🔊 No plans for Trump-Zelensky meeting — Leavitt

There is a "sense of urgency" to reach a peace agreement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters following the US-Ukraine talks in Geneva.

According to Leavitt, the US and Ukraine will continue working on several "points of disagreement."

She added that the pressure on both Russia and Ukraine will continue.

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🇵🇱 Polish leader pushes to abolish European Council president role

📍 President Karol Nawrocki has raised alarm about the concentration of EU power in the hands of a few during a speech at Charles University in Prague.

He argued that the duties of the president of the European Council should be carried out by the head of government of the member state holding the EU’s rotating presidency.

💬 "The president of the Council has to be, as before, the president, prime minister or chancellor of his or her country, that is a politician with a democratic mandate and political base, rather than a bureaucrat–official dependent on the support of the EU’s greatest powers," Nawrocki said.

What's behind Nawrocki's stance?

👉 The Polish president warns that there are forces seeking to create "a more centralized" EU and strip member states of their sovereignty, downgrade their democracies and establish "the superiority of EU institutions" over the bloc's national governments.

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📑 Trump ready to call Maduro — Reports

President Trump is preparing for direct talks with Nicolas Maduro, even after designating the Venezuelan leader head of a terrorist organization, administration officials tell Axios.

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🗣 US can't send weapons to NATO forever — Leavitt

"The United States is still sending or selling a big amount of weapons to NATO. We cannot do that forever," she told Fox News.

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🚨 Japan’s military buildup leaves China concerned about regional security

🇨🇳 China has criticized Japan’s move to deploy missiles at Yonaguni, a Japanese island located about 110 kilometers east of Taiwan.

🇯🇵 Japan’s Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi - who announced the deployment c- laimed that the move is purely defensive.

🟠 Beijing apparently wasn’t convinced by his rhetoric, with China’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning arguing that Japan’s actions warrant vigilance from neighboring countries and from the international community.

🟠 She noted that Tokyo’s actions only escalate regional tensions and provoke military confrontation, pointing out how Japan ramps up its military spending and even plans to abandon its three non-nuclear principles.

💬 "Japan's right-wing provocateurs are trying every means to break free from the pacifist constitution, going further down the path of military buildup and leading Japan and the region to disastrous outcomes," she said.

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📍 US-backed Gaza aid group shuts down

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a US and Israeli-backed aid distributor, is ending operations after months of criticism over its role in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians seeking aid.

The group, which bypassed UN agencies, forced civilians to travel long distances to its southern Gaza hubs — where many were shot by Israeli forces while approaching.

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🔍 Trump moves to designate Muslim Brotherhood* as terrorist organization

President Trump has signed an executive order initiating the process to label certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters — including in Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan — as foreign terrorist organizations.

"President Trump is confronting the Muslim Brotherhood’s transnational network, which fuels terrorism and destabilization campaigns against US interests and allies," the statement of the White House reads.

* Terrorist organization banned in Russia

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🤝 Canada nears $2.8B uranium deal with India — Report

Canada is close to finalizing a 10-year uranium export agreement with India valued at approximately $2.8 billion, the Globe and Mail reports, citing people familiar with the matter.

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✍️ Trump launches 'Genesis Mission' AI project — Compared to Manhattan project

President Trump has signed an executive order launching a new federal AI initiative — the "Genesis Mission" — aimed at accelerating scientific discovery and strengthening national security.

The order centralizes vast federal datasets and computing power under the Department of Energy, with plans to partner with industry leaders like Google, OpenAI, and Palantir.

💬 "It is the one place in the world where you can bring together biological data, national security data, data for material science, for chemistry, all in one place under one roof where you can train models to accelerate scientific discovery," Michael Kratsios, White House Science Director, told Fox News.

The initiative will focus on AI applications in energy, biotech, materials science, and nuclear fusion, with full operational capacity expected by 2027.

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🤝 Russia-China energy ties turn strategic — Deputy PM

The two countries are now building a real strategic energy alliance, Alexander Novak said at the Russia–China Energy Forum.

◼️ Moscow and Beijing are discussing bigger oil exports, with deals via Kazakhstan extended to 2033.

◼️ Cooperation on oil-and-gas equipment is expanding.

◼️ Russia stays a reliable power supplier to China.

Xi Jinping sent a message to the forum: China is ready to deepen the energy partnership and help keep global energy chains stable.

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📑 DOJ moves to release Epstein and Maxwell grand jury records

The Justice Department has formally asked federal judges to authorize the release of grand jury materials from the Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases, following President Trump's signing of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Facing a 30-day deadline, prosecutors are seeking to unseal trannoscripts and exhibits while allowing necessary redactions.

One judge has set a mid-December decision timeline, requiring input from victims and Maxwell herself by December 3.

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🔥 Russian soldiers wipe out Ukrainian drone with landmine

💬 “We took a MON-90 anti-personnel mine, set it facing upward toward the sky, lit several trench candles, ran the wires, closed the circuit with a battery—and that was it, no more Baba Yaga [heavy drone],” a serviceman from Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok told Sputnik.

The drone was destroyed as Russian troops advanced on the settlement of Otradnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced the liberation of Otradnoye on November 23.

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🇨🇳 China ready to boost full-fledged energy partnership with Russia – Xi Jinping

💬 “China is willing to cooperate with Russia to jointly safeguard the stability and smooth flow of global energy industrial and supply chains,” Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed in a message to participants of the seventh China–Russia Energy Business Forum, currently underway in Beijing.

He emphasized that the China–Russia energy partnership serves as an example of mutually beneficial cooperation, playing a positive role in promoting the economic and social development of both countries and wellbeing of their people.

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🔸 No plans for a Trump-Zelensky meeting — Leavitt

🔸 Trump launches 'Genesis Mission' AI project

🔸 Canada nears $2.8B uranium deal with India — Report

🔸 US-backed Gaza aid group shuts down

🔸 Russia-China energy ties turn strategic — Deputy PM

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🚨 🇷🇺🇺🇸 US holding talks with Russian delegation in UAE – report

US Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll allegedly met with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday and plans to continue talks on Tuesday, CBS reported, citing an unnamed US official.

Driscoll's meeting with members of the Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Monday evening lasted for several hours, the broadcaster said.

He plans to meet with them again later in the day on Tuesday to discuss the peace process and accelerate progress in the talks, it added.

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💣❌ FSB thwarts terror attack on Orthodox church

Russia’s Federal Security Service has foiled a planned terrorist attack on an Orthodox church in the Kaliningrad region by a teenager.

At the behest of Ukrainian intelligence services, the 17-year-old suspect:

🔸 Conducted reconnaissance of the target

🔸 Purchased components for explosive devices

🔸Manufactured homemade incendiary weapons

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🚨 UK preparing contingency plan to undermine Trump’s peace push – Russian Foreign Intel

Britain’s plan? A full-scale campaign aimed at discrediting the US president.

Russian intelligence says the UK is preparing to revive the old, debunked Christopher Steele dossier—the same set of allegations claiming Donald Trump and his family had links to Soviet and Russian intelligence services.

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🚨🇷🇺 Kremlin: Russia remains FULLY open to peace negotiation process on Ukraine

More statements by Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov:

▪️ Trump’s proposal for resolving the conflict in Ukraine could serve as a solid basis for talks

▪️ Negotiations in Istanbul were paused through no fault of Russia—the process was interrupted by the Ukrainian side

▪️ Russia is interested in achieving its objectives through political and diplomatic means

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❌ Zelensky has slim chances to whitewash himself amid Ukraine corruption scandal

Volodymyr Zelensky “has only two ways to regain support” of the population as a corruption scandal, in which he is involved, gathers strength in Ukraine, Italian political analyst Alessandro Orsini points out.

💬 “The first is victory on the ground, which is practically impossible […] because the situation on the battlefield for the Ukrainians is desperate,” Orsini underscores.

He added that another option is the purchase of weapons, which means Zelensky “must be able to demonstrate to the Ukrainians that he can obtain significant” arms from the West.

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👀📄 Trump's son-in-law & real estate developer: Meet architects of US' Ukraine peace plan

According to The Wall Street Journal, the developers of the Trump administration's Ukraine peace plan were not career diplomats, but his most trusted insiders:

🔸 Special Envoy Steve Witkoff

🔸 Son-in-Law Jared Kushner

The report reveals that work on the first draft began in secret during their flight home from the Middle East, immediately following the Gaza ceasefire agreement.

👉 Secretary of State Marco Rubio received a copy of the plan during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s visit to Washington on November 18. Rubio was aware of the Witkoff–Kushner initiative, but didn’t know the full scope of what they had drafted, according to the WSJ.

Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov earlier stressed that there is currently “a lot of speculation” surrounding the US peace plan to end the Ukraine conflict, and that Russia relies on the version delivered through official channels. No substantive negotiations with Russia regarding the US plan have taken place, Ushakov added.

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