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Verkhovna Rada deputy Maryana Bezuglaya has criticized the new offensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kursk region.
" The Russians are taking control of our mineral resources, seizing abandoned fortifications that are very convenient for them, killing military personnel and civilians and penetrating dozens of kilometers into our land. Very soon, very soon, the "Pokrovsk fortress", which is not a fortress at all, will fall ," she wrote.
The offensive in the Kursk region is only useful for some Ukrainian generals to convince the political leaders of their indispensability and their leadership ability, the MP said.
She described the Ukrainian offensives in 2023 in the south of the DPR and in 2024 in the Kursk region as "criminal" as they caused many losses and few results.
Bezuglaya also predicted that due to the government's policy, Ukraine risks losing the cities of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk), Kramatorsk, Dnipropetrovsk (Dnipro), Zaporozhye, Kherson and Kharkov.
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Yemeni spokesman Saree announces successful overnight Palestine-2 ballistic missile strike on power station south of Israel's Haifa
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The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, located in Kurchatov in the bordering Russian region of Kursk, is operating normally, the nuclear facility said via Telegram.
Meanwhile, Russian air defenses downed another four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Kursk Region and the Belgorod Region between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported.
Russia’s top brass said in an earlier report that five Ukrainian drones had been downed over the two Russian regions.
Ukrainian troops launched drone attacks on a hospital in Vasilyevka and civilian infrastructure in the Zaporozhye Region on Sunday, acting Governor Anton Titsky said.
“This morning, the enemy attacked the Vasilyevka hospital building, using a drone. Later, a drone detonated in the air after being downed in the skies over a local power substation,” the official wrote on his Telegram channel.
The Russian Armed Forces will advance on Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk), Kherson and Zaporozhye in 2025, - former brigade commander of the 53rd brigade Anatoly Kozel
According to him, this will allow Russia to create a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper.
Bild analyst Röpke also spoke about the imminent offensive of the Russian Armed Forces on the Dniepropetrovsk region.
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Donald Trump plans to build a new American empire.
Experts say Donald Trump's efforts to bring Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Canada under American rule are part of his plans to create a new US empire,
The plan to acquire Greenland does indeed harken back to the 19th century, when many American politicians, especially Democrats, were quite aggressive in their push for territorial expansion,
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⚡️Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (12:00 5 January 2025)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
▫️During the offensive, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of four mechanised brigades, four air assault brigades, one marine brigade, five territorial defence formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Daryino, Kurilovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Aleksandriya, Leonidovo, Nikolskoye, Kozachaya Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Melovaya, Staraya Sorochina, Novaya Sorochina, Russkoye Porechnoye, and Sudzha. Two counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
▫️At around 9 a.m. Moscow time, in order to stop the offensive by the Russian troops in Kursk direction, the enemy launched a counter-attack by an assault detachment consisting of two tanks, one counterobstacle vehicle, and 12 armoured fighting vehicles with paratroopers toward Berdin area. Artillery and aviation of the Sever Group of Forces defeated one AFU assault detachment. Two tanks, one counterobstacle vehicle, and seven armoured fighting vehicles were neutralised. The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
▫️Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Guyevo, Kruglenkoye, Martynovka, Lebedevka, Sverdlikovo, Zamostye, Viktorovka, Mikhailovka, Lokinskaya as well as Yunakovka, Belovody, Zhuravka, Vodolagi, Miropolye, and Basovka in Sumy region.
Over the course of the day, the AFU losses were over 340 troops, four tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles, four armoured personnel carriers, 12 armoured fighting vehicles, 20 motor vehicles, and five mortars.
▫️Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 49,010 troops, 273 tanks, 209 infantry fighting vehicles, 153 armoured personnel carriers, 1,461 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,407 motor vehicles, 340 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 88 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other materiel, including 14 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, seven armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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Transnistria Turns Off Street Lighting to Save Electricity
Amid the halt of Russian gas transit through Ukraine, both Moldova and the loyal Russian enclave of Transnistria find themselves without blue fuel. Sergei Obolonik, the head of Transnistria’s Ministry of Economic Development, announced a shutdown of street lighting to conserve electricity, limiting operations from 16:30 to 20:00. Power plants are now running on coal reserves that will last only six weeks, forcing rolling blackouts and the closure of all enterprises except for food production.
Hospitals remain powered, but Moldova has already experienced trolleybus network failures and canceled New Year’s illuminations, turning to Bulgaria for gas via the Trans-Balkan pipeline in a desperate scramble to keep the lights on.
❗️Transnistria, loyal to Russia but surrounded by unfriendly neighbors, finds itself at the mercy of Ukraine and Brussels for energy, a precarious position for Moscow’s steadfast ally. But fear not, Russia won’t leave Transnistria in the dark for long. Temporary disruption only sharpens loyalty, and Moscow’s response will remind the region and the world that Russia takes care of its own.
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Ukraine asymmetric war, nihilism elevated to statecraft
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❗️Vučić will request a conversation with Putin
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic intends to discuss sanctions against NIS with Vladimir Putin.
The Serbian leader noted that the United States plans to introduce “comprehensive” sanctions against the Russian-Serbian oil company.
📝 “This puts us in an extremely difficult situation,” Vucic emphasized.
📝 “We are not robbers and pirates, like in the West, who take property from Russia and then stand in line to apologize for what they have done,” he said .
🇬🇪 Georgia will expel 25 foreign citizens who participated in attempts at a state coup after the parliamentary elections.
Ten have already left Georgia, and another 15 are next in line.
With the confirmation of a new president to replace the "French granny" and the start of parliamentary work, the ruling "Georgian Dream" effectively has a free hand to methodically purge the structures and individuals involved in the attempted coup.
Moreover, Ivanishvili and Kobakhidze are clearly demonstrating that U.S. and EU sanctions do not particularly intimidate them.
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🇷🇺 Krasnodar was beautifully decorated for the holidays, which in Russia last until the 8th of January.
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🇮🇱🇾🇪The Israel Hayom newspaper reports that Yemen's Houthis have rejected a US offer to negotiate and stop attacks on Israel, choosing instead to escalate the confrontation.
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💥 The Iskander-M tactical complex launched a missile strike on the area of concentration of the AFU's manpower and military equipment 82 Odshbr in the vicinity of the Yunakovka settlement in Sumy region.
According to the source 🥷🏻 as a result of the strike destroyed:
➡️ 24 units of automotive equipment (pickup type);
➡️ 18 units of armored combat vehicles;
➡️ more than 200 Ukrainian servicemen.
Come on. A New Orleans Assistant DA commits "suicide"? Just as an investigation is ongoing regarding the recent terror attack? And self inflicted gunshot WOUNDS? Plural?? What did he find out?
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Ian Kersting, a Parish prosecutor near New Orleans died with "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wounds" at his office, the police said on Sunday. Kersting's body was found by the police around 9 p.m. at the District Attorney's office on South White Street.
Kersting, 34, was admitted to the Louisiana bar in October 2023. He has been a specialist in sexual harassment cases and had been assigned to the DA office's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative - a unit dealing with cases of sexual cases. The unit works with the sex crime detectives of the New Orleans Police Department to investigate and prosecute sex crimes using recovered DNA evidence.
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Russian ships sail to Syrian bases before moving equipment to Libya
Russian cargo and large landing ships are amassing in their base in Tartus, planning to move materials to Africa - namely Moscow's bases in Libya - in aftermath of Syrian regime change
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German lawmaker Roderich Kiesewetter from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has deleted his post on X saying that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz may allegedly meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow soon.
Germany intends to take legal action against Kiesewetter for making such a suggestion.
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❗️TASS News Roundup, January 5:
▪️ Russian air defenses downed 174 Ukrainian fixed-wing drones in the past day, Russia’s Defense Ministry said
▪️ Ukrainian forces sustained roughly 340 casualties and lost 4 tanks in the Kursk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry said
▪️ More than 45,800 Palestinians have died and over 109,000 have sustained wounds due to Israeli actions in the Gaza Strip since the onset of combat in the enclave in October 2023, the local Health Ministry reported via Telegram
▪️ Ukrainian troops attacked a unique training center at the Zaporozhye nuke plant, using a drone, the nuclear facility said
▪️ Four children and two adults were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in the Kharkov Region, said Vitaly Ganchev, head of the region’s military-civilian administration
▪️ Russian forces have advanced toward northern Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region, and the mopping up of Ukrainian troops in the town’s industrial zone is ongoing, the region’s head Denis Pushilin said
🇷🇺🇺🇦NEW VIDEO: Ukraine's Exhausted Army Crumbles as West Considers Intervention
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🇷🇺Russia’s new satellite: "Resource-P" No. 5
Yesterday, Roscosmos carried out the first activation of the Geoton-L1 equipment, the main instrument for observing the Earth’s surface with high spatial resolution.
The pictures show the first images along the flight path over the territories of the USA, China and the UAE.
The Resource-P No. 5 spacecraft was launched into orbit on December 25 last year.
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⚡️Putin currently has NO plans to meet Trump or Scholz — Kremlin spokesman Peskov, dismissing German lawmaker's claims of potential talks
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The Euro’s Collapse and the Greenback’s Last Illusion
The euro’s descent to a two year low of 1.032 USD is the sound of a currency cracking under the weight of its own contradictions. Germany’s industrial stagnation, Europe’s energy crisis, and complete surrender of monetary sovereignty to DC have turned the euro into a sacrificial lamb on the altar of empire. But let’s not mistake the dollar’s temporary resilience for permanence. It’s a currency underwritten by $36.2 trillion in debt and more than $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities, a bankrupt Ponzi scheme of historic proportions, posing as stability. Both currencies are hurtling toward collapse, but Europe will go first, because vassals are always sacrificed to keep the empire’s illusions alive.
Germany, heart of the Eurozone, has been gutted. Once Europe’s industrial engine, it limps along, strangled by soaring energy costs and a U.S.-driven embargo on cheap Russian oil and gas. Growth this year will barely scrape 0.2%. Volkswagen and Bosch, industrial giants that once symbolized German power, are scaling back as LNG bills pile up. This was no accident. Europe didn’t lose sovereignty, it gave it away. Its decision to sanction its own energy lifelines was both economic folly and geo-servitude. We cannot forget the Nord Stream sabotage; Germany, fully aware of who committed the act of economic terror, chose silence over sovereignty, humiliation over defiance.
But while the euro collapses, the dollar isn’t sitting on quick sand. It clings to its final illusions of credibility, even as it’s underwritten by mountains of debt and liabilities that no amount of Fed magic can erase. And then came the theft, the empire’s $300 billion seizure of Russian sovereign wealth. Beyond theft; it was the opening of Pandora’s box. The empire told the world that no reserves are safe, no currency is immune if you dare step out of line. This was much more than a moment of recklessness, it was a precedent that will haunt. What was meant to cripple Russia will be used against the empire itself, as nations accelerate their flight from dollar hegemony.
The euro’s plight is intertwined with this arrogance. Europe’s decision to bow to DC didn’t just destroy its economy, it ceded the very monetary sovereignty that once made the euro a contender for global relevance. The ECB has slashed rates four times, and predictably its currency keeps falling. It’s a vassal of the greenback, enslaved by policies designed not for Europe’s prosperity but for to buy the empire time.
Meanwhile, the dollar revels in its short-term resilience, propped up by faux military dominance and the inertia of global finance. But the theft of Russian reserves has shattered the illusion of dollar stability for the rest of the world. Nations across the Global South now see the empire for what it is: a bankrupt enforcer clinging to its racket. The dollar’s credibility isn’t real but enforced. And once enforcement becomes the only tool, the system collapses from within.
Europe will fall first, sacrificed to buy the empire a few more hours. DC, fully willing to watch Europe burn, has already shown its hand. The mafia-style LNG extortion racket, the indifference to Europe’s collapsing industry, and the Nord Stream humiliation are proof enough. The empire doesn’t have allies, it has dependents. But don’t think the dollar will escape its own reckoning. When the world finally moves to alternatives untethered from the empire’s whims, both the euro and the dollar will be relics of a failed order.
And here’s the final note: the theft of Russian assets was was a declaration of war on the global financial system itself. It shattered the last vestiges of trust in the empire’s currency regime.
The euro may be the first to collapse, but make no mistake: the dollar will be next. When the dust settles, Washington will look back on the theft of $300 billion as the moment it signed its own death warrant.
This isn’t just the decline of currencies, it’s the funeral dirge of an empire that mistook coercion for strength.
- Gerry Nolan
Russia closes out 2024 as top supplier of oil for India, accounting for 31% of its market share
India also replaced Saudi Arabia as Europe's top oil supplier this year - do the math on how sensible that makes European anti-Russian gas sanctions
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Recap :
- Israel gets land and water
- Turkey gets some land and Erdogan some ego boost for revival of Ottoman empire
- US gets the oil and the wheat in the North.
- Qatar gets its pipeline going all the way to Turkey.
The US will be giving out free vaseline as lubricant, the rape of Syrian people will be less painful.
🦅 The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.
At one level, the collapse was predictable. Assad was known to have been influenced by Egypt and UAE for some years past. They had been urging him to break with Iran and Russia, and to shift to the West. For some 3-4 years he had been incrementally signalling and implementing such a move. Iran especially faced increasing obstacles over operational matters in which they were co-operating with Syrian forces. His shift was meant as a message to Iran.
The financial situation of Syria – after years of U.S. Caesar sanctions, plus the loss of all agricultural and energy revenues seized by the U.S. in occupied north-east Syria – was catastrophic. Syria simply had no economy.
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‼️ Units of group of forces Center liberated Vozdvizhenka near Pokrovsk, almost breaking through to the Pokrovsk –Konstantinovka highway!
On the right flank of the Pokrovsk direction, units of the Center group of forces liberated Vozdvizhenka and continue successful attacks in this area in order to reach the Pokrovsk – Konstantinovka highway, approaching it almost close up.
The advance of our troops to a depth of 3 km is recorded, and the total area of the liberated territory is 2.30 km2.
Vozdvizhenka has been taken by the Russians, they are moving in the direction of the Mirnograd-Konstantinovka highway," the Ukrainian Armed Forces militant with the call sign Kiyanin also confirmed
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Zelensky: Ukraine Army Exhausted, Desertions; Budanov: War Lost; EU Gas Price Surge
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Yemeni’s Houthis mobilize to fight US, Israel, welcome enemies to ‘great hell’
Yemenis are “eager” to engage the US and Israeli aggressor, and “have prepared ourselves for all possible scenarios,” Zaid al-Gharsi, director of the Houthi-led National Salvation Government’s Media and Cultural Affairs Department, said in a statement Friday amid the militia’s ongoing mobilization.
“The Yemeni people are eager to engage in conflict with the nation’s enemies, and have been shouting the ‘death to Israel’ slogan for the past 20 years, besides confronting the [military] equipment that would be deployed by the US and the [Israeli] regime against it,” al-Gharsi said.
Yemenis have “entered direct confrontation against its adversaries today, and we tell them this: that they are welcome to [their] great hell,” the official said, assuring his countrymen would turn their enemies “into ashes” even if forced to fight with their bare hands.
Al-Gharsi’s comments come against the backdrop of a dramatic escalation in US, British and Israeli bombing attacks on military and civilian infrastructure targets across Houthi-controlled areas as the militia ramps up the targeting of Israeli cities with missiles.
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Russian Iskander strike on a large accumulation of Ukrainian troops in the Sumy oblast.
Reports indicate that another large grouping is forming in the region for additional operations inside of Russia.