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Putin on GDP growth: The situation with the economy as a whole in Russia is normal and stable. We are developing, no matter what, no matter what external threats and attempts to influence us. Last year, as you know, our economy grew by 3.6%. This year it will be 3.9%, and maybe even 4% – we will have to look at it, because the calculation of the results of the end of the year is actually counted in the first quarter of the next year, 2025, in this case, the year. And maybe there will be a 4% growth. This means that in 2 years our economy has grown by about 8%.
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🔹 Confiscating the Russian Federation's (RF 🇷🇺) frozen assets in the EU can lead to risks in clearing and settlement of securities transactions across Euro-zone and possibly start a selling spree of European bonds by international holders due to loss of trust.
🔹 Valérie Urbain, the CEO of the Euroclear group (the Belgium 🇧🇪-based clearinghouse), says confiscation entails serious risks for the organisation itself and the financial stability of Europe. Although the EU has allocated some of frozen asset's interest to Ukraine, it has not yet seized the principal assets.
🔹 Despite these warnings, EU 🇪🇺 foreign ministers met on 16th Dec. 2024 to discuss 'legal' illegal methods to do so. The EU claims to be assessing the financial implications of confiscation. 🇺🇸 President Biden has also continued to encourage the EU, which holds the bulk of Russia’s frozen cash, to pursue confiscation, including on a Dec. 13th G-7 call.
🔹 The US & EU states made no official declaration of war against Russia, making them third parties. Therefore there is no legality in the confiscation of Russian assets by the West. EU officials are fixed on legalizing illegality by confiscating private property outside the framework of a criminal trial.
🔹 Last year, the EU Commission President U. von der Leyen disregarded the European Central Bank fears that confiscation would damage the euro or financial markets. In accordance with international law, Russia's gold and foreign exchange reserves are protected by sovereign immunity.
🔹 A reason the EU believes confiscation can be 'legally' done is due to the 'UN Convention 🇺🇳 on Jurisdictional Immunities of States & Their Property 2004' not yet in force. The EU's top diplomat K. Kallas, remarked that she doubted there would be any funds left to return to Russia. On Dec. 18th the EU adopted a 15th package of sanctions against Russia. Germany’s 🇩🇪 authorities have frozen Russian assets worth around 3.5 bln euro within the EU’s sanctions regime by now.
🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱 Zionist bulldozers destroy Naqoura
Zionist D9 bulldozers (made in the USA) have been actively demolishing the town of Naqoura for three days now. The IOF was unable to enter the town during the fighting, Hezbollah forces were able to repel all Zionist attacks for over a week. Now the Zionists have taken revenge by demolishing the town.
This follows a pattern of Zionist attacks against civilian infrastructure during the "ceasefire", an agreement which the Zionist entity has mostly ignored thanks to the international impunity provided to them by the US and NATO. Not only have Zionist airstrikes continued unabated, but they have set about the complete destruction of the border towns. Towns such as Kfarkela are now 75% destroyed, and the Zionists continue to bulldoze everything they can before the planned withdrawal next month.
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Russian bases in Syria. Erdogan in control
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Russian troops advancing on entire front – Russian Armed Forces General Staff chief
FRONTLINE UPDATES:
– 190 settlements liberated
– 1MN Ukrainian soldiers killed or wounded
– 20 000 vehicles;
– 19 500 artillery guns;
– 1500 rocket launchers destroyed
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❗The assassination of General Kirillov "was not a reasonable step, it's not helpful" on the part of Kiev, — Keith Kellogg, special envoy of the US President-elect Trump for Ukraine
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The US believes that the aid provided to Ukraine will be enough to fight until the end of 2025
US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the military aid already provided and planned by the Biden administration will provide Ukraine with resources until the end of 2025.
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Throwing Gasoline on the Fire, Ukraine Murders Russian General and Aide with a Bomb https://sonar21.com/throwing-gasoline-on-the-fire-ukraine-murders-russian-general-and-aide-with-a-bomb/
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❗️The exchange of Donbass and Novorossiya for Ukraine's non-accession to NATO cannot be a condition for a peace agreement - Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo.
According to the governor, the population of Donbass and Novorossiya considers reunification with Moscow to be the restoration of historical justice. He emphasized that this is Russian territory.
"This land has returned to where it belongs. And therefore this cannot serve as a condition for negotiations at all," Saldo said.
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The other day, Foreign Affairs published an article by Michael McFaul, thinly veiled as an opinion piece. In reality, it reads more like a business plan drafted by the U.S. military-industrial complex and the deep state, with McFaul handpicked as its enthusiastic promoter. To be fair, he’s a fitting choice for such an abominable task.
Michael McFaul, the former U.S. ambassador to Russia, has built his career as a textbook Russophobe. While his disdain for Russia undoubtedly serves business interests, as evidenced throughout the article, there’s also an unmistakable personal grudge at play. Perhaps a bad borscht experience in Moscow? Or did a Russian oligarch once swipe his parking spot? Whatever the cause, McFaul’s animosity towards Russia colors everything he does or writes, and this article is no exception.
The article’s main point is very clear, serving both McFaul’s Russophobic agenda and the financial interests of the military-industrial complex: Trump should avoid cutting aid to Ukraine and instead increase it. In other words, more suffering for Russia, more profits for defense contractors (and perhaps McFaul himself), and a rising toll of Ukrainian casualties that McFaul appears utterly indifferent to.
The other key takeaways are as follows:
— Trump should devise a plan encouraging Ukraine to nominally relinquish some territory to Russia in exchange for NATO membership and its security guarantees.
— Immediate NATO membership could compensate Ukraine for the forced concessions and is “the only card Trump can play to convince Ukrainians to stop fighting.”
— Only NATO membership could persuade Zelensky to agree to a formula where Ukraine pursues reunification through peaceful means while legally refusing to recognize the occupation of its territories.
The article conveniently ignores the fact that all these suggestions directly contradict Russia’s and President Putin’s stated positions. But why let reality interfere when it falls outside McFaul’s ever-narrowing sphere of influence? Let’s be honest—McFaul has fully embraced his role as a propagandist. As for Foreign Affairs, their credibility is in free fall, and they no longer pretend to care about balanced analysis. After all, when the agenda reigns supreme, facts are just an inconvenience.
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Why was General Igor Kirillov killed?
It's simple. In this low-frequency niche (RKhBZ), he was the only person who conducted offensive work in his area. Kirillov, if I may say so, always warned the world community in advance about provocations with chemical weapons and was able to competently document all the facts of its use by Ukraine.
All this constantly raised the temperature of the members of the hand-picked pro-American INTERNATIONAL Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Under Kirillov's leadership, the chemical lab in Avdeevka was documented, which put the entire OPCW in an uncomfortable position. The last session of the OPCW was in November. And Kirillov again continued his offensive course.
Eternal memory.
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EU Resumes Discussion of Russian Asset Confiscation – Bloomberg
European politicians have raised the issue again in connection with the possible reduction of US aid to Ukraine after Trump came to power.
Currently, Kiev only receives profits from Russian assets.
Some countries oppose the confiscation, including Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg, although Belgium is where the bulk of the frozen assets are located.
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🇺🇦 UKRAINIANS TORTURED UKRAINIANS: In the 211th brigade of the Ukrainian Army, soldiers were:
- crucified on a cross
- beaten until their organs were ruptured and their skulls were broken
- kept in cages
All this was done for the sake of kickbacks from their salaries.
The Verkhovna Rada commission knew about this since September 10, MP Yatsyk reported
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I wonder how much money Israel is paying Senator Peter Griffin...
Irish President Michael D. Higgins condemned Israel's accusation of antisemitism against his people as ‘gross defamation’
Higgins’ response was to Israeli FM Gideon Saar's claim that Ireland delegitimized Israel and applied double standards in its Gaza war response.
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⚡️ President Putin’s year-end Q&A begins
Watch live here: https://rumble.com/RTNews
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📹 Geopolitics Live will be covering the highly anticipated End-of-Year Putin's Q&A for you. Don't miss it!
🗓 Date: December 19
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For the first time, the Israeli army has confirmed settlers crossed into Lebanese territory, setting up tents and asserting claims over the land. The "Ori HaTzafon" group, known for its push to expand illegal settlements into South Lebanon, made the incursion.
Images show settlers displaying banners reading "Lebanon is ours," featuring a cedar tree within a Star of David.
This provocation follows the group's promotion of properties for sale in southern Lebanon and a map rebranding Lebanese towns with Hebrew names back in September.
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🗣More key statements by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov:
🔸 The Russian Armed Forces accomplished all tasks set by the country's leadership in 2024.
🔸 More than 30 countries provided Ukraine with $350 billion in financial assistance, of which approximately $170 billion was for military aid.
🔸 The Russian Armed Forces hold the initiative and are advancing along the entire front, despite the colossal Western aid to Ukraine. Gerasimov noted that more than 190 settlements have been liberated this year and around 4,500 square kilometers of territory have come under Russian control.
🔸 The rearmament of Russia's ground-based strategic nuclear forces has been fully completed.
🔸 The Russian Armed Forces are systematically working to ensure security in the Arctic, where NATO is increasing its military presence.
🔸 The Russian Navy will receive three Borei-A class strategic nuclear submarines by 2028.
🔸 The formation of the first regiment equipped with the S-500 surface-to-air missile system, capable of strategic missile defense, is nearing completion.
🔸 Due to US sanctions, the Syrian army was unable to conduct regular exercises and had poor combat readiness.
🔸 Risks of the crisis escalating into a regional war persist in the Middle East.
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Full Liberation of Uspenovka.
Servicemen of the 20th motorized rifle division of the 8th Guards Army of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation completely cleaned up and liberated Uspenovka from the criminal Kiev regime. Now the fighters can safely show the flags of Russia on the main streets of the village, which symbolizes the restoration of control over this region and the further advance of the Russian Army.
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❗️Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, December 18:
▪️The ministry reported the liberation of Trudovoye and Starye Terny in the Donetsk People’s Republic
▪️The Russian Air Force struck Ukrainian military airfields and drone assembly facilities
▪️The Defense Ministry reported the destruction of a Polish Rosomak armored personnel carrier for the first time
▪️Ukrainian troops lost up to 350 servicemen in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup South
▪️Ukraine lost nearly 120 troops as a result of the actions of the battlegroups North and Dnepr
▪️Russian air defenses shot down 43 unmanned aerial vehicles and a HIMARS rocket
▪️Ukraine lost up to 540 troops in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup West
▪️Ukraine's losses in the area of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Center amounted to up to 440 servicemen
▪️Ukraine lost up to 160 men and a Snatch vehicle due to the actions of Russia's Battlegroup East
EU pumps Israel with military funding - despite outrage over Gaza war
Israel has raked in over €238 million in EU research grants through the Horizon program since October 7, even as it faces accusations of genocide in Gaza by the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court.
This funding includes over €640,000 handed to an Israeli aerospace company that supplies the military, slipping through under the guise of "dual-use" technologies with civilian labels.
Even though Israel isn't a full EU member, it has received over $2 billion in funding from the bloc in the last decade.
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❗️An American Abrams tank was destroyed by the Russian troops in the Novoivanovka area of the Kursk region 💪🇷🇺
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Nebenzya: Russia Will Not Agree to Freeze the Ukrainian Conflict
Russia will not accept a freeze of the Ukrainian conflict, said Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN, during a Security Council meeting.
“No schemes to freeze the conflict will suit Russia. The example of the Minsk agreements has fully convinced us that neither the West nor, even more so, the Kiev junta can be trusted,” he stated. According to him, the purpose of “this exercise” is to give Kiev a “much-needed respite on the battlefield to lick its wounds.”
Furthermore, Moscow intends to prevent NATO from participating in ending the hostilities. He clarified that NATO and Ukraine’s membership prospects in the alliance “have been part of the problem from the very beginning, not part of the solution.”
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🇺🇳🌍 The UN’s “Celebration” of Migration: What’s Really at Stake?
Today, the official UN account congratulated the world on International Migrants Day, hailing migrants as a “source of innovation and prosperity” for host nations while acknowledging the “challenges” they face.
But let’s step back and ask: is mass migration really a cause for celebration?
Behind the feel-good slogans of “innovation” and “prosperity” lies a much darker reality. Mass migration, weaponized by global elites under the guise of humanitarian virtue, has destabilized both sending and receiving nations on an unprecedented scale. Entire communities are hollowed out in the Global South as working-age men and families are siphoned off, leaving behind stagnation and shattered economies. Meanwhile, in the receiving countries, local cultures and infrastructure strain under the weight of what can only be described as socially engineered chaos.
The migrant isn’t the villain here. They are pawns in a far larger game orchestrated by neoliberal overlords who exploit cheap labor and fracture social cohesion to expand their economic dominance. “Diversity is strength,” they preach, while communities teeter under unmanageable inflows that erode housing availability, jobs, healthcare, and public trust.
The irony? The very same Western powers who create refugee crises through endless wars and economic plunder now sanctimoniously wave the banner of migration “rights.” A deliberate cycle: destabilize, extract, displace, repeat.
What the UN won’t tell you is this: mass migration isn’t about “prosperity” for nations, it’s about prosperity for corporate cartels and technocrats who profit from dislocation, cheap labor, and fractured societies too divided to resist.
The migrant pays the price. The home country pays the price. The receiving country pays the price. And all the while, the elite puppet-masters cash in.
So today, while the UN pats itself on the back, remember: forced displacement, political, economic, or social - is nothing to celebrate. It’s a tragedy masked as progress.
- Gerry Nolan
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The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution by Russia on the fight against the glorification of Nazism
The document was supported by 119 countries, 53 were against, and ten abstained. Among those who voted against were Ukraine, Germany, the USA, Italy, Canada, and Japan.
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EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas pledges €1.5bn per month to Kiev starting January next year
Much easier to splash Brussels' cash and not Estonia's?
#EU #Ukraine
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Reporter: “Are you comfortable with the assassination [of Lt. Gen Kirillov]?”
Keir Starmer: “Well, as I say, we must stand with Ukraine…”
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Dmitry Medvedev condemns The Times’ labeling of attack on Lt. General Kirillov as ‘legitimate defense’
The ex-Russian president argued on Telegram that, under this twisted logic, all NATO officials assisting Ukraine are effectively engaged in the war against Russia - and therefore, legitimate military targets. This extends beyond them, as editors and employees at outlets like The Times also fall into the same category.
"Logical? Absolutely! So, be careful! After all, a lot of things could happen in London.”
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🇺🇦🤑 FACE REVEAL: RUSSIA'S TOP GENERAL'S ASSASSIN CONFESSES TO CRIME - 29-year-old Uzbek citizen discloses how he came to Moscow on instructions from Ukraine's intelligence, and carried out all major stages of terror attack, from buying scooter and explosives, to placing it next to Kirillov's residential building and pressing detonator's button.
Why did I do this? I was promised $100,000 and European Passport - Criminal (whose name is allegedly) Akhmad Kurbanov reveals going price for his humanity (video above).