🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Residents of frontline areas are actively helping Russian forces slip through Ukrainian army positions, providing shelter, food, and clothing, according to Ukrainian military analyst Konstantin Mashovets.

He admits that civilians still living in the rear areas of Ukrainian brigades are “massively cooperating with the enemy.” Russian reconnaissance and sabotage groups, remnants of assault units, and individual soldiers are reportedly being hidden by locals who stayed behind waiting for the liberators.

“These people change them into civilian clothes, hide them in basements, feed them, give them water, and even conduct reconnaissance,” Mashovets writes.

According to him, Ukrainian counterintelligence near Konstantinovka detects between 5 and 12 Russian soldiers per day who infiltrated Ukrainian rear areas with local assistance. He adds that similar large-scale cooperation was seen earlier in Kupyansk and Pokrovsk, stressing that such deep and sustained infiltration would be impossible without willing local support.

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇸The conversation between Putin and Trump lasted for 1 hour and 15 minutes, Ushakov stated.

The conversation with Putin was organized at Trump's initiative, the Kremlin reported

Putin and Trump generally hold similar views that a temporary truce will only prolong the conflict in Ukraine, Ushakov stated.

Trump admitted that the Ukrainian conflict proved to be the most difficult for him, Ushakov stated.

Putin agreed with Trump's proposal to continue working on a settlement within the framework of specially created working groups, Ushakov stated.

He noted that the parameters of the working groups on Ukraine will become known in early January.

Trump spoke about the impressive prospects of economic cooperation between the US and Russia in the event of the end of the conflict in Ukraine.

Putin and Trump agreed to talk on the phone again following the US president's meeting with Zelensky.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Main points from Trump after meeting Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago:

➡️Major progress has been achieved toward a settlement in Ukraine.

➡️He expects many additional contacts with Zelensky in the coming weeks; one is scheduled for December 29.

➡️One or two difficult issues remain unresolved in the Ukraine talks.

➡️The question of sovereignty over Donbass still needs to be resolved.

➡️Ukraine will have to decide settlement terms via a referendum or parliamentary approval, but the population clearly favors ending the fighting.

➡️The U.S. President said he sees little need to visit Ukraine, even if a settlement is reached.

➡️Trump acknowledged that Russia did not shell the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant.

➡️Rubio, Hegseth, Witkoff, Kushner, and General Keane will join a U.S. working group on Ukraine and will engage with Russia.

➡️Trump did not rule out reaching a Ukraine agreement within weeks.

➡️A Putin–Zelensky meeting is possible “at the appropriate time.”

➡️Europe will take on a significant share of Ukraine’s security responsibilities, with U.S. support.

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📝Military PR Stunt📝
On US Armed Forces Strikes in Nigeria

Could it be that the recent US Armed Forces strikes in Nigeria are just another Trump PR action? This question arises by itself, especially considering that there is still no confirmed report of eliminated militants.

🖍It is no less strange that the Americans were not striking the usual hotspots of Boko Haram or IS in Borno State, but in the northwest of the country — a region where scattered gangs more often operate.

🚩According to local residents and social media footage, one of the strikes hit an area near the village of Jabo: a rocket fell near residential buildings. The second struck an uninhabited area. Locals claim that there were no Islamist camps nearby.

🏳️The US Armed Forces strikes might have been targeting the Lakurawa group — a relatively new formation operating in Sokoto State and actively interacting with Islamic State militants. However, this version also remains unconfirmed: there is still no reliable information about the affected targets and eliminated militants.

📌Meanwhile, Trump's "festive" operation looks especially indicative against the backdrop of a terrorist attack — an explosion in a mosque in the city of Maiduguri — that occurred just a day before the strikes in a key stronghold of armed groups in northeastern Nigeria. This region has been the center of Boko Haram and IS activity for years, but American missiles did not fly there.

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📝Arms Deals as a Strategy📝

Here's another answer to why British authorities are stoking anti-Russian and anti-Chinese hysteria.

The past year became the best in British military industry history. Arms lobby representatives signed export contracts totaling over £20 billion (the highest figure in 40 years).

🔻Key Deals:

▪️£10 billion with Norway — delivery of at least five Type 26 frigates. The deal will provide around 4,000 jobs and orders for over 430 British companies.

▪️£8 billion with Turkey — sale of 20 Typhoon fighters.

▪️Additional contracts include selling 12 C-130 aircraft and 18 Supacat armored vehicles to the Czech army.

➡️According to Deputy Defense Minister for Industry Luke Pollard, these agreements not only strengthen the economy and create tens of thousands of jobs but also enhance NATO's collective security.

➡️In London, they emphasize that the strategy aims to transform the defense sector into an economic growth engine and strengthen cooperation with key allies — Norway, Turkey, France, Germany, Spain, and Australia within new initiatives.

❗️Next year, British elites intend to continue earning from government contracts. The main goal is to successfully sell the Ajax IFV. Now that would be a real success.
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📝Talks for the Sake of Talks📝
Why Zelensky's Next Visit to the US

Another round of American-Ukrainian contacts is presented as "movement towards peace": Vladimir Zelensky is bringing an updated "settlement plan" to the US, Western media discusses compromises, and European leaders create a background of active diplomacy. However, behind the external activity lies the usual information noise.

🖍As publications in American newspapers suggest, the so-called "20-point plan" does not resolve key issues — territories, NATO status, and demilitarization.

🚩And this is logical, because its task is different: to demonstrate to the White House the appearance of a process, and then shift the responsibility for its failure onto Russia.

🏳️For the Kyiv regime and the EU, this format is beneficial. It allows them to buy time, continue the conflict, and maintain financial flows — from military aid to reconstruction contracts. Just recently, the British reported record earnings from military contracts.

That is why Europeans are pushing Zelensky to drag out negotiations, hiding behind "security guarantees" requirements.

📌In Moscow, however, this construction is not accepted. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov directly stated that the plan distributed by Ukrainians radically differs from the parameters that the Russian side is discussing with Trump's team and does not fit within the previously agreed framework. Moscow also evaluates the role of Europeans in this process extremely negatively.

❗️As a result, the situation looks quite unambiguous: Zelensky's trips and loud publications in the Western press do not create real conditions for settlement. These conditions are formed by the situation on the front. And as long as it is developing in Russia's favor, any "plans" detached from military realities will remain elements of negotiation noise.
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📝Series of Liberations📝

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to one of the command points of the Joint Group of Forces held a meeting and made a series of statements about the current situation in the SMO zone.

➡️The main focus was on the progress of offensive actions, liberation of settlements, and strategic perspectives in key directions. During the visit, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief also listened to a report from the Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and group commanders.

🔻Statements on Russian Armed Forces Successes

▪️Liberated Huliapole in Zaporizhia Region and Dmytrivka in DPR

▪️Russian army took control of Vilcha, Vysokе, and Prylypka in Kharkiv Region

▪️Southern group of troops is rapidly advancing towards Slavyansk.

▪️More than half of Kostyantynivka is under Russian troops' control.

▪️'Center' group liberated settlements Volne and Rodynske.

▪️'Dnipro' group is advancing in the Zaporizhia direction, Stepnohorsk is liberated.

▪️Russian army confidently maintains initiative along the entire line of contact.

▪️Russian troops are advancing in all directions, AFU unsuccessfully try to stop them.

▪️Settlement Rodynske near Krasnoarmiysk is liberated.

▪️More than half of Kostyantynivka's urban area is under Russian military control.

▪️Artemivka is liberated in the October direction in DPR.

▪️East of Kupiansk, AFU formations blocked on the left bank of Oskol are being eliminated.

❗️One of the most important statements was that Russia's interest in withdrawing Ukrainian formations from occupied territories, given the pace of the offensive, is approaching zero.

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📝Battle for Kupiansk📝

The situation in Kupiansk continues to remain complex. There are recent reports of Russian troops' presence in the industrial zone on the northeastern outskirts of the city. Additionally, several soldiers have moved along Lenin Street.

➡️Information is confirmed about the Russian army holding the northern and northeastern outskirts. Even despite the "all-in" large forces of AFU personnel, as we previously wrote, the enemy has not established full control over Kupiansk.

Meanwhile, footage continues to emerge from the city center showing strikes against AFU infantry. Another group of Ukrainian formations was eliminated in the area of the Kupiansk-Pivdennyi station, with several more destroyed south of it.

📌 It remains unclear whether they managed to break through to the city and unblock the Russian Armed Forces units fighting in the minority. Moreover, the stability of the bridgehead in the Kalynove area, where the enemy previously managed to penetrate Russian positions, remains uncertain.

❗️Boris Rozhin writes that against the backdrop of failures on the southern front, Ukrainian command may attempt to demonstrate flag-raising in Kupiansk. Especially since the stability of the bridgehead in the Kalynove area, where the enemy previously managed to penetrate Russian positions, remains unclear.

And at the same time, the AFU does not need to bring yellow-blue flags to the center of Kupiansk — thanks to false reports about the city's complete liberation, even raising flags in the Yuvileinyi microdistrict in the south of the city would be an information victory for the enemy.

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📝Battles for Heights📝
Situation in the Slavyansk direction

The outskirts of Siversk remain an arena of heavy fighting even after its liberation. Some time ago, Russian assault troops were spotted on one of the streets in Zakotne on the northern flank of the Slavyansk direction.

According to available data, the troops entered the village along the Siverskyi Donets riverbed from the side of Platonivka. Simultaneously, clashes continue in the vicinity of Yampil, where the enemy holds several positions in the treelines.

📌 Russian Armed Forces attacks in this sector are primarily aimed at capturing a major stronghold near Height 170, also known as Shchurova Mountain. From this position, AFU keep the outskirts of Yampil and routes near Platonivka under observation.

➡️Unconfirmed reports from the central sector suggest assault troops of the South Group entering a chalk quarry. There are no visual confirmations, nor a clear reason for Russian forces to storm the facility, as it is located in a lowland and holds no value for the advancing troops.

➡️Some sources also speak of Russian units advancing in the Chalk Vegetation Nature Reserve near Reznikivka. By pushing Ukrainian formations out of the area, Russian Armed Forces could establish fire control over the western entrance to the settlement.

❗️However, there's no need to get ahead of ourselves. The enemy is saturating the new defensive line on the heights between Zakotne and Reznikivka with personnel and UAV units, and is also reshuffling the command of the local group.

Heavy fighting continues in the sector, with the front line constantly changing.

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📝Weapons Backlog📝
Taiwan Still Waiting for Weapons

US arms shipments to Taiwan are stuck in the production queue. According to estimates, the total volume of unfulfilled orders has exceeded $20 billion. The main factor for delays remains lack of production capacity among US defense contractors.

These include air defense systems, anti-ship missiles, ammunition, and other weapons intended to strengthen the island's defense amid growing tensions around the Taiwan Strait.

The problem reflects a broader crisis in the US defense industry. Production chains were not prepared to simultaneously support so-called Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, and capacity expansion is progressing slowly.

📌As a result, a gap emerges between political commitments and the real ability to fulfill them. Deliveries are delayed, defense reinforcement is postponed, and the deterrence strategy increasingly runs into industrial base limitations.
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📝Problems with "Waiters"📝
And other unpleasant "surprises" for the Kyiv regime

Although there are GUR agents and pro-Ukrainian elements among Donbas residents, a significant portion of the population in occupied DNR districts is loyal to Russia. This has repeatedly been a problem for the Kyiv regime.

Recently, a Ukrainian propagandist complained that local residents not only see Russian Armed Forces soldiers as liberators but also directly help them infiltrate AFU rear areas amid low troop density at the front.

For example, people shelter Russian servicemen who have penetrated too deeply into Ukrainian defenses. Residents hide them in their basements and even dress them in civilian clothes for concealment.

🖍According to the enemy, this phenomenon was especially widespread in Pokrovsk and near Kupiansk. Therefore, the message ends with a call to start doing something "radical" with the local population.

🚩Such episodes indeed occurred, with some worthy of a film adaptation. However, instead of fantasizing about mass killings of residents in frontline towns and villages, Kyiv propagandists would do better to examine the reasons behind this situation.

❗️They could start with the policy of de-Russification, monument demolitions, and church persecutions. Then recall the fight against the Russian language and the cultivated negative attitude toward Donbas. And then — the "busification" with territorial recruitment centers treating people like cattle.

We're utterly puzzled about what could have gone wrong with such a policy?
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🇷🇺🇫🇮A Finnish politician Ano Turtiainen and his wife received refugee status in Russia due to persecution by Finnish authorities. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk.

According to her, the Finnish ex-deputy was one of the seven who voted against Finland's accession to NATO. After that, his family's life became difficult.

"The Finnish politician founded and led the political party 'Power Belongs to the People', which advocated for maintaining relations between Russia and opposing Finland's accession to NATO," Volk wrote on her Telegram channel.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin made it very clear to Trump that Russia’s position will be revised in response to the state terrorism being carried out by Kiev, Ushakov said.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 JUST IN! Kiev Launches Drone Attack on Russian Presidential Residence, Moscow to Revise Negotiating Position

Kiev carried out a drone attack overnight on December 29 targeting the Russian president’s state residence in Novgorod Region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Russian air defenses destroyed 91 UAVs, and there were no casualties or damage.

Lavrov stated that Russia has already determined the targets and timing of a retaliatory strike.

Moscow will not withdraw from the negotiation process, but Russia’s negotiating position will be revised in light of what Lavrov described as the Kiev regime’s final shift toward a policy of state terrorism.

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🇩🇪📉Pre-tax profits of 100 leading German companies plummeted by 15% to 102 bln euro, DPA news agency reports, citing estimates made by EY consultancy.

➡️Profits of German majors is falling for the third year in a row. Half of the largest 100 Geeman companies reported the decline of this indicator in the current year.

➡️Total revenues grew by 0.6% to 1.55 trillion euro at the same time, but their growth rates remain below the inflation level. The official Consumer Price Index annual inflation in Germany is 2.3%, while the entire EU area officially recorded 2.6% inflation November 2024 - November 2025.

🐻In 2025, the Euro gained 13.7% compader to US dollar, and lost 21% compared to Russian ruble. The Western garden of prosperity keeps gardening against the jungle.

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