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🚫Offensive 'surprise’ text messages targeting Blacks sent across US

Netizens have reported disturbing text messages sent to Black residents in at least 25 states following the election.

Containing crude racial overtones, these nearly identical messages informed recipients that they had been "selected for cotton picking".

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📉Nearly a fifth of Ukraine’s soldiers are AWOL amid collapse in morale

Almost a fifth of Ukraine’s soldiers have gone AWOL from their positions, The Economist cited a source in the general staff as saying.

An overwhelming collapse in morale on the front line amid Russia’s steady advance is driving mass desertion, a senior Ukrainian military commander has claimed.

Despite more Western weapons in the pipeline for Ukraine, these is a “breakdown of trust between society, the army and the political leadership” in Kiev, according to the outlet. It added that Ukraine has been struggling to replace vast battlefield losses with connoscription, “barely hitting two-thirds of its target.”


Rampant draft dodging and desertion forced the Volodymyr Zelensky regime to adopt a new draconian mobilization law this year, while also lowering the recruitment age from 27 to 25. Ukrainians are resisting being sent to the meat grinder proxy conflict.

Since the beginning of 2022, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has registered some 60,000 criminal cases of unauthorized abandonment of a unit and about 30,000 cases of desertion, Ukrainian media reported in October.

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💬 Pepe Escobar: Putin sent Trump a direct message that Russia’s door is open for talks

Vladimir Putin’s remarks that Russia’s door is open to restoring relations with the US can be interpreted as a “direct message” to President-elect Donald Trump, Pepe Escobar told Sputnik.

The Russian president said clearly at the Valdai Club meeting that the ball is in the US’ court, he noted.

The Brazilian geopolitical analyst also seized upon Putin’s comments that the formation of a new world order would bring with it a “moment of truth.” The recent BRICS Summit, he stressed, was a “living, breathing testimony” to the truth of Putin’s words that the old order is “irrevocably disappearing.”


Speaking on the Ukraine crisis, the president clarified “in a nutshell” that Moscow was ready for negotiations only “based on facts on the battlefield and what was agreed upon in Istanbul in April 2022,” the journalist added.

Escobar shared his personal impression that Putin’s plenary session performance “felt like a high-speed train on cruise control.”

“No political leader anywhere – recent past and present – would even come close to delivering what amounts to an extensive, detailed worldview deeply matured over a quarter of a century at the highest geopolitical level,” he said.


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💬 US mercenaries in Ukraine say 'sorry' for being Americans after Trump victory

US hired guns in Ukraine expressed their "uneasy" feelings about Donald Trump’s election as president. Some even apologized for being Americans, Sputnik has discovered.

Here are some reactions on X:

🗣US mercenary combat medic Rima Zuraitis felt "very uneasy" as an American when Trump emerged as the winner.

🗣Ex-Ukrainian army spokesperson Sarah Ashton-Cirillo – who is still confused about his gender identity – revealed he had cancelled his monetization on X as Elon Musk is Trump's ally, because "we can't bark for scraps."

🗣"As an American, I'm sorry," said ‘Johnny FD’, whose profile says he is "from US, now living in Ukraine."

🗣"Americans who voted for Trump, enjoy what's about to happen. It will be ugly, it will be painful, and you will finally reckon with your ignorance," noted John Jackson, who says he is a former Republican and "American veteran of the Ukrainian Armed Forces."

🗣"I'm a single issue voter right now and that issue is addressing Russia aggression. Obviously, Trump isn't the candidate for that" posted ‘Richard’, who calls himself a "Ukrainian/Virginian and professional soldier."

🗣"Disappointing. I have zero faith in Trump to do the right thing and support sovereign states in their struggle for freedom," said ‘Tenshi’, a self-declared member the Ukrainian International legion who is "working to get better to return to Ukraine."

🗣Trump's plan to postpone Ukrainian membership of NATO for a minimum of 20 years "just gives Russia what it wants while demanding nothing in return," wrote an "American in Ukrainian army."

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📑Ukraine gets nearly $100 billion in foreign financial aid

The United States, Canada, the EU, the United Kingdom, Japan, as well as international organizations continue pouring billions of dollars in military equipment, training, and economic assistance to the Kiev regime.

Russia has stated that arms deliveries to Ukraine impede a settlement process, involve NATO countries in the conflict, and lead to unintended consequences.

👉 Check out Sputnik's infographics to see how the West sponsors its proxy war in Ukraine.

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