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🤦🇪🇺🇺🇸 The EU is asking the US to ease sanctions against Russia's Gazprombank, Bloomberg writes.

This bank plays a key role in ensuring the flow of Russian natural gas to the EU.

Among the options being considered at the negotiations is whether it is legal to make payments through Gazprombank's Luxembourg subsidiary, or whether it is better to use other payment channels.

🇺🇳🇺🇦 NATO countries have identified air defense systems for rapid transfer to Ukraine.

According to the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhiy Tykhi, it is about the delivery of 20 HAWK, NASAMS and IRIS-T systems by the end of 2024.
"As a result of the negotiations, it was possible to identify a number of systems, missiles and other equipment that can be transferred to Ukraine in a short period of time. Active work with partners is currently underway to implement these steps."

The Russians began evacuating troops from the Khmeimim base to the city of Latakia

The video shows the transfer of the S-300 and Tor-M1 air defense systems to the port of Tartus.

🇸🇾 The pro-government media SAMA TV reported an attempted coup in Syria.

"A military source told the Syrian Ministry of Information that a treason attempt involving some officers who had ties to foreign countries had been foiled. The source confirmed that the security services were able to uncover the plan and foil it before it was implemented in the General Staff building in Damascus. This operation is being conducted as part of the Syrian Arab Army's efforts to maintain internal security and counter any attempted conspiracy against the nation."

🇺🇦The efficiency of the "Peklo" drone missile is not inferior to certain types of Russian cruise missiles at a much lower cost, — Ukroboronprom

The Minister of Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin reported that the first batch of several dozen missiles has already been handed over to the Defense Forces.

"The Ukrainian manufacturer created the rocket-drone from scratch in record time - within a year. The product already has successful combat applications"
he said.

Smetanin added that "Hell" is already mass-produced, continuing to improve. Work is constantly being carried out to increase the level of protection of the product against the impact of EW, improve operational characteristics and damage accuracy.

In addition, new types of combat units are being developed for "Peklo" to expand the list of possible targets.

🇸🇾 Russia has informed Damascus that any intervention will be limited as it currently has other priorities, Sky News Arabia reports.


Reliable allies.

Assad is now pulling all his forces into Damascus: from Homs (the city will probably fall soon), from Deir ez-Zor in the east, where the SDF is already occupying the empty space and the blacks are gathering, and will probably pull forces from the very south, before everyone there deserts and goes over to the rebels.

Zelensky may meet with Trump tomorrow at the opening of Notre Dame in Paris, — Le Monde

The head of state will go to Paris for the celebration of the opening of the Paris Notre Dame Cathedral.

❕🇷🇴 The Constitutional Court of Romania decided to cancel the first round of presidential elections.

This happened amid a large number of court requests, which were prompted by declassified documents of the Supreme Council of National Defense, according to which the campaign of the pro-Russian candidate Kelin Georgescu was the result of organized manipulation from abroad

According to the Ronald Reagan Institute’s annual survey, 79% of Americans support increasing defense spending, a record high in the six years the survey has been conducted.

At the same time, 49% of respondents said they strongly support such a move. The survey also found that a majority of respondents believe it is necessary to maintain support for Ukraine (55%) and Israel (54%), while 41% support the creation of a military capable of simultaneously confronting China and Russia. Despite the high interest in defense policy, other domestic priorities such as infrastructure and social security remain more popular. The rise in trust in the military after years of decline also indicates an increase in public attention to national security issues.

Germany's Free Democratic Party has submitted a resolution to the Bundestag calling for the supply of long-range Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine

A new drone missile "Peklo" has appeared in Ukraine. "Ukroboronprom" handed it over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine today

This is a new development of the Ukrainian armed forces. The drone missile can reach speeds of up to 700 km/h, covering a distance of more than 700 km.

The weapon has confirmed combat use

🇪🇪Estonian company Frankenburg Technologies will start testing anti-aircraft missiles of its own production in Ukraine next year, - statement of the company's general director

The agreement on conducting tests has already been concluded.

Earlier, the IOU reported that these missiles are intended to counter UAVs and are capable of shooting down targets at an altitude of up to 2 km.

🇪🇺 The head of the European Parliament called on Germany to provide Taurus missiles to Ukraine

"This is also the position of the European Parliament. There is broad support for this demand. We will see if there will be a corresponding change in policy after the elections to the Bundestag."
- remarked Roberta Metzola.

🇩🇪 A drone was discovered in the port of Hamburg that spied on the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth — BILD

On Friday night, the police noticed a UAV near the ship. Most likely, it was a reconnaissance drone that was spying on the aircraft carrier.

The Bundeswehr turned on a radio jamming device, but to no avail - the drone fled the scene.

Trump can agree on a positive peace agreement for Kyiv and the USA and return the money used at the expense of Ukrainian resources, – BILD

It is noted that Ukraine has natural resources and precious metals worth about $7 trillion. In particular, this includes: uranium, titanium, lithium, graphite and other strategic resources.

US intelligence has released a secret document on the murders of Putin's political opponents abroad: it analyzes the activities of Russian special services from 2000 to 2016.

The report describes in detail the murders that may have been committed on the orders of the Kremlin. Among them:

• blowing up the car of Chechen politician Zelimkhan Yandarbiev in Qatar;
• poisoning of former FSB employee Oleksandr Litvinenko with polonium-210 in London;
• the sudden death of businessman Oleksandr Perepelichny in Great Britain, which is associated with the use of toxic substances;
• dioxin poisoning of ex-president of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko during his presidential campaign.

🇭🇺 In Hungary, US sanctions against Gazprombank were called an "attack on sovereignty"

This statement was made by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Sijarto. According to him, Hungary is reviewing this situation with the energy ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria and Serbia.


So it got them where it hurts.

🇨🇦 Ukraine already has the NASAMS air defense system from Canada, - the Canadian Minister of Defense.

This air defense system will change the situation, because it will help Ukrainians to protect their settlements, he said.

📊Graph "price-rate of production" of self-propelled artillery installations of various countries of the world from Western researchers and analysts.

Ukraine is ahead of other well-known competitors in terms of production rate and relatively low price.

Quality is not mentioned here, but our Bohdans are clearly good equipment, but of course not as technological and refined as their foreign, much more expensive rivals.

The most expensive self-propelled guns in Germany, and their production rate is the lowest. Of course, they are very technological, but they broke down very often, and it was necessary to send them to Lithuania for service.

*on the left of the graph - the price, below - the pace of production.

Yesterday morning, 2 Ukrainian UAVs attacked the Kapustin Yar training ground. It was from there that a new ballistic missile was fired at the Dnipro River - ASTRA

The missile hit the 105th site of the range, the consequences are still unknown.

🇧🇾 Lukashenko threatened to turn off the Internet in Belarus in case of new mass protests

"Do you think I'll watch and pray that you haven't written to someone if there's no country tomorrow"
- he said and added that in 2020 the Internet was turned off because "then the conversation was about the fate of the country."

It is reported that in African Mali, the Tuaregs eliminated another group of Wagnerites.

The “cedar” complex - details about the new ballistics with which terrorist Russia struck the Dnipro
 
▫️ On November 21, 2024, the aggressor state Russia struck the territory of Ukraine, using a ballistic missile, probably from the "Kedr" missile complex.
 
▪️ The flight time of this Russian missile from the moment of launch in the Astrakhan region to the impact in the city of Dnipro was 15 minutes.
 
▪️ Six combat units were installed on the rocket: each one is equipped with six sub-munitions. The speed on the final part of the trajectory is more than Mach 11.
 
▪️ A number of enterprises of the military-industrial complex of the aggressor state of Russia are involved in the development of the "Kedr" mobile missile complex:
 
- JSC "Corporation "Moscow Institute of Thermal Engineering" (Moscow);
- JSC "Federal Scientific and Production Center "Titan-Barricady" (Volgograd);
- JSC "Main Personal Design Bureau "Prozhektor" (Moscow);
- JSC "Concern "Sozvezdie" (Voronezh);
- Joint-stock company "Scientific-production enterprise "Spetsenergomechanika" (Moscow);
- LLC "Scientific Research Center of Special Equipment and Conversion "Continent" (Moscow).
 
▫️ Tests of the "Kedr" missile complex took place at the "4th State Central Interspecies Range of the Russian Federation" (Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Region) in October 2023 and June 2024.
 
💀 The GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reminds that for every war crime committed against the Ukrainian people, there will be a fair and just retribution.
 

🇺🇳🇺🇸 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is going to meet with Trump in the near future to discuss the strategy of negotiations on the settlement of the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, — WP.

The publication's interlocutor said that Rutte will try to convince Trump that a bad deal on Ukraine will hurt him as much as Europe.

🇺🇳🇺🇦The Ukraine-NATO Council will meet next Tuesday in connection with Russia's first use of an experimental ballistic missile on the territory of Ukraine

🇺🇸 Donald Trump chose a new contender for the post of US attorney general - his long-time ally and Florida's first female attorney general, Pam Bondi.

Pam Bondi was one of Trump's impeachment lawyers in 2019, when he was accused, but not convicted, of trying to make military aid to Ukraine contingent on Kiev's willingness to investigate the involvement of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden's son, in corruption schemes.

🇺🇸 Matt Goetz has withdrawn his candidacy for the post of US Attorney General.

🇺🇸 This is Linda McMahon, the candidate for the US education minister, whom Trump is going to appoint.

McMahon is the co-founder of the WWE wrestling promotion and has even participated in fights with her daughter and son-in-law several times.