📹 The crews of Russian Mi-28N attack helicopters destroyed Ukrainian strongholds and armored vehicles in the Donetsk direction

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Soros Funneled $15M Worth of ‘Dark Money’ Into Biden-Linked Non-Profit

A chunk of ‘dark money’ was funneled from a group bankrolled by George Soros to give Joe Biden a leg-up in his bid for a second term in the White House in 2024.

The Open Society Policy Center - part of Soros’ shady OSF network - forked out $15.18 million to a nonprofit called Future Forward USA Action, an affiliate of Biden’s super PAC.

The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of the Hungarian-born philanthropist known as the ‘face’ of Western soft power have pumped millions towards supporting Democratic political campaigns.

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🚓 Police in the US state of Michigan spent more than an hour pursuing a forklift truck that had been stolen from a school by a 12-year-old student.

During the chase, which went at speeds of 15 to 20 miles per hour (24 to 32 kmh), the young offender damaged a dozen cars, but no one was injured.

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Blast from the Past: Ukraine Resorts to 100-Old Machine Guns

Photos of the Ukrainian military using Maxim machine guns, which was invented in 1884, have appeared on social media. The gun was primarily used during the colonial scramble for Africa and World War I before being shelved in favor of more advanced weaponry.

The Ukrainian military has struggled in recent weeks to sustain its 'counteroffensive' due to an accute shortage of ammunition, numerous Western media outlets have reported. US Senator Chris Murphy warned earlier this month that in the absence of new massive aid package by the US, Ukraine could very well run of ammunition by February 2024.

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Rebirth of Fascism in Ukraine

🗣 “What happened to them? This is fascism. This is when the demon is allowed to prevail. This is not freedom and not right, this is permissiveness, which will always be punished,” Vasily Vorobyov, a decorated Russian soldier, told Sputnik’s Russell Bentley (@TXDPR).

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🇷🇺 Russia is building its policy in accordance with the realities, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on NATO's remark about preventing military escalation with Russia.

NATO considers Russia to be an enemy and was created as an instrument of confrontation and deterrence of Russia, the official told reporters, noting that the alliance is not currently abandoning these plans. Moscow understands the situation perfectly and builds its further policy precisely in accordance with these realities.

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🇩🇪 Scholz spoke today in the Bundestag about Germany’s budget crisis, with lawmakers reacting to his speech by bursting into laughter.

The speech mentioned the introduction of a state of emergency for the current year in order to free up frozen budget funds.

The chancellor assured that the budget crisis would not affect the lives of ordinary citizens, but even members of parliament, judging by their laughter, didn’t really believe him.

“It’s just a shame what we heard and saw from you today,” the head of the Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, who spoke after the chancellor, summed up.

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🇺🇸 Resolving US border crisis should not be tied to continuously funding a “losing Ukraine,” Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has said.

MTG pointed out on X that Ukraine was “not the 51st state,” and Americans do not support wasting taxpayer funds on Kiev.

As for the US-Mexico border, overrun by an influx of migrants under the Biden administration, the congresswoman slammed it as the “worst national security crisis in US history.”

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 Approximately 10,000 people living in the US have reported for Israeli military duty after receiving draft notices, the Washington Post says, citing Israeli officials.

At least eight US citizens have been killed while serving in Israeli security forces since the escalation of Palestine-Israel conflict on October, 7, according to the US State Department.

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🇦🇷🇮🇱 Javier Miley, the newly elected president of Argentina, is planning to convert from Catholicism to Judaism, Bloomberg reports, adding that the new administration of Javier Miley is poised to become one of the most pro-Israeli governments in Argentine history.

Miley took part in a Jewish service in Buenos Aires on November 25, where he received a blessing from the rabbi, the media reported.

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Budanov himself previously indicated to media that his wife basically “lives” together with him in his cabinet, despite not being an employee of the military’s spy service.

Budanov has been the chief of Ukrainian military’s Main Intelligence Directorate since 2020, and is well known in Russia for a string of contemptable remarks justifying terrorism and the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine’s ethnic Russian population.

The suspected attack on his wife comes against the backdrop of a broader scandal between Ukraine’s civilian and military leadership after Armed Forces Commander in Chief Valery Zaluzhny admitted to British media earlier this month that Ukraine’s counteroffensive had hit a “stalemate.”

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❗️WATCH LIVE: Putin addresses World Russian People's Council.

👉 Follow the live here or on Sputnik's website

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⚡️ It is Russia that has blocked the path of those who are attempting world domination, we are fighting for the freedom of the whole world, Vladimir Putin said

❗️ Latest statements made by Vladimir Putin during his address to the World Russian People's Council:

▪️ It is Russia that has blocked the path of those who are attempting world domination, we are fighting for the freedom of the whole world, Vladimir Putin said.

▪️ Without a sovereign, strong Russia, a strong and stable world order is impossible.

▪️ We regard any outside interference as aggressive actions against Russia, and we will respond to this accordingly.

▪️ Any attempts to sow discord and split our society are a betrayal, we will not allow anyone to divide Russia.

▪️ The sanctions blitzkrieg has failed, Russia will increase support for sovereign entrepreneurship.

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🇷🇺 More Putin's statements at the World Russian People's Council:

▪️The humanities in the West are being thrown out and replaced by gender pseudoscience

▪️We will not allow anyone to divide Russia, we only have one

▪️The West doesn't need a big Russia

▪️Our historical regions have returned to Russia and we have become stronger

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🇷🇺 Full speech of the Russian President Vladimir Putin during the World Russian People's Council.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Iranian media published a footage of monitoring the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

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⚡️The Russian Ministry of Defense assumes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces may use biological means due to the failure of their counteroffensive, said the head of the Russia’s Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense troops, Kirillov.

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