📌 The White House has confirmed that Zelensky is to visit Washington on Wednesday.

▪️The President of Ukraine is going to address a joint session of both chambers of Congress and meet with President Joe Biden

▪️The presidents of the two countries plan to discuss sanctions and western assistance to Ukraine

▪️Washington has announced a new $2Bln aid package for Ukraine, which will include a Patriot air defense battery

▪️US official says Zelensky's visit to Washington and the security aid announcement are meant to send a "message to Putin"

▪️At the same time, the White House has declared that the US isn't seeking to engage in direct confrontation with Russia, and that its position will not change after Zelensky's visit

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📌 Key points from the meeting between Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chief of Russia's Security Council and Russia's former president, and Chinese President Xi Jinping:

▪️Xi received Medvedev at his state residence in Beijing on Wednesday;

▪️Medvedev and Xi were unanimous in their high expectations for bilateral relations, and exchanged views on a wide range of issues;

▪️Medvedev said he discussed with Xi the interaction between Moscow and Beijing, economic issues and industrial cooperation;

▪️Medvedev conveyed Russian President Vladimir Putin's message to China's head of state that the two countries were enjoying an unprecedented level of dialogue and cooperation, and he expressed his confidence that interstate, inter-party ties would continue to flourish

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🇳🇱🇪🇺 One more proof that Europe has opted for a ‘Hasty, Self-Imposed’ Transition when abandoning Russian gas: high energy prices are putting European industrial companies in a difficult situation, with 15% of them considering moving out of the EU.

As per Statistics Netherlands, average daily production growth has slowed in NL, being at 3% in October

AD has listed Dutch companies affected by high energy proces:

▪️Zinc producer Nystar: production halted
▪️Aluminium plant Aldel: collapsed
▪️Fertilizer producer Yara: production cut
▪️Chemical company Chemelot: running at 50% of capacity

The US doesn’t have the same problem, as it’s not relying on Russian gas:

💬 “Depending on which contract you take, gas prices in the US are five to ten times lower than in Europe”, said Paul de Krom from the Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry.

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📌 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Russia believes that arms supplies to Kiev lead to an aggravation of the conflict

▪️Zelensky's position will hardly become more constructive after his visit to the US

▪️Putin not planning to meet with the IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, who will visit Moscow on Thursday

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📌 The latest briefing from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense:

▪️Six Ukrainian servicemen laid down their weapons and surrendered in the Krasnolimansk direction;

▪️Russian Armed Forces eliminated more than 80 Ukrainian servicemen during the day;

▪️The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed an oil storage facility near Andreevka in the Kharkov region;

▪️Russian forces destroyed up to 60 Ukrainian soldiers in the direction of Kupyansk;

▪️Russian artillery hit Ukrainian manpower and equipment of the units of the mechanized brigade in the South Donetsk direction;

▪️The Russian Federation's Armed Forces destroyed three US-made M777 artillery systems in the DPR;

▪️ Russian aviation shot down Ukrainian Su-25 aircraft;

▪️Russian Armed Forces destroyed more than 30 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one Ukrainian tank in the DPR;

▪️Russian troops destroyed two warehouses of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the regions of Kharkov and Zaporozhye

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📹 Russian and Belarusian servicemen conduct drills in Belarus (video courtesy of Russian MoD).

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⚡️ President Putin speaks at expanded meeting of Russian Defense Ministry's Collegium

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⚡️Key points of President Putin's speech at expanded meeting of Russian Defense Ministry's Collegium:

▪️Russia is aware of all information about NATO forces and means of counteraction used by them

▪️Russian Frigate Admiral Gorshkov equipped with latest Zircon cruise missiles will be put on combat duty in January

▪️Russia has good experience in developing underwater drones, industry is capable of developing air and ground drones

▪️Russia will maintain combat readiness and improve its nuclear triad

▪️NATO weapons should be analyzed and used for building up Russia's Armed Forces

⚡️Russia will continue to build up its military potential, Putin says

📌 Key points of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's speech at expanded meeting of Russian Defense Ministry's Collegium

▪️Russian Armed Forces oppose combined forces of West in Ukraine;

▪️Kiev resorts to prohibited methods, including terrorist attacks, contract killings, shelling civilians with heavy weapons;

▪️US seeks to use situation around Ukraine to maintain global dominance;

▪️West seeks to prolong military operations in Ukraine as much as possible in order to weaken Russia;

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📌 More statements by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu:

▪️Russian forces continue to inflict precision strikes on military command systems, military-industrial complexes, and related facilities in Ukraine;

▪️Russian Armed Forces take comprehensive measures to prevent civilian deaths in Ukraine;

▪️Total of 27 countries have already spent $97 billion on arms supplies to Ukraine;

▪️NATO officers, artillerymen, and other specialists, more than 500 NATO satellites are working for Kiev;

▪️Total silence of Western media about war crimes of Ukrainian military is cynical

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📹 Vladimir Putin: Military potential and capabilities of NATO countries are actively used against Russia

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📹 Vladimir Putin: Russia knows all information about NATO forces, their means of counteraction

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📹 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu: Western-funded coup in Kiev in 2014, which brought anti-Russian forces to power, caused current conflict in Ukraine

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📹 Sergei Shoigu: Ukraine's forces suffered significant losses, large part of weapons and equipment that Kiev had at beginning of operation destroyed

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How Lethal is India’s Pralay Missile Set to Be Deployed Along China Border?

🚀 The acquisition is likely to change the tactical battlefield dynamic, since India, unlike 🇨🇳China, has limited conventional ground-launched missile options.

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Hungarian Parliament Speaker: West’s Push to Turn Ukraine Into Anti-Russian Bridgehead is ‘Mistake’

Hungarian Parliament speaker Laszlo Kover has lashed out against Western governments’ “hypocritical” behavior in Ukraine, and warned that the West’s attempts to pry Kiev out of Russia’s orbit and turn it into an armed base against Russia has proven to be a “strategic mistake.”

💬 “I think the Western world made a strategic mistake when it tried to not only take Ukraine out of Moscow’s sphere of interest, but also turn it into a large military base against Russia,” Kover said in a broad ranging interview with a Hungarian radio station on Tuesday.

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