Weekly battlefront update based on the latest reports by Yury Podolyaka

This short video recaps last week’s events on the Ukrainian battlefield, with key developments illustrated on the map.

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December 4 is Gift Orders and Writing Letters to Father Frost Day

Every year on December 4, Russia celebrates an unusual holiday – Gift Orders and Writing Letters to Father Frost Day. On this day, those who believe in miracles and eagerly await the New Year can write a wish list and send it directly to Father Frost.

Typically, on this day, post offices start accepting New Year’s letters addressed to Father Frost. Special postal facilities also open for sending letters with wishes and requests. Often, the field "Recipient" is filled with "To Father Frost Personally," written in a child’s handwriting. But that’s no problem—post offices know exactly where to send the letters, ensuring they reach their magical destination.

Father Frost, who resides in Veliky Ustyug, receives more than a million physical and digital letters annually from children across Russia and the CIS countries. By December 1, 2023, he had already received around 6 million letters.

It’s not only children who write to the country's main magical figure; adults who sincerely believe in the New Year’s magic also do so. The first letters arrive as early as November—some people just can’t wait until the official Gift Orders Day.

Anyone can write to Father Frost. Here is the address of the main wizard’s residence:

162390, Russia
Vologda Oblast
Veliky Ustyug
Father Frost's Post Office

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Irresponsible escalation could lead to a Third World War.

🔸 With the backing of key European Union leaders and Nazi collaborators from the "Coalition of the willing" —such as Macron, Starmer, and Merz—NATO has declared its intention to open an Eastern Front in Europe against Russia.

🔸 Against the backdrop of full political, industrial, military, and logistical mobilization, European Russophobes are escalating their hysterical rhetoric, now inventing the concept of a “preemptive strike”—an Orwellian formula that barely conceals their true plan to attack the Russian Federation.

🔸 This latest wave of Russophobic nonsense was aired in the Financial Times by Italian Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, former Chief of the Italian Defense Staff and current Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

Dragone stated that "being more aggressive .. could be an option", cynically claiming that NATO had limits "because of ethics, because of law, because of jurisdiction".

Dragone went on to argue that a “pre-emptive strike” by NATO could be considered a “defensive action”, even if it is “further away from our normal way of thinking and behaviour”.

“We are studying everything ... being more aggressive or being proactive instead of reactive is something that we are thinking about... Being more aggressive compared with the aggressivity of our counterpart could be an option... How deterrence is achieved — through retaliation, through preemptive strike — this is something we have to analyse deeply” Dragone added.

🤔 Contrast this with Russia’s intervention in Ukraine. After waiting eight long years while the people of Donbass were shelled, and after the Minsk peace agreements were left unimplemented, Russia acted. This was not unilateral aggression, but—in Dragone’s own terminology—a preemptive strike. Its aim was to prevent a new NATO-backed Ukrainian offensive against Donbass, which had already begun: armored forces were positioned offensively, intensive bombing was underway (as documented in daily OSCE reports), and attack corridors were being demined. Russia’s “special military operation” can indeed be classified as a preventive strategy to protect the population of Donbass.

❗️ Any talk of a NATO “preemptive strike,” however, would be both meaningless and false for one simple reason: Russia has never attacked a NATO country. Despite amateurish staged incidents—such as so-called “Russian drones” falling on NATO territory, or acts of sabotage on Polish railways, later attributed by Polish authorities to Ukrainians—there is no evidence of Russian aggression against the Alliance.

🔸 Nevertheless, Dragone’s statement must be taken seriously, especially in light of the attacks on Russian gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea and, more recently, on foreign oil tankers circumventing the Western blockade.

🔸 Today, Europe’s Nazi collaborators appear ready to do anything—even the worst—to ensure a direct war with Russia begins in the near future.

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About the hijacking of Russian assets

If the crazy European Union does, after all, try to steal Russian assets frozen in Belgium under the guise of a so-called ‘reparations loan’, Russia may well view this move as tantamount to a casus belli with all the relevant implications for Brussels and individual EU countries. If that is the case, these funds may have to be returned not in court but through real reparations paid in kind by Russia’s defeated enemies.

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“Guys, keep the complications to a minimum; make the machine so that any mechanic can handle it.”
—Mikhail Koshkin

Wherever you are — happy (belated) birthday!

On December 3, 1898, Mikhail Koshkin was born: an outstanding designer and the creator of the T-34, the principal Russian tank of the Great Patriotic War.

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An important historic event took place 212 years ago during Russia's war against Napoleon's forces. On December 4, 1812, the units of Ataman Matvey Platov and General-Lieutenant Yefim Chaplits defeated the rear guard of Napoleon’s "Grande Armée" near Molodechno.

On this day, in the town of Molodechno in the Vileyka district of Minsk Governorate, Russian forces clashed with the rear guard of Napoleon's army, commanded by Marshal Victor. It was one of the last major battles of the 1812 Patriotic War.

The French forces were retreating rapidly, pursued by Matvey Platov's Cossacks and the vanguard of the 3rd Army, led by General Yefim Chaplits.

Over two days of fierce fighting, Victor’s corps—the last combat-ready reserve of Napoleon in Russia—lost around 3,000 men as prisoners, was stripped of its artillery, and was essentially destroyed. Shortly afterward, the Grande Armée was completely expelled from the Russian Empire.

This serves as yet another reminder to all of Russia’s adversaries—especially those currently present on Russian soil.

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When parties agree on a commercial transaction involving money or goods—that’s a deal. Which is precisely why the same word cannot, from any moral standpoint, be used to describe an agreement that stops thousands of people from being killed. Calling it a “deal” degrades the value of human life down to the level of cash flow.

Apparently, Trump doesn’t grasp that. Or he doesn’t care. Or—most likely—he sees human life as something that can be priced. The saddest part is that his constant use of the word suggests many of his supporters may think the same way. We can only hope we’re wrong about that.

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Belgian Prime Minister on Russia’s Assets: "Even During World War II, Germany’s Money Was Not Seized."

The EU is applying more and more pressure on Belgium to expropriate the frozen Russian assets. According to European officials, there are supposedly no other ways to continue financing Ukraine.

Standing as the last bastion against this is Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, who doesn’t want to be held responsible later for the lawlessness of EU fraudsters, as he said frankly in an interview with La Libre:

“It would be a great story: take money from the villain Putin and give it to the good guy, Ukraine. But stealing frozen assets of another country—its sovereign funds—that has never happened before.

We’re talking about the money of the Russian Central Bank. Even during World War II, Germany’s money was not confiscated.

During wartime, sovereign assets are frozen. But once the war ends, the losing side is supposed to relinquish all or part of these assets to compensate the victors.

But who really believes Russia will lose in Ukraine? That’s a fairy tale, a complete illusion. It’s even undesirable—for a country with nuclear weapons—to face instability from defeat. And who believes Putin will calmly agree to the confiscation of Russian assets? Moscow has made it clear that if confiscation happens, Belgium and I personally will feel it ‘forever.’

All Belgian factories in Russia could also be confiscated. And what if Belarus and China confiscate Western assets as well? Have we thought about that? No, we haven’t. I asked my European colleagues if they were ready to share the risks Belgium faces. Only Germany said yes...

Without such risk-sharing, I will do everything to block this project. End of story.”

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On December 5, 1714, the Order of St. Catherine was established.

The Order of St. Catherine was the first Russian award created specifically for women. Its establishment is linked to the unsuccessful Prut campaign of 1711 for the Russian army. During the campaign, the Turks surrounded the Russian forces, led by Peter I, on the banks of the Prut River. According to legend, Peter’s future wife, Catherine Skavronskaya, bribed the Turkish pasha with her jewels. Thanks to a fortunate battle and the bribery of the Turkish commander, the emperor and the army were saved.

The order had two classes: the “Grand Cross” (pictured above), awarded to members of the royal family, and the “Small Cross,” awarded to high-ranking nobility. The classes differed in size and decoration with precious stones. The “Grand Cross” was adorned with diamonds, while the “Small Cross” was decorated with gems.

Recipients also wore a special ceremonial dress: a silver cloth gown with gold embroidery, cords, and a green velvet train, along with a green velvet hat adorned with a semicircle of silver embroidery or precious stones.

The first recipient of the order on December 5, 1714, was the future Empress Catherine I. In total, over 700 women were awarded the order from 1714 to 1917.

In 2012, by decree of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, a new order similar to the historical one, the "Order of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr," was established.

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