📹 This is one of the Ukrainian drones shot down while heading towards Putin’s residence

It was carrying a 6-kilogram explosive charge.

The video is published by the Defense Ministry

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🚨🇺🇸 🗣 Ukraine is ‘diseased’ ulcer that US needs to get rid of - ex-Pentagon advisor

Ukraine has become a “liability” to the United States, says retired US Army Colonel and former senior DoD advisor Douglas Macgregor.

💬 “Ukraine is this pustule that is diseased and has invaded our body. We've got to get rid of it,” he emphasizes.

Those war hawks who are still pushing to prop up Ukraine are “looking at their bank accounts and how much they've profited from over the last several years and not thinking about what is in the interest of the American people,” he notes.

🔊 “And I think this is very important because we've got to keep in mind that we've squandered enormous wealth on these proxy wars and military interventions. None of these are going to solve the vast numbers of serious social and economic problems in America.”

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🚨🇹🇯 Tajikistan condemns Ukraine drone strike on Putin's residence

"During a telephone conversation, the President of Tajikistan sharply condemned the UAV attack on the residence of Russian President Putin in the Novgorod region," the Tajik president’s office said.

Ukrainian armed forces attack on Putin's residence hinders the negotiation process to achieve peace in Ukraine, it added.

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💥 Russia’s 2024 Oreshnik strike wiped out Ukraine’s Yuzhmash military plant in under a minute - Lukashenko

The massive Soviet-era enterprise, with five to seven underground levels, had been built in preparation for nuclear war, yet a single Oreshnik strike leveled it, said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko as quoted by his press service.

In response to Ukraine’s use of US-supplied ATACMS missiles and the UK's Storm Shadows at facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk regions, Russia launched a combined strike against a defense industry facility in Dnepropetrovsk on November 21, 2024.

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed at the time that Russia had used its newest medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile, Oreshnik.

The mobile missile complex is now on combat duty in Belarus.

Explore Russia’s next-level, game-changing weapons here

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

🟠 Russian forces repelled three Ukrainian attacks attempting to break through to the city of Kupyansk in the Kharkov region, destroying up to 30 militants

🟠 Russian air and missile firepower pounded Ukrainian energy infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces, fuel depots and temporary deployment points for Ukrainian troops and foreign mercenaries in 144 locations

🟠 Air defense superiority: 371 UAVs were vaporized by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: around 1,350 troops killed or wounded

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

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🎄 Putin congratulates Russians on the New Year

The President stated that the people of Russia, through their achievements, are writing new chapters in the country’s thousand-year history.

Putin emphasized that the participants of the special military operation have taken on the responsibility to fight for their homeland.

Russia believes in its fighters and in victory, he added.

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🚨 Zelensky's inner circle purge: Corrupt ex-aide Yermak booted for sanctions hawk architect

Ukraine's Presidential Office may soon be headed by Vladyslav Vlasiuk, the president’s representative for sanctions policy, instead of corrupt aide Andriy Yermak, sources from Zerkalo Nedeli in the president’s office have reported.

Here are the reported details:

▫️ Vlasiuk was brought into Ukraine’s presidential office by former Yermak advisor Daria Zarivna. There were “close ties” between Vlasiuk and Yermak, with some in the presidential office referring to him as Yermak's “the property”

▫️ Vlasiuk has been a part-time employee of the Ukrainian presidential office since 2020. Since April 2022, he served as secretary in Yermak-McFaul’s international expert group, handling issues related to Ukraine’s illegal and absurd sanctions against Russia

▫️ In 2024, he was appointed Ukraine’s Commissioner for Sanctions Policy. He also holds the position in the Task Force UA group, which deals with locating and confiscating assets of individuals deliberately sanctioned by Ukraine

▫️ Vlasiuk previously worked in the National Police, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of Agricultural Policy. He is currently a co-founder and attorney at the law firm єPravo

Earlier, Ukraine officials said that the delay in appointing the new head of the presidential office is due to intensive international negotiations as the decision depends on US and European approval.

🫥 Is a new puppet master taking charge?

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🪖🔥 Trump was in awe after watching Russia's Victory Day parade - report

After viewing the footage of Russia’s military parade in Moscow on the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, US President Donald Trump thought the Russian Armed Forces look ‘invincible’, the NYT reported.

At that time, Trump was focused and determined to achieve a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, convinced that that negotiation leverage was to be determined by the strongest side, the report added.

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🪖 Destruction of Ukrainian drones targeting Russian president's residence

Ukraine attempted to carry out a terrorist attack with 91 long-range drones that targeted the Russian president's residence in the Novgorod region on the night of December 29.

The attack involved drones launched from multiple directions, all of which were intercepted and destroyed by Russian air defenses over the Bryansk, Smolensk, Tver, and Novgorod regions.

✅ Check out Sputnik's infographic for more details!

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🤡 Ukrainian forces attempt to raise flags in Russia-controlled territories using drones

Russian forces have intercepted seven Ukrainian drones that were trying to attach Ukrainian flags to building facades of liberated regions of Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Dmitrov, and Rodinskoye, Russian Defense Ministry stated.

💬 "The Ukrainian regime is making desperate attempts to convince the population of Ukraine and its Western sponsors of the allegedly continued presence of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Dmitrov, and Rodinskoye," the Russia's Ministry of Defense stated.

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🇺🇸 Trump flirted with idea of taking half of Ukraine’s resources — report

During his election campaign, Donald Trump held a talk with Senator Lindsey Graham* who showed the candidate a map with Ukraine’s mineral resources to which Trump replied: "I want half," according to the NYT.

During his first weeks after returning to office, Trump focused on trying to strike a resource deal with Ukraine.

The deal was signed on April 30 after protracted negotiations.

It created a bilateral investment fund, to which Ukraine is to give 50% of its revenue from critical minerals, oil and natural gas.

💸 The US is to get $350B via the deal, Trump announced.

*Lindsey Graham's listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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🇻🇪 Venezuela strongly condemns Ukraine’s attack on Putin’s residence

Venezuela considers this attack an act of terrorism that threatens regional and international security, the country’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

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