🇷🇺🇺🇸 Remember when the ruble ‘collapsed’ like six times already?

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🇷🇺🛸💥🇺🇦 FPV operators of Russia's "Group Center" on the Pokrovsk front.

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🇷🇺💬🇺🇦 Maria Zakharova on Ukrainian contradictions

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🇰🇵🇷🇺Mines from almost every NATO state — this is what Ukraine’s forces left behind in Russia’s Kursk region

Via @RTnews

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🇺🇦 The Mindich scandal has already dealt serious damage to Zelensky and to Ukraine as a whole.

Revelations of systemic corruption at the top are demoralizing the public. Millions sit without electricity while Zelensky’s circle loots the energy sector. Thousands die at the front while the president’s allies move bags of cash.

For draft-dodgers and those hiding from mobilization, this is one more reason to avoid the front.

Zelensky’s opponents are now pushing a simple message: a leader whose entourage is drowning in corruption has no moral authority to lead a country at war or demand sacrifices from anyone.

But the most immediate impact is financial — Europe’s funding.

Even before the Mindich recordings, Ukraine had a major financing problem after the U.S. cut support. Kiev is asking Europe for around $120 billion next year. For an EU in economic trouble, this is unrealistic, which is why Brussels is considering a “reparations loan” backed by frozen Russian assets. In reality, this is seen as straightforward confiscation — something Belgium, Slovakia, and Hungary oppose. Many warn it could destroy trust in the euro and trigger retaliation against European assets in Russia.

Now Western media say the Mindich tapes give even stronger arguments to those resisting the “reparations loan” and further Ukraine funding.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán put it bluntly: “Ukraine’s golden illusion is collapsing. A military mafia tied to Zelensky is exposed. Brussels wants taxpayers to fund this chaos. Madness.”

EU finance ministers have already raised the corruption scandal during talks on Ukraine aid.

The big European states claim the Mindich case won’t affect support — yet they fully back NABU, whose investigations confirm massive theft in Kiev. This gives even more weight to those pushing to cut or condition funding.

Even Europe’s most loyal backers of Kiev now see the situation as toxic — and it could push them toward hard demands on Bankova, including tying future funding to changes in Ukraine’s leadership or policy.

For Zelensky, this is the immediate and very real threat coming from the corruption scandal.

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❔🇷🇺💬🇺🇦Klitschko, while proposing to lower the mobilization age in Ukraine to 22 years, does not send his strong sons fit for service, who live abroad, to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaharova stated.

"The big question is, does he, Klitschko, not want to recruit them first and foremost to defend his own regime?"

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🇵🇱🇺🇦 Polish Prime Minister Tusk admitted that European willingness to fund Ukraine is collapsing because of corruption.

“Today the pro-Ukraine enthusiasm is much weaker — in Poland and across Europe. People are tired of the war, tired of the costs. It’s becoming difficult to maintain support for Ukraine in its war with Russia,” Tusk said.

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🇨🇿❔🇺🇦 "Why aren't you at the front?" - picture by our subscriber from Prague

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🇷🇺✈️💥🇺🇦 Russian Aerospace Forces continue systematically pushing the Ukrainian forces out of Mirnograd.

Another three-ton bomb wiped out the 38th Marine Brigade’s forward deployment point in the town.

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🇺🇸🦃 Trump ONCE AGAIN says Thanksgiving costs are down 25% from last year. Let's compare, shall we?

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🇺🇸 Epstein Hoax. OK.

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💋⚔️🇺🇦 Drone crews of the Maksim Krivonos battalion continue their work on Pokrovsk front.

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🇪🇺 The wisdom of Kaka Kallas.

The cost of supporting Ukraine to the last Ukrainian is a bargain compared to Russian victory.

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🇸🇰🇺🇦“ If you’re such heroes in your black T-shirts, and you’re so fired up about this war, then go.”
— Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico

During a university speech, Fico confronted pro-war students head-on, moments before several Ukrainian attendees walked out.

His message was clear:
Europe is preparing €140 billion to fuel more war. But it won’t be their elites who pay the price, it’ll be your children.

“When you have your own children, I won’t be here — and neither will they.”

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Bubbles be bubbling

Yesterday, after the announcement of temporary restoration of governmental financing, the markets responded "favorably" - which was immediately abused by the big market players for another round of "let's play with monopoly money to control the world."

Grok's comment:
"The U.S. stock market's $1 trillion wipeout yesterday stemmed from a brutal tech sell-off—Nvidia and other AI darlings tanked hard—as investors cashed in profits post the government shutdown resolution and dialed back bets on aggressive Fed rate cuts. Valuations looked frothy after the relief rally, sparking a broader rotation away from megacaps. Markets gonna market; volatility's the name of the game."

🐻Bubbles bubbling.
It's what bubbles "do", Grok. Markets don't do shit - apes in control of the market do shit, Grok.

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📝Assets of Discord📝
Who, What, and Where Frozen in Europe

When discussing the fate of frozen Russian assets, one often hears claims that Europeans will hand over the money to Ukraine. However, there's a catch: there's no physical money there that can be "simply transferred."

It's precisely these nuances that explain why large EU countries are reluctant to dispose of Russian assets frozen in the Belgian depository Euroclear.

🔻More about the assets and where they're frozen:

▪️Euroclear is not a bank with a cash vault, but an international depository that stores securities, processes settlements between buyers and sellers, and monitors the legality of the process.

▪️In other words, Euroclear is a large ledger that lists who owns which securities. There are no paper certificates stored there either—only access codes confirming the legal owner.

▪️The frozen Russian assets there primarily consist of government bonds. For example, if Russia purchased a two-year bond from Germany, Germany must redeem it in two years—returning the face value plus interest to Russia. This is recorded in Euroclear.

▪️The freezing of such assets de facto means that Russia remains the owner of the bonds, but cannot do anything with them: neither sell them, receive interest, nor withdraw funds after redemption. The income from them accumulates in Euroclear bank accounts.

▪️There are also other types of frozen assets belonging to individuals and legal entities. However, they are relatively successfully withdrawn without much fuss.

The assets can only be transferred by changing the bond owner from Russia to Ukraine in the Euroclear registry: this is blatant chaos with serious risks for the euro, which the EU is currently unwilling to accept. Therefore, they are pursuing a different tactic.

🔻"Wait for the redemption!"

▪️A significant portion of the bonds (remember, they make up the bulk of the frozen assets) mature in 2026-2032.

▪️Under normal circumstances, the proceeds from the redemption would simply go to Russia, but due to the blocking, they will "sit" on the Euroclear bank's balance sheet, awaiting their fate.

▪️If the ownership of the bonds is clearly stated, then the proceeds from their redemption are more easily manipulated. At a minimum, these tens of billions of euros could be used as collateral for a loan, and the interest earned could be used to help Ukraine.

🖍In simple terms, the EU is taking a wait-and-see approach, not to "transfer" assets to anyone, but rather to simply wait for them to transform from securities into physical money, making it easier to change the "rules of the game" and manage them as they see fit.

🚩So why are they talking about confiscation now? It's simply that Ukraine needs the funds today, not by 2032. And the EU doesn't want to give it €140 billion all at once—it has enough needs of its own, and the Kyiv regime has already been given a ton of non-performing loans.

❗️Although such an outcome is also likely: since 2022, there have been plenty of examples of European bureaucrats shooting themselves in the foot for free aid to a corrupt bottomless pit. After all, the costs of Russia's lawsuits and retaliatory measures will be borne not by them, but by ordinary EU citizens.

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🇺🇸 Trump’s new Epstein post is one of the most revealing things he’s written yet.

He calls the entire scandal a “hoax,” then, in the next breath, says he’s ordering the DOJ, FBI, and Pam Bondi to investigate it.

Why ask for federal investigations into something you claim doesn’t exist?

Because this isn’t about truth. It’s crisis management.

This week’s Epstein files included emails directly referencing Trump, including Epstein saying “the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump.” Trump’s name came up in strategy emails, political damage emails, and accounts of time spent at Epstein’s homes.

So instead of addressing any of that, Trump does what he always does:

• deny the allegations
• declare the story fake
• then redirect the scandal toward his political enemies

And the strangest part?

Yesterday Trump hosted a private dinner with the same financial institutions he now claims he’ll have investigated, including JPMorgan and Chase, two of Epstein’s most important banks.

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🇮🇹🇺🇦 Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said Western aid to Ukraine is feeding corruption, not strengthening its defense, as reported by Reuters.

He noted that corruption scandals tied to Kiev’s government keep emerging, and he doesn’t want Italian workers’ and pensioners’ money fueling more of it.

Salvini added that sending more weapons won’t solve anything, pointing to recent Russian advances as proof that ending the war is in everyone’s interest — including Ukraine’s.

🐻 No s*it Sherlock moment from Italy.

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