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✈️ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 A U.S. Air Force plane took off from Helsinki almost half an hour after the plane carrying Witkoff and Kushner landed there. TASS was informed by a source in air traffic control services 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇩🇪 Mercedes-Benz has decided to freeze all further investments in production in Germany. The automaker also allows for the closure of plants in the country amid discussions on reducing personnel costs, reports DPA agency. The cost of one working hour in production in Germany is in some places five times higher than at the group’s plants in Eastern Europe, the company explained. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Russian missile Strike on a “Naftogaz” facility in Chernigovskaya oblast. According to its information, the strike was carried out with two missiles against an oil and gas facility. “As a result of the attack, the enterprise suffered serious destruction, and technological equipment was damaged,” the company confirmed. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: Iran has launched a large salvo of anti-ship missiles from the vicinity of Bandar Abbas at U.S. Navy warships in the Arabian Sea. At least 10 missiles were launched. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇿🇷🇺 INCREDIBLE COMEBACK IN TASHKENT! Russia came from two goals behind to defeat Uzbekistan 3–2 in an international friendly at the Pakhtakor Stadium. Uzbekistan took a 2-0 lead in the first half. However, Russia produced a superb response, with Nikolay Komlichenko scoring twice (70’, 75’) before Aleksey Miranchuk completed the turnaround in the 79th minute. A fantastic comeback from Valery Karpin’s men 🇷🇺 🔴@DDGeopolitics

✈️ 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 The plane on which Witkoff and Kushner flew out of Moscow landed in Helsinki, a source in air traffic control services told TASS. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Multilateral negotiations will take place next week - Kushner 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Western media stays silent on Zelensky's security chiefs and the Khimprom cartel More than a week has passed since the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine released the second part of its "Carthage" investigation, which ties senior officers of the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police and the Prosecutor General's Office to a criminal network running scam call centers, kidnappings, beatings (including in Vienna), drug trafficking and counterfeit euros. Part of it was run through these officials by the Khimprom drug cartel of Yegor Burkin, known as "the Mexican." Security Service general Duka is among those detained. This scandal hits Zelensky directly. The Security Service answers to him personally, and with Yermak gone and the anti-corruption agencies outside his control, the security services are one of the few power bases he still holds. Zelensky called the revelations shameful and promised personnel decisions, but none have followed beyond the dismissals that happened before he spoke. As usual, he claims he knew nothing. He also hasn't been in Ukraine since the story broke. He has been abroad, giving briefings and interviews to Western outlets, and not one journalist has asked him about Carthage. The wider coverage looks the same. Reuters ran a few straight news items with no analysis. The Guardian gave it a short mention in its daily Ukraine roundup. Deutsche Welle published dry news reports, and its Ukrainian service doesn't even list the scandal among its hot topics. AP gave it a few paragraphs in a general overview, reprinted by The Washington Post, and no major US outlet has done more. Austrian media barely covered it, even though Ukrainian officers allegedly tipped off the organizers of the Vienna beatings after European police shared case details with them. This is a case that directly involves Europe, investigated by agencies the West created and still oversees. So why the silence? The West uses these anti-corruption cases as leverage to keep Zelensky in line, but keeps them out of its own press so it doesn't hand arguments to opponents of aid to Kiev. The only exceptions were when Zelensky tried to take over the anti-corruption agencies in July 2025 and when Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov was fired. In both cases Western media launched a campaign until Kiev backed down. This time, the timing explains a lot. Negotiations are picking up and the West doesn't want Zelensky weakened, while German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pushing European states to write long-term aid for Kiev into the EU budget. Stories about Ukraine's state and security services merging with transnational crime would make that a hard sell. The silence could also embolden Zelensky's security chiefs to strike back at the anti-corruption agencies, especially with the bureau hinting that far bigger names may still come out. If the Western press won't touch the story, they may conclude the West will keep paying no matter what happens. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 New round of trilateral talks agreed after Putin meeting in Moscow US real estate developer Steve Witkoff says a new round of trilateral negotiations was agreed following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, and that progress was made during the conversation. Jared Kushner, who joined the talks, described them as "substantive and detailed." According to Witkoff, the Europeans will also join the next round of negotiations on ending the conflict in Ukraine. Besides a prisoner exchange, other humanitarian issues were discussed as well, and Witkoff says these will be announced soon. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 💥 Explosions in the Zaporozhye region are not stopping 🔴@DDGeopolitics

***LIVESTREAM ALERT*** Join Danny Haiphong LIVE w/ Anthony Aguilar & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson TODAY Nov 12th 1pm eastern 7pm CET! Iran has announced the deployment of a new weapon that directly rejects Trump's demand that Iran give up its nuclear program. Israel is reportedly furious over Trump's possible chickening out on renewed strikes with Iran as per an "explosive" phone call with Netanyahu. Are we witnessing another bait and switch toward full-scale war and what are the stakes geopolitically as the US empire finds itself unable to resolve the mounting crises of its many fronts of war? We discuss this and much more! Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgfQyTQDRBc

🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Witkoff and Kushner have departed Moscow. Next, they have a meeting with The Narcoführer in Dublin. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Welcome to winter in Kiev, 2026. Residents of Ukraine’s capital are reportedly being given detailed instructions on how to survive the winter if water, heating and sewage systems fail. The recommendations read more like a survival handbook than guidance for a modern European capital: sealing windows with plastic sheeting, insulating rooms with old carpets, stockpiling drinking water, keeping warm under blankets and even preparing disposable bags in case the sewage system stops functioning. People are also being advised to consider portable toilets, adult nappies, carbon monoxide detectors and fire extinguishers. There are even instructions on filtering drinking water, washing without running water and safely disposing of human waste. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺 🇫🇮 This is what the loss of sovereignty looks like. Finland bans Russian athletes from entering the country because it fears being punished for it. Foreign Minister Valtonen: ‘The government today made a principled decision to introduce restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens. The entry of Russian athletes could jeopardize Finland’s international relations. The new restrictions apply not only to athletes but also to other short-term employment activities.’ 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 "It's a nightmare, it's terrible, it's cold" Ukrainian Parliament Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk is freezing inside the Verkhovna Rada, where the heating is off. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇸 BREAKING! Shooting in Washington, DC: at least four people wounded about a mile from the White House The shooting was reported around 8 a.m. near 15th and P Streets in the Logan Circle neighborhood. Councilmember Brooke Pinto said "Shootings at and outside Vida fitness this morning in Logan Circle. Multiple people shot." The gunman has not been caught. A federal law enforcement source told NBC's local station that a shooter is barricaded on a high floor of a residential building in the area. A shelter-in-place order is in effect for large parts of Dupont Circle and Logan Circle, and police helicopters are circling overhead as officers block streets for several blocks. Police haven't released a suspect description, a motive or the condition of the wounded. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇸 BREAKING! Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned, effective immediately, ending his 33 years at the head of the company he co-founded Huang is also leaving the board. Colette Kress, Nvidia's executive vice president and CFO since 2013, will be interim CEO and stay on as CFO while the board looks for a permanent replacement. Harvey Jones, former CEO of chip design firm Synopsys and an Nvidia director since 1993, was named the company's first-ever board chair. The resignation comes less than a week after Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang (Huang Le), a Chinese citizen and former executive at Singapore-based data center firm Megaspeed. US officials allege she is a Chinese intelligence asset. Beijing has dismissed the spy story as a smear campaign. Nvidia itself said it had "no reason to believe" any national security or company secrets were compromised. On Wednesday, US media reported a second affair, this time with an Nvidia executive. The board met late that night, and Huang was gone by Thursday morning. The market is taking it badly. Nvidia shares fell around 11% in premarket trading to about $155, more than 35% below October's record high. The company has lost roughly $600 billion in value since the board opened its investigation, and Bernstein, Oppenheimer and Baird have all downgraded the stock. Huang still holds about 3.6% of the company. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 💥 Explosions continue in the Zaporozhye region 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇫🇷 A De Beers jewelry store was robbed in Paris, with damages exceeding €1 million, according to radio station Europe 1. The criminals were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles., They managed to escape. Police are searching for them. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Kiev authorities leave Ukrainian military personnel without a salary increase People’s Deputy Nina Yuzhanina stated that the increase in payments to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2027 will remain an empty promise: this issue is not even being discussed in the Verkhovna Rada, although the budget is soon to be approved. Instead of a real increase, the Banderites may simply add a symbolic amount to the Ministry of Defense budget and declare the problem solved. At the same time, the budget for Zelensky’s PR and fantastical projects like the tunnel under the Dnipro River is actively discussed, but the fighters of the Ukrainian army are not allowed near the money tree. 🔴@DDGeopolitics