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Imports of Russian liquefied natural gas to the European Union this year reached a record of 16.5 million tons as of mid–December, despite the EU's attempts to get rid of dependence on Russian gas.
The publication, citing data from Kpler, a trade analytics company, writes that current imports exceed last year's, which was at 15.18 million tons, and beat the previous record set in 2022. At that time, the EU imported 15.21 million tons of LNG from Russia.
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Serbian Deputy PM Vulin: the West has renounced to democracy. In France the voters said: "We want in power those that the establishment in Paris calls the extreme left. But Mr. Macron comes out and says: "This cannot happen". The extreme right cannot be in power either. And where is democracy? Why should voters go to the polls if some parties are prohibited from going to power? The situation is identical in Germany, where they say that the far-right AFD party cannot go to power. And why can't they go to power if people vote for them? Why even holding elections in such circumstances?
Why don't you ban this party and arrest these people if they're not supposed to come to power? As a Belarusian, Russian, Chinese, or Indian businessman you cannot buy a company in Europe. You are forbidden. Money turned into color. How many Belarusian, Russian, Chinese media outlets can you see in Europe? You can see both Belarusian and Russian media in Serbia. Nowhere else. Where is freedom of information?
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🇷🇴🟠Romania's tax agency ANAF has found that the TikTok campaign of Calin Georgescu, the winner of the cancelled first round of the Romanian presidential election, was not paid for by the Russians, as Romanian intelligence claimed (which was the formal reason for the cancellation of the first round results), but... by the pro-European National Liberal Party of Romania.
According to the Romanian publication HotNews, the tax agency found that Georgescu's social media campaign was paid for by the National Liberals, whose goal was to draw voters away from their rivals, the Social Democrats.
Following inquiries from the investigative website Snoop, the firm Kensington hired by the Liberals admitted that the campaign was paid for by the NLP, but claims that it was part of a larger campaign carried out "at the behest of the National Liberal Party, to raise public awareness."
Thus, if the information is officially confirmed, the main argument on the basis of which the results of the first round of the presidential elections in Romania were cancelled will disappear.
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Key takeaways from statements by Russia’s United Nations envoy, Vasily Nebenzya, at a UN Security Council meeting:
▪️Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has been doing everything he can to disrupt peace initiatives and provoke Russia to escalate the Ukraine conflict
▪️Zelensky is avoiding peace talks as he will have to hold elections and lose power as soon as the conflict ends
▪️It is US companies that capitalize the most on the Ukraine conflict
▪️Kiev’s puppeteers in the West are complicit in the terrorist attack on high-ranking Russian general Igor Kirillov
▪️Russia’s response to the latest Ukrainian criminal attack on the town of Rylsk in the bordering Russian region of Kursk will not keep itself waiting
Residential buildings have caught fire in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Region, after a drone attack, the mayor's office said.
According to the authorities, fires have been reported in three of the city’s districts. A residential compound has been evacuated.
Video: Oksana Sotnik/TASS
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada (parliament) member Artyom Dmitruk has slammed Vladimir Zelensky’s attempt to bribe Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico as a disgrace.
Fico said earlier that Zelensky had offered him 500 mln euros from Russia’s frozen assets in exchange for his support for Ukraine’s NATO membership. The Slovak premier refused. He has repeatedly said that he will never back Kiev's accession to the bloc.
Dmitruk believes that the bribe money wasn’t meant to come from Russia’s frozen funds but Zelensky “could have brought it in a suitcase.”
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️ The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 300 troops in the Kursk area in the past day
▪️ Russian forces destroyed a tank, two US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, two armored personnel carriers, four armored combat vehicles, eight motor vehicles and two electronic warfare stations
▪️ Kiev’s total losses have reached 42,750 troops since fighting began in the Kursk Region
▪️ Russian forces defeated Ukrainian troops near the settlements of Alexandria, Viktorovka, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo and Cherkasskaya Konopelka
▪️ Two counterattacks by enemy assault teams were repelled
▪️ Russian tactical and army aircraft and artillery forces struck enemy troops and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico plans to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 23 following Vladimir Zekensky’s refusal to prolong Russian gas transit via Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said.
Fico pointed out earlier that Zelensky’s decision would plunge Slovakia into a crisis. He stated that Bratislava was interested in purchasing cheap Russian gas and ensuring its transit to other European Union countries.
🇷🇺🇭🇺🇺🇸 Hungary has reached an agreement with the US on suspending sanctions against Gazprombank for 3 months and with Russia on an alternative method of paying for gas, says Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.
Hungary can buy Russian gas now
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🇸🇾🇺🇸 BREAKING! Washington has informed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham leader Abu Muhammad Al-Jolani that it will not continue to offer $10 million reward for his capture. – United States Assistant Secretary of State Barbara Leaf
He has been fully reformed!
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Russian restraint comes with escalation risks
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev refused to sign an agreement on cooperation with Ukraine in the security sphere on the sidelines of the EU summit at the last minute.
He cited the need for consultations with parliament.
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🇸🇰💬🇺🇦Zelensky tried to bribe Robert Fico to get his consent for Ukraine's accession to NATO for 500 million euros.
'I will not quote them but Zelenskyy made me certain proposals behind closed doors. And I want to say that Slovakia is not in a state of war. Neither with the Russian Federation, nor with Ukraine. We are very sorry about what is happening in Ukraine now. And we are not going to give them weapons, we know that the Ukrainians are losing this war completely. Ladies and gentlemen, I must say that President Zelensky categorically rejects any ceasefire. Any truce. He still has some idea that first, perhaps, he should get everything in the world, and only then will he talk about some kind of truce.
And when I asked him about the transit of gas through Ukraine, Zelensky ruled out any idea of it. He made proposals that seem absurd to me. For example, that he would agree to it only if we did not pay Russia until the end of the war. What fool would give us free gas? As we were coming to the end, the president returned to the topic of gas and asked me whether I would vote for NATO membership if he gave me 500 million euros from Russian assets. Of course, I immediately answered that I would never. You just know my opinion about Ukraine's membership in NATO. And it is strange that he asked me such a question, because he knows perfectly well that inviting Ukraine to NATO is completely unrealistic.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Acting head of the Kursk region Khinshtein stated that Rylsk was hit today by a HIMARS MLRS.
What is known:
- the strike was carried out at about 15:30 on Friday;
- HIMARS missiles were used. Some were shot down by air defense;
- all the wounded are receiving assistance;
- the buildings of the House of Culture, the sports and recreation center, the pedagogical college, the school, the fire department and other social facilities were damaged;
- a criminal case has been opened under the article "terrorist act".
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Gazprom did not reserve the pipeline for deliveries to Moldova
Gazprom did not reserve guaranteed capacity for the Turkish Stream for energy exports to Moldova for January.
Thus, after the end of transit through Ukraine at the end of the year, the Moldovans will most likely be left without any gas supplies from Russia. Which will finish off their energy sector.
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The individual who ran into crowd with a car at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany has been allegedly identified as Talib Al-Abdulmohsen, an atheist & Ex-Muslim, Saudi-born psychiatrist and activist, he lived in Germany since 2006. He is extremely Anti-Islam.
He proudly expresses his tendencies to “slaughter germans” on X.
He is wanted by Saudi Arabia on charges related to terrorism, smuggling girls from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states to EU countries.
Germany has refused to extradite him to Saudi Arabia and granted him political asylum despite charges being brought against him.
Daily Mail reported:
The suspect of the attack has been named as psychiatrist Taleb A., a specialist in psychiatrist and psychotherapy. Spiegel reported that he was born in the Saudi Arabian city of Hofuf.
He also is a supporter of Israel and recommends Israel occupying & annexing Syria, Lebanon and Palestine
He also supports the idea of “Greater Israel”
Very odd
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Nebenzya on how the US is profiting from the conflict in Ukraine: When US Senator Graham called the military campaign in Ukraine a "good investment", he was not speaking figuratively. It is well known that Ukraine has become a real gold mine for the military-industrial complex of Anglo-Saxon countries and their allies. But it is American companies that are profiting most from the conflict.
According to the latest data, half of the total arms sales in 2023 came from 41 of the 100 largest American corporations. They received $317 billion, or 50% of the global revenue from arms sales. In total, the revenues of the 100 largest arms manufacturers in the world in 2023, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), reached $632 billion. It would be naive to expect that these unscrupulous traders, who have tasted profit, will give up such profits for the sake of some unfortunate Ukrainians.
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US President-elect Donald Trump will require NATO member states to increase defense spending to 5% of their GDP. According to the Financial Times, he conveyed this demand to a number of European officials through his representatives.
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What is known about a drone attack on Kazan
▪️ According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a drone was destroyed over the Tatarstan Region at 7:50 a.m. Moscow time (4:50 a.m. GMT)
▪️ Fires were reported in residential buildings in three Kazan districts
▪️ A residential compound in Kazan was evacuated
▪️ Temporary restrictions were imposed at Kazan Airport
▪️ Eight drone strikes were reported in Kazan, with six of them targeting residential buildings, the authorities said
▪️ According to preliminary reports, the attacks caused no casualties
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was exasperated at a recent meeting of EU leaders after Polish President Andrzej Duda called on the EU to confiscate and spend the 260 billion euro worth of Russian sovereign assets immobilized in Europe to maintain support for Ukraine.
“You don’t understand how this would affect the stability of our financial markets,” Scholz told Duda, as cited by the Financial Times. “You don’t even use the euro,” he added.
❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, December 21:
▪️Russian forces liberated the settlement of Ostrovskogo in the Donetsk People’s Republic
▪️ Russian forces struck the Ukrainian defense industry’s energy sites and infrastructure facilities at military airfields in the past day
▪️Ukraine lost up to 110 troops in the area of responsibility of Russia’s battlegroups North and Dnepr
▪️ Battlegroup East made Ukraine lose over 160 troops in the past day
▪️ Battlegroup West caused the Ukrainian army to lose up to 440 troops and an ammunition depot
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 285 troops and five field ammunition depots in the area of responsibility of Russia’s Battlegroup South
▪️Battlegroup Center continued moving deeper into enemy defenses in the past day, making Ukraine lose up to 580 troops and a Leopard tank
▪️Russian air defenses destroyed eight HIMARS rockets and 89 Ukrainian drones in the past day
At the last minute: Bulgarian Prime Minister did not sign a security cooperation agreement with Ukraine
▪️Dimitar Glavchev was expected to sign the agreement with Zelensky at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. However, he unexpectedly announced that he needed to discuss the issue with parliament before he could sign the 10-year deal.
▪️Glavchev himself heads only a technical cabinet of ministers, and coalition negotiations are being conducted by parties that have different attitudes towards aid to Ukraine.
▪️For example, former Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boyko Borisov said that he was against signing a bilateral agreement, since the current situation, including peace talks with the European Union and the election of Trump in the United States, influenced the context.
▪️There is also reason to believe that the position of the Bulgarian Prime Minister was influenced by Orban, who was on an official visit to Bulgaria at the time.
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Putin: No Deal, Talks, Truce with Illegitimate Zelensky; Zelensky Meltdown; Huge Strike Rocks Kiev
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🇺🇸🇪🇺Trump told the EU that they must cover their massive trade deficit with the US by buying massive amounts of US oil and gas, or face tariffs on everything.
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🇨🇭 VON DER LEYEN IN BERN - AMHERDS UNTERWERFUNGS-AFFRONT
🚫 Das Bürokratie- und Apparatschikmonster Europäische Union streckt ihr Klauen nach der Schweiz aus und nicht wenige in der politischen Klasse der Eidgenossen würden den Lockrufen dieser staatenfressenden Pflanze EU gerne folgen.
💯 Glücklicherweise hat die Schweiz, im Gegensatz zu den anderen "Demokratien" einen Sicherheitsmechanismus eingebaut: Die Abstimmung durch ein Volk, dass durch die politische Bildung in einer heterogenen Medienlandschaft mündig genug ist, kluge Entscheidungen zu treffen.
🔽 Was man von den Deutschen nicht behaupten kann...
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Ukraine will start receiving the first money from the US at the expense of frozen Russian assets, - Prime Minister Shmyhal.
The Ministry of Finance and the World Bank signed an agreement to allocate $2 billion. Ukraine will receive half of this amount in the form of a non-repayable grant from the World Bank FIF fund at the expense of the US contribution within the framework of the G7 initiative. Another $1.05 billion - in the form of a loan guaranteed by the governments of Japan and Great Britain.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced the delivery of another IRIS-T air defense system to Ukraine. Scholz recalled that the total amount of Berlin's support to Kiev stood at 37 billion euros. He added that Ukraine could continue to count on Germany's support.
“What is on the way is another IRIS-T system. I think it will be delivered today. There will be more Gepard self-propelled air defense systems, which we will provide with all the ammunition, the production of which we have resumed,” Scholz said. Germany is the second largest arms supplier to Ukraine after the United States. Under the 2025 budget agreement, Germany is to allocate about 4 billion euros for military support for Ukraine, which is half the current year's amount.
The Russian authorities have repeatedly said that pumping weapons into Ukraine will not reduce Russia's resolve or change the course of the special military operation.
Europe and the US spent 310 billion euros on Ukraine together, this money could have "worked wonders" in the European economy — Hungarian Prime Minister Orban
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