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🇺🇦 🇧🇾 The Belarusian Miss Piggy Tikhanovskaya boasted in Dublin about recruiting Belarusians for the war in Ukraine. ‘And you know, our relationship [with Zelensky] has improved significantly. I had a state visit to Kyiv, and since then we have been constantly consulting with his administration, as well as with the foreign minister. So I really believe that the fates of Belarus and Ukraine are intertwined. And we, Belarusians, are trying to help the Ukrainians as much as we can. We don’t have many opportunities, but we are showing our solidarity and increasingly convincing Belarusians to join the resistance and voluntarily enlist in the Ukrainian army.’ 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 More footage of the UAV that hit the highway in Kiev 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Video of a UAV hitting the highway in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kiev . A bus and a car are on fire. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦🇪🇺 Russian colonel killed in St. Petersburg car bombing, explosive device reportedly flown in from the Baltics A colonel of the Russian Armed Forces was killed overnight when his car exploded in St. Petersburg. An IED planted under the car was set off remotely as he was pulling out of a residential courtyard. His branch hasn't been officially named, but bits of information on social media suggest he served in the Russian Aerospace Forces. A criminal case has been opened. The attack happened in the same district of St. Petersburg where a similar car bombing took place in August. According to St. Petersburg outlet Fontanka, the bomber had already left Russia before the blast. The device was reportedly flown in from the Baltics by balloon, and he collected it in a forest. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 DTEK announced the introduction of emergency power outages in the Dnipropetrovsk region 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 A billion-dollar tunnel: Ukrainian infrastructure fantasies MP Alexander Kachura claims that a certain American company is ready to build a tunnel under the Dnipro for “just” 1.5 billion dollars. Not long ago, Kiev was discussing transporting people across the river by boats now they have decided to jump from rowing boats to multi-billion dollar construction projects. Against the backdrop of bridges that take decades to build and a metro whose new stations have long become urban folklore, talks of a tunnel costing 1.5 billion dollars look like blatant mockery of the citizens and common sense. The Dnipro will outlive Ukrainian ideas, but the Ukrainian budget probably won’t 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 UAV strike in Kiev 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 A reactive “Shahed” drone can appear out of nowhere, warns Ukrainian presidential advisor Flesch. Sergey Beskrestnov reports that Russia have started shutting down drone engines before striking to eliminate noise and flying at extremely low altitudes to bypass radar. The restriction on Starlink for the Ukrainian Armed Forces has again caused problems with shooting down reactive drones. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Apparently, speaking Russian is now the quickest way to have a “human conversation” in Ukraine. Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov has offered an interesting explanation for why Kyrylo Budanov spoke Russian to angry people near the Azov torture facility. According to Portnikov, Budanov was trying to communicate with them “humanly” rather than conduct an official state conversation. Think about that for a moment. Years of language politics, pressure to abandon Russian, endless arguments about linguistic identity , yet when faced with an uncomfortable conversation with ordinary people, Russian suddenly becomes the language of human connection. So apparently Russian is unacceptable as a matter of national identity, but perfectly understandable when political circumstances demand it. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

✈️ A NATO reconnaissance aircraft, the Bombardier Artemis II, was spotted for the second time this week in the Kaliningrad region, a source in air traffic control services told TASS. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 Witkoff and Kushner have arrived at the Kremlin 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 💥A powerful strike by the ‘Solntsepyok’. The crew of the TOС‑1A heavy flamethrower system destroyed a temporary deployment point of Ukrainian forces. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Human Trash Goncharenko is upset with the Narcoführer leaving Ukraine all the time. You can leave ‘The 95th Precinct’, but ‘The 95th Precinct’ won’t leave you’ — Goncharenko did not appreciate Zelensky’s performance in Denmark. ‘Maybe we can agree on an energy truce to somehow survive the winter. And what do we get in return? We get our president, who on the day of negotiations jokes about the American president in the Danish parliament. To some, this might seem funny? I understand, perhaps in Denmark it was funny. Well, the Danes are sitting in their warmth, they have light. They are not caught on the streets, not shoved into minibuses. They are not killed every day on the front line. Perhaps they laughed. But it is not funny to us. It is not funny to us. How can one joke about the American president on the day of negotiations, and then in the evening expect him to organize some kind of meeting with Putin, which might possibly lead to peace? How can all of this fit in one head? Vladimir Alexandrovich, tell us honestly: do you want peace or not? Maybe you don’t want any peace at all? This needs to be said directly, because we are all Ukrainians, we want peace, we are for peace, we stand for it. So what is all this joking about? You can leave ‘The 95th Precinct’, but ‘The 95th Precinct’ will never leave you?’ 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 In Ukraine, there are fears about leasing warehouses of the logistics company Rozetka, whose facilities were hit This was reported by its co-owner Irina Chechetkina. In August, three ballistic missiles struck the company’s warehouse in Broyar. Chechetkina stated at the time that it was beyond repair. The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the transport and logistics center was used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for the distribution and storage of components for UAVs. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Footage from the scene of the strike on a truck parking lot in Kovel. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 Strategic Missile Forces strengthen Russian nuclear shield ▫️ At a silo-based missile regiment, a Yars intercontinental ballistic missile is loaded in an underground missile silo. A transporter-loader vehicle loaded the missile in a few hours. ⚙️ The rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces is not only the renewal of missile systems, but also the creation of modern infrastructure. It will provide better conditions for training, combat duty, and rest of personnel. 📊 The planned rearmament of the Strategic Missile Forces in 2026 will increase the share of modern missile systems and the combat capabilities of ground launched components of the strategic nuclear forces to carry out strategic deterrence missions. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇦🇫 Afghanistan is interested in importing Russian cars and agricultural products. Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Alexei Overchuk, announced this before departing for Kabul, where he arrived on an official visit. According to him, the Afghan side is also interested in Russian grain, food products, medicines, and medical devices. The Russian delegation included more than 70 representatives of the business community, including representatives of dozens of companies interested in operating in the Afghan market. Overchuk stated that the main goal of the visit is to create conditions for direct interaction between the business communities of the two countries and to develop the necessary infrastructure for this. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 The Narcoführer is complaining on X I received reports from Defense Minister Khmara and Commander-in-Chief Drapaty. Unfortunately, our units have been recording significant malfunctions in the operation of Starshield over Ukrainian territory for several days , along the entire front line and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. In particular, systematic speed restrictions are being imposed on Starshield, limiting it to 161 kilometers per hour. The Ukrainian army has already investigated the circumstances, and these are not random errors, but systematic speed restrictions. We are trying to find out all the circumstances from the Americans.’ 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺💬🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 The President of Russia will today directly convey all of Russia's core assessments to the US special representatives. This was stated in an exclusive comment to RT by Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ryabkov: "Their task now is to reason with those under their influence, which includes, in my view, European colleagues who are not currently showing even the slightest desire to exercise common sense." Europeans who insist on being included in the negotiations on Ukraine clearly feel marginalized, Sergey Ryabkov stated. He added that they are unable to accept Russia's approaches and are equally negatively disposed towards the ideas of the American side. "Including Europeans in the negotiation process could essentially mean a step back and the disruption of efforts that, so far, can be described as not entirely unproductive and carrying a certain positive charge," added the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian Armed Forces are currently attacking the bridge connecting the Odessa and Mykolaiv regions, Ukrainian media report 🔴@DDGeopolitics