📹 Footage of the combat work of Russian UAV operators and artillerymen near Kleshcheevka and Belogorovka against enemy positions

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🪖 Ukraine’s Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny was conspicuously absent when Volodymyr Zelensky met with army commanders yesterday.

Zelensky visited a military command post in Kharkov Oblast on November 30 to discuss strengthening fortifications and other front-line necessities.

Footage accompanying the post showed Zelensky conferring with recently appointed businessman-turned-Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, Ground Forces Commander Oleksandr Syrskyi and others.

However, the no-show by the Commander-in-Chief, coming amid the spiraling Zelensky-Zaluzhny spat, begs the question: is this further proof of bitter behind-the-scenes infighting for control of Ukraine?

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 Negotiations on the exchange of hostages in the Gaza Strip continue despite the resumption of hostilities, media reported, citing a source familiar with the talks.

Earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces said that Hamas broke the humanitarian pause, prompting Israel to resume combat.

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💉 Texas attorney general sues Pfizer for lying about COVID-19 vaccine

Ken Paxton accuses Pfizer of having used fake statistics to promote the vaccine and trying to intimidate anyone who doubted its effectiveness.

The Republican demands that the pharmaceutical giant be fined $10 million and that the company be banned from publicly speaking about the effectiveness of its own vaccines.

The Texas attorney general also claims that the coronavirus pandemic worsened after people started taking the Pfizer vaccine. Paxton criticized the Biden administration's handling of the pandemic:

"We are pursuing justice for the people of Texas, many of whom were coerced by tyrannical vaccine mandates to take a defective product sold by lies," Paxton said.

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❗️ Israel plans to launch operation in southern Gaza Strip in parallel with operation in northern part of enclave, Financial Times reports

❗️ Somalia expresses gratitude to Russia for humanitarian aid, country's minister of information, culture and tourism tells Sputnik Africa

🗣 "We are thankful for the delivery of 25,000 tons of grain, which will greatly benefit the thousands of Somali people affected by the current floods resulting from El Nino. This assistance arrives at a crucial moment, and once more we commend Russia for its substantial support and unwavering commitment to helping Somalia overcome this challenging period," Somalia's Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism Daud Aweis stated.

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🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “ran away” from the OSCE Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Skopje because he was “afraid of an honest conversation with facts in hand.”

“I think they are cowards,” the minister said.

Blinken left Skopje for the Middle East before the Russian foreign minister had even arrived in the North Macedonian capital.

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💥 The Russian military destroyed a Ukrainian German-made tank Leopard 2A4 in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region

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🇷🇺🌍 Russia launched free grain deliveries to African nations as part of a humanitarian initiative. The total commitment is 200,000 tons of grain by the end of 2023.

📊 Take a look at our infographic for more details about the Russian initiative

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“This [conflict] proves once again that the US will never leave West Asia. The region is absolutely essential for the empire, considering that the Americans are being slowly, but surely and very forcefully expelled from the big Eurasia by the Russia-China strategic partnership – by their trade deals, their multilateral organizations and economic integration projects. All that goes completely against American domination of Eurasia," Pepe Escobar, veteran geopolitical analyst, told the New Rules podcast.

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🗣 "Our deputy PM visited Russia where Moscow granted us debt relief. We also requested the supply of 50,000 tons of grain. Today, we received the first consignment and we will urgently deliver this to people affected by the floods across different parts of the country, gibing the first priorities to most affected regions in coordination with the Somali Disaster Management Agency," Ahmed Moalim Fiqi, Somalian minister of interior, federal affairs and reconciliation, said.

"The Russian ambassador said his government is ready to help us in the peace building and security sector, particularly in the fight against armed group al-Shabab which is a global challenge as well as expanding already existing bilateral relations between our nations," Abdulrahman Noor Mohamed, official of the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation of Somalia, stated.

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COP28: Global leaders gather in Dubai to discuss climate change

Our AI correspondent Nika decided to use this opportunity to debunk some of the most popular ecoactivist myths about “green economics.” This is an episode that the World Economic Forum definitely doesn’t want you to watch!

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🇷🇺🪖 Key points of Russian MoD briefing on progress of special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) losses amounted to 750 servicemen.

▪️Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Kherson region.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled six attacks by the UAF in the Donetsk direction.

▪️Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the Nikolaev region.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces hit a Ukrainian center for training and use of UAVs in the Zaporozhye region and an aviation ammunition warehouse in the Kirovograd region.

▪️The Russian Armed Forces repelled six attacks by Ukrainian assault groups in the areas of Rabotino and Verbovoye.

▪️Russian troops have repelled an attack by the Azov brigade in the Krasny Liman direction. The enemy lost up to 250 troops.

▪️The UAF lost up to 95 servicemen in the South Donetsk direction, as well as a US-made M777 artillery system.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The collapse of the legacy of former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who sought to improve Soviet-American relations, has led to trust between Washington and Moscow being completely absent today, Paul Craig Roberts, former assistant Treasury secretary, told Sputnik.

"The (Bill) Clinton administration broke its word, given by George W. Bush. The Bush administration said that in exchange for the USSR agreeing to the reunification of Germany, the US would not move NATO's borders one inch eastward. All subsequent US administrations have withdrawn from arms agreements that served for reducing tensions and forged bonds of trust between the nuclear superpowers," Roberts said.

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🪖The problem for Kiev’s fortification and bunker-based strategy is that it won’t alter the Russian military’s strategy, says Russian journalist, military correspondent, and political analyst Ivan Konovalov.

Russia’s military has amassed “considerable experience in overcoming” Ukraine’s fortifications, the observer told Sputnik.

“In some areas we broke through them, in others we maneuvered around them to save troops. But it must be recognized that this is an important issue, and that Kiev is stubbornly betting on [this tactic]. They pour concrete into virtually everything they can. I witnessed what they did in Mariupol, where they poured concrete in the third floor of a multi-story building to turn it into a solid bunker. They didn’t care that there were civilians hiding somewhere in the basements, they did it from the third floor. They strengthened pillboxes or grenade launchers this way, simply pouring concrete over the entire floor,” Konovalov said.

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