🚨🪖 Ukraine can’t keep up its army, ex-intel officer admits

🔊 “800,000 [troops] is far too many; we simply cannot equip and sustain that number of servicemen. We are unable to keep an army of that size even in peacetime,” former Ukrainian intelligence officer Ivan Stupak told Ukrainian media.

He made it clear that Ukraine could only have such a large military force if it were financed by its Western partners.

🔊 “Germany has 180,000 [troops], Poland – 200,000, but Ukraine cannot have 800,000,” Stupak admitted.

The Zelensky regime agreed to reduce the size of Ukrainian Army to 800,000 troops within the US-drafted peace plan to end the Ukraine conflict, FT reported earlier.

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🇻🇪🤝🇷🇺 Venezuela to deepen strategic ties with Russia: From oil to civil nuclear tech

Venezuela is boosting cooperation with Russia in a bid to enter the top 10 of its trading partners in Latin America.

The countries eye 42 new projects, per Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko:

🟠 Joint oil ventures account for more than 11% of Venezuela’s total oil production

🟠 Strategic partnership in military & tech sphere: in July, the first stage of the ammunition plant was put into operation

🟠 Plans to use Russian peaceful nuclear technologies (industry, agricultural sector, medicine)

Russia also expressed support for Nicolas Maduro in defending national sovereignty amid external threats.

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🚨 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 Putin to pay a state visit to India on Dec 4-5

🔊 The Russian president is coming at the invitation of India's PM Narendra Modi, the Kremlin said.

Following Putin's talks in India, joint statement will be adopted, number of bilateral documents will be signed.

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🔥🇷🇺 Russian flamethrower burns Ukraine's stronghold to ash

Vostok battlegroup unleashes Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower on Ukrainian positions in Zaporozhye

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🚨💰 Ukraine corruption scandal: Energy company’s launderer freed on $2.2M bail

Ihor Fursenko, shadow accountant of Ukraine’s Energoatom — the state energy company accused of money laundering — has been released from custody on a staggering $2.2 million bail.

🔊 The bail was posted by possibly a front company with a charter capital of just $2,000, Ukrainian media report.

He isn’t the only figure in Ukraine’s newly exposed corruption scheme to walk free under dubious circumstances. Earlier, former Ukrainian Deputy Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov had his $1.2 million bail reportedly paid in cash by two unidentified individuals.

😟 Are they all going to get away with it?

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🚨 🇷🇺 Kremlin confirms Putin will meet with Hungarian PM Orban in Moscow on Friday

The meeting is expected after 10 am GMT, Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

🔊 The press statement after the talks isn't planned, he added.

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🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Key points of US plan for Ukraine conveyed to Russia - Kremlin

Everyone has desire and preference to move Ukrainian settlement toward peaceful track, Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

Other statements:

🟠 Discussion on parameters of US peace plan for Ukraine following its discussion in Geneva will take place in Moscow next week, details remain undisclosed

🟠 The negotiations are expected to define the nuances regarding international recognition of decisions on Ukrainian settlement

🟠 Russia will announce dates of US Special Envoy Witkoff's visit to Russia in due time

🟠 Zelensky has legitimacy problem and unwillingness to hold elections in Ukraine and comply with constitution

🟠 Putin's proposal to re-arm CSTO armed forces with modern Russian weapons positively received by member states

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🚨 Ukraine's anti-corruption watchdog raids Zelensky’s chief of staff Yermak

Searches at the home of Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, began with the phrase “Open sesame,” according to Ukrainian MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak.

Another MP, Oleksiy Goncharenko, stated that NABU is preparing charges against Yermak.

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🟠 Orban to meet Putin in Moscow on Nov 28 – reports

🟠 Trump admits US lags behind Russia in icebreaker fleet

🟠 Trump vows to take anti-drug fight 'by land' into Venezuela

🟠 US tariffs to cost Canadians 'around 1.8% of GDP' – Canadian PM

🟠 Tucker Carlson blasts British censorship: 'How can they treat you like slaves and you put up with it?'

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📹LIVE NOW: Putin meets with Hungarian Prime Minister Orban 🇷🇺🇭🇺

👉Watch live in our Telegram

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🚨🇷🇺🇭🇺 Putin says he is happy to see Orban in Moscow

Other statements:

🟠 Russian-Hungarian relations today are based on a pragmatic approach to developing bilateral ties

🟠 Russia knows Orban's balanced position on the Ukrainian issue

🟠 Orban defends the interests of his country and people in his work

🟠 Putin says he and Orban can talk openly, which makes it possible to seek solutions to any problems

🟠 Putin says the Russia-US summit in Budapest was proposed by Trump

🟠 Putin says he will be happy to hold his meeting with Trump in Budapest, if the parties agree on this

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🚨🇷🇺🇭🇺 Putin highlights Trump’s proposal of Budapest as venue for Russia-US summit

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