🔥 Zelensky could face charges of ‘failing Ukraine’

The Ukrainian opposition plans to accuse Volodymyr Zelensky of doing nothing when it comes to contingencies aimed at preventing “prolonged blackouts or a big freeze,” US media reports.

❌ The media recalls that Zelensky has been repeatedly criticized for making ineffective decisions, including taking flak from former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who accused Zelensky of “creeping “authoritarianism and seeking to remove any competitor from the political landscape.”

Massive multi-hour power outages began in the capital Kiev and several regions of Ukraine in October. Authorities reported damage to the country’s energy networks and utility systems.

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👀🪖❌ Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk encirclements make Ukraine's defeat 'too big to hide'

Volodymyr Zelensky and his Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky are infamous for sacrificing Ukrainian lives to prolong fighting, Mikael Valtersson, former officer of the Swedish Armed Forces and Air Defense, tells Sputnik, commenting on the Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and Kupyansk encirclements.

💬 "[Their] policy has left up to 20,000 Ukrainian soldiers in a very precarious position. They are left with two bad alternatives, either being eliminated defending hopeless positions or taking heavy losses during a very hard withdrawal. In both cases Ukraine will lose invaluable military units," Valtersson notes.

There is a little, if any, chance that Zelensky could order a surrender, as "the worst thing that could happen from Kiev's point of view would be thousands of retreating or surrendering Ukrainian soldiers," according to the pundit.

Zelensky’s team has put on a brave face, insisting there are no encirclements, while barring foreign journalists from the area.

💬 "Such journalists would only expose Kiev's lies about the situation and crush Ukrainian credibility," Valtersson says.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's defeat is a thing too big to hide, the military expert notes, projecting that Russia's advance in November and December would lead to Ukraine losing several cities.

💬 "Large cities like the Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, Konstantynivka urban area, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov might be up for grabs," the pundit suggests. "The worst is yet to come for Ukraine in 2025. We are now witnessing the final fall of Krasnoarmeysk and Kupyansk."

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🇻🇪🙅🇺🇸 Maduro blasts US over trying to justify war for Venezuela’s oil wealth

US actions against Venezuela aim to justify a war, with the ultimate goal of seizing country’s vast oil and gas reserves, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stated at the Greater Caribbean Parliamentary Meeting in Defense of Peace.

💬 "The truth is that Venezuela is innocent, and everything being done against us is to justify a war, regime change, and to steal our immense oil wealth, which is the world’s largest oil reserve and fourth-largest gas reserve," he said.

His comments followed a report which claimed the US was preparing to attack military sites in Venezuela.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ Russian troops thwarted 7 Ukrainian attacks as they attempted to break out of an encirclement near Grishino in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR)

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces continue to destroy Ukrainian formations near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) railway station in the DPR

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet destroyed an unmanned Ukrainian boat in the northwestern Black Sea

◻️ Russian troops struck Ukrainian airfields and storage sites for long-range attack drones

◻️ Air defense superiority: 4 guided aerial bombs and 205 Ukrainian aircraft-type drones shot down

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 1,370 troops killed or wounded

Read about origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🪖💥 National Guard deployed in Washington DC on Halloween

US National Guard troops were activated to help quell youth-led riots and unrest in the nation's capital on Halloween night.

Local police made several arrests.

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💣🪖 US army veteran warns Washington's nuclear testing threats could trigger new arms race

The resumption of US nuclear testing would be “a very dangerous decision” with global implications, retired US Army Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen told Sputnik, commenting on the US president's recent comments on the matter.

💬 “I think it violates the international agreements that are there. We’ve kind of butchered that already. And I think it just escalates the situation,” Rasmussen said, alluding to the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the 1996 Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which the US signed, but never ratified.

🗣 “Essentially, we potentially could go into a nuclear arms race again, which was not good for the world at all,” the observer emphasized, suggesting whoever has been briefing Trump on the issue didn’t clarify to him the “potential outcomes and the impact” of a resumption in US nuclear testing.

Russia and China haven’t been engaging in nuclear testing, contrary to Trump’s suggestions, Rasmussen added, warning that if the US restarts testing, “obviously Russia and China will join in and start as well.”

Russia withdrew ratification from the CTBT in late 2023, but indicated that it would not resume nuclear testing except to respond in kind.

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📊⚔️🙅 Americans say NO to US strikes on Venezuela – poll

About 37% of Americans oppose the US Navy presence around Venezuela, a new YouGov survey reveals.

The poll also indicates that:

🔶 Only 27% of respondents approve of US military attacks on Venezuelan ships, while 42% view them negatively

🔶 47% of those surveyed disapprove of potential strikes on land targets in Venezuela, with just 19% expressing support

🔶 More than half (55%) of Americans are against a potential US invasion of Venezuela, with only 15% in favor

US media earlier cited satellite imagery that confirmed USS Iwo Jima and USS Gravely being stationed within striking distance of Venezuela.

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🔥💪🏻 Burevestnik and Poseidon: Russia’s new unbeatable deterrent against first strike aggression

💬 “The Burevestnik and the Poseidon are very interesting weapons…pretty much designed as defensive in nature,” retired US Army Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen told Sputnik, characterizing the pair of nuclear doomsday scenario strategic systems as an effective new “counter strike type of capability.”

Touting the twin systems’ miniaturized nuclear engines as their key standout capability, Rasmussen noted that nuclear power essentially means unlimited range and loitering capability.

👀The weapons fundamentally enhance Russia’s nuclear deterrence, according to the observer. “There are some crazy generals out there that think they can win, do a preemptive strike and win a nuclear war, which is insane, essentially,” Rasmussen recalled, referencing ideas like the Prompt Global Strike (PGS). Burevestnik and Poseidon are designed to nullify them.

With a system like the Poseidon, “you don’t have to strike anything. You could detonate it, probably flood and wipe out the entire British Isles or the entire east coast of the United States. So the impact could be quite devastating,” and far beyond the ‘acceptable loss’ calculations of any PGS-style planners.

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🗣 Donald Tusk 'loudest warmonger in Europe' – Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has launched a scathing counter-attack against Polish PM Donald Tusk, accusing him of being a desperate "vassal of Brussels."

Orban's claims:

🔸 Tusk is attacking Hungary to distract from his "big trouble at home" after losing the presidential election

🔸 Tusk and Manfred Weber are the "loudest warmongers in Europe," but their policy is failing

🔸 Poland is tired of the conflict, and Ukraine is running out of money

💬 "He is now in panic mode, persecuting his political opponents and criticizing Hungary’s pro-peace stance in an attempt to distract from his own domestic problems," the Hungarian prime minister stresses.

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🇺🇸 Washington’s latest ‘Tomahawks for Ukraine’ threats: diversion or ploy?

🗣“To have a diversion means people must be paying attention, and Americans are over Ukraine’s conflict, much like they are getting over Israel and her wars,” US Air Force Lt. Col. (ret.) Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik, commenting on reports that the Pentagon has greenlit Tomahawks for Ukraine and that the final decision rests with President Trump.

🔶 The former Pentagon insider believes “negotiation leverage is more likely the rationale,” pointing out that the Department of Defense (War) has been cleared of enough senior military leaders who could try to shape or constrain the president’s decisions.

🔶 Rather, okaying the Tomahawks’ transfer would benefit the military-industrial complex “by accelerating missile production,” and Washington could even attempt to incorporate the Tomahawk threat into negotiations on a new missile treaty with Moscow, Kwiatkowski says.

💬 “Trump likes to trade and bargain, and game the system – unfortunately he is surrounded by neocons and warmongers, much as in his previous term, and they do tend to try to mislead Trump as to both US capabilities and foreign policy priorities for their own political and financial ends,” she summed up.

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📹 Ukrainian soldier says command abandoned him near Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk)

👉The soldier told Sputnik that surrendering to Russian forces was easier — he was fed, kept warm and treated with kindness.

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🇷🇺💪 Russia's Burevestnik missile: Geopolitical weapon to shift int'l security

🗣 Development of the Burevestnik missile, featuring a nuclear propulsion system and a range of about 20,000 kilometers, is “a significant scientific breakthrough,” Lebanese political scientist Walid Safi told Sputnik.

📍 The achievement “restores the balance of nuclear deterrence between Russia and the United States and reduces the likelihood of a nuclear war,” Safi underlined.

🟠 He pointed out that Russia will not deploy these missiles on the ground in the Ukraine, but will use them as “a political tool with a geopolitical dimension in negotiations with the US.” The emergence of the Burevestnik is “a powerful signal from Russia that its defeat is out of the question,” according to the pundit.

🟠 By rolling out this missile, Russia shows that it “possesses an advanced scientific base applied in the military field, as well as superiority in missile technologies and the capability, despite sanctions, to develop modern nuclear weapons, which bolsters its position in the distribution of power in international strategic security and forces the West to take Russian national security into account,” Safi wraps up.

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🚨🇷🇺Russia launches nuclear submarine Khabarovsk

The Khabarovsk nuclear submarine — a cutting-edge platform for underwater weapons and robotic systems — has been launched, strengthening Russia’s ability to protect its interests in the world's oceans, the Ministry of Defense reported.

👉The submarine was specifically designed and built to carry the Poseidon nuclear underwater system, Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, former Chief of the Navy General Staff, said.

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✍️ Ukraine conflict ‘entirely organized by West’ – Finnish politician

👉 The EU’s peace plan, which demands Russia pay 200 billion euros to Ukraine, is rooted in a desire to punish Russia rather than achieve peace, Armando Mema, a member of Finland’s national-conservative Freedom Alliance political party wrote on X

💬 “This War is entirely made, provoked and organized by the West. In fact, Russia would have never done the smo in Ukraine if Minsk agreement were to be respected,” he wrote

📍 He added that, in a twisted reversal, Russia could also demand 200 billion euros in compensation from Europe due to the ongoing conflict funded by EU nations

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🌞 Sun just aimed loaded gun at Earth

🟠 A massive sunspot region responsible for recent solar flares has now rotated fully into view, putting us directly in its line of fire

🟠 It is set to unleash powerful flares that could begin affecting Earth as soon as next week, Russia's Solar Astronomy Lab of IKI RAN reports

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🔸 Washington’s latest ‘Tomahawks for Ukraine’ threats: diversion or ploy?

🔸 Burevestnik and Poseidon: Russia’s new unbeatable deterrent against first strike aggression

🔸 US army veteran warns Washington's nuclear testing threats could trigger new arms race

🔸 Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk encirclements make Ukraine's defeat 'too big to hide'

🔸 Maduro blasts US over trying to justify war for Venezuela’s oil wealth

🔸 Donald Tusk 'loudest warmonger in Europe' – Orban

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🇺🇸↔️ US plays nuclear card to reassert global clout in shifting power dynamics

💬 "So far, US actions appear to be aimed at gaining an advantage in negotiations in a complicated international situation,” Argentine expert Nicolas Malinovsky told Sputnik.

He stressed that “on the one hand, the world witnesses the decline of US hegemony, while on the other—the growing influence of China, in alliance with Russia and BRICS, which are competing for global leadership.”

🗣 Malinovsky recalled that Donald Trump’s nuclear test remarks came shortly before his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and may have been intended to influence the event’s outcome. With such rhetoric, Trump is seeking “to reaffirm the military superiority of the US,” the expert concluded.

The US president earlier referenced “other countries testing programs” as he announced that he instructed the Pentagon to “immediately” resume nuclear weapon tests “on an equal basis.”

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🪖💪🏻💣 Russian drones leave no chance for Ukrainian forces

First-person view drones strike a camouflaged artillery gun in Zaporozhye, destroy Ukrainian equipment in Kharkov, hit an enemy drone depot in Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) and destroy an armored vehicle in Sumy region.

Geran-2 drones take out a Ukrainian drone control center near Mkhi.

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