⚡️ 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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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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Volodymyr Zelensky would not be going to the US for a visit amid the ongoing conflict at home if there were no signs of US support weakening, former White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said on Wednesday.

She expressed confidence that Zelensky will see "many well deserved standing ovations" during his address to the US Congress later in the day. The former spokeswoman also called the visit a "sales pitch to Congress and public."

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❗️The office of the Red Cross in Donetsk has been hit by shelling for the third time in recent days, with the attack damaging the building and several vehicles, according to the latest ICRC press release.

The ICRC strongly condemned the shelling of their office and called for “respect of the humanitarian space.”

Authorities in Donetsk, which became part of Russia on September 30, have said repeatedly that Ukrainian forces shell civilian infrastructure in the region on a regular basis.

US Oil Stockpiles Tumble as Fuel Demand Jumps Amid Holiday Travel, Package Delivery

Crude inventories fell by 5.894 million barrels for the week ended December 16, versus a drawdown of 10.231 million during the previous week to December 9, the EIA said in its Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Analysts polled by US media had expected a smaller drawdown of 1.657M barrels for last week.

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