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Natural gas prices in Europe hit $560 per 1,000 cubic meters for the first time since October 30, 2023, according to the London-based ICE.
February futures at the TTF hub in the Netherlands soared to $568 per 1,000 cubic meters or 52.65 euro per MWh.
❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, January 30:
▪️Over the past six months, Ukraine’s monthly manpower losses have been amounting to about 50,000 troops or more
▪️Lowering the draft age in Ukraine is Zelensky’s only chance to delay the collapse of the frontline
▪️The Ukrainian armed forces send new recruits with no proper training to the front, which leads to the depletion of manpower
▪️Approximately 100,000 Ukrainian servicemen have deserted their military units
▪️The number of new soldiers in Ukrainian training centers barely reaches 30,000 per month, even despite the “boost” in the operations of recruitment centers ongoing for half a year
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted over 320 casualties on Ukrainian forces
▪️Ukraine lost up to 550 military personnel to the actions of the Battlegroup Center
▪️Russian air defenses shot down two Hammer guided aerial bombs, four HIMARS rockets and 61 drones
▪️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, military airfields infrastructure, as well as drone production and storage facilities
Foreign aid by the US suspended by the Trump administration was being spent on stirring revolutions and unrest in other countries, including Georgia, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told the Imedi TV channel.
The head of the Georgian government noted that the republic’s authorities are happy that the Trump administration has a sober assessment of the events and expressed hope that foreign aid will be suspended for a longer period than the announced 90 days.
🇷🇴🤝🇺🇦Ukraine is a fictitious state. Its division between neighboring states is inevitable - Romanian politician Calin Georgescu
"The world is changing. The borders will change. Moreover - if the borders change, where will we be? We have Northern Bukovina - interest. We have Budzhak, we have Northern Maramuresh - right? From the former ... what was it called... Transcarpathia! There are also the Hungarians... Lvov, which will remain with the Poles, and Malorossia...".
When asked if he believes in the division of Ukraine, the politician said,
"One hundred percent, it will happen. Well, they have no other way! The road to something like this is inevitable. Ukraine is a fictitious state. It is the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic."
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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇩🇪Peskov on Scholz's claims that the United States liberated Germany and helped it become a democracy:
This is not true. There is a purposeful line aimed at forgetting the historical truth, a line aimed at forgetting who paid the heaviest price for the liberation of the European continent from the "brown plague".
It was the Soviet Union, which, with the help of its allies - Great Britain and America, among others - undertook the main burdens of this liberation. The people of the Soviet Union accomplished that very feat for the whole of humanity, saving her from the "brown plague" now. The line on oblivion is very detrimental in terms of the possible consequences, in terms of the creeping Nazism that is marching back across Europe, which is substantially rooted in Kiev.
@Slavyangrad
🇺🇸🇺🇦 CNN reports American "volunteers" are used to "plug the holes" in Ukrainian defense but they keep getting killed
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Medvedev on the immediate expulsion of dangerously ill or drug-addicted migrants from the country:
It is necessary to work out mechanisms for joint action by agencies at all stages and to ensure that those foreigners who have this kind of disease or drug addiction are expelled from the territory of our country as quickly as possible, as quickly as possible.
And, accordingly, it is necessary to exclude the possibility of staying in Russia and legalizing for further life. Humanitarian considerations should not work here.
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸NEW VIDEO: US Transfers Missiles to Ukraine, "End War Responsibly" a Euphemism for Continuity of Agenda
On YouTube: https://youtu.be/vZ2mFCqc4bE
Update for the conflict in Ukraine for January 30, 2025...
- Russian forces are taking entire cities in the matter of days as Ukrainian forces continue to crumble along the line of contact;
- The incoming Trump administration DoD pick, Secretary Hegseth, has vowed to maintain the flow of billions of dollars to the military industrial base as well as the continued presence of US military forces around the globe;
- The new administration has continued sending missiles to Ukraine despite the impression attempts to cut the flow of arms is under way;
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PUTIN No Talks With Zelensky, Has No Legal Status, Cannot Be Trusted; US MSM: Military Aid Kiev Stop
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A New York court sentenced former senator and author of the "mother of all sanctions" against Russia Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison in a corruption case, the New York Post writes. Menendez is known, in particular, as the author of an anti-Russian bill, which he himself called "the mother of all sanctions."
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Israel made an AI bot to promote social media accounts putting out pro-Israel talking points
The AI bot goes rogue and calls Israeli soldiers ‘white colonisers in apartheid Israel’
The Hasbara has become so unbelievable that Israel’s own AI bots have turned against it
❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, January 29:
▪️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Novoyelizavetovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR)
▪️Russian air defenses shot down 165 fixed-wing drones
▪️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields, as well as drone and unmanned boat production, assembly and storage facilities
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted up to 320 casualties on Ukrainian forces
▪️Ukraine lost over 135 military personnel and a tank to the actions of the Battlegroup East
▪️The battlegroups North and Dnepr eliminated approximately 80 Ukrainian soldiers
▪️The Battlegroup South wiped out up to 220 servicemen of the Ukrainian armed forces
▪️Ukrainian losses in the responsibility zone of the Battlegroup Center amounted to up to 520 troops
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup North defeated the forces of 12 Ukrainian brigades in 15 settlements, also repelling eight enemy counterattacks
▪️The Ukrainian army lost over 320 troops, three tanks, seven armored combat vehicles, as well as seven drone control posts and an ammunition depot
▪️Russia’s tactical and army aircraft and artillery forces hit enemy troops and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions
▪️Kiev’s total losses have amounted to over 55,900 troops, 325 tanks, 239 infantry fighting vehicles, 184 armored personnel carriers, and 1,649 armored combat vehicles since the fighting began in the region
PROF. JEFFREY SACHS:
'Trump is absolutely right that the Ukraine war could end in a day. This war will end the moment a US President picks up the phone and says to Putin 'NATO enlargement was a bad idea'...that's the end of the war because that's the whole premise of this war'
🇺🇦🇷🇺 The war is already near the Dnipropetrovsk region
Soon a new, previously untouched region, will be fought for.
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🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup North defeated the forces of 12 Ukrainian brigades in 14 settlements, also repelling two enemy counterattacks
▪️The Ukrainian army lost over 240 troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, four pieces of artillery, nine mortars, two electronic warfare systems, as well as three drone control posts and two ammunition depots
▪️Russia’s tactical and army aircraft and artillery forces hit enemy troops and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions
▪️Kiev’s total losses have amounted to over 56,140 troops, 325 tanks, 241 infantry fighting vehicles, 185 armored personnel carriers, and 1,653 armored combat vehicles since the fighting began in the region
🇸🇰🇺🇦 A Ukrainian citizen has been detained in Slovakia on charges of plotting a coup, according to the head of the police.
According to news reports he will soon be deported.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico previously accused Ukrainian authorities of orchestrating anti-government protests in Bratislava and other cities.
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🇩🇪🤡Scholz - thanked the U.S. for liberating Germany from Nazism:
We are very happy that the U.S. liberated our country and helped us become a democracy again. And that's why I'm so outraged that Ilon Musk is advocating for the far right, and also that Ilon Musk is not responding to the murders of Jews and other people in Europe committed by Germans in the past. This is a historical responsibility that we will continue to bear in the future.
@Slavyangrad
🇷🇺🇩🇪 Russia's Security Council is ready to send archival data and military newsreels to Scholz, who recently claimed that Germany was liberated by the U.S. during World War II.
According to Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Venediktov, by ignoring the price the USSR paid for the world's liberation, the chancellor desecrates the memory of Soviet people and grossly distorts the truth.
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Gold futures with delivery in April 2024 set a new historical record on Comex, a division of the New York Mercantile exchange, and are being traded above $2,850 per Troy ounce.
The precious metal price gained 2.05% to $2,850.9 per Troy ounce and continued growing then to $2,851.8 per Troy ounce (+2.09%), according to market data.
🛬 This is already a suspicious one. The military Black Hawk that crashed into American Airlines flight 5342 in Washington, DC was reportedly “flying dark,” per ADSBexchange. It was not broadcasting an ADSB signal at the time.
The flight path of this Black Hawk shows it took off close to CIA Langley HQ. From the footage, it seems that the Black Hawk made a concerted effort to deliberately hit the plane, for whatever reason. We may have more clues when we know who exactly was on the flight list.
Recently, Lockheed Martin demonstrated remote Black Hawk technology in Washington DC, just 2 weeks before the 2024 election.
And only a few days ago, the White House confirmed that the recent spate of drone sightings over New Jersey were authorised to be flown by the FAA for "research and other reasons".
Lot's of dots to connect with this one.
In a very unexpected development Denmark is now working directly with Russia's Gazprom to do environmental mitigation on the damaged Nord Stream pipelines, in the wake of the multiple underwater blasts that took them offline on September 26, 2022 - leading to years of accusations against Moscow and a Russia-West tit-for-tat.
Denmark's energy agency has granted Nord Stream 2 AG (which is under Gazprom) permission to engage in preservation work on Nord Stream 2 in the Baltic Sea. The agency described that there remain serious safety risks after the natural gas pipeline was filled with seawater and the remnants of natural gas.
"The work aims to preserve the damaged pipeline by installing customized plugs at each of the open pipe ends to prevent further gas blow-out and the introduction of oxygenated seawater," Denmark's energy agency said.
The $11 billion pipeline project to pump Russian gas to Germany was hugely contentious for years, with Washington opposing it, before it was blown up in a 'mysterious' sabotage operation.
The Western mainstream media has since backed off its repeat accusations that Moscow must have blown up its own vital pipeline, in light of revelations and a recent consensus that it was either a team of Ukrainian specialists on a 'rogue' yacht or else a major CIA op with help from the US Navy.
While Scandinavian countries were once leading the accusations and investigations against Moscow related to the sabotage, suddenly Denmark appears to be working with 'pariah' Russia. All of this is happening as Washington still has far-reaching sanctions on Russia as well as the NS2 Russian operator, Gazprom's Nord Stream 2 AG.
"The damaged line of NS2 is estimated to still contain approximately 9-10 million cubic meters of natural gas, while the intact line remains filled with gas, the Danish agency said," Reuters notes. "The United States in December issued further sanctions on the operator and other Russian entities saying it considers Nord Stream 2 a Russian geopolitical project and opposes efforts to revive it," the report adds.
- Zerohedge
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"85% of Greenlanders are against joining the United States“
🚨Vladimir Putin🇷🇺 slams European countries for being a vassal of Washington and allowing their own deindustrialisation:
“Energy resources on the US🇺🇸 market are 3-5 times cheaper than in Europe. Whole industries are shutting down in Germany and moving to the US. It seems that if Europeans are told ‘we will hang you all’, they will have only one question; ‘should we bring the rope ourselves, or do you give it to us?’”
🗓 The Chinese New Year falls on January 29, ushering in the Year of the Snake.
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▶️ The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the settlement of Novoyelizavetovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Defense Ministry reported.
According to it, Russia’s battlegroup Center used attack drones to destroy Ukrainian command posts. Artillery crews located and destroyed enemy positions.
The Russian flag has already been hoisted atop a high-rise building, the ministry said.
PUTIN🇷🇺: 'Ukraine deceived Russia to make it withdraw troops away from Kiev in 2022. Russia knew it could be a setup but decided to try to prevent bloodshed.'
This was around the time negotiations to end the war were taking place in Istanbul, Russia wasn't beaten in Kiev, Russia withdrew from the Kiev region in good faith so that Zelensky would not look like he was signing an agreement with a gun to his head.
The negotiations were torpedoed by Washington and Boris Johnson, urging Zelensky to fight a suicidal war to the last Ukrainian in a failed attempt to bring Russia to its knees.
🚨90% of Ukrainian🇺🇦 media outlets will go BUST after Donald Trump pulled the plug on USAID funding
The Chief of Ukraine’s Head of Mass Information Oksana Romanyuk has admitted that Ukraine’s media outlets are overwhelmingly reliant on foreign aid, with 90% of outlets relying on foreign aid and over 80% of media outlets having been funded by USAID.
“American grants were key,” Romanyuk said, adding that “European institutions remain. I hope that they will step in with new proposals for Ukrainian media to support and protect us.”
Ukraine’s media was nothing but an arm of the US State Department, fuelling anti-Russian narratives against its own Russian-speaking citizens and selling the idea that Zelensky could win a suicidal war against Russia to the last Ukrainian