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🇷🇺🇺🇦Kiev's desire to gain informational benefits on the topic of prisoner exchange hinders the negotiation process. This was stated in an interview with our agency by the Acting Head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin.

"We are trying to pull out absolutely everyone, regardless of what region of the country he is from, what nationality, what language he speaks. On the contrary, the enemy, on the contrary, often only cares about publicized personalities - the same "Azov", as a result of the exchange of which you can get informational benefits," he pointed out. "This hinders the process as a whole."

Pushilin also said that the exchange of prisoners can be carried out only after receiving full information about their location and thanks to the efforts of the negotiators.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🔥Chronicle of the special military operation: December 6, 2022 events

▪️AFU continue attacks on Russian airfields. In the Kursk region, an international airport was attacked.

As a result of the impact of the Ukrainian drone, the oil storage caught fire: the fire was localized, there were no casualties.

▪️Another attack was made on the Crimean Belbek airfield near Sevastopol.

But thanks to the precise work of air defense systems, the drones were shot down on approach. No damage or casualties.

▪️The Ukrainian command resumed attacks on the positions of Russian troops in the Kuzemovka area.

The advancing units were covered by concentrated artillery fire and were forced to retreat.

▪️Positional battles of medium intensity near Krasnopopovka and Ploschanka continue in the Limansky sector.

Russian artillery and tactical aviation strike at the identified enemy positions and groups.

▪️Under Soledar, Russian troops are gradually pushing through the Ukrainian defenses in Yakovlevka.

The settlement covers the city from the north, control over it will allow the defending grouping of the Armed Forces to enter the flank.

▪️The central districts of Donetsk were again subjected to massive rocket and artillery shelling.

As a result of the attacks, 8 people were killed, including a deputy of the People's Council of the DPR. 20 people were injured.

▪️After the failure of negotiations through the IAEA on the status of the Zaporozhye NPP, the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed strikes on Energodar.

Several hits from heavy artillery pieces were recorded in the city and at the station.

Rybar 🎣
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🖋Private Maxim Kadachev soldier of the 126th Guards Separate Coastal Defense Brigade.

On August 29, as a result of the offensive of the "German" in the Kryvyi Rih direction in the village. Kreshchenovka. Acting as a gunner for the D-30 gun, he covered a unit of the 3rd company of the SME (g), commanded by Alexei Ishchenko (Surgeon). Subsequently, a field caught fire near the position of the gun and the "petals" began to explode.

Firing became impossible when fire came close to the gun. I had to roll back. After a while, as a result of communication negotiations, it became clear that longer-range artillery does not cover the Surgeon's sector. The infantry needed artillery support and Maxim understood this.

He returned to the burnt gun and after examining it, he realized that it was possible to work with it. A couple of minutes later, an explosion sounded and he was wounded. When he was evacuated from the place, he was 300, but while they were taking him to the doctors, Max was gone. The doctors couldn't help. I want people to know real Heroes by sight. Max was 20 years old
🇺🇸 The draft defense budget agreed upon by the relevant committees of the US Congress includes a provision that Washington will seek the "exclusion of the Russian Federation" from a number of international organizations, including the G20.

In addition:

▪️the document contains an initiative to impose sanctions for participation in gold and foreign exchange transactions with the Russian Federation

▪️ involves the allocation of more than $ 6 billion to "contain" Russia in Europe

▪️ establishes a permanent ban on the exchange of information with the Russian Federation on missile defense systems

▪️ requires reducing dependence on Russian fuel at all bases in the area of responsibility of the US European Command

▪️ extends ban on military cooperation with Russia for another five years

▪️includes allocation of additional $800 million to Ukraine in 2023
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🇷🇺 Finally, a sane explanation has appeared on the network as to why Strategic Aviation aircraft are in the open.

“There are several factors:
1) Departure speed. If the aircraft is in the hangar, then the deployment speed is three times slower. That can play a strong role in a sharp aggravation of the conflict. Plus, in the hangar of a strategic bomber, you won't turn on the engine. It will have to be pulled out by heavy tugboats.

2) The size of the hangar must be very large. Because an airplane is a gigantic thing that requires an appropriate garage, which is extremely costly in finance. Under a large hangar area, you cannot make a roof that will be at least somewhat effective protection. If a UAV hits it, the roof will collapse and the consequences can be even worse.

3) Hangars must be removed from the runway, otherwise it will be inconvenient and dangerous to maneuver. We need large areas of the airfield. This, again, is damage in terms of takeoff speed.

By the way, American strategic bombers are also in the open air.”

However, this does not change the factor that in this case it was necessary to calculate all the risks long ago and strengthen the safety of such airfields. After all, the Americans do not have a war with the Mexicans at hand, who can launch any crap from a catapult and damage expensive and essential equipment.

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A wheeled fortress: tasks of an armoured train of the Western Military District in special military operation

🚂 A special train is armed, as they say, 'to the teeth'. The personnel are equipped with small arms, ranging from submachine guns to large-calibre machine guns. There is also an anti-aircraft launcher for destroying air and ground targets. A coaxial 23mm cannon on the train is the main calibre. There are also sniper positions. The gunners are on alert. There is more than just scenery outside the window. The attention is to the smallest details.

🛠 Despite its formidable appearance, the special train's primary tasks include technical reconnaissance, mine clearance and, if necessary, the restoration of destroyed roadways. And a powerful set of weapons enables the personnel to operate even in the most difficult conditions.

💪🏻 Every day the special train, despite the difficulties, copes with its task 💯%
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The essence of Ukraine - an 'invincibility point' in a Soviet 'PAZ' bus
A commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: We should hit residential buildings in Moscow with missiles

This was stated by the commander of the K2 unit of the 54th separate mechanized brigade, Major Kirill Veres.

“If they give me a rocket now, I will launch it without hesitation! Not even in the Kremlin, first of all, but in Moscow City, at all the good houses where they live. And then at all their power plants, so that they understand, let's say, how we feel!”, - said the commander
Putin phoned the President of the United Arab Emirates. The topic of the Western “price ceiling” for oil and the effectiveness of joint work within OPEC + to ensure the stability of the global oil market was discussed extensively
🇩🇪 About German extremists who were preparing to storm the Bundestag

On the night of December 7, German police special forces carried out an operation in 11 federal states to arrest 25 people who belong to a right-wing radical organization.

About 3,000 law enforcement officers searched 130 objects at the same time, 50 people are under investigation.

🔻What is known about the arrested?

▪️According to German media, the following were detained: a former member of parliament from the Alternative for Germany party, 58-year-old Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, and a judge from Berlin, as well as several former members of the Special Forces Command (KSK) and Bundeswehr paratroopers.

▪️The 71-year-old businessman from Frankfurt am Main, Henry XIII, Prince Reuss is considered the main organizer of the "mutiny".

▪️Also among the detainees there is a Russian citizen named Vitalia B.

▪️All of them belong to the right-wing radical group called "Reichsburger" (Reichsbürger / "Citizens of the Reich").

▪️The organization has allegedly been planning a violent overthrow of power in Germany since November 2021, and weapons were found during searches of members of the movement.

🔻What does this mean for German politics?

▪️The largest anti-terrorist operation of the special services in the history of the country, as well as active media coverage and mountains of prepared information, do not leave space for a discussion about the guilt of the suspects.

▪️ The German media have already explained that 58-year-old Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, being a member of the Bundestag, knows how to navigate the Reichstag building and is good at shooting (apparently, in order to personally storm the government with an army of militias).

▪️Given the small number of detainees and the dubious reputation of the suspects, whose organization is often compared to the American QAnon, the conclusion suggests itself that the Scholz government, under this pretext, decided to crack down on the right-wing opposition with one blow.

▪️There have already been statements by the German prosecutor's office that those suspected of preparing a coup d'état allegedly contacted representatives of the Russian Federation, but did not receive support.

Apparently, the upcoming criminal case on terrorism will silence the AfD deputies for a long time, who often allowed themselves to criticize the sanctions against Russia and, in general, disagree with the pro-American course of the current government.
#Germany #terrorism
@rybar with @Ubersicht_Ukraine_Kanal
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French Ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Ponsin at the huge cemetery of the AFU soldiers in Dnepropetrovsk, inspecting the results of his own country's foreign policy.
In Naberezhnye Chelny, a monument to Comrade Stalin was erected on the territory of a private school, with whom you can sit next to and talk about the fight against the enemies of the people.
🇷🇺American-style globalism is over.

- Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister
❗️Russian forces launched strikes with kamikaze drones on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the suburbs of Kiev-controlled Zaporozhye City and in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, said Vladimir Rogov, chairman of the We Are Together with Russia movement.
The Russian Investigative Committee reports that the soldiers who returned from Ukrainian captivity spoke about torture: one was shot in the legs during interrogation, another had a finger cut off and a knife stuck in his leg.
From our contributor Alcibiades,

Alcibiades on the War: Disarming the Gunfighter

There's one joke in the 2002 gun-fu classic Equilibrium: late in the film the main villain asks the hero, a Tetragrammaton Cleric (an incredibly dangerous living weapon), what the easiest way to disarm a Cleric is. Well, it's really simple. You ask him for his guns. Highly recommend the film by the way. But in the aftermath of the Ukrainian attack on two Russian strategic bomber airbases on the 4th, I think it's worth revisiting the punchline. What's the easiest way to break through the Russian air defense system? You file a flight plan.

We now have enough information about the attacks to know that they were likely carried out by heavily modified Tu-141 Strizh drones, a Soviet UAV from the 1970s originally designed for reconnaissance work deep behind NATO lines. Fitted with a modern communications and sensor suite and carrying a heavy warhead, they would make for extremely capable cruise missiles with a range of some 1000 kilometers. Critically, they are both fast and high-flying, with a transonic speed and a flight ceiling of up to 20,000 feet. This is enough for them to "impersonate" a commercial airliner with appropriate transponder settings and a drone operator working the radio.

The drones could have been shipped to a friendly country in the Caucasus or Central Asia, launched, checked out and worked into the flow of civil air traffic going into Russia. It's unlikely that the radar signatures of civilian airliners flying in designated air corridors are scrutinized too closely by Russian air defense operators, allowing them to penetrate deep into Russian airspace undetected. That is until they presumably went "dark" and pulled towards the targeted airbases - where they were both engaged by short-range defenses and ignominiously shot down inside the airfield perimeters.

Rumor has it that some airline transponders went dark over Russia that night, by the way.
🇷🇺🇨🇳The Power of Siberia pipeline in China reached its final destination in Shanghai

The Xinhua News Agency reported that the Tai'an-Taixing section of the gas pipeline was officially put into operation.
Soldiers of PMC "Wagner" send greetings from Yakovlevka. Today the village has come under the control of our troops

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The situation for the Armed Forces of Ukraine to the north of Soledar has deteriorated.
⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Starobelsk Direction until 14:00 on 7 Dec 2022⚡️

There are no significant changes. The AFU is attempting to break through with small forces in some parts of the front without using their main resources.

At the same time, radio communication activity has decreased throughout the front, which may be due to the switch to radio silence mode in preparation for a large-scale offensive.

♦️#Kupyansk - #Svatovo Sector:

▪️ Assault groups of the 2nd Battalion of the 14th Mechanized Brigade, supported by the 32nd Composite Battalion of the AFU Territorial Defence, are planning an offensive on the #Lyman 1st - #Sinkovka line. UAV calculations from #Petropavlovka are conducting reconnaissance on the positions of the RF Armed Forces.

▪️ West of #Kislovka and #Yagodnoye observation posts of the 103rd Territorial Defence Brigade were established, in #Petropavlovka and southwest of #Pervomayskoye the 14th Mechanized Brigade took up positions, in #Stelmakhovka the 92nd Mechanized Brigade and units of the AFU's Signals Intelligence.

♦️#Lyman Sector:

▪️ The 25th Airmobile Brigade of the AFU continues to attempt to storm Russian positions in #Ploshchanka and a section of the #Makeyevka - #Ploshchanka road in order to continue towards #Krasnorechenskoye.

To carry out the offensive, 50 men from the 125th Battalion of the 113th Territorial Defence Brigade have been redeployed to the area of #Nevskoye, while rotation has been carried out at the support points of the 3rd Battalion of the 25th Brigade. The positions of thr 66th Mechanized Brigade in #Kolodezi have been supplied with Milan ATGMs and large-calibre machine guns.

▪️ Russian forces are attacking Ukrainian lines in the direction of #Chervonopopovka. As a result of the fighting, the AFU abandoned seven platoon strongholds southwest of #Ploshchanka.

▪️ Units of the 25th Airmobile Brigade made another unsuccessful counterattack attempt west of #Chervonopopovka. However, the offensive was thwarted by heavy artillery fire from the RF Armed Forces.

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