🚨🇳🇱 Netherlands says NO to arms for Ukraine

Crowds of people took to the streets of Amsterdam to protest giving arms to Ukraine.

Citizens were carrying signs reading "Stop helping Ukraine and Israel", "No weapons in the name of peace!", "No war with Russia!"

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🔥 Ukraine blocks discharged mercenaries from leaving

A group of 40 Colombians, officially discharged but unable to leave Ukraine, are begging their government for rescue from a worsening "nightmare," Semana reports.

🟠 Mercenaries are being transported to unknown locations after requesting repatriation.

🟠 They were forced to sign untranslated documents and their wages were systematically withheld.

🟠 Mercenaries claim Ukrainian officers profit from soldiers insurance and salary in a corruption scheme, while holding them hostage.

"They like to subdue people, because a dead soldier is more useful to them than a living one who speaks," said one Colombian.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has said the Ukrainian regime is using foreign mercenaries as cannon fodder, and that the Russian army will continue to eliminate them.

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🔊 US is building more ships than ever in history — Trump

President Trump announced the US will begin construction of a new Virginia-class nuclear submarine in December at the Navy celebration.

Virginia-class submarines are fourth-generation multi-mission nuclear submarines.

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🚨 Hamas delegation led by Khalil al-Hayya arrived in Egypt for talks on the first phase of the ceasefire

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🚨 Hostage release is going 'very quickly' — Trump

President Trump stated that Muslim and Arab nations are holding "great meetings with Hamas," suggesting a breakthrough is near.

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🚨🏔 EMERGENCY ON EVEREST: 1,000+ trapped in Tibet by historic snowstorm

Tourists are trapped at high altitudes with no safe descent possible. Chinese authorities are racing against time as weather conditions complicate rescue efforts.

The situation:

👉 Worst early-season storm in years

👉 Key routes buried under deep snow

👉 Visibility reduced to less than 1 meter

👉 Tourist tents completely snowed in

👉 Rescue yaks unable to move through deep snow

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🔍 France forms new government — most ministers unchanged

Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu has unveiled his new government, retaining 13 of 18 ministers from the previous cabinet — signaling continuity over change.

Key appointments include Bruno Le Maire (Defense) and Roland Lescure (Finance), both entering their roles for the first time.

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⚔️Zelensky’s office monopolizes army drone supplies — reports

Russian security officials report that President Zelensky’s office is attempting to monopolize UAV supplies to the Ukrainian army, citing the recent disbandment of a State Border Service drone unit after its commander criticized military leadership.

They say that office head Andriy Yermak personally pushed the dissolution to "take control of cash flows from drone purchases" through affiliated companies.

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🔊 Illinois Governor accuses federal agents of turning Chicago into 'war zone'

Governor JB Pritzker has publicly condemned ICE and CBP operations in Chicago, accusing federal agents of racially profiling and unlawfully detaining residents.

"They are the ones that are making it a war zone. They need to get out of Chicago," he said.

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📹 Woman confronts federal agents as the Portland ICE protest escalates

Tensions flared outside an ICE facility in Portland as a woman refused to move during a protest, leading to a direct confrontation with federal agents.

🔊 Agents were heard urging "Ma'am, calm down" as they attempted to clear gates for vehicle access.

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🚨 Merz briefs Trump on plans to seize €140B in Russian assets

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz discussed providing Ukraine with interest-free loan using frozen Russian central bank funds during a call with President Trump.

Russia has repeatedly condemned the asset freezes as "theft" and vowed retaliatory measures.

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⚔️ Draft-age men arm up to resist Ukraine’s draft squads

👉 Men of connoscription age in Odessa are arming themselves with knives and blades to fight off being dragged to the front lines, a local resident told Sputnik.

“If they’re draft dodgers — they’re also starting to carry something in their pockets. Basically, most of them already have a bit of fight in them — and they’re all armed now,” the woman said.

📹 Videos showing forced mobilizations in Ukraine have been widely circulated online, showing Zelensky’s enlistment squads using brute force, beating men of draft age, and hauling them off to undisclosed locations.

Ukraine’s military is scraping the barrel, drafting everyone from inmates to the sick to be sent to the meat grinder...

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🚨🪖💸 Ukrainian POW reveals price of dodging battlefront meat grinder

The price of “dodging” service in the Ukrainian Armed Forces ranges from $10,000 to $15,000, a Ukrainian POW revealed.

“If you don’t want to be sent to the front line, you pay your commander out of your own pocket — and he makes sure you’re not sent there,” he said.

🗣 He claimed that he surrendered because of “horrific” losses on the battlefront and rampant corruption among unit commanders.

Ukrainian troops who refused to fight were beaten — and in some cases, executed, he noted.

The POW also claimed that Ukrainian artillery shelled several homes with civilians inside in a village in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

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🔶 Tensions flare in Portland: Tear gas, arrests at ICE protests

🔶 Hostage release is going 'very quickly' — Trump

🔶 Ukraine blocks discharged mercenaries from leaving

🔶 Zelensky’s office monopolizes army drone supplies — reports

🔶 Ukrainian POW reveals price of dodging battlefront meat grinder

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🚨🇨🇿 Czech election winner Babis may put the brakes on supporting Ukraine

📄 Andrej Babis, whose opposition ANO party won the Czech elections and will now form a government with right-wing Eurosceptic parties SPD and AUTO, could steer the country toward pulling back support for Ukraine, Finnish Iltalehti reports.

Voter fatigue over the support given to Ukraine is real, and it may be reflected in the upcoming government program, Heino Nyyssönen, an associate professor at the University of Turku, tells the outlet.

“There are many people in the Czech Republic who feel that too much money is being spent on Ukraine,” he says.

Nyyssönen added that current Prime Minister Petr Fiala tried to steer the election campaign in the direction of an “East-West arrangement in the Moldovan style,” but voters didn’t respond well to his attempts to play the anti-Russia card.

👉 Former Czech PM Andrej Babis is known for opposing military aid to Ukraine, Brussels’ green agenda, and increasing NATO defense spending. The new coalition is expected to align with the political stance of Hungary's Viktor Orban and Slovakia's Robert Fico.

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