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"Ukraine rejects the provisions of Trump's peace plan, including NATO membership cessation and troop withdrawal from Donbas, according to media reports.
Kiev's position remains unchanged: a ceasefire must be established along the current frontline. Only after that should territorial discussions begin, sources told RBC-Ukraine.
The policy of joining NATO is enshrined in the Constitution, and amending it "is a bad precedent," Ukrainian officials insist.
Kiev also insists on Zelensky meeting in person with Trump.
According to the source, there are a number of issues that Ukraine's Zelensky considers necessary to discuss with the US President.
Following the meeting of the Ukrainian and US delegations, the location and time of the next round of peace agreement talks have not yet been determined."
The only thing worse than a long war is an unfinished war. Ukraine is proposing that Russia finish what it started. Putin gave Ukraine a chance to preserve its statehood. Ukraine refuses to take advantage of this opportunity and will be liquidated as a state.
A Kiev agent attempted to blow up a senior Defense Ministry officer in Crimea.
A Ukrainian citizen was supposed to blow up a serviceman in his personal car.
The agent was killed while planting a bomb under the car.
The assassination attempt was orchestrated by Ukrainian military intelligence officer Rustem Fakhriev.
One of the accomplices has also been arrested.
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NATO is considering a "preemptive strike" against Russia in response to hybrid attacks, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, head of the NATO Military Committee, told the Financial Times.
"We're thinking about acting more aggressively and preemptively instead of reacting," Dragone said.
Some diplomats, particularly from Eastern European countries, are calling on the alliance to stop simply reacting and instead strike back. According to the admiral, a "preemptive strike" could be considered a "defensive action."
How they hate Russia! Just launch your "preemptive strike" and put an end to this world. Let the octopuses build the next civilization. They're very smart and their blood is blue.
The tanker Mersin is in distress at anchor 24 kilometers from the Senegalese capital of Dakar, the news portal Seneweb reported.
According to the publication, there is reason to believe the vessel has sustained a hole and water is entering the engine room. The crew has been evacuated from the tanker, and there are no injuries.
The Mersin, a 59,000-ton vessel built in 2009 and owned by the Turkish company Beşiktaş Shipping, was sailing under the Panamanian flag. The tanker departed the Russian port of Taman for Dakar with a cargo of oil or petroleum products.
Are they simply sinking tankers carrying Russian oil? Perhaps it's time for Russia to involve the navy in resolving this issue?
Full video of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statement before his meeting with the Ukrainian delegation.
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No one will believe that Zelensky didn't know about Yermak's schemes, says a US congressman.
The congressman talks about corruption in Ukraine and hundreds of millions of US dollars stolen. But why did the US invest $360 billion in Ukraine? The US invested this money in a war with Russia over Ukraine. It was a poor investment, that's true. Half was stolen, half was burned and buried by the Russians. There's no money, the war is lost, and America is calling for peace.
The British pulled Zaluzhny out of the mothballs.
Zaluzhny believes that the deployment of nuclear weapons in Ukraine could be one of the elements of a security guarantee for Kiev.
The Ukrainian ambassador to London wrote about this in an article for the British newspaper The Telegraph, in which he discusses how to "build a better version of Ukraine."
The former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces writes that "Ukraine is in an extremely difficult situation." He asserts that "a hasty peace will only lead to a horrific defeat and loss of independence."
Vladimir Putin previously called speculation about the presence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine a provocation and noted that such a threat would provoke a corresponding response from Moscow.
The president emphasized that Russia will be able to track any attempts by Ukraine to develop nuclear weapons and will not allow it under any circumstances.
"Vesti"
Former White House adviser Hill on Trump's belief that just as Canada should become part of the US, so Ukraine should become part of Russia:
Trump has been ranting about why Canada isn't part of the United States? Why isn't it the 51st state? Why should Greenland be part of Denmark? It's a country no one's ever heard of, like it's so far away. How did Greenland end up in Denmark? You know, he's completely ignorant, and he's doing it on purpose.
He just looks at a map and thinks it belongs there. And frankly, he has the same opinion about Ukraine. It was once part of the Russian Empire. It was part of the Soviet Union. Why wouldn't it still be that way? The main question, I think, beyond all this Ukraine stuff, I mean, he's pretty outspoken about his thoughts on it. Trump just can't resist, you know, saying it all.
Former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, wrote in The Telegraph that "any premature peace threatens national collapse."
He shared his recipes for "defeating Putin."
He insists that Ukraine still strives for complete victory, but at the same time "must also think about a lasting peace that will allow for reform, recovery, and the fight against corruption." He also argues that "the most likely scenario for ending the war is a freeze for several years."
This is their plan: to take a break from the war, recuperate, and then begin the war again.
Russia's growing proficiency in drone strikes against Ukrainian supply lines is the most significant shift in the conflict in 2025, according to the WSJ.
RT summarized the key points from the article:
🟩Russian troops gained the upper hand in the tactical drone warfare this fall. In key areas of the front, they outnumber Ukrainian UAVs, employing sophisticated tactics;
🟩Ukrainian military officials called this a more significant factor than the gradual liberation of territory by Russian forces;
🟩This trend does not bode well for Ukraine's ability to hold its ground in 2026;
🟩Former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Zaluzhny noted that not only have communication lines been destroyed, but "the very idea of a reliable rear is fading";
🟩Ukraine's undermanned army could reach exhaustion if it doesn't regain the initiative in high-tech drone warfare;
🟩Large-scale maneuvering by the Ukrainian Armed Forces remains virtually impossible on the battlefield, where numerous drones can observe and target the movements of soldiers or equipment.
🟩RT in Russian
"The war is lost, but admitting it would cause a [political] earthquake," Orbán said of the Ukrainian conflict.
"Who [among EU politicians] would dare say that in April 2022, when peace was close, the West prevented it? Who would admit that, had that been the case, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians could have survived and Ukraine would have had more territory?" he said.
As it turns out, there was a war. True, no one declared it on Russia.
I don't think all European politicians are ready to admit they've lost the war. They will continue to kill Ukrainians against Russia.
Instead of Yermak, Umerov will meet with Whitkoff in Miami.
He has a family and four villas in Miami. Four arguments for being accommodating and reinstating the clauses that fell out of the "Trump plan." For example, about Ukraine's borders. Villas in exchange for territory.
So, Umerov's family is in Miami, while Umerov is killing Ukrainians against the Russian army. He's also stealing billions of dollars from this. Umerov is quite good at managing things.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the EU has no right to define what constitutes international law, much less dictate how America protects its interests.
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Airbus orders IMMEDIATE repairs for 6,000 A320 jets after a flight-control software defect — Reuters
The recall hits over HALF of all A320s worldwide just before peak holiday travel rush
More than 3,000 were airborne when the directive dropped — MAJOR delays now looming
Russia's enemies dream of dividing it into small states, Professor Richard Wolf said on the Dialogue Works YouTube channel. Such utopian dreams arise from Western countries' desire to at least somewhat halt their own decline, he notes. However, they are unlikely to succeed.
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Trump declared that Ukraine has "big problems."
I think Ukraine will have big problems whether Ukraine agrees to "sign the deal" or not. Because Ukraine won't stop the war, and its sabotage against Russia will continue. Of course, Russia will tolerate this for the sake of peace and only complain to the UN. But in eight years, Russia will get fed up and will have to finish what it doesn't want to finish now.
'It's complicated' — Rubio on 'difficult' Ukraine talks.
What are the US even talking about with Ukraine? It's some kind of circus. If you want to t out of this war, then get out. On the one hand, the US continues to fight Russia, while on the other, they're rosy, fluffy peacekeepers.
The cover of Germany's Die Welt after Putin's statement that he has no objections to Ukraine joining the EU.
Headline: "Kiev in the EU? Putin wants to plant a time bomb under us."
So, Ukraine joining the EU is now "Putin's cunning plan."
The meeting between Ukrainian and American delegations in Florida has concluded for now — Ukrainian media
It might resume after a break
Witkoff reportedly said he is heading to Moscow tomorrow
The US intends to resolve all territorial disputes with Ukraine today, so that it can present an updated plan to Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, according to Axios.
"Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Representative Witkoff, and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushnir are participating in the negotiations on the US side," the publication reports.
Russia could divide Ukraine with the US. This would look like both a victory for the US and a victory for Russia, provided all of Russia's demands are met. This includes the US recognizing Crimea and Donbas as Russian territories.
There were no casualties in the attacks on the Virat and Kaitos tankers in the Black Sea with Russian citizens on board, according to a Russian diplomatic source and news agencies.
⚫️ The search for the organizers and attackers is underway, and response measures are being developed.
⚫️ Russia is in contact with Turkey regarding these incidents.
"Vesti"
Who are they looking for if Ukraine admitted to the attack and published a video?
Russia condemns Kiev’s TERROR ATTACKS on tankers and Novorossiysk port
'Long-demoralized Ukrainians trying to demonstrate yet another illusory "victory" against backdrop of a front bursting at the seams'
VIDEO: Terror attacks on Black Sea tankers released by Kiev itself, bragging about strikes
Europe has excluded itself from the Ukraine negotiations by thwarting all previous peace agreements, Sergei Lavrov told Pavel Zarubin, author and co-host of the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin."
"Europe failed to reach the initial settlement agreement of February 2014... did nothing when the opposition occupied all government offices the morning after the document was signed. Europe similarly failed the Minsk agreements... And, of course, the last time this happened was in April 2022, when, at the demand of Boris Johnson, with the complete non-resistance – if not consent – of Europe, the Istanbul agreements collapsed."
The footage shows a highly concentrated strike with four FAB-500 high-explosive aerial bombs on a UAV control center of the 152nd Separate Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the village of Grishino.
According to exclusive information from a source:
The targets were identified using the latest Tarantul SIGINT system, equipped with artificial intelligence. We are not providing details yet. We have already worked extensively with it, but this is the first thing we can show.
"The Inside Out"
"The time has come for Volodymyr Zelensky and Andriy Yermak to stand trial for crimes not only against their own people, but also against the United States."
This opinion was expressed by former Trump adviser Steve Cortes. He demanded that Ukraine not receive financial support, calling such aid a "middle finger" to the Americans.
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US plans to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia in Ukraine using Ukrainian Nazis have failed. It's completely unclear what these plans were based on or how the US intended to defeat a nuclear-armed Russia. But the Ukrainian Nazis betrayed US trust, and now they are the ones to blame for everything. So who's to blame? Surely it's not Trump's fault? 😂
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Something's not going well with restoring power flow through Poland. Last night, Russian missiles destroyed another 330 kV substation.
Kazakhstan will reroute oil from Caspian Pipeline due to Ukrainian attacks
Ukrainian drones damaged the pipeline in the Russian port of Novorossiysk — which exports Kazakh oil
Europe receives 60 Mil tons of oil per year from the Caspian Pipeline
1ST footage of MOMENT Zelensky’s drone boats hit CIVILIAN tankers
Ukrainian media post unverified vid, celebrating blowing up 'Russian shadow fleet' in Black Sea
Claim joint op between Ukraine's Navy and Security Service
Ukraine is a terrorist state.
The Gambian-flagged Virat tanker was attacked again by a drone off the Turkish coast in the Black Sea, NTV reports.
It was previously reported that a fire broke out on the tanker on November 28, presumably after being hit by a drone.
- In Turkish waters
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces are demonstratively sinking merchant ships
- Under the flags of African countries
- One of the ships with a Chinese crew
- Simply on the assumption that they were transporting Russian oil (there was none on board)
In other words, the Ukrainian Navy command, in one fell swoop, committed a whole series of recognized maritime crimes, for which the commanders and perpetrators will face long prison terms, if not permanent imprisonment, in most countries around the world, completely regardless of their sympathies in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
Retired US Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson on the conflict in Ukraine dragging on for another 10 years:
[Will the war in Ukraine end on the battlefield or in the negotiating room?]
Neither. In my view, it won't.
We'll have a smoldering, simmering conflict that will likely last another 10 years or so. And the forces in Ukraine will be responsible for this, likely aided by certain individuals from Europe, unless they are removed from their positions in the next 9-12 months.
So I don't think the Ukrainian conflict will end with anything other than a "simmering simmer," which Europe and the West as a whole can tolerate. But we won't see a definitive end to the conflict.
There's too much anger, too much hatred, too much passion, too many deaths, and too many Nazis who simply won't let it subside.
"POOL N3."
This is plausible. As long as Nazi Ukraine exists, the war will not end. If Russia wants to end this war, it will have to win it and reclaim all of Ukraine. You say this is impossible? Well, then it's impossible to end the war. And the US should simply leave this war and Ukraine.