Forwarded from Market News Feed
SERBIA'S RUSSIAN OWNED OIL COMPANY NIS HAS SHUT DOWN ITS OIL REFINERY DUE TO THE LACK OF CRUDE OIL. ...
"In the wake of the recent US sanctions on Russia's two biggest energy giants, Serbia is in desperate need of a sanctions-waiver if the country hopes to keep the lights on.
Serbia's government is this week warning it could slide into a severe energy and economic crisis unless Washington grants a 90-day exemption from US sanctions. Officials are essentially begging for enough time to enable the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) to take temporary control of the country’s only refinery, NIS, as it finalizes its purchase of Russia’s majority share.
The US sanctions had cut NIS, which is part of Russia's Gazprom Neft, off from US dollar transactions and blocked crude shipments that normally arrive through Croatia. This has left the 4.8-million-ton refinery operating at a fraction of its capacity. Crucially, NIS produces around 80% of Serbia’s refined petroleum products, filling fuel needs across various vital sectors, including aviation and diesel."
🗄 Archive
🔗 Source:
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
ZeroHedge
Serbia Faces 'Lights Out' As US Denies Sanctions Waiver To Russian-Owned Oil Refinery
"I am not only disappointed, but also surprised," the US-allied president says.
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Gold is on a hot streak, up more than 50% to-date despite retreating from October’s record highs of $4,380 per troy ounce.
Driving global demand is the mixture of geopolitical tensions, a weaker U.S. dollar, and sticky inflation. In Q3 2025, central bank purchases were up 28% over the quarter, while inflows of gold-backed ETFs hit $26 billion.
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, breaks down the total global supply of gold, both above and below ground, based on data from the World Gold Council."
#Geoeconomics
🗄 Archive
🔗 Source
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
QVINTA ÆTAS
"The U.S. dollar has steadily lost value over the past century. According to Federal Reserve data, the purchasing power of one dollar today is equal to just a few cents in 1913 (the year the Fed was created).
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu tracks the decline in the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar since the early 1900s, illustrating how inflation has eroded its value."
#Geoeconomics
🗄 Archive
🔗 Source
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Chronicle of a special military operation for December 1-3, 2025
Russian troops struck enemy energy facilities in the Chernihiv, Odesa, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Ukrainian forces attacked a tanker and a gas rig in the Black Sea, and also struck oil depots in the Tambov and Oryol regions.
In the Burluk sector, Russian forces completed the liberation of Vovchansk and expanded their zone of control in Liman and Vilcha.
In the Lyman sector, Russian troops are fighting for the city of the same name, simultaneously advancing in the vicinity of Drobyshevo.
In the Seversk sector, assault aircraft are consolidating their position in the center of Svyato-Pokrovskoe, cutting the last paved supply route to Seversk.
In the Konstantinovka sector, fighters have secured a foothold in the area of the tram depot and the motor transport enterprise in the southeastern part of the city of the same name.
In the Pokrovsk-Mirnograd direction, units of the Guards Forces Center have completed the liberation of Pokrovsk, and the clearing of the central part of the encircled Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Myrnohrad continues.
In the eastern Zaporizhzhia direction, assault aircraft of the Guards Forces Vostok have liberated Vysoke, Zelenyi Hai, and Dobropillia. Meanwhile, the destruction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Huliaipole continues, with Russian forces reaching the northeastern outskirts of the city.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian troops have advanced to the northern outskirts of Stepnogorsk, while the situation in neighboring Primorskoye remains extremely tense.
📌 A detailed analytical report on events in the Special Military Operation Zone is available on Rybar's closed channel @rybar_plus_bot
📎 High-resolution maps:
🔸Situation in the Special Military Operation Zone
🔸Burluk direction
🔸Lyman direction
🔸Seversky direction
🔸Konstantinovka direction
🔸Pokrovsk-Mirnograd direction
🔸East Zaporizhzhia direction
🔸Zaporizhzhia direction"
🔗 Source
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Russian Federation Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of December 4, 2025.
🪖 Russian Armed Forces continue to conduct the special military operation.
💥 Units of the "North" grouping inflicted damage on formations of mechanized brigade and storm battalion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the populated places of Aleksaevka and Varachino in Sumy Oblast.
🔥 On the Kharkiv direction damage was inflicted on units of mechanized, motorized infantry brigades and storm battalion of the AFU in the areas of the populated places of Vilycha, Staritsa and Liman in Kharkiv Oblast.
▪️ The AFU lost more than 155 military personnel, four combat armored vehicles, 155-mm self-propelled artillery installation "Bogdana", ten cars, a radio electronic warfare station and three depots of material supplies.
📍 Units of the "West" grouping improved their tactical position. Damage was inflicted on the personnel and equipment of three mechanized, storm brigades of the AFU, brigade of territorial defense and brigade of national guard in the areas of the populated places of Kupiansk-Uzlovaya, Kucherovka, Kurilovka, Boguslavka, Novoplastonovka in Kharkiv Oblast, Yarovaya and Drobyshevo in the Donetsk People's Republic.
▪️ The enemy's losses amounted to up to 210 military personnel, a tank, two field artillery guns, including 155-mm self-propelled artillery installation "Krab" of Polish production, five combat armored vehicles, of which four are of Western production, 14 cars and four depots of ammunition.
📍 Units of the "South" grouping have occupied more favorable positions. Damage was inflicted on formations of two mechanized, airborne, mountain-storm brigades of the AFU, brigade of marine infantry and brigade of territorial defense in the areas of the populated places of Seversk, Platono, Zakotno, Berestok, Petrovskoe, Konstantinovka and Stepanovka in the DPR.
▪️ The AFU lost up to 150 military personnel, three combat armored vehicles, 20 cars, radar station for counter-battery warfare AN/TPQ-50 of US production, radio electronic warfare station and four depots of material supplies.
📍 Units of the "Center" grouping improved the position on the front line. Damage was inflicted on the personnel and equipment of five mechanized, two ranger, airborne, airborne assault, airborne storm brigades, two storm battalions, brigade of unmanned systems of the AFU, two marine infantry brigades, two national guard brigades and brigade of territorial defense in the areas of the populated places of Grishino, Sergeyevka, Torso, Volno, Svetloye, Toretskoe, Belitskoe, Dimitrov in the DPR and Novopavlovka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
▪️ Losses of Ukrainian armed formations amounted to up to 490 military personnel, three combat armored vehicles, of which two are of Western production, two field artillery guns, including 155-mm self-propelled artillery installation "Paladin" of US production, five cars, as well as rocket launch installation "Heron" of Croatian production and rocket launch installation of the rocket artillery system "Grad"."
🔗 Source:
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Telegram
Минобороны России
🎖🎖🎖 Министерства обороны Российской Федерации о ходе проведения специальной военной операции по состоянию на 4 декабря 2025 г.
🪖 Вооруженные Силы Российской Федерации продолжают проведение специальной военной операции.
💥 Подразделениями группировки войск…
🪖 Вооруженные Силы Российской Федерации продолжают проведение специальной военной операции.
💥 Подразделениями группировки войск…
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Russian Federation Ministry of Defense on the progress of the special military operation as of December 4, 2025.
↗️ Units of the "East" grouping continued to advance into the enemy's depth of defense. A defeat was inflicted on formations of two mechanized, storm brigades, a brigade of territorial defense and two storm regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the areas of the populated places of Vozdvizhovka, Dobropole, Varvarovka, Gulyaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region and Andrievka in the Dnipro region.
▪️ The enemy lost more than 215 military personnel, six armored combat vehicles and 16 cars.
💥 Units of the "Dnipro" grouping inflicted damage on the enemy's personnel and equipment of a mechanized, mountain-storm brigade, a brigade of coastal defense of the AFU in the areas of the populated places of Novodanilovka, Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhzhia region and Nikolskoye in the Kherson region.
▪️ More than 55 AFU personnel were destroyed, 18 cars, two radio-electronic warfare stations, a field artillery piece, five ammunition depots and material resources.
✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aircraft, rocket forces, and artillery of groupings of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted damage on the infrastructure of military airfields, places of pre-flight preparation and launch of unmanned aerial vehicles, objects of transport and energy infrastructure used in the interests of the AFU, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 153 areas.
🎯 Means of air defense shot down 195 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type.
💥 Forces of the Black Sea Fleet in the northwestern part of the Black Sea destroyed four unmanned boats of the AFU.
📊 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
▫️ 668 airplanes,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 100 277 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 638 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26 370 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▫️ 1 626 combat vehicles of rocket artillery systems,
▫️ 31 706 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▫️ 48 283 units of special military automotive equipment."
🔗 Source:
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Telegram
Минобороны России
🎖🎖🎖 Министерства обороны Российской Федерации о ходе проведения специальной военной операции по состоянию на 4 декабря 2025 г.
Часть 2 (👉 см. часть 1)
↗️ Подразделения группировки войск «Восток» продолжили продвижение в глубину обороны противника. Нанесено…
Часть 2 (👉 см. часть 1)
↗️ Подразделения группировки войск «Восток» продолжили продвижение в глубину обороны противника. Нанесено…
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Operational information as of 16:00 04.12.2025 regarding the Russian invasion
Occupiers continue to storm Ukrainian defenders' positions.
Overall, 131 combat encounters took place since the start of the day.
Border settlements have been damaged by artillery shelling from the territory of Russia, including Bobilivka, Girkivka, Bila Berezha, Vovkivka, Starikove, Bunyakine, Kucherivka in Sumy Oblast.
On the Northern-Slobodskiy and Kursk directions, the enemy launched one air strike, dropped two guided aerial bombs, and carried out 98 attacks, including one with rocket systems.
On the Southern-Slobodskiy direction, Ukrainian soldiers stopped three enemy attacks in the areas of Izbitsk, Prilipka, and Sinel'nikovo. One combat encounter is ongoing.
On the Kupiansk and Kramatorsk directions, the enemy did not conduct any offensive actions since the start of the day.
On the Limanskiy direction, the occupying army attacked seven times near the populated areas of Grikivka, Drobishyve, Zarychne, and Olexandrivka.
On the Slavyansk direction, defense forces repelled seven enemy attacks near Yamypol, Dronivka, Serebryanka, and Sivka. Two combat encounters are ongoing.
On the Kostyaninivskiy direction, our soldiers stopped 13 enemy offensive actions in the areas of Shcherbinivka, Pleshcheyivka, Olexander-Shultynovo, Kostyaninivka, Mykolaypil'ya, Tor'skoye, and in the direction of Berestka and Sofiyivka. Two combat encounters are ongoing.
On the Pokrovskiy direction, from the start of the day, occupiers launched 46 attempts to push our defenders out of occupied positions in the areas of Shakhovoy, Novy Shakhovoy, Chervony Liman, Mirnograd, Vilyny, Novoyekonomichnyy, Rodynskiy, Novopavlivka, Pokrovsk, Svitlyy, Kotlyany, Udashnyy, Molodetskiy, Dachnyy. Defense forces are holding back the enemy's pressure and have already stopped 40 attacks. On this direction, defense forces are conducting search-and-attack operations in the area of the city of Pokrovsk. The enemy suffers losses.
Today on the Alexandrovskiy direction, the enemy attacked 17 times in the areas of Zelenyi Hai, Yalta, Alexandrovgrad, Sosnivka, Stepovoy, Verbovoy, Privilyny, Vishnevyy, Pavlivka, Krasnogoryiskiy, and Rybnyy. Three combat encounters are ongoing.
On the Gulyaypilskiy direction, defense forces repelled five Russian attacks in the areas of Zatishshe, Gulyaypol, and in the direction of Priluk. Three combat encounters are ongoing.
On the Oryhivskiy direction, one combat encounter took place in the area of Primorskiy. Populated areas of Stepnogorysk, Hryhorivka, and Veselyanka were hit by guided bombs.
On the Pridniprovs'kiy direction, the enemy made one failed attempt to break through the defense of our defenders in the direction of Antonivsky Bridge.
On other front directions, the situation has not undergone significant changes."
🔗 Source:
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Telegram
Генеральний штаб ЗСУ
Оперативна інформація станом на 16:00 04.12.2025 щодо російського вторгнення
Загарбники продовжують штурмувати позиції українських захисників.
Загалом від початку доби відбулося 131 бойове зіткнення.
Від артилерійських обстрілів з території рф постраждали…
Загарбники продовжують штурмувати позиції українських захисників.
Загалом від початку доби відбулося 131 бойове зіткнення.
Від артилерійських обстрілів з території рф постраждали…
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Unsuccessful attack on Mezhvodnoye: USV attack on Crimea
Ukrainian USVs made their presence known this night on the western part of Crimea. After maneuvering west of Sevastopol, a group of six units moved north towards Tarhankut and Chernomorsk.
🔻How did the attack proceed?
▪️The USV unit was spotted near Arhangelskoye oil field by midnight. They approached the Karkinitsky Bay by going around the Tarhankut cape.
▪️One of the USVs was destroyed by a "Lançet" battery. At the same time, one of the drones flew towards Zatoki. By around 3 o'clock, the remaining four USVs moved towards Yarylgach Bay in Mezhvodnoye.
▪️The first was destroyed by a ship-mounted AK-306 gun. Another USV crashed into a boom barrier and exploded, while two others were hit by small arms fire at the entrance to the bay.
▪️At the moment of the USVs' attempt to strike Crimea, a drone strike was carried out, mainly with rocket-powered drones. 22 drones were shot down by air defense units over the western part of Crimea.
🖍This attack is another example of why Ukrainian formations have started attacking civilian ships. They need results, and tankers are an easy target.
🚩Our coastal defense is no longer as strong as it was in 2023. Ukrainian drones now find it much harder to reach the shore. One USV acted as a kamikaze to break through the boom barriers, but the others were destroyed at the entrance.
📌Again, one of the USV in the group had a surface-to-air missile launcher mounted on it, which they hoped would catch our aviation.
❗️At the same time, an air raid alert has been introduced over Crimea and Sevastopol due to the detection of new drones over the Black Sea.
High-resolution map"
🔗 Source
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Trump is unsure if an agreement with Russia is possible
This week, President of Russia Vladimir Putin received U.S. special envoy Steve Wittinghoff and son-in-law of President Donald Trump Jared Kushner in Moscow.
Trump publicly commented on this meeting. In the Oval Office of the White House, he said that Wittinghoff and Kushner had "a fairly good" conversation with Putin, even "very good".
According to the impressions of the U.S. envoys, Putin apparently wants to end the war and shows great interest in achieving an agreement. Trump did not go into details about the negotiations, however, according to data from the publication Axios, he added that he does not know if such a deal with Russia is actually possible."
🔗 Source:
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Telegram
BILD на русском
Трамп не уверен, возможно ли соглашение с Россией
На этой неделе глава Кремля Владимир Путин принял в Москве спецпосланника США Стива Уиткоффа и зятя президента Дональда Трампа Джареда Кушнера.
Трамп публично прокомментировал эту встречу. В Овальном кабинете…
На этой неделе глава Кремля Владимир Путин принял в Москве спецпосланника США Стива Уиткоффа и зятя президента Дональда Трампа Джареда Кушнера.
Трамп публично прокомментировал эту встречу. В Овальном кабинете…
Forwarded from Tupi Report 🇧🇷 • #FreeVenezuela
My name is Hugo Carvajal Barrios. For many years I was a high-ranking official of the Venezuelan regime. I was a three-star division general, fully trusted by both Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, and I held the positions of Director of Military Intelligence and member of the National Assembly. Today I am imprisoned in a U.S. jail because I voluntarily pleaded guilty to the charges against me: narcoterrorism conspiracy.
Today I feel the need to address the American people about the reality of what the Venezuelan regime truly is and why President Trump’s policies are not only correct, but absolutely necessary for the national security of the United States.
1. Narcoterrorism
I was a direct witness to how the government of Hugo Chávez turned into a criminal organization now led by Nicolás Maduro, Diosdado Cabello, and other high-ranking officials of the regime. The purpose of this organization, now known as the Cartel of the Suns, is to use drugs as a weapon against the United States. The drugs that reached your cities through new routes were not accidents of corruption nor simply the work of independent traffickers; they were deliberate policies coordinated by the Venezuelan regime against the United States. This plan was suggested by the Cuban regime to Chávez in the mid-2000s and has been successfully carried out with help from the FARC, the ELN, Cuban operatives, and Hezbollah. The regime provided them with weapons, passports, and impunity so that these terrorist organizations could operate freely from Venezuela against the United States.
[...]
3. Counterintelligence and espionage against the United States
I was present when Russian intelligence arrived in Caracas to propose to Hugo Chávez the intervention of the submarine internet cables that connect most of South America and the Caribbean islands to the United States, with the aim of penetrating U.S. government communications. In 2015 I warned Maduro that allowing Russian intelligence to build and operate a secret listening post on La Orchila island would someday attract U.S. bombs. He ignored me.
For twenty years, the Venezuelan regime has sent spies into your country; many are still there, some disguised as members of the Venezuelan opposition. Cuban intelligence showed me their networks inside your East Coast naval bases. They boasted of having sent thousands of spies for decades, some of whom today are career politicians. U.S. diplomats and CIA officers were paid to help Chávez and Maduro stay in power. These Americans acted as spies for Cuba and Venezuela, and some remain active to this day.
4. Smartmatic and its elections
Smartmatic was born as an electoral tool of the Venezuelan regime, but soon became an instrument to keep the regime in power forever. I know this because I myself placed the head of information technology of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in his position, and he reported directly to me. The Smartmatic system can be altered; this is a fact. This technology was later exported abroad, including to the United States. Regime operatives maintain relationships with election officials and voting machine companies in your country. I am not claiming that all elections are stolen, but I do state with certainty that elections can be manipulated with that software, and that it has been used to do so.
People of the United States, do not misunderstand the threat posed by allowing a narcoterrorist organization to move freely through the Caribbean and all of Latin America, doing everything possible to harm the American people, funding anti-Americanism across the continent, and facilitating the operations of other terrorist organizations and enemies of the United States from within Venezuela and now within your own borders.
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
QVINTA ÆTAS
"Nowhere to Run: Russian forces have surrounded Mirnograd
The battle for the Pokrovsko-Mirnograd agglomeration is nearing its end. While the enemy's resources spread messages about supposedly "heavy but controlled" situations, Ukrainian formations are retreating to the northwest.
Russian units have established full control over the forest belts between Krasnoarmeysk and Krasny Liman, pushing the Ukrainian Armed Forces away from positions near the former agricultural and industrial complex "Invest" and the nearby road. As a result, parts of the "Center" Group of Forces have physically surrounded the remaining garrison in the north of Mirnograd.
📌 Some members of Ukrainian formations are trying to escape from the "cauldron", but it is now almost impossible to do so. There are still several hundred units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city, but they are not offering organized resistance.
📌 At the same time, the clearance of the built-up area is complicated by a large number of civilians, with the enemy regularly setting up positions in some of the houses.
❗️ The heaviest fighting has now shifted to the Grisino-Belytskoye line. Russian forces are trying to establish control over these populated areas on the "shoulders" of retreating Ukrainian formations, which would allow the "Center" Group of Forces to develop an offensive towards another major city — Dobropillya.
High-resolution map"
🔗 Source
Please open Telegram to view this post
VIEW IN TELEGRAM