🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"⚡️ Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region (as of January 30, 2025)

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to defeat the formations of the AFU in the Kursk region.

▫️ Units of the North group of forces in the course of offensive operations defeated formations of a tank, heavy mechanized, four mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, and a marine brigade and three brigades of territorial defense of the AFU in the areas of the settlements of Gogolevka, Goncharovka, Guevo, 1st Knyazhiy, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolaevka, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Rubanshchina, Sverdlikovo and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Two enemy counterattacks were repelled.
 
▫️ Strikes by operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire hit enemy manpower and equipment in the areas of the settlements of Viktorovka, Guevo, Zazulevka, Kazachya Loknya, Kolmakov, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Makhnovka, Melovoy, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Oleshnya, Sverdlikovo, Staraya Sorochina, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolaghi, Zhuravka and Obody in the Sumy region.
 
▫️ AFU losses in 24 hours More than 240 servicemen were killed, two infantry fighting vehicles, an armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, 14 cars, four artillery pieces, nine mortars, two electronic warfare stations, as well as three UAV control points and two ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
▫️ In total, during the military operations in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 56,140 servicemen, 325 tanks, 241 infantry fighting vehicles, 185 armored personnel carriers, 1,653 armored combat vehicles, 1,707 vehicles, 396 artillery pieces, 44 multiple launch rocket system launchers, including 13 HIMARS and six MLRS made in the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile system launchers, eight transport and loading vehicles, 105 electronic warfare stations, 14 counter-battery radars, four air defense radars, 32 units of engineering and other equipment, including 13 engineering obstacle clearing vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing unit, as well as nine armored repair and recovery vehicles and a command and staff vehicle.

The operation to destroy the AFU formations continues."

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🇺🇦⚠️⚠️❌🇷🇺 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Ukrainian Attacks On Territory Of Russia On January 29, 2025 (Map Update)

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⚡️🗯👔🇺🇦👤 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"❗️ Over the past six months, monthly sanitary and irreparable losses of manpower of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have consistently amounted to about 50 thousand people and above (January 2025: 51,960 people, December 2024: 48,470 people, November 2024: 60,805 people, etc.).

At the same time, the number of recruits in the training centers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, even taking into account the “activation” of the TCC throughout Ukraine, has barely reached 30 thousand people per month for about six months, who are sent to the line of combat contact without appropriate training, which leads to a reduction in the number of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to official data, about 100 thousand Ukrainian servicemen voluntarily abandoned their military units and went on the run.

The changes to the legislation prepared by the Kyiv regime under pressure from Western countries to reduce the age of mobilization from 25 to 18 years are the only way for Zelensky to delay the cascading collapse of the front in Donbass for a few more months."

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🇺🇸⚡️✝️ — 🏴 Alt-Market.us | Do We Need A Final Crusade To Save The Western World? | January 28, 2025:

"During the past week I’ve been watching the frenzy over Donald Trump’s cabinet confirmations, specifically because the fabric of his cabinet will give us insight into how the next four years of his presidency will play out. One hearing that I found very interesting was Pete Hegseth’s. The level of hostility on display by Democrats entered the realm of slander.

Hegseth was barely confirmed as the Secretary of Defense with Vice President JD Vance making the tie breaking vote. The political left (and some Neo-Cons) seems to HATE this man in a special way, and initially I had difficulty understanding the real reason why.

Hegseth’s opposition to trans membership in the armed forces is surely one reason, but Trump is removing such mentally unstable people from the military regardless. His opposition to women in combat roles might piss off some feminists but the majority of American war fighters agree with him and every concrete study done on mixed gender combat units has shown terrible results.

Then, I watched a debate between progressive commentators vs Michael Knowles and Dave Rubin which illuminated the situation. The conversation was strangely focused on leftist accusations against Hegseth’s supposedly nefarious tattoo and how it relates to the Christian crusades.

The fury over Hegseth, in my view, gives us a peak behind the curtain at what the establishment truly fears, and their fear is triggered by unabashed Christianity. But not just that – It’s Hegseth’s veneration of old Christianity and a time when Christians controlled much of the known world. People like Hegseth are usually obstructed from entering government because they are standard bearers of a philosophy which terrifies globalists.

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The first crusade was far more than just a geopolitical effort by governments to take back lands that were stolen; it was a massive spiritual correction. It was an endeavor which inspired great unity of purpose among common people. In fact, it was the common people, not the monarchies, that made the first crusade possible. If this kind of event were to happen again it would have to be grounded in similar high minded purpose and populism.

(...)

There is a deep desire in our society for a return to principles; a need for purity of purpose. I see it daily. People are lost and they need a compass. The question is, who will give it to them? The Luciferian globalists? The woke cultists? The Islamic horde? Or us?"

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🇺🇸💸📈5️⃣🔣 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Trump Effect: NATO Chief Pleads For Members To Quickly Step Up Defense Spending | January 28, 2025:

"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday spoke in Lisbon, Portugal alongside the country's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro. The Portuguese prime minister pledge that his country will meet its 2% goal by 2029, but Rutte emphasized this "will not be enough".

Of course, Rutte primarily had Russia in mind when he spoke the following: "We know that the goal of 2%, now set a decade ago, will not be enough to meet the challenges of tomorrow."

"To keep NATO strong, we must, however, continue to adapt and to guarantee our security in the future, we also need to ramp up our efforts now. That also means we need to spend more on our defense," he added."

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🇺🇦📰🙏💸 — 🇺🇦🇨🇦 Ukrainian-Canadian political scientist Ivan Katchanovski on 𝕏:

""Several major Ukrainian media outlets have appealed to their readers for financial support due to the suspension of American grant programs by the new President Donald Trump.

In particular, Hromadske and BihusInfo directly report this. "Some of the projects that we implement thanks to grants are temporarily stopped. That is why we especially need the support of each and every one of you," writes Hromadske.

"The agency (USAID) covered a significant part of our activities. Therefore, now the role of donations from viewers is changing from an alternative source to one of the key ones. What will happen in 90 days, we do not know, but we know one thing: now is the time to find out whether our work is really needed by Ukrainian society," the editorial board of BihusInfo noted.

"Ukrainska pravda" and "Detector Media" also asked for donations, but did not directly name the suspension of USAID projects as the reason for this." strana.today/news/479103-rj…"

🔗 Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski)

🇩🇰🆗🇷🇺🛠⛽️ — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Denmark Changes Tune, Allows Russia's Gazprom To Do Work On Damaged NS2 Pipeline | January 29, 2025:

"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."

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🇯🇴🇪🇬🚫🇵🇸👨‍👧‍👧 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Jordan, Egypt Reject US Plan To Resettle Gazans As Trump Doubles Down | January 29, 2025:

"After last Saturday President Trump floated a plan to 'clean out' Gaza by conducting a mass resettlement of Palestinians in neighboring countries, namely Egypt and Jordan, he's now doubling down on the idea.

Egypt and Jordan are not happy, but are also feeling the pressure as a result, and it must be remembered that both are recipients of huge amounts of foreign aid each year - with Egypt receiving billions.

Israeli media underscores there's been wall-to-wall firm opposition by Arab leaders: "US President Donald Trump dug in his heels Monday over a controversial suggestion that large numbers of Gazans take refuge in Egypt and Jordan, shrugging off wall-to-wall opposition to the proposal from Arab leaders."

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇮🇱🇵🇸 Escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone —chronicle of events for January 30, 2025

The third hostage release took place in the Gaza Strip : three Israelis and five Thai citizens were released. However, Israel has so far refused to release Palestinian prisoners.

Operation Iron Wall is in full swing on the West Bank. Air power was deployed: up to ten members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were killed in a pinpoint strike on Tammun.

Israeli forces continue engineering operations in southern Lebanon, demolishing several buildings in Mays al-Jabal and Burj al-Muluk. At the same time, isolated artillery strikes were carried out north of the Golan Heights.

🔻 A detailed analytical report on events in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone is available on Rybar's closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

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🇸🇾💥🔥 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Military Situation In Syria On January 30, 2025 (Map Update)

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🇨🇳🔧☢️ — 🌟 Reuters | Exclusive: Images show China building huge fusion research facility, analysts say | January 28, 2025:

"SINGAPORE, Jan 28 (Reuters) - China appears to be building a large laser-ignited fusion research centre in the southwestern city of Mianyang, experts at two analytical organisations say, a development that could aid nuclear weapons design and work exploring power generation.

Satellite photos show four outlying "arms" that will house laser bays, and a central experiment bay that will hold a target chamber containing hydrogen isotopes the powerful lasers will fuse together, producing energy, said Decker Eveleth, a researcher at U.S.-based independent research organisation CNA Corp.

It is a similar layout to the $3.5 billion U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Northern California, which in 2022 generated more energy from a fusion reaction than the lasers pumped into the target - "scientific breakeven".

Eveleth, who is working with analysts at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), estimates the experiment bay at the Chinese facility is about 50% bigger than the one at NIF, currently the world's largest.

The development has not been previously reported."

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☘️🤝🇨🇳❌🇺🇸 — 🇺🇸 RealClear Wire | Green Deception: Environmental Activists Serve China’s Energy Agenda | January 27, 2025:

"American energy independence is under attack from a shadowy alliance that threatens the foundation of our national security and economic prosperity. On the surface, we see radical environmental activists interrupting corporate shareholder meetings, blocking traffic, and vandalizing artwork. But behind these increasingly aggressive protests lies a more insidious threat: the Chinese Communist Party, which quietly bankrolls these same activists through a complex web of foundations and activist networks. Through dark money, China exploits environmental activism to undermine America's energy sector. This dangerous partnership between foreign adversaries and domestic extremists demands immediate Congressional action – including comprehensive investigations into Chinese funding of domestic American nonprofits and new laws protecting American energy infrastructure. The security of America's energy future hangs in the balance, and we can no longer afford to ignore this coordinated assault on our nation's vital interests."

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🇮🇹🔎🐳 — 🌟 Reuters | Italy regulator seeks information from DeepSeek on data protection | January 28, 2025:

"ROME, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Italy's data protection authority said on Tuesday it was seeking answers from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek on its use of personal data.

The Italian regulator, which is also known as the Garante, said it wanted to know what personal data is collected, from which sources, for what purposes, on what legal basis, and whether it is stored in China.

DeepSeek and its affiliated companies have 20 days to answer, the Garante said in a statement, in one of the first regulatory moves targeting the Chinese startup."

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🇺🇸❌❓🗣 — 📰 Strategic Culture Foundation | Is Trump positioning for a “no-deal” with Russia – or not? | The idea of inflicting “strategic defeats” on Russia has been a cornerstone of U.S. policy for so long a time that it transcends party lines | January 28, 2025:

"Trump’s rhetoric about Russia having lost 1 million men in the Ukraine conflict is not just nonsense (the real number not even reaching 100,000), but his resort to it underlines that the usual meme of Trump being just woefully misinformed is looking less and less plausible.

After touting the 1 million Russian deaths, Trump then suggests that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal. Adding (seemingly as an aside), that Putin may have already made up his mind ‘not to make a deal’.

Instead, in a curiously disinterested way, Trump remarks that negotiations would depend entirely on whether Putin is interested or not. He further claims that Russia’s economy is in ruins, and most notably says that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia, if Putin does not make a deal. In a subsequent Truth Social post, Trump writes, “I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR”

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation for January 30, 2025

Over the course of 24 hours, Russian forces struck infrastructure facilities in the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, including the port of Izmail in the Odessa region, as well as airfields in the Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhia regions.

The enemy has launched another raid on Russian regions: five drones and two missiles have been destroyed in Crimea and the Bryansk region.

In the Seversky direction, Russian fighters entered the territory of Verkhnekamenskoye , but the outcome of the assault is still unclear.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces are attacking in the Uspenovka area and have managed to make significant progress near Novoandreyevka .

In the Andreevsky direction, a large stronghold near Andreyevka was taken, and the control zone on the Shevchenko-Dachnoye line to the west of Kurakhovo was expanded.

🔻A detailed analytical report on the events in the Special Military Operation zone is available on Rybar's closed channel @rybar_plus_bot

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