Auto park in Germany jam-packed with thousands of unsold cars

German-made cars are rusting in an overfilled transshipment point as customers don't want to buy them due to high prices and infrastructure problems for electric cars.

“There are many cars here, which were delivered over half a year ago. In the meantime, we even have new cars here, which have been available here for more than a year,” says an employee of the struggling warehouse.

Some are e-models produced by Volkswagen and Audis, which are also hard to sell as the "e-car strategy isn't going well", according to the employee. Volkswagen experienced shrinking sales last October and decided to apply cuts on the background of labor strikes that took place in the country.

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‘We need de-escalation with Russia’: Social media users assesses the destructive power and reach of Russia's Oreshnik missiles

Mere days after the Biden administration approved attacks with US weapons against Russia’s core territories, using its Ukrainian proxies as a fig leaf to hide the United States’ responsibility for these strikes, the world learned just what kind of response this escalation might invite.

Following a November 21 object lesson on the capabilities of Russia’s new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic missile, Sputnik has revealed that these weapons could reach US bases in various corners of the world – in the Middle East, in the Pacific and even in the United States itself – in a matter of minutes.

The reaction to these revelations online was rather animated as many were not particularly thrilled with the White House apparently trying to spark World War III.

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Meet Titan, a new sniper rifle for Russia's special forces

Russian experts have hammered out the Titan, a new cutting-edge sniper rifle, which is already successfully being used in the Ukraine conflict zone. Here’s a swift look at the rifle’s specifications.

🔸 The Titan, which can also be used as an assault rifle, was specifically designed for Russian special forces and scouts.

”The weight of the weapons and ammunition they take with them is important," military expert Alexander Perendzhiev explained. “A light rifle will allow them to take more ammunition, explosives or equipment”.

🔸 The semi-automatic 3.6 kg rifle is chambered for 7.62 x 51 mm cartridges, including armor-piercing ones, and has a maximum range of 1,000 meters. For comparison: the German-made analogue, Heckler & Koch – 417, weighs 4.5 kg.

🔸 The rifle is equipped with a six-position gas regulator which enables it to adjust the recoil speed of the moving parts of the weapon, which in turn makes it possible to use ammunition from any manufacturer with any silencer.

“Russian servicemen are already praising the Titan’s reliability, accuracy and precision. The accuracy is 0.3 minutes of angle, which means that at a distance of 100 meters, a marksman armed with the Titan can hit a target with the diameter of less than a centimeter,” a spokesperson for the manufacturing company SWC told reporters.

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Six explosive devices were used to destroy the Nord Stream - report
 
The saboteurs used six explosive devices to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines, not four - as previously stated, German newspaper Welt reports, referring to sonar images and previously unpublished documents.
 
The second previously unknown damage is located on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, the report says. The image obtained using sonar by Swedish engineer Eric Andersson showed for the first time that the concrete lining of the pipe broke off in the southern part of the thread. The reason could probably be an improperly installed explosive device, Welt notes.
 
The article also mentions the movements of the Norwegian expedition vessel Normand Frontier, which set off a few weeks after the explosion to collect evidence clarifying the circumstances of the incident, presumably on behalf of the US.

According to open data, the vessel deliberately went not only to the well-known explosion sites, but also to the damage on the Nord Stream 2 line B, which was recorded by Andersson's sonar.
 
Since these damages were previously unknown and the Nord Stream 2 line B was considered intact until today, there were versions that the sabotage group may have deliberately spared line B to put the pipeline back into operation quickly.

The new data, however, indicates that the attackers had wanted to undermine line B but failed, the newspaper stresses.

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🇰🇿🫶🇷🇺'Kazakhstan and Russia are friends forever'
 
Russia's President Vladimir Putin was warmly welcomed in Astana by Kazakh President Kassym Tokayev.
 
By taking part in the painting session, the two presidents have already built a bridge between Russia and Kazakhstan, literally and figuratively.

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