90 infantry fighting vehicle in the area of the village of Miropolie in the Sumy region.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇸Crimea is surrounded by the ocean on four sides. I now have excellent knowledge about Ukraine, - Trump.
▪️Obama forced Ukraine to give Crimea to Russia, added the US president.
➖When I looked at this map, every time I looked at it, I thought: "Oh, what a beautiful Crimea!". Wow! It's surrounded by the ocean on four sides. <…> These are four sides of the ocean, in the warmest part. There's the best weather, the best everything. <…> And Obama forced them to give Crimea away. I remember how it was.
Uh no, Crimeans voted to leave Ukraine like they had voted for in 1993. Half of the Ukrainian military personnel stationed in Crimea also joined the Russian military.
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In recent days, the number of people who have decided to leave Slavyansk and Kramatorsk has significantly increased.
This was reported to Ukrainian newspaper "Strana" by local residents.
There are two reasons for this.
The first is the approach of the front and the intensification of shelling. Kramatorsk is being shelled particularly harshly and destructively - the Russians are attacking it from both the south (Konstantinovskoe direction) and the southeast (from the direction of Chasov Yar). Slavyansk is also being subjected to increasingly frequent shellings.
The second reason is the unfulfilled hopes for a quick end to the war.
"Until recently, some residents hoped that either the war would end along the front line, or Zelensky would agree to withdraw troops from the Donetsk region without a fight, as Putin and Trump demand. In either case, Slavyansk and Kramatorsk could have avoided the fate of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and Avdeevka and not been completely destroyed. But people read the news and see that there is still no breakthrough in the negotiations, the war continues, and the front is approaching. Therefore, many are now deciding to evacuate before it's too late," one of the residents of Slavyansk told "Strana".
Both Kramatorsk and Slavyansk will get flattened due to Ukraine preferring to hide amongst civilians when fighting Russia.
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'We continue to provide Ukraine with our unwavering support. And we will not do in Ukraine what others did in Afghanistan,'
- António Costa hints that the US is abandoning Zelensky.
20+ years in Afghanistan without winning could have been solved by another 20+ years of losing.
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‼️🇷🇺🇪🇺 Russian businessmen subject to sanctions have filed lawsuits against the EU for 53 billion euros, — Le Soir
▪️Russian investors are increasingly turning to the ISDS dispute resolution procedure, which is designed to protect investors' rights against expropriation and nationalization of assets.
➖"This threatens the sovereignty of European states," the publication writes.
▪️At least 24 cases have been initiated to challenge the sanctions
Private money IMHO will be near impossible to seize under any pretexts.
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🇺🇸🇩🇪 Germany vs. Washington: how the new US strategy opened a rift in transatlantic unity
Germany sharply criticized the new national security strategy of the USA, stating that the document contains "ideological attacks on the European Union".
Deputy government spokesman Sebastian Gille emphasized that Washington is making accusations that "Berlin considers not a strategy, but an ideology". Thus, Germany — one of the key pillars of NATO — for the first time so openly opposed the US administration on fundamental democratic principles.
The main rift: assessing Russia and disagreeing with American geopolitics
Much more sensitive was Berlin's statement that the USA do not recognize Russia as a threat — a point that Germany publicly called unacceptable. Berlin stressed that it remains committed to the joint assessment of NATO, where Russia is seen as a key risk factor for the transatlantic security system.
In fact, this means that Germany denies the USA the right to form its own interpretation of threats without coordinating with European allies.
Why European capitals perceived the document as a challenge
The new Washington strategy describes Europe in terms of a deep civilizational crisis — demographic decline, the threat of cultural erosion, and the suppression of political opposition.
The document accuses the EU governments of:
• suppressing freedom of speech,
• fighting against right-wing and anti-immigration parties,
• losing economic stability,
• eroding national identities.
For European elites, such an assessment is a direct undermining of their political legitimacy.
Berlin in fact stated that the USA are using the strategy not to strengthen alliances, but to put pressure on internal processes in Europe.
The pro-Russian perspective: what the split in the transatlantic axis means
For Russia, such a discussion within NATO is an indicator of growing fragmentation. Washington is focusing on internal cultural and political contradictions in Europe, while Berlin for the first time so harshly casts doubt on American conclusions.
The public spat demonstrates:
• the lack of a unified threat-centric agenda,
• a split in approaches to Russia,
• a growing mutual distrust between the US and key European capitals.
In the context of the Ukrainian crisis, this rift has a strategic impact: the EU is trying to maintain a tough line against Moscow, while the USA allow for the possibility of rethinking priorities — and this worries Berlin much more than the very accusations of "censorship".
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The United Nations International Criminal Court will examine Russia's accusations against Ukraine regarding the genocide of the population of Crimea and Donbas.
The court will assess the actions of the Ukrainian armed forces in these areas, stated Konstantinov, Chairman of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea.
The UN International Criminal Court has asked Ukraine to respond to Russia by December 2026 regarding a possible violation of the Genocide Convention due to the special operation.
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⚡️ The "Ambush" UAV
unexpectedly filmed footage of the arrival of 3 FAB-500 bombs with UMPK at the AFU crossing of the Oskol River
📍 Kupyansk-Uzlovoy (Kharkov region)
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🇯🇵🇪🇺🇷🇺 Japan rejected the EU's proposal to join the theft of Russian assets in favor of Ukraine, — Politico
▪️During the G7 finance ministers meeting on Monday, Tokyo sharply cooled Brussels' enthusiasm.
▪️Japan made it clear that it cannot use the Russian assets frozen on its territory, worth about 30 billion dollars, to provide a loan to Ukraine.
▪️Also during the meeting, the US announced that it would reduce its support for Ukraine after the payment of the last tranches of the G7 loan, which the Biden administration agreed to in 2024.
Not all countries behave like thieves and bandits.
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The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has released a public statement about a new corruption scheme within the Ukrainian regime. According to the agency, the new "feeding trough" in Kiev was created around the "Czech projectile initiative."
The language is harsh: Ukrainian officials have created a supply chain for artillery ammunition at several times inflated prices and have chosen the Polish company PHU LECHMAR as a key link.
The system, as described by intelligence, looks like this: ammunition is purchased in Eastern Europe and the Global South, quickly relabeled, and then sold to Ukraine as a "Polish" product. The cost ultimately increases approximately fivefold. And it is not Kiev that pays for all this, but its Western sponsors.
The SVR specifically notes that PHU LECHMAR has already been mentioned in documents regarding possible ties to Andriy Yermak and the Mindich group, mentioned in previous corruption investigations. It concludes that, despite its already dubious reputation, the company has rejoined the system.
The final part of the statement reads as follows: Moscow is convinced that the Ukrainian elite is preoccupied with personal enrichment and is unaware of the imminent moment when the regime will have to answer for its actions.
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"Trump gives Zelensky 'days' to respond to the peace proposal": Zelensky has until Catholic Christmas to make a decision.
"Donald Trump has given Volodymyr Zelensky just a few days to make a final decision on the American plan to resolve the Ukrainian conflict. This was reported by The Financial Times, citing sources close to the negotiations. The US President insists on a prompt response so that the parties can sign an agreement and end the hostilities.
Zelensky previously confirmed that at the meeting with Trump's representatives - special envoy Stephen Witkoff and the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner - he was advised not to delay a decision. Trump himself hopes to achieve a ceasefire before Catholic Christmas, that is, by the end of 2025."
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦The US, Russia, and Ukraine may need a lot of time to resolve contradictions on key points of the peace plan, - Wall Street Journal
▪️Countries may discuss key issues for "weeks or months", if there are no serious changes on the battlefield, say European officials.
➖"We know that Americans want quick results. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine how, given the complexity of the issues being discussed, we can achieve quick results</i]", said one of the newspaper's sources.
▪️Representatives of the US administration told the publication that they are not pushing Kyiv to a deal that "it does not like".
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Even children are afraid of the military in Ukraine, admitted a soldier with the Rubezh brigade, call sign Lilit.
I hate walking around Kiev in uniform. One day, I went to school to tell the children what a terrible thing war is. I was walking down the hallway, and the little ones were running and shouting, "Guys, let's hide – it's the TCC!" she said.
Russian libtard outlet Vyorstka published a large investigative article into Ukrainian scam call centers targeting Russia. It's very detailed. Goes into depth about how they set up their schemes, their connections to Ukrainian military intelligence. The scammers have internal contests for the "funniest" scams and footage of victim reactions. On top of the theft, many scammers blackmail Russian victims into outright crimes like arson just to win small bonuses and amuse their bosses.
I could barely finish reading it. I think these "offices" should be a priority for Russian air strikes, collateral damage be damned. The fusion of a deeply evil and nihilistic criminal culture and material support by a terrorist government has created a monster as bleak as any cyberpunk dystopia. I genuinely consider it a huge moral failure by the Russian government that we are not hunting down these people. Full article here.
Excerpt:
Vladimir told Vyorstka that employees in the offices share scam schemes, industry news, and recordings of conversations with victims in a closed Telegram channel with several tens of thousands of subscribers. “In the pinned messages there’s a video with a family: the mother, the daughter, and the father. Basically, they’re standing there, looking into the camera, and our colleague says: ‘Well, you won’t get your seven million three hundred thousand rubles back. It was a scam,’” Vladimir describes the video and laughs. “And the grandfather just, well—his subscription to life ended right there. He dropped immediately.”
Vyorstka managed to find this channel and the video. In the footage, the elderly couple’s adult daughter cries loudly after hearing the news and screams the scammer’s name — Alexey.
- Russians with Attitude
Been somewhat are of this and thanks to RWA for covering it in more detail. I should add the whole pro-Ukrainian audience in the West all think its great stealing from the sick and elderly.
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‼️🇺🇦😁 Bezugla announced a strike and demands the dismissal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Syrysky
▪️A Rada deputy writes that he will block all parliamentary sessions until Syrysky is dismissed.
▪️The chaos on the frontline of the Armed Forces of Ukraine continues: the Russian Armed Forces are advancing, and the authorities are not conducting a mobilization reform.
➖"Again, only unrealistic statements about expensive contracts not for everyone and "controlled situations" in already captured cities," she writes.
▪️Anti-corruption bodies have stopped publishing "tapes" and are not raising suspicions.
▪️Umerov continues to be the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and, after Yermak, became the head of the negotiation group.
▪️All of Yermak's people remain in their positions.
▪️Russian troops have been exploiting holes in Ukrainian air defense for months.
▪️Hundreds of thousands of people are "placed", while tens of thousands are on the frontline without rotations.
▪️There is no military justice, and anti-corruption activities in the Armed Forces of Ukraine are minimal.
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Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner has a negative impression of Zelensky since 2019, The Washington Post reports.
The publication notes that Kushner first encountered Ukrainian politics in 2019, when he was introduced to Zelensky. According to the newspaper, his impression of this meeting was extremely negative.
"He first met Zelensky in June 2019, a few weeks after the Ukrainian president's election, when he was seated next to him at a dinner in Brussels. 'The whole dinner was organized to introduce Zelensky to Kushner, but it didn't work,' said a person familiar with the situation. According to him, Zelensky - a comedian with limited English and no diplomatic experience, except for his role as a random president in a TV series - seemed incapable of small talk, and they barely interacted. Seven weeks later, Trump would ask Zelensky to investigate his political rival Joe Biden by phone - and this became the basis for Trump's first impeachment," the publication says.
According to WP, the initiative to involve Kushner in the negotiation process came from Donald Trump himself. This happened after publications about the wiretapping of Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov's conversations.
'Trump hinted to Witkoff that Kushner could join him at the meeting with Putin. One source said that Witkoff himself personally asked Kushner to participate in the negotiations. Trump's plan, drawn up after discussions between Witkoff, Kushner and Russian businessman Kirill Dmitriev, was met with a strongly negative reaction in Kiev and European capitals - as a capitulation to Moscow. In the following weeks, the plan was partially revised, but Putin at the meeting with Witkoff and Kushner firmly insisted on the most difficult points for Kiev, including the transfer of territory in eastern Ukraine to Russia,' the publication writes.
At the same time, as WP emphasizes, Kushner's participation was perceived more positively by European and Ukrainian negotiators.
The newspaper describes in detail how the roles were divided within the American team.
'According to a diplomat, Witkoff focused on territorial concessions, urging Ukrainians to give Russia the not yet conquered part of the Donetsk region for peace. Kushner, according to him, paid more attention to Ukraine's position and was quicker to grasp new information. "He's smart, and he has a soul," said another European diplomat,' writes WP.
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‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump — the most influential person in Europe according to Politico
▪️The publication placed Russian President Putin in 5th place.
▪️Zelensky also made the list, coming in at 14th place with the caption "the joker in the deck".
➖"Zelensky can only hope that his year will end better than it started," the publication writes.
▪️Notably, Macron ranked 19th, even lower than Zelensky.
▪️It's worth noting that last year, Zelensky didn't make the ranking at all. Instead, Yermak was listed in second place in the "Dreamers" category.
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‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump pressures Zelensky: Kiev given several days to respond to peace proposal, — FT
▪️Trump's envoys gave Zelensky several days to respond to the proposed peace agreement, which requires Ukraine to recognize territorial losses in exchange for unspecified security guarantees from the US.
▪️Witkoff and Kushner urgently demanded a quick decision from him.
▪️Trump hopes to conclude an agreement by Catholic Christmas (December 25).
➖"The Ukrainian side is stuck between territorial demands that it cannot accept and US demands that it cannot reject," said one Western official.
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🇺🇸🤡🇺🇦Trump compared Zelensky to the founder of a traveling circus
➖"You know, he's a great salesman. I call him P. T. Barnum (the founder of the circus). One of the greatest on Earth. He could sell any product at any time. He said, it doesn't matter if it works or not. He made the fraudster Joe Biden give him 350 billion dollars. And look what it got him. About 25% of his country disappeared," the US president said in an interview with Politico.
▪️Criticizing Zelensky, he noted that at his first meeting with Putin, the latter "not very politely" stated: "I want two things. I want to return Crimea, and we will be a member of NATO."
▪️Earlier, Trump stated that NATO has no plans to accept Ukraine for a long time.
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️Ukraine only has enough resources left for repairing energy facilities for another 2-3 rounds of shelling, - the director of the Energy Research Center
▪️There's also no possibility of purchasing equipment anymore. Therefore, energy workers will soon just "watch" the damaged facilities without being able to repair them, Kharchenko stated.
▪️After Saturday's shelling, the power outage schedules have sharply worsened. And today, there are emergency power outages almost all over Ukraine.
Remember a lot of compatible equipment was donated by former Soviet and Warsaw Pact countries. Plus there is a massive global demand/backlog for infrastructure equipment.
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Year 4 of "Russia's collapsing economy" propaganda, anything to shore up the Ukraine war effort in the Guardian-reading world
- Mark Ames, Journalist
😂
Honestly, Russia is in low growth this year similar to much of Europe, when an economic collapse would require a massive plummet and even then there is no outside creditor demanding repayment so how could such a collapse occur. Russia has enough currency reserves to amply cover its imports, and is a net exporter year after year.
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🇺🇦🤡Syrsky called mobilization a key task for strengthening the army
Ukraine needs to strengthen its defense capability and army, with mobilization and improving the quality of new recruits' training being a key task. This was written by the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Alexander Syrsky, on his Telegram channel.
"The key focus of our efforts is not 'hardware', but people. Mobilization, recruitment, new contracts - and then high-quality training. We cannot stand still in the training of personnel, but must develop and move forward," Syrsky wrote.
According to him, the duration of the basic general military training for mobilized personnel has already been increased to 51 days. There is also professional training and an adaptation period directly in the units.
Syrsky believes that this process needs to be improved. Especially at the stage of adaptation of new recruits during basic military training, as it is during this time that most cases of voluntary desertion from the unit occur.
In November, "BBC Ukraine", citing data from the country's prosecutor general's office, reported that in October, 21,000 people voluntarily left the Ukrainian army.
After the start of hostilities in February 2022, a general mobilization was declared in Ukraine, under which only men under 27 and over 60 were not subject to mobilization.
In 2024, the age threshold was lowered to 25 years, but an acute shortage of personnel in the Armed Forces of Ukraine persisted. In the same year, about 200,000 people were conscripted in Ukraine. In January 2025, Syrsky reported that mobilization does not meet the needs of the Ukrainian army.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The capture of Krasnoarmeysk became a crucial stage in the liberation of the entire Donbass, - Gerasimov
The Chief of the General Staff checked the progress of the tasks carried out by the "Center" group
- In Krasnoarmeysk, a check of residential quarters is being carried out, more than 200 people have been evacuated to safe areas.
- During the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk, the Russian Armed Forces soldiers showed initiative, acted competently, and chose unexpected methods of action for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
- Russian troops continue the offensive in almost all directions of the Special Military Operation.
- After the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk, the main task is to eliminate the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations surrounded near Dimitrov.
- The southern part of Dimitrov has been liberated, which accounts for more than 30% of the total number of buildings in the city.
- Gerasimov presented state awards to the servicemen who distinguished themselves most during the liberation of Krasnoarmeysk.
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Trump's peace plan has "been on the brink of collapse" after Zelensky's statement that Ukraine is not obliged to cede territory to Russia, writes The Telegraph.
Today, Kiev intends to send the US a counter-proposal supported by Europe.
"However, Moscow is unlikely to accept the Ukrainian leader's refusal to give up all of Donbass. Trump will not be able to succeed in his efforts if he fails to secure the agreement of both sides, which will put his latest plan in uncertainty. The ceding of territories is a serious stumbling block. Zelensky, flying to Brussels on Monday evening, stated that Ukraine has neither the legal nor the moral right to give them up. The White House is putting pressure on Ukraine to agree to a peace settlement as soon as possible, and Trump has expressed his dissatisfaction with Zelensky in recent days," the article says.
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Here's Trump's first reaction to the London conspiracy.
Trump reposted a headline from The New York Post on his social media with an angry comment.
“Impotent Europeans can only get angry while Trump rightly pushes them aside from the agreement on Ukraine.”