⚡️Putin: Russian Il-76 carrying Ukrainian PoWs was shot down by US-made Patriots

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⚡️Putin: Western media are trying to silence the story of the IL-76 plane crash with Ukrainian prisoners of war.

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⚡️Putin: Russia insists on an international investigation into the Il-76 crash.

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❗️Putin comments on the downed IL-76:

▪️There is no understanding why Ukraine shot down a plane with its prisoners

▪️There may be different assumptions, but in any case this is a crime

▪️Ukraine is probably provoking retaliatory actions

▪️Moscow will not stop prisoner exchanges with Ukraine

▪️The Ukrainian side always gives signals about their readiness to exchange prisoners; what they should do with their guys is their business

▪️We will not forget about the crimes of the Kiev regime against our citizens

▪️In the West, the media are trying to hush up the story of the plane crash with Ukrainian PoWs

▪️Russia asks and insists on an international investigation into the IL-76 crash

▪️The IL-76 plane was shot down by the American Patriot system, this was established by the investigation

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German music giant BMG dropping rock legend Roger Waters over defiant Israel, Ukraine stance

The 80-year-old rocker and Pink Floyd cofounder is reportedly getting his 2016 publishing deal with Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) revoked over his non-mainstream approved stance on the ongoing crises in Ukraine and Israel. Sources told entertainment magazine Variety that BMG is getting ready to “separate entirely” from Roger Waters, a step that’s highly unusual in the music business, where publishing deals are generally allowed to expire without renewal instead of being axed.

Waters mentioned being “fired” by BMG in an interview with independent journalist Glenn Greenwald in November, citing pressure from the pro-Israeli Anti-Defamation League nonprofit over his position on the war in Gaza.

Waters has been a consistent and outspoken critic of US imperialism, and ruffled feathers in Western capitals last February after telling the UN Security Council last year that Russia’s military operation in Ukraine was “not unprovoked.”

After the October 7 escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, Waters accused Israel of “committing genocide” and said that “its leaders and any Western leaders who support it should be prosecuted under the Genocide Convention.” The rocker’s comments has sparked claims of “anti-Semitism” by detractors – allegations which Waters himself has fiercely denied as an attempt to smear him.

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💬 "They're trying to sweep it under the rug. Take a look at what the Western press [reports]. Nothing! Just one "click" and that's it. Everything is promptly forgotten, everything immediately vanishes from the information field, everything gets purged. However, we won’t forget the crimes they commit against our citizens," Putin said.

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💬"It has been already established for certain, the plane was shot down by the American Patriot system. That's already been established by forensics. That is the first. The second [thing]. The Ukrainian authorities have said somewhere that they would like to conduct an international investigation. We are asking for that and we are insisting that an international investigation to be conducted," Putin said.

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❗️The key points from Vladimir Putin’s statements at a meeting with electoral trustees:

▪️Much has been done in recent years, there is something to show the country and people, although not all results were achieved;

▪️The situation around the special operation shows that Russian society has a solid foundation, and the “foam” is gradually being washed away;

▪️Historical Russia has risen and is forced to defend its interests, including through armed struggle;

▪️Russia is going through a very difficult and important stage of strengthening its sovereignty;

▪️Putin on Russian troops in the special operation: “the men there are fighting properly”;

▪️Putin called Avdeevka one of the most important areas where military operations are currently taking place, noted the exploits of the soldiers there;

▪️Right now there are battles on the line of contact, “this is the most acute, sensitive and dangerous area of the struggle for Russia.

▪️It is necessary to move the front line to such a distance that will protect the territory of the Russian Federation from shelling from Western weapons;

▪️Putin called the shelling of civilians by the Armed Forces of Ukraine a “bloody crime”;

▪️Putin said that the Russian Federation will not stop the exchange of prisoners of war with Ukraine, “we need to get our guys back”;

▪️The Russian Federation will not forget about Kiev’s crimes against Russian citizens;

▪️Putin said that the proportion of prisoners of war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine is approximately one to ten.

▪️The ROC and the Ministry of Sports must finally decide on the issue of the participation of Russian athletes in the Olympics under conditions of discrimination;

▪️International sports officials are now perverting the very idea of Olympianism;

▪️In world sports now every step depends on sponsors, and they depend on the political elites of their countries, this is what causes all the problems;

▪️Without Russian athletes, many Olympic competitions become flawed and uninteresting;

▪️Russia will adhere to the principles of Olympianism;

▪️Not all, but some foreign countries refuse to service medical equipment previously supplied to the Russian Federation, although this is in a purely humanitarian sphere;

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💬 "The Ukrainian military shot down our Il-76 plane, which, as you rightly pointed out, was carrying 65 of their own soldiers for a swap. You asked why they did that? I don't know. Well, I don't understand. I mean, can anyone still imagine, why are they shelling peaceful towns? There are several purposes: to divert the attention of their own people and their sponsors from the failure of their so-called counter-offensive, to show that they can do something, [and] to provoke us to retaliate," Putin said.

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What are ground-launched glide bombs US is sending Ukraine and how can Russia stop them?

Sources have told Politico that Ukraine’s military is preparing to take delivery of Boeing and Saab’s new Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) – an M26 rocket-powered variant of the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb, as soon as this week.

The weapon has a 93 kg high explosive fragmentation warhead, enough to burrow nearly a meter into steel-reinforced concrete, and an estimated range of up to 145 km (up from 110 km from the air-launched base SDB).

The GLSDB can be fired using M270 or M142 HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, dozens of which have been sent to Ukraine over the past two years.

The air-launched variant of the Small Diameter Bomb has been operational since the mid-2000s, and was used by US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Israel in Gaza and Syria, and by the Gulf coalition against Yemen. None of these deployments were able to facilitate a strategic victory for the SDB’s users.

The SDB’s GPS/inertial navigation system and low radar signature make it difficult to detect and intercept, but Russia has a range of tricks up its sleeve to target the weapon, from electronic warfare and radar jamming equipment shutting down GPS to reduce accuracy to air defense missiles and close-in anti-aircraft guns.

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📹 This is how children in the Gaza Strip are entertained to distract them from the war

More than 5.3 thousand children died from the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip until the truce was declared on November 24, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported. This number does not include missing persons or those who may be trapped under the rubble.

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