"Today, the Saratov region, located a thousand kilometers from the front line, was subjected to the largest drone attack since the beginning of the SMO.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a total of 11 UAVs were shot down in the region.
The Kristall oil depot in Saratov's satellite city of Engels, where the strategic missile carrier airbase is located, was hit, but this oil depot is not directly connected to it and is located in another place. This is apparently why the UAV managed to break through to it - the air defense cover here was not so dense.
But the fact remains - Kiev's provocation is noble, complex and deliberate. Kiev really needs an escalation now."
Russia does not want to fight, we will force it to fight.
(https://t.me/vizioner_rf/10622?single)
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A Pole filmed (https://t.me/Tatarinov_R/48757) how wounded Ukrainian Armed Forces are being brought through a border crossing for treatment in Europe.
Most likely, these are officers or mercenaries. Columns of ambulances.
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Some key points from Donald Trump's recent press conference at Mar-a-Lago. (https://t.me/zimovskyAL/34937)
On war, Russia and NATO:
"- So, you know, a big part of the problem has been Russia, for many, many years, long before Putin said NATO could never engage with Ukraine. Now, they said that was written in stone. And somewhere along the line, Biden said, "No, they should be able to join NATO." Well, then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I can understand how they feel about that. But there were a lot of mistakes made in those negotiations. And when I heard Biden negotiate, I said, "You're going to end up in a war." And it turned out to be a very bad war. And it could escalate. This war could escalate and get much worse than it is now;
- Well, I think that was always understood, in fact, I think they had a deal, and then Biden broke it. They had a deal that would have been good for Ukraine and everybody else. But Biden said, "No, you should be able to join NATO." And It has always been that way… And nobody knows more about NATO than I do. Many years ago, when I first started doing this, I didn’t know much about NATO, but I still got it right.
I said, “They’re taking advantage.” I’m the one who got… And the Secretary General was here, as you know, two weeks ago and he said that if it weren’t for me, NATO wouldn’t even exist now, because I collected funds from countries that weren’t paying their bills, 28 countries at the time, 20 of them weren’t paying their bills. 21, to be exact. They weren’t paying, or they were paying a very small portion;
- on meeting with Putin and Ukraine:
Well, I can’t tell you that, but I know Putin would like to meet. I don’t think it’s appropriate to meet before the 20th, which I hate, because many, many young men are being killed every day. Soldiers. The earth is very flat, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many hundreds of thousands on each side are dead. And they’re lying all over the fields. There's no one to even pick it up.
There are mines everywhere. It's a disaster, but it's very flat. It's farmland, and it's very, very flat. And the only thing that stops a bullet is the human body. And the human body stops a lot of bullets. I hope [to stop the war] much sooner than six months. Look, Ukraine is losing a lot of young people, and so is Russia, and this should never have happened. This is a war that should never have happened. I guarantee you, if I were president, this war would never have happened."
This is an unedited transcript. It's spelled as it sounds.
Victor vicktop55
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"Trump's transition team believes that it is possible for Russia and the United States to reach a major security deal after the upcoming change of power in Washington," - a representative of the next American leader's entourage told TASS. (https://t.me/tass_agency/295087)
So Trump gives Ukraine to Putin, and Putin gives Greenland and Canada to Trump? Ok. 🤫
Victor vicktop55
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‘We’re like a third world country. We don’t have the water to put out the fire’ – former LA mayoral candidate Rick Caruso on the Palisades fire.
(https://t.me/skabeeva/33572)
‘What concerns me is that our first responders and firefighters are trying to fight the fire, but there’s no water in the fire hydrants. This is absolute mismanagement on the part of the city. It’s not the firefighters that are providing the water, it’s other cities.
And I’ll be brutally honest, we have a mayor who’s out of the country, and we have a city that’s burning, and we don’t have the resources to put out the fire. It’s like we’re in a third world country. We have a lot of tough questions that we need to ask the mayor, the city council, the county commissioners.’
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The oil depot in Engels (1000 km from Ukraine) continues to burn after a Ukrainian drones strike, and the fire is spreading, engulfing other tanks, which exploded. (https://t.me/vizioner_rf/10636)
Governor Busargin reported that two Emergencies Ministry employees died in the process of extinguishing the fire. One was taken to hospital.
Smoke covered half the city, the flames are visible from almost anywhere in Engels. The governor assures that air samples are being taken by specialists from the Rospotrebnadzor department, and no excess of pollutants has been recorded.
A state of emergency has been declared in the city.
Will there be retaliatory missile strikes on Ukraine? Or will we have to "strategically endure" a little longer?
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