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Russia to raise topic of terror attack on Kirillov at UNSC meeting on December 20
"Those responsible for this crime must be duly punished and be unequivocally condemned by international community," Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky stressed
UNITED NATIONS, December 17. /TASS/. Russia will raise the issue of the terror attack on Russia’s nuclear defense chief Igor Kirillov at a UN Security Council meeting it has requested for December 20, Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky said.
"We will certainly raise the issue of the terrorist attack on Igor Kirillov at the UN Security Council meeting on December 20 that will be dedicated to Western weapons supplies to Ukraine and their impact of the prospects for a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. Those responsible for this crime must be duly punished and be unequivocally condemned by international community," he wrote on his Telegram channel.
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said earlier that the Kiev regime had admitted its role in plotting a terrorist attack against Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov.
On the morning of December 17, an explosive device planted in a scooter exploded near the entrance of a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow, investigators revealed. Kirillov, 54, and his aide were killed in the blast. The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on charges of murder, terrorism, and illegal possession of arms and munitions (articles 105, 205, and 222 of the Russian Criminal Code). An investigation is underway.
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That image looks like it crawled out of 1915. Or a still capture from a 'Star Wars' film. The depths to which they sink.....
Wait...that's how the Holocaust happened...
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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺"Ukraine possesses a laser weapon called 'Trident".
"We are the fifth country in the world to claim that we have a laser. It can shoot down planes at an altitude of over 2 kilometers. It truly works; it truly exists,"— said Commander Sukharevsky of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces.
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https://x.com/dana916/status/1869078167136383354
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Moscow Furious After Kirillov Killing; Promises Punishment; Kiev Pokrovsk Counterattack Fails
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eWM7x...anderMercouris (1:30:11)
Still listening to this newly posted video from Alexander Mercouris and there is much about the murder of General Igor Krillov
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Russia - Agree To Be Provoked Or Fall For Lucy's Football?
December 17, 2024
Early this morning assassins from the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Service killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the commander of the Russian Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, in Moscow:Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, commander of the nuclear, biological and chemical forces of the Russian army, died in a blast as he was heading out of a residential block in Moscow, the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement. An explosive device was hidden in an electric scooter parked nearby. Kirillov’s aide also died in the attack, the investigative committee said, announcing a criminal investigation. Video footage obtained by POLITICO corroborates that version of events.
Kirillov lived in a normal apartment block. His aide was picking him up for work. They were observed and someone who was watching (and filming) them pulled the trigger.
Kirillov was well known. He gave several public presentations about secret U.S. bio-warfare experiments in Ukraine:Writing on Kirillov’s passing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said that throughout his career he had repeatedly exposed the crimes of the “Anglo-Americans” such as “NATO provocations with chemical weapons in Syria, Britain’s manipulations with prohibited chemical substances and provocations in Salisbury and Amesbury, the deadly activities of American biolabs in Ukraine, and much more.” “He worked fearlessly. He did not hide behind people’s backs,” Zakharova wrote.
This is of course a provocation designed by Ukraine to make peace talks with Russia, as president-elect Donald Trump presumably favors, less possible.
The question for Russia is now how to react to it.
Should it hit back with its whole might and destroy the 'decision making centers' in Kiev who are responsible for this incident? (Note: An accurate definition of 'decision centers' would include the embassies of the U.S. and Great Britain in Kiev.)
Or should it hold back and hope that negotiations about Ukraine with Donald Trump will actually achieve some positive, if temporary, results?
It is a difficult question.
The general configuration of the incoming Trump administration is hawkish.
It is thus highly unlikely, James George Jatras writes, that any agreement which could be seen as positive for Russia will be worth the paper it is written on:[T]he Russians have made it clear that they will accept no temporary truces, no ceasefires, no more promises made to be broken like piecrusts, no pauses as cynical tricks to get the Russians to forgo their current and growing military advantage. (...) No, they insist, there must be either a genuine, definitive, binding settlement that ensures a lasting peace based on mutual security, or Russian forces will press on until their objectives – notably “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine – are achieved militarily. Such an outcome would mean at least replacement of the current regime in Kiev and, more likely, the end of Ukraine’s statehood. For the West, this would constitute a total debacle of Afghanistan-like proportions effectively signaling the end of US hegemony in Europe, the [Great American Empire’s] crown jewel. What can Trump offer the Russians to avoid that?
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[T]he real question for the Trump Administration becomes a political one of how much wiggle room there is in the Russians’ stated determination not to rely on more promises of the sort that have been repeatedly broken in the past. Put another way: if Trump-Lucy wants to avoid utter defeat in the European theater of the worldwide confrontation between the GAE and BRICS-Eurasia, so he can get on to mixing it up with Iran and China, can he dupe Putin-Charlie Brown into taking another run at the football?
I think he at least has a good shot at it.
Jatras lists several points that the U.S. could temporarily concede to Russia only to later pull the proverbial football on each of those items.
Russia would of course expect this. But the opening question - to fall for the provocation or to find an alternative way - can also be asked within a larger context.
In 2019 RAND, the Defense Department's think-tank, published the main policy paper that led to the war in Ukraine.
Extending Russia - Competing from Advantageous Ground
Its summary says:This report examines a range of possible means to extend Russia. As the 2018 National Defense Strategy recognized, the United States is currently locked in a great-power competition with Russia. This report seeks to define areas where the United States can compete to its own advantage. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from Western and Russian sources, this report examines Russia's economic, political, and military vulnerabilities and anxieties. It then analyzes potential policy options to exploit them — ideologically, economically, geopolitically, and militarily (including air and space, maritime, land, and multidomain options). After describing each measure, this report assesses the associated benefits, costs, and risks, as well as the likelihood that measure could be successfully implemented and actually extend Russia. Most of the steps covered in this report are in some sense escalatory, and most would likely prompt some Russian counter-escalation.
Arming Ukraine, and pushing it into provoking a Russian intervention, was seen as the most 'profitable' way to weaken the Russian Federation.
By starting the Special Military Operation in Ukraine Russia had actually fallen for the provocation RAND had planned for it. For Russia there was, at that moment, no alternative.
U.S. anti-Russia hawks will try their best to keep Russia bogged down in Ukraine.
But others see the growing danger that a prolonged conflict creates for the West. The economic damage it has caused is already substantial. It is also diverting U.S. capacities from countering China.
Trump's peace allures may thereby become a real alternative for Russia to climb out of the RAND trap.
It is either all in, take Kiev and defeat Ukraine as a state, or take the negotiation route, concede on some issues and agree to an imperfect solution which may (or more likely not) turn out to be permanent.
Russia's president Vladimir Putin, and the circles around him, will have the ponder these difficult questions.
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The first part of this recording they discuss the assassination of General Kirillov and who may be involved in the plot besides the SBU.
https://x.com/Judgenap/status/1869110660455715313
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⚡️ Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk hinted at the potential transfer of MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine soon after talks with Vladimir Zelensky in Lvov.
"We are expecting quick decisions from our NATO partners. Perhaps we will be ready to finalize our preparations for the transfer of certain equipment that Ukraine is waiting for from us,"
— Tusk said at a press conference broadcasted by TVP Info.
"I can’t say we are close to that decision, but I hope that we will be able to announce good news shortly,"
— he added.
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https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1869069648487944363
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⚖️ Court declares church of scientology of St. Petersburg extremist and bans it.
The prosecutor's office established that scientologists had been operating in St. Petersburg for a long time, and that their activities were aimed at "inciting hatred and enmity, humiliating the dignity of individuals identified on the basis of their membership in social groups, and calling for the refusal to comply with social rules and laws," the report says.
- FRWL
https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1869057535170183347
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🇵🇱🇺🇦Polish newspaper Wiadomosci: there are more deserters in the Ukrainian Armed Forces than wounded and killed
➖One of the Ukrainian commanders anonymously told the publication about this. According to him, only every tenth returned from the SZCh to the army. Now there are not enough people in all units, but in some the situation is critical. The shortage of people is one of the main reasons for the instability of the front.
➖One of the reasons for the mass desertion is the lack of quality training and experience among those mobilized. The commander says that they do not have time to properly train people due to lack of time. Therefore, at the first shelling, they run away.
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https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1869057393981522433
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🇷🇺🇺🇦Vasiliy Nebenzya: No schemes to freeze the Ukrainian conflict will satisfy Russia
➖There can be no talk of NATO's role in the settlement in Ukraine, the Russian permanent representative also stated. He called Zelensky's pseudo-peace initiatives a possible "smoke screen" before another escalation, as was the case with the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk border region.
➖Kiev's unwillingness to move towards peace was manifested in the rejection of Hungary's offer of a Christmas ceasefire, Nebenzya added. The permanent representative also recalled that Zelensky, in a "boorish manner", refused to take almost 700 Ukrainian prisoners.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for December 17, 2024
Russian troops carried out drone strikes on enemy targets in the central regions of the so-called Ukraine. Ukrainian saboteurs killed the head of the NBC protection service Igor Kirillov in Moscow during a terrorist attack.
In the Kursk direction, Russian troops are conducting an offensive in the Naidenov area and in the forests southwest of Kremyanoye.
In the Vremyevsk direction, Russian Armed Forces assault aircraft are advancing north of Makarovka , and battles are underway in Blagovatnoye and Storozhyevoye.
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Trump’s NATO BOMBSHELL: Will ‘America First’ Leave Europe Behind? - The Future of America
https://youtube.com/watch?v=x3Clboko6H8&ab_channel=GBNews
"Is America finally done with endless wars? Bev Turner is joined by Jason Beardsley, Green Beret and former Senior DoD Advisor, and Gerard Filitti, Senior Counsel at The Lawfare Project, to debate Trump’s bold ‘America First’ foreign policy. Will Trump’s promises to pull back from NATO and force peace talks in Ukraine reshape global pow"
Posting this compelling video on the run up to Donald Trump's inauguration in January might seem premature. As Bev Turner points out near the beginnig, many of the issues facing America right now are exactly the same as we are facing in the UK and Europe, ie. control of our borders, financing and backing the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, etc. and the discussion involves DJT's intention to pull out of Ukraine. Gerard Filitti said that (paraphrasing) America has financed and supported many projects worldwide to their own detriment and as a consequence DJT intends to scale back on this kind of support. The first half is about Ukraine and from 12:39 the discussion turns to the Middle East.
