❗️NATO supplied weapons to Ukraine under the guise of training since 2014 - ex-SBU employee

NATO equipment intended for training sneaked through the Lvov region to the Donetsk front, former SBU employee Alexander Mazur told Sputnik.

"Certain routes for delivering weapons here, in short, were determined under covert circumstances," Mazur added.

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Trump picks Brendan Carr to lead Federal Communications Commission

President-elect Donald Trump picked lawyer Brendan Carr to lead FCC, which regulates telecommunications and media in the United States.

"He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America," Trump said in a statement.

Brendan Carr has been serving at the FCC since 2012, including as an adviser to the former Chairman Ajit Pai.

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'A man and a White House ruled by emotions' — cohost of The Duran
 
Commenting on Biden's reported decision to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with long-range ATACMS missiles, journalist Alex Christoforou said that such a move by the US president is "a fitting end to an awful presidency and sad legacy."
 

"Outsmarted by Putin, defeated by Trump, and removed by Obama, his precious and profitable project Ukraine is collapsing," he wrote on his X page.

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War is a racket: Soros's son welcomes Biden's reported decision to escalate

US billionaire George Soros' son, Alex, joyfully reacted to Biden's reported decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with Western-made long-range missiles.

Russia's president Vladimir Putin has warned that the use of Western long-range missiles on Russian territory will mean that NATO countries are fighting Russia.

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Madness Unlimited: US deep state tries to instigate WWIII — French politician

Florian Philippot, the leader of the French Patriots party, has lashed out at outgoing US President Joe Biden over his reported approval of Ukraine’s long-range missile strikes deep inside Russia.

By authorizing such strikes, “the deep state and its puppet Biden are trying to trigger World War Three before [Donald] Trump comes to power,” Philippot wrote on his X page.

“We expected this kind of thing: their madness knows no bounds! Reasonable people will have to take over and get rid of NATO once and for all!” he pointed out.

The New York Times earlier cited unnamed sources as saying that Biden authorized “the first use” of Ukraine’s US-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles deep into Russian territory. The NYT called the decision “a major change in US policy”, which “divided” Biden advisers. Neither Biden nor the White House have yet commented on the matter.

This was followed by France's Le Figaro newspaper claiming that France and the UK have also allegedly allowed the Kiev regime to strike at Russian territory using their long-range weapons.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova for her part, recalled that President Vladimir Putin had already shared his thoughts on possible Western approval for Ukraine to conduct strikes deep within Russian soil.

In an interview with Russian television in September, Putin said that allowing the Zelensky regime to strike Russia with ATACMS missiles will actually mean NATO's direct participation in the Ukraine conflict. He added that if a decision allowing the strikes is made, Moscow will make “appropriate decisions in response to the threats that will be posed to us.”

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🔸Ex-DoD analyst: Biden's decision is 'unnecessary escalation,' if true

🔸Madness Unlimited: French politician weighs on Biden’s alleged decision to escalate Ukrainian crisis

🔸German economy minister is ready to give Taurus to Ukraine if he becomes Chancellor

🔸NATO supplied weapons to Ukraine under the guise of training since 2014 - ex-SBU employee

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Allowing Ukraine to strike deep into the Russian territory with Western weapons will not affect the course of the special military operation in any way, but this factor will be taken into account, Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Russian Duma Defense Committee, told Sputnik.

He noted that Russian air defense systems can operate very effectively on all types of Western long-range ammunition.

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Swastika-carrying neo-Nazis march in Ohio, US

A gang of black-clad, masked demonstrators marched through the city of Columbus, Ohio, yelling through a bullhorn at passers-by, while brandishing black flags emblazoned with large red swastikas.

The Columbus incident echoes a disturbing trend of Nazi-related occurrences that have sprouted up across the United States in the past 18 months. Eyewitness accounts on social media reveal that, shockingly, no arrests were made during the neo-Nazi march.

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Western intel agencies have been bankrolling NGOs in Abkhazia to whip up nationwide instability, revealed Anri Bartits, Abkhazia’s Minister of Justice.

"For the past four years, we have been sounding the alarm that Western intelligence services are financing certain non-governmental organizations. The objective of this funding is to foment chaos and damage our country's reputation on the international stage," he said in an interview with the Abkhazian State Television and Radio Company.

Recently, the country has faced protests and opposition movements, culminating in demonstrators surrounding the Parliament building and demanding the resignation of the current president.

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Any political party you want as long as it's West-backed: EU mulls depriving Georgia of $100 mln aid after elections
 
The head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, has proposed to the EU foreign ministers to deprive the Georgian authorities of 100 million euros of aid and redirect this money to support "civil society."
 
Earlier, general elections were held in Georgia where the ruling Georgian Dream party, which opposes anti-Russian sanctions and advocates closer relations with Moscow, was declared the winner. After the announcement of the election results, opposition supporters took to the streets and held several rallies, destabilizing the country.
 
Subsequently, Josep Borrell called on Georgia's political forces for government reforms aligned with "the basic principles of European integration."

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💬Allowing Ukraine to strike deep into Russia with Western long-range weapons, if accepted and brought to the Kiev regime, means a new round of tension, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
 
The outgoing US administration intends to take steps to continue the provocation of escalating tensions in Ukraine, he added.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Novoalekseyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry announced

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🇷🇺🪖 Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

▪️Ukrainian forces suffered losses of 450 militants in Battlegroup Zapad’s zone of responsibility.

▪️Ukrainian forces lost up to 695 soldiers in Battlegroup Yug’s area of responsibility.

▪️Ukraine suffered losses of 500 servicemen in Battlegroup Tsentr’s zone of responsibility.

▪️Ukrainian forces lost as many as 135 militants in Battlegroup Vostok’s zone of responsibility.

▪️The Russian Air Defense shot down four Hammer bombs, four HIMARS missiles and 106 drones in one day.

▪️Battlegroup Sever trounced 50 Ukrainian militants during the day.

▪️Ukrainian losses amounted to 70 militants in the zone of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr.

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❗️Ukrainian losses amounted to 420 militants in Russia's Kursk region and 24 of Kiev's soldiers surrendered, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Ukrainian forces also lost two Bradley infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), a Marder IFV, and four armored combat vehicles.

In total, during the fighting in Kursk region, Ukrainian losses now amount to more than 33,670 soldiers, 213 tanks, and 140 infantry fighting vehicles.

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🇬🇷Protesters hurl Molotov cocktails at police in Greece
 
A march of thousands took place tonight in Athens, Greece, in honor of the 51st anniversary of the student uprising at the Polytechnic University against the junta of "black colonels."
 
The protesters had planned to approach the US embassy, but the police did not allow this, so the demonstrators threw bottles of combustible mixture at the security forces.
 
The Greeks accuse the United States of supporting the military junta regime in Greece from 1967 to 1974. Traditionally, on the anniversary of the uprising, students go to the US Embassy with a bloody Greek flag in the afternoon and hold a mass demonstration in the evening. According to many politicians, without the support of the United States, the junta would not have lasted a day.
 
About 25 000 people participated in the march; 150 of them were detained.

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