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

▪️Ukraine lost up to 185 servicemen in the Russian Zapad Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 150 troops in the Russian Vostok Battlegroup's combat zone.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 205 servicemen and four warehouses in the Russia's Battlegroup Yug area of responsibility.

▪️Ukraine lost up to 100 soldiers in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr and Sever.

▪️Russian air defence systems shot down three HIMARS missiles and 130 Ukrainian drones.

▪️Over 280 Ukrainian militants, four infantry fighting vehicles and four armored recovery vehicles were destroyed in Russia's Kursk border area.

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🇮🇹🌊 Flooding in Italy's Tarquinia: Residents evacuated by boats and helicopters

The Mignone River has overflowed due to continuous heavy rains, flooding surrounding areas. Many residents are trapped in their homes.

Dramatic footage shared by rescuers shows emergency teams evacuating people from the zone using boats and helicopters.

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🥴CRINGE: Zelensky begging for money applause

"If not Brussels — then Moscow," he said, speaking of some European countries' frustration at the EU's headquarters. 

After such a "strong" phrase, Zelensky was expecting to get a thunderous applause, but received only an awkward pause. It took the man a few shakes of his head before he finally drew some condescending claps 🤡

Well… What does that say?

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🇭🇺😡DON'T FORCE us to open doors to migrants — Orban to US and EU 

Brussels and Washington are compelling European countries to let the migrants in, claiming that those who refuse are "bad guys," the Hungarian PM told Tucker Carlson.

He also explained what's behind the leftists' push for open borders.

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📹 'Is he holding his people hostage?' — Zelensky refuses idea of holding elections in Ukraine

Zelensky, whose term expired in May 2024, said that "Ukrainians do not want elections" and suggested that those hoping for them should "CHOOSE ANOTHER CITIZENSHIP."

"Who has given this little tiny man the power to speak like the country belongs to him?" netizens object.

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💰 US Senator Lindsey Graham has informed President Donald Trump about Ukraine's substantial reserves of rare earth minerals, highlighting the potential economic benefits of securing access to these resources.

"Trump now sees Ukraine differently," Graham said.

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📹 Russia's Defense Ministry showed a video of the destruction of Ukrainian robot couriers in the Donetsk People's Republic.

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Andrew Tate, leader of the UK's BRUV Party, took to X to criticize Europe, comparing it to "the girl who yells at fully grown men because her boyfriend can fight."

Twiplomacy 2.0?

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📹🇩🇪 Massive protest erupts in Munich against Security Conference

A large demonstration has kicked off in Munich, where protesters are voicing their opposition to the ongoing Security Conference and NATO’s actions. The crowd is calling for peace talks and condemning arms shipments to Ukraine and Israel.

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📹 Brits feel betrayed

Journalist Matthew Stadlen says JD Vance's speech was 'patronising' and 'disgraceful'.

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US doesn’t want many sides involved in talks on Ukraine

“What we don’t want to do is get into a large group discussion,” Trump’s envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.

▪️Kellogg clarified that although Europe may not physically be at the table for peace talks, the region’s interests would be taken into consideration.

▪️Washington is not yet ready to outline the requirements for a credible security guarantee for Ukraine, Kellogg added.

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📹 Ukraine's rare earths story is 'DISTRACTION' from 'IMPENDING' Russian victory

Prof. Gilbert Doctorow explains why Trump’s plan to extract Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for further military aid is ‘hot air’.

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📹 ‘Get you vaccines now, America’: ABC show co-host addresses viewers amid RFK Jr. becoming new Health Secretary

Earlier, RFK Jr. exposed gaps in US vaccine safety data, claiming that "less than 1% of the vaccine injuries were reported."

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💉Von der Leyen’s scandals: From ‘Pfizergate’ to favoritism and VANISHING TEXTS

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s track record as a politician is marred by a number of serious accusations.

🔻Favoritism

▪️In 2024, she generated controversy by appointing Germany’s Markus Pieper – member of the same German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party as her – to the lucrative position of EU Envoy for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME).

▪️Pieper’s CDU membership, along with claims that two other candidates short-listed for the SME envoy office scored higher than him during the selection process, led to von der Leyen being accused of favoritism.

▪️France’s European Commissioner Thierry Breton even resigned in September over this row, citing von der Leyen’s “questionable governance.”

🔻Pfizergate

▪️During the COVID pandemic, von der Leyen made a deal with US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla to purchase 1.8 billion doses of then-untested COVID vaccines worth about $37.6 billion.

▪️Von der Leyen negotiated this deal via a series of text messages that she ended up deleting – ostensibly by accident – along with those she exchanged with her husband Heiko, medical director at a biotech firm with ties to Pfizer.

▪️As a result, von der Leyen was accused of corruption and “usurpation of functions and noscript,” and is currently being sued in Liege by Belgian lobbyist Frederic Baldan.

🔻‘Consultancy firms affair’

▪️At the end of her 2013-2019 tenure as Germany’s minister of defense, von der Leyen became the target of a probe by the Federal Audit Office over her practice of awarding lucrative contracts to external consultancy firms.

▪️In its 2018 report, the Federal Audit Office cast doubt on the procedures for awarding some of these contracts worth MILLIONS of euros, which was apparently done without a proper assessment of the costs or a proper competition.

🔻Daughter’s employment

One such consultancy firm, the US-based McKinsey, attracted attention after the head of its Berlin office Katrin Suder was hired as von der Leyen’s aide. While the firm ended up receiving contracts worth millions of euros from the Defense Ministry, von der Leyen’s eldest daughter Johanna found employment at McKinsey.

Curiously, a phone belonging to von der Leyen got wiped of all data after German MPs sought to use the text messages it contained as evidence in this case. The German Ministry of Defense said at the time that this wipe was done "for security reasons".

*the picture is AI-generated

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