According to The Wall Street Journal, Ukrainian drone operators “destroyed” two NATO battalions in less than a day during the Hedgehog 2025 exercise in Estonia. More than 16,000 soldiers from 12 allied countries took part in the maneuvers. Their task was to face Ukrainian drone specialists, including fighters with real frontline experience. The NATO army group consisted of about 100 people, while the other consisted of only 10 Ukrainians. In half a day of simulated combat, the Ukrainian team took out 17 armored vehicles and carried out 30 other attacks on targets, ultimately rendering NATO units incapable of fighting. The battle reportedly caused a minor shock among NATO commanders, as it demonstrated the ineffectiveness of conventional tactics on a modern battlefield saturated with drones. At the same time, however, it provided the allied armies with very valuable information. And then this happened:

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• Ukrainian hackers set up fake channels offering Russians the reactivation of their Starlink terminals—and Russian soldiers often willingly paid. During a week-long operation, the hackers collected over 2,400 data packets from Russian-operated terminals, documented dozens of cases of Ukrainian collaborators, and earned nearly $6,000 in cryptocurrency. All data was then handed over directly to Ukrainian authorities and the army. Each identified terminal was permanently deactivated and its last known position was passed on to artillery and drone operators.
• The Polish foreign minister said that Russia faced a strategic choice—to become an ally of the West or to become dependent on China. According to him, Moscow decided to become a vassal. China must be very satisfied—Russia is spending its national wealth on Chinese goods and at the same time weakening.
• US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said that Donald Trump “will do to the UN what he has done to NATO over the past 10 years.” He even handed out caps with the slogan “MAKE THE UN GREAT AGAIN” during his panel discussion.
• Until now, soldiers from the so-called International Legion have mainly served as light infantry. Following the recent reorganization of units, they will now have access to heavy equipment and other armaments used by the regular army.
• Another five Ukrainian children have returned from occupied territories and Russia. Some of them had been abducted by Russians from a children’s home in Kherson, which was still occupied at the time.
• Last night, Russians killed three brothers—an eight-year-old boy and two nineteen-year-old young men—in a single airstrike on Ukraine. Their mother and grandmother were injured in the attack.
• Russia has sent Medinsky to the next round of peace talks. The Russian delegation will thus be led by a “historian” whom the Americans had previously asked not to come.
• At a meeting in Ramstein, Ukraine’s partners agreed to provide additional military aid totaling $35 billion.
• According to media reports, nearly 11,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed in Russia’s Kursk region at the beginning of 2026.
• A security conference is taking place in Munich, which President Zelensky also attended today.
• According to fragmentary information, further talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the US will take place in Geneva.
• China has reportedly promised Ukraine a package of aid for the energy sector.
• One of the heating plants in Moscow reportedly exploded.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus
• Reduction of Russian infantry
• Shelling of Russian field base
• Russians killed their own soldiers who surrendered to Ukrainians with drones
• Minus the occupier who installed the satellite
• One of Moscow’s heating plants reportedly exploded
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• Reduction in Russian communication

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Telegram owner Pavel Durov commented on Russia’s actions against his platform: “Russia is restricting access to Telegram in an attempt to force its citizens to switch to a state-controlled app designed for surveillance and political censorship. Eight years ago, Iran tried the same strategy—and failed. Under false pretenses, it banned Telegram and tried to force people to switch to a state-run alternative. Despite the ban, most Iranians still use Telegram (circumventing censorship) and prefer it to monitored apps. Restricting citizens’ freedoms is never the right solution. Telegram defends freedom of expression and privacy regardless of pressure.” He published his text on the X network, which is blocked in Russia, and also on Telegram, which most Russians are now unable to access. And this is also happening:

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• Trump said he raised tariffs on Swiss imports because he “didn’t like how the Swiss prime minister talked to him.” Leaving aside the stupidity of the argument itself, there is another catch: Switzerland does not have a prime minister. It does not even have a prime minister. It only has a federal president, which is a representative position to which a person is elected for a term of one year. The current president is 67-year-old Guy Parmelin.
• In Bohodukhiv, in the Kharkiv region, Russia struck a family home with a drone attack. Three small children were killed: a one-year-old girl and two boys aged one year and three months, as well as their 34-year-old father. The children’s pregnant mother was the only one to survive. She suffered multiple injuries caused by the explosion, traumatic brain injury, barotrauma, and burns, but she is in stable condition under medical care.
• The Lukoil Volgograd oil refinery has been hit by dozens of drones in recent hours. Preliminary analysis suggests that fuel storage tanks on the refinery premises have been hit. The refinery has reportedly activated its vaporization lines, which are now operating at full capacity.
• Just four months ago, Russia officially unveiled its new “Klin” attack drone, equipped with artificial intelligence, autonomous target guidance, a range of 120 km, and “unrivaled” capabilities. Ukrainian drones from the 118th Brigade destroyed it during their first encounter.
• Moscow and Tehran have accused the Starlink satellite system of violating international law. The Russian delegation has called for international negotiations on this matter and expressed concerns about compliance with laws and legal norms in the field of satellite technology use.
• The Telegraph newspaper claims that the Trump administration has called on Ukraine to hold elections by May 15, otherwise it risks losing the US security guarantees proposed in the peace agreement.
• The European Parliament has approved a €90 billion ($107 billion) loan to Ukraine, which will cover a large part of the country’s budgetary and military spending for the next two years.
• Putin announced that as soon as Ukraine withdraws its troops from four occupied regions of Ukraine and officially renounces any potential NATO membership, he will order a ceasefire.
• Russia rejected the peace framework proposed by the United States and Ukraine, saying it contradicted the “real” American plan.
• Latvia has compiled its new military exercise program entirely on the basis of Ukrainian combat experience.
• Azerbaijan has supplied the Ukrainian State Emergency Service with electricity generators.
• The US has banned Venezuela from exporting oil to China and Russia.

Interesting videos

• Russian losses
• Explorers in action
• A Russian soldier set fire to his own car at the front so he wouldn’t have to go into battle.
• Threats to Putin over Telegram shutdown
• Affected refinery
• Awareness of Russian soldiers
• Boom
• Russian attack
• Archive: Near Kupjansk
• Updated RuAF losses

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Mixed reports are coming in from Zaporizhzhia. Russian channels claim that Ukrainians have launched a counteroffensive on the Zaporizhzhia section of the front line, and some OSINT and mapping channels are saying the same thing. However, the Ukrainian army denies this. They say that mop-up operations are underway in frontline villages and that Russian sabotage groups are being eliminated, but from the army’s point of view, there is no counteroffensive. Where does the truth lie? It seems more likely that “something” bigger is indeed happening, but the reports from the area may also be influenced by the fact that the Russians’ communications at the front lines are hampered by the absence of Starlink. In any case, there is more news:

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• Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region, complains and demands that Putin stop attacking Ukraine: “First give us air defense systems, and then bomb Ukraine. But no, they’ve abandoned us. They can’t protect us, and we reap retaliation for every attack on Kyiv or other enemy cities. They can’t protect the residents of Belgorod—so let them not bomb anyone.”
• Information appeared on Russian Telegram that units from three Russian formations – the 22nd Regiment, the 1427th Regiment, and the 1st Air Force Regiment – refused to go on the offensive and are therefore considered deserters by the Russian command. The command then reportedly sent another unit from the 22nd Regiment to secure the deserters, but that unit also went missing and its members are also believed to have defected.
• Babiš recently reproduced regular Russian propaganda in the public sphere when he claimed that the war could have ended in the first year, but Boris Johnson pushed Ukraine to continue fighting. This is, of course, nonsense. This is also proven by the fact that Babiš was praised for his ramblings by Russian presidential negotiator Kirill Dmitriev.
• Italian railways were hit by what authorities describe as “serious sabotage” at the start of the Winter Olympics. Three attacks hit tracks in the north of the country: fires between Bologna and Venice, an arson attack on a switch near Pesaro, and the severing of cables using an explosive device near Bologna.
• President Zelensky signed a law on social protection for foreign volunteers in the Ukrainian armed forces. Law No. 4730-IX grants foreigners and stateless persons serving in Ukraine temporary residence permits for the duration of their service and for an additional six months after its completion.
• Russian media report that Ukrainians have killed Aik Gasparyan, commander of the ArBat special battalion, on the front line. He had previously been awarded Putin’s Medal for Bravery. He was recruited for the war from a maximum security prison, where he was serving a sentence for armed robbery.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov complained that Washington has not yet accepted Vladimir Putin’s offer to pay $1 billion for a seat on Trump’s “Peace Council” using frozen Russian assets in the US.
• The Russians claim to have occupied the village of Popivka in the Sumy region. Soldiers from the 14th Army Corps refuted the claims of Russian propagandists by raising the Ukrainian flag above the village today.
• In 2025, nearly 10,000 Russians visited North Korea, the highest number since 2010. By comparison, in 2023 there were about 1,000, and in 2024 around 6,500 people.
• President Zelensky announced that Ukrainian drones will begin to be manufactured in Germany in February as part of the export of Ukrainian military technology.
• Russian Ambassador to the UN Nebenzia called on Starlink to ensure that its satellite terminals cannot be used by any “terrorists.”
• The US has detained another Russian oil tanker: the Aquila II. After escaping the blockade in the Caribbean, it was detained by a helicopter landing party in the Indian Ocean.
• The crew of a Mi-24 helicopter from the 11th Separate Brigade of the Kherson Army Aviation Brigade was killed while performing a combat mission.
• Newsmax, a conservative American television station close to Trump, is launching a news channel dedicated to Ukraine.
• Ukrainian forces drove Russian troops out of the village of Chuhunivka in the Kharkiv region and captured several soldiers.
• On Monday night, Russian forces launched 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 149 attack drones at Ukraine.
• Russia accused the US of backing out of an alleged agreement to transfer occupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
• One person died and two were injured in Russian airstrikes on a residential building and a gas pipeline in Odessa.
• The FSB now claims to have found a “Polish connection” in the attempted assassination of General Alexeyev.
• Ukraine has signed agreements for the delivery of 150 Gripen aircraft and 100 Rafale aircraft.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Buchanka disguised as a tank
• Prisoners to the fund
• Reduction of occupiers
• Russian attack halted
• 18 prisoners
• Drones at work
• F-16 vs. Shahed
• Bryansk
• Russians strike volunteers and civilians near Beryslav with drone
• Odessa
• Generators for Kiev

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Russia is unable to defeat Ukraine militarily, so it is attempting to cause a humanitarian catastrophe that would force the country’s leadership to end the war at any cost. Another massive air strike on Ukraine took place last night. The Russians hit the Burštyn thermal power plant in the Ivano-Frankivsk region and the Dobrotvir thermal power plant in the Lviv region. Substations and 750kV and 330kV transmission lines, which form the backbone of Ukraine’s power grid, were also hit. All nuclear power plants in Ukrainian-controlled territory stopped producing electricity after the air strike. This is due to damage to key high-voltage substations through which electricity from nuclear power plants is transmitted to the distribution network. Extended emergency power cuts are now in effect throughout Ukraine, with the most severe restrictions in the eastern and northern regions. The Ukrainian state-owned company Ukrenergo has officially requested emergency assistance from Poland. Meanwhile, this has happened:

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• Moldovan President Sandu has rejected a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from Norwegian MP Hermstad. She believes that Ukrainian prisoners of war are more deserving of the prize: “Today I watched prisoners returning home from Russia, and these are the people who deserve the peace prize. Those who sacrifice their lives for peace because they want to bring it back to their country, to their villages and towns, to our continent.”
• A Ukrainian soldier was killed in an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device in Odessa. However, information suggests that he was not a victim, but rather the perpetrator. According to some reports, he was in contact with Russians and had carried out several arson and bomb attacks in the past. The bomb that killed him was most likely his own. However, it exploded prematurely.
• According to Reuters, Moscow has rejected Washington’s proposal that the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant be transferred to US administration and supply electricity to both warring countries. Russia considers this option unacceptable. Ukraine, in turn, refuses to recognize the transfer of the power plant to Russia.
• Ukrainian drones struck an experimental plant in Russia’s Tver region, which manufactures fuel components for Kh-55 and Kh-101 missiles. The attack was carried out at night by the Ukrainian security service and caused a major fire at the plant.
• The United States is reportedly pushing Ukraine to conclude a peace agreement in March—not because of a breakthrough in peace talks, but because Trump’s attention is shifting to the midterm elections.
• Zelensky claims that Ukrainian intelligence has obtained information that Russia has presented the United States with a $12 trillion economic plan called the “Dmitriev package.”
• OSCE Chairman Ignazio Cassis brought a music box playing Tchaikovsky’s composition to Moscow as a gift for Sergey Lavrov, “to remind Russians that Russia is part of Europe.”
• Russia killed more civilians in 2025 than in any previous year since the start of the full-scale invasion—all at a time when Trump, in his own words, was going to bring peace.
• Norway has pledged an additional €86.4 million to repair Ukraine’s energy network, doubling its total support to €163.6 million.
• One volunteer was killed and three others were injured when Russian drones attacked an evacuation vehicle in Beryslav.
• Trump signed an executive order allowing additional 25% tariffs to be imposed on countries trading with Iran.
• Former Russian Deputy Minister of Justice Sergei Tropin drowned in his own bathtub in his Moscow apartment.
• Lieutenant General Alekseev survived the assassination attempt. Doctors managed to stabilize him.
• Another crashed Russian drone was discovered in the Moldovan border region.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian search for mines
• The affected factory near Tver
• Minus a full garage
• Minus Russian artillery
• Minus
• Minus Tor

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Ukrainian pressure on SpaceX has worked. Disconnecting the Russians from Starlink terminals has led to a collapse in communications for Russian units across the entire front, while Ukrainian terminals continue to function thanks to whitelisting. Up to 90% of Russian units do not have access to online connections. In some places, the Russians have even completely halted their offensive operations because of this. However, they are quickly trying to compensate for the outage with domestic technologies, which are not as effective but are still usable. However, applauding SpaceX would mean ignoring the fact that it allowed Russia to use its products in the first place, often very effectively—for example, when the Russians began mounting them on kamikaze drones so they could guide them undisturbed to targets across Ukraine. At the same time, it is a disgrace for Russia to proclaim in its propaganda that it is fighting against NATO, while in many areas it is dependent on NATO’s technologies and solutions. And against this backdrop, this happened:

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• Fighting in Pokrovsk continues every day, but the commander of one of the Ukrainian battalions there reports a change in the enemy’s behavior. According to an officer from the 25th Airborne Brigade, Sichoslav, Russian forces are noticeably exhausted and their attacks are less intense than before. Ukrainian defenders continue to hold their positions in the northern part of the city.
• The German foreign intelligence service BND has calculated Russia’s actual defense spending. According to the BND, Russia spends the equivalent of $295 billion, which is 66% more than official sources report. This amount is half of Russia’s entire state budget and five times NATO’s current target (2% of GDP).
• Two “SMO heroes” who returned from Ukraine committed a series of crimes in Russia. First, they kidnapped a passerby, then killed another man, and finally killed a random taxi driver. Today, during a shootout on Rublevskoye Shosse, police shot one of the men and detained the other.
• In January, Ukraine struck the Kapustin Yar launch pad, from which the Russians had previously launched one of their Oreshnik missiles, with Flamingo missiles. The strikes were intended to hit hangars where Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles are prepared for subsequent launch.
• The Russians struck a fire and medical unit in one of the frontline villages in the Zaporizhzhia region. The attack damaged firefighting equipment, the roof, doors, and windows of the building. The staff were in the shelter, so no rescuers were injured.
• A new EU-funded study has revealed that 86% of AI responses in Russian parrot Russian propaganda about the war in Ukraine. Switch to English or Ukrainian, and the bias disappears.
• Ukraine brought home 157 Ukrainians from Russian captivity as part of the latest exchange with Moscow, which took place on the basis of an agreement reached during the latest round of peace talks in Abu Dhabi.
• Russia has successfully tested jet fuel produced by recycling used frying oil supplied by the restaurant chain Vkusno — i tochka. And no, this is not a joke. The news was reported by The Moscow Times.
• A campaign to support Ukraine’s energy sector was launched yesterday in Sweden. During the first five minutes of the broadcast announcing the fundraiser, €400,000 was raised.
• Russia has presented a new condition for peace. It now demands not only the withdrawal of the Ukrainian army from Donbas, but also its recognition as Russian territory by “all countries” involved in the negotiations.
• French authorities arrested two Chinese citizens on espionage charges after they were caught intercepting satellite signals from their Airbnb accommodation in the Gironde department.
• In St. Petersburg, a woman set fire to a humanitarian aid collection point for soldiers in the “SVO” using two Molotov cocktails. She was immediately detained, but the building was almost completely burned down in the meantime.
• Jeff Bezos closed several international branches of The Washington Post, including the one in Kyiv, without prior notice.
• A long-time employee of the Polish Ministry of Defense was detained on suspicion of collaborating with Russian intelligence.
• European diplomats have agreed on the details of financial aid to Ukraine amounting to €90 billion ($107 billion).
• Another Czech volunteer, 22-year-old Jonathan, was likely killed in Ukraine in December.

Interesting videos

• Kiev after the air raid
• Bull’s-eye!
• Minus Shahedy
• Drone hunter with minigun
• They’re going home
• They are at home
• Minus tank
• Explorers on the front line
• Updated RuAF losses

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During the night, Russia launched its largest air strike on Ukraine so far this year. Russia fired four Zircon and Oniks missiles, 32 Iskander-M and S-300 ballistic missiles, seven Kh-22 and Kh-32 missiles, 28 Kh-101 or Iskander-K missiles, and 450 Shahed, Gerbera, or Italmas drones. Once again, the target was civilian energy infrastructure across Ukraine. At least four power plants and heating plants and several substations were hit, leaving many places without electricity, heat, or water. This comes at a time when temperatures in Ukraine are dropping below -20 °C and a new wave of extreme cold is expected. In Odessa, port infrastructure was again targeted with the aim of stopping the export of goods from Ukraine by sea. There is no doubt that this was a carefully timed air strike. The “ceasefire” ceremoniously announced by Trump was in fact exactly what the Ukrainians had said it would be: a short pause to gather dozens of missiles and drones for a coordinated devastating strike. It is probably unnecessary to say that this is a war crime, because Russia has made its war crimes so commonplace that no one is excited about them anymore. After the night raid, Zelensky said that “the work of the Ukrainian negotiating team will be adjusted accordingly.” And this is also happening:

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• The Ukrainian foreign minister commented on reports that FIFA is considering allowing Russian teams to return to competition: “679 Ukrainian girls and boys will never be able to play soccer again—Russia killed them. And it continues to kill more and more, while morally degenerate people propose lifting sanctions, even though Russia is incapable of ending the war.”
• Three Ukrainians—a priest, a mechanic, and a prison director—were detained by the SBU for spreading Russian war propaganda on Telegram and TikTok. One of them called for a missile attack on Kyiv, another justified the massacre in Bucha, and the third called for the annexation of Kharkiv. They now face up to eight years in prison and confiscation of property.
• After a year and a half of fighting, Russian forces have completely occupied Toreck in the Donetsk region. Toreck, once a lively mining and cultural center, was first wiped off the map and then “occupied.” Ukrainian forces inflicted an estimated 26,000 casualties on Russian troops during the conquest of the city, including over 10,000 dead.
• Far-right British “activist” Tommy Robinson has been appointed ambassador of an unregistered “charity” linked to a Russian state propaganda operation with ties to a company subject to anti-Russian sanctions. Exactly zero people are surprised.
• Moscow is reportedly prepared to provide Cuba with financial assistance in connection with the sharp deterioration of the economic situation on the island. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a telephone conversation with his Cuban counterpart.
• French authorities, in cooperation with Europol, raided the offices of Company X in Paris. At the same time, they summoned Musk and former CEO Yaccarin for questioning and called on X employees to come forward as witnesses.
• According to Trump, Indian Prime Minister Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil and significantly increase energy imports from the United States—and possibly Venezuela.
• During the night, Ukrainian forces struck a Russian drone pilot training center in the temporarily occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region.
• Near Warsaw, an unknown drone crashed into a military base, just 70 meters from an arms depot.
• Hungary has sued the EU over its ban on Russian energy imports.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Reduction of occupiers
• Kiev
• The work of a sniper
• End of the Russian attack
• Minus TOS
• Drone strikes in the Russian rear
• Senator drove over a mine, protecting his crew
• They didn’t hide

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Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation suggest that the entire network of contacts was created in collaboration with Russian foreign intelligence to produce compromising material on top officials of Western countries and leading global companies. Putin’s name appears approximately a thousand times in the emails, and according to the emails, Epstein coordinated a number of activities directly with the Russians. One of the FBI’s collaborators even referred to Epstein as “Putin’s treasurer.” The Russians almost certainly supplied Epstein with underage “models” and “masseuses,” provided him with finances, and bribed his “clients.” According to the files, the Russians also financed Brexit, nationalist parties across Europe, and other disruptive activities, which American tech giants then rejoiced in along with them. As for Trump, his name appears even more frequently in the files than Epstein’s. In addition to the abuse of minors, the files also suggest the torture of young sex slaves and even cannibalism. And this is also happening:

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• It appears that Ukrainians have managed to force SpaceX to cut off most Russian units from internet access via Starlink terminals. Russian bloggers on Telegram report internet outages along the entire front line and complications in guiding Shahed drones, which can now only fly at a maximum speed of 75 km/h.
• Iran has declared the armies of all European countries to be “terrorist organizations.” This is Tehran’s response to the decision by the EU and the United States to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist group.
• According to satellite images published by Yle, Russia has begun renovating a long-neglected Soviet-era military base in Petrozavodsk, near the Finnish border.
• The next Swedish aid package to Ukraine will include Saab air defense systems, radars, electronic warfare equipment, and drones for strikes deep into Russian territory.
• Russians attacked a bus carrying miners returning home from their shift at the mine in Pavlohrad. Twelve of them did not survive the attack, and at least 15 others were injured.
• According to Zelensky, Ukraine, the US, and Russia will meet next week in the United Arab Emirates for another round of peace talks.
• In January alone, Russia sent more than 6,000 attack drones, 5,500 guided bombs, and 158 missiles to Ukraine.
• Belarus has become the largest importer of fish to Russia. This is despite the fact that it has no sea of its own.
• The media has managed to identify over 168,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
• A Russian airstrike hit a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians hit maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia
• Russian after the attack
• Medic on the front line
• Russian terror against the civilian population
• Ukrainian strike on Russian logistics
• Bull’s-eye!
• Another hit
• Minus Beech
• Deflected attack

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Peskov claims that Russia agreed to Trump’s request to refrain from attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure until February 1 in order to “create favorable conditions for negotiations.” In reality, it appears that both shelling and airstrikes are continuing, just on different targets. Russia has launched massive attacks on Ukrainian logistics in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In just 24 hours, there have been dozens of attacks, including attacks on civilian buses carrying people. The attacks have already claimed several lives. Nevertheless, Russian pro-war channels are sharply criticizing the Russian government for this “concession.” According to them, any compromise or concession shows Russia’s weakness. Years of fascist state propaganda have simply created a significant group of people in Russia who are hungry for blood and unwilling to accept any outcome other than the complete genocide of the Ukrainian nation. And this is also happening:

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• At a press conference, Zelensky revealed that Russia had struck the TEC-6, TEC-5, and TEC-4 power plants in Kyiv, leading to widespread power outages because Ukraine lacks PAC-3 missiles for Patriot systems that could defend the power plants. Although Europe officially finances the missiles through PURL, the payment never arrived, and neither did the missiles.
• The German Bundestag passed a resolution declaring support for Ukraine to be the “shared responsibility” of the government. The upper house called for aid to be “continued and intensified” and urged Russia to “end all attacks and withdraw its troops from the entire territory of Ukraine.”
• Canada is rocked by a scandal in which it has come to light that part of the political scene met with Trump’s people with the aim of dismantling Canada from within and allowing the United States to annex separatist regions. Canadian officials are talking about treason.
• A Russian sabotage group from the 153rd Tank Regiment attempted to penetrate behind the front lines to the village of Kupjansk-Vuzlovy in order to raise a flag there and support Russian propaganda about the occupation of the village. However, the Ukrainians discovered and destroyed the group.
• French company ALM Meca has unveiled its new Fury interceptor drone, which can fly at speeds of up to 700 km/h, handle maneuvers with overloads of up to 20 G, and is significantly cheaper than some similar systems.
• The SBU dismantled a network of FSB agents who were preparing terrorist attacks in the center of Odessa. Three people collaborating with the Russian FSB were detained. They were planning to blow up cars and houses belonging to Ukrainian soldiers and their families.
• Three current and former US government sources told the Washington Examiner that the United Arab Emirates provided Russia with the identities of US intelligence officers.
• More than 1 million residents of Kiev’s left bank continue to face adverse living conditions, with many struggling to survive without electricity.
• Part of the Philip Morris tobacco company factory in Kharkiv was damaged as a result of a Russian night attack.
• Ukraine is deploying boilers provided by Italy to provide heating for up to 90,000 households.
• According to multiple sources, Ukrainians launched a series of counterattacks north of Pokrovsk.
• The European Union plans to adopt a 20th package of sanctions against Russia on February 24.
• An Iranian government plane landed at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian attempt to cross the Dnieper River
• Russians hit a civilian minibus in Kherson
• Another Russian attack on horseback
• “Russian army”
• French drone Fury
• Denazification using drones
• Russian airstrikes on civilian transport
• Soloviev calls for genocide again
• Cleaning Kupjansk
• Fly, little cup
• Begging for mercy
• Minus sabotage group
• Bus hit in Kherson
• They hit the mark
• In what condition did the Russians surrender?
• Boo!
• Affected railway

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According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, Chinese hackers spent years eavesdropping on the inner circle of British prime ministers. Between 2021 and 2024, hackers with ties to Chinese authorities gained access to the communications of senior advisers to Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak. They exploited a “back door” that, somewhat paradoxically, was made possible by British legislation. It is not yet clear whether the prime ministers’ own phones were also compromised. Western intelligence services claim that the operation, codenamed “Salt Typhoon,” is still ongoing and could also have affected current Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The hacking operation was global in scope and focused primarily on countries within the Five Eyes alliance—the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. And then this happened:

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• The Ukrainian army is reportedly not interested in completely clearing Kupiansk of Russian troops, as it has become apparent that small groups of Russians hiding in several locations in the city center serve as perfect bait. Russia has reportedly lost thousands more soldiers in desperate attempts to break through from the north and free them from the encirclement. Meanwhile, the Russian army continues to publish bizarre lies about the situation there, claiming that it controls the city and that around 900 Ukrainians are hiding there, which is causing considerable frustration among Russian bloggers and map analysts who are monitoring the situation and agree with the Ukrainian version of reality.
• The Austrian party NEOS has taken steps to strip Karin Kneissl of her Austrian citizenship. The party decided to take action after Kneissl referred to Austrians as “hyenas.” Kneissl was Austria’s foreign minister from 2017 to 2019. In 2018, she became “famous” for dancing with Putin at her own wedding. She later became a member of the board of directors of Rosneft and now lives in Russia, regularly criticizing her own homeland.
• The US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has published new estimates of losses in Russia’s war against Ukraine. According to CSIS, Ukraine’s total losses since the start of the full-scale invasion amount to 500,000 to 600,000 people killed, wounded, or missing. Of these, an estimated 100,000 to 140,000 people were killed in combat. Russian losses are even higher: a total of up to 1.2 million, including about 325,000 killed.
• Fourteen European countries announced in a joint statement that they would close the Baltic Sea to Russia’s “shadow fleet.” Russia was also accused of deliberately jamming satellite navigation systems, which poses a threat to maritime safety and complicates rescue operations in the event of accidents.
• On Tuesday, Russian troops killed a married couple who were attempting to evacuate from a village on the front line in the Sumy region. The Russians opened fire when the man was pulling his wounded wife on a sled. The entire situation was filmed by a drone and the video appeared on social media.
• Kyiv is preparing criminal proceedings against Lukashenko. Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha confirmed that Ukraine intends to bring Alexander Lukashenko to justice for aiding Russia in the war and to push for new sanctions against Belarus.
• Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said that President Trump called him yesterday, stands by his statements from Davos about NATO soldiers, and has not changed his opinion, as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had previously claimed.
• German authorities are offering a reward of one million euros for information leading to the arrest of individuals who sabotaged energy infrastructure in Berlin in early January.
• A former Volkswagen production plant is on fire in Russia’s Kaluga region, where Chinese cars have been manufactured under a local brand since the company’s departure from Russia.
• The Italian frigate ITS Virginio Fasan has detected and is tracking a Russian Kilo-class submarine, the Krasnodar, in the Mediterranean Sea.
• Russian troops shelled a hospital in Kherson again this morning. Two medical workers were injured in the attack.
• The death toll from yesterday’s Russian airstrike on a civilian train has risen to four.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians killed a married couple during evacuation
• Russians hit a civilian train yesterday
• Civilian train hit
• Drones are working at Lyman
• Drones are operating near Kostyantynivka
• Volkswagen factory
• Did not pass
• Russians
• Minus
• Lyman

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Russia is significantly expanding recruitment for its unmanned systems units. It gives preference to candidates who are university students with experience in aviation units, special or reconnaissance units, civilian drone pilots, aircraft modelers, and specialists in IT, electronics, and radio technology. It offers potential recruits a one-year contract and a guarantee that they will not be transferred to other units. However, as we know, such guarantees from the Russian government or army are only valid until Russia runs out of cannon fodder. Russia has already deployed various specialists to the front lines whose primary task is not to participate in ground combat, including, for example, air base personnel. But there will certainly be no shortage of interested parties. It is Russia’s state policy to deliberately keep entire regions and federal republics in poverty, because military service is then the only chance for many young men to earn a living. But now for more news:

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• The Chinese army is undergoing its most profound leadership purge since the 1970s. Xi Jinping began the purge in 2012, but it intensified significantly after 2023 and is now in full swing. Senior military officers are being accused en masse of corruption, political disloyalty, and even treason. The military elite is nervously watching further developments: some generals have already mysteriously disappeared, while others have been quietly removed from their posts.
• The first trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the US in Abu Dhabi have ended—and one important party was missing from the table: Europe. Former diplomat Vadym Tryukhan warns that this puts Ukraine at risk: Trump’s team is rushing and tends to put pressure on Kyiv rather than Moscow, so Ukraine risks being squeezed from both sides.
• Russian airlines have been hit by a massive malfunction. The reservation system is completely down. Passengers cannot purchase, change, or return tickets, let alone add additional services. Problems have been reported by Aeroflot, Rossiya, Pobeda, Ural Airlines, Utair, Red Wings, Aurora, RusLine, Yamal, Alrosa, Izhavia, and many others.
• 60-year-old American Charles Wayne Zimmerman, who set sail for Russia to meet a woman he fell in love with online, was sentenced to five years in prison for arms smuggling. During a search of his yacht, Trude Zena, weapons and ammunition were found, which he claimed were for “self-defense.”
• Volodymyr Zelensky and Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya met for their first bilateral talks in Vilnius and discussed Belarusian democratic forces’ support for Ukraine, assistance for political prisoners and volunteers, and sanctions against Lukashenko’s regime.
• Yesterday, the Russian army deliberately shelled the Kherson thermal power plant with artillery and drones. This facility is the only source of heat for tens of thousands of residents of Kherson, where the heating situation is now critical.
• The German company Rheinmetall alone will soon be able to produce 1.5 million 155mm artillery shells per year, which is more than the total production volume of the US defense industry.
• Ukrainian drones struck Rosneft oil depots in Penza, 500 km from the border. Satellite images confirm that at least one fuel tank was destroyed and several others were damaged.
• According to regional governor Oleg Hryhorov, Russian soldiers continue to lay mines in the Sumy region from a distance. The Russians are dropping explosives from drones that are activated by pressure or proximity.
• Zelensky revealed: “Security guarantees for Ukraine are primarily guarantees from the United States. The document containing their wording is 100% ready, and we are waiting for it to be signed.”
• Two Russian women drove their car onto the US military base Camp Pendleton. According to their statement, they were looking for a McDonald’s and their navigation system led them to the base. They now face imprisonment.
• Russian forces have begun withdrawing their troops from Kamishli Airport in northeastern Syria. Military equipment is being loaded onto transport planes and moved to an unknown destination.
• All Polish border crossings along the border with the Lviv and Volyn regions are experiencing technical difficulties with the Polish Border Guard database.
• The EU Council has approved a ban on Russian gas imports from 2027. Member state ministers approved the relevant legislation at a meeting in Brussels.
• Kyiv received 130 generators purchased with funds from the Polish initiative “Heat from Poland for Kyiv.” The total output of the delivered equipment is 2,376 kW.
• For the first time since World War II, the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was hit during a Russian air raid.
• Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
• The government has cut the defense budget by CZK 21 billion.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the Russian attack group
• Punishment for disobedience in the Russian army
• Did not pass
• Murmansk
• They didn’t hide

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Immediately after the start of peace talks in Abu Dhabi, Russia attacked Ukraine at night with 21 missiles and cruise missiles (Tsirkon, Iskander, Kh-22/Kh-32) and 375 drones. Once again, the targets were primarily elements of the energy system in Kyiv and the surrounding area, leaving around 6,000 homes without power and heat – many of which had only been reconnected to the grid a few days earlier. The Russians are now targeting the last artery supplying Kiev with electricity: the substations through which electricity from Ukrainian nuclear power plants flows. On one bank of the Dnieper River, there are now also problems with drinking water supplies due to Russian terror. However, projectiles also hit Kharkiv, which reports 27 injured civilians. Last but not least, Chernihiv was almost completely without power in the morning after the attack. And this is also happening:

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• Two tankers belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in the Mediterranean Sea have been hit by an extraordinary incident. The oil tanker Progress (IMO: 9306627) is currently located north of the Algerian coast and is being carried away by an uncontrolled current. The vessel had previously reported that it was not under the control of its crew while transporting 730,000 barrels of Russian oil via Suez to China. The second tanker, Chariot Tide (IMO: 9323376), located near Gibraltar, also reported “out of control” status and is being carried away by the current.
• When a Russian missile struck a high-rise building in Kyiv on the night of July 31, 2025, it killed Natalia and Andriy Osincevy, and the explosion threw their daughter Veronika out of the 9th floor window onto the street while she was sleeping. Miraculously, she survived the explosion and subsequent fall. She later described how she remembered being awakened by the sound of cracking concrete and finding herself in shock on the ground a moment later. Her apartment burned down after the air strike. She underwent several operations, lost all her personal belongings, and is now learning to walk again and build a new life.
• Russian propagandist Dremov on Telegram: “I repeat to humanists and sanctimonious people: this is war! And in war, all means are permissible. If we don’t bomb maternity wards, schools, and ordinary houses, we won’t win this war. Only pressure from the people of the “Saló Reich” on Zelensky can force him to surrender. The reputation of Russia and its army is at stake. We must win, whatever the cost!”
• A leaked recording from a closed-door meeting captures Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez telling pro-government influencers that the United States threatened to kill senior officials if they did not cooperate after Maduro’s abduction. Rodríguez claims she was given 15 minutes to comply with the demands.
• Chief of General Staff Řehka announced that the Czech Armed Forces are prepared to provide Ukraine with four L-159 aircraft, and that he himself had repeatedly proposed this in the past. So when current government politicians claim that the aircraft cannot be handed over to Ukraine because the army needs them, they are lying.
• In the far north of Russia, widespread power outages have been reported in Severomorsk and Murmansk. This area is home to the Russian Northern Fleet base, the strategic Olenya airfield, and many other strategically important Russian facilities.
• Trump angered Western leaders when he said that Americans did not need NATO troops and that during the war in Afghanistan, soldiers from other countries were practically slacking off in the rear. Several statesmen have already strongly protested against Trump.
• A 48-year-old woman working in the confectionery department of the Roshen chocolate factory was killed in a night air raid. Many people were also injured. The production facilities were damaged by several direct hits.
• Trump called Canadian Prime Minister Carney a “governor” and threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Canadian goods if the Canadian prime minister signs a new trade agreement with China.
• 33-year-old Michal Strnad, owner of Czechoslovak Group (CSG), has become the richest entrepreneur in the defense industry worldwide. His fortune is estimated at $37 billion.
• Russia is using fake job ads for a non-existent “Luhansk Nuclear Power Plant” to recruit civilians for its war in Ukraine.
• No compromise was reportedly reached during talks between Russia, Ukraine, and the United States in Abu Dhabi.
• Australia is sending an additional $6.9 million to help Ukraine’s energy grid survive the winter.
• The Gift for Putin collection raised CZK 70,000,000 in just a few days to purchase generators for Ukraine.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Kiev
• Divers repair flooded power plant
• Kyiv, impacts
• Minus the Russians
• Zaporizhzhia Front, December
• Russia rotates its base after Ukrainian air strike
• Events in Lyman
• A train carrying coal derailed in Khabarovsk
• Interrogation of a war criminal
• Did not pass
• Minus Shahed
• Shitty situation
• Minus
• Production losses

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Trump’s speech in Davos resembled the ravings of someone suffering from advanced dementia and colossal narcissism. Among his many absurd statements, it is worth mentioning that Trump repeatedly referred to Greenland as a “piece of ice” and then to Iceland. He called himself a dictator because, he said, “sometimes a dictator is necessary.” He also claimed that “Europe used to call him ‘Daddy’.” He told European leaders that if it weren’t for the US, everyone would be speaking German or Japanese today. He also called a certain Caucasian country “Abrbaijan” again. Even after Trump is gone from the White House, remember well who supported him in Czechia. But now for more news:

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• According to the Ukrainian army, the last Russian soldiers in Kupiansk are concentrated in one block of apartment buildings, and operations are now underway to clear the houses of occupiers without causing losses to the Ukrainian army.
• Rutte and Trump reportedly agreed that Greenland would sell land to the United States, where the Americans would build their bases. Trump immediately withdrew his planned increase in tariffs on NATO countries.
• The governor of Krasnodar Krai announced that the port of Taman, one of Russia’s key terminals for exporting oil products on the Black Sea, had been attacked.
• Russia is reportedly considering selling frozen assets worth around $1 billion to the United States in order to buy a seat on Trump’s “Peace Council.”
• Germany has arrested a dual citizen accused of spying for Russian intelligence in connection with arms deliveries to Ukraine.
• 11 Ukrainians were charged with collaboration and treason after joining a Russian military unit in the occupied Kherson region.
• Leading Ukrainian energy engineer Oleksiy Brecht died while performing his job when he was struck by an electric current during repairs to a substation.
• Lavrov claimed that living standards in the Baltic states fell dramatically after the collapse of the USSR. The opposite is true.
• Putin said yesterday that Russia will use funds frozen in the West to rebuild occupied territories.
• The German government will supply Kiev with two mini cogeneration units that produce both electricity and heat.
• During the attack on Tuesday night, Russia apparently used RM-48U training missiles against Ukraine for the first time.
• Kellogg stated that if Ukraine survives this winter, it will have the advantage in the spring.
• French car manufacturer Renault has signed a contract to produce drones for Ukraine.
• Lavrov stated that Crimea is no less important to Russia than Greenland is to the US.
• Around 3,000 homes in Kyiv are still without electricity.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• A bad place to hide
• Russian propagandists call for killings in the Baltics
• The Orel power plant left the chat
• Evacuation from Pokrovsk
• Zelensky in Davos
• The Russian evacuation didn’t work out
• Russian veteran returns home
• Minus cannons
• Hunting down the occupiers
• He found him.
• Minus 14
• Russian propaganda about Nazis in Ukraine

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After a nighttime Russian airstrike, 5,635 apartment buildings in Kyiv, home to around one million people, were left without heating. Almost 80% of the affected buildings are ones where heating had only recently been restored after the air raid on January 9. After the new attack, the left side of Kyiv was also left without water. Municipal services and energy teams are working to restore heat, water, and electricity supplies. In any case, Russian channels are enthusiastically celebrating what they describe as a “sophisticated winter campaign against civilians.” For context, Russian foreign propaganda and its consumers constantly insist that Russia does not target civilians, while domestic propagandists not only admit this but also praise the Russian army for it. Meanwhile, Zelensky has warned that, according to intelligence services, Russia is preparing another massive attack—and it will happen in the coming days. It could be one of the largest air strikes in the entire four years of the war. And this is also happening:

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• Russia has just launched a total forced mobilization in the occupied Donbas, calling up even disabled and seriously ill people. Russian commanders publicly admit that the situation is critical: medical examinations are not being carried out, there is no real training, and there are mutinies among the soldiers.
• Media outlets around the world are laughing at Babiš for buying a globe to understand why the United States wants to control Greenland. Babiš has since released a video in which he tries to “explain” this to people by comparing a classic map and a globe, showing how the size of Greenland and its actual position relative to other countries changes.
• Several countries have already formally confirmed their participation in Trump’s new “Peace Council”: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Albania, and Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, Trump is threatening to impose a 200% tariff on French wine and champagne if Macron does not join the council.
• In Yakutsk, a 16-year-old teenager was crushed inside a captured Ukrainian tank at the “Russia - My History” exhibition. The young man climbed into the tank through the lower hatch, after which one of the internal structures came loose and caused fatal injuries.
• Trump posted images of European leaders created by artificial intelligence, sitting in the Oval Office and looking at a map on which Greenland, Danish territory, and Canada—territories of NATO member states—are recolored with the American flag.
• Magali Lafourcade, the judge in the case against Marine Le Pen, revealed that in May 2025 she was visited by two Trump envoys who tried to influence her in the case and pressured her to acquit Le Pen.
• A damaged railway connection was found at the site of a train accident in Spain. The damage to the tracks is strikingly similar to recent acts of sabotage carried out by Russian secret services, most recently in Poland.
• During a nighttime Russian air raid, the external power supply to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was cut off. Several Ukrainian substations, which are essential for nuclear safety, were damaged.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hastily canceled his planned participation in Davos today, remaining in Kyiv due to the nighttime Russian airstrike.
• The Ukrainian SBU detained a Russian soldier suspected of executing nine Ukrainian prisoners of war in 2024.
• According to Zelensky, Russia sent missiles worth €80 million and hundreds of drones to Ukraine during the night.
• Lavrov said of the current political developments in Czechia: “Healthy forces are awakening in Czechia.”
• Bulgarian pro-Russian President Radev resigned from office and plans to run for parliament.
• Ukrainians struck a Russian ammunition depot in occupied Debaltseve near Donetsk.
• A plane carrying dozens of Danish soldiers landed in Greenland.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians scattered mines around the Kherson hospital complex
• Russian soldier shoots down grenade dropped from drone
• Russians on the receiving end
• Lukashenko confirmed his participation in the Peace Council
• They didn’t let him finish it.
• He didn’t hide
• Minus Russian ammunition depot
• Minus a house full of Russians
• Drone in a trench

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The Russian shadow fleet has grown significantly in recent years and currently consists of approximately 1,100 tankers from around the world, representing approximately 9% of the global tanker fleet. To avoid sanctions, the Russians constantly change the names and flags of their vessels, switch off their transponders, and unload oil at sea, including in the area near the Baltic Sea. Annual oil exports by sea from Russia amount to approximately 240 million tons. Up to a third of this volume, approximately 70-80 million tons, is now exported via the shadow fleet. If the West takes action against shadow tankers, Russia risks losing up to 30% of its oil exports by sea, which is approximately $50-60 billion per year. This represents up to 15-20% of all oil and gas revenues to the federal budget. Oil and gas exports are the main source of revenue in Russia’s budget. The United States has already begun to take action against shadow tankers. Britain is indicating that it will join in. What about the others? We will have to wait and see. In the meantime, read more news:

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• What’s the deal with Trump’s “Peace Commission”? Bloomberg has obtained a draft founding document which states, among other things, that any country wishing to be part of the commission will have to contribute $1 billion, with Trump having sole control over the money and the entire council. Unsurprisingly, most of the countries approached have a problem with this.
• French news channel LCI claims that Ukrainian intelligence services passed false strategic information to US intelligence services… and noted that this information was passed on to Russia and used by Russian forces. If this is true, it is probably the reason why French intelligence has completely replaced American intelligence in providing information support to Ukraine.
• Tehran has denied Trump’s claim that he managed to stop the executions of approximately 800 people. Meanwhile, videos have appeared on the internet showing Iranian security forces carrying out extrajudicial executions of injured protesters directly in hospitals. One of the detainees was also beaten to death in prison.
• People across Denmark protested against Trump’s threats and plans to take over Greenland. In Copenhagen alone, around 20,000 people gathered. Protests also took place in Greenland itself, where hundreds (even thousands) of people came to express their disagreement in front of the US consulate building.
• Ukrainian military intelligence announced that Russia plans to attack Ukrainian nuclear power plant substations in the coming weeks to force Ukraine to surrender. Ukrainian leaders called on the IAEA to help stop this madness.
• Trump is imposing additional 10% tariffs on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands because of their positions on the issue of Greenland. He also warned that if the countries do not change their position, the tariffs will increase to 25% in June.
• The Russian ship “Mys Želanija,” which has been sanctioned, transported military cargo to Libya accompanied by a Russian warship. It is likely weapons and ammunition for the Russian “Afrika Korps.” And yes, that’s really what they call themselves.
• The Russians boasted videos in which they allegedly destroyed the Patriot system near Kharkiv. However, they themselves immediately admitted that these were only very well-made dummies.
• Adam Kadyrov was awarded a medal “For Merit in Strengthening the Security of Nuclear Power Plants” - allegedly for his contribution to the protection of the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia.
• China is practicing how to capture or kill Taiwanese leaders. It is inspired by the US action in Venezuela.
• Ukrainian drones attacked the Kapustin Yar missile range in the Astrakhan region of Russia.
• 80,000 residents of Yeysk, Russia, are without electricity after an “accident” at one of the distribution stations.
• The wreckage of another Russian Gerber drone has been discovered in Moldova.
• Temperatures on the front line are currently dropping to -20 °C.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Bull’s-eye!
• Minus 38
• Double misfortune
• Melitopol is without electricity
• Rescuing an owl
• Russian supply route
• Protests in Greenland
• Six in one
• Did not swim
• They couldn’t hide from the drone
• Night vision drones
• Hunting with a drone
• The barriers worked
• Russian thirst

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Russian military bloggers claim that against the backdrop of the war with Ukraine, China is gradually seizing areas in southeastern and eastern Russia. Chinese companies are allegedly farming vast tracts of land that are constantly expanding, and according to the bloggers, China has even begun collecting taxes in communities where ethnic Chinese live. Chinese propaganda is also increasingly talking about the annexation of eastern Russia in various animations and AI videos that are spreading on social networks, and not only among Chinese people. As Russia gradually empties its bases in the east of the country to have soldiers and equipment for the war with Ukraine, China would encounter virtually no resistance in the event of an annexation. And this is also happening:

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• The trial of the former Ukrainian prime minister began in Kiev. The court set Tymoshenko’s bail at the equivalent of $760,000 in connection with an investigation into alleged corruption. Tymoshenko is also required to appear in court whenever summoned and is not allowed to leave the Kiev area.
• The oil tanker Tavian (1095337) was denied entry into German territorial waters, as a result of which it was unable to sail into the Baltic Sea and was forced to turn back. According to transponder data, the tanker is now located near the Norwegian coast and is heading for the White Sea.
• Ukrainian forces attacked a thermal power plant in the town of Klincy and a substation near the town of Najtopovichi in the Bryansk region of Russia during the night. The governor of the Bryansk region said he was shocked that the Ukrainians “had the audacity” to attack Russian energy infrastructure.
• Newly appointed Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal told parliament that no power plant remained undamaged after massive Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. The worst situation is in the Kyiv region.
• Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha sharply criticized the position of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in which the ICRC equated Russia’s and Ukraine’s attacks on energy infrastructure.
• China has completely stopped buying electricity from Russia. According to the Kommersant newspaper, export prices have exceeded domestic Chinese prices for the first time, making imports economically unsustainable. - Due to attacks on its energy infrastructure, Ukraine is relaxing its curfew so that citizens can visit humanitarian aid centers at night.
• Russian groups disguised as civilians are attempting to infiltrate Kostyantynivka, similar to previous attempts in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad. - President Pavel paid tribute in Kyiv to fallen soldiers, including Czech and Slovak volunteers.
• From February 1, the European Union will lower the price cap on Russian oil from $47.6 to $44.1 per barrel. - Zelensky announced that Ukraine has received a significant package of ammunition for air defense systems. - Poland has approved the transfer of nine more MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.
• Putin said that Russia will always help its friends in Cuba. - Several Danish fighter jets have arrived in Greenland.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Paul in Kiev
• Action on the front line = two prisoners
• Minus MT-LB
• Satellite images of the Atlant Aero plant
• End of mischief
• Drone violence against drone
• Denazification
• Minus motorcyclists

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It’s starting to look like “TodayInGreenland.cz” here, but unfortunately, everything is connected: Greenland’s prime minister said at a press conference that “if Greenland has to choose between the United States and Denmark, then it chooses Denmark, NATO, and the EU.” When reporters asked Trump for his reaction, he said: “That’s their problem. I don’t agree with him. I don’t even know who he is, I don’t know anything about him. But this will be a big problem for him.” Due to growing tensions, Denmark has today moved a small military contingent to Greenland in case of provocations, with soldiers from other, unnamed countries also reportedly participating in the mission. Only Sweden has officially confirmed its participation in the maneuvers. In the afternoon, talks between Denmark, Greenland, and the United States took place at the White House. According to witnesses, they lasted less than 90 minutes—half the time allotted. No one knows at this point what was discussed or what was negotiated. However, the whole charade is aimed at weakening NATO, strengthening other dictatorships, including Russia, and potentially diverting parts of the armies to defend the island instead of defending NATO’s eastern flank, where the danger is real. And this is also happening:

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• 43-year-old Colonel Sergei Karasev was appointed deputy mayor in Samara. In September, the British newspaper The Times published a list of 13 Russian officers suspected of war crimes in Bucha, and Karasev was among them. According to the newspaper, his crimes did not take place in Bucha itself, but in Irpin, where he knocked out a local pensioner’s teeth with the butt of his rifle and also shot another civilian.
• Ukrainian children in the occupied territory are photographed watching Putin’s speeches as homework assigned by their teachers. Parents who want to teach their children at home because of such excesses are threatened by the occupation authorities with the deprivation of their parental rights. When one schoolgirl boycotted classes, soldiers in balaclavas stormed into her house.
• Poland found itself on the brink of a blackout in December after what the Polish deputy prime minister described as the most serious cyberattack on the country’s energy infrastructure. The Russian sabotage targeted energy facilities across the country and aimed to plunge the civilian population into darkness.
• A body believed to be that of Vladislav Baumgertner, former CEO of Russian fertilizer giant Uralkali, was found in Cyprus. This is the second mysterious death of a senior Russian official in Cyprus in recent days.
• The NATO Secretary General has warned that if China decides to attack Taiwan, it will not do so alone. According to him, it will first push Russia to attack Europe, thus freeing China’s hands.
• According to the newly appointed Defense Minister Fedorov, since the beginning of the war, around 2 million Ukrainian men have actively avoided military service and around 200,000 people have left their units.
• €60 billion for weapons, €30 billion for financial support – the European Commission has officially presented a proposal to finance Ukraine to the tune of €90 billion for the period 2026–2027.
• Bloomberg reports that Venezuelan officials are surprised that any security guarantees from Russia have proven to be mere fiction. - Ukrainian attack drones struck a major industrial paint manufacturer in Rostov. The Empils plant and its railway loading infrastructure were engulfed in a large fire.
• The Russian army is trying to break through the defenses on the western part of the Zaporizhzhia front near Stepnohirsk in order to move its artillery within range of Zaporizhzhia. - Five missiles struck the Ukrainian CHP-5 power plant near Kyiv in one of the latest airstrikes. The damage is reportedly so severe that it will be very difficult to restore cooling. - The Iranian cargo ship Rona, which was sailing on a route used to transport weapons from Iran to Russia, is sinking in the Caspian Sea. - Ukraine’s main lithium deposit has been officially awarded to a group of investors linked to the current US administration.
• Russia wants to recruit 67,000 “contract soldiers” from people living in the occupied territories of Ukraine. - The United States has begun evacuating its base in Qatar. A US strike on Iran is expected.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Cooking in Kiev
• The grenade didn’t explode, but…
• Shelter in Dnipro during an air raid
• Trump on Greenland
• Russian wounded soldiers return to the front line
• Russian air defense “works”
• Minus tank
• Drones…

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The BBC says the UK will allow its military to detain tankers from Russia’s “shadow fleet” in the English Channel after finding an adequate legal solution. London says the legal basis for detaining such vessels may be the current Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, which allows the use of military force against sanctioned ships. If the UK did indeed proceed to do so, it would be another major blow to Russian oil export revenues. And even the mere threat of detention could become very costly for Russia, as it would have to find alternative routes. And these would certainly be much longer and therefore more expensive. Anyway, this is also happening this:

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• The United States now claims that Denmark has no claim to Greenland because the island was defended by the United States during World War II and the Danes reoccupied it after the war in violation of UN rules. This was stated by Trump’s envoy for Greenland affairs, Jeff Landry. According to him, the Danes are thus “occupying Greenland”. Trump’s rhetoric on Greenland has also been newly condemned by China.
• Babiš published information about the amount of funds Czech companies have contributed to the munitions initiative. There is a reason why such information is not public. Babiš has thus potentially endangered not only the initiative itself, but also the private entities involved.
• Russia has begun using a new Geran-5 attack drone with a length of 6 metres and a range of 1 000 km. Ukrainian intelligence notes that the drone “can hardly be considered Russian” as it is an Iranian Karrar model equipped with a British Raspberry Pi microcomputer.
• Russia’s Oreshnik, military analysts conclude, is in fact a slightly upgraded Soviet Pioneer ballistic missile (Pioneer, according to NATO’s SS-20 Saber). In its last launch, a projectile whose “warhead” consisted of blocks of concrete landed on Dnipro.
• President Pellegrini, Prime Minister Fico and Parliament Speaker Raši confirmed that Slovakia will not provide any military support to Kiev - including arms supplies, sending peacekeeping troops or participating in EU guarantees for future loans.
• Some Russian Shahed-type drones are now dropping PTM-3 anti-tank mines just before impact to kill those who go to the site to help - police, rescue workers and volunteers.
• The Russians hit an ambulance in the town of Semenivka yesterday. Two paramedics aged 47 and 54 were injured and are currently in hospital.
• According to Rheinmetall, the first 5 German KF41 Lynx infantry fighting vehicles will be delivered to Ukraine in early 2026.
• Trump said Zelensky still “doesn’t have any cards, and never has”. According to Trump, Zelensky has only one trump card: Donald Trump.
• Former Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner has disappeared in Cyprus. Police have been searching for him for five days.
• Ukrainians hit a power plant in Novocherkassk, Russia, last night. The area is experiencing power outages.
• The Iranian currency has plunged so much that one riyal is now worth… zero euros.
• 154 Russian drones flew into Ukraine last night, including 110 Shahed drones.
• 25 tankers have changed their flag to Russian in recent months.
• Trump has described himself as the “acting president of Venezuela”.
• 800 homes in Kiev are still without heat supply.

Interesting videos

• Russian search for mines
• Minus two and three to the collection
• Drones…
• Russian raid on oil depot in Dnipro
• Snake Island
• Hodor
• The disguise was not valid
• The drones are working
• Updated RuAF losses

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Filip Turek in Ukraine - in front of the apartment building where a Russian drone hit and killed an entire family - said that Russia’s war with Ukraine was due to “NATO expansion”. I think it is time to stop arguing about whether or not Turk is pro-Russian. When someone votes in favour of Russia every time in the EP, stands on a programme that suits Russia best and spreads Russian state propaganda on a daily basis, there is nothing to argue about. And, of course, no local agent of Russia is going to come along and say “yes, I am pro-Russian, so what?”. They’re one too many cowards for that. However, this also happened:

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• On 9 January, Russia struck two civilian ships in the Ukrainian grain corridor, killing a Syrian crew member near Odessa. The ship carrying soya beans was flying the Comoros flag. A second ship, flying the flag of St Kitts and Nevis, was hit by a drone while on its way to Chornomorsk to load grain. Members of the second crew were injured.
• Ukraine won an $18 million arbitration case in Switzerland against an American munitions supplier. The Swiss court ruled that the American company had breached the contract by supplying only one-third of the artillery shells, even though a 100% deposit had been paid at the start of the war.
• Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov submitted their resignations to the Ukrainian parliament on 9 January in connection with ongoing personnel changes in the government.
• Kiev Mayor Klitschko called on Kiev residents to - if they have the option - temporarily leave the city until the authorities and energy companies manage to restore electricity and heat supplies.
• Trump declared that he would “do something about Greenland, whether others like it or not”, because he said that if the United States did not seize the island first, Russia would.
• The target of yesterday’s Oreshnik missile launch was reportedly a plant in Lviv that focuses on repairing aircraft and aircraft parts.
• Rodynske, near Pokrovsk, is still under the control of the Ukrainian army after the recent Ukrainian counterattack.
• The war with Ukraine has lasted longer than the USSR’s war with Germany during World War II.
• Seventeen Ukrainian citizens were reportedly on board the seized tanker Bella-1.
• Ukraine and the United States are working on the final form of a free trade agreement.
• Finland withdraws from a convention banning the use of anti-personnel mines.
• 121 Russian drones and one missile targeted Ukraine overnight.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• How the Russians treat Africans
• The drones are working
• Curiosity didn’t just kill the cat
• Drone tracking
• Russian ATGM team
• Minus two ships on the Dnieper with the Russians
• On the front

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Russia de facto confirmed that Russian citizens were on board the detained Mariner when it officially called on the United States to treat the detained Russians humanely and with respect and to repatriate them as soon as possible. However, the United States has other plans for the crew. According to statements by US officials, the crew members will be tried in the US for illegal oil trafficking despite US sanctions. The chairman of the Russian State Duma’s security commission, Alexei Zhuravlyov, responded to this information by calling for the Russian navy to torpedo several US Coast Guard ships in retaliation. Whether the tanker was actually carrying oil or a more interesting cargo is still unclear and we may never know. What is certain is that the US and UK navies and air forces were involved in the interception of the tanker, and several Russian warships observed the action from afar. A bit much for one tanker. But there are other things going on too:

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• Yevgeny Safronov, a 38-year-old Russian journalist, was found dead in a suburb of Paris. He allegedly “fell out” of his apartment window. Safronov moved to Paris six months ago. A week before his death, his social media accounts had been hacked and Le Figaro newspaper reports that the journalist regularly received threats from Russia.
• In November 2025, guerrillas from the “Freedom of Russia” legion, in cooperation with the Ukrainian GUR, carried out a sabotage operation on Russian territory: they destroyed 15 pieces of military equipment (KAMAZ, URAL, ZIL trucks) belonging to a Russian army regiment based 65 km from the border.
• According to ISW, Russia has only managed to form 4 of the originally planned 17 divisions in 2025, and even those four are incomplete and poorly equipped. This is due to heavy losses in Ukraine, which prevent Russia from building up strategic reserves.
• The Danish Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the 1952 rule remains in force: if foreign troops invade Danish territory - including Greenland - Danish soldiers are obliged to open fire immediately, without waiting for orders from their superiors.
• Donald Trump has reportedly given the green light for the United States to impose further - and especially tougher - sanctions on Russia and also on those countries that buy Russian oil.
• Russian State Duma deputy Gurulyov has called for striking Europe with “Oreshnik” missiles and sinking ships in the Black Sea in retaliation for the seizure of a Russian tanker.
• 600,000 people in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine are still without electricity. The Russians have damaged every single power plant there in recent months.
• Ukrainian naval drones hit the Russian tanker Elbrus, another vessel in the so-called Shadow Fleet, just 30 miles off the Turkish coast in the Black Sea.
• Zelensky announced that the deal on US security guarantees for Ukraine is done, and is awaiting finalization by Trump.
• Ukrainian troops have reportedly pushed the Russians out of Lyman, a region the Russians recently infiltrated.
• The United States has detained another tanker from the Russian shadow fleet in the Caribbean Sea: the Sophia.
• The UEC-Salyut plant in Moscow, where aircraft engines are manufactured, burned down.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainian tank near Siversk
• Horses again!
• Starlink on a horse?
• Rodynske
• Action on the front
• The bastion of the Russians in Kupjansk went boom
• Minus PVO
• Captured Cuban

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This news is a few days old, but it has passed through the information space without further scrutiny, so let’s revisit it for a moment: in the early hours of January 3, a sabotage attack was carried out on critical infrastructure near the Lichterfelde power plant in the southwestern part of Berlin, causing widespread power outages for tens of thousands of residents and businesses. A fire was deliberately set on a cable-stayed bridge over the Teltow Canal, severely damaging several high- and medium-voltage power lines supplying the surrounding area with electricity and district heating. The attack was claimed by a left-wing extremist group calling itself the ‘Vulkangruppe’. It described its motivations in a lengthy online manifesto, saying the attack targeted fossil fuel-related infrastructure. But people who analyzed the manifesto noticed that it contained strange wording, grammatical errors and odd syntax that suggested the original text was not German but may have been created as a machine translation from Russian. For example, the name of the US vice president appears in the text as “Vans”, a common transfer of the name “Vance” into Cyrillic (“Ванс”, or also “Вэнс”). Artificial intelligence expert Andrea Schlüter, who studies languages, wrote on the Bluesky network that she was “quite sure that some of the wording was not originally written in German”. The Vulkangruppe group has been responsible for around a dozen arson attacks on energy infrastructure, but not a single member is known yet. It is therefore quite possible that this is a Russian hybrid operation. And this is what happened this:

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• Ukrainian drones had a fruitful night. In Yaroslavl, the local oil refinery was hit. Drones also hit a large fuel depot in the Lipetsk region and the 100th GRAU rocket and artillery arsenal in Kostroma, 900 km from the border with Ukraine. Explosions also rocked the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant for the umpteenth time. Railway infrastructure was damaged in Voronezh and a 110kV substation was hit and damaged in the Leningrad region. In Penza, the premises of Biosintez suffered several hits. However, not all drones reached their target. In Tver, debris from a downed drone landed on the upper floors of a block of flats, unfortunately killing one civilian.
• An anonymous punter with an account on the Polymarket platform, set up only last December, won USD 410 000 by betting that the US would capture dictator Maduro by the end of January. It has also emerged that the US plans to seize Venezuela’s reserves stored in cryptocurrencies, which would lead to a spike in the value of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Venezuela reportedly holds around 600,000 Bitcoins in secret wallets.
• The Kremlin-run propaganda centre Russian House in Chisinau is closing. Moldova has notified Russia that it will not renew a 1998 agreement allowing the centre to operate, citing risks of disinformation and lack of reciprocity. Officials say this is in response to repeated violations of airspace by Russian drones.
• Ukrainian forces captured a Cuban mercenary fighting for Russia near Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region. According to the Ukrainian National Guard, the man testified that he was detained by Russian police in Moscow and, instead of being deported, was sent to the front where he was subsequently wounded and ended up in Ukrainian captivity.
• The United States is reportedly preparing an Association Agreement to offer directly to Greenland, with Denmark at its back. Under the agreement, Greenland would retain its autonomy and receive funds from US investment, but security issues would be entirely in US hands.
• The Hungarian birds hit roughly as many live targets in December as Russia was able to mobilize troops in the same month. Drones killed or maimed 33,019 occupiers, while an estimated 33,000 to 35,000 were mobilized.
• Russians complain on Telegram about the catastrophic losses experienced by Russian troops operating in the Sumy region. According to the fighting occupiers, the life expectancy of people on the front there is roughly 2-3 days.
• Russia has begun fitting MANPADS, such as the Igla system, to some Shahed drones. Helicopters and fighter jets that engage the drones thus face the risk of being shot down.
• Russian presidential envoy Dmitriev commented on a video of Trump adviser Miller explaining the need to annex Greenland, saying “Canada next?”
• Republican Senator Graham introduced a bill that allows Trump to impose up to 500% tariffs on any country buying Russian oil.
• Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov appointed his eldest son Akhmat as acting prime minister.
• Ukraine summoned the Czech ambassador over remarks by Tomi Okamura.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus more Russian air defense
• Russians on the receiving end
• Minus fuel storage
• FPV drones were working
• HIMARS scattered the Russians under Pokrovsk
• Minus twenty

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Russia has imposed “crushing” sanctions on the US. The US will be disconnected from Russia’s MIR payment system. Yandex has also started disconnecting and removing servers from the US. VK Video has officially banned monetization of accounts associated with the US. A number of Russian companies, such as Dobry, Vkusno i Tochka and AvtoVAZ, announced their departure from the country. And to add to the disaster, accounts with US IP addresses are reporting problems logging in to social networking sites Odnoklassniki, VK and MAX messenger. Americans are in shock. Millions of people in fifty U.S. states will never again have their favorite “Big Hit” with French fries and a “Good Coke” from the Taste and Taste-Drive window behind the wheel of their Lady. They can’t even get upset about it in the comments on vKontakte, let alone wash down their grief with a soda ordered online from Ozon.ru. Mass protests are expected. That is, if Americans can get on their “MAX” to mobilize. But now back to reality:

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• Trump says the US will run Venezuela through a “group” and plans a complete rebuilding of the country’s oil infrastructure. The repairs will cost billions of dollars and will be paid for by the oil companies. According to Trump, current production is a “laughing stock” compared to Venezuela’s true potential. However, Venezuela’s Supreme Court has since ruled that the country will be temporarily led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez. Like Maduro, she has very close ties to the Kremlin. Thus, regime change in Venezuela is definitely not happening, at least for the time being.
• The Russian propagandists are now fantasising on their channels that the United States has essentially given them the green light for Russian special forces to infiltrate Kiev and capture or kill the Ukrainian President, along with other representatives of the current government. They are probably forgetting that this is exactly what Russia tried to do in 2022. The result is four years of war, hundreds of thousands of victims, dozens of cities wiped off the map and Russia teetering with all its might on the precipice of collapse.
• During a press conference in Kiev on 3 January, President Volodymyr Zelensky declared that the presence of British and French troops from the “Coalition of the Willing” was essential for a possible peace agreement. European forces, he said, should be deployed immediately after the ceasefire is concluded - not later, not when the situation stabilises. Now.
• In a recent commentary, Trump’s former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton writes: “Putin thinks he has almost complete power over Donald Trump, not because of compromising information, but because his KGB training has allowed him to use Trump’s all-too-obvious weakness against him.”
• In Korenovsk, Krasnodar Region, an explosion occurred at the entrance to the compound of the 47th Missile Brigade of the 8th Army of the Southern Military District I. As a result of the mine explosion, a KAMAZ military vehicle carrying soldiers was burned. There are dead and wounded at the scene.
• At least seven large Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military cargo aircraft have arrived in Europe from the US, and more are on the way, according to open sources. What they are carrying and the purpose of their journey is unknown at this time.
• The clearance operation in Kupyansk is nearing completion, with the remaining Russians mostly hiding in basements in the central and northwestern parts of the city. According to the Ukrainian command, there are now less than a hundred of them in the city.
• The European Commission has approved the allocation of €150 million under the sixth wave of European Defence Fund (EDF) projects for the development of a new tank and a salvo rocket launcher.
• According to Norwegian intelligence, Russia uses fishing boats and ships with alleged ‘tourists’ to conduct espionage along the Norwegian-Russian border in north-eastern Scandinavia.
• According to analysts, Russia’s economy is expected to fall into a deep recession around July 2026, regardless of whether the war ends or continues.
• Senatorial clubs of six political parties have called on Andrej Babis to remove Tomi Okamura from office over his recent remarks on Ukraine.
• National security advisers from 14 countries, including Germany, the UK, France, the Nordic and Baltic states, met in Kiev.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the gigolo with the occupiers and… Starlink.
• Bingo!
• Video of the interception of a Russian cargo ship in the Baltic Sea
• Occupant and drone
• Zelensky on the events in Venezuela
• Drones straight into the hole
• Minus 36
• Meeting of security advisors

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According to Ukrainian foreign intelligence, Russian intelligence services intensified their information campaign after the alleged “attack on Putin’s residence” to prepare Russian and international audiences for further escalation. A transition from manipulations of public opinion to real armed provocation with human casualties is highly likely to follow. Potential dates - on the eve or during the Orthodox Christmas celebrations. The target of the attack could be cultural buildings or objects with significant symbolism both in Russia and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. To falsify evidence of Ukrainian involvement, the Russians plan to use fragments of Western drones to be delivered from the front line. For context, it should be added that this is nothing new on the Russian side. They have taken the same actions repeatedly in recent years, either to accuse Ukraine of a strike that did not happen or, conversely, to propagandistically re-shoot long-since shot down Western-provided drones and missiles. And Russia’s fifth column always readily swallows it and the reel. Anyway, this is also happening this:

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• What happened in the Czech Republic in the meantime? Tomio Okamura recorded a speech as if cut out of the Russian propaganda agency RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian ambassador to the Czech Republic, Vasyl Zvarych, reacted to Okamura’s words, calling them offensive, hateful, contrary to the principles of a democratic society and shaped under the influence of Russian propaganda. Okamura was then aided by Petr Macinka, heir to the philosophy of the “Prognostic Institute” or KGB influence operation, who said that it is not appropriate for an ambassador of a foreign state to publicly evaluate the statements of a constitutional official of the Czech Republic, which is a comically stupid idea, given that the constitutional official himself made evaluative statements about the country he represents.
• Iran, a partner of Russia, is experiencing mass protests that are gradually spilling over into the whole country. They have erupted because of the devaluation of the currency, but it is more of a cup of multiple causes that has simply run over. People are calling for the death of the regime and the return of the Crown Prince. In some regions, the security forces have joined the demonstrators, while in others they are firing live ammunition into the crowds. Trump has made it known that he will come to the demonstrators’ aid.
• The US Coast Guard is still in pursuit of the Bella 1 tanker carrying sanctioned oil from Venezuela. Meanwhile, the tanker has changed its registration and name during the voyage - it is now flying the Russian flag as the “Marinera”. And Russia has indeed adopted it as its own and called on the Americans to withdraw.
• Belarus transported at least 31 carloads of military equipment directly from Belarus to Russia. The wagons were shipped from Borisov Station to Russia’s 1311th Central Reserve Tank Base, while Siberia received 31 wagons of air defense material.
• The Norwegian business community in Ålesund raised NOK 1.5 million for a fully equipped 25ft aluminium ship, which Farvan refurbished and equipped with radar and navigation technology and delivered to the Ukrainian Navy.
• Popular Russian blogger Kalashnikov says his country is now facing “massive economic devastation” and inevitable collapse as Putin’s regime plunged into more wars before the country could recover from the collapse of the 1990s.
• In his speech, the Finnish president said that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had changed Finland’s relations with Russia forever and promised to do everything he and his allies could to ensure that Russia never invaded again.
• Russia is trying to sell the Ukrainian New Year’s Day raid on a café in Kherson region as an attack on civilians, while itself admitting that at least one notorious member of the Russian military was killed in the raid.
• Russia provided what it described as evidence of an alleged Ukrainian drone strike on President Vladimir Putin’s residence to the US military attaché in Moscow.
• The US State Department urged its citizens to leave Russia immediately, or at least avoid social media and not draw too much attention to themselves.
• Russia hit Kharkiv with two ballistic missiles, injuring at least 30 people. Both landed on apartment buildings in the city centre.
• Zelensky offered the post of head of the presidential office to the popular intelligence chief Budanov.
• Lieutenant General Serhiy Dejnenko will be replaced as head of Ukraine’s State Border Service.
• Russia is now deploying troops one by one near Pokrovsk to make it easier for drones to hide.
• Russia occupied about 4,300 square kilometers of Ukraine’s territory in 2025.
• Medvedev said that “Finland must pay for its Russophobia”.
• Some Russian ATMs have stopped dispensing large sums of money.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Kharkiv, the impact of Russian missiles
• Kharkiv
• The Russians are again using pipelines to move
• The fake video that the Ukrainians used to deceive the Russians
• Minus three
• Russian attack ripped apart
• Evacuation
• Dismantling Russian trenches with a tank
• Minus Rus in the fiber optic field
• Flies with one blow
• New Year in Pokrovsko

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According to the Russian opposition project Mediazona, court websites in various regions of the Russian Federation have begun to destroy court files related to lawsuits filed by soldiers’ families seeking to declare people missing or dead. Currently, it is impossible to find a single lawsuit registered in 2025 on the websites of courts in five dozen Russian regions. A month ago, the websites of courts in these regions contained information on nearly 44,000 such cases. Before the documents disappeared from the Russian courts’ websites, 111,569 cases were recorded over the past three years, but now there are only 41,512. Yet Mediazona used these very documents to make educated estimates of Russian losses in the war with Ukraine. The modus operandi of the Russian army is that commanders deliberately maintain the AWOL/СОЧ (absent without leave/Sамовольное оставление части = spontaneous abandonment of a unit) status of fallen soldiers, because if the army admitted that they had been killed or captured, their families would be entitled to financial compensation. Russian families therefore have no choice but to challenge the status of their soldiers’ relatives in court. Now, however, it seems that the Russian government has ordered the courts to sweep such lawsuits under the table across the board - partly to disguise the losses, but also to provide relief to the Russian economy, which is literally hanging on by a thread. And this is what is happening:

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• The “I Want to Live” project has published cumulative statistics since the beginning of the war: more than 10,000 Russians were taken prisoner in Ukraine during the war. More Russian soldiers surrendered in 2025 alone than in 2022 and 2023 combined. On average, 60-90 Russian soldiers are captured every week, and in August 2024 this number reached up to 350 per week. Most of the prisoners of war have been captured near Pokrovsk, Bakhmut, Poloh and in Russia’s Kursk region. About 19% are mobilised soldiers and nearly 5% are conscripts - although conscripts are not “officially” fighting, according to Russia. About a quarter of them report that they entered the war against their will - they were tricked or forced. The typical prisoner of war is a soldier without a university degree, often with a criminal record. 40% have previously served time for theft, drug offences, robbery or murder. Many were unemployed or working in low-wage jobs before the war. Some are also foreign fighters - they currently make up about 7% of all prisoners of war and their numbers are growing. Hundreds of POWs suffer from serious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and C, tuberculosis, diabetes, as well as mental disorders including schizophrenia. In total, more than 6 000 prisoners have already been returned to Russia.
• According to the New York Times, the US president harshly criticized and later removed Keith Kellogg from his post after Kellogg praised Zelensky as a courageous leader and expressed support for Ukraine. Kellogg tried to explain to Trump that Zelensky was fighting for Ukraine’s survival and should have compared him to Lincoln. But the comparison angered Trump and Kellogg was removed from office shortly afterwards. When Trump then explained his decision to other advisers, he reportedly called Kellogg an “idiot”. Kellogg was subsequently replaced in the post by Trump’s close friend Steve Witkoff - although Trump himself recently admitted that Witkoff “knows nothing about Russia or negotiating.”
• Three days later, the Russian military suddenly “remembered” and claimed that Ukrainian drones had indeed targeted Putin’s residence. This is supposedly proven by a video on Russian state television, in which soldiers show the wreckage of an unknown small reconnaissance drone somewhere in the middle of the forest, which Russian engineers say was carrying 6 kg of explosives. For context, real attack drones usually have warheads weighing between 50-150 kg and are the size of a small aircraft. So the drone in the video certainly couldn’t have been carrying out any serious attack deep inside Russia.
• The Russians murdered two more Ukrainian prisoners of war. The incident took place in Prison No. 12 in the Kamensky-Shakhtinsky district of Russia. Maxim Vashchenko, currently a civilian and a former participant in the “anti-terrorist operation” in the Donbas, was starved and then beaten to death by guard Nikita Pushkarev. Soldier Serhiy Hryhoriyev was repeatedly tortured, as a result of which he died of internal injuries.
• According to Bloomberg, China is helping Russia build a “shadow fleet” to transport liquefied natural gas. The positioning systems on some of the tankers were subsequently modified to send fake position data in real time.
• Russian forces in Kupyansk twice attempted to penetrate underground pipelines to reach their surrounded troops. Similar tactics have allowed them to infiltrate captured cities undetected in the past. But both attempts ended disastrously.
• According to Zelensky, Russia will try to prevent any referendum in Ukraine at all costs because it could not challenge its outcome as illegitimate, as it does with the Ukrainian government.
• Croatia and Romania will join the PURL initiative to help buy US weapons for Ukraine’s needs. Romania will provide EUR 50 million in the first phase.
• Around 600,000 people in Moscow are without electricity after a night-time Ukrainian drone strike.
• An oil depot in the village of Kopayevo in Russia’s Yaroslavl region burns after a Ukrainian drone strike.
• The Ukrainians hit and destroyed a Russian fuel depot in Rybinsk, 700 km from the Ukrainian border.
• Italy approves a 13th aid package for Ukraine. It includes weapons.
• Ukrainian drones hit the port and fuel depot in Tuapse.
• The United States officially wished Russia a Happy New Year.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russians say this is the drone that targeted Putin’s residence
• Minus more Russian air defense
• Rybinsk
• Russian scrapyard near Pokrovsk
• The Russians are bombing Kostyantynivka
• Russian FPV drone attacked while evacuating civilians
• Militarization of Christmas in Russia
• Odessa
• Russian platform in the Caspian Sea
• Tuapse

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America’s leading amplifier of Russian state propaganda, Tucker Carlson, has stated that the reason people hate Russia so much is because… and now hold on… Russia is “white”. Carlson is, of course, trying to portray support for Ukraine as just another front in the culture wars that Russian propaganda around the world is massively feeding to disintegrate Western society from within. But this new argument is extremely stupid, especially in the context of the demographics of the two warring countries: Russia is 77% Russian, 23% are various ethnic minorities, mainly Turkic (Tatars, Bashkirs, Chuvash, Yakuts…), Caucasian (Chechens, Ossetians) but also East Asian (Buryats, Kalmyks…). And even those who identify themselves as Russians are often forcibly Russified peoples of Siberia, Asia and the Caucasus. In contrast, Ukraine is 95% Ukrainian (17% Russian-speaking Ukrainians) and about 5% is accounted for by the remaining ethnic minorities, primarily Belarusians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Poles and of course Crimean Tatars (0.5%). So, according to Carlson’s “logic”, Ukraine is a much more “white” country than Russia. But as we have long known, Russian propaganda does not make idiots of people - it targets idiots. And to idiots, Carlson’s argument probably makes sense. Anyway, there’s also this going on:

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• A former soldier of Wagner’s army described on video how his unit killed 7 Ukrainian children during an attack on a school in the village of Bakhmutske in Donetsk region. The bodies of the children were then reportedly taken to Russia by the occupiers and buried in the Wagner cemetery. They also allege that the commander of the 37th Motorised Rifle Regiment ordered his charges to be shot and listed as missing after the attacks.
• China has begun large-scale military exercises near Taiwan involving ground forces, the navy, air force and rocket artillery. The exercises are aimed at naval and air patrols or blockading key ports. Beijing says the exercises are intended to deter “Taiwan’s independence movement and foreign actors from possible interference”.
• Trump - to the surprise of no one - had a “very pleasant” phone call with Putin before his meeting with Zelensky. Then, at a press conference after the meeting, Trump said that Putin very much wants peace and wants Ukraine to succeed, which is why he is offering to help Ukraine rebuild its country and offer significant discounts on electricity, oil or gas supplies.
• Russian singer Mia Boyka proposed restoring censorship during a speech in the State Duma. She said the country needs a commission to decide whether a song, book or film can be published or whether it should be banned. But this censorship does not bother the Western “freedom of speech fighters”.
• Robert “Hungarian” Brovdi, the commander of the Ukrainian drone force, claims that two days ago 51 Russian GRU soldiers were killed and 74 wounded in a drone attack. According to him, these are confirmed figures. The attack took place on 26 December and targeted the base of the 14th GRU brigade in Berdiansk.
• The Russians hit a Ukrainian An-26 cargo plane and a helicopter near Poltava with FPV. They appear to have used similar tactics to those used by Ukraine during Operation Pavuchina: they brought drones close to targets and then guided them to strike via mobile data networks.
• According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia would support China in a potential war over Taiwan. At the same time, Moscow has again rejected any form of independence for Taiwan, describing the island as an inseparable part of China.
• Ukraine is preparing to test the Czech Republic’s Narval missile, a guided missile with a range of 680 km designed to withstand Russian GPS jamming and hit targets deep behind enemy lines.
• Spanish media say the Russian cargo ship Ursa Major, which sank off the coast of Spain this time last year, was secretly carrying two VM-4SG nuclear reactors destined for North Korea.
• Russian military blogger Romanov is threatening to release audio recordings and videos they made of the soldiers surrounded in Kupyansk if Russian commanders let them die.
• During his two-and-a-half-hour phone call with Trump, Putin rejected a proposal to declare a ceasefire. Trump responded by saying he understood his position.
• Russian troops shelled the Kherson thermal power plant with artillery fire, causing significant damage. Part of the town is without heat supply.
• The Russians captured two Ukrainian soldiers in the village of Shakhove near Pokrovsk, forced them to strip and then shot them both dead. The whole situation was filmed by a reconnaissance drone.
• Russian war propagandist and self-proclaimed “director and photographer” Oleg Rakshin from Samara was killed in Ukraine.
• Ukrainian drones attacked the Khanskaya military airport near the town of Maikop in southern Russia last night.
• Between 1 and 26 December, 692 billion roubles were withdrawn from Russian bank accounts.
• Russian forces now occupy approximately 49% of Myrnohrad. Fighting continues to rage in the city.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Bizarre Russian Embassy video
• Russian guided bombs hit Kostyantynivka
• Russian Cavalry
• Mia Boyka
• Trump sent reporters out the door to “eat”

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The overnight Russian attack on Kiev, which lasted an incredible 10 hours, killed 1 person and injured 28. Russia sent a total of 519 drones in several waves, as well as 40 missiles and cruise missiles. Some of the projectiles landed on high-rise apartment buildings, a tram depot, commercial buildings or a public transport stop. Of course, the power system was also hit. One of the buildings hit that could be said to be a potential military target was the dormitories belonging to the Kiev National Aviation University. However, they were empty at the time of the attack. All this is happening at a time when Trump is due to meet President Zelensky in person in the United States in just a few hours. According to Zelensky, this time the meeting will be public and journalists and their cameras will be present at all times. In any case, Putin has sent a clear signal about what he thinks about the peace talks. A signal in the form of more than 550 projectiles. And this is also happening this:

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• Belarus is assisting the Russians in carrying out airstrikes in Ukraine. Near the border with Ukraine, Russian soldiers are installing antennas and other equipment directly on the roofs of apartment buildings - all to accurately guide attack drones towards Ukraine’s western regions. Moreover, in recent airstrikes, some drones have flown into Ukrainian territory from Belarus in order to evade Ukrainian air defences.
• Azerbaijan has strongly criticised Russia’s decision to end the prosecution in the case of the 2024 AZAL plane crash, with Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bajramov saying that such a move raises serious doubts. Especially given that Moscow had earlier admitted that the plane was hit by its anti-aircraft system. Baku insists that Russia fulfil all its obligations and investigate the incident properly.
• Russian security forces stormed a rally of the religious movement “School of United Principle” in St Petersburg and detained about 70 people. The participants are now being investigated under an article of the Criminal Code on the dissemination of “false information” about the Russian army. According to RIA Novosti, the group reportedly held discussions about the war in Ukraine and prayers for President Zelensky’s health.
• Russia has provided Ukraine with details of the 52 abducted residents of the village of Hrabovske in the Kharkiv region; there are no children among them. The Russians have also provided a video in which the abductees claim that they are being treated well and that they have been provided with the necessary medicine and food. Russia probably wants to use the abductees to further blackmail Ukraine.
• Russia is attempting to restart its offensive in the immediate vicinity of Kupyansk after the failed attack on the city. Russian forces are currently regrouping on the left bank of the Oskil River, hoping to compensate for the previous failure with new actions.
• The EU has just blacklisted a further 41 ships of the Russian shadow fleet, bringing the total number of vessels banned from European ports and access to insurance and services to more than 600.
• Despite the war, Ukrainian farmers have harvested 23.5 million tonnes of maize this year, more than 40% of the EU’s total, and 9 million tonnes of sunflowers, surpassing the production of the entire European Union.
• On the Zaporizhzhya front, Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) commander Denis “WhiteRex” Kapustin was killed by an FPV drone tonight.
• In Bila Tserkva, a Russian kamikaze Geran drone hit a public transport bus stop.
• Lithuania officially withdrew from the Ottawa Convention banning the use of anti-personnel mines.
• Trump declared that “Zelensky has nothing until he approves it”.
• Ukraine has aligned new sanctions against Russia with the UK.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian occupier confesses to shooting a woman and two children in Ukraine
• More Russian cavalry
• The incredible skill of pilots
• Destruction of occupiers in Kharkiv region
• 4 z 5
• Minus the bridge builder
• M-m-m-m-monster kill!
• Horses on the front
• Minus the boat
• FSB detains Russian diplomat
• Minus Russian air defence
• Brazilians at the front
• The bombing of the Russian convoy

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The United States declassified a series of documents showing, among other things, conversations between Putin and then US President Bush. They show that as early as 2001, and then again in 2008, Putin referred to Ukraine as ‘an artificial state that did not arise naturally but from pieces of territory from former Soviet republics such as Poland, Romania and Hungary’ and ‘partly as a gift from Russia’. Putin also threatened Bush at the time that if Ukraine were admitted to NATO, it would lead to a long conflict between Russia and the United States. He also lied to him that most Ukrainians view NATO as a hostile organization, and threatened that Russia would take steps to prevent the Alliance from growing any further. The comparison with Putin’s public statements is also interesting. Indeed, as recently as 2005, he publicly stated that Ukraine’s possible entry into NATO would pose no threat to Russia, and that Russia would not in any way prevent the former Soviet republics from applying for membership, but would instead respect their sovereign choice. Putin’s imperial ambitions and the rhetoric associated with them therefore have a history of at least 25 years. They did not originate in 2013, 2014 or 2022. They are positions that Putin has clearly held for at least a quarter of a century in diplomatic contact and privately… probably forever. It’s never been about NATO. It has always been about Russia’s desire to subjugate and control Ukraine. And now for more news:

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• Today, 25 December, the Ukrainian Air Force conducted a successful airstrike using Storm Shadow cruise missiles on the Novosakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov Region of Russia. Several explosions were reported at the refinery site. The Novosakhtinsk refinery is one of the largest suppliers of petroleum products in southern Russia and is directly involved in supplying the armed forces. It is also probably the first time that British missiles have been used to hit Russian energy infrastructure.
• Russian authorities say Ukrainian drones hit a convoy in the Belgorod region near the town of Grushevka, killing the deputy regional governor from Dagestan, Magomednabi Gadzhiev, and two others, and wounding a fourth person. Moscow says it was a “humanitarian” convoy “carrying food, tools and letters for Russian soldiers”.
• Russian bloggers with links to the Russian military are increasingly speaking out about the fact that the Russian military command is probably lying to political leaders about its successes on the front, resulting in medals being handed out for capturing towns that the Russian army has not even entered yet or has already been pushed back.
• The New York Times reports that despite the colossal losses to the Russian economy and military, the Kremlin still considers war preferable to peace and is convinced that continuing the war will bring better results for Russia than any peace talks.
• On the night of 25-26 December, drones of the Special Operations Center “Alpha” of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) attacked the port of Temryuk in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, as well as a gas processing plant in the Orenburg region.
• Kim Jong-un unveiled the first nuclear submarine in North Korean history. It is comparable in size to US submarines. But experts doubt the authenticity of the vessel unveiled.
• Russian military bloggers finally admit that Kupyansk is back under the control of Ukrainian forces. Moreover, the Ukrainian army is making forays further northeast to push the Russian army away from the city.
• According to Bloomberg, Reliance Industries, a leading Indian refiner, has resumed importing Russian crude after halting purchases in October due to US sanctions. Trump’s sanctions are simply not being taken seriously.
• NATO sent its fighter jets into the air opposite a group of Russian Tu-95MS strategic bombers heading across the North Sea towards the northern part of the UK on Christmas Day.
• “Degenerate Europe” is still the most popular country for property purchases by Russians. On average, 49% of all Russian property purchases are made in an EU country.
• In 14 days, Russia’s “three-day special military operation” will last as long as the entire Eastern Front of World War II.
• The leader of the neo-Nazi formation of the DSSRG, Russian Alexei Milchakov, led a class called “Test of Courage” at a school in St. Petersburg.
• Russian officials say 16 drones targeting Moscow were shot down on Christmas Eve.
• Moscow’s mayor says the city is short about 400-500 thousand workers.
• Ukrainians have pushed Russians out of five villages on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
• Poland shot down a Russian Orlan-10 drone over the Baltic Sea.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainians have pushed Russians out of five villages on the border of Dnipropetrovsk region
• The last survivor… nothing.
• Novoshakhtinsk
• The Mayor of Moscow
• Solovyov again hallucinates about the occupation of Western countries
• Minus the Russian column
• The artillery is working
• Minus TOS
• Ukrainian robots
• Destruction of the attacking Russian column
• Russian about Kupyansk
• Budanov has arrived at the front
• They didn’t hide
• The Hunt for Shahed

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After the new defence minister nominated by the SPD, Jaromír Zůna, declared at a press conference that Russia is the aggressor and that the Czech munitions initiative will continue, the SPD has been showing us for days what their “freedom” and “democracy” mean. Okamura’s fascist party first tried to “set the record straight” with Zůna’s statements, then deleted Zůna’s social media accounts, and then videos of Zůna and SPD member Radim Fiala surfaced, with Fiala literally telling Zůna what views and positions to take. The SPD also announced as a precautionary measure that Zůna would only comment on military matters and that he would leave foreign policy to Prime Minister Babiš. Meanwhile, the SPD’s coalition partner, the Motorists, have begun purging the Foreign Ministry through Macinka and firing long-time career diplomats. And this is what’s happening too this:

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• The Washington Post reports that the Russian economy is in danger. Russia’s reserves are depleted, sanctions are hitting oil and banks hard, and 2026 could bring a financial crisis. The Kremlin has spent most of the cash reserves and borrowed money that allowed it to finance record military spending. But because of the sanctions, Moscow is forced to sell oil at a discount of more than $20 a barrel, and oil and gas revenues, which are crucial to the Russian budget, are falling. At the same time, military spending has reached a record $149 billion this year. Russian bankers themselves are sounding the alarm about the rising level of non-performing loans in the banking system. High interest rates, which have now fallen to 16%, may be taming high inflation slightly, but they are contributing to a parallel reduction in corporate profits and cash reserves. As a result, investment has stalled, production in some sectors has fallen sharply and insolvencies have increased throughout the economy.
• Russia has sent 635 drones and 38 missiles/shots to Ukraine. At least 13 regions were hit and at least four people were killed, including a four-year-old child. In Kiev, the alert over the air strike lasted for almost four and a half hours and it was only over the morning that it was announced that the danger had passed. In the Svyatoshynskyi district of Kiev, a drone hit a high-rise apartment building. In the Kiev region, the debris of a drone landed on a residential building and destroyed it. The greatest damage was caused to the energy infrastructure in the west of Ukraine. As a result, most of Ukraine is experiencing emergency power cuts and the Rivne region is almost entirely without electricity.
• Russia is refusing to leave the consulate in Gdansk, which must be closed by midnight on the 23rd, following a decision by the Ministry of the Interior. If it goes to court, the eviction of the Russians could take years. Meanwhile, Moscow has not paid a single penny for the building since 2013, bringing the debt for unpaid fees and interest to nearly €2 million. The court has already ordered Russia to pay about €80,000 in interest on the late fees. But Russia ignored it. It is strikingly reminiscent of the situation in Prague.
• Russian state propaganda has produced a new video in which actors playing Europeans at Christmas dinner blame everything bad that happens in their lives on Putin. For context, it should be added that ‘Putin is to blame for everything’ is not only the point of current Russian propaganda, but also a long-standing argument of the local fifth column, which has been consuming Russian propaganda for years.
• The Venezuelan army has started handing out rifles to civilians in working-class neighbourhoods. Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating the families of diplomats from Venezuela. What are the chances that Trump traded the Russians’ departure from Venezuela for the US not intervening in Ukraine?
• Babis announced that the Czech Security Council will decide on the future of the munitions initiative on January 7. In his words, it is a good thing, but it needs to be investigated to see if there was corruption involved.
• According to the Financial Times, Putin has been receiving overly optimistic reports from the battlefield, leading him to believe that Russia is winning the war, when the reality is much more complicated.
• The US is again increasing pressure on Greenland. Donald Trump’s special envoy for Greenland, Jeff Landry, has said that the island should become part of the United States.
• The United States has banned all new foreign-made drones and related components on the grounds that they pose a risk of espionage and data leaks.
• Without explanation, the United States has lifted sanctions on several companies previously accused of supporting the Russian military.
• Over 1.19 million Russian soldiers have already died or suffered irreversible injuries in Ukraine, yet the Kremlin has not yet captured a single major city.
• According to a recent Pentagon preliminary report, China expects to be able to wage and win a war over Taiwan by the end of 2027.
• Finnish President Alexander Stubb signed a law raising the age for enlistment from 50 to 65 for all eligible draftees.
• About 100 Russian soldiers remain in Kupjansk with almost no ammunition and no supplies reaching them.
• Putin recalled Ambassador Alexander Zmeyevsky and replaced him with Anna Ponomareva.
• Aidar officially announced that he was expanding to a regiment.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• They didn’t hide from the drones
• Minus the Russian chemist
• Rotation after 130 days
• He’s already riding bikes
• Fortunately, the shot
• The impact of Shahed on an apartment building in Kiev
• The Russians are looking for water
• Minus the infantry

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The Wall Street Journal claims that Putin himself chose Witkoff as his chief negotiator with the US. The Russian-US talks began after the Saudi prince gave Witkoff a message from the Kremlin: Putin is interested in meeting with him. But the Kremlin had a condition at the time: Witkoff must come alone, without CIA agents, diplomats, or even his own translator. During the first meeting, Putin was then to offer Witkoff the release of American Mark Fogel, sentenced in Russia to several years in prison for possession of a small amount of cannabis (Fogel was presumably detained precisely to serve as a hostage, and was indeed released after the negotiations). That Putin chose Witkoff in particular was no accident: Putin had studied psychological profiles of people in Trump’s inner circle, including the special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, but whom the Russian dictator considered too pro-Ukrainian. With Witkoff, he was clearly on target. Anyway, other [things] happened too(https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid0TL1LRJeCTRDaeTQ4MwtAYvFXmH8bjKMqZmFC8i96XAKKHfZ5Gh3oyHVN5ruFH4PQl):

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• According to DeepState, the Russians again attempted to use the pipeline for infiltration and suffered heavy losses in the process. The attack took place on December 16 north of Novoplatonivka. Russian troops attempted to move through the pipeline leading from Svatovo to the Oskil River. However, the 77th Independent Air Brigade noticed that groups of Russians were coming out of the pipeline at several points and attacked them with bombing drones. As a result, 40 Russian soldiers were destroyed in their sector and all losses were documented on video.
• A central gas pipeline in Russia’s Volgograd region was taken out of service on Thursday, indefinitely disrupting a route Russia uses to import up to 12 billion cubic meters of gas a year from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Ukrainian military intelligence suggests that this is a consequence of its actions.
• Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of the Ukrainian armed forces, was awarded France’s highest state decoration, the Legion of Honour, which is bestowed by the head of state for exceptional military or civilian merit.
• Orbán: “Of course, Russia has been attacked in the past - by Napoleon, for example, right? And Hitler. (sarcastically) But now, of course, Kaja Kallas will ‘succeed’ - that’s understood.”
• Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry is working to create a mechanism to allow Ukrainian citizens living abroad to vote in the next Ukrainian elections.
• Russian collaborators flew a small drone carrying the Russian flag over Kiev for several minutes yesterday before security forces shot it down using electronic warfare systems.
• Russia is turning the occupied Donbas into a base for recruiting soldiers and using financial debts to force Ukrainians into contracts with the military.
• Kremlin official Kirill Dmitriev said after a meeting in the United States that Russia is preparing to cooperate with the United States in the Arctic.
• Portugal will contribute $52 million to the PURL mechanism, which allows Ukraine to buy weapons from the United States.
• Ukraine replaces the commanding officer of the Southern Air Force Command after repeated deadly Russian airstrikes in the Odessa region.
• According to Ukrainian war veteran Mykola Melnyk, the battle for Slovyansk will begin as early as next year and is “inevitable.”
• The United States intercepts another tanker carrying a cargo of Venezuelan oil - this time belonging to a Chinese company.
• Polish and Ukrainian representatives met in the town of Uhly to prepare for the exhumation of the victims of the Volyn tragedy.
• Ukraine and Portugal signed an agreement on cooperation in the production of maritime drones.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• He pretended he didn’t have to
• A Russian… tank?
• Russian drone swarm
• Minus three
• Chasiv Yar, Ukrainian tank
• Russian attack
• The destroyed Russian column

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Putin has openly declared that the goal of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is to “liberate Russia’s historical territories”. In doing so, he has de facto confirmed that all previous “reasons”, such as the expansion of NATO, the alleged fascists in charge of Ukraine, or the alleged oppression of the Russian-speaking minority, are just lying propaganda to cover up the real reason for Russian aggression: imperialism. The smarter ones have known this for the last thirty years. Perhaps Putin’s admission will finally open the eyes of some. But the members of Russia’s fifth column will continue to parrot every lie that portrays Russia as a victim so that they don’t have to admit that they are nasty people cheering on a nasty regime. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• The following information appeared on Ukrainian and many Russian channels: the Ukrainian army hit a tanker belonging to the Russian shadow fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. However, the oil on board was allegedly not oil, but persons with links to the Russian government and members of the military intelligence (GRU) responsible for drone spying across Europe, sabotage and other subversive actions. Seven people were reportedly injured and two killed in the attack. One of the two dead is believed to be Andrei Vladimirovich Averyanov, at the time a GRU Major General. Averjanov was responsible for GRU activities primarily on EU territory, but not only there. On Putin’s orders, he had carried out a number of operations abroad in recent years. He was also supposed to have been involved in the bombing of Prigozhin’s plane or the Novichok poisoning in Britain. But pending confirmation from official sources, the report should be taken with a grain of salt.
• According to the intelligence services and militaries of several European countries, it is increasingly common for military personnel or members of private armies, such as the Wagner family, to be present on ships belonging to the Russian shadow fleet. In addition, it is reportedly apparent that armed personnel are on board not only to defend the ship, but in fact control the ship. Therefore, it is believed that the tankers both serve a reconnaissance function and also serve as floating bases for subversive actions. This correlates with the previous report.
• Russia lured two Colombians to work as welders for $2,500 a month. But in Ufa, their passports were confiscated and the pair were given rifles instead of welders. Three of the original seven members of the hit squad they were assigned to are now dead. These two survived and surrendered without firing a single shot.
• Russia has been trying for days to cut off the western part of the Odessa region from the rest of it. Russian Geran drones have repeatedly attacked bridges there in large swarms. On 18 December, one such drone hit a civilian car travelling on a bridge, killing the woman driver and injuring her three children.
• Ukrainian intelligence has used drones to hit another Russian oil platform in the Caspian Sea. This is the fourth attack and the third oil platform hit. The last attack was against a platform in the Rakushchenskoye area, named after Valery Graifer.
• Pavel Gubarev, the former occupation chief of Donetsk, claims that Chechen Kadyrov’s forces from the Akhmat militia did not fight in the occupied territories of Ukraine, but only looted.
• The new SPD-nominated defence minister announced that the munitions initiative for Ukraine would continue and praised the outgoing government for its project to buy F-35 fighter jets.
• The European Parliament voted in favour of the creation of a “military Schengen”, which will allow troops to cross borders within 24 hours in the event of a crisis.
• The US Treasury lifted sanctions on entities that supply components and technology to the Russian and Iranian military industries.
• In Switzerland, a court found guilty a citizen who had participated in the fighting as a volunteer soldier in the ranks of Ukraine.
• Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia will not join the EU-wide funding of Ukraine.
• Russia has begun to claim that “Old Finland” (Vanha Suomi) is territory that belongs to Russia.
• According to Putin, some 700,000 Russian troops are now fighting on Ukrainian territory.
• Putin said on television that Ukraine had started the war with Russia.
• Ukraine has repatriated the remains of another 1,000 fallen soldiers.
• The crew of a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter was killed in combat.
• A stray Russian Orlan drone crashed into Turkish territory.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Tanker in the Mediterranean Sea
• Striking a Russian tanker with the eye of a drone
• Minus the Russian radar
• Lyman wrapped in optical fibres
• Impacts on the Russian power plant in Orlu
• Zelensky and Nawrocki
• Russian raid on Zaporozhye
• 10,000 workers from India arrive in Moscow
• Minus the mercenary

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Russian forces attempted a blitzkrieg attack with a motorcycle and buggy convoy heading from the Pokrovsk region to the 3.5 km distant town of Hryshyn, believing that this would bypass the Ukrainian positions and cut off their supply routes. However, Ukrainian drones were constantly monitoring the area. Drone videos show that the entire convoy lay in ashes about a kilometre after take-off - several vehicles were hit simultaneously, suggesting that dozens of drones were waiting in advance in a convenient location for Russian vehicles to ambush. The final tally: 10 vehicles destroyed, around 40 soldiers killed. The surviving soldiers who tried to continue on foot somehow forgot to split up and were thus incapacitated after a few minutes by a single FPV drone. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Investigators have released details of the recent brutal murder of 21-year-old Danylo Kuzmin, the son of the deputy mayor of Kharkiv, in Vienna. Kuzmin was lured into a trap in the underground garage of the luxury Sofitel hotel by his 19-year-old compatriot and his 45-year-old accomplice. In the garage, he was brutally beaten so badly that Kuzmin had almost no teeth left. During the torture, Kuzmin revealed the passwords to two crypto wallets containing $200,000 in cryptocurrency. The badly injured Kuzmin was then placed in the back seat of a Mercedes belonging to his father and taken to the Donaustadt district of Vienna, where the perpetrators set the car on fire with Kuzmin still alive inside. On the basis of footage from hotel cameras, the Viennese police quickly identified the suspects. The 45-year-old suspect is a former high-ranking official of the Odessa customs administration, while the 19-year-old is the son of a well-known businessman from Chernivtsi and the stepson of the Ukrainian ambassador to Bulgaria.
• Overnight, Ukrainian forces carried out a series of airstrikes, hitting, for example, an oil refinery near Slavyansk-on-Kuban. The plant processes up to 5.2 million tonnes of oil a year and directly supports the Russian army. Drones have also damaged high voltage power lines there. In addition, an attack on the Nikolayevskaya fuel depot in the Rostov region has been confirmed. Tanks as well as the river barge Kapitan Gibert were damaged. In the occupied Luhansk region, a field artillery ammunition depot belonging to one of the units was destroyed.
• German Chancellor Merz says the security guarantees proposed by the United States would allow Western forces to “intervene against Russian incursions and attacks” in the event of a ceasefire in Ukraine. In any case, Russia has announced in advance that it will not accept the presence of any Western troops in Ukraine.
• German MP and military expert Kiesewetter clarified that yesterday’s information about 360,000 Russian troops on NATO’s borders should not be seen as an assessment of the real presence of Russian troops in Belarus, but that it was “based on a misinterpretation of broader estimates of the size of the army.”
• The US President has branded the Maduro regime a foreign terrorist organisation and announced a “complete and total blockade” of oil tankers sailing to and from Venezuela. Under international law, this is potentially an act of war, which requires congressional approval.
• Nigel Farage’s biggest backer, who has just given £9 million in financial support to Reform UK, is financially linked to a platform that spreads Russian state propaganda and runs influence operations linked to Russian intelligence.
• Russian Defence Minister Belousov: ‘NATO began preparations for a conflict with Russia in the early 1930s. The policy of European countries and NATO creates real preconditions for the continuation of military actions in Ukraine in 2026.”
• Legal guarantees have not been enough to allay Belgium’s fears of Russian retaliation, and Italy, Malta, Bulgaria and now the Czech Republic are supporting Belgium’s call for alternative ways to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction.
• The European Union has added Diana Panchenko, a Russian propagandist of Ukrainian origin, to the sanctions list. The one that Rajchl claimed was an “independent, award-winning journalist with whom he is in contact”.
• Washington is preparing a new package of sanctions, including measures targeting Russia’s energy sector, to increase pressure on Moscow if Putin rejects the proposed peace deal.
• Boris Pistorius announced that Germany will extend military aid to Ukraine for 2026 by another 3 billion euros. This will bring the total aid to 11.5 billion euros, a new record.
• Ukrainian troops continue to advance in and around Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region, where the Russians must now rely on drones to supply isolated troops.
• Georgia’s parliament, controlled by the pro-Russian Georgian Sen party, has passed a law to abolish the anti-corruption office, which was set up on the recommendation of the EU.
• 34 countries and the European Union signed a convention to establish a new compensation body, the International Commission on Compensation for Ukraine.
• Slovakia granted asylum to Russian influence operation actor Artyom Marchevsky, despite a promise to the Czech BIS.
• Solovyov: “We will have to destroy godforsaken Berlin again, re-enter Paris and liberate Vienna on the way.”
• Radomir Kurtic, a representative of the Serbian state arms manufacturer Jugoimport SDPR in Russia, was assassinated in Moscow.
• Ukrainian forces liquidated Mykhailo Mishyn, former “DNR Minister of Sport”, near Pokrovsk.
• Ukrainian drones hit and destroyed a column of Russian S-400 systems in Rajevka near Belgorod.
• Putin signed a law allowing the seizure of real estate in occupied territories.
• Russian propaganda is now spreading claims that Zelensky is the owner of an Israeli passport.
• A Russian “guided” aerial bomb landed on a block of flats in Zaporozhye today.
• Putin: “There is no civilization in Europe, only degradation.”

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Blowing up a booby-trapped building with Russian soldiers
• Minus the Russian column
• Beautiful shot from the drone
• Minus the column
• Minus the Russian drone-bomber
• Sniper shot

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Kiev and the whole of eastern Ukraine are just one step away from a widespread power outage, analysts say. At risk are key elements of the power grid that bring electricity from western Ukraine - where most of the production is now concentrated - to the east. According to the WP, the Kremlin is deliberately creating so-called “energy islands” to completely cut off entire regions from electricity production and a unified grid. This makes no military sense, of course. It is a deliberate terrorising of the civilian population, a psychological operation to force Ukraine to surrender through political pressure. And it is having an effect not only on the Ukrainian civilian population, but also on civilians in Western countries, where, in response, there is a growing sentiment of ‘as long as the suffering stops, no matter how’. The Ukrainians themselves are much more resilient than some Westerners think. And a new opinion poll in Ukraine proves it. But I’d get ahead of myself, first this news:

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• According to AFP, the US delegation in Berlin is pressing Ukraine to surrender Donbas. The current proposal includes a “freeze” of the front, under which Ukraine would have to relinquish control of part of its territory. In Kiev, in any case, this proposal is not seen as a path to peace, but as a forced surrender.
• Fascism in the world is on the rise. The ultra-conservative politician José Antonio Kast has been elected President of Chile. Kast is the son of a former Nazi Party member who moved to Chile after World War II and is an unapologetic admirer of dictator Augusto Pinochet.
• Russia has begun recruiting mercenaries in Iran, offering a signing bonus of $20,000 and a monthly salary of $2,000 through Telegram. It is targeting economically vulnerable populations in a campaign that has already attracted 18,000 foreigners from 128 countries.
• According to the latest poll, 61% of Ukrainians support Zelensky as Ukraine’s leader. Fewer than a tenth of Ukrainians support holding elections during wartime. 75% of Ukrainians oppose a “peace plan” if it includes territorial concessions.
• German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told Die Welt that German authorities are investigating the recruitment of radical groups by foreign governments for sabotage and espionage.
• “We don’t need any agreement, we don’t need any arrangement - we need the surrender of Ukraine.”- Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin
• Estonian President Alar Karis said Tallinn is ready to help Hungary pay fines if Budapest terminates its energy contracts with Russia.
• Russia’s Yaroslavneftorgsintez refinery, which produces gasoline, diesel and aviation fuel, had to completely halt production after the Ukrainian strikes.
• President Zelensky is proposing that Ukraine abandon its bid for NATO membership in exchange for firm security guarantees from the West.
• Fugitive former Syrian President Bashar Assad has decided to start a new life in Russia - he has become an ophthalmologist and is treating Moscow’s elite.
• The US envoy says Belarus will release another 1 000 political prisoners in the coming weeks.
• Ukrainians hit a power plant near Belgorod, Russia, with drones last night.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainian missile hits moving fuel train
• PVO destroys drones over Odessa
• Russian chess player in Avdiivka
• Minus Russian air defence
• The Russians bombed a supermarket
• Gunfight at Pokrovsk
• Legion at the front
• Nice shot!
• Russian envoy to Britain

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Igor Girkin published another letter from prison: ‘Ukraine is basing its strategy on the exhaustion of Russia, for us it is a protracted and fruitless war that is still going on. Many try to forget that the war has been going on for almost four years. During this time, we have not only failed to liberate Novorossiya, but also to clear the Donbas of the enemy. In the fourth year of the war, the enemy began attacking economic and infrastructural targets deep in the rear of the Russian Federation, which also does not indicate that we are winning the war. Yes, there are frequent reports from the front that we have liberated another settlement, but overall the enemy maintains the integrity of the front and his army has not collapsed. Therefore, unfortunately, we cannot say that victory has already been achieved or that it is very close. Production is falling, inflation is rising and economic difficulties are deepening, which can no longer be compensated for by drawing on reserves, because these reserves are already depleted. The state can no longer continue to wage war as it has done for four years, i.e. without switching to a war economy. And this is what our so-called “friends” are waiting for: that after a certain period of time the Russian economy will enter a spiral of decline, causing a collapse both on the front and in the home front, and they will win the war by attrition.” And in the meantime, this happened:

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• Russia is exploring ways to install radio frequency repeaters to guide Shahed drones on Ukrainian territory. It plans to use private properties and especially the elderly to do so. Therefore, the authorities warn people to alert their elderly parents and neighbours to pay extra attention to suspicious requests from unknown persons directed to install any boxes in the house or yard, which must be connected to an electrical outlet and, if possible, to the Internet.
• Odessa is without electricity, water and heating after more than 300 Russian missiles and drones targeted civilian infrastructure there this morning. The outage has affected around 1 million people. Russia is thus systematically terrorising another city with a relatively large Russian-speaking population that the Russians falsely claim historically belongs to them. In total, Russia sent 465 drones and 30 missiles last night.
• The Wall Street Journal reports that Russia’s advance in Ukraine has been slower than almost any major military operation of the past century. After nearly four years of war, Moscow still hasn’t conquered the Donetsk region, which has been its target since 2014.
• Alexei Zhuravlyov, first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s defence committee, said in a Russian TV debate: “We have no choice but to keep fighting. We will stop in Kiev. All wars end in capitals.”
• Trump is going to bomb Venezuela - there will be ground strikes all over the country. Trump says the goal is to end the drug trade. But he also admits, none too covertly, that Venezuelan oil is the reason.
• The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved the participation of Russian and Belarusian youth athletes under their national flags in international junior events, including the 2026 Youth Olympic Games in Dakar.
• Long-range drones manned by the SBU’s special Alpha unit again hit the Filanovsky oil rig in the Caspian Sea, but this time also the nearby Korchagin platform.
• The US lifted sanctions on the Belaruskali production facility. Belaruskali is a large Belarusian state enterprise, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of potash fertilizers.
• The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was again without power overnight - for the twelfth time. The plant is believed to have lost all external power supplies.
• Trump is reportedly prepared to provide Ukraine with NATO Article 5 style security guarantees in exchange for the withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from the Donbas.
• The commander of the Russian neo-Nazi battalion “Espaňola” with the call sign “Spaniard” (Czech: “Spaniard”) was killed in fighting in Ukraine.
• The US Congress has banned the Pentagon from unilaterally diverting weapons destined for Ukraine for other purposes.
• Witkoff will meet with Zelensky and European leaders this weekend to discuss the US “peace plan”.
• Elon Musk endorsed pro-Russian Cypriot MEP Fidias on social media.
• Kim Jong-un honored engineers who returned from a mission in the Kursk region of Russia.
• The Russian army deployed additional reserves to the battle for Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.
• Erdogan plans to discuss a peace plan for Ukraine with Putin.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Shahed hits Turkish ship in Odessa
• Strikes on Russian positions
• Drone bomber working
• Action on the front
• 40 kilometres of anti-drone nets
• Destroying the Russian attack
• Christmas tree collapses in Moscow
• Odessa
• November near Pokrovsk
• Odessa substation after the Russian air raid
• Shahed crashed into the sea off Odessa
• On the front

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Ukrainian media claim to have obtained the latest version of the US “peace” proposal. Territories: the US proposes to legitimise Russia’s control over Crimea, the “LNR and DNR”. Any future changes in status could only be made through diplomatic channels. Donetsk Oblast: A demilitarized zone would be created covering about 30% of Donetsk. Ukrainian and Russian forces will withdraw beyond its borders. Zaporizhzhya and Kherson: The front line will be frozen and the current control of the territory will be recognised. Withdrawal of Russian troops: Under the proposal, Russia must leave all other occupied territories outside the five named regions (e.g. Sumy, Kharkiv or Dnipropetrovsk oblasts). NATO: the US declares that the alliance will not expand further and will not accept Ukraine. No NATO troops would be allowed to be deployed on Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian army: Authorized post-war size is limited to 800,000 troops. Security: Ukraine would receive guarantees similar to NATO Article 5, but without any legal force. Elections: must be held as soon as possible after the signing of the agreement. Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant: It will be put back into operation under US supervision; Ukraine will get 50% of the energy produced. EU: The plan envisages Ukraine joining the European Union on 1 January 2027. Russian assets: The US intends to partially release Russian assets. Part of the funds would be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine, while another part could be directed to joint US-Russia projects. I honestly cannot imagine Ukraine agreeing to such an outrage. But there is more going on:

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• According to the Wall Street Journal, the United States has made proposals to Europe on how Russia could be reintegrated into the global economy. The US plan envisages US investment in key Russian industries such as precious metals and even envisages helping to restore Russian energy exports to Europe and the rest of the world, in stark contrast to the European strategy of cutting Russia off from gas supplies. The proposal also outlines how US financial institutions and companies could get involved in projects in Ukraine using some USD 200 billion of frozen Russian assets. U.S. actions have caused considerable tension in negotiations with European allies, who differ sharply in their ideas about Ukraine’s reconstruction and the conditions for future normalization of relations with Russia.
• The UN General Assembly supported a Ukrainian resolution aimed at strengthening international cooperation and minimising the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. The document received the support of 97 states. Voting against were Russia, Belarus, China, North Korea, Nicaragua, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger and, unfortunately, the USA.
• For the first time, Ukrainian forces used remote sensing drones to hit Lukoil’s Filanovsky oil platforms, located more than 905 km from the front line in the Caspian Sea. They were hit by more than four projectiles, resulting in the shutdown of oil and gas production from more than 20 wells.
• Tucker Carlson said Russia would be the best ally for the United States “because it’s the largest territory in the world, with a lot of oil, gas, minerals, gold and everything else. From an America First policy perspective, it’s an ideal ally.”
• The British soldier who died in Ukraine a few days ago was Corporal George Hooley, 28, who was serving in a parachute regiment. He was killed while testing an interception drone. Two Ukrainians also died in the accident.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Akron chemical plant in Veliky Novgorod, Russia, a major industrial complex located about 200 km from the Estonian border and 700 km from Ukraine.
• In occupied Donetsk, near school 115, a bust of Lance Corporal Michael Gloss, the son of the CIA deputy director who died fighting on the Russian side, was installed.
• According to Politico, the United States is considering the creation of a new “Core 5” group consisting of the US, China, Russia, India and Japan as an alternative to the G7.
• Since this year, every Finnish soldier has been learning to pilot drones, drop bombs, shoot down drones and perform maintenance on them.
• Kazakhstan supplied oil from the Kashagan field to China for the first time after Ukrainian strikes crippled the Russian CPC terminal.
• The United States seized a tanker carrying a cargo of oil from Venezuela to Cuba.
• Military police intervene at a drone collection - Project Nemesis.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the Russian
• Search min
• Minus the strike group
• The destroyed Russian column
• US seizes tanker
• Ivanivka
• Fucker Carlson
• Leopard near Pokrovsk
• Minus two

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In Russian propaganda, it is regularly claimed that the Russian advance is what it is (slow) because the Russian army is extremely considerate of the civilian population of Ukraine. What does the Russian “liberation” really look like? I guess it looks like this: As soon as any city is within range for Russian artillery, the systematic terrorization of the civilian population begins. The targets are shops, power stations, waterworks, schools, transport infrastructure… in short, everything that the civilian population needs to live a normal life. The goal is to make normal life in the city simply unsustainable, so that the civilian population will leave as soon as possible and Russia can accelerate the devastation of the city, which is now left with practically a fraction of people with nowhere to go, soldiers, and collaborators who help to direct the attacks on the two previously mentioned groups of people. This goes on for weeks, months, sometimes years. By the time the tanks and infantry approach the city, it is just an empty ruin. Then Russia literally blows all the remaining, still standing buildings to s**t. This is usually the point at which the Ukrainian army retreats, leaving only paratroopers, special forces and saboteurs to operate in the rubble. For the next few months, the Russians conquer the smoking ruins at the cost of tens to hundreds (in the case of villages) or thousands to tens of thousands (in the case of district towns) of lives, and when there are no Ukrainian soldiers left in the town, the Russians declare the town “liberated” and take the surviving collaborators to some godforsaken village outside the Urals. Then Ukrainian artillery starts leveling the remaining piles of bricks and panels, and after a short pause the whole situation repeats itself a few kilometres away. The Russians do not even respect the lives of their own soldiers, let alone foreign civilians. Then, when the Ukrainian army is far enough away, the “reconstruction of the liberated city” begins. This looks like a Chinese company moving in on a designated site, building prefabricated boxes instead of the original tenements and apartment blocks, moving in a few poor people who have believed the domestic propaganda about fabulous real estate at fabulous prices, Russian state television coming in to film a glorified report, and the new tenants being left to their fate in crumbling apartments without electricity or water. The thoughtfulness of it all is oozing out. But there is also this:

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• Several US media outlets claim that Trump and his proxies are pushing Ukraine to approve the handover of Donbas to Russia as soon as possible. According to Axios, Zelensky was even basically expected to agree to the Donbass cession without any further negotiations or compensation during a phone call between him, Witkoff and Kushner. But yesterday Zelensky let it be known that the Ukrainian representation has no option under Ukrainian, international, and ultimately moral law to hand over Ukrainian territories to anyone.
• Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, cited a fake news report to justify the upcoming AI regulation in Russia. In his speech to Putin, he mentioned a media story about a “corrupt AI minister in Albania” - a story printed by the satirical Croatian media outlet Newsbar. According to the article, a virtual minister named Diella was removed from her post for accepting a bribe of 14 bitcoins during a selection process. Volodin did not understand that this was a humorous story.
• When asked by reporters, Trump said that “Russia now has a stronger negotiating position because it’s bigger.” He said Zelensky should start accepting offers of reconciliation because he is losing on the battlefield. For context, it is worth recalling that according to the still valid Budapest Memorandum, the United States (but also Russia) is the guarantor of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
• The International Court of Justice in The Hague has formally accepted Russian charges against Ukraine for alleged genocide in the Donbas. Thus, Ukraine must submit a response to Russia’s allegations by December 7, 2026. Russia must submit its charges by December 7, 2027.
• Trump said that “it has always been the general consensus, even long before Putin, that Ukraine would not be admitted to NATO.” If he wasn’t lying, he was inadvertently confirming that Russian propaganda about the need to invade Ukraine to expand NATO is being sucked out of thin air.
• The four men accused of murdering Russell Bentley, an American communist and propagandist who fought in the Donbas since 2014 on the side of pro-Russian militants, were sentenced to prison terms of up to 12 years.
• Russian domestic propaganda continues to prepare the Russian population for a larger war with Europe that could come within months or years of Trump forcing Ukraine to capitulate.
• A Russian An-22 military transport plane crashed in the Ivanovo region. Seven people were on board, their fate is still unknown, but it is believed that they did not survive the crash.
• Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president and drug trafficker, who was recently pardoned by President Trump.
• Poland has commissioned its military reconnaissance satellite capable of taking detailed images even through clouds or smoke.
• Ukrainian troops withdrew from Lysiivka and Sukhny Yar in the area south of Pokrovsk to avoid being surrounded.
• Zelensky is on a visit to Rome. He has met with the Pope and will later meet with the Italian government.
• The Russian censorship authority has banned Russians from accessing the Roblox gaming and development platform.
• Ukraine’s Sumy was without electricity after a Russian night raid.
• Trump calls for new presidential elections in Ukraine.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Two Captured Six
• Sumy
• Rotations and Evacuations
• Idiot Trump
• Ukrainian drone strikes
• The Hide and Seek Game
• Trefa!

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According to the Financial Times, European intelligence services foiled a large-scale terrorist operation to blow up cargo planes heading from Europe to the US. Investigators seized around 6 kg of explosives and uncovered a vast criminal network linked to Russian structures. The same perpetrators had previously carried out bomb attacks on DHL logistics centres in Poland, Germany and the UK. According to media reports, at least 20 suspects in Poland and Lithuania are implicated in the case. The alleged mastermind has since fled to Azerbaijan. Well done! And this is what happened this:

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• The SBU detained a ship from the Russian “shadow fleet” in Odessa port. According to Ukrainian intelligence, the ship was flying the flag of an African country and regularly transported agricultural products from occupied Crimea. On board were the captain and 16 crew members - citizens of several Middle Eastern countries.
• Zelensky responded to Trump’s blathering about the need for elections in Ukraine: he called on the US and Europe to ensure the security of the vote. If that happens, he said, Ukraine will be able to hold elections within 60 days. Russian officials immediately called that bluff.
• Republican Thomas Massie introduced a bill in the US Congress to withdraw the US from NATO, calling the alliance a “relic of the Cold War” and arguing that the funds saved should be spent on US homeland security.
• Mass seizures of property in occupied territories are now officially legal. Occupation authorities have been given the power to declare houses “ownerless” and hand them over to others. This new rule will remain in effect until 2030.
• According to Ukrainian intelligence, there is a risk of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups infiltrating the Odessa and Vinnytsia regions. Intensive mobilisation is underway in Transnistria, and mass production of drones and training of their operators has started.
• A video has appeared on Russian social media showing the new commander of PMC Wagner’s private army, Dmitry Podolsky, known as “Salem”. He lost both legs and one arm during the war against Ukraine.
• On Friday evening, Markus Frohnmaier, deputy chairman of the AfD parliamentary faction, will be the “guest of honour” at a gala dinner of the New York Young Republicans Club, which has called for a “new civil order” in Germany.
• Ukrainian assault troops are clearing Kupyansk after cutting Russian supply routes to the north of the city a few days ago. The Ukrainian General Staff reports that approximately 60 enemy soldiers remain inside the city.
• The British Ministry of Defence has announced the death of one of its soldiers in Ukraine. He reportedly died in a tragic accident while taking part in observing tests of a new Ukrainian defence system.
• Oleksandr Syrskyy, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian forces, said that Ukraine had regained some 13 square kilometres of territory in Pokrovsk after at one point having no troops left in the town.
• In Australia, people under 16 are banned from using mass social networking sites as of today. Platforms must delete children’s profiles that already exist and must not create new ones.
• Trump is threatening new sanctions against the International Criminal Court in The Hague unless the court commits in writing not to prosecute him.
• The most popular category of porn in “traditional”, LGBT-rejecting Russia is “transgender”, according to Pornhub’s annual statistics.
• For the first time ever, Danish intelligence has identified the US under the Trump administration as a potential security risk.
• Russia’s Syzrani oil refinery halted operations on 5 December after suffering damage in a Ukrainian drone strike.
• A Russian Il-76 transport plane crashed west of the city of Port Sudan. None of the crew survived the crash.
• Ukraine and Poland are negotiating the transfer of Polish MiG-29 fighter jets to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
• 3 drones hit the Russian Shadow Fleet tanker Dashan flying the Gambian flag in the Black Sea.
• Pope Leo XIV warned that Trump is “trying to break” the alliance between the US and Europe.

Interesting videos

• Drones work even in fog
• The SSO eliminated eight occupiers
• Russian video of missiles being guided onto a dam near Kharkiv
• Another Russian lays down his life for PR action
• Minus Russian air defence
• Russian Shahed throws away submunitions
• Tref artillery
• Dashan
• Tanker Dashan
• Minus Two
• Updated RuAF losses

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Russian domestic propaganda is now preparing the Russian population for war against the whole of Europe. Sergei Karaganov, chairman of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, said on television that the current war will not end until Russia “morally and politically” crushes Europe, because, he said, the current European elites are “pushing the world towards a global war”. Europe, he said, will disintegrate and become “a junkyard of nations at war with each other” because it is the source of “evil for all humanity”. European propaganda, he said, has created an indoctrinated population worse than that of Germany at the end of the Second World War. Karaganov therefore hopes that “Europeans will come to their senses before Russia has to resort to mass retaliation”. Russia is the third empire with more snow. And this is also happening this:

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• According to the Politico, the US is pressuring Zelensky to give up Donbass. But he insists that peace talks should be derived from the current front, not from Russian demands. Indeed, to give up the Donbas would mean ceding to Russia a multi-layered defence and a belt of fortress cities built up over many years and at the cost of unimaginable losses. Ceding them would also allow Russia to use them as footholds for an invasion of the rest of Ukraine.
• Russia ranks 28th out of 36 in the latest Global AI Ecosystem Development Index. Even the best Russian models lag behind older versions of ChatGPT and Gemini. While Putin recently identified AI development as a strategic priority, thousands of IT talents have left Russia for the West due to emerging totalitarianism and war. So now there is no intelligence in Russia. Neither real nor artificial.
• The European Commission is proposing to distribute financial guarantees among EU member states to provide Ukraine with a “reparation loan” financed by frozen Russian assets. These guarantees are necessary to persuade Belgium to confiscate the 185 billion euros deposited in Euroclear. A further €25 billion is scattered across the Union in private bank accounts.
• Zelensky held talks with European leaders in Britain. The British Prime Minister began his address to him by saying “We stand with Ukraine” and stressed that any potential ceasefire must be fair and lasting and that decisions on Ukraine must be made primarily by Ukraine.
• Trump let it be known that he was disappointed by the lack of any response from Zelensky to Trump’s peace plan. According to Trump, Russia is ready to make a deal and Zelensky’s team is said to be excited about it. So sure…
• According to Zelensky, “overtly un-Ukrainian” proposals were removed from the peace plan after the first rounds of negotiations. The draft subsequently presented by Witkoff in Moscow was therefore cut from 28 to 20 points.
• On one of the Russian bombers parked in the hangar, the ejection system suddenly activated, with the crew already inside at the time. As a result, the pilot and navigator were killed.
• According to the Ukrainian ombudsman, the Kremlin is preparing a new hybrid attack: staged “anti-war” demonstrations across Ukraine, for which it is recruiting mothers of fallen soldiers.
• Russia has charged Robert “Hungarian” Brovdi in absentia for organizing an alleged terrorist attack in Russia’s Kursk region and issued an international arrest warrant for him.
• Cambodia and Thailand - the same countries Trump previously claimed he helped settle their disputes - are now accusing each other of a new escalation.
• Ukraine’s SBU has released new footage showing its Alpha unit destroying a Russian Mi-26 helicopter with a drone.
• The Czech company LPP is preparing to supply Ukraine with a new Narwhal cruise missile with a claimed range of up to 680 km.
• Ukrainian Su-27 pilot Lieutenant Colonel Yevhen Ivanov was killed during a combat mission in eastern Ukraine.
• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni promised to send more electricity generators to Ukraine.
• Gasoline now costs more in Russia than in the United States. The difference is already about 8%.
• Ukrainian drones destroyed 70% of the fuel tanks in the Russian port of Temryuk.
• Russia has sacrificed up to 1.35 million troops to gain 1.45% of Ukraine’s territory.
• The Netherlands will provide Ukraine with an additional EUR 700 million in 2026.
• 34 years ago today, the Soviet Union collapsed.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Karaganov
• Russia’s own army
• Minus the pile
• Minus the helicopter
• Surprise!
• Evacuation after a mine injury
• Minus a shipment of ammunition

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Ukraine was supposed to celebrate the feast of St. Nicholas last night. Instead, the Russians “gifted” it with another night of terror of the civilian population. There were a total of 683 drones and 51 cruise missiles/flares in the air. During the raid, the Russians completely destroyed the railway station in the town of Fastiv in the Kiev region. In Dnipro, the warehouse of a popular chocolate factory there was hit, as well as a storage area full of medical supplies. Debris from one of the rockets landed on a playground in the city centre. Another plant was also hit, in western Ukraine near Lutsk. But the Russian report almost certainly tells of “decisive strikes on NATO bases full of Western generals and fighter jets”. Nothing new under the sun. But this is new:

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• The national poll found that 64% of Americans support providing lethal aid to Ukraine, up 9% from last year and the highest share since February 2022. Slightly more (65%) support providing long-range missiles like Tomahawks so Ukraine can conduct strikes deep inside Russian territory, while 68% support selling U.S.-made weapons to European allies who would then provide them to Ukraine. By contrast, in 2024, a majority of Republicans (59%) support supplying weapons to Ukraine to repel a Russian invasion, up from 44% last year. Three-quarters of Democrats support aid to Ukraine, up from 68%. The poll also found that 62% of Americans want the war to end with a Ukrainian victory.
• Russia’s pro-regime military channels fret that Siberian peoples, including the Buryats who were colonized long ago, are being decimated in the so-called “SVO” while “economic migrants from Central Asia” fill the resulting gaps. The arrival of these migrants, they say, is already showing up on the streets, where a growing number of “women with their faces covered” can be seen. Thus, while Russia funds far-right movements in Europe that fight migration and the ‘Islamisation’ of Europe, Russia has the largest Muslim minority of the ‘non-Muslim countries’ in Europe. Russia is now home to more than 1% of the world’s Muslim population, and its share of the Russian population is growing year by year.
• The Kherson heating plant is definitely out of action after about a hundred hits by Russian artillery. This threatens to leave some 30 000 inhabitants of the adjacent villages without electricity during the winter. Meanwhile, in 2022, after a fake referendum, the Russians claimed that 87% of the region wanted to join Russia. If we were to believe their lie, it would mean that the Russians have been terrorizing a population they consider ‘theirs’ for three years without ceasing.
• Republican politicians and influencers, with the hearty backing of Russian and pro-Russian accounts, flooded social media with claims that the European Union had fined X/Twitter because Elon Musk refused the Union’s request to deploy censorship. In fact, the network was fined for refusing to address transparency issues with some features instead.
• International Criminal Court Deputy Prosecutor Najat Shammim Khan said that the investigation into Russian aggression can be suspended for peace talks if the UN Security Council requests it.
• Zakharova said that “the attacks on tankers in the Black Sea and on the infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium are further examples of the criminal nature of the Kiev regime.”
• One of the commanding officers of the 414th “Klim” Brigade was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine and the entire 414th “Hungarian Birds” Brigade received its battle standard from the President.
• According to the IAEA, the radiation sarcophagus of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant lost its integrity after the Russian kamikaze drone attack and with it its primary safety function.
• The Swedish Navy reports regular contacts with Russian submarines in the Baltic Sea on an almost weekly basis.
• Russia will raise the tax on alcohol by 30 percent to raise money for its war spending.
• Ukrainian drones again hit a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan.
• The US offered Poland 250 Stryker armoured vehicles for $1.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Fastiv, train station
• Fastiv
• Dnipro, medical supplies warehouse hit
• Dnipro
• The Russians rejoice at the destruction of the heating plant
• Vovchansk
• Bila Cerkva, Russian air raid
• Kiev metro during the air raid
• Defence against FPV drones
• POWs
• Minus the Beech
• Minus two occupiers
• Iris-T versus Russian missile
• Shrapnel from Russian rockets in the streets of Dnipro
• Russian missile debris on a playground in Dnipro

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Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever told the daily La Libre that talk of Russia’s defeat was “a fairy tale and an illusion”. According to him, no one in the West seriously believes in a scenario in which Moscow would suffer a strategic defeat, simply because no one realistically wants the subsequent break-up of a nuclear power. He stated this when answering a journalist’s question about frozen Russian assets, which he said would eventually have to be returned to the Kremlin because, on the one hand, their seizure would set off a dangerous spiral, but also because no one except Germany is willing to take such a step, with all its negative aspects. Very positive, I can’t say! But there are other [things] going on too(https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid02WzC5bvm2DRjfX1Z3cfQ7UN5nG8nFhgLzNirHWgho9ptviCL7rHzhfi74n9mhjGFkl):

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• Australia and New Zealand have joined the NATO-US PURL initiative to supply arms and equipment to Ukraine. Under this initiative, Australia will provide $63 million, including $28.5 million for military equipment such as tactical air defence radars, ammunition and hardware, $33 million to the PURL Fund and $1.3 million for the Drone Coalition. New Zealand will contribute $8.7 million directly to the PURL Fund.
• In Lviv, a military official was fatally stabbed at a conscription centre during a document check. According to the army, the man first refused to produce his documents, behaved aggressively and finally pulled a knife on the official and stabbed him in the groin, causing fatal bleeding.
• Trump on Ukraine: “When I was in office and dealing with them, I said, ‘You don’t have any Trumps.’ I thought there was a much better opportunity to make a deal at that time. But they, in their wisdom, chose not to. Now they have even more against them.”
• The late Pope Francis left funds in his will to buy ambulances for Ukraine. His successor, Pope Leo XIV, criticized Trump’s original peace plan for excluding Europe from the negotiations and suggested Italy as a mediator for Ukraine.
• The UN General Assembly, in a vote backed by the United States, called for the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia. Russia, Belarus and Iran voted against the resolution. Fifty-seven countries, including China, India and Brazil, abstained.
• Hoang Tran, a 21-year-old Czech-Vietnamese volunteer, was captured in August 2025 in the village of Chervonyi Lyman, north of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, and has now been sentenced by a Russian court to 13 years in prison for taking part in fighting in the ranks of Ukraine.
• The Russians attacked Odessa last night, six people were wounded. A fire broke out at a power facility, which subsequently damaged a neighbouring office building, seven apartment buildings and several cars.
• Commenting on yesterday’s action by the Romanian navy, the SBU said that all its Sea Baby naval drones were continuing combat missions in the Black Sea and that none of them had been lost.
• Ukrainian troops are still launching raids against Russian soldiers in Pokrovsk, but it is safe to say that Pokrovsk is now under the control of the Russian military.
• Overnight, the Ukrainian military shot down 0/2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 114/138 Russian drones.
• NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: “Putin thinks he can outlast us, but we’re not going anywhere.”
• A six-year-old girl died in Kherson from injuries caused by Russian artillery.
• According to the Times, Putin expects Trump to tire and accuse Ukraine of intransigence.

Interesting videos

• Minus PVO
• He didn’t bring the ammo.
• Minus two tanks
• Ukrainian drone
• The drones are working
• Production of Russian propaganda
• Updated RuAF losses

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Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner arrived in Moscow this morning for talks. Putin has already set the stage for the talks in advance by having a bizarre propaganda video filmed in which he appears dressed in military camouflage and discusses with military and defense ministry officials the breathtaking advance on the front and the initiative, which he says is 100 percent in the hands of the Russian military. In the video, it is said, among other things, that the Russian army has captured the whole of Pokrovsk or Vovchansk, which independent analysts say is simply not true, or that the Russian army has “launched an operation to liberate the town of Hulyaipol”. On this account, Zelensky confirmed in his meeting with Macron that there is still fighting in Pokrovsk, and reminded that Russia has repeatedly claimed to have captured Kupyansk, while most of the city is still held by Ukrainian forces, systematically destroying Russian assault groups that infiltrate the city. However, the video is probably intended to impress primarily one potential viewer: Donald Trump. And that’s where Putin has an easy time with persuasion, as recent weeks have made clear. Alarmingly, however, the Chinese foreign minister flew to Moscow at the same time as the Americans for talks. And this is also happening this:

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• Turkish maritime authorities report that another tanker sailing from Russia to Georgia - the MIDVOLGA-2 - has been targeted 80 miles off the Turkish coast. But Ukraine - unlike in past attacks - has said it had nothing to do with this particular incident and that it may have been a Russian provocation aimed at provoking a negative response from Turkish officials. According to Putin, in response to the tanker attacks, Russia will increase attacks on Ukrainian ports and ships calling at those ports. So here is the possible pretext.
• The SBU has detained a British instructor who came to Ukraine in 2024 ostensibly to train Ukrainian soldiers. According to investigators, he was actually working for Russian intelligence: gathering information and supplying the weapons used to kill Demyan Hanul, Iryna Farionova and Andriy Parubiy.
• A Russian sabotage group tried to slip through the ruins of Myrnohrad under the cover of fog. A group of Russians broke into a ruined house in the centre of Myrnohrad, but was detected by a Ukrainian drone. Ukrainian troops took advantage of the poor visibility and quietly surrounded the Russians, who surrendered without resistance.
• Trump gave Maduro until last Friday to leave Venezuela with his family. According to two sources cited by Reuters, it was the expiration of the deadline that prompted Trump to announce the closure of Venezuelan airspace on Saturday.
• The U.S. suspended some arms shipments to Ukraine and cut off one of the direct lines of communication with German generals who were coordinating aid to Kiev. The information came from German General Christian Freuding in an interview with The Atlantic magazine.
• November set a new record for the number of attacks on Russian refineries. According to Bloomberg, August held the previous record with 12 attacks. Now Ukrainian forces have set a new record: at least 14 attacks on Russian oil infrastructure.
• Putin met with the head of Russia’s Federal Prison Service, who told him that more than 90% of Russia’s convicted prisoners are now “employed.” He forgot to add that in the Russian military.
• The Russians complain on their channels that Ukrainian artillery is decimating Russian supplies to Pokrovsk, making things difficult for the troops holding positions in the city.
• According to a Russian internal poll, 83% of Russians feel war fatigue, 56% want an immediate end to the war and support for its continuation has dropped to just 23%.
• The payment service Wise has started blocking the cards of Russian and Belarusian citizens who do not have permanent residence or citizenship in an EEA country.
• In recent weeks, Ukrainian military intelligence drones have been striking valuable pieces of Russian air defence equipment in occupied Crimea on an almost daily basis.
• The Russian State Duma ratified an agreement that allows Russia and India to send their troops and military equipment to each other’s territory.
• One person was killed and five others injured in a Russian attack on a nine-storey apartment building in Kramatorsk.
• Putin said that if Europe starts a war with Russia, Moscow will soon have no one to negotiate with.
• Italy approved a 12th military aid package to Ukraine. However, its contents remain secret.
• The Russians cannot start their Porsches today because of software blocks.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Putin’s video
• Russians ran to take pictures in the centre of Pokrovsk
• Minus Russian air defence
• Minus the Kadyrov base in Chechnya
• Ukrainian air raid
• Minus eight
• Americans in Moscow

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Gentry Beach, a college classmate of Donald Trump Jr. and a donor to his father’s election campaign, is currently in talks to acquire a stake in a Russian gas drilling project in the Arctic if the project is removed from the sanctions list. Another Trump donor, Stephen P. Lynch, paid $600,000 this year to a lobbyist close to Trump Jr. to help him obtain a Treasury Department license to buy the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Those who claimed before Trump’s election that Trump would pursue “transactional politics” were thus essentially correct. I just dare say that even they did not know that Trump’s ‘transactional politics’ meant that he would sell out the entire civilised world and its security to totalitarian states without blinking an eye in exchange for billions for himself and his loved ones. Anyway, this is also happening this:

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• Another meeting between the US and Ukrainian delegations is scheduled to take place in America today. Rubio, Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Kushner will attend the meeting on behalf of the American side. According to Axios, the Americans want to resolve all “territorial disputes” between Ukraine and Russia today so that they can present the plan to Putin on Tuesday. But Ukraine has no “territorial disputes” with Russia. Russia illegally occupies Ukrainian territory.
• Today, Ukrainians hit another tanker from Russia’s shadow fleet with a naval drone. This time, however, it was extremely far away: off the coast of Senegal. After the hit, the tanker M/T Mersin started to take on water quickly and by now it will probably be somewhere on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
• Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, resigned her parliamentary seat after being accused of helping to lure 17 South African men to fight for the Russian army in Ukraine.
• A Russian plan to build new icebreakers for operations in the Arctic has collapsed because replacing foreign components has proved too costly given the sanctions in place against Russia.
• The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee is now investigating Trump and Pete Hegseth for possible war crimes. Both are also now under investigation by the House and Senate.
• According to Bloomberg, Russia and India are expected to discuss the possible purchase of fifth-generation Su-57s and S-500 air defense aircraft during Putin’s planned visit.
• One person was killed and 19 others injured in the Russian attack on Vyshorod. Kiev regional governor Mykola Kalashnyk said that one child was among the injured.
• On 28 November, the Russian Ministry of Justice designated Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable organisation”, effectively banning it from operating in the country.
• Ukrainian military intelligence carried out a successful bomb attack on a group of Kadyrovs who had made a business of reselling fuel in Berdyansk.
• The Ukrainian military said it was testing new means to neutralise Russian KAB guided aerial bombs, having already destroyed nearly 100 since September.
• In Scotland, families hosting Ukrainians have begun receiving official letters informing them that financial support for refugees will be discontinued.
• The Ukrainians announced that they had succeeded in pushing the Russians out of Ivaninka in the Dnipropetrovsk region. In doing so, they liquidated 53 occupiers and captured 19 others.
• A soldier who returned from Ukrainian captivity shot dead seven of his comrades in Russia. He is currently on the run.
• The Polish President cancelled his meeting with Orbán because of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s visit to Moscow.
• No tankers are currently docked in Novorossiysk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the Kadyrovs
• Clearing the road of Russian drones
• A Ukrainian ground drone waited for a Russian attack vehicle.
• Hunting
• Tanker M/T Mersin
• Ivanivka
• How the Kadyrovs ended up in a minefield
• Status of Russian motorized units
• The Russians wanted to plant a flag
• Vyshorod after the Russian air raid
• Bingo!
• The Russians are demolishing Rodynske

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Last night, the Ukrainians carried out - according to some analysts - one of the largest airstrikes on targets in Russia. Explosions have been reported at three Russian military airports, for example: Saratov, Engels and Rostov. Russian energy infrastructure, including the Saratov oil refinery, was also hit. Explosions have also been heard in Smolensk and Saky in Crimea, for example. Ukrainian drones also again hit the Beriyev plant in Taganrog. The total extent of the damage caused by the overnight airstrike is not yet known. Of course, Russian official sources are keeping the successful hits under wraps, so there is nothing to do but wait for videos from Russian civilians, who always immediately share them enthusiastically. And, of course, for satellite images. But in the meantime, there is more news:

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• Frustration is growing in the Russian ranks at the mounting losses and the small shift in the front. Cases of war crimes by Russian soldiers are therefore multiplying. In recent days, several videos have emerged of Russians shooting handcuffed Ukrainian prisoners. Most recently, another video emerged yesterday of Russians shooting five defenceless, lying soldiers after capturing and interrogating them following a chaotic Ukrainian retreat to sections of the frontline near the town of Hulyaipol. Another video, this time from the helmet camera of a Russian soldier, captured his colleague first bashing the head of a handcuffed Ukrainian prisoner with the butt of his rifle and then shooting him. The crime took place near Hnativka, near Pokrovsk.
• The Baikonur accident has virtually deprived Russia of the ability to send people into space for the first time in 60 years. During the launch of the Soyuz MS-28, the service tower on launch pad 31 collapsed. This is the only place from which crews can be sent to the International Space Station. The astronauts escaped unharmed, but the ramp was severely damaged and some estimates suggest it could take up to two years to repair.
• Trump’s peace plan, reportedly agreed to by Ukraine, was delivered to the Kremlin. An updated version is being kept secret even from European officials. According to one diplomat, the contents are deliberately being kept secret because of the leak of the previous US 28-point plan to the press.
• Belgium is throwing a pitchfork into the EU’s plan to use frozen Russian assets as a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. Politico reports that Prime Minister Bart De Wever sent a letter to Ursula von der Leyen arguing that confiscating Russian assets would prevent peace.
• The head of European diplomacy recalled that Russia has invaded more than 19 countries in the last 100 years, some of them three or four times. None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.
• Russian collaborator and current Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán arrived in the Kremlin for talks with dictator Putin on energy supplies and a peace plan for Ukraine.
• One of the four Ukrainians who were arrested in Poland on suspicion of sabotaging the Polish railroad was carrying a whopping 46 Russian passports and other Russian documents.
• The Russian Safari has more tragic victims. Russians hit an FPV passenger car with a drone in Kherson, killing 34-year-old Alina and her 6-year-old son Vladyslav.
• The European Parliament adopts a resolution demanding that the EU be invited to the negotiating table and that frozen Russian assets be handed over to Kiev.
• Zelensky did not sign Trump’s original peace proposal. Meanwhile, Trump’s deadline for signing it expired at midnight today.
• Moldovan authorities have begun revoking the citizenship of ethnic Russians with Moldovan citizenship who have joined the Russian military.
• A 21-year-old Ukrainian man died in Vienna. His body was found in a burnt-out car. Police do not yet know who killed the man.
• Actors Ivan Trojan and Jiří Dvořák brought ambulances and medical material from the Memory of the Nation collection to Ukraine.
• Italy extradited a Ukrainian citizen suspected of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany.
• Ukraine’s NABU today searched the apartment of presidential advisor Andriy Yermak in the government district.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Another raid on Taganrog
• Russian drones hunting civilians in Kherson
• Russian drone fires Ukrainian anti-drone tunnel
• Reduction of vermin
• Orbán in the Kremlin
• Geran-3
• Bonesetter
• Baikonur
• There you go.
• He tricked them
• Evacuation

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The whole world is currently dealing with a scandal concerning the American negotiations with the Russians to end the war in Ukraine. A leaked recording of a phone conversation clearly shows that US Attaché for Russian Affairs Steve Witkoff coached his Russian counterparts on how to negotiate with Trump on their proposals so that Trump would agree to them. It has also been confirmed that Witkoff warned the Russians that Trump was planning to deliver Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, ensuring that the Russians worked Trump out before Zelensky could meet with him, completely changing the content and tone of the US-Ukraine negotiations at the time. The revelations have provoked a sharp reaction not only among Democrats but also among some Republicans themselves, who now brand Witkoff a traitor and call for his removal and punishment. The core of MAGA, on the other hand, says this is standard diplomacy and calls for harsh punishments for those involved in leaking the records. In parallel, a leaked recording of a phone call between Dmitriev and Ushakov confirms earlier speculation, namely that the “peace plan” presented by Trump is in fact the work of the Russians. And this is also happening this:

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• According to NBC, Ukrainian envoy Driscoll told Ukrainian officials in Kiev last week that Ukraine is facing a desperate situation on the battlefield and is heading for inevitable defeat. He warned that Russia is capable of conducting combat operations indefinitely. Driscoll also argued that the situation in Ukraine will only worsen over time and that it is better to reach a peaceful settlement now than to find oneself in an even weaker position in the future. But military analysts say these claims are simply not true, especially the one about the endless possibilities for Russia, which has long teetered on the edge of an economic precipice. Although the situation on the battlefield is undoubtedly unfavourable for the Ukrainians, the whole thing comes across more as a creation of pressure than an objective assessment of reality.
• Counter-intelligence in Paris arrested a Frenchman and a woman of Russian origin with a French passport. They are accused of “collaborating with a foreign state” and gathering information for Moscow. According to the media, they are believed to be Anna Novikova, founder of the “SOS Donbass” organisation. The second detainee is Vincent Perfetti, the current head of the organisation.
• The Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament, Igor Grosu, announced that Moscow tried to influence the parliamentary elections held on 28 September by massively supporting pro-Russian candidates and even using Moldovan criminal structures to do so. It is the same everywhere.
• Russia claims that it will not make any concessions as part of the peace agreement on the war with Ukraine. Trump has made similar statements, letting it be known that Russia’s concession is already that it will stop attacking and taking more territory.
• The Russians continue to systematically destroy Ukrainian power plants and key energy substations in order to cause the total collapse of the Ukrainian energy system and with it the entire Ukrainian society during the coming winter.
• Defence Minister and Chairman of the National Security Council Rustem Umerov has been summoned to the National Anti-Corruption Bureau to testify in the case of Timur Mindich.
• China is emerging as the big winner in the Russian oil crisis. Sanctions forced Moscow to make significant discounts, saving Beijing billions.
• Ukraine still holds some positions in Pokrovsk, but the Russians are slowly advancing to neighbouring Myrnohrad.
• The Russians attacked with tanks, MT-LBs and six Ulan vehicles near the village of Verbove, but were greeted by Ukrainian FPV drones.
• The United States is negotiating with the Lukashenko regime for the release of at least 100 political prisoners.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Russian VNIIR-Progress enterprise as far away as Chuvashia.
• Witkoff will meet Putin again in Moscow next week.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus the diversionary group
• He was playing dead
• Minus seven
• Russian ambassador confronted with drone that landed in Moldova
• After the Russian airstrikes
• The Trump family’s Bitcoin farm
• Yesterday’s Russian airstrike on Kiev
• Mirage 2000 working in Ukraine
• Failed
• Minus TOS

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Ten years ago today, Turkey shot down a Russian Su-24 after it violated Turkish airspace near the border with Syria. De facto, it was a direct military confrontation between the Russian Federation and a NATO country. Did World War III start then? Did Russia invade Turkey in retaliation? Did it start bombing Turkish bases or cities? No, no and no. Nothing happened. Except that Russia turned tail at the time and never allowed itself a similar provocation against Turkey again. Because Russia has the mentality of a schoolboy who bullies his classmates in class. And he follows two laws: 1) He only ever dares to pick on the weakest. 2) He escalates his behaviour until he himself is slapped in the mouth. Unfortunately, we are desperately short of classmates in that imaginary classroom today who would be willing to keep these kinds of brats in line. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Russian forces broke through Ukrainian defences north of Hulayapol after capturing Uspenivka, a key Ukrainian stronghold on the west bank of the Janchul River. The breakthrough came after Russia concentrated some 40,000 troops on the fortress and fired over 400 shells a day to destroy all fortifications. After capturing Uspenivka, Russian forces advanced along a 15-kilometre front and penetrated as deep as 8 kilometres. The Ukrainian command ordered a withdrawal to the Zarichna River, prioritizing personnel protection over holding problematic positions. The river line offers favorable terrain for continued defense.
• The Russian neo-Nazi and ideologue Dugin wrote on Telegram that Russia will occupy all of Ukraine within two years, thus ending Ukrainian sovereignty for good, because “Ukrainians don’t know what to do with it.” In the text, Dugin also says that Russia has developed a detailed plan to integrate Ukrainian society into the “Russian world,” which includes new textbooks, books, “mass re-education” programs, or new names for Ukrainian regions and cities. According to Dugin, it is still being debated whether Ukrainian, which he calls a “neo-Nazi dialect,” should be preserved or completely erased.
• Ukrainian media report that Washington has handed Kiev a separate draft of new security guarantees. It contains three points: if Russia launches another offensive, the US president will have the authority to deploy US armed forces and intelligence assets. NATO - along with France, Britain, Germany, Poland and Finland - will be required to act in coordination with the United States. The guarantees would remain in place for 10 years.
• Russia destroyed the last functioning power unit in the Chernihiv region after three days of incessant airstrikes. The Chernihivoblenergo facility was hit directly, its equipment completely destroyed. Concrete walls were in place, but the roof was not completed and the entire shelter would take months to complete and cost tens of millions more.
• Other sources confirm: Ukrainian paratroopers from the 425th “Skala” regiment fought their way back into the centre of Pokrovsk and drove Russian forces out of the area around the railway station, the pedagogical school and Sobornyi Park. These actions have so far blocked Russian attempts to regroup and reinforce from the north. Any Russian movement across the railway line now faces heavy casualties.
• Ukrainian media, citing sources, report that negotiations between the Ukrainian and US delegations in Geneva have hit two major obstacles - the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from the Donbas and Ukraine’s membership in NATO.
• An unnamed U.S. official described the situation at the White House: “You tell Trump, ‘I’m going to try to make a deal,’ he says, ‘Great, we’ll see what we can do,’ and that’s about all he knows about it.”
• Russian military channels say North Korean soldiers will be deployed to fight on the Zaporizhzhya front in Ukraine after two months of training in Russia.
• At least 4 people have died in overnight shelling of Kharkiv by the Russian army. Another 17, including two children, were wounded.
• Lithuanian trucks are still not allowed to leave Belarus, although the border crossings have been officially reopened.
• Divers off the British coast discovered a Russian sonar buoy designed to track the movements of submarines.
• German Chancellor Merz rejects Trump’s suggestion that Russia return to the G8.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainian action
• Drones don’t sleep
• Minus the chemist in Crimea
• Russian drone hunt
• Russian air defense missiles hit the house again in Belgorod
• Rus about 97% casualties in his unit
• Ukrainian MiG fleeing from Russian missile

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The former leader of the Reform UK political party in Wales has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison after admitting accepting bribes for pro-Russian talks and speeches in public. Nathan Gill, from Llangefni on the Isle of Anglesey, is alleged to have accepted up to £40,000 from Russians in succession. If only this was the first swallow that would herald similar trials across Europe. There are more candidates here than would be advisable. But now for more news:

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• A 51-year-old woman from Belgorod, Oksana Zubarya, ran the international drug operation directly from Russia. Together with her Spanish accomplice, she chartered the Eser and sent it across the Atlantic under the Panamanian flag to transport 9 tonnes of cocaine. The plan had been carefully planned: the ship was to sail from Panama to Morocco and to be loaded with a huge consignment of cocaine in Venezuela. But the operation failed miserably. One of the crew died during the voyage and the captain was forced to dock in Cape Verde. There, police searched the ship and discovered the entire cargo. A Cape Verdean court has already sentenced 11 Russian sailors to 10-12 years in prison.
• Serbian President Vucic has been accused of participating in a “sniper safari” in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war, in which wealthy foreigners allegedly paid large sums of money to shoot civilians. This is supposedly proven by videos showing him in a vehicle somewhere in Bosnia with a human skull on the bonnet.
• Putin has said that Russia completely occupied Kupyansk as early as November 4, and if Ukrainian officials say otherwise, they probably don’t have up-to-date information from the battlefield. But independent analytical channels are saying the same thing as Ukraine. So Putin, on the other hand, probably doesn’t have up-to-date information.
• MP Nahornyak said that the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) will not support Trump’s peace plan regarding the war in Ukraine: “The adoption of most of the points of the proposed peace plan is only within the competence of the parliament, not the president.”
• France’s top military commander Fabien Mandon issued a strong warning, “Get ready. War may break out in 3-4 years. And we must be prepared to sacrifice our children.”
• The Guardian claims that the US “peace plan” contains several sentences that were almost certainly written first in Russian and then translated into English.
• Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine has met with bipartisan rejection in the US Congress, with Republicans branding it an appeasement of Putin.
• Another video of a Ukrainian drone capturing the moment a Russian soldier shot five defenceless Ukrainian prisoners has emerged on the networks.
• “There is no such thing as a perfect deal, but it needs to be done as soon as possible,” U.S. Army Secretary Driscoll told NATO ambassadors in Kiev.
• The Yaroslavl shipyard, which works for the Russian Defense Ministry, has not paid its employees their wages for nearly two months.
• EUobserver has published a ranking of the most pro-Russian MEPs. Among the top 20 are three Czechs: Dostál, Konečná and David.
• The Yana Kapu power substation in the north of Crimea was targeted by Ukrainian drones last night.
• Orbán announced that Hungary will block any aid to Ukraine from now on.
• EU leaders have sent Washington their proposals for ending the war in Ukraine.
• Ukrainians shot down a Russian Mi-28N helicopter with a drone.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Russians shot five prisoners
• Russian soldiers
• Russian jet drone
• Return of 31 Ukrainians from Belarus
• The drones are working
• Pump near Belgorod
• The work of drones
• Russian drone in Odessa
• Minus the helicopter
• Minus 42
• They barely got out
• Party in the trenches

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US media claim that Trump’s people have been secretly negotiating with the Russians for the past few weeks on the shape of the “peace plan” that US envoys will present to Zelensky today. However, according to media reports, the plan again copies to the letter the Russian demands from 2022: to hand over the Donbas to Russia, to reduce the Ukrainian army to less than half, to rid Ukraine of medium- and long-range missiles and drones, and to legitimise all Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine. Trump’s associates urged Ukraine to accept the US proposal “in light of the new corruption scandal and frontline developments.” Considering that the aforementioned corruption scandal involved people connected to Russia funneling money into accounts in Moscow, it cannot be ignored that the entire corruption scandal, collusion with the Americans, and overall timing makes it appear that Russia was behind everything from the very beginning. But now for more news:

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• The British Ministry of Defence is seriously considering a “military solution” after the crew of the Russian spy ship Yantar pointed their lasers at Royal Air Force aircraft monitoring the ship. Defence Secretary John Healey described the incident as “extremely dangerous” and did not rule out swift retaliation if the ship continued its provocations. In addition, analysts say the Amber is currently sailing near British waters to map the underwater cables and other infrastructure there.
• Threats against schools in Tallinn, Estonia, have appeared on Telegram. The Estonian police assessed them as a Russian psychological operation that posed no real danger and advised the schools to continue teaching without further action. But the local Russian-speaking population, on the other hand, has decided to spread panic, closing Russian-language schools and teaching children remotely.
• Another productive night for Ukrainian remote drone operators: the Ryazan oil refinery was hit, with locals reporting more than 10 explosions. This is the eighth attack on this refinery since the beginning of the year. Electricity substations in the Glushkovsky, Rylsky and Korenevsky districts of Russia’s Kursk region were also hit.
• A group of ten Russians attacked Krzysztof Krajewski, the Polish ambassador to Russia, in St Petersburg today. The Russians carried anti-Ukrainian banners and demanded that Poland end its support for Ukraine.
• In Ternopil, a 20-year-old man was rescued alive from the rubble of a house. However, another 22 people are still missing and the death toll has risen to 26.
• Two tank cars of a freight train caught fire for unknown reasons on the railway on the border of Perm region and Sverdlovsk oblast. Probably the wind…
• After meeting with Zelensky, Erdogan called for a ceasefire and for the two warring countries to return to the Istanbul format of peace talks.
• An Italian court has approved the extradition of Ukrainian Sergei Kuznetsov to Germany, where he is suspected of involvement in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
• Belarus released two imprisoned Catholic priests in exchange for opening border crossings with Poland.
• Poland joins the PURL initiative and provides $100 million for the urgent purchase of US weapons for Ukraine.
• A petrochemical plant exploded in Venezuela as it prepares for a potential US invasion.
• Ukrainian prosecutors charged Russian Lieutenant Yuri Kim with criminal responsibility for the deaths of 17 civilians in Buche.
• The European Union has rejected any peace plan that does not involve Ukraine from the outset.
• Russia is preparing mass deportations of Ukrainians from the occupied territories to Siberia under the pretext of ‘relocation’.
• The US President’s special envoy Keith Kellogg plans to resign in January 2026.
• Russian shareholders agreed to sell 56.15% of the shares of the oil company NIS in Serbia.
• In Lviv, Russian forces hit a warehouse of the company Ukrpost. Around a thousand packages were burnt.
• Ukraine repatriated the remains of another thousand fallen soldiers today.
• Poland will deploy 10,000 troops to defend its infrastructure.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Impact of Russian aerial bombs on Myrnohrad
• First minutes after the strike on Ternopil
• Debris removal continues in Ternopil
• Russians at the front
• On the Russian railway
• Minus two
• F-16 chasing Russian missile
• Attack on the Polish ambassador
• Ryazan
• Kupjansk
• Rescue from the wreckage
• Minus 45

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Semen Boykov, a known disinformer who goes by the nickname “Aussie Cossack” on the internet, complained that staff at the Russian consulate in Sydney were trying to oust him. Boykov has been in hiding at the Russian consulate since December 2022 because he is being prosecuted by Australian police after assaulting a 72-year-old man at a pro-Ukrainian demonstration. The victim was hospitalised with a head injury at the time. Not every sexual deviant, criminal and fraudster is a Russian propagandist, but every Russian propagandist will turn out in time to be a sexual deviant, criminal or fraudster. But now for more news:

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• A spokesman for the Ukrainian forces, Trehubov, reported that the occupiers who had infiltrated Kupyansk had been cut off from the main supply routes. “An operation is currently underway to destroy Russian resistance cells in the northern part of the city. They are thus now in a much worse situation than the Ukrainian troops were ever in, although the development has been positive to say the least.” The occupiers, on the other hand, allegedly claimed to have “occupied the left bank of Kupyansk” and “encircled Ukrainian troops in the Podoliv area”. Ukrainian troops conducted a reconnaissance in the Podoliv area but did not find the enemy there.
• On 17 November, Russia hit the headquarters of the public broadcaster in Dnipro, as well as, for example, the main railway repair shop, with approximately 15 Shahed drones. In doing so, it destroyed television studios and Dnipro’s transport infrastructure.
• The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) seized the properties of Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman, two key figures implicated in widespread corruption in the energy sector.
• Trump is reportedly ready to sign a bill imposing the toughest sanctions on Russia yet, but only if he is left with the power to make final decisions on his own.
• Russian intelligence is behind the sabotage on the Polish railway. Reuters reported this, citing an interview with a representative of the Polish security services.
• The daily Politico reports that the mass deployment of drones has effectively erased the front line in Ukraine and replaced it with a “grey zone” already at least 20 km wide.
• Zelensky announced the resumption of peace talks. The talks will take place tomorrow in Turkey, where Ukraine will present its final proposals to its partners.
• Two Ukrainian nuclear power plants have had to reduce their output over the past 10 days due to Russian air strikes on adjacent electricity substations.
• A 17-year-old girl was killed and 9 others injured in an overnight Russian missile attack on the town of Berestyn in the Kharkiv region.
• A huge fire broke out in Russia’s Omsk region due to an alleged gas leak on an underground section of a major gas pipeline.
• The United States is negotiating with Russia for another exchange of imprisoned citizens.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Pipelines near Omsk
• How did the Russian column end up at Kupjansk
• New Russian Shahed
• Russian PVO vs. Ukrainian missile
• Ukrainian raid on occupied heating plant
• Sting drones at work

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The Russian neo-Nazi unit “Rusich” published another photo of the shot Ukrainian prisoners of war on its telegram channel. Under the photo is written: “This is how you take pictures of an army of winners, not losers.” Immediately afterwards, the unit announced a disgusting contest in which it invited Russian soldiers to take photos of the shot prisoners, with the understanding that it would later select the “best” photo and reward its authors with a cash prize of cryptocurrencies. Both the original photo and the “contest” have, of course, received thousands of enthusiastic responses from “ordinary Russians.” And this is what happened this:

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• The world’s largest aircraft carrier - the USS Gerald R. Ford - has entered the Caribbean Sea and is heading for the coast of Venezuela. Meanwhile, the President of Venezuela has offered the United States an unprecedented deal to avert a potential conflict: He has essentially agreed to give the Americans access to vast oil reserves.
• Ukraine shot down 139 of 176 drones overnight, with the remaining 37 hitting targets in several regions. A solar power plant and other energy facilities were damaged in the Odessa region, dozens of households were left without electricity in the Sumy region, and a Russian aerial bomb injured a man in the Kharkiv region.
• Attention, unpleasant reading! A child’s severed head was found in a backpack in a Moscow pond. According to preliminary reports, the boy was about seven years old. He was strangled, dismembered and his remains were packed in bags and dumped in the Golyanovsky pond in eastern Moscow.
• Someone had damaged the tracks on the main railway line near Rzeszow, which carries military aid to Ukraine. He used explosives detonated remotely with a 300-metre cable from a nearby car park.
• According to Ukraine, the occupation authorities have launched a new forced mobilisation in the Luhansk region, telling local residents that they will only guard local infrastructure, but instead sending them to military training grounds.
• Ukraine and Greece have signed a gas supply agreement. Athens will open a safe overland import route for Kiev - from Alexandroupolis to Odessa. Deliveries will start in January 2026.
• Musk’s “Grok” has started - probably after a series of interventions by X - to offer Russian propaganda in his replies again.
• The Ukrainian General Staff claims that Ukraine hit the base of Russia’s elite drone force, the Rubikon unit.
• The Russians have reportedly partially resumed exports through a damaged oil terminal in Novorossiysk.
• Russia took advantage of the dense fog to cross the river and attack Ukrainian lines in Novo-Pavlivka.
• Poland will resume traffic at two border crossings with Belarus.
• Ukrainians hit a Russian heating plant in the Orel region.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Drone captures another murder of Ukrainian prisoners
• Russian safari in Kherson
• Pokrovsk through the eyes of a medic
• Streets in Cherson
• Drone attack
• Reduction of Russian technology
• Ukrainian drone worked
• Too late to beg for mercy
• Destruction of Russian logistics routes
• Russian soldier on the front
• Good night
• Russian attack
• Minus seven
• Minus the Hurricane
• Minus the Russian
• Russian donkey
• Russian heating plant hit
• Russian losses
• Russia launches air strike

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A massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kiev last night killed six people and injured at least 35, including two children and a pregnant woman. Russia fired a total of 449 missiles, which hit targets across the city and also struck several high-rise apartment buildings. The grounds of the Azerbaijani embassy, located adjacent to the Artem arms factory, were also hit. Part of the fence was destroyed and several official vehicles, the administrative building and the consular section were damaged. The Ukrainians responded with the same weapons. They just did not behave like terrorists without a shred of humanity, morality and conscience. And more in today’s review:

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• At a meeting with students, Slovak Prime Minister Fico said the EU was preparing €140 billion “to continue the war”. When the students tried to correct him, he lost his temper and told them to go to the front. “If you are such heroes in your black T-shirts, and you support this war so strongly, then go there,” Fico said. At that point, the students were getting up and leaving the room. One of them waved a Ukrainian flag as he left.
• In the occupied Kherson region, three collaborators strangled Petr Martynchuk, a resident of the village of Chernanka, in March 2023. Martynchuk openly supported Ukraine and criticised the “special military operation”. A trio of pro-Russian drunks beat him, took him to a field and strangled him with wire and shoelaces. They burned his waist and dumped his body in the woods, where it was later discovered by accident.
• Ukrainian military intelligence reports that by the end of 2025, Russia will bring 12,000 workers from North Korea to factories in Tatarstan to produce Shahed/Geran drones.
• The Ukrainians have carried out a coordinated strike on the Russian port and oil terminal at Novorossiysk, taking up to 2% of total supplies out of the world oil market - at least temporarily.
• Russian forces attacked a market in the port city of Chernomorsk in Ukraine’s Odessa region with kamikaze drones early Friday morning, killing two people and wounding seven others.
• The unidentified drone was spotted over a gunpowder factory in southwestern France on November 12, after similar incidents just two days earlier.
• The US Secretary of Defense announced the launch of a military operation against drug cartels in the Western Hemisphere.
• China threatens to destroy Japan if it engages in a potential conflict on the side of Taiwan.
• The Saratov refinery is completely shut down after repeated airstrikes.
• Ukraine has started mass production of Octopus air defence drones.
• Hungary plans to sue the EU over the ban on Russian gas imports.
• Occupied Donetsk came under heavy drone attack today.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Fico
• SOF at the front
• Raid on Kiev
• Kiev
• Good night
• Action deep in the rear
• Novorossiysk
• Minus the bridge

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According to the investigative organization “Project”, up to one in ten Russian lawmakers may have ties to Russian criminal circles. 63 of the 625 current members of parliament have had serious problems with the law in the past. Of these, 37 have reportedly secured seats in the Duma or the Federation Council to avoid prosecution. What does that remind me of… Anyway, let’s pour ourselves some clear wine: not only do Russian lawmakers have ties to criminal groups to a far greater extent than is publicly demonstrable, Russian politics IS organized crime. But now for some news:

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• A Ukrainian court sent another Russian soldier to prison for 12 years for rape. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the crime took place in March 2022 during the occupation of the village of Makariv in the Kiev region. The commander of a combat vehicle crew from the 9th Motorized Rifle Company of the Russian army broke into a house where a woman was staying with a pistol in his hand, dragged her to a nearby building and raped her there.
• Police in Montenegro arrested Artem Vetrov, a transsexual IT specialist from Ryazan, Russia, who referred to himself on the internet as a “zoosexual named Fossa”. According to the animal protection organisation Kuca zivotinja, Vetrov ran channels on Telegram where he shared pornographic content featuring animals. Vetrov is now likely to be deported back to Russia.
• Kazakh President Tokayev signed a strategic partnership agreement with Russia, which he subsequently commented, “The wisdom of many centuries is reflected in the Kazakh proverb: ‘The neighbour sent by God himself’ - and that is what Russia is for Kazakhstan.” Kazakhstan has also passed a law criminalising so-called “promotion of non-traditional sexual orientation”.
• Dozens of soldiers from Ukraine’s 125th Brigade are missing in the Zaporozhye region. Their families are demanding answers from the army, claiming that there were no backup positions in the section and that evacuation was denied. The commander of one of the battalions confirms the chaos that ensued after the Russians infiltrated the flank of the forward positions.
• Denmark announced its 28th military aid package for Ukraine worth 188 million euros. The package is split between continued Danish aid, the NATO PURL initiative providing US weapons such as Patriot missiles, and fuel supplies coordinated through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency.
• The UK and Colombia have stopped sharing intelligence with the United States over Trump’s strikes on alleged drug-smuggling ships in the Caribbean Sea, which is a war crime under international law.
• Ukrainian guerrillas say Russia is struggling with a shortage of reservists, so it shuffles them from other sections and turns them into combat around Pokrovsk - often without any administration.
• Ukraine’s SBU has uncovered a Russian agent originally from Crimea who planned to carry out terrorist attacks in Kiev’s metro stations and shopping malls.
• Serbian President Vucic: “After analysing the facts, I come to the conclusion that the war between Europe and Russia is becoming more and more obvious. Everyone is already preparing for it.”
• As Venezuela prepares for war with the United States, Russian ally and dictator Maduro has ordered a nationwide mobilisation of military personnel.
• Ukraine has hit the Starobesheve thermal power plant in the occupied Donetsk region, cutting off electricity supplies from Donetsk to Mariupol.
• Zelensky called on the ministers of justice and energy to tender their resignations in light of the new corruption scandal. Both have complied with the call.
• The Ukrainian army announced that humanitarian aid could no longer be delivered to Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.
• The Russian collaborator Yedrich Rajchl was elected deputy chairman of the parliamentary defence committee.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• How did the Russian column end up at Pokrovsk
• Destroying the column
• Russian AI propaganda
• SOF events
• He saw him in time
• Minus Shahed
• Russian field medicine (very sensitive)
• Drone nets in Cherson
• Russia puts two Colombian legionnaires behind bars
• Russian air raid on Kharkiv
• Ukrainian tank in the role of a cannon
• Minus the Russians at Vovchansk

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Ukrainian customs officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 14,487 stamps depicting Hitler and swastikas from Poland into Ukraine. This was reported by the State Customs Service of Ukraine itself. The smuggled stamps were found hidden among used clothes at the Shehyni-Medyka border crossing. Import of similar items is prohibited under the Ukrainian law on propaganda of totalitarian regimes. Why such a shipment was heading to Ukraine is probably well imagined by readers of this page. In fact, the customs officers did not just thwart the smuggling, but probably another attempt by Russian propaganda to portray Ukraine as a state full of Nazis. And this is what happened:

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• Russia has started testing a new measure: when anyone returns to the country from abroad, their SIM card is disconnected from mobile internet and SMS for 24 hours. The same happens if the card has been inactive for more than 72 hours. Russia hopes this will prevent Ukrainians from using Russian mobile networks to control and guide remote drones.
• According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia is ready to negotiate with the United States to resume preparations for a meeting between Putin and Trump. But Lavrov also called the Ukrainian president a “Nazi” and warned that if a nuclear power conducts nuclear tests, Russia will do the same.
• A C-130 military transport plane crashed in Georgia en route from Azerbaijan. Turkish and Azerbaijani military personnel were reportedly on board. The cause of the crash is unknown, but according to videos on social media, the machine broke apart in flight.
• In Moscow’s “Obruchevsky” social care home, a 20-year-old woman suffering from epilepsy and a tendency to self-harm had to have both arms amputated after being restrained with woollen stockings “so she could not hurt herself” - and then forgotten by staff.
• A court in Minsk has branded the website of opposition politician Syarhei Tsikhanousky and all his social media accounts - Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram - as “extremist material”.
• Ukrainian forces withdrew from five villages along the contact line on the Zaporizhzhya front. There is nothing left to defend after incessant Russian airstrikes and shelling.
• India’s five largest refineries, which together account for two-thirds of the country’s oil imports, have not placed a single order for Russian crude for December.
• In the latest survey, 56% of Russians said they were “tired of war”, with another 27% agreeing somewhat. Only 20% of Russians support the continuation of the war.
• Almost all Ukrainian regions are facing long emergency power cuts, lasting up to 12 hours in some places, due to Russian state terror.
• More than 600 soldiers from Russia’s Central Military District are reported to have died as a result of drugs, suicide and alcohol.
• The Russians are again dressing their diversionary troops near Pokrovsk in civilian clothes to infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines.
• In the Ulyanovsk region of Russia, mobile internet has been completely shut down until the end of the “special military operation”.
• About 70% of the artillery ammunition fired by the Russians now comes from North Korea.
• The Russian Federation plans to take in tens of thousands of workers from India and other Asian countries.
• Sudan pulls out of deal to build Russian naval base
• Romania reports that a Russian drone landed on its territory last night.
• Ukrainian drones landed on a refinery near Saratov.
• The Russian refinery Orsknefteorgsintez is on fire near Orsk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian drone with phosphorus warhead
• Three Russian aerial bombs hit a block of flats in Kostyantynivka
• The Russians are torturing their rejectionists
• Russian withdrawal after failed attack at Kupyansk
• The Cubans are learning how to apply the old Russian stranglehold
• Raid on Tuapse
• Russian attack
• Fuel depot in Crimea
• Ukrainian tank in Rodynsky

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The Russian government has approved a decree giving the censorship agency Roskomnadzor manual control over all internet in Russia. The authority can thus arbitrarily restrict access to websites or disconnect the entire internet from the rest of the world. At the same time, the same Russia is funding massive propaganda that tells Europeans that their freedom of speech is under threat and that it is therefore necessary to choose parties that have - to put it mildly - good relations with Russia in order to defend freedom of speech. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Donald Trump has promised that every American will receive USD 2 000 of the money the United States collects from the import tariffs he has imposed. This idea is brought to you by a champion of vocal critics of all things “socialist”. For context, the import tariffs are paid by the importer - that is, the American company. It then passes the cost on to the buyers - the Americans. So Trump is de facto promising to deprive Americans of money and then hand out the same amount to everyone across the board.
• Denmark has taken safety measures on 266 modern electric city buses manufactured in China after it was discovered in neighbouring Norway that China can remotely control the buses or turn them off.
• Orban says he will transform Hungary’s economy for the 21st century with Trump’s help, reorienting it toward space, defense and advanced technologies.
• Ukrainians in the Czech Republic paid CZK 8.2 billion in taxes and levies in the third quarter of 2025 - twice the total amount of aid.
• ANO’s Vondracek announced that his party would push for the repeal of the law on unauthorized activities for a foreign power as one of its first steps.
• Breton fishermen collect old fishing nets and then provide them to Ukraine, which uses them to create protective features against Russian drones.
• Yesterday, the Russians again targeted substations that feed Ukraine’s nuclear power plants.
• The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was connected to a backup power source after six months.
• Ukrainian railways cancelled services to Kramatorsk due to Russian strikes on civilian trains.
• Britain sends troops to Belgium to help protect bases from Russian drones.
• Ukrainian drones hit a heating plant in Voronezh region.
• Europe has begun preparing a 20th package of sanctions against Russia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian engineer on toy mining
• Russian terror in Dnipro
• Missile impact site
• Drone hits apartment block in Dnipro
• The drones are working
• Attack on Russian positions
• Minus the S-400 in Crimea
• Russian losses on the pile
• Logistics reduction
• Recent Russian helicopter crash

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The Russians made a propaganda video in which Russian soldiers in Ukrainian uniforms and with Ukrainian insignia, in broken Ukrainian, threaten the widow of the slain influencer Charlie Kirk that if she criticizes the aid to Ukraine as much as her husband, she will die. It has to be said that such propaganda is extremely effective in MAGA circles because its consumers do not know the difference between Russian and Ukrainian, and the subject of Charlie Kirk’s murder has been tried to be sold by Russian propaganda in the past as “retaliation for Kirk’s words about Ukraine.” And it is, of course, extremely effective in the Czech Republic, where the fifth column likes to forward fabricated videos whose common denominator is the portrayal of Ukraine as a Nazi state in order to justify Russia’s aggressive imperialist and fascist state policy. But there is more:

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• MPs from Germany’s fascist opposition AfD party in parliament have formally asked for answers to a list of questions about Germany’s drone defences, military logistics, the Bundeswehr’s purchasing schedules, and even cybersecurity gaps in various ministries. Coalition MPs and independent observers have described it as a “Kremlin shopping list” and talk of spying for Russia or China, with whom the AfD has a long history of problematic contacts, and which aims to identify weaknesses in its defence against Russia.
• Investigative journalists have revealed that the owners of Russian propaganda media own luxury villas in Tuscany, Italy. It is simply the case that when Russian propaganda accuses anyone of anything, you can be sure that it is mere projection.
• According to Zelensky, Putin is pushing for the conquest of Pokrovsk as soon as possible primarily so that Russia can show the United States - or Trump - that it is capable of conquering Donbas, something Trump has heard in the past.
• While the commercial fascist Okamura demonstratively removed the Ukrainian flag from the House of Commons building, the flag of the Czech Republic flew in the Ukrainian parliament today as a sign of thanks for Czech aid to Ukraine.
• Russia has officially incorporated the occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation and has started mobilising Ukrainians in the occupied territory into the Russian army.
• In the United Arab Emirates, crypto-fraudster and close friend of Telegram owner Pavel Durov, Roman Novak, was murdered along with his wife.
• The Ukrainian military reports that the Russians have reduced the intensity of their attacks on Pokrovsk and are instead preparing new forays into neighboring Myrnohrad.
• A Ukrainian court has sent Russian soldier Dmitry Kurashov, who shot and killed a Ukrainian prisoner of war near the village of Pryutne, to prison for life.
• In Dagestan, a Ka-226 helicopter reportedly carrying workers to a nearby arms factory crashed. There were no survivors.
• The Russians have reportedly moved additional forces to Vovchansk and are likely to try to renew their so far not very successful offensive.
• Russian tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod has announced that it will lay off up to 10% of its workforce by the end of February 2026.
• The Russians hit a liner bus carrying civilians near Kramatorsk with an FPV drone. Several people are injured on the spot.
• Kirill Grekov, Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic, was found hanged today.
• Ukraine has presented Hungary with the requested law to protect the Hungarian national minority.
• Kharkiv is building 38 new underground schools and has plans for seven more.
• Hungary’s MOL announced that it is ready to replace up to 80% of Russian oil.
• The European Union has abolished Schengen visas for Russian citizens.
• Azerbaijan’s army will switch to NATO standards.
• Orban holds talks with Trump in New York.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainians recaptured the municipality building in Pokrovsk
• The Russians unsuccessfully attempted to cross the river
• How the Russian attack went
• Nice shot
• Attack on Russian positions at Lyman
• Russian remote mining by drone
• Captive from Kupjansk
• A deaf-mute Russian tanker on the situation in the troops
• Survivors of the Russian attack
• Partisans burned a locomotive in Russia
• Angelina
• Donetsk
• Russian bombing of Kherson
• Refineries in Belarus
• Minus BMP with ammunition

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In a video on Telegram, a Russian soldier described an action in which he and his colleagues were sent by their commander on a 20km march to capture one of the frontline positions. But there was a catch: the Russians had long held the position. Only 4 people returned alive from the action, including the author of the video. In the video, he is now openly considering killing the commanding officers who sent the unit on the attack. We can only wish him good luck in his future plans. And that’s what happened this:

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• Poland detained Igor Rogov, a former associate of the murdered Alexei Navalny and other Russian opposition leaders in exile. He eventually confessed to the authorities that he had worked for years with the Russian FSB, infiltrating opposition circles and leaking information from them to his assigned agents in Russia.
• Norway will provide €7 billion in military aid to Ukraine next year, Germany €11.5 billion. In total, NATO countries are currently planning to allocate around €60 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
• In absentia, Ukraine has launched a criminal prosecution against Russian commander and war criminal Vladimir Polupoltinnykh, who carved a large letter “Z” into the skin of a Ukrainian prisoner of war’s forehead with a knife.
• An Il-76 plane with Russian soldiers on board was shot down over Sudan yesterday - almost exactly a year since another plane of the same type was shot down over Sudan.
• Belgium closed its airspace today because of unknown drones over a nuclear forces base and diverted all flights to neighbouring Germany.
• Czechoslovak Group acquired a majority stake in MUST Solutions, a Serbian company that manufactures jet engines for unmanned systems.
• Olena Polynina, a volunteer who cared for abandoned animals in the frontline areas, was killed during the Russian shelling of Slavyansk.
• Russian propaganda is now disseminating AI-generated videos and images that purport to suggest that the Ukrainian army is conscripting children.
• Ukraine reports that it has been able to increase the effectiveness of demining activities by 800% thanks to new AI drones.
• The Hungarian Foreign Minister has stated that the current government will not allow Ukraine to become part of the European Union.
• The European Commission stated that Ukraine is now showing “record progress” in key reforms.
• In addition to several civilians, four rescue workers were injured in a Russian air strike on Zaporizhzhya.
• The Russian terminal in Tupas has completely halted oil exports following the recent Ukrainian airstrike.
• The German arms company Rheinmetall started construction of an ammunition plant in Lithuania.
• According to South Korean sources, North Korea has sent an additional 5,000 troops to Russia.
• The Ukrainians hit a heating plant in the Orel region and a 750kV substation near Moscow overnight.
• Russia says it has begun mass production of the Oreshnik missile system.
• The United States has lifted sanctions on Belarusian airline Belavia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Micro-drama directed by drones
• Russian AI videos
• One against three
• Special Forces operation near Pokrovsk
• Helicopter drop near Pokrovsk
• Pokrovsk
• Kstovo
• The magic of the disappearance of the tank
• Kachov Dam
• Affected platform in the Black Sea
• Russian Barracks
• Russians hit civilians with a white flag using an FPV drone
• The Russians probably have a ship on fire
• The recent raid on Tuapse was filmed by Turkish sailors
• Tom Tillis in the US Senate
• Russian FPV drones
• Minus nine
• Drones in buildings
• Minus the ammunition

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The first details of a Ukrainian drone strike on the port of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region have emerged. The port was attacked by a total of 12 drones and, in addition to the terminal itself, four tankers from the Russian shadow fleet were hit and damaged: the Panamanian-flagged POLLUX (40,000 tonnes capacity), the Liberian-flagged CHAI (56,000 tonnes), the Bahamas-flagged COAST BUSTER and the Russian-flagged SATURN. The smaller ship Nord was also damaged. The terminal is therefore likely to be out of service for at least a few weeks, and even if not, foreign vessels are likely to look for a safer alternative. And that’s what happened this:

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• Trump pardoned Changpeng Zhao, co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, who was found guilty in 2023 of facilitating money laundering by failing to put in place sufficient security mechanisms on the exchange, which led to it being used to move money by terrorist organisations such as Hamas, Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, among others. Trump now claims he does not know Zhao. Meanwhile, the Binance exchange is technologically linked to the stablecoin project World Liberty, where more than half of the shares are owned by the Trump family.
• According to Igor “Strelkov” Girkin, the Russian media is trying to lie about how the situations in Pokrovsk and Kupyansk mean inevitable and decisive victories for the Russian army, while the eventual capture of Pokrovsk is said to have no strategic significance and will only mean that the Ukrainians will straighten their defensive line. The Zaporizhzhya front is more important, he said, but the Russians, on the other hand, are failing to make substantial advances there.
• Already, some four hundred Ukrainian troops are using the gamified military “marketplace” Brave1. Soldiers earn “points” for confirmed occupiers taken out or targets destroyed, which they then turn into extra equipment and materiel on a special e-shop where, for example, there are hundreds of types of drones, ground drones and other weaponry to choose from.
• Germany has criticised the European Union for still failing to prevent sanctions on Russian steel from being circumvented.
• The Ukrainians are launching local counterattacks in the Pokrovsky sector, some of which, according to witnesses on the ground, have completely caught Russian elite troops by surprise. At the same time, air strikes are underway against Russian positions in the urban area.
• Serbia has offered to allow the European Union to purchase ammunition and weapons for Ukraine’s needs. According to Vucic, Serbia already produces more ammunition than, for example, France.
• Russia is moving its BARS-Krym paramilitary force from occupied Crimea to the front line in Ukraine.
• Estonians filmed a Russian coast guard ship near Narva flying the Wagner flag.
• Trump has so far refused to supply Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles. He says he wants to let the “situation develop.”
• An oil refinery near Saratov, Russia, was hit again during an overnight airstrike.
• Ukrainian drones/missiles hit a Russian fuel train near Dovzhansk.
• Ukrainians hit a Russian fuel depot in occupied Shakhtarsk.
• Britain delivered a new batch of Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian TV “entertainment”
• Russian Death Road near Pokrovsk
• Colon
• Ukrainian action
• Minus the Russian substation
• Evacuation
• Russian FVP drone strikes
• Interesting camouflage
• …tank?
• Voronezh
• The Fate of the Russians at Pokrovsk
• A cruise ship sank in Russia while on a whale watching trip
• Drones…
• Russian bomb, bouncing off the ground

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The recent damage to the Belgorod dam by Ukrainian drones is causing more problems for the Russians than it initially appeared. The level in the dam is still dropping and water has flooded some Russian trenches and logistics routes near Vovchansk, Ukraine. As a result, the Russian command has ordered the most threatened positions evacuated. But elsewhere, too, the Russians are wading in knee-deep water. Moreover, the mud season is beginning, so it is possible that the most flooded countryside will not be used for moving equipment until at least the first frost. And that’s what happened this:

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• Russia’s State Duma unanimously approved a new law that will allow punishment for those involved in “sabotage, terrorist and subversive activities” from the age of 14. Offenders will face up to 20 years in prison. This is clearly Russia’s response to the wave of sabotage that has crippled Russian rail transport, and the law is intended to serve as a deterrent to further acts of subversion, often perpetrated by teenagers.
• The Russians attempted a raid on Orichiv using 26 tanks and armoured vehicles. The Ukrainians destroyed 22 of them during the move. The Russians then used FPV drones to hit their own soldiers who survived the massacre and wanted to surrender.
• Near the front, Die Welt journalist Ibrahim Naber and his cameraman were wounded by shrapnel when a Russian Lancet drone landed on a vehicle nearby. One Ukrainian soldier was also killed and another seriously wounded in the attack.
• The Russians launched another large mechanised attack north of Pokrovsk. The Ukrainians destroyed 15 of 29 tanks and armoured vehicles. FPV drones subsequently took care of the infantry that had been dropped.
• Russian Sakhalin was without power. Authorities say it was a fault in the power lines. But witnesses say the blackout was preceded by a strong flash.
• According to new information, the Russian helicopter that was shot down yesterday was hit by its own air defense system, which mistook it for a Ukrainian drone.
• The giant floating crane PK-700 Grigory Prosjankin, under construction in occupied Sevastopol, capsized and sank.
• Orbán plans to create an anti-Ukrainian bloc of states within the EU and has invited Slovakia and the Czech Republic to join.
• According to Zelensky, the Ukrainians now face roughly eight times the odds near Pokrovsk.
• The Ukrainians hit the chemical plant near Brnansk with Storm Shadow missiles.
• Russia’s Lukoil has announced it will sell its foreign assets because of losses.
• Ukrainian drones attacked Moscow overnight.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Leopard ran over a Russian drone
• Head of the Russian Central Bank
• Bingo!
• Drone on a string
• Russian thermal power plant takes two hits
• Head of the Orthodox Church in the FSB
• Raid on Russian border guards
• The Russians took ammunition to the front…
• Minus the Russian substation

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Russian missiles and drones landed in Kiev last night on the premises of Optima-Pharm, the largest warehouse of medicines and medical supplies in Ukraine. The entire complex subsequently burned down in a fire. Other missiles hit the coffee roasting plant of Idealist, Ukraine’s largest producer of drip coffee. At this point, the Russian air raids are completely devoid of military meaning, but they are pure terror aimed at breaking the morale of the civilian population. One of the Russian drones also hit an apartment block in Kiev, killing three people and injuring at least 32 others. And this is what happened this:

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• Putin says Russia has successfully tested a new ballistic missile, the Burevestnik, capable of hitting anywhere on the planet while evading air defences. It has a range of up to 14 000 km and can carry a nuclear warhead, according to Putin. Russia is thus probably shrugging its shoulders at the United States to deter it from further arming Ukraine.
• Russia has published a new manual explaining to teachers how to “re-educate” children in the occupied territories, especially those who show anti-Russian sentiment or openly support Ukraine.
• The Ukrainians are taking the gloves off. Ukrainian drones have hit and damaged a dam in the Belgorod region, which, if breached, would flood several villages where Russian army positions are located.
• German police shot and killed a drunk Russian man in a Chinese restaurant in Bielefeld after he threatened to blow up the restaurant and tried to attack police officers.
• Russians killed an 84-year-old elderly woman, Lora, near Kherson as she was taking her goats to pasture. A grenade blast tore off both her legs and she succumbed to her injuries at the scene.
• Lithuania closed its border with Belarus for the second time in two days because of smuggling balloons. The President of Lithuania described it as a hybrid attack.
• The presidential election in Ireland was won by Connolly, a critic of the EU, NATO and military aid to Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s Pravda reports that Russian soldiers are targeting Ukrainian drones and artillerymen in Pokrovsk.
• Lavrov said that Russia is not aware of any violation of the Budapest Memorandum.
• According to a Russian opinion poll, the greatest leaders in Russian history are Putin and Stalin.
• The deputy chairman of the German AfD announced his intention to fly to Moscow for political talks.
• The Ukrainians liberated two more villages in the frontline sector north of Pokrovsk.
• Indian refiners began buying oil in Qatar and Iraq because of sanctions.
• The Russians hit another Ukrainian wind farm near Kramatorsk.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Development at Pokrovsk
• Minus the war criminal
• They didn’t hide
• Russian violent groups on the streets
• Minus the cannons
• Drone hunting
• Minus the drone that attacked the journalists
• Simferopol
• Russian floating crane
• Minus the gas storage
• Minus Grad
• Russian soldier on the situation at the front
• They gave up the drone

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MEP Dostál gave a speech in the European Parliament in which he suggested that life in Belarus is better than in the EU because they have cheap raw materials, food and nobody goes there to protest. It is worth remembering that Dostál has visited Belarus several times in the last year at the invitation of the Belarusian Government and the Belarusian Embassy in the Czech Republic. So he is probably just replicating the arguments prepared by his handlers in the Belarusian KGB. And this is what happened this:

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• The Russians bombed residential areas in Kherson today, probably with Grads. One of the rockets hit a public transport bus, killing Karina, the manager of the local post office. At the same time, the Russian “safari” continues. Today, 60-year-old Inna was murdered by drone as she walked along the river.
• The Ukrainian army reports that it has recaptured the village of Torske in the Lyman sector, eliminating around a hundred occupiers in the process. Russian soldiers are said to have held positions there for so long that most of them had no food, water or ammunition.
• A court in London sentenced six people to prison terms of between 8 and 17 years for setting fire to warehouses of humanitarian aid for Ukraine ordered by Wagner’s group.
• A Russian Su-30 fighter jet and an Il-78 refuelling aircraft violated Lithuanian airspace, penetrated about 700 metres into the country’s interior and remained there for about 18 seconds.
• In the Zhytomyr region, a 23-year-old man from Kharkiv detonated a grenade in his hand during a document check. Four people died on the spot and more than ten others were injured.
• A Russian court sent a 21-year-old Ukrainian woman, Yana from Melitopol, behind bars for 14 years for running a channel called “Melitopol is Ukraine” on Telegram.
• Russia is preparing legislative changes that would allow reservists to be called up in arms to defend Russian infrastructure from Ukrainian drones.
• Britain will produce Octopus drone-interceptors for the Ukrainian military, at a rate of about 2,000 per month.
• Russia reports that yesterday’s explosion at an ammunition factory in Kopeysk, near Chelyabinsk, left at least 23 dead and 19 injured.
• Ukrainians intercepted a video feed from a Russian FPV drone showing a Russian drone chasing farmers near Kherson.
• British intelligence says North Korean soldiers are also involved in the missile shelling of Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s central bank will move to slightly devalue the currency next week.
• France will provide Ukraine with more Mirage 2000 fighter jets and Aster missiles.
• Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev has arrived in the US.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Theatre in the bomb shelter in Cherson
• Minus the fuel depot near Luhansk
• Dam near Belgorod
• Iraqi detained
• Sabotage of railways in Russia
• Minus the radar at Belbek base

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A Russian airstrike claimed at least six lives overnight today. In Kiev, an adult woman, a six-month-old baby and a 12-year-old girl were killed when a Russian shell landed on their family home. Elsewhere, a married couple died. In the morning, the Russian airstrike continued and one of the drones landed on a kindergarten in Kharkiv. 48 children were fortunately able to evacuate to the nearest shelter, but the strike still claimed one life. In total, Russia launched 433 projectiles, including 28 missiles, and the targets were again primarily Ukrainian energy installations: power stations, substations, gas infrastructure. Or pure state terrorism by Russia. It should be added, however, that Ukraine decided a few weeks ago to reciprocate with the same medicine, and so, for example, another Russian substation near Bryansk was burnt to the ground tonight. And this also happened:

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• The Ukrainians recaptured the village of Kucheriv Yar north of Pokrovsk. This would suggest that the Ukrainians managed to eliminate one of the “pockets” where the encircled Russian troops were located. This is confirmed by some Ukrainian channels, which say that about 50 Russians surrendered there.
• Ukraine and Sweden have signed an agreement on Ukraine’s intention to buy 100 to 150 units of Swedish JAS 39 Gripen E fighters. Zelensky also revealed that Ukraine is already training its pilots on these machines, and the Gripens themselves could reportedly arrive in Ukraine as early as next year.
• An appeals court upheld a seven-month suspended sentence for genocide denial for teacher and unsuccessful candidate for the Staciola party, Martina Bednara. She must also complete a media literacy course. Congratulations to Jindřich Rajchl for another “successful” defence”.
• Sikorski to his Hungarian counterpart: “I hope that your brave compatriot, Major Hungarian, will finally succeed in destroying the Druzhba pipeline, which supplies Putin’s war machine, and that you will start importing oil via Croatia.”
• Yesterday, two European refineries that process Russian oil exploded: Petrotel in Ploiești, Romania, and Danube in neighbouring Hungary. Authorities say the incidents are unrelated.
• Romania, in cooperation with Poland, has arrested several Ukrainians who were planning an arson attack against the headquarters of Ukraine’s Nove Posta in Bucharest on Russia’s orders.
• Ukrainian drones destroyed two small sport aircraft that the Russians were using to hunt kamikaze drones, following the Ukrainian model.
• Ukrainian drones hit the Sarapul plant in Saransk, where, among other things, explosives are manufactured for the Russian military.
• Russia has handed the United States its terms for ending the war. It is virtually the same as before.
• According to Reuters, the plan for a meeting between Trump and Putin has been cancelled for now and postponed indefinitely.
• The son of former Belarusian presidential candidate Ivan Uss has fallen in the Russian ranks.
• The Czech Republic will provide Ukraine with a satellite equipped with surveillance radar (SAR).
• Ukrainian drones hit a refinery near Makhachkala in Dagestan.
• Russia organised an exercise of its nuclear triad.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Solovyov
• Minus the substation at Belgorod
• Minus the Russian weapons depot
• Minus Rus during the ambush
• Minus BMP
• Kiev
• Precision piloting
• Minus PVO
• Minus Shahed
• At Pokrovsk
• Dmitriev
• Minus 20
• Minus two tanks
• Wiretapping Colombians

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Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zhuravlyov, whom Germany suspects of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline, will not be extradited to German authorities and Poland will also halt his prosecution. In the reasons for the ruling, the judge reminded that Russia is at war with Ukraine and therefore actions against Russian infrastructure cannot be seen as sabotage, but as a legitimate means of defence. The public prosecutor agreed with the court’s reasoning and will not appeal the verdict. Polish Prime Minister Tusk had earlier expressed the same view, saying that the extradition of Zhuravylov was not in Poland’s interest. It is good to see that justice can prevail. And yet this is happening this:

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• Ukrainians’ trust in Western partners plummeted in October, according to the latest poll. Only 38% of Ukrainians now view the United States positively, while only 58% trust Europe. What people who oppose aid to Ukraine may not realise is that if Ukraine were to lose and its trust in the West were to sink even further, Russia would not only subsequently attack Europe with its military, but would find hundreds of thousands of disillusioned and wronged Ukrainians in its ranks, with modern weaponry, training and industry and mineral wealth capable of feeding an absolutely devastating war for the entire European continent.
• New videos and updates on map feeds confirm that several groups of Russians have managed to infiltrate the centre of Pokrovsk and fortify themselves in the train station building and surrounding houses. A drone video then captured a situation in which the Russians shot several civilians who had probably unknowingly approached their positions.
• The Council of the European Union has approved a plan to end Russian gas imports. Countries should gradually look for other suppliers and then a complete ban on Russian gas imports will come into force from January 2028.
• Latvia has launched a criminal prosecution against a Russian living in Latvia who was caught on video insulting a Ukrainian on a train in Switzerland and threatening to kill him.
• Bulgaria’s foreign minister has indicated that if peace talks in Budapest go ahead, Bulgaria is likely to allow Putin to fly over its territory.
• A company from Blansko is sending 10 cogeneration units to Ukraine to help stabilize the power system ahead of the coming winter.
• Ukraine plans to buy up to 25 Patriot batteries from the United States in stages over the next few years.
• Lieutenant Vasily Marzoev, son of Arkady Marzoev, commander of the 18th Russian Army, was killed on the Zaporizhzhya front.
• A few days ago, the Russians used guided aerial bombs with rocket boosters against Ukraine for the first time.
• U.S. Secretary of State Rubio would like to meet with his Russian counterpart Lavrov on Thursday.
• Around 7 million people demonstrated against Trump in hundreds of locations across the United States.
• Russia has rejected Trump’s proposal to stop the fighting and freeze the line of contact as it stands today.
• According to Zelensky, Russia’s state budget will end up in a deficit of around $100 billion this year.
• Spain is another country that has reported movement of unknown drones over critical infrastructure.
• Austria will close its last reception center for Ukrainian refugees at the end of the year.
• Russia has again postponed its plan to conquer the rest of the Donetsk region, this time until March 2026.
• The EU plans to approve a 19th package of sanctions against Russia on 23 October.
• Czech volunteer Tadeáš Kubina was killed at the front.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Survivors of war crimes
• Kiev
• Pro-government demonstrations in Hungary
• Geran over Kiev
• Minus the Russian infantry
• Chelyabinsk
• Ukrainians evacuating civilians
• The poncho didn’t help them
• Minus two

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While political commentators in the US are furiously debating whether the tie Pete Hegseth wore to the meeting with Zelensky was “patriotically” American or more like a Russian tricolour, Russian channels are clear: Russian propagandists and high-ranking officials are praising Hegseth for his choice of attire. The technical term that best describes what happened is “dog whistling” or dog whistling: a type of communication that - like a dog whistle - is heard only by those for whom it is intended. And that’s what happened this:

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• Just one phone call with Putin and Trump is again backing down from his plan to provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine - supposedly to avoid escalating the situation. Instead, he called on both sides to stop the war where the front is right now and both “declare themselves winners.”
• There is considerable outrage in the European Union over Trump’s plan to meet Putin in Hungary. Senior European officials call it a “political nightmare” and an “insult to Europe”.
• The IAEA has agreed a local ceasefire to allow the Russians to repair high-voltage power lines to provide external power to the occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
• Parents of Russian conscripts complain that their sons were allegedly beaten and tortured to force them to sign a contract with the Russian army and go to fight in Ukraine.
• A migrant from Somalia stabbed 17-year-old Ukrainian Vadym Davydenko to death in a refugee centre in Dublin, Ireland.
• Ukraine disabled a Russian naval drone in the Black Sea for the first time since the start of the war.
• “No Kings” protests against Trump’s authoritarian rule are taking place across the US.
• Two days ago, the Russians hit another Ukrainian training site. The number of casualties is unknown.
• Austria joins a new package of sanctions against Russia.
• 164 drones and missiles/shots were flown into Ukraine last night.
• Montenegro lifts visa-free regime with Russia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• A Czech who fought for Russia and is now in the RDK
• Razie in Latvia
• After the Russian airstrike
• Russian evacuation stopped by drones
• Ukrainian artillerymen repel drones
• Russian Stormtroopers
• Russian attack destroyed
• Ukrainian event in Pokrovsk
• Minus the turtle tank and crew
• Women in the Russian ranks
• BOOM!
• Archive: toreck
• Did not pass

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Russian soldiers report that their commanders are forcing them to withdraw their applications for the Kremlin’s “Time of Heroes” program. This was created by Putin himself to motivate people to join the army. Combat veterans can then sign up for the programme and get positions in the civil service through it. But this is clearly another big lie of the Putin regime. Those who have applied are now being forced to withdraw their application, and they must send proof in the form of a screenshot to their commanders or risk being transferred to the Northern Military District, where soldiers now have a very short shelf life at the front. Classic Russia. But there are other news:

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• Journalists from about 30 U.S. media outlets, including pro-regime outlets such as Fox News and Newsmax, have returned their press credentials from the Pentagon in protest of a new order from the head of Pete Hegseth that requires all media outlets to clear all outlets with the Defense Department and not to reach out to any of its employees without its knowledge. The only media outlet that has agreed to the new rules is the disinformation outlet OANN.
• The Russian pro-regime singer performed in North Korea at the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Korean Communist Party’s rule, where he sang, among other things, his new hit “Sun of Korea” dedicated to the dictator there, who, according to the lyrics, “is leading the country to a bright future.” Michal David rag…
• Denmark has allocated another 170 million euros for military aid to Ukraine. Norway will allocate $200 million for the purchase of US weapons for Ukraine under the PURL. The Netherlands will finance the production of drones directly in Ukraine with 90 million euros.
• According to Budanov, Ukraine would have regained most of its territory long ago if Russia had not been backed by some other undemocratic countries. Without drones from Iran and missiles or shells from North Korea, he said, Russian lines would have collapsed long ago.
• Russian channels are spreading a false report about an alleged triple murder by Ukrainian soldiers in the Sumy region. The disinformation uses a false report from a non-existent police investigation.
• Russians repeatedly attempt to cross the Oskil River near Kupyansk. According to an army spokesman, on average 7 out of 10 Russian soldiers are killed before they reach the other side.
• Trump says Indian PM Modi promised him to stop buying Russian oil. Meanwhile, Indian refineries are bracing themselves for a similar move.
• US media believe the end of the Middle East conflict will mean Trump will focus much more on putting pressure on Russia.
• Britain is introducing further sanctions against Russia’s oil sector. They will affect Lukoil, Rosneft and other ships in Russia’s shadow fleet.
• Germany will move two Eurofighter 2000 fighter jets to a base in Poland to help patrol NATO’s eastern flank.
• Parts of the Volgograd region are without power due to an overnight Ukrainian drone strike on a 500kV substation there.
• The Ukrainians have pushed the Russians out of most of Oleksiivka in the Sumy region. The mood among Russian bloggers is at a low ebb.
• The Italian Supreme Court has halted the extradition of a suspect in the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline to Germany.
• At least 1,076 Cuban citizens whose identities have been verified are fighting in Russian ranks.
• Trump gave the green light to the US CIA to conduct covert operations in Venezuela.
• Ukrainian drones hit a Russian oil refinery near the town of Kstovo.
• 357 missiles/shots and kamikaze drones flew into Ukraine last night.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Queues for petrol in Siberia
• Russian base visited by HIMARS
• Drone ambush
• Trump’s AI video
• Russian raid on the mine
• Minus

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More and more signals suggest that Putin is indeed preparing Russia for a much bigger war than the conflict with Ukraine. The Russian government has approved a request from the Ministry of Defense to allow the deployment of reserves abroad without the need to declare a general mobilization, both in the context of “defensive tasks,” “anti-terrorist operations,” and foreign conflicts. Meanwhile, the decision to call up the reserves will be solely in the hands of dictator Putin, and deployment in combat may take up to two months. But there is [more] going on(https://www.facebook.com/dnesnaukrajine.cz/posts/pfbid026mwRui2FwzHch3JodsBDE5yEW2DtbVGHvwpVUrgtdo4X37oAGzrNLi7sXi5dNuQjl):

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• Moldova has adopted a new military strategy that identifies Russia as the biggest security threat. In response, Peskov threatened, “This is a continuation of a very confrontational approach towards our country, a hostile approach. In our opinion, the current leadership of Moldova is making a serious mistake. They believe that the policy of building relations with Europe involves complete antagonism towards Russia. One state has already made this mistake. And it has not done that state any good.”
• According to satellite imagery, Russia has almost exhausted its “stores” of tanks. Before the war, satellite data indicated that there were about 7,342 usable tanks on Russian bases. Now the images show only about 92 operational T-72B tanks, while thousands of other tanks of various models have been dismantled for spare parts or are apparently beyond repair.
• According to NATO Secretary General Rutte, the Russian Navy has virtually ceased to exist in the Mediterranean, and there is one lone broken-down submarine that is now “limping home to base.”
• The Russians hit two UN World Food Programme vehicles carrying humanitarian aid in the form of food, medicine and other essentials in the Kherson area. Fortunately, none of the workers were injured.
• According to the Washington Post, China has significantly increased its exports to Russia of certain components used in the manufacture of drones: optical fibres, batteries and others.
• According to a poll, 75% of Ukrainians believe in a Ukrainian victory. But at the same time, almost 42% admit that Ukraine has insufficient combat capabilities.
• The Russians attempted a fairly large mechanised attack near Pokrovsk after a long time. They lost at least 18 armoured vehicles and dozens of soldiers.
• The Russians have already expropriated at least 25 000 houses in the occupied territories under a decree on ‘properties without a known owner’.
• A Ukrainian cargo ship sank off the coast of Bulgaria after its hull was breached. All ten crew members were rescued.
• The Russians hit a hospital building in Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs during a night raid. At least 6 people were injured.
• Western leaders say it is possible that Russia will attack NATO to give China a free hand in its potential invasion of Taiwan.
• 96 Russian kamikaze drones flew into Ukraine last night. Their primary target was energy infrastructure.
• The Belgorod and Kursk regions found themselves without electricity supplies overnight after the Ukrainian airstrikes.
• Poland detained some spies who tried to pass data on the Russian opposition in exile to the Russian FSB.
• Lukashenko says that if Ukraine acquires Tomahawk missiles, it will lead to nuclear war.
• The Ukrainians have hit the Tavriyskaya heating plant in occupied Crimea and also the Kafa substation.
• Lukashenko has announced that he is ready to conclude a favourable agreement with the United States.
• The Russians again bombed the already repaired gymnasium in Chuhuiv.
• Russian exports of petroleum products fell by 17.1% month-on-month in September.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Kazancik about Czechs
• Bingo!
• Russian attack destroyed
• A Russian soldier has gone astray
• Precision work
• Minus Smerch
• Minus seven
• Vanguard
• Lightning evacuations from zero
• Professional work
• Ukrainian tank at the front
• He didn’t escape
• Russian losses
• Fuel storage minus

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Jindřich Rajchl stated on the programme “Máte slovo” that he is in contact “with the award-winning Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko”, who, according to him, brings real news from Ukraine. Diana Panchenko is indeed originally a Ukrainian journalist, but in the service of Russian propaganda. For years before the invasion, she had been unacknowledgedly promoting Viktor Medvedchuk’s pro-Russian ‘Pro Life’ coalition, then fled to occupied Ukrainian territory in mid-2022 and has been living in Dubai since 2024 at the latest, from where she produces Russian propaganda, for which she is on numerous sanctions lists and is being prosecuted for treason in Ukraine. I would like to believe that Rajchl’s open admission that he is in contact with a propagandist of contemporary fascist Russia has not escaped the Czech intelligence and other authorities. But unfortunately I don’t believe it much anymore. So let’s move on to the next news:

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• Trump on Truth Social: “The Ukraine Impeachment Scam (me!) was a much bigger Illegal Fraud than Watergate. I sincerely hope the proper authorities, including CONGRESS, are looking into this case! Adam “Schiffty” Schiff was so lying and corrupt. So many laws and protocols were broken, just completely broken!!!” What is he talking about? I guess only his advancing dementia knows.
• Russian MP Zhuravlev claims the State Duma has approved retaliatory strikes on US cities if Ukraine uses US Tomahawk missiles against targets in Russia. It is not clear whether Zhuravlev is telling the truth, but the key is to interpret his words as follows: Russia clearly believes that Ukraine will indeed get Tomahawks, and at the same time is very frightened of it.
• In one of Kiev’s upscale bars, an altercation led to a shootout that left several injured. The reason for this was allegedly harassment of the ladies by one of the guests who, after a confrontation, pulled out a pistol and started shooting.
• Ukrainian railways had to stop several trains, including the Budapest-Kiev service, due to bomb threats. Of course, no bombs were found during subsequent searches.
• According to one Ukrainian intelligence officer, Denis Yaroslavsky, top brass in the British military believe that Russia will start a war with the Baltic states or Poland by 2028.
• The Serbian president complained that Russia had offered his country a new gas supply contract for a limited period only, and only until the end of this year.
• According to the Washington Post, the United States is assisting Ukraine in strikes on Russian refineries and other targets on Russian territory.
• The Russians have completely disconnected the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant from the Ukrainian grid and are testing a connection to the Russian grid.
• The Ukrainians have hit the Smolensk aircraft plant where Ch-59 and Ch-101 cruise missiles are produced.
• Lukashenko says Ukraine must start negotiating for peace or risk disappearing as a state altogether.
• NATO warships are currently tracking several Russian submarines in the Mediterranean.
• According to the poll, 75% of Americans support further sanctions against Russia.
• The Netherlands has delivered another minesweeper to Ukraine.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian attack on UN convoy
• Dagestan
• Russian evacuation
• The drones are working
• Russian losses
• Ukrainian drone with machine gun
• A Russian transporter found a mine
• Russian losses
• Russian attack stopped
• Syrian president in Moscow

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Russia has launched another major raid on Ukrainian power plants, substations and other key elements of the energy system. At one point there were 465 kamikaze drones and 32 missiles/shots in the air. A total of nine Ukrainian regions were at least partially without electricity, but also without hot water, including parts of Kiev. In this context, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister has rightly reminded us that attacking civilian targets without any apparent military justification is a war crime and that creating unbearable living conditions for the civilian population beyond what is necessary to wage war is a form of genocide. State terrorism it is in any case. But in addition to the energy infrastructure, Russian missiles and drones have also hit the purely civilian infrastructure: residential homes. One of the Russian drones landed on a block of flats in Zaporozhye, killing a seven-year-old boy - coincidentally, the son of a soldier who had recently been released from Russian captivity. Dozens of other people were injured. And this also happened:

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• Spanish authorities intercept a submarine off the coast of Galicia with 3.6 tonnes of cocaine that had crossed the Atlantic from Latin America. Building such a vessel is no mean feat. Analysts therefore point out that the cartels are likely to have found allies - where else but in Russia. Since the 1990s, there have been cases of similar narco-submarines being seized with equipment and documentation in Russian. In 2020, a 32-metre-long submarine was seized in Colombia, also with various components and equipment in Russian. Moreover, according to analysts, these submarines are strongly inspired by the design of the Soviet Project 865 Piranha-class small submarines.
• Journalists from Spiegel, De Tijd and Direkt36 claim that Hungary has in the past attempted to recruit European Commission staff for espionage. The agent, codenamed “V”, was supposed to extract information about negotiations and even offer bribes for cooperation with Hungarian intelligence in private meetings between 2015 and 2017. Since his cover was blown, he has been working as a lieutenant colonel at the Hungarian National Information Center. According to journalists, two other Hungarian agents were active in parallel. The European Commission is preparing an internal investigation into the report. NATO has previously restricted intelligence sharing with Hungary.
• In his meeting with Aliyev, Putin acknowledged the responsibility of Russian air defence forces for the downing of the AZAL plane, but Putin said that two Russian air defence missiles were fired against a Ukrainian drone that was in the vicinity of the plane and did not hit the plane directly, but only exploded near it. But this is somewhat at odds with the damage to the fuselage.
• Russia has massed some 90,000 troops in the Lyman sector and is trying to build pontoon bridges across the Zherebec River to attack Lyman. Ukrainian drones and artillery are continually destroying the bridges, but at the same time the Ukrainians admit that they are often not building them as fast as the Russians.
• In Russia, one of the MiG-31 drones the Russians use to launch ballistic missiles at Ukraine crashed during a landing. According to sketchy information, its landing gear failed to deploy, forcing the crew to eject over an uninhabited part of the Lipetsk region.
• According to Zelensky, Ukraine has overcome the situation with a shortage of artillery ammunition and now has a slight cushion instead. This is also thanks to the Czech ammunition initiative.
• According to the Taiwanese Ministry of Defence, China is moving additional troops to the vicinity of Taiwan and is rehearsing various blitzkrieg scenarios.
• Trump promised in a meeting with Finnish President Stubb that the United States would come to Finland’s aid, though he said a Russian attack was unlikely.
• ISW analysts warn that Russia has entered “Phase 0” - a psychological operation to set the stage for a future war with NATO.
• Swedish authorities have fined a man who pasted Wagner Group stickers on the cars of Ukrainian refugees.
• Men in Russia are now not allowed to leave the country unless they receive an electronic draft order.
• China is supplying Russia with FSTH-LD02 and FSTH-LD03 compact anti-drone radars.
• Ukrainians hit a refinery and a fuel train in Kurgan, Russia.
• Donald Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian video advises how to protect yourself from drones
• Trump on Witkoff
• Former fuel depot in Crimea
• Russian drone with AI system manoeuvres to avoid being shot down
• Feodosia
• Russian search for mines
• After the counterattack at Zaporozhye
• The Russians made a warehouse out of a mall
• Air defence over Odessa
• Medics at the front

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According to analysts, Russia will escalate its escalations against the West because it needs to end the war as soon as possible. The Russian economy has been on the verge of collapse for some time, Russia’s demographics are not helping and sanctions are pushing Russia down. According to Le Monde, the Russian economy is entering its worst phase since the war began. And so Russia is threatening to take more and more risks to dissuade the West from helping Ukraine, which is probably its only chance of ending the war in its favour. It will therefore be crucial to press the incoming government to continue to support Ukraine and not to weaken European unity any more than Fico and Orbán are doing. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Polish PM Tusk: “The problem is not that Nord Stream was blown up. The problem is that it was built at all.” He also announced that it is not in Poland’s interest to extradite the suspects for prosecution in another country.
• In Novosibirsk, the premises of Zavod Pripoyev, which manufactures and repairs electronic components such as microcircuits, particularly for the Russian military industry, are on fire.
• The Russian pro-regime singer Shaman will perform in occupied Donetsk, Mariupol and Makiivka. Posters entice visitors to receive free bottled water as a gift.
• Russia has ratified a new defence treaty with Cuba and is threatening the Americans with a new Cuban crisis, i.e. to deploy its offensive systems on Cuban or Venezuelan territory.
• The French arms company Thales, which supplies Ukraine with missiles for destroying small drones, reports that there have been numerous cases of unknown drones flying over its plant in Belgium.
• The Russian aviation authority has warned that Russia could lose up to half of its transport fleet: 339 aircraft and 200 helicopters, due to sanctions and a lack of spare parts.
• The Russians shelled Chernihiv overnight with missiles and drones. The power system, fuel depots, railway infrastructure and other facilities were hit.
• Babiš has indicated that he will not end the ammunition initiative for Ukraine launched by his predecessors. But he will reportedly demand that the initiative be kept under review.
• Estonia has sent its own soldier, a member of its militia who secretly collaborated with the Russian FSB, behind bars for five years.
• Finnish police arrested two “tourists” from Hong Kong who were flying a drone over the presidential palace in Helsinki.
• Partisans blew up train tracks in the Leningrad region. As a result, a fuel tanker train derailed.
• A Russian court decided to expropriate the private mobile operator Lanta on charges of “extremism”.
• The Russians hit the Ukrainian food processing plant Yofi Hummus. It had to completely stop production after the attack.
• Russia warned the West of “serious consequences” if Ukraine received Tomahawk missiles.
• Taiwan has announced that it is prepared to completely stop buying Russian oil if the EU requests it.
• Indian refiners are now reportedly paying Russia for crude oil primarily in Chinese yuan.
• Ukraine has increased gas imports by 30% due to Russian airstrikes.
• The Ural Turbine Works site in Ekaterinburg is on fire.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The Floater
• Russians on the Estonian border
• Ukrainian air raid
• Russian anti-drone system
• Minus the Russian anti-drone system
• Awesome reflexes
• Minus the Marines
• Belgorod without power
• Russian raid on the energy system
• Destruction of a Russian missile by Ukrainian air defense
• Nice shot!
• Russian mechanized attack dismantled by drones
• Russian drone in Odessa
• Russian soldier on the state of the army
• Minus Grad
• North Korea

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Russia came under a major coordinated attack by Ukrainian drones last night. 8 airports had to suspend operations due to the airstrike. The Russian power grid was hit near Belgorod, leaving 24 villages and approximately 40 000 people without electricity. Near Bryansk, Ukrainians hit a Russian heating plant. In Feodosia, Crimea, an oil terminal was hit, through which fuel flows to Crimea, but also to the occupied Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Near Nizhny Novgorod, one of Russia’s largest explosives factories, the Sverdlov factory, was hit. In Tuapse, a refinery was hit. In Saky, drones attacked an airbase. And in Berezniki, 1,600 kilometres away, a chemical plant and a water purification plant were hit. In short, Russia is betting on a war of attrition, but it is not at all certain that it can win it. And that’s what’s happening this:

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• Japanese Prime Minister: ‘The ceasefire negotiations between the United States and Russia remain very worrying. If the world accepts border changes achieved by military force, the global order will collapse. Without guarantees of Ukraine’s security, any ceasefire will only give Russia time to prepare for another invasion. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was the third largest nuclear power in the world. Under the Budapest Memorandum, it agreed to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Russia has broken this promise. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is reinforced by its military alliance with North Korea. We must also not forget the joint military operations carried out by China and Russia around Japan in recent years. Japan faces an extremely harsh geopolitical reality because it is neighbouring three authoritarian nuclear powers - Russia, North Korea and China. Depending on the terms of the ceasefire, the security risks to Japan could increase further. We need to get rid of excessive dependence on others and continuously strengthen our own defence capabilities. NATO is also showing signs of instability, underlining the growing awareness that diplomacy without military power is weak.”
• Ragor, the Ukrainian commander, said the reason the Russians’ success rate in shooting down Ukrainian reconnaissance drones has recently jumped is because Israel sold Ukraine the powerful RADA radar at the beginning of the year, and six months later sold the same radar to Russia.
• Russian military blogger Romanov claims that the current average lifetime of a Russian infantryman is 12 days from the time he signs a contract with the military and arrives at the training site. This is because the Russian command uses contract soldiers as an expendable force to throw against Ukrainian fortified positions.
• Merz was the first European statesman to declare that Russia was probably behind the unknown drones flying over European infrastructure.
• Former German Chancellor Merkel criticized Poland and the Baltic states for allegedly blocking negotiations with Putin to end the war.
• A Russian drone hit a maternity hospital building in Sumy and damaged its roof. Fortunately, people managed to take shelter and no one was injured.
• Since the beginning of 2025, the “I want to live” project has already recorded 281,550 Russian casualties, including more than 86,000 killed.
• Medvedev said that the drones over Europe are meant to intimidate Europe. But he also denied that they were Russian.
• According to Zelensky, Ukraine is now using not only its own drones but also its own missiles to strike Russia.
• Russia’s snout Orbán said Hungary will not accept the euro because he said the euro is collapsing.
• The Netherlands will allocate an additional 55 million euros to help Ukraine.
• Zelensky: “Ukraine will be in the EU. With or without Orban.”

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Ukrainian drones over Rostov
• Minus the drone
• Electro plant in Novosibirsk
• Russian infantry attack at Pokrovsk
• The state of Russian logistics
• Kotovo
• Minus three
• Ukrainian coking plant affected
• Russians shoot down Ukrainian drone

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The KIU project, which monitors casualties in the ranks of Russian officers, already records 7,000 Russian officers who have been proven killed in connection with the war in Ukraine. Specifically, 3 lieutenant generals, 8 major generals, 113 colonels, 317 lieutenant colonels, 672 majors, 1,085 captains, 1,754 lieutenant generals, 1,491 lieutenants, 608 second lieutenants and 949 other junior officers. In fact, there are even more. Congratulations to Russia on a successful three-day operation, and here are more reports:

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• Continuous protests against the pro-Russian government in Georgia are gaining momentum. Today, a crowd of demonstrators broke into the courtyard of the presidential palace. Police are attempting to violently repress the protests. The reason for the escalation of the protests, according to the demonstrators, is another rigged local elections.
• The elections in the Czech Republic are over. The openly pro-Russian parties totally lost the elections. Enough! is completely out of the chamber, and the SPD has fallen slightly despite joining with other entities. In fact, their votes were siphoned off by the first ANO. It is impossible to predict how they will stand on aid to Ukraine.
• Russian kamikaze drones hit two passenger trains waiting at the station in Shostka near Sumy. More than 30 people were injured. Most of them were probably trying to evacuate the town, as there is no running water and no electricity or gas after several days of continuous air strikes.
• The Russians hit a pig farm in the Kharkiv region with two dozen kamikaze drones in a night raid. Some 13 000 pigs died as a result.
• Ukrainian special forces report that their drones hit a Russian Project 21631 Bujan-M class missile ship on Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia.
• The Russian military is now offering a recruitment bonus of 6 million rubles, or approximately 1.5 million crowns, to contract soldiers in the Moscow region.
• The Ukrainian army has pushed the Russians out of several small villages on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region, where the Russians have recently infiltrated.
• 17 Russian kamikaze drones hit the premises of a bottling company in Odessa. Around 250 000 bottles of AZNAURI cognac were destroyed.
• The G7 held an emergency meeting because of yesterday’s massive airstrike on the Ukrainian energy system.
• Ukraine accused China of providing satellite data to the Russians for targeting missile attacks.
• Ukrainian drones again hit one of Russia’s largest refineries: the KINEF in the Leningrad region.
• Munich airport had to be closed again because of unknown drones.
• Ukrainian media: the Czech elections were won by an anti-Ukrainian party.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian propaganda about Poles
• Beetle invasion in Sochi
• A drone has hitched a ride on a Russian air defense missile
• Minus the Russian ground drone with the grenade launcher
• Safari Cherson
• A missile from the Russian Air Defence Forces hit a block of flats in Stary Oskol
• Minus five and eight into captivity
• Ukrainian mother drone
• Minus Russian air defence
• Taliban again in Moscow
• Kharkiv
• Russia and donkeys
• Russian mechanized attack
• You can’t hide at night

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A Ukrainian drone captured a situation on the front in the Donetsk region that confirms the existence of Russian orders to shoot anyone who refuses to advance. In the video, a pair of Russians activate a Ukrainian anti-personnel mine, killing the first soldier on the spot. The second soldier then attempts to retreat to safety, but after walking several hundred metres and encountering his fellow soldiers from the second-string unit, he is immediately shot by them, and they continue forward on their own. These orders have been known about for months, if not years. Numerous intercepts of Russian radios prove it. But this is the first time such an incident has been completely captured on video. And now more news:

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• Raiffeisen has again failed to sell its branch in Russia. The Russian authorities did not allow the sale because they feared that the new owner would immediately find himself on Western sanctions lists. At the same time, it has been reported that Putin plans to nationalise the assets of companies such as Raiffeisen, UniCredit, PepsiCo and Mondelez if Russian assets are seized in the West.
• During a night raid, a Ukrainian train carrying fuel was hit by one of Russia’s Geran drones. According to investigators, the drone was equipped with night-vision cameras and an Nvidia Jetson Orin mini-processor capable of evaluating real-time video and guiding the drone to its target.
• Polish PM Tusk: “Viktor Orbán believes there is no war going on. I believe there is a war going on. And the question is whose side you are on in this war. We know on whose side Poland stands, we know on whose side NATO and Europe stand, and unfortunately we probably also know on whose side Viktor Orbán stands.”
• Last night, Russia hit with several missiles an electrical substation in Slavutych, which, among other things, supplies electricity to Chernobyl. The site went into blackout after the air strike, including in the sarcophagus that surrounds the destroyed reactor 4.
• Details have emerged on Russian networks of a recent incident in which a Russian helicopter was shot down by a Ukrainian FPV drone: the pilot in the wreckage of the helicopter burned to death and six paratroopers with him. The navigator and mechanic escaped with serious injuries.
• The IAEA has warned that the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is critical. The plant is still without an external source of electricity and there is therefore a risk that the nuclear fuel could melt down.
• Polish authorities have detained a man they believe was preparing to sabotage the site in Poland, Germany and Lithuania using explosives and drones. The explosives were hidden in corn cans.
• The Wall Street Journal reports that the United States will begin providing Ukraine with intelligence for strikes on Russian critical infrastructure and various military targets.
• According to the Ukrainian General Staff, there are about 20,000 North Korean workers in Russia who are involved in assembling Geran/Shahed drones in Tatarstan, among other things.
• The head of the Ukrainian General Staff let it be known that Ukraine will respond to Russian attacks on the power system and cause a blackout in Moscow.
• Norway detained 8 people after an unknown drone appeared at another airport. All 8 are Chinese citizens. Authorities have already charged one of them with a crime.
• The Russians complained on their channels that the soldiers had inflated bandages, tourniquets and other medical supplies made in 1977.
• Ryanair CEO O’Leary criticised the EU for not shooting down suspect drones over its airports.
• The floods in Odessa have already claimed ten lives. 380 people, on the other hand, have been rescued.
• The Chernihiv region has gone on planned power cuts due to Russian airstrikes.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Russian losses
• MiG-29 shoots down Russian drones
• Minus TOS
• A surprise for the Russian soldier
• Russian missile debris in Lviv
• Russians observe their downed helicopter
• Minus the Russian
• Russians hit a gas station near Chernihiv
• Slavyansk after Russian airstrike
• A bird flies out
• The Russians killed their own soldiers who wanted to surrender
• Russians: We are not leaving our own, but…
• Kstovo
• Technopolis in Moscow
• The reality of the front
• Boom!
• Snappr

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Ukrainian intelligence successfully assassinated a group of Russian guardsmen, killing a Rosgvardia lieutenant colonel and two of his associates with an explosive planted under a car. But the most interesting thing about the whole operation is that the assassination took place in Tambukan in the North Caucasus. This confirms that there is no place, and there will be no place in the future, where Russian war criminals can rest easy for the rest of their lives. And now for more news:

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• Asked by a reporter to comment on Ukrainian claims of drones violating Ukrainian airspace from Hungary, Orbán first denied everything, but then said, “Even if they were our drones, so what? Ukraine is not a sovereign state and should stop behaving like one.”
• In a trumped-up trial, Russia sent a man from occupied Melitopol behind bars for ten years on bizarre charges of planning an attack using “chemical weapons of mass destruction” supplied by Ukraine and NATO states in collaboration with a pair of pensioners.
• The activists released some of the documents purporting to show meetings between Konecny and Turk and officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where they were to discuss, among other things, the potential purchase of grain stolen by the Russians in the occupied territory of Ukraine.
• Ukraine recently banned two Hungarian pro-Russian media outlets from operating on its territory. In response, Hungary banned several Ukrainian media outlets, including the Hromadske project, which also reports from Ukraine in English.
• Poland has detained another of the men wanted in Germany on suspicion of sabotaging the Nord Stream pipeline. He is believed to be Vladimir Zhuravlyov, a diving instructor originally from Ukraine.
• The Czech Republic has banned Russian diplomats from entering the country who do not have the appropriate accreditation to operate in the Czech Republic. The measure applies to holders of Russian diplomatic and service passports.
• France, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands together paid Russia €34.3 billion for LNG from 2022 to June 2025, more than their total aid to Ukraine over the same period.
• Poland passed a law extending the funding of Starlink terminals in Ukraine with Polish money. Ukraine uses an estimated 29,000+ of these terminals.
• The Russians launched another daylight raid on Dnipro. The city reports at least 20 people injured. At least one person did not survive the raid.
• Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Denmark for a joint exercise to pass on to the Danes their experience in fighting drones.
• Orbán: “This war has already been decided. Russia has won. The only question remaining is when and with whom Russia will make peace.”
• The EU will allocate another €2 billion from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets to buy drones for Ukraine.
• Ukrainian drones hit and destroyed another S-400 radar in occupied Crimea.
• RT aired a report on how Russia has revived the cavalry. As in, actual soldiers on horseback.
• Norway reports movement of an unidentified drone over its North Sea oil rig.
• The Russians hit a church in Kherson while mass was in progress.
• Denmark has called reservists to active duty.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus Grad and crew
• Chinese in Russian ranks
• Bingo!
• Russian howitzers going to Ukraine
• Russian Stormtroopers
• Russians mistreat Ukrainian recruited in occupied territory
• Hattrick!
• Russian refinery near Orenburg
• Drone ambush
• Russian air strikes on substations
• Cleaning by Russians
• Minus Shahed
• He surrendered
• Ukrainian action in Sumy region

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Czech authorities, primarily the Center for Online Risk Research, are currently investigating a network of hundreds of fake TikTok accounts that spread anti-government and especially pro-Russian narratives ahead of the upcoming elections. They use content generated by artificial intelligence, have a combined number of millions of views and - unsurprisingly - primarily support anti-system parties that themselves spread Russian propaganda in our country: Enough!, SPD and PRO. But this is not news. Russia has successfully repeated the same tactics in many elections around the world, installing pro-Russian governments and local governments (e.g. East Germany, Hungary, Slovakia…) and influencing politics to the detriment of the citizens themselves (Brexit). In the United States, Russia has twice won elections for Donald Trump, and here in the Czech Republic, it caters to the massive reach of anti-system parties and personalities, which then rival even the world’s biggest personalities on the same networks in terms of reactions and views. Social networks have become the modern pub, square, television and living room, yet the state does not protect them in the same way as the real ones. And explain this to legislators when the average age of MPs is around 45 and even 55 or more for senators. But now for some news from the East:

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• Parliamentary elections are held in Moldova. According to the current President, Sandu, Russia is trying to take control of the parliament and make the country a forward base for attacks and sabotage in Europe. A court has banned the candidates of two pro-Russian parties ahead of the elections. The leader of one of them lives in Moscow, while the leader of the other is on numerous Western sanctions lists because of her ties to Russia. Once again, the elections are accompanied by classic Russian shenanigans: some consulates in the West, where some of the diaspora vote, have had to be closed because of bomb threats. On the other hand, in the East - in Russia and Belarus - pro-Russian parties are organising buses to take people to polling stations, which is illegal under Moldovan law. It has also been reported that Moldova has closed bridges with the pro-Russian enclave in Transnistria.
• Russia sent 595 reconnaissance and kamikaze drones to Ukraine overnight, as well as 48 missiles or cruise missiles. Ukrainian air defence forces managed to shoot down a total of 611 objects. The primary targets were the Kiev region and the capital Kiev, which reported at least 4 dead after the airstrike, including a 12-year-old girl. One of the apartment blocks in the town of Petropavlivska-Borshchahivka virtually ceased to exist after the airstrike. The Kiev Cardiology Institute was also hit, where one of the patients and his nurse were killed. In total, Ukraine reports around 70 wounded.
• Hungary’s Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar tried to school Ukraine yesterday by reminding them that Hungary “gave up two-thirds of its territory for the sake of peace” after World War I, and suggested that Ukraine should now consider giving up a fifth of its territory. For the record, Hungary, or rather Austria-Hungary, was the aggressor in the First World War, and the loss of territory was thus a de facto punishment for starting the war.
• Leaked information from Russian channels revealed that on August 7, the Russian military ship Vyshnyi Volozhyok (Project 21631, Buyan-M class, carrying Kalibr missiles) collided with the civilian tanker Nazan in the Temryuk Bay of the Azov Sea while trying to evade Ukrainian naval drones. The collision damaged the hulls of both vessels.
• Ukraine completely closed Kupyansk to civilians, including firefighters or rescue workers, because of the Russian advance. Only military personnel are now allowed in the city. Residents are urged to evacuate immediately on foot to checkpoints outside the town where teams made up of police and volunteers are waiting.
• A Ukrainian airstrike today hit a heating plant and electricity substation in Belgorod, Russia, causing a power outage in at least part of the city. Somewhat ironically, diesel and petrol generators are being used to provide temporary power. But at least gasoline is currently almost non-existent in Belgorod.
• Russia, together with the United States, is planning another foreign ministerial meeting during the autumn. It is said to serve the purpose of “removing obstacles in mutual relations”.
• Lavrov lied again when he said, “Arabic is not banned in Israel, Hebrew is not banned in Arab countries and Iran. But Russian is banned in Ukraine.”
• Sweden and Finland have deployed an assault brigade on the border with Russia.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• The perfect end to the Russian concert on the front
• Minus Leontyev
• Barabbas
• How?
• They didn’t hide
• Yaroslavl
• Unpleasant
• Buchanka didn’t pass
• Punishment of deserters in the Russian army
• Russian POV
• Zelensky visited wounded soldiers

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The Russian warship Alexander Shabalin has been - presumably for several days - moving with its location systems turned off off the coast of Denmark. According to analysts, its suspicious activity may be related to the sighting of unknown drones over Denmark, which has repeatedly shut down Danish airports. In addition, drone sightings have now been reported by Sweden and also by Germany - just outside the Danish border. The authorities are not yet clear who is behind the actions, but according to the Danish police, it is a coordinated action by professionals. And this is what happened this:

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• Zelensky announced that Ukraine had detected reconnaissance drone activity near the border with Hungary. According to him, the Hungarians are probably monitoring Ukrainian industrial facilities in western Ukraine. Hungary responded to the accusation by saying that Zelensky was going crazy.
• A truck and a train carrying fuel from Belarus collided at a railway crossing near Smolensk. As a result, the train derailed and a massive fire broke out at the scene, engulfing most of the tankers. The Russians are talking about targeted sabotage.
• Russia paid priests from the Moldovan Orthodox Church to help spread Russian propaganda among the faithful ahead of this weekend’s elections. The priests packaged payment cards for accounts full of money during “spiritual pilgrimages” to Moscow.
• The Serbian president announced that the country is facing a severe winter. Its energy giant, NIS, is half-owned by Russia’s Gazprom and has been sanctioned by the United States. And they could lead to an energy and economic crisis.
• In Moscow, St Petersburg businessman Alexander Fedotov fell out of a window. At the same time, United Russia politician Vitaly Kapustin was found dead in a forest near Krasnodar. Both are said to be suicides.
• According to the Washington Post, Russia is supplying China with weapons for a potential invasion of Taiwan, such as various vehicles and systems that can be dropped from the air by parachute.
• Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has said that a potential peace deal favorable to Ukraine is on the table. He also warned that if Ukraine rejects it, Russia will seize all of its territory.
• Tigran Koesayan, husband of the propagandist Simonyan and vocal supporter of the genocide of the Ukrainian people, will never wake up from his coma. He died today.
• The Polish Foreign Ministry has called on Polish citizens to leave the territory of Belarus immediately and by any means because of the tense security situation.
• The US fighter jets took off opposite two Russian Tu-95 bombers escorted by two Su-35 fighter jets heading for Alaska.
• A Russian spy ship, which is probably tasked with mapping undersea cables, moved from the Baltic Sea to the coasts of Britain and Ireland.
• According to Petr Pavel, the Czech Ammunition Initiative has already secured over 3.5 million pieces of artillery ammunition for Ukraine.
• According to Reuters, technicians from China helped the Russians start production of attack drones at the Kupol plant.
• According to South Korean intelligence, North Korea will soon develop its intercontinental missile.
• A Russian kamikaze drone crashed in close proximity to the Zaporozhye NPP during a night raid.
• Ukrainian drones hit three gas stations near occupied Luhansk overnight.
• Russians hit a mall in Kharkiv. There are at least 4 wounded on the spot.
• Ukrainians again hit the Afipsky refinery near Krasnodar with drones at night.
• Germany reports movement of unknown drones near the border with Denmark.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Helicopter shot down
• Pro-Russian demonstration in Moldova
• Ukrainian action in the Russian rear
• Sevastopol
• Minus the fuel depot in Crimea
• The destruction of the Russian column
• Drone vs. Helicopter
• Queues for petrol

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Trump after meeting with Zelensky at the UN: “Having seen the military and economic situation in Ukraine and Russia and fully understanding it, and having seen the economic problems it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and GET all of Ukraine back in its original form. In time, with a little patience and financial support from Europe, and especially NATO, restoring the original borders from where this war started is a very real possibility. Why not? Russia has been fighting a pointless war for three and a half years now, which real military power should win in less than a week. That’s no glory for Russia. In fact, it looks like it is a “paper tiger”. When the people living in Moscow and in all the big cities, towns and districts all over Russia find out what is really going on because of this war, that it is almost impossible for them to get gasoline because of the long lines that are forming and all the other things that are going on in their war economy where most of their money is going to fight Ukraine, which has a great spirit and is getting better, Ukraine might get its country back to its original form and who knows, maybe even go further! Putin and Russia are in BIG economic trouble and now is the time for Ukraine to act. In any case, I wish both countries all the best. We will continue to supply weapons to NATO so that NATO can do what it wants with them. Good luck to all!” And this is what happened this:

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• During the attacks on the village of Shandryholove near Donetsk, the Russians stormed a house, shot a couple and used their minor daughter as a human shield against Ukrainian drones. Moreover, intercepts of Russian radios show that this was not an impulsive decision, but that the soldiers were acting on the direct orders of their commander, who had ordered all civilians to be shot. It is worth remembering that only those inhabitants who wanted to live under Russian occupation remained in the frontline villages. But Russia kills everyone indiscriminately.
• Today, around midday, the Ukrainians attacked the Russian port of Novorossiysk with air and naval drones. The Russians claim to have disabled at least five naval drones. So far, there is no known damage caused by the naval drones. But the videos show that the flying drones were more successful by a whisker. They damaged infrastructure in the port and debris from the downed drones caused fires across the city. The local oil pipeline was also allegedly damaged.
• According to Gubarev, former governor of the occupation administration of the “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Russia is losing the war with Ukraine. According to him, Russia is making slight advances during the offensive, but at the cost of huge losses, a situation that suits Ukraine. At the same time, he says, Ukraine is bent on causing the collapse of Russia’s energy sector and economy with its attacks on refineries.
• Former US Florida police officer John Mark Dougan fled to Moscow in 2016 to escape prosecution, was granted political asylum, and - it is now coming to light - is actively working with the Russian GRU to develop and use AI models to run “troll farms” creating fake news sites spreading Russian propaganda throughout the West.
• All 32 NATO member countries have agreed to use all military means to defend against and deter enemies, for example shooting down Russian drones as well as fighter jets that violate the alliance’s airspace.
• According to Zaluzhny, the cost of the Ukrainian foray into the Kursk region was too high. But proponents argue that it deprived Russia of the initiative and delayed its own offensive for several months.
• The Ukrainians cleared the village of Novotoretske, north of Pokrovsk, of Russians. This continues to cut off Russian reinforcements and supplies to the town of Dobropillya.
• The Ukrainians hit the Russian training site of Molkino near Krasnodar and destroyed several Iskander missile launchers as well as one Pancir-S1 air defence system.
• Ukrainian drones hit and damaged two oil pumping stations in the Volgograd region, Kuzmichi-1 and Zenzevatka.
• The European Commission promises that by 2027 the EU will completely stop taking Russian energy.
• In Bashkortostan, Russia, the Salavat refinery burns after another Ukrainian drone strike.
• Poland has announced that it will open some border crossings with Belarus tonight.
• A Ukrainian RAM-2X drone destroyed a Russian Pancir-S1 air defense system at the Luhansk airport.
• Russians shell Kherson with cluster munitions from North Korea.
• A Russian FPV drone killed a 70-year-old elderly woman in Nikopol.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus 54 Russian soldiers
• Russians demolish Kherson with airstrikes
• The Russian convoy was crossing the river
• Punishing disobedient Russians
• The Russians are going to the front
• The interest of the Russian
• The Russians have captured the Magura drone
• After the raid on Zaporozhye
• The poncho didn’t work
• Minus the tank
• The recent attack on Tuapse
• The Russian road to the front
• Drones are doing

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Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski did not mince words at the UN today. He told the Russian delegation: “We know very well that you do not care about international law and that you are basically incapable of peaceful coexistence with your neighbours. Your radical nationalism is an uncontrollable desire for domination - the worst form of chauvinism. This will not end until you realize and admit that the era of empires is over and that your empire will never return! And every blow struck by the Ukrainian soldiers - God bless them - brings that day closer.” At the same time, he strongly warned Russia: “The next time a Russian flying object violates our airspace and we shoot it down, don’t come here to complain. We warned you.” And that’s what happened this:

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• The BBC and Bloomberg have independently uncovered a Russian plan to influence the upcoming elections in Moldova. This includes, of course, a massive disinformation campaign, for which the Kremlin is recruiting Moldovans themselves in return for payment, as well as stirring up unrest in the streets. Meanwhile, Moldova has detained 74 people who have allegedly been trained in Serbia in the use of firearms and in provocation tactics.
• Moscow came under heavy attack from Ukrainian drones today. Some residents took shelter from them in metro stations. All Moscow airports had to be closed as the drones flew in from multiple directions. Explosions could be heard in the very centre of Moscow.
• Macron explained why France is not considering seizing Russian assets. According to him, the West must respect international law, and it is international law that does not allow confiscation of property. If the West did resort to this, he said, it would plunge the whole world into chaos.
• The Ukrainians carried out a very successful raid on the Foros Sanatorium in occupied Crimea, which was being used by the Russians for the convalescence of officers and meetings of senior officials of the army and the occupation administration. One of the victims was reportedly the occupation head of Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo.
• Pearson Sharp, a “journalist” from the US disinformation media outlet OAN, is currently in the occupied Donbas, where he is filming material for OAN and Russian media pushing Russian propaganda about the causes of the war.
• Trump promised that the United States would come to the aid of the Baltic states if Russia attacked them. But at the same time, his administration has cut off defense funding to the very states bordering Russia.
• Ukraine’s SBU has detained several individuals who were working with the Russian FSB to export Ukrainian SIM cards used in kamikaze drones for mobile network guidance to Russia.
• Russia has pleaded with the UN for the West to lift some sanctions on Russian aviation. They fear that without Western parts for repair and maintenance, transport aircraft will drop like flies.
• Two German Eurofighters took off opposite a Russian Il-20M aircraft that was flying over the Baltic Sea without its identification on.
• On Russia’s side, Jerzy Tyc, a Polish citizen who chaired the so-called Kursk Association, which aimed to restore Soviet monuments in Poland, fell.
• Austria’s OMV fired a top executive after Austrian intelligence revealed his active ties to the Russian FSB.
• Zelensky announced that Ukraine will begin exporting its naval drones and some other weapons.
• Ukrainian drones destroyed two Russian Be-12 Chaika seaplanes and one Mi-8 helicopter in Crimea.
• Russian propagandist Simonyan announced that she is being treated for cancer. Her husband is still in a coma.
• The Russians are now occupying several villages on the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Interesting videos

• Updated RuAF losses
• Minus aircraft in Crimea
• More strikes on Salavat refinery
• The Russians hit a substation in Kharkiv
• Theatre in the Russian kindergarten
• Russian raid on the training ground
• Trefa
• Survivors of the Russian attack
• Tuapse
• The Russians are tracking the drone attack
• Port intervention
• Minus two Tor systems
• Queues for petrol in Crimea
• Russian scrapyard
• The Russians at Sum

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