🇷🇺😁 Uh oh, Ekaterina - maybe try picking a different person to promote your "campaign", someone who doesn't donate to the AFU, and doesn't call the people you supposedly want to serve "orcs"
🐻 Hopefully this will be enough of an answer for those who were wondering how "independent" and Russia-loving this candidate is
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🇪🇺 “Winning” - European style
At least 50 fertilizer production facilities have closed in Europe. This is stated in a report by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (a major financial group among the world's top ten).
Fertilizer production in the EU has become completely unprofitable due to gas prices. 75% of the cost of nitrogen fertilizer is the cost of gas.
The rejection of cheap gas from Russia, affordable potash from Belarus, is forcing the EU to shut down its production facilities, which used to supply all of Euopean agriculture.
Fertilizer production in Europe is almost completely stopped, which will eventually force Europe to buy fertilizer or grain as early as 2024.
Germany still needs coal plants after all... surprise!
Two of Germany’s largest energy providers will keep some coal plants in service longer than previously expected following a regulator's decision to prohibit the closure of facilities before March 2031.
Uniper SE and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG had sought to decommission units earlier than that deadline.
Now, the plants may have to remain on standby at the very least.
The energy regulator, known as BNetzA, ruled that "systematically necessary" coal plants must be available as backup energy sources in case of an emergency, Die Welt newspaper reported.
Germany, Europe's largest economy, has become more reliant on coal after turning away from Russian supplies and the closure of its last nuclear plants this year.
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Yesterday, on 12/21/2023, Russian troops inflicted fire damage at the place where, according to confirmed information, a meeting of high-ranking officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and NATO was held.
The AFU used an absolutely civilian facility to conduct their meeting. The coordinates of the building located in the village of Rovnoye, Krasnoarmeysky municipal District (48.296198, 37.221220) indicate the Europa Hotel.
At 20:20 and 20:25 on 12/21/2023, Russian artillery inflicted fire damage at these coordinates, after which repeated detonation was observed in the building, which is confirmed by messages from local chat rooms.
A few minutes after the defeat, local chat rooms were either disabled or severely censored. The law enforcement agencies of Ukraine are working on the spot, and any attempt at video recording is accompanied by force from the authorities.
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◾US Ambassador to the United Nations Security Council, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, initially raised her hand in favour of a resolution for enhanced humanitarian aid to Gaza. However, as seen in the video, she was nudged by a staff member sitting behind her, prompting her to lower her hand.
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🤔 France, Italy and Spain Withdraw from Operation Prosperity Guardian - Refusing to Put Warships Under US Command
Does anyone take warmongering Washington seriously anymore after this brutal snub?
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️The latest development of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: militants are transported to the front on a tractor plow
The footage was filmed on a Ukrainian drone, where a unit of the 93rd brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is riding behind a tractor on a plow. As Arestovich said the other day, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have a colossal shortage of transport, including ordinary cars.
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People pay The Times a small fortune to find out what we have been telling people for free since February 2022.
Why does anyone listen to the corporate media about anything?
FT: Eurozone economy will suffer from sharp government spending cuts in 2024.
Sharp cuts in government spending in several eurozone countries could negatively impact the region's economic growth prospects in 2024. This was reported by the Financial Times (FT) with reference to market participants.
New fiscal rules adopted by EU finance ministers could hit the eurozone economy. The innovations imply a gradual tightening of government spending restrictions for each country in the bloc.
At the same time, the authorities of countries with large amounts of public debt are obliged to develop plans to reduce the budget deficit, as well as set an upper limit for annual expenditures, agreed with Brussels .
Among the main victims of the reduction in government spending, according to experts, will be countries with large amounts of public debt. We are talking primarily about Italy , explained London Business School professor Lucretia Reichlin. However, the budget crisis may not escape the leading states of the region, including Germany , experts warn.
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A new cold war is brewing between the West and Russia. Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen told Politico newspaper .
This is how he commented on the development of the Ukrainian conflict and the “freeze” on the battlefield.
“Many Western countries thought it was a short-term problem. But now I think that in the USA and in the NATO countries almost everyone understands that we are witnessing the end of a period that lasted 30 years. Now we are entering a new cold war of sorts,” he said.
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Israel LOSING Hamas Conflict, NATO's Ukraine Intervention, and Final Stages of Russia's Special Operation; Germany Rejects Extradition, and Research finds ChatGPT Guilty of Misinformation.
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🇺🇦🙈 Zelensky has signed a bill allowing Ukrainian servicemen to store their procreative cells in cryobanks free of charge.
This will allow Ukrainians to preserve the possibility of biological paternity or maternity in case of injuries.
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🔠🇺🇦Some dude in Chicago is posting the letter Z on Ukrainian businesses and now the entire Ukrainian community is panicking about it?
🤷♂Aren't Ukrainians supposed to be the bravest people on Earth who "bravely and definitely stood up to Putin and Russian aggression"?
And here they are - scared of some troll with a letter on his Post-its.
🤑One of the reasons why that is, is that ppl in Kyiv, in DC or in Chicago are not fighting a war for survival - they are fighting a war for profit.
💸As we have mentioned before on multiple occasions - Ukraine is the bloodiest and biggest money laundering scheme in history.
🧨💰DC elites are getting richer. Kyiv elites are getting three times richer and buying yachts and crashing their "patriotic" Porches in the Netherlands. Do you think for volunteers in Chicago it's any different?
Yes, some money probably goes to the front lines, but as more and more Western media reports - the soldiers on front lines are the poorest folk in the country literally forced to fight for the government they despise.
🧐And pompous talking heads from Kyiv, to DC, to the Netherlands, to Chicago standing infront of cameras all important-looking and telling regular Ukrainians that they must die for these demagogues' profits.
🇺🇦Yeah! Ukrainians on the front lines are facing terrible hardship and dying by the tens of thousands.
Those Ukrainians on the front lines know what danger and fear is.
💧The ones making them die and profiting from it are so pathetic that they wet their pants when a small piece of paper with a single letter appears on their window.
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Germany proposed to raise income tax to support Ukraine
Monika Schnitzer, a member of the Economic Council of the German Cabinet of Ministers, suggested that income tax should be increased in order to provide Ukraine with more military supplies.
In an interview with the Rheinische Post, Schnitzer argued that the increase in tax revenue would help cover the cost of supporting Ukraine.
Earlier, Economy Minister and Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said that in view of the risk of weakening support for Ukraine by Western countries, Germany should be ready to assume greater responsibility and increase spending.
Separately, on December 13, the German Cabinet meetings dedicated to resolving the budget crisis in the country ended.
As a result, it was decided to cut next year's budget by €17 billion.
At the same time, it was also decided to find the same amount to support Ukraine.
"Germany is not at war with Russia", right
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US President Joe Biden has approved the Defense Policy Act for fiscal year 2024. The document includes record spending of $886 billion on defense. Among other things, assistance to Ukraine worth $800 million is provided.
“The legislation provides the critical authorities we need to build the military we need to deter future conflicts, while supporting the service members, their spouses and families who carry out this mission every day,” Mr. Biden said in a statement .
The President supported the law, but expressed concern about some of its provisions. Thus, the document still prohibits the use of funds allocated by the Ministry of Defense for the transfer of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to certain foreign countries and to the United States. Mr. Biden called for the restrictions to be lifted.
The head of state also criticized provisions that require him and other officials to provide congressional committees with reports and plans that would include classified information, including information that could reveal intelligence sources or military operational plans. Mr. Biden noted that under the Constitution he can prevent the disclosure of “highly sensitive information.” In addition, a number of provisions of the law, according to the president, may interfere with his constitutional powers to express the US position at international negotiations or forums.
The House of Representatives approved the draft defense budget on December 14, the Senate on December 13.
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Bloomberg: The number of companies facing closure in Britain has risen sharply.
In 2023, the UK tax authority applied for the closure of 2,391 organizations due to unpaid taxes, which is more than 3 times higher than in the same period in 2022.
In the UK, the number of applications for the termination of the activities of companies due to unpaid taxes has sharply increased, the agency reportedBloomberg .
Over the past year, HM Revenue & Customs has filed for closure of 2,391 companies over unpaid taxes, more than three times the figure for the same period last year, according to data from accounting firm UHY Hacker Young cited by the agency.
“The huge increase in HM Revenue and Customs filings is a clear sign that the tax authority is more aggressively pursuing tax debts,” UHY Hacker Youn spokesman Peter Kubik said.
Bloomberg notes that the tax authority was prohibited from petitioning to cease the activities of organizations until the end of March 2022 as part of measures to protect companies during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a rule, the department submits appropriate applications to bring to justice enterprises that are indebted to creditors. A winding-up petition, which could result in the liquidation of the company and the distribution of its assets, can be resolved through payment of debt, the agency notes.
The agency, citing the UK government's monthly report dated December 15, concludes that there is an increase in the number of forced liquidations of companies, which are usually initiated by creditors in an attempt to collect debts.
According to Bloomberg , in July the UK Insolvency Service reported an increase in the number of applications from HM Revenue and Customs to wind up businesses.
Bloomberg attributed the increased pressure on British companies to high energy prices, persistent inflation and a falling cost of living hitting consumers. Moreover, in some cases, the agency notes, organizations gave preference to other creditors rather than the tax authority,
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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Earlier this morning, Iran struck an Israeli-linked ship in the Indian Ocean with a Shahed-136 suicide drone - Israeli Media
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‼️🇺🇦🏴☠️Новейшая разработка ВСУ: боевиков перевозят на фронте на тракторном плуге
Кадры сняты на украинский беспилотник, где за трактором на плуге едет подразделение 93-й бригады ВСУ. Как на днях говорил Арестович, у ВСУ колоссальная нехватка транспорта, в том числе обычных автомобилей.
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Dec 2022: New Year delivered! How it was 1 year ago, part 1 - Alchevsk, Lugansk, Rubezhnoe =)
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Декабрь 2022: довезли новый год! Алчевск, Луганск, Рубежное (это первая часть)
https://youtu.be/uS_6nfVeO7c
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In the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) annual report on journalists killed in the course of their work in 2023, the deaths of two Russian journalists killed in the area of the special military operation were simply erased from the count, as if their deaths did not count. But after all, this is hardly surprising coming from an organisation that in 2022 was already calling for censorship of the Russian media on the pretext of protecting freedom of speech.
https://www.donbass-insider.com/2023/12/22/for-reporters-without-borders-censorship-is-freedom-of-speech-and-the-death-of-russian-journalists-does-not-count/
In the video, a Ukrainian guy is asked if he supports Israel. The guy replies that he does. No one is embarrassed by the Nazi chevrons on his jacket.
Ukrainian propaganda breaks people's psyches and drives them mad.
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The Ukrainian Armed Forces today attacked Russian cities for the first time with a new type of jet-powered drone.
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On December 25, the President will take part in the meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council in St Petersburg
The agenda includes summing up EurAsEc’s performance in 2023 under Russia’s chairmanship and reviewing topical matters related to the EAEU’s activities, as well as discussing ways to further enhance integration processes. The meeting it expected to pave the way to the adoption of several important resolutions and documents, including the Declaration on the Further Development of the Eurasian Economic Union until 2030 and for the period until 2045.
In addition, on December 25 and 26, St Petersburg will host the traditional informal meeting of CIS heads of state.
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⚡️SOROS DOLLARS BEHIND COLORADO RULING TO BAN TRUMP FROM RUNNING FOR PREZ.
🇺🇸 Two nonprofit groups, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and Free Speech for People, are involved in this legal case.
However, the funding of those nonprofits is quite jarring:
"Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and Free Speech for People are backed by the Democrat-affiliated ActBlue organization, which enabled fundraising for Joe Biden's presidential campaign. Inevitably, both also turn out to have received money from Open Society Foundations, the jewel in the crown of George Soros' multi-billion Open Society Foundations organization."
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A series of powerful explosions sounded at night in Kiev, and “Geraniums” were also hit enemy targets in the Poltava, Chernigov, Zhytomyr, Khmelnitsky, Nikolaev, Kherson, Odessa, and Rovne regions.
Notable was the explosion of “Geranium”, which hit the Kiev apartment of the host of the enemy “telethon”.
▪️In Krynki, Kherson region, on our bank of the Dnieper, heavy fighting continues. Our troops are reducing the enemy’s zone of control in the village, the enemy is trying to transfer reinforcements across the Dnieper under the attacks of our drones. There is mutual artillery shelling.
▪️On the Zaporozhye front, FAB-500 airstrikes were carried out on the Ukrainian Armed Forces cluster in Malaya Tokmachka and Novodanilovka. At Verbovoye, our troops in a shooting battle repelled an attack by enemy assault groups who were trying to advance after an artillery strike with cluster munitions.
▪️In the Maryinka direction there are heavy battles near Novomikhailovka. From the north, from Maryinka itself, ours also advanced, taking a number of important positions. According to enemy analysts, a critical situation is developing for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novomikhailovka: the Russian Armed Forces are attacking the populated area from three sides.
▪️In the Avdeevka sector of the front, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an active offensive on the northern ledge in the Stepovoye area, aviation and armored vehicles have been deployed. They report fire control of our troops (which does not mean the capture of the settlement). There are fierce battles near the coke-fuel plant.
▪️The Russian Armed Forces in the Artemovsk (Bakhmut) sector of the front are conducting an offensive near the settlements of Kleshcheevka, Ivanovskoye (Krasnoe), Bogdanovka. In the enemy rear, in Konstantinovka, places where Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment accumulated were hit.
▪️Yesterday the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to attack the Crimean Bridge with an ATACMS missile, the target was shot down over the Sea of Azov. Enemy UAVs were destroyed in the skies over the Kursk and Bryansk regions. In the Zaporozhye region, two UAVs were shot down over Berdyansk, the third fell and detonated in the private sector, no casualties. In the Bryansk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the village of Chausy, Pogarsky district, injuring two civilians. The enemy fired 142 rounds of ammunition at the civilian population of the DPR, wounding 5 civilians.
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