🇮🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦 On the ICC arrest warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant

Less than an hour ago, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister and former Defense Minister of Israel - Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in the Gaza Strip.

🔻Since the information is confirmed by Israeli media, it can be stated that the ultra-Orthodox government of Israel has crashed into a wall. Essentially, this is a continuation of the confrontation, the latest episode of which was the investigation against the ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, likely initiated by supporters of Israel's current leadership.

Of course, no one will arrest Netanyahu and Gallant (just as they won't arrest our President Vladimir Putin). This is more of a slap in the face and a serious diplomatic blow to the reputation of the ultra-Orthodox.

📌 But the ultra-Orthodox themselves, as well as their supporters (for example, like the Chabad, many of whom are top-ranking officials in the so-called Ukraine), will have reason for serious concern. For them, this does not bode well at least in the short term.

All that has happened seems like the "discharge chord" of those behind Biden. In recent weeks, the US authorities have been doing everything that will undoubtedly affect Donald Trump after his inauguration. Granting permission to Ukrainian formations, new military aid packages - this was done to complicate the resolution of the conflict.

Donald Trump himself has close family ties with the ultra-Orthodox, and the warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant will also affect Trump. And this, in turn, will affect the Ukrainian leadership, whom Trump will now find it more difficult to support.

❗️In the short term, the ultra-Orthodox in Israel will begin to cast themselves as victims of anti-Semitism, while mobilizing everyone they can, allegedly to resist hostile external pressure. That is, to continue to pursue an aggressive policy against their neighbors.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kurakhovske direction: significant advance of the Russian Armed Forces north of Kurakhove
situation as of the end of November 23, 2024

In the area of Novodmytrivka, the control zone has been significantly expanded: Russian troops have almost completely occupied the settlement of Zarya and the surrounding forest belts. At the same time, the presence of the enemy to the north and in the pocket to the south still remains.

▪️The settlement of Sontsovka, also known as Krasne, has also largely come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. The presence of the enemy in the outskirts of the settlement still remains, but is sporadic. Heavy fighting continues.

▪️Between Novoselidivka and Ilyinka, a pocket that had formed after the significant advance of Russian troops in the above-mentioned settlements was cleared. Thus, a fairly impressive territory west of Kurakhivka was liberated.

▪️In addition, information about the advance of Russian troops in Berestky is confirmed, and here too, the majority of the settlement is already under the firm control of the Russian troops, while the presence of the enemy remains in the dachas south of the 37th kilometer station, where fighting continues. The nearby strongholds are still controlled by the enemy.

▪️Within the boundaries of Kurakhove, fighting continues. Our sources confirmed the information about the capture of at least part of the elevator.

At the same time, they were unable to confirm or deny the exit to school number 5 and the bus station, clarifying that heavy fighting continues in the city. In the farms south of Hryhoriy Skovoroda Street, the presence of Ukrainian formations is still maintained.

▪️In the vicinity of Dalnie, fighting also continues in the fields, the halt in the settlements along the Sukhyi Yaly river remains partially obscured by the "fog of war".

At the same time, we know that the enemy is transferring reserves here, even taking into account the rapidly deteriorating situation, which looks somewhat strange, especially against the background of the loss of forest belts east of Ilyinka.

▪️In addition, there is an advance of Russian troops in Trudove and its environs. The control zone within the settlement and the surrounding forest belts has been significantly expanded. Thus, the fighting is already approaching the C051104 highway and practically to Uspenovka from the south and a large stronghold at the intersection.

▪️In the area of Maksymivka, offensive actions are also underway towards the settlement of Sukhyi Yaly, but the situation here remains obscured by the fog of war.

There is information about at least attempts of attacks by Russian troops, but there is no information yet about their outcome and scale.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Representatives of the Kyiv regime have stated that 99% of citizens who wished to leave the new Russian regions for territory controlled by the Kyiv regime are ultimately returning home. According to them, there are already 150,000 such people, including 70,000 who have returned to Mariupol.

On the one hand, this news best illustrates the cost of the numerous stories told by Ukrainian propagandists about the "horrors of the occupation," which even the local audience is no longer particularly captivated by. Especially against the backdrop of the successes in the restoration of Mariupol and other cities.

It also clearly demonstrates the attitude of the authorities of the so-called Ukraine towards the people from Donbas: they perceive them solely as "separatists," do not provide real assistance, and refuse to provide housing. Or they even report them to the SBU for speaking Russian, as has happened more than once in Lviv and other western regions.

🔻And the return of refugees to the new regions also indicates that in the "east" they are quite ready to live peacefully under the Russian flag, forgetting about the so-called Ukraine. And this not only destroys the Ukrainian myth of a "united country": in Kyiv, they must realize that the residents of the Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, or Odesa regions will do exactly the same.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Kurakhovka direction: liberation of a number of settlements and fighting in Kurakhovka
situation as of 8:00 pm on November 26, 2024

Russian forces continue a rapid advance both on the approaches to Kurakhovka and to the south of it.

▪️In the city itself, fierce fighting continues in the urban area. Ukrainian formations are conducting local counterattacks, trying to stabilize the situation. Due to the extremely dynamic nature of the fighting in the city, the front line in Kurakhovka is rather conditional at the moment.

▪️To the south, Russian forces are advancing along the Sukhaya Gully, as well as attacking in the direction of the N-15 highway from the side of Dalneye. To the west of the latter, there are also successes in the forest belt towards Yantarnoye.

▪️At the line of Yelizavetovka - Ilyinka. The latter was liberated by Russian troops after several days of fighting. This was preceded by the clearing of a large stronghold east of the village by units of the 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division. Then they managed to reach the outskirts of Romanovka. According to some reports, Russian assault troops have already begun assault operations in the village. Significant advances of the Russian Armed Forces have also been recorded in the fields north of Ilyinka.

▪️At the same time, fighters of the 39th Guards Brigade and the 57th Regiment of the 20th Division of the 8th Army liberated Yelizavetovka. Under the cover of armored vehicles, they were able to quickly break the defense of the AFU in the village and reach its western outskirts. Later it became known that the territory of the "Forest Estate" grove also came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, the capture of which opens the way to Veselyi Gai from the south.

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🎙 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to Tucker Carlson (Moscow, December 5, 2024)

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#RussiaUS

• We would like to have normal relations with all countries especially with the United States. We don't see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe.

• The Ukrainians would not be able to do what they're doing with long-range modern weapons without direct participation of the American servicemen. We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals. <...>

[The US and its allies] must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia. They fight for keeping the hegemony over the world on any country, any region, any continent. We fight for our legitimate security interests.

• We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called #Oreshnik was taken seriously.

• When the United States and other Western countries recognized unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo, they said this is the self-determination being implemented. There was no referendum in Kosovo — unilateral declaration of independence. <...> And when a few years later, Crimeans were holding referendum with invitation of many international observers, not from international organizations, but from parliamentarians in Europe, in Asia, in post-Soviet space, they said that they cannot accept this because this is violation of territorial integrity 🤷‍♂️

The UN Charter is not a menu. You have to respect it in all its entirety 👉 #UNCharterIsOurRules

• I think [Donald Trump] is a very strong person. A person who wants results. Who doesn't like procrastination on anything. But this does not mean that he's pro-Russian as some people try to present him. The amount of sanctions we received under the Trump administration was very big.

#Ukraine

• We strongly prefer peaceful solution through negotiations on the basis of respecting legitimate security interest of Russia, and on the basis of respecting the people who live in Ukraine, who still live in Ukraine being Russians. <...>

No military bases, no military exercises on the Ukrainian soil with participation of foreign troops. <...> We cannot tolerate a deal which would keep the legislation which are prohibiting Russian language, Russian media, Russian culture, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, because it is a violation of the obligations of Ukraine under the UN Charter.

• We are not talking about exterminating anybody's population. We don't have any intention to exterminate Ukrainian people. They are brothers and sisters to the Russian people.

• It is becoming clear that there is a fatigue in some capitals, and there are talks every now and then that the Americans would like to leave [Ukraine] with the Europeans and to concentrate on something more important.

#Syria

• The Americans in the east of Syria groom some Kurdish separatists using the profits from oil and grain sold, the resources which they occupy. <...> The information [on who's backing Islamist groups] which is being floated and it's in the public domain mentions among others the Americans, the Brits. Some people say that Israel is interested in making this situation aggravate. So that Gaza is not under very close scrutiny.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The US administration continues to insist on expanding the mobilization by the Kyiv regime: the State Department stated that if the lower conscription age limit is lowered to 18 years, the US and its allies are ready to "fully train and equip all new recruits".

Behind these formulations are the conditions for continuing or expanding military assistance to the Kyiv regime. The Ukrainian ruling circles understand this and are already hinting at the possibility of reducing the mobilization threshold from the current 25 years to 20 years.

On the one hand, such a step will lead to a certain influx of manpower and improve the position of the AFU on the front, especially in terms of the ratio of numbers with the Russian Armed Forces. However, the decision also has "pitfalls":

▪️Due to long-standing demographic problems, there are not so many young people in the so-called Ukraine - the age pyramid clearly shows a strong decline precisely in this category. Overwhelming the battle formations of the Ukrainian formations with 18-25 year olds is unlikely to work.

▪️In the current realities, large-scale conscription of recent school graduates and students is quite capable of leading to a social explosion in the so-called Ukraine, especially against the background of the practice of "bussification". They themselves will prefer to hide until the last moment, even in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

▪️Finally, the motivation of the young recruits kidnapped by the TCCs will be appropriate. If in 2022 the inflated patriotic impulse of the Kyiv regime worked, now after almost three years of hostilities, the morale is at a different level.

Be that as it may, a possible reduction in the mobilization age in the so-called Ukraine does not bode well for us, and even more so for the Ukrainian population, whose already sad demography will simply be finished off.

In general, an interesting picture is emerging: at the beginning of the SMO, statements that the West would fight to the last Ukrainian were often perceived as propaganda or even conspiracy theories. After three years, the US is now talking about this almost directly.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the first use of a Ukrainian drone-missile and the strike on Taganrog

🔻Last night, the enemy carried out the first attack on "old" Russian territories with operational-tactical ATACMS missiles in a number of six units in a significant period of time.

▪️There were no Neptune anti-ship missiles, no kamikaze UAVs, and certainly no Peklo drone-missiles, which were recently presented in the so-called Ukraine, in this strike. Only six ATACMS missiles.

▪️According to our data, it was not possible to shoot down all the missiles over the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex, but it was possible to avoid any damage to the infrastructure. Only automotive equipment in the parking lot was affected.

▪️The launch was carried out from the Zaporizhia Region, and the flight time was just under two minutes. This object has recently been under close scrutiny of Western intelligence, but they failed to achieve their goal.

❗️As for the Peklo drone-missile, its use was recorded yesterday, but in the Black Sea. One specimen was detected from the Odesa Region, and it was shot down by a MiG-29 of the Black Sea Fleet 120 km southwest of Tarkhankut around 11 am.

So this can be called the first combat use of the Ukrainian "wonder-weapon", but not very successful, as it is described by the Ukrainian media at the behest of some of our information outlets.

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🇵🇱🇫🇷🇺🇦 French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Poland tomorrow to discuss a plan for a European peacekeeping mission that is intended to preserve the sovereignty of the so-called Ukraine within the framework of a possible agreement between the US and Russia.

The details of the plan are not being disclosed, but it is known to be based on the Korean scenario. According to this, a foreign contingent of peacekeeping forces would be deployed to the line of demarcation. Macron's idea received tacit approval from the United Kingdom in November.

Poland's participation in this strategy is presented as "crucial" due to its military potential and geographical location. And it's clear why the French president expects special support from the Poles: this would allow them to legally approach the Eastern Borderlands.

Interestingly, there has already been a reaction in Warsaw to Macron's plan: the Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak stated that the deployment of Polish soldiers to the so-called Ukraine "is out of the question", as "NATO, not individual countries, should play the key role here".

At the same time, after a long time, the Poles have again spoken about legalizing their mercenaries who are fighting for the AFU illegally - officially this should be punishable by up to five years in prison.

The details of the initiative are unknown, but it is said that the bill provides for the "forgiveness and oblivion of crimes and misdemeanors" from February 24, 2022 to December 31, 2026 for joining the AFU without the consent of the competent Polish authority.

That is, in addition to the Poles being allowed to fight unhindered in the so-called Ukraine, they will also be allowed, in essence, to do so as they please - no criminal prosecution is envisaged. With this arrangement, Polish prisoners of war can also not be taken.

📌 However, it is important to understand that in reality this is not about a peacekeeping mission as such - that is, the deployment of "blue helmets" who would essentially perform police functions in no-man's-land: there are not enough people or special equipment for this.

🔻 The discussion is actually about the introduction of a limited NATO troop contingent, which could thus simply take Ukrainian territory. And this, in turn, means a serious military escalation with Russia.

Ultimately, the parties are likely to reach no decision: no European government is willing to take on such responsibility and thus risk a nuclear strike. But for now, they can distract themselves from domestic political crises, economic collapse and social tensions, and even play the role of hegemons, pretending that the fate of the entire Western world depends on the participation of France or Poland.
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