For Those Who Might Be Wondering Why We Might Be In Ukraine

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RUSSIAN MILITARY CONVOYS AND STRATEGIC PLANTS ON FIRE

Defense Forces destroyed a russian mechanized column of 6 tanks, 9 IFVs, 5 APCs, and 1 armored recovery vehicle. In the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia, a chemical plant, Stavrolen, is reportedly on fire, detonations continued very long.

 

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More Bad News for Russia

Russia just lost another plane which is becoming a regular occurrence this month. In Crimea, the Ukrainian SBU hit a recon plane designed to watch for submarines in the Black Sea. That opened the door for the submarine attack two weeks ago. Meanwhile, Putin is getting called out on his lies about battlefield progress as multiple Russian sources are complaining about the situation in Kupyansk.

 

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Christmas humiliation for Putin

Russian Kupyansk Claim Collapses Amid Ukrainian Offensive

 

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Ukrainian military faces collapse as DESERTIONS hit 300,000 mark
12/01/2025 // Ramon Tomey

The Ukrainian military is hemorrhaging soldiers at an alarming rate, with over 310,000 criminal cases related to desertion and unauthorized absence filed since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022 – more than half in the first 10 months of 2025 alone.

The staggering figures were confirmed by the Ukrainian Office of the Prosecutor General (OPG) to the New Voice of Ukraine in early November. They reveal a crisis of morale and manpower that threatens Kyiv's ability to sustain its war effort, even as the Trump administration pushes a 28-point peace plan that could reshape the conflict's trajectory.

Journalist and former People's Deputy Ihor Lutsenko, now commanding a Ukrainian drone unit, warned that October saw a record 21,602 desertions – equivalent to one soldier fleeing every two minutes. "By the time you finish reading this post, another soldier will have put on skis," he wrote, emphasizing that official numbers likely undercount the true scale of abandonment.

The accelerating exodus coincides with reports that Ukraine's military, once estimated at 800,000 strong, may now be a hollow force depleted by casualties and mass defections. Ukrainian officials have long dismissed claims of widespread desertion as Russian propaganda, but the OPG's data paints a grim picture.

Read entire article here: https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-12-01-ukrainian-military-faces-collapse-desertions-hit-300k.html

On top of everything, you r a fan of Putin?

LOL

 

[Rightguide]

On top of everything, you r a fan of Putin?

LOL

That's a cowardly lie from an illiterate dunce.

 

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That's a cowardly lie from an illiterate dunce.

You need to cover up the posters on your wall before saying that. Specifically the shirtless horseback photo framed in gold.

 

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Russia's Autumn Offensive - Pokrovsk, the Coming Winter and a Changing Battlefield

This was from about a month ago but interesting in retrospect...

 

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Ukraine's Submarine & Shadow Fleet Strikes - UUVs, Novorossiysk & The Energy War at Sea

The war in Ukraine has delivered its fair share of military firsts, now we have another one.

Ukraine's use of an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) to attack a heavily defended Russian harbour target may not be a demonstration of a new technology, but it is a novel use in an actual war. Today, we discuss its implications, escalating strikes against tankers, the war at sea and tools both sides are using to fight it.

 

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Europe's great power move: EU secures Ukraine funding

The EU's decision to secure the funding of Ukraine's war for the next two years is one of the most important developments of the entire year. It is a disaster for Russia, and it shows what Europe exerting itself as a strategic actor looks like in practice. Putin's growing frustration with Europe is a sign that the idea of deciding Europe's future over the heads of the Europeans is failing.

0:00 Funding secured
0:53 More important than "peace talks"
2:15 A failure for EU?
3:24 What is the money for?
4:15 A war of attrition
5:18 A disaster for Russia
6:01 Russian frustration with Europe
6:50 European as a great power
8:19 Russian and American frustration
8:54 A seat at the table

 

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Kyiv Post - Russia Is Not a State. It’s a Criminal Business​

Most Western analysis treats Russia as a normal government pursuing national interests. That assumption is the core error.

In this video, Kyiv Post's Dr. Jason Jay Smart explains how the Kremlin uses the trappings of statehood, ministries, courts, and intelligence services as tools to protect a ruling network and monetize power. The Federal Security Service, the Russian FSB, sits at the center as the ultimate enforcer.

Inside this system, paid protection is the business model. Russians call it krysha, the roof. It turns law enforcement and regulatory pressure into a marketplace where safety is purchased and competitors are targeted. The result is an economy shaped less by productivity and more by access, protection, and controlled risk.

This model also scales globally. Sanctions evasion, offshore structures, and illicit finance create channels that move money and restricted goods through intermediaries and third countries. The same networks can overlap with transnational criminal routes and sanctioned actors, creating resilience that traditional diplomacy often fails to break, says Jason Smart.

This analysis focuses on political economy, institutional corruption, capital flight, and the mechanics of impunity. If you want to understand why pressure tools keep getting gamed, start with the incentive structure, not the speeches.

#Russia #Geopolitics #Economics #Sanctions #Corruption

Chapters:
00:00 — Russia as a Criminal Syndicate
01:05 — Why Western Policy Misreads the Kremlin
02:05 — The FSB and the “Krysha” System
03:15 — Institutions as Tools, Not Governance
04:25 — Sanctions, Crime Networks, and the Black Market
05:45 — Operation Destabilise and Global Money Laundering
07:05 — Putin’s Rise and the Mafia State Model
08:35 — Shadow Fleets, Ports, and Sanctions Evasion
10:05 — Why the Kremlin Needs the War to Continue
11:20 — Understanding Russia’s True Incentives
12:20 — Final Takeaway

 

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Russia's Airforce is Burning

Russia's bad stretch continues as they had three more aircraft targeted on the airfield, a general eliminated in Moscow and significant personnel losses near Dobropillia. We also look into a new Russian advance in Sumy and an increase in missile and drone strikes against energy infrastructure in Odessa.

 

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Critical Russian Petrochemical Plant Destroyed by Ukraine

Ukraine has successfully struck a Russian petrochemical plant and a rubber factor supplying the Russian military. More details have been released about Ukraine's strikes on Taman and Russia's naval port of Novorossiysk. JD Vance has declared France and the UK's nuclear weapons as a security threat to the United States.

 

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Ukraine’s F-16s just shot down 34 of 35 Russian cruise missiles—and new tech may be why

Hanging Sniper pods on Ukraine’s F-16s has unlocked new capabilities, and munitions—and made the jets much deadlier.

• The Ukrainian air force's F-16 fighters are now carrying Sniper sensor pods
• The camera- and laser-equipped pods open up new capabilities
• Sniper-equipped F-16s can use laser-guided rockets and bombs
• The British Paveway IV laser-guided bomb, pledged to Ukraine in 2024, can accurately strike moving targets
• Ukrainian forces shot down 34 out of 35 cruise missiles Russian forces launched at Ukrainian cities on the night of 22-23 December. Col. Yurii Ihnat, head of communications for the Ukrainian air force, told Ukrainian Pravda the cruise missiles were "mainly" shot down by the air force's ex-European F-16 fighters.

The 97% intercept rate marks a dramatic improvement—and points to new hardware that's quietly transforming what Ukraine's jets can do, and at what cost.

Ukraine has received around 50 out of 90 or so of the supersonic F-16s that a Belgian-Danish-Dutch-Norwegian consortium pledged back in 2023. Four of the nimble, 1980s-vintage—but heavily upgraded—jets have crashed or been shot down since the type flew its first combat sortie over Ukraine in August 2024. The survivors stay very busy jamming Russian radars, lobbing satellite-guided bombs at Russian troops, and patrolling for Russian cruise missiles and Shahed drones. Recent additions to the F-16s' sensor suites are making them much more effective.

In early December, the first images appeared online depicting Ukrainian F-16s with Sniper targeting pods under their inlets. Additional imagery confirms the jets are flying with the pods, which include daylight and infrared cameras as well as a laser designator. While the F-16's nose-mounted APG-66(V)2A radar is still its primary sensor, the $2-million Sniper pod is an important addition. It's a passive sensor, meaning it doesn't emit radiation—and thus doesn't betray the F-16's location. A pilot can switch off his radar, go emissions "silent" and still detect and shoot at Russian targets. The Sniper pod's laser might be its most important feature—and may explain why, all of the sudden, Ukraine's F-16s are shooting down so many Russian cruise missiles. A pilot can detect a cruise missile or Shahed drone on radar, or on the pod's cameras, and then "sparkle" it with the laser.

That "designates" the target for laser-guided weapons. It's no accident that the very first photo of a Ukrainian F-16 carrying a Sniper pod also depicted the same F-16 carrying a pair of seven-round launchers for AGR-20 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon Systems. The APKWS is a laser-guided rocket weighing 15 kg and ranging as far as 11 km. It is ideal for shooting down numerous targets, such as cruise missiles and Shaheds, in just a few passes. It's also cheap compared to bigger air-to-air missiles that, for anti-Shahed missions in particular, are frankly overkill. A Shahed costs just $50,000. The F-16's infrared-guided air-to-air missile, the AIM-9, costs around $500,000 per round. A single APKWS rocket is priced to move at just $35,000, making it one of the few anti-Shahed munitions in the Ukrainian inventory that's cheaper than its intended target.

With Sniper pods, the F-16s also unlock another new capability. Last year, the United Kingdom pledged to Ukraine an unspecified number of 1,100-kg Paveway IV guided bombs. The $60,000 Paveway IV is unique in that it's primarily laser-guided, but also has back-up GPS and inertial guidance. Where primarily GPS-guided bombs, such as Ukraine's American-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions, home in on pre-set coordinates, the Paveway IV follows a laser's sparkle. A skilled pilot can keep his Sniper pod's laser zeroed in on a moving target. In short, JDAMs are best at striking stationary targets. Paveway IVs can hit moving ones such as mobile air defenses, vehicle convoys, and even ships at sea. The British bombs are the only precision air-to-ground munitions in the Ukrainian inventory with this moving-target capability. There are JDAMs with add-on laser seekers, but there's no evidence Ukraine has any of these bombs. We haven't yet seen Ukrainian F-16s carrying Paveway IVs, but now that the fighters have Sniper pods with lasers, the pairing may break cover soon.

https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/26/f-16-paveway-iv/

 

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Kharkiv BREAKTHROUGH: Kupiansk Road Under Fire

A Russian General has vanished from the Kupiansk front after his report to Moscow was exposed as a lie. The commander responsible for the northern sector falsified maps to claim the city was captured, but when Ukrainian forces pushed forward on the P-79 road, they found the defense lines empty. This is a purge. Officers are now being removed for failing to deliver the impossible victories promised to Putin.

In Crimea, the failure is physical. Su-27 Flanker jets were destroyed on the runway at Belbek Airbase, right inside the air defense zone that was supposed to keep them safe. This proves the Black Sea Fleet can no longer protect its own aviation wing. Russia is losing advanced airframes faster than its industrial base can replace them, and pilots are burning on the tarmac.

Moscow is now selling its future to pay for the war. The Kremlin just sold nearly one billion dollars in gold reserves to Chinese buyers to keep the economy moving. A state that sells strategic bullion for oxygen is a state running out of options. Add the leaked audio of soldiers starving on the front line, and the conclusion is clear: the system is breaking from the treasury vault to the trench.

CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro: The Real Signs of the Kremlin’s Total Collapse
01:50 - Kupiansk Front: Russian Generals Lying to Putin
03:26 - Donetsk & Sumy: Ukraine Traps Russian Armor
06:27 - Crimea Air War: SBU Strikes Belbek Airfield
07:18 - Russian Economy: Wages Unpaid & Soldiers Starving
10:13 - Inside Russia: Partisans & Pipeline Failures
12:03 - Economic Crisis: Putin Sells Gold to China
12:58 - Future War: Russia Threatens Baltics by 2027
15:40 - Outro

 

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Ruzzians are Shocked about Kupiansk as Truth Uncovered that Ukraine Wins

Kupiansk free of Russian cockroaches.....

 

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This Is How Ukraine WINS the War in 2026

Ukraine’s war effort has evolved from sheer survival to a disciplined strategy built on resilience at home and precision strikes far beyond the front. Massive investments in backup power, renewables, and hardened infrastructure keep the country running, while an expanding drone and missile industry hits critical targets with growing effect. Together, these moves outline Kyiv’s path from endurance to potential victory.

Kyiv now has a plan to win.....

 

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Finland Prepares for War.....

Vladimir Putin is facing a new nightmare in the North. Finland, once a neutral neighbor, has transformed into a military fortress. Helsinki has announced plans to mobilize a total defense force of 1 Million Troops by 2031.

In this video, we analyze the militarization of the Arctic:

• 1 Million Strong Military by 2031: Finland's shocking mobilization plan that includes reservists up to age 65.
• Border Panic: Why Russia is digging trenches and building walls along the 1,300km border.
• The F-35 Factor: How Finland's new stealth jets provide NATO with eyes deep inside Russia.
• Karelia's Collapse: The economic ruin of the border region as trade stops and isolation begins.

The North is armed and ready.

 

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Canada Just Gave Ukraine Its Best Weapon Yet

Canada just announced advanced Wescam optics, drones, and targeting systems to Ukraine, and in this video, I explain why this quiet December aid package may be one of the most important battlefield upgrades of the war. This is about vision, detection, and shortening Ukraine’s kill chain in a drone-saturated fight.

Oh, did I mention AIM-7 and AIM-9 air-to-air missile motors? Also, I break down Canada’s delivery of MX-series electro-optical and infrared systems, why “better eyes” matter more than ever, and how these sensors help Ukrainian drones, artillery, and aircraft find Russian forces at night, in bad weather, and under EW pressure. This is Canada acting as a combat enhancer, giving Ukraine the ability to use every other donated weapon MORE effectively.

 

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MOSCOW EXPLOSIONS, ROSTOV ON FIRE: OIL REFINERY DESTROYED

 

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Zelenskyy CALLS Trump’s BLUFF Right INTO HIS FACE

 

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Russians Admit Their Total Defeat in Kupiansk

Russian military bloggers have finally admitted their total defeat and loss of the city of Kupiansk. This is a huge humiliation for Putin after he recently announced Russia's total control over the city. Ukraine used Storm Shadow missiles to destroy another oil refinery in Novoshakhtinsk.

 

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Russia Failed to Change and Will be Stopped Eventually

Can Russia continue to attack as they have been for the last 4 years....