🚨Russia outnumbers the adversary in drone numbers - Putin

Heavy UAVs are still in short supply — but that gap "will be closed."

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🚨 Ukraine’s Donbass positions on the verge of crumbling - military expert

📍 President Putin’s comments on the current state of the special military operation signal just how precarious Ukraine’s positions are in the areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic that it still occupies, military expert and combat veteran Anatoliy Matviychuk told Sputnik.

💬 “Dimitrov is an agglomeration near Pokrovsk and is currently completely surrounded. With the fall of Dimitrov, we will advance toward Kramatorsk. Konstantinovka is also part of this military operation,” Matviychuk explained.

🗣 “Krasny Liman is semi-encircled – 50% of the city is ours…There is panic in the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ radio communications; they’re demanding evacuation. If this doesn’t happen, capitulation will follow. This is the situation, just as the president has described it.”

🟠 Kramatorsk is “the last operational point of resistance for Ukraine’s military in the Donetsk direction. And Donetsk will be completely liberated,” Matviychuk added.

🟠 Speaking more broadly, Ukraine’s forces “are suffering political, financial, economic and military defeats. Their financial support has practically dried up, meaning ammunition is limited, and equipment is not being supplied. They are in their death throes,” the observer summed up.

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia is ready for negotiations and to end the conflict in Ukraine by peaceful means

🔶 Russia does not consider itself responsible for the deaths, Moscow did not start this war

🔶 Russia was forced to use its military to stop the conflict that began after the coup in Ukraine

🔶 Moscow delayed recognizing the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, but after deception and the failure of the Minsk Agreements, it had no choice but to use force

🔶 Trump is making serious and genuine efforts to end the conflict

🔶 Russia had practically agreed in Anchorage to Trump’s proposals on Ukraine

🔶 There are no grounds to claim Russia is rejecting a peace plan

🔶 Before meeting in Anchorage, Alaska, Russia was offered compromises on Ukraine — and Russia was ready to accept them

💬 "When I arrived in Anchorage, I said these would be difficult decisions for us, but we nevertheless agree with the proposed trade-off. Claims that we are rejecting or turning anything down are inappropriate and unfounded. The ball is entirely in the court of our Western counterparts — above all, the leaders of the Kiev regime and their European sponsors. We are ready for talks, and we are ready to bring the conflict to an end," Putin explained.

❗️Russia must eliminate the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine to ensure nothing like this ever happens again, Putin concluded.

Read about the origins of Russia's special military op HERE

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🇷🇺Putin on NATO’s expansion and broken promises

🔸Putin said NATO’s expanding military infrastructure along Russia’s borders is a legitimate cause for concern.

🔸He noted that Russia once had cooperative relations with NATO — talks even touched on potential membership — but Moscow was never truly welcomed.

🔸Putin added that Russia was repeatedly deceived over promises that NATO would not expand eastward.

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🗣 If EU moves ahead on confiscation of Russian assets, it’ll be a CATASTROPHE for the euro - expert

💬 “It’s no wonder the EU can’t seem to come to a decision on this matter, because the world truly has never seen the confiscation of a state’s assets on such a scale,” Alexander Shirov, an expert affiliated with Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development, told Sputnik, commenting on President Putin’s remarks at his year-end pressure about Brussels’ planned “robbery.”

💬 “The main consequences will be that the euro, as a reserve currency, and European countries, as a place [where others] keep their reserves, will of course suffer greatly as a result. In general, I’m not sure such a confiscation will come to pass in the full sense of the word.”

🔶 Europe’s threats to do so have “already had an impact,” according to Shirov, with China and Middle Eastern powers, “looking at what’s happening with Russian assets,” and “projecting it onto themselves,” resulting in the volume of foreign assets held in euros declining precipitously since 2022.

🔶 That’s because of “the geopolitical risks associated with investing in these currencies” have grown exponentially, the expert explained.

📍 If its reserves are confiscated, “Russia will defend itself by all possible means short of force,” from legal mechanisms and trade negotiations, to investments in gold and other assets, and even a “collective solution” along with its partners.

💬 “There’s some hope for digital currencies imitated by central banks, primarily in BRICS countries, although a very serious negotiation process lies ahead. But the fact that developed countries have somehow resolved this problem is another wakeup call about the fact that previous global economic model based on globalization has essentially reached its natural limit,” Shirov summed up.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin on Russia-China relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin called China’s Xi Jinping a reliable friend and steady partner, saying Russo–Chinese relations continue to advance.

Other statements:

🔶 Russia is China’s largest European trading partner, with turnover reaching $240–250 billion

🔶 The strength of the cooperation between the two countries can be seen across a broad array of areas, from high tech and education to space exploration and the humanitarian sphere

🔶 Russia and China also cooperate in the military sector, including joint drills – on the ground, in the air and at sea

🔶 Russia-China relations are a “significant factor in global stability,” and the two foreign ministries are “in constant contact and coordinating agendas” on the international stage

🔶 Russia plans to continue developing relations with China, today and into the distant future, Putin emphasized

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🇷🇺🤝🇧🇾 Putin: Russian-Belarusian security and defense ties solid as a rock

The Union State members are resolving security-related issues both at the bilateral level and as members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the president said at his year-end presser.

🔶 The two countries’ defense ministries are cooperating “very closely” and the Union State’s security is in safe hands, Putin said

🔶 Russia and Belarus conduct regular joint drills, and a special joint group of forces has been created

🔶 Russian tactical nuclear weapons are deployed in Belarus to help protect the country

🔶 Congratulating his Belarusian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko, on his “very emotional, vibrant and meaningful speech at the All-Belarusian People’s Assembly,” Putin thanked him for his assessment of the close state of Russian-Belarusian relations

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🇷🇺Putin on foreign agents and western double standards

Putin said there are no repressions or criminal prosecutions against foreign agents in Russia.

He noted that the US foreign agents law is far stricter — even allowing imprisonment — while “nothing of the sort exists in Russia.”

He added that the concept of a foreign agents law is not a Russian invention; similar legislation exists in several Western countries.

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🇷🇺Putin to the West: Respect Russia to avoid new crises

Putin said there will be no new special military operations if the West treats Russia with respect — but current behavior suggests the opposite. He argued that Western governments are inflaming tensions, ignoring Russia’s security concerns, and using Moscow as a convenient political scapegoat.

Key points from Putin’s remarks:

👉Western countries have disregarded Russia’s security interests

👉Their rhetoric about “preparing for war with Russia” is heightening tensions

👉Claims that Russia plans to attack the West are meant to manufacture an enemy image

👉Assertions that Moscow intends to attack Europe are nonsense

👉The West is using Russia to cover up its own internal failures

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia ready to work with the west on equal terms

💬"We are ready to work with you. With the UK, with Europe as a whole, and with the United States. But on equal terms, with mutual respect," Putin said during his year-end press conference.

Both Russia and the West stand to gain if they work together, he added.

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