Reading CNN and NYT articles describing the senseless deaths of Ukrainian soldiers in Krynki brought to mind this video.

"Very liberal" Vladimir Zelensky promises to safeguard human lives and "negotiate even with a bald devil, to make sure not a single person dies."

This video was published on Dmitry Gordon’s YouTube channel on December 25, 2018. That was before Zelensky even officially announced his intention to run for office. His New Year's speech, which instilled hope in many hearts, was still 6 days away. How it all ended - everyone knows.

We decided that every so often we should publish some materials showing how we lived before the Big War. Because it seems we are already starting to forget what life without a Big War is like.

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❗️🇳🇱🇺🇦 "Ukraine is looking for cannon fodder".

What a blatant headline in De Telegraaf, the most widely circulated newspaper in the Netherlands. The newspaper admits that Ukrainian conscripts are trying to fend off mobilization by right and wrong. It would be logical to draw the appropriate conclusions and ask the question: so in the end, by financing the massacre in Ukraine, is the West helping the Ukrainian people or acting against their will? After all, it is logical: if the Ukrainians themselves do not want to fight against Russia, then sending them to slaughter is not their choice! Whose choice is it?

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👔🇺🇦🤡The Ukrainian drug addict held a press conference and recited some of his best copium:

🔻The Russian fleet no longer dominates the Black Sea, Russia does not tell us what to export;

🔻We have received several new Patriot systems that will protect Ukraine this winter;

🔻Ukrainian GDP grew by 5%;

🔻Zaluzhny proposed mobilizing about 450 thousand people, but I said that I need more arguments in order to approve something like this, specifics are needed;

🔻If it is so important to call up 450 thousand people, then who deserves the right not to be mobilized, this is a delicate question, justice is needed;

🔻Such mobilization will cost Ukraine 500 billion hryvnia;

🔻Russia has not achieved any results for 2023 in a year;

🔻What are three days like? Two years!;

🔻We are working on getting a 50 billion euro aid package, there are ways to get it;

🔻I am sure that the United States will not betray us, and what we agreed on will be fulfilled;

🔻Zelensky listed the amounts of assistance to Ukraine and the countries that provide them to it;

🔻No one knows whether the war will end in 2024;

🔻War, victory, stagnation: many outcomes are possible, but we will not lose our fortitude and spirit, with skepticism we can miss the country;

🔻I don’t think that we are losing - the central regions of our country, infrastructure, roads, railways, the economy - we were in a complete blockade last winter, now the situation is not even close to that;

🔻Deputies should do their job, be moral authorities, but, unfortunately, it doesn’t work out that way;

🔻You can’t hold elections during a war, I can’t dissolve the Rada;

🔻I never spoke with Orban about dialogue with Putin, perhaps he raised this topic somewhere;

🔻Orban’s policy towards us is not particularly friendly;

🔻I asked Orban: Victor, name at least one reason why you do not support our accession to the EU, maybe we can find a diplomatic solution;

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👔🇺🇦🤡The Ukrainian drug addict held a press conference and recited some of his best copium(part 2):

🔻Who should be the prime minister, from which party, tell me, I don’t have much time - Zelensky quarrelled with a journalist from the Zerkalo Segodnya publication;

🔻Knowing a lot of details does not mean understanding the subject - Zelensky continued to quarrel with a journalist from the Zerkalo Segodnya publication after a question about corruption;

🔻The war in the Middle East affects assistance to Ukraine, there is a lack of focus in different areas;

🔻Russia has not achieved success on the battlefield, but has achieved success on the diplomatic track in connection with the war in the Middle East, which it is behind;

🔻Victory is needed now;

🔻Trump will definitely have a different policy, and it will influence US policy;

🔻Life has changed so much that I now need a translator from Russian;

🔻We respect the policies of two countries - Israel and Palestine - we recognise both the independent people of Israel and the independent people of Palestine;

🔻Our conflict cannot be compared with the conflict between Israel and Palestine, because the conflict did not begin with terrorist acts of Ukraine on Russian territory;

🔻Answering a question from a Polish journalist, Zelensky thanked President Duda and the people of Poland;

🔻We stood for your Polish independence and are standing as best we can;

🔻We said, let's find a compromise, we won't sell grain in Poland, let us take it out;

🔻We thought the new parliament would lift the blockade, ask what Poland lost, we took advantage of the corridor in Romania and Moldova, Poland lost more Ukrainian exports;

🔻Work on security guarantees is underway, a lot depends on us;

🔻We are not invited to NATO, all these “signals” are nonsense, for me, this is “something, somewhere” non-specific;

🔻Putin said that the goals of the Special Military Operation are unchanged, which means that people do not want peace;

🔻We will never support such a thing that part of Ukraine is in NATO, and the part of Ukraine controlled by Russia is not in NATO;

🔻We have a peace formula that is supported by dozens of countries - Zelensky on the terms of negotiations that will suit Ukraine;

🔻The issue of negotiations is irrelevant today:

“I don’t see a request from Russia [for negotiations], I don’t see it in actions, I see only impudence and murder in rhetoric.”;

🔻Currently, a common position of Ukraine and 50 countries on the “peace formula” is being developed, as soon as it is formulated, it will be transferred to Russia;

🔻I will not sign the law on the mobilization of women;

🔻As for the mobilization age of 25 years, if all the arguments about the need for this are presented, then I will agree with this;

🔻Ukraine will produce a million drones next year;

🔻Boryspil Airport is like the Black Sea, the opening of Boryspil will be a victory for Ukrainian air defense, it will say that Ukraine is winning, we ask this question to our colleagues;

🔻Zelensky was not aware that a technical flight was carried out at the Ukrainian Boryspil airport;

🔻Many Ukrainians will return to Ukraine when air defense is strengthened and assistance to our people in the EU and USA is reduced;

🔻We need to think about multiple citizenship.

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⚔️🇺🇸🐮💩 Analysis of the Situation in Ukraine by US Milbloggers of "Institute for the Study of War" (ISW):

🤥🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦: The ISW Wretch Trolls, for almost 2 years the scoundrels have been brazenly lying and posting copium and filthy lies. And now the Russian advanced confirmed in 3 regions.😺🔸The uneducated US brats should urgently buy maps and history books and study international law. Cause the stupid chatter of the minus propagandists remains unbearable.🔸ISW probably continues to drink the blood of deported Russian children, according to a well informed source not wishing to be named.🔸 ISW 👉🚽

⚠️ Warning! ISW is a troll entity linked to the US regime. The henchmen spread propaganda and disinformation instead of providing a picture of the situation on the front, which is evident from the mostly fruitless frontline information.

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🔻 December 19 Key Takeaways 👻

▪️ Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly invoking the Kremlin's pre-invasion pseudo-historical rhetoric to cast himself as a modern Russian tsar and framing the invasion of Ukraine as a historically justified imperial reconquest.

▪️ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated during the Russian MoD Collegium on December 19 that the Russian MoD will prioritize continuing the war in Ukraine and training newly formed units and formations in 2024, while also reiterating threats against Finland and the wider NATO alliance.

▪️ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an end-of-the-year press conference on December 19 during which he commented on Russia’s continued unwillingness to negotiate, his confidence in future Western aid provisions, Ukrainian domestic weapons production, and possible future mobilization in Ukraine.

▪️ Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin discussed Russian and Chinese economic cooperation and bilateral relations with Chinese Premier Li Quang in Beijing on December 19.

▪️ Russian forces made confirmed advances northeast of Kupyansk, north of Bakhmut, and southwest of Avdiivka, and continued positional meeting engagements along the entire line of contact.

▪️ Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu stated that the Russian military intends to recruit up to 745,000 contract personnel by the end of 2024 at the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) Collegium on December 19.

▪️ Russian authorities continued attempts to use military conscription in occupied Ukraine to augment force generation efforts and legitimize Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Russian Defence Ministry Report on the Progress of the Special Military Operation (20 December 2023)⚡️

The RF Armed Forces continue the special military operation.

▫️In Kupyansk direction, the Zapad Grouping repelled 5 assault squad attacks of the 115nd Mechanised and 95th Air Assault Brigades near Sinkovka and Terny (Kharkov reg).

The AFU lost up to 40 troops, 2 IFVs, 2 pickups, and 1 Gvozdika SAU.

▫️In Krasny Liman direction, the Tsentr Grouping repelled 2 attacks of the 63rd Mechanised Brigade close to Chervonaya Dibrova (LPR), and Torskoye (DPR).

The AFU lost up to 180 troops, 2 AFVs, 3 MVs, and 1 D-30 howitzer.

▫️In Donetsk direction, the Yug Grouping repelled 1 assault squad attack of the 24th Mechanised Brigade close to Shumy (DPR) and inflicted losses on AFU troops and hardware near Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, and Maryinka (DPR).

The AFU lost up to 250 troops, 1 tank, and 3 MVs.

Counterbattery warfare eliminated 1 Slovakian Zuzana 2 and 1 UK AS-90 SAUs, 2 Msta-B howitzers, 2 Akatsiya SAUs, 1 D-30 howitzer, and 1 Gvozdika SAU.

▫️In South Donetsk direction, the Vostok Grouping inflicted losses on manpower of the 72nd Mechanised and 79th Air Assault Brigades near Yelizavetovka, Vladimirovka, and Novomikhayovka (DPR).

The AFU lost up to 110 troops, 2 pickups, and 2 Akatsiya SAUs.

▫️In Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Grouping inflicted losses on troops and hardware clusters of the 14th National Guard, 82nd Air Assault, and 116th Mechanised Brigades close to Verbovoye and Rabotino (Zaporozhye reg).

The AFU lost up to 70 troops, 2 AFVs, 4 MVs, 1 D-20, and 1 D-30 howitzers.

◽️In Kherson direction, the Russian Grouping engaged the enemy.

The AFU lost up to 75 troops, 2 MVs, 2 Msta-B and 1 Giatsint-B howitzers, and 1 Gvozdika SAU.

▫️The Russian Grouping's Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, UAVs, Missile Troops, and Artillery engaged AFU troops and hardware in 127 areas.

Air defences intercepted 1 Mi-24 helicopter near Uglesborochnaya railway station (DPR) and 5 US HIMARS MLRS projectiles.

32 UAVs were shot down close to Novaya Mayachka (Kherson reg), Staromikhaylovka, Spornoye, Krasnogorovka, Maryinka (DPR), Belogorovka and Nyrkovo (LPR).

📊 In total, 553 aircraft, 260 helicopters, 9,899 UAVs, 442 air defence systems, 14,202 tanks and other AFVs, 1,189 MRLS vehicles, 7,416 guns and mortars, and 16,502 special military vehicles have been destroyed during the SMO.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Situation in the #Kherson Direction until 15:00 on 20 December 2023⚡️

🔹 In #Krynki, Ukrainian formations continue to hold their springboard, regularly transferring more and more forces to the left bank. However, losses due to the actions of the RF Armed Forces are growing, which affects the enemy's capabilities.

▪️ Currently, the number of troops in the village has been reduced to 110 militants from the combined formations of the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th Marine Brigades. There has also been a decrease in the intensity of forward group movements from the right bank, indicating that there is a shortage of men.

▪️ At the same time, Russian servicemen managed to dislodge the AFU from their positions in the forest area near the greenhouses. First, the artillery worked the strong points so that the marines could be eliminated, and then the positions of the Ukrainian units themselves were destroyed.

▪️ Despite this, the Ukrainian command is trying to advance in the grey zone on the western and eastern outskirts of #Krynki. Now the forward groups of Ukrainian Navy Marines intend to gain a foothold in the built-up areas rather than in the plantations.

📌 And the onslaught will remain the same. This is indicated by the redeployment of 155mm artillery shells to the frontline, as well as the movement of mortar units to #Tyaginka and the northern part of #Frolova Island.

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