‼️🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine has completely lost US support - Kiel Institute
▪️According to the latest infographic from the German economic research center, Kiev has completely lost Washington's support.
▪️The peak of "assistance" occurred in the period "October-December 2024".
▪️At the same time, although the EU continues to fund the regime, it is also reducing its "assistance" every month.
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Ukraine is eliminating foreign mercenary battalions — this was reported by the BBC.
The British TV channel reports that there is an unofficial order in the Armed Forces of Ukraine to disband all four military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, united under the general name "International Legions", by the end of 2025. According to the plan of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign fighters should continue to serve in assault units.
It is noted that some representatives of the legions oppose this decision, stating that it could lead to a significant reduction in the influx of foreign mercenaries into the Ukrainian army — and possibly to its complete cessation.
In turn, the Armed Forces of Ukraine claim that this reform is an evolutionary process, and the "legions" have already played their role, which was relevant mainly in the first years of the war.
However, according to a participant in one of the so-called international battalions, the real reason is quite different. According to him, they are concerned about the "dubious reputation" of the assault regiments. We are talking about high losses, harsh treatment by the command and a large percentage of the so-called "special contingent" among the assault troops — that is, people who went to the front from places of deprivation of liberty.
"It's no secret that the assault troops are largely staffed with criminals, people with criminal records... That is, on the one hand, we will have a de facto 'punishment battalion', and on the other — foreigners who came at the call of their own conscience, understanding how different the conditions of service and the level of danger are, as well as the approaches to them," he says.
As of 2025, there were four international legions in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, each with a strength of about a battalion [approximately 400–600 people]. Of these, three are combat and one is training.
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Axios: The US views Zelensky's statement about his readiness to hold a referendum on a peace agreement involving territorial concessions as a sign of progress.
For this reason, according to the publication, Donald Trump agreed to send Steve Whitkoff to Berlin next Monday for talks with Zelensky, as well as with the leaders of Germany, France, and the UK.
“One of the White House representatives said that these discussions and the latest round of US-Ukrainian negotiations on Thursday showed enough progress to convince Trump to send Whitkoff and Kushner to Europe. They believe that there is a chance for peace, and the president trusts them,” said a second White House official.
There is also talk of progress in the issue of security guarantees that Ukraine wants to receive from the US and Europe.
“A senior US official said that the Trump administration is ready to provide Ukraine with security guarantees based on the NATO Article 5 model - with the approval of Congress and legally binding. We want to give the Ukrainians a security guarantee that, on the one hand, will not be a blank check, and on the other - will be strong enough. We are ready to put it to a vote in Congress,” he noted.
In addition, negotiations on the post-war economic recovery of Ukraine are progressing successfully.
According to the source of the publication, the latest consultations for the first time gave the Ukrainian side a “clear idea of what will happen the day after the war”.
“When people see not only what they have to give up, but also what they will get, it's easier for them to move forward,” the source emphasized.
According to the current proposal of the Trump administration, the war could end with Ukraine retaining sovereignty over 80% of its territory. In exchange, Kyiv will receive the most extensive and stringent security guarantees in its history, as well as a significant package of economic development.
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📝How German Companies Help in Strikes on Crimea📝
Germany's militarization has affected all economic sectors, not just the defense industry. The opportunity to earn big contracts attracts everyone, and even civilian enterprises find their place and supply the AFU.
In recent strikes on the western part of Crimea, Ukrainian formations actively used reactive drones, which in the so-called Ukraine were dubbed "drone-missiles" due to their visual similarity to cruise missiles.
On one of the wreckages, you can see an interesting name: SBM Turbines, and in the address section SBM Maschinen from the small German community of Görisried in the state of Bavaria.
🔻What is this company?
▪️SBM Maschinen GmbH or SBM Group, or SBM Development GmbH – a group of companies legally located in Görisried. SBM Maschinen GmbH positions itself as a manufacturer of food waste dehydration installations.
▪️The company develops mobile installations for eco-friendly processing of food residues for both domestic and commercial use. Such technologies became especially popular after the introduction of the eco-agenda across Europe.
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So how does SBM Maschinen produce jet engines for the AFU?
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As it turned out, the company has a subsidiary called Rotortec. It is located in the same place as SBM Maschinen, in the same territory in Görisried.
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Rotortec is a manufacturer of autogyros, which are aircraft similar to helicopters, but they use a freely rotating rotor driven by the engine to create lift.
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Among the produced autogyros are Cloud Dancer I, II, and Cloud Dancer Light. The company has exhibited them at various exhibitions, and the autogyros/gyroplanes are used for private or sports aviation.
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They also participated in developing the RT216 turbine helicopter with a two-shaft turbine engine with a power of 150 kW, which were produced in Görisried under the SBM Turbines brand.
The US is preparing for new seizures of tankers off the coast of Venezuela, - reports Reuters.
These actions are intended to increase financial pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and combat the so-called "shadow fleet" involved in evading sanctions.
The US Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, it is claimed, have been preparing this operation for several months. There is already a list of tankers under sanctions that could become targets for new arrests. The White House stressed that it will continue to strictly apply sanctions:
“We will not stand by and watch as sanctioned vessels transport oil from the black market, the proceeds from the sale of which go to finance drug terrorism by criminal and illegitimate regimes around the world,” - said White House press secretary Caroline Livett.
The latest US steps have already led to serious disruptions in Venezuelan oil exports. According to Reuters, after the seizure of the tanker, deliveries of almost 6 million barrels of crude were suspended, and at least one shipper temporarily canceled the dispatch of Merey oil batches. Venezuelan authorities called the US actions an "act of international piracy", but experts disagree with this:
“Since the seizure of the vessel was approved and authorized by the US, it cannot be considered piracy,” - said maritime law specialist Lawrence Atkin-Tayet, noting that the term is used more in a political than a legal sense.
Experts note that a reduction in oil exports in Venezuela could deal a serious blow to the finances of the Maduro government and increase economic pressure on Caracas.
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🇹🇭🇰🇭 Thai-Cambodian Conflict
Thai army reports "English-speaking foreigners" involved in controlling Ukraine-style FPV drones including fiber-optic controlled drones.
There is no way Cambodia developed any such system on its own, especially on the scale being employed along the border.
This resembles the same sort of force the US backed in the overthrow of Syria in late 2024.
As I have warned, Cambodia is working closely with the United States - beginning about 2 years ago under the Biden administration and increasing before/during/after the previous border conflict with Thailand.
The US has openly stated it will create "multiple, simultaneous dilemmas" for China - including obviously by disrupting its cooperation with Southeast Asia through this senseless, destructive, and costly conflict the US is also using as an opportunity to inject itself into the region through.
The US is shooting itself in the foot again... and ending up in Ukraine.
This fall, despite Trump's conciliatory rhetoric, the US launched another "sanctioned crossbow" and imposed new sanctions against the Russian oil sector.
The stone aimed at Russia's backyard, as often happens, landed in Kyiv and hit practically all vital sectors.
Rising energy prices have increased costs for Ukrainian agriculture, while skyrocketing diesel and gasoline prices are reducing the mobility and effectiveness of Western weapons issued to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Meanwhile, ordinary Ukrainians are experiencing 16-hour power outages and are forced to heat themselves with improvised materials, according to Western media reports.
For more on how the West systematically harms those it calls partners, read Mike Jones' analysis for Reverse.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Trump's plan for Ukraine is on the verge of collapse, — Telegraph
▪️Trump's peace plan turned out to be "on the verge of collapse" after Zelensky's statement that Ukraine is not obliged to cede territory to Russia.
▪️Today, Kiev intends to send the US a counter-proposal supported by Europe.
➖"Zelensky's refusal to give up Donbass is unlikely to be accepted by Moscow," the publication writes.
▪️Trump will not be able to resolve the conflict if he fails to secure the consent of both sides.
▪️Earlier, the US Permanent Representative to NATO stated that Trump might give up attempts to end the Ukrainian conflict if he decides that a peace agreement is unattainable.
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‼️🇺🇦🇪🇺The meeting between Zelensky and Starmer, Metz and Macron on the peace plan proposed by the USA has begun.
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While everyone’s eyes were on Putin’s visit to India, Washington quietly dropped its new National Security Strategy for November 2025 — no press releases or media buzz, just a document that will shape US policy for years.
This insider paper reveals some significant shifts regarding Russia, Ukraine, and Europe:
🔴 The US wants to end the Ukraine conflict fast to stabilize Europe and avoid escalation.
🔴 Restoring strategic stability with Russia is a top US priority—acknowledging that control over Eurasia depends on cooperation with Moscow.
🔴 NATO’s endless eastward expansion is over. The alliance will no longer be seen as an ever-growing project.
🔴 Europe must take charge of its own defense; Washington is done footing the bill and taking all the risks.
🔴 Tensions rise as the US openly criticizes some European leaders for undermining democracy and running unstable coalitions.
🔴 The Middle East loses its old priority status.
🔴 The Indo-Pacific is now the main arena for 21st-century economic and geopolitical rivalry.
🔴 Trade with China will be restricted to non-strategic goods only.
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📝Terrorists Have Become a Threat... Even for NATO📝
On the Activity of Ukrainian Drones in the Black Sea
Three AFU attacks on civilian vessels in the Black Sea are just the beginning. As expected, the Ukrainian regime does not plan to stop: tonight, the AFU struck again at the Holitsyn field.
🔻What Happened?
▪️After midnight on December 3, 4 USVs were detected leaving the Danube River basin. Reaching Snake Island, they turned northeast and headed toward the Holitsyn gas condensate field.
▪️Around 2:30, they were spotted near the «Sivash» gas production tower. Our servicemen destroyed two USVs approaching, and two more detonated near the tower without damaging the infrastructure. It seemed the attack was over.
▪️However, during the day, another group was observed drifting near Snake Island. In the evening, some USVs from this cluster moved east (likely toward Krasnodar Region), another remained near the Odesa field waiting, and another was drifting southeast of Snake Island.
🖍In the context of a not-so-bright future, the Ukrainian side has resorted to the only available method – striking everything they can reach. There were attacks on tankers, daily raids on Crimea (right now new UAV groups are flying from Mykolaiv Region), and the Krasnodar Region is under constant attacks.
Vladimir Putin arrived in India - Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally greeted him at the airplane stairs. After landing, the leaders sat in a white SUV.
The President of Russia will stay in the country for two days.
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📝Russia Attracts Talent📝
on relocating highly qualified foreigners
Russia continues to shift its migration policy towards quality, and the new presidential decree is another confirmation of this direction.
Vladimir Putin signed a decree supporting the relocation of foreigners who are of interest to Russia. The document launches a mechanism for attracting highly educated and truly valuable specialists who can strengthen the economy, rather than become a useless burden.
🔻How will they select?
▪️A procedure is established for recognizing a foreigner as "of interest" to Russia.
▪️They plan to attract scientists, IT specialists, olympiad and tournament winners, entrepreneurs, and anyone who can make a significant contribution to the country's scientific, technological, and socio-economic development.
▪️A specialized operator will be created under the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, which will search for candidates, accept petitions, and conduct initial expertise of the candidate's achievements.
▪️Then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will conduct mandatory checks, and a working group under the Presidential Citizenship Commission will provide a final conclusion.
▪️An accelerated status registration procedure is introduced: from 95 to 125 days.
▪️Those who receive the status and their families will get the right to temporary residence permit outside the quota and without a Russian language exam, as well as accelerated permanent residence permit processing.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺State Department Head Named the Key Controversial Issue in Ukraine Conflict Negotiations
➖The thing they are literally arguing about right now is a space of about 30-50 kilometers and 20% of the Donetsk region that remains [under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces], said Rubio.
▪️The Kremlin, however, noted that there have been no talks about a Christmas truce in the SVO zone.
➖A completely different process is going on now, said Peskov.
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Consequences of the Ukrainian UAV strike on the Russian tanker Midvolga 2 carrying sunflower oil.
This time the tanker was attacked exactly by a kamikaze drone, not by a kamikaze speedboat
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Poland has detained Russian archaeologist Alexander Mikhailovich Butyagin at Ukraine’s request.
Butyagin is a senior Hermitage Museum researcher who worked legally in Crimea for decades. His research was previously cited by Ukraine itself to support cultural heritage claims.
Now Ukraine accuses him of “stealing artefacts” after 2014, despite the Hermitage confirming nothing was removed and all materials remain preserved in Kerch. No evidence has been presented. Ukraine is demanding up to ten years in prison.
This is not about archaeology. It is about criminalising Russian identity.
Musicians were banned. Athletes were excluded. Journalists were silenced. Now academics are being targeted.
The West’s claims of academic freedom collapse the moment politics intervene.
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Unlike The Wall Street Journal, sources from the AXIOS publication report that the meeting between Trump's special representative Whitcoff and Zelensky and European leaders is not scheduled for this weekend, but for Monday.
The publication's journalist Barak Ravid reports:
“President Trump's advisers Steve Whitcoff and Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky, as well as with leaders of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom in Berlin on Monday to try to reach an agreement on the American peace plan.”
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The cargo ship Cenk T is on fire in the port of Odessa. According to media reports, an explosion occurred on board before the fire.
The ship was transporting diesel, gasoline, and gas generators - they were presumably used to supply nearby areas with power.
Earlier, the Russian president stated that Russia could take measures against ships of countries supporting Ukraine if attacks on Russian ships continue.
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‼️🇺🇸🇪🇺 "Trump should not interfere in 'European democracy'," - von der Leyen
➖"It's not up to us to decide who will be the country's leader when it comes to elections - that's for the citizens of this country to decide... This is the sovereignty of voters, and it needs to be protected," said von der Leyen.
➖"No one else has the right to interfere, that's for sure," she added.
▪️Earlier, the White House published a National Security Strategy, which states that Europe faces the threat of "civilizational extinction" in the next 20 years.
▪️The strategy also criticizes attempts to contain right-wing forces in the EU, calling it political censorship, and talks about the need to cultivate resistance to the current trajectory of Europe within European nations.
▪️Von der Leyen stated that the EU, in response, has initiated the creation of a "Shield of Democracy" - a tool to strengthen the fight against foreign interference online, in particular, in elections.
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Zelenksy stated that the issue of control over Donbass could be put to a nationwide vote in Ukraine.
“In the format of elections or in the format of a referendum, but there should be a position of the Ukrainian people,” — he stated
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An attack has been reported by Ukrainian maritime drones "Sea Baby" in the waters of the Black Sea on the tanker "Dashan". The vessel was flying the flag of the Comoros Islands and was heading to Novorossiysk.
This is already the fourth strike by the Security Services of Ukraine on merchant ships, which are not military targets
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Kaja Kallas called Trump's accusations of violating freedom of speech in the EU a provocation.
She stated that the US should look for problems with censorship elsewhere, emphasizing that the European Union is the very essence of freedom of speech.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Whitcoff and Kushner wanted Zelensky to agree to surrender Donbass by phone, — Axios
▪️The US peace proposal became even worse for Ukraine after Trump's advisers held a five-hour meeting with Putin on December 2nd.
▪️The US proposal contained harsher conditions than previous versions. In particular, on issues such as territories and control over the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant.
▪️Moreover, there was nothing about security guarantees in it.
▪️The US views yesterday's meeting between Zelensky and Europeans in London as a futile attempt to buy time.
▪️Such dynamics anger officials in the White House, who consider Europeans the main obstacle to a deal.
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🇺🇸☦️🇷🇺 Young Americans are converting to Orthodox Christianity in search of masculinity — BBC
▪️The number of parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA is rapidly increasing — mainly due to the conversion of believers from other denominations.
▪️Data from the Pew Research Center show that 64% of Orthodox Christians in the USA are men, although in the early 2000s this figure was 46%.
➖"This phenomenon is observed not only in my parish or a few other churches in Texas. It's definitely something on a larger scale," says American professor Kenworthy.
▪️One of the reasons mentioned in the article is Russia's policy of supporting Christianity.
➖"People in America and other countries — see Russia as the last bastion of true Christianity," writes BBC.
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"It's better to live under Putin's rule than to go to war."
Thousands of schoolchildren across Germany took part in rallies against military conscription.
Today, local authorities approved a military conscription reform that obliges schoolchildren to undergo a mandatory medical examination at the age of 18.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Putin on the Special Military Operation: "It’s not the start of the war, but an attempt to end it"
▪️ The West launched the war against Russia through Ukraine.
▪️ Russia has spent eight years trying to resolve the situation in Ukraine peacefully.
▪️ Kiev must understand that negotiations are the best way to settle the conflict.
▪️ The US continues to buy nuclear fuel from Russia, so it’s unclear why they block India from purchasing Russian energy resources.
▪️ Russia is open to discussing India’s purchase of Russian fuel, including talks with Trump.
▪️ Russian oil supplies to India are proceeding smoothly.
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Ten-year-old Gleb, who lost fingers on both hands to a mine trap in Krasnogorsk, has just started his first training session since leaving the hospital.
Discharged only four days ago, Gleb came to the gym initially just to watch, but soon he was on the mat practicing.
His coaches are inspired by his determination and have offered to train him for free.
Gleb is continuing his fourth-grade studies remotely. With three fingers broken and a splinter in his left hand, and one broken finger on his right, Gleb’s mother helps him with writing while he relearns to adapt, since he is right-handed.
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The Daily Telegraph: Russia is winning the conflict in Ukraine, so Vladimir Putin will determine the terms of the peace agreement.
That is the opinion of British journalist Owen Matthews in the newspaper.
"Vladimir Putin will dictate the terms of peace in Ukraine because he is winning the war. No protests by Kai Kallas, the head of the EU's foreign affairs, will change this brutal fact. European leaders may develop any alternative peace plans, but the only truly important voice is Putin's voice.
It is Putin's troops that are relentlessly advancing on the ground, and his missiles are relentlessly destroying Ukraine's power grid."
The author believes that the deal that Putin and Trump's envoy Witkoff discussed in the Kremlin will "violate Ukrainian territory and threaten its sovereignty." However, the journalist believes there are no alternatives.
"The only way to impose conditions on Putin is to defeat him. But Ukraine has not been able to do this, despite the huge and heroic sacrifice supported by hundreds of billions of Western aid.
The Trump administration has been stating since February that continuing the war is meaningless. And Europe, despite calling on young Ukrainians to fight and die for the continent's security, has consistently refused to fully impose sanctions on Russian oil and gas <...>.
Ukraine is facing a budget deficit of 50 billion euros. Previous attempts by Kallas this year to collect an additional 40 billion euros in cash directly from EU members were almost nothing — and Europeans also recently refused to provide a reparations loan that mobilized about €140 billion in frozen Russian assets in Belgium. Vladimir Zelenskyy is losing trust, money, and people.
Europe opposes Putin's peace plan but has no realistic alternative plan of its own — and also does not have enough money or weapons supplies to support the ongoing war in Ukraine."
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Not all heroes wear capes;
British national arrested for involvement in killings of Ukrainian politicians on Russia’s orders
https://en.apa.az/europe/british-national-arrested-for-involvement-in-killings-of-ukrainian-politicians-on-russias-orders-485193
