🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 Russian channel Rybar on Telegram:

"❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Liberation of Maryinka
situation as of 19.00 December 25, 2023

🔻After more than nine years of fighting (seven of positional and almost two years of active clashes), Russian soldiers hoisted the Russian flag on the last house on the northern outskirts of Marinka, marking the liberation of the Donetsk suburb.

▪️At the cost of considerable effort and significant sacrifices, one of the largest strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fell under the onslaught of the Russian Army. Marinka was finally cleared of Ukrainian presence.

🔻After the liberation of Marinka, Ukrainian forces concentrated in the Georgievka area. There is no point in expecting attempts at counterattacks on the lost city, since the western outskirts lie in a lowland, and an offensive from these positions will cost the Ukrainian Armed Forces great casualties.

▪️More expected and logical on the part of the Ukrainian forces is the transfer of reinforcements to the south to the village of Pobeda and the heights in the landings southeast of the settlement.

▪️The main events will probably move to this site. The fortified area in this village still remains under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and does not allow success to be developed towards the Novomikhailovka-Konstantinovka line.

Russian fighters are already moving from the south, storming enemy strongholds from the southern outskirts of Novomikhailovka. The fighting, judging by the available videos, is taking place in an industrial zone near a populated area.

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🇩🇰🚢©️ — 🇺🇸 The Epoch Times | Maersk to Resume Vessel Transit Through Red Sea Amid Ongoing Houthi Threat | Maersk’s decision comes after the United States announced a security initiative to patrol the region and ensure safety of vessels:

"Danish shipping giant Maersk said it intends to resume shipping through the Red Sea region after earlier canceling it due to security concerns related to Houthi attacks.

In mid-December, Maersk suspended shipments through the Red Sea following drone and missile attacks on ships in the region. On Sunday, the company announced it would be resuming operations through the route. “We have received confirmation that the previously announced multi-national security initiative Operation Prosperity Guardian (OPG) has now been set up and deployed to allow maritime commerce to pass through the Red Sea / Gulf of Aden and once again return to using the Suez Canal as a gateway between Asia and Europe,” the company said in a Dec. 24 update.

“With the OPG initiative in operation, we are preparing to allow for vessels to resume transit through the Red Sea both eastbound and westbound. We are currently working on plans for the first vessels to make the transit and for this to happen as soon as operationally possible.”

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📲📱💸 HOW TO MAXIMIZE ANONYMITY WHEN ACCESSING THE INTERNET ON MOBILE.

Dystopia is in full swing in Europe, and achieving true anonymity from mobile devices is a big problem.

There are still countries (such as the Czech Republic, the UK, and others) where it is still possible to buy an anonymous SIM card without the need to register. The problem arises when you insert this SIM card into a non-anonymous phone. One whose identifier (called IMEI) is already known by the mobile operator – which means that you have used this phone with a non-anonymous SIM card in the past or that when you bought this phone, the retailer recorded its IMEI and linked it to your person or company. In this case, you are de-anonymised, and the mobile operator (and indirectly the state) can identify and locate you again.

https://nethemba.com/how-to-maximize-anonymity-when-accessing-the-internet-on-mobile/

🇻🇪❌🇬🇾 — On December 24, 2023, locals at Venezuelan-Guyanese border reported a massive overflight of Sukhoi warplanes belonging to the Venezuelan Bolivarian Military Aviation (Venezuelan Air Force) at the border limits

It happens just days after British Royal Navy reported that was sending warships to Guyanese Territorial waters as the tensions between Venezuela and the former British Colony of Guyana escalates once again

🔗 Zair Mundaray (@MundarayZair)

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼🇺🇸 — 📰 NBC News: Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China

➡️ Chinese President Xi Jinping bluntly told President Joe Biden during their recent summit in San Francisco that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with mainland China but that the timing has not yet been decided, according to three current and former U.S. officials.

➡️ Xi told Biden in a group meeting attended by a dozen American and Chinese officials that China’s preference is to take Taiwan peacefully, not by force, the officials said.

➡️ The Chinese leader also referenced public predictions by U.S. military leaders who say that Xi plans to take Taiwan in 2025 or 2027, telling Biden that they were wrong because he has not set a time frame, according to the two current and one former official briefed on the meeting.

➡️ Chinese officials also asked in advance of the summit that Biden make a public statement after the meeting saying that the United States supports China’s goal of peaceful unification with Taiwan and does not support Taiwanese independence, they said. The White House rejected the Chinese request.

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https://archive.is/JPmd6

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — 📰 Global Times News: China urges the US to implement US leader's promise of not supporting "Taiwan independence," stop playing with the Taiwan question and not harm peace and stability in the Taiwan Straits, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said in response to US' fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that hypes US military support for the island of Taiwan.

🔗 Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

🇷🇺💸💸 Vladimir Putin's Signature Brings Digital Ruble Into Russia's Tax Code.

The tax code now contains a definition of "digital ruble account" and has rules for the taxation of transactions with digital rubles.

Russia has been pushing forward with its digital ruble, in part as a means to circumvent financial restrictions in the form of sanctions imposed on it for its actions against Ukraine. Putin signed the digital ruble bill into law in July. The Bank of Russia has been working on the Digital ruble as a central bank digital currency project since 2020.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/12/21/vladimir-putins-signature-brings-digital-ruble-into-russias-tax-code/