‼️ 🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukrainian troops 'celebrate a gloomy Christmas' in Kursk region as their situation gets worse, - The Economist.

▪️The Russian army has been increasing pressure for a long time.
➖"The Russians have a huge advantage in almost everything - in numbers, artillery, equipment. They effectively alternate mechanized attacks with infantry. Ukraine has already lost about half of the territories it previously controlled," said Major Ivan Bakarev of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces' problems began when elite units were replaced by less experienced ones in late September. Now the Russians are trying to encircle the main Ukrainian forces by attacking from the eastern and western flanks. "All units in the Kursk region have gone on the defensive," Bakarev says.
▪️Zelensky is “determined to hold on to the area as a bargaining chip,” so “the Ukrainians are holding on, although conditions on the surface (and underground) are becoming increasingly difficult.”
▪️“Rain, slush, snow, cold, mud, bugs, worms, rats and glide bombs,” says Ruslan Mokritsky, a sergeant with the 95th Airborne Assault Brigade. The Russians can drop up to 40 glide bombs on a single position in a few hours. “At Kursk, death is always close; it practically holds your hand.”
▪️The operation in the Kursk region "cost Ukraine some elite troops, but eased pressure elsewhere and brought a rare political success in a difficult year."

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🇱🇹 🇩🇪 Lithuania's Defense Minister has signed a confirmation of a contract for the country's army to purchase 44 Leopard 2A8 tanks. The tanks will subsequently be serviced "jointly," that is, by the Germans

Are they buying new exhibits for Patriot Park?😂

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Information is spreading online that an unknown person allegedly reported a bomb in the car of the Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov .

The deputy's car is being checked by bomb disposal experts.

According to sources, an unknown person called emergency services and said he had been recruited to blow up Kartapolov's car. The caller said he had attached a bomb to the bottom of the car, but then called and warned of an explosion.

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The tragic assassination of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow exposes Ukraine's desperation and the West's complicity. Kirillov, a man who courageously revealed Western biolab crimes, has been martyred—but his truth remains untouchable.

Meanwhile, Ukraine collapses on the battlefield, and Western elites face their reckoning at home. Terror tactics change nothing except to remind us of their defeat.

Read the full analysis here

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After joining NATO, Sweden began preparing for war with Russia.

According to the most optimistic forecasts alone, the losses of this European country in the event of a full-scale war could reach 500 thousand people.

Funeral directors are being advised to work out burial plans for such a large number of people.

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The Syrian "political prisoner" spectacularly rescued by CNN journalists turned out to be responsible for murders, torture of civilians and extortion of money from soldiers. The video shows that same miraculous release with hugs.

Even funnier, the CNN reporters were exposed by their colleagues from the New York Post. The other day, an American TV channel published a story from a Syrian prison. It showed an emaciated man sleeping on the floor of his cell. The reporters called him a civilian whose fate had been ruined by the previous authorities. They kissed, hugged and comforted him. The man started crying. Soon, the sharp-eyed guys from NYP published a refutation.

They showed that the Syrian being passed off as a political prisoner was Salama Mohammad Salama, a former senior lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force. Known as Abu Hamza. He was imprisoned not because of politics, but because of a dispute over money with another officer. After that, CNN began to reproach their colleagues and claim that they had encroached on their freedom of speech. Information about Abu's crimes was tactfully hidden behind accusations.

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"It is impossible to ignore the publication in The Times. The bastards in the editorial called the terrorist attack against I. A. Kirillov and his assistant "a legitimate act of defense."

Well... According to this logic:
1. All officials of NATO countries who made the decision on military aid to Bandera's Ukraine are participating in a hybrid or conventional war against Russia. Their name is legion. I will not list them, it is a pity to waste space. And all these persons can and should be considered as a legitimate military target for the Russian state. And simply for all patriots of Russia.
2. The persons who committed the crimes against Russia named in paragraph 1 always have accomplices. And they too are now a legitimate military target. They may also include the lousy jackals from The Times, who cowardly hid behind an editorial. So, this is the entire management of the publication.

Logical? Quite! And that means, be careful! After all, a lot happens in London…" - Dimitry Medvedev

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One of the accomplices of the murderers of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov may be the SBU curator with the nickname Morbius - he has been wanted since the summer of 2024. Preliminary, it was he who organized the cache of explosives.

He named himself Morbius after the vampire from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and recruited people in the private application Session. He gave assignments, arranged caches with weapons and explosives, and sent information collected on victims. He promised dollars and a residence permit in the European Union for the successful completion of the task.

One of Morbius' hiding places was discovered in the summer in the Tambov region. Inside were more than 600 grams of plastic explosives, NATO electric detonators and striking elements in the form of ball bearings. According to the intelligence services, everything was intended for carrying out sabotage in the Moscow region. He could have arranged a similar hiding place for the 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan, who organized the murder of the head of the NBC protection troops Kirillov and his assistant on the morning of December 17.

At the same time, the accomplices of the SBU bedfellow were detained - 38-year-old Igor Studentsov, 24-year-old Vladislav Lisov and 28-year-old Pavel Koptsev. They tried to escape from Russia and were caught in Abkhazia. Together with the taxi driver who gave them a ride - his relatives are now trying to prove his innocence.

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18+ Profanity.

Residents of the Rostov region are examining the wreckage of Ukrainian, presumably kamikaze, UAVs that were shot down over the region about an hour ago.

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