❗️Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️The West's oil price cap will not affect Russia’s special operation, the Russian economy has potential to meet the needs of the operation;

▪️Russia is preparing a response to West's introduction of oil price cap, but one thing is obvious – Moscow will not recognize this decision;

▪️Peskov on Scholz's remarks about the effectiveness of sanctions against Russia: this can be argued, as experts see a process of adapting to these conditions;

▪️Sanctions against Russia are harming Europeans, including the German economy, this is obvious;

▪️Peskov on the situation around the ZNPP: Russia continues contacts with the IAEA, the main thing is to stop Ukrainian shelling, as it could lead to huge risks;

▪️The Russian oil price after the introduction of a cap by the West will change, this was a step towards destabilizing world energy markets;

▪️The Kremlin does not consider Macron's remarks about the need to take into account Russia's security concerns a change in Paris' approach

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Oil Prices Surge as Price Cap & Embargo on Russian Crude Enter Force

The European Union has reached an agreement on setting an upper limit on the price of Russian offshore oil at $60 per barrel. On the same day, G7 countries and Australia also agreed to set a ceiling on the price of oil from Russia in the amount of $60.

The price restriction on Russian oil at $60 (£49) per barrel, introduced by the industrialized countries of the Group of Seven (USA, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan), as well as the EU and Australia, comes into force on Monday, December 5

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👮A man with a knife seriously wounded two children who were on their way to school in the village of Illerkirchberg in Baden-Württemberg, German.

The attacker disappeared into one of the houses near by and German media reports that the building was a refugee shelter. Eyewitnesses immediately called the police and the rescue service.

A man and two people who lived with him were detained, according to local media. There are still a number of police officers at the scene, despite the fact that the attack took place several hours ago, local media has reported

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❗️🇮🇳 During a meeting with his 🇩🇪German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, India's FM S. Jaishankar reiterated that peace talks on Ukraine concern only the parties involved, which is why it is not up to Delhi to “set conditions” for negotiations.

💭 India's MEA also reminded Baerbock that Delhi supports dialogue and diplomacy, which was reflected in the G20 declaration signed in Bali.

Moscow earlier noted that negotiations with Kiev are not possible at the moment, as "they are absolutely rejected by the Ukrainian side."

📌 The latest statements from Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

▪️Russia has been forced to send regular warnings to US and NATO about the unacceptability of a direct clash between nuclear powers

▪️Moscow regrets that the strategic dialogue with the US is "frozen"

▪️The absence of negotiations with the US within the framework of a strategic dialogue is fraught with the danger that risks will increase to an extent that they eventually avalanche

▪️Russia urges the US to lift all illegal sanctions against Iran irreversibly as soon as possible

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❗️Russian MoD’s briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️In the Kharkov region, 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, and two pickup trucks were destroyed;

▪️Near Krasny Liman, an attempt by Ukraine to attack in the direction of the LPR was thwarted. In addition, two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed; The Kiev regime lost more than 60 servicemen killed and wounded, three infantry fighting vehicles, an armored car, and four pickup trucks;

▪️The offensive by Russian units in the DPR continues. More than 70 Ukrainian servicemen, two tanks, four armored combat vehicles, and four pickup trucks were destroyed;

▪️Ukrainian forces attempted to carry out a counterattack near the settlement of Nikolskoe, DPR. Up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks were destroyed;

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▪️Aviation and artillery hit seven Ukrainian command posts in the DPR, as well as 72nd artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower, and military equipment in 193 districts;

▪️Points of temporary deployment of foreign mercenaries were hit near Kramatorsk and Dibrova, DPR;

▪️A US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar and radar station for a Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were destroyed in the DPR;

▪️In the Zaporozhye region, a Ukrainian ammunition depot was destroyed;

▪️A Ukrainian Su-25 plane was shot down near the settlement of Yuryevka and a Ukrainian MiG-29 jet was downed near the settlement of Zverevo in the DPR;

▪️Air defenses in the DPR shot down two Ukrainian Air Force Mi-8 helicopters;

▪️10 unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the DPR and the Zaporozhye region;

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❗️Putin has visited the Crimean Bridge after its reconstruction, spoken with construction workers, and driven across the bridge in a car.

The bridge was damaged as a result of a terrorist attack organized by Ukrainian special services in early October.

How Many Nuclear Submarines Does the US Have?

After analyzing the sea-based nuclear arsenals of China and Russia, let's take a look at what the Pentagon can oppose them with.

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Child Labor: How US is Failing Its Most Vulnerable for the Sake of Profit

The Department of Labor (DOL) found 3,876 kids working in breach of labor rules in the US in fiscal year 2022. These include a shocking child labor case at the Packers Sanitation Services corporation, which was sued by the DOL last month, and a scandal involving three underage employees, between 12 and 15 years old, working for the SMART Alabama factory, a Hyundai subsidiary.

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‘We Haven’t Got This Figured Out Yet’, Pentagon Says of Ukraine Aid as US Runs Low on Arms to Send

Well over nine months into the Ukraine crisis, Washington still hasn’t “figured out” how to balance weapons deliveries to Kiev and the mounting problems in replacing the guns, bullets and bombs sent to the Eastern European country, the Pentagon’s top bean counter has indicated.

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⚡️ Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russian military airfields, UAVs brought down by air defenses - MoD

"On the morning of December 5, using Soviet-made jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles, the Kiev regime attempted to attack the Dyagilevo and Engels military airfields in Ryazan and Saratov regions in an attempt to disable Russian long-range aircraft," Russia's Ministry of Defense said in a statement.

Washington and its allies have sent multiple parties of unmanned aerial vehicles to Kiev in recent months, ranging from reconnaissance drones to small weapons-carrying UAVs, as well as naval drones. Ukrainian forces have used these weapons in attacks against Russian troops, bases and civilian infrastructure.

Fault Lines discussed Australian PM Anthony Albanese's request for the US government to end its pursuit of Julian Assange with Misty Winston, a political activist, organizer and co-host of both the Facts On The Ground podcast and #FreeAssange vigils.

💬 "That is just monumentally insane to me that that is something that has been allowed to continue for this long and that there hasn't been a huge uproar from journalism, like we say with The New York Times and Der Spiegel, and all those people. Why hasn't that happened years ago? Why didn't it happen immediately following his arrest or whatever? All of media, every single outlet on planet Earth should be screaming about this from the top of their lungs. This is the future of press freedom, period. This hinges on this case - if Julian Assange is allowed to be extradited and prosecuted in the United States of America for the crime of doing journalism that opens a door and that destroys press freedom forever. And I do not think that we come back from that. We cannot afford to lose this one."

Listen to more of Winston’s analysis on our podcast: Australia Wants US to Stop Pursuing Assange; Congress Averts Rail Crisis

⚡️ Only Russia able to ensure physical, nuclear security of Zaporozhye NPP, Foreign Ministry says

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Mystery of History: What Happened to the ‘Lost Patrol’ in the Bermuda Triangle 77 Years Ago?

Flight 19 was the designation of a group of five General Motors TBM Avenger torpedo bombers that disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle on December 5, 1945. Sputnik takes a deep dive into the circumstances of their disappearance.

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