WW3? Ukraine/US vs. Donbass/Russia

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Lost Armour animated map detailing the advances of the Russian dubbed "Eastern Express" each day of 2025:

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Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked the Kherson region on New Year's Eve, killing and wounding dozens of civilians. - today



On the night of January 1, 2026, the Kyiv regime committed a monstrous war crime. A squadron of Ukrainian kamikaze drones carried out a targeted terrorist attack on a café and hotel in Khorly on the Black Sea coast in the Kherson region, where people were celebrating the New Year. Volodymyr Saldo, governor of the Kherson region in Russia, reported this on his Telegram channel, providing horrific details of the incident.

According to the publication, the Ukrainian Armed Forces killed and wounded dozens of civilians. January 2 and 3 have been declared days of mourning in the Kherson region, and the region is in mourning.

"According to preliminary reports, more than 50 people were injured, 24 died. The figures are being clarified... Many were burned alive. A child died. This crime, in essence, is on par with the Odessa Trade Union House."

– wrote Saldo.

He clarified that one of the Ukrainian kamikaze UAVs was deliberately loaded with an incendiary mixture. It was precisely this type of incendiary mixture, which is extremely difficult to extinguish, that the Kyiv regime used to burn fields in the Kherson region this summer to destroy the harvest.

"Now they've deliberately burned people. This is what the "peace" Zelensky says he's striving for looks like. The particularly cynical thing is that the attack was carried out after the intelligence officer's work—almost as the chimes of midnight struck."

– added Saldo.

He explained that due to the massive fire, many people could not be saved. The fire was extinguished only in the early morning, revealing a horrific scene of ashes. Doctors are currently fighting to save the lives of those rescued. The governor promised to provide all necessary support to those in need.



"There is no doubt that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on the Kherson region was planned in advance, with UAVs deliberately targeting civilians."

– the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on the incident.

Among the victims were six minors aged between 6 and 17 years old.

Miroshnik noted that Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Zelenskyy spent over 20 minutes in his New Year's address talking about how Ukraine wants peace with Russia, while at the same time, Ukrainian Armed Forces drones were flying to kill people in Khorly.

https://en.topcor.ru/67424-bespilotn...-zhitelej.html

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DD Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A five-year-old boy was killed after a Ukrainian drone struck a civilian car in Kherson Region, Governor Vladimir Saldo said. His mother, grandfather, and grandmother were wounded and hospitalized.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 On New Year’s Eve, Ukrainian drones carried out a deliberate strike on a civilian gathering in the Kherson region, hitting a café and a hotel on the Black Sea coast in Khorly.

Three UAVs struck the site just after a reconnaissance drone had identified the crowd near midnight. One of the drones carried an incendiary mixture, triggering a massive fire. Many victims were burned alive, making rescue impossible until early morning. Preliminary reports indicate at least 24 people killed and over 50 injured, including children. One child died after burning alive; four others were wounded. Regional governor Vladimir Saldo said the bodies were almost completely burned, resembling the aftermath of a nuclear blast.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said EU and NATO leaders should understand that their financial and military support is directly killing civilians. She compared the attack to the 1943 Khatyn massacre, calling it an expression of neo-Nazi hatred and dehumanization carried out under the banner of “democracy.”

Dmitry Medvedev likewise compared the strike to Khatyn, calling it deliberate mass murder and stating that inevitable and swift retribution would follow against both those who carried out the attack and those who ordered it.

Kherson region authorities said all necessary assistance will be provided to the victims and their families.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2006716483515154496

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TASS

Dec 30, 2025
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his office, OHCHR, keep silent about Ukraine’s attempted drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod Region, which exposes their biasedness, Gennady Gatilov said:
https://vk.cc/cSXwsu

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2006072098028974141

https://tass.com/politics/2067275?ut...m_social_share



Diplomat points to OHCHR biasedness due to silence after attack on Putin’s residence

Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva Office and other Geneva-based international organizations Gennady Gatilov noted that an increasing number of states condemned the Kiev regime's terrorist attack

GENEVA, December 30. /TASS/. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk and his office, OHCHR, keep silent about Ukraine’s attempted drone attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in the Novgorod Region, which exposes their biasedness, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Geneva Office and other Geneva-based international organizations Gennady Gatilov said.

"While an increasing number of states condemn the Kiev regime's terrorist attack using a barrage of long-range unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod Region, a stubborn silence of the UN human rights system, led by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Turk, is puzzling," he wrote in a statement posted on the Russian mission’s Telegram channel.

"We regard such a behavior as another confirmation of Mr. Turk's political bias and unwillingness to provide a principled assessment of Kiev's criminal actions," he emphasized. "We await your appropriate response as well as an assessment from respective special procedures of the HRC. After all, its abscence would amount to silent cover up of yet another crime committed by the Kiev clique, which has shifted to a policy of state terrorism."

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists earlier in the day that overnight to December 29 the Kiev regime had attempted a terrorist attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence in the Novgorod Region with the use of 91 long-range combat drones. All of them were jammed by Russian electronic warfare tools, he said, adding that no casualties or damage were reported.

In turn, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said that during a phone call with Trump, Putin drew attention to Kiev’s attack, which took place "almost immediately" after the US-Ukraine talks in Mar-a-Lago, and warned that it would not go "unanswered." The Russian leader also told Trump that Moscow’s position in negotiations to resolve the conflict would be revised.

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TASS

Dec 31, 2025
Alexander Lukashenko believes the drone attack on the residence of Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Region constitutes savage state-level terrorism:
https://vk.cc/cSYx8a

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2006310447113248851

https://tass.com/world/2067417?utm_s...m_social_share

Belarusian leader calls attack on Putin’s residence savage state-level terrorism

Lukashenko also wonders who needs this


MINSK, December 31. /TASS/. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko believes the drone attack on the residence of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod Region constitutes savage state-level terrorism.

"This is savage terrorism at the very highest state level. If the way it is now being presented is indeed accurate. And I am thinking, who needs this?" Lukashenko was quoted by the Telegram channel "Pool Pervogo," which is close to his press service.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told journalists earlier in the day that overnight to December 29 the Kiev regime had attempted a terrorist attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence in the Novgorod Region with the use of 91 long-range combat drones. All of them were jammed by Russian electronic warfare tools, he said, adding that no casualties or damage were reported.

In turn, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said that during a phone call with Trump, Putin drew attention to Kiev’s attack, which took place "almost immediately" after the US-Ukraine talks in Mar-a-Lago, and warned that it would not go "unanswered." The Russian leader also told Trump that Moscow’s position in negotiations to resolve the conflict would be revised.

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TASS

One civilian was killed and three others were wounded after the Ukrainian armed forces attacked a car with a drone in the village of Pervoye Tseplyayevo, Shebekinsky District, the Belgorod Region, the regional task force reported on its Telegram channel:
https://vk.cc/cSZ3On

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2006382684084326515

https://tass.com/emergencies/2067471...m_social_share

One civilian killed, three wounded in drone attack in Belgorod Region

The wounded persons were taken to the Shebekinsky Central District Hospital
BELGOROD, December 31. /TASS/. One civilian was killed and three others were wounded after the Ukrainian armed forces attacked a car with a drone in the village of Pervoye Tseplyayevo, Shebekinsky District, the Belgorod Region, the regional task force reported on its Telegram channel.

"In the village of Pervoye Tseplyayevo, Shebekinsky District, a man was killed as a result of an FPV drone attack on a passenger car. Three people in the car were wounded," the task force wrote.

The wounded persons were taken to the Shebekinsky Central District Hospital. The woman and the man were diagnosed with shrapnel wounds to the shoulder and forearm. Another victim received multiple shrapnel wounds to the head, chest and abdomen. The doctors are providing all necessary medical assistance.

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TASS

The Ukrainian army carried out a drone attack on a cafe and a hotel in the village of Khorly in the Kherson Region, where civilians were celebrating the New Year, Governor Saldo said.

TASS has collected the key information about the attack:
https://vk.cc/cT0s8f

https://x.com/tassagency_en/status/2006710330433396888

https://tass.com/defense/2067597?utm...m_social_share

IN BRIEF: Ukrainian army carries out drone strike on civilians in Kherson Region

According to preliminary reports, over 24 people, including a child, were killed, and another 29 people, among them five kids, suffered injuries

MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. The Ukrainian army carried out a drone attack on a cafe and a hotel in the village of Khorly in the Kherson Region, where civilians were celebrating the New Year, Governor Vladimir Saldo said.

According to preliminary reports, over 24 people, including a child, were killed, and another 29 people, among them five kids, suffered injuries.

TASS has collected the key information about the attack.

Drone strike

Saldo said that three Ukrainian drones had hit a cafe and a hotel in Khorly in the Black Sea coast village of Khorly, where civilians were celebrating the New Year.

The strike caused a fire that engulfed 500 square meters and was put out at 8:40 a.m. Moscow time (5:40 a.m. GMT), the governor’s spokesman Vladimir Vasilenko told TASS.

The Russian Investigative Committee launched a criminal investigation based on Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Terrorist Attack"), committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said.

Casualties

As many as 29 people were taken to the hospital, among them children born in 2008, 2012, 2018, and 2019, Vasilenko specified.

Thirteen of those injured are hospitalized in Crimea and the Kherson Region. Six of them are in serious conciliation, Assistant Health Minister Alexey Kuznetsov told TASS.

Terrorist attack and Kiev regime’s agony

The Kherson region’s governor believes that "the terrorist attack on Khorly, which targeted defenseless women and children, is a sign of the Kiev regime’s agony."

"Many people were burned alive. A child was killed. In fact, the crime can be compared to what happened in Odessa’s Trade Union House," Saldo added, referring to the May 2, 2014 developments in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, where 48 people died in a fire set by radical nationalists.

Russian Federation Council (upper house of parliament) Chair Valentina Matviyehnko stressed that the drone attack on the Kherson Region was only strengthening Russia’s resolve to achieve the goals of its special military operation as soon as possible.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out that "those who sponsor the bastard terrorists in Ukraine" were primarily to blame for the attack on civilians in the Kherson Region.

All countries "should make a proper legal and political assessment of this inhumane act" as "the killing of dozens of civilians cannot go unanswered," Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador-at-Large tasked with overseeing the Kiev regime’s crimes, emphasized.

The Kiev regime ordered the Ukrainian army to attack civilians in such a brutal manner to revenge on them for choosing to live in Russia, a country free of Nazism, and speak their native Russian language, Viktor Vodolatsky, first deputy chair of the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) Committee for CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots, told TASS.

Mourning declaration

Kherson Region Governor Vladimir Saldo declared two days of mourning on January 2 and 3 in memory of the victims of the attack.

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Maria Zakharova (Commentary)
@_MariaZakharova
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Maria Zakharova, 1 January

Last night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a cafe in the Kherson region, killing 24 people and injuring over 50, with five children hospitalized.

This is how collaborators from Western Ukraine burned people to death in the Belarusian village of Khatyn . They herded people into barns and set them ablaze. Those who escaped were shot. The difference is that back then, more than 82 years ago, the Nazis didn't hide behind the protection of children and devotion to democracy. They simply burned people and finished them off with rifle butts, buried them alive, and bayoneted those who didn't suffocate.
Today, we see this brutality perpetrated by the Kiev regime. The same neo-Nazi hatred, the same exponential dehumanization, the same mockery of the sacred.

Today, the presidents and prime ministers of the Western countries should be served their morning croissants and poached eggs with reports detailing how billions of dollars and euros of their taxpayers' money were spent, how many New Year's gifts were bought with them to murder civilians, and how they complicitly destroyed children.

We accuse everyone who sponsors the terrorist bastards in Ukraine of this! We accuse them of murdering children and destroying civilians! We accuse them of corrupting Ukrainian statehood, turning it into a killing machine! We accuse them!

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Forwarded from Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs🇷🇺

https://x.com/_MariaZakharova/status...34239094456392

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News of Donbass

💬 We deeply express our condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives on New Year's Eve in Kherson Oblast.

The enemy deliberately and cynically attacked civilians on a holiday, once again demonstrating its terrorist nature. Many people have been killed and injured…

I wish a speedy recovery to the wounded. We are ready to provide the necessary support.

The Donetsk People's Republic stands in solidarity with the residents of Kherson Oblast during this difficult time.

DPR Head Denis Pushilin

https://x.com/News_of_Donbass/status...60309017129188

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Eva Karene Bartlett

Replying to
@EvaKBartlett
"Ukraine 'now claiming there were military personnel present, well if they consider small children military personnel'

Kherson Gov Vladimir Saldo tells RT about horrific New Year attack on civilian area by Kiev regime."
https://t.me/rtnews/128122

https://x.com/EvaKBartlett/status/2006698500525105454

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I didn't notice video from Alexander M from yesterday here in PA.. very interesting... as we were wondering who was ordered and did attack on Putin's residence... NYT Confirms US Was Behind Kiev Drone Strikes For sure all three agencies were very busy lately... where is Tulsi????



Russia Displays Oreshnik, Plans 2026 Odessa Operation; NYT Confirms US Was Behind Kiev Drone Strikes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MT8P0SAZZ7E

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Alex Krainer: This Changes Everything: A Massive Military Comeback Is Underway
Dialogue Works - 9 hours ago

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aTUkHOf2ZcY

Alex Krainer: New York Times Reports CIA Attacks on Russian Tankers
Glenn Diesen - 5 hours ago

Krainer discusses the New York Times report that the CIA (with Trumps blessing) has been behind attacks on Russian refineries and tankers. Either this signals that Trump has radically escalated the direct US involvement in the war on Russia, or this is a psy-op intended to derail the negotiations between the US and Russia.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_j2yVu_IYgc

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THE ISLANDER

This was not “a strike.” It was a midnight ritual of fear.

Russia says three drones hit a café and a hotel in Khorly, in the Russia's Kherson, right as civilians were gathered for New Year celebrations, with officials reporting at least 24 killed and over 50 wounded, including children, and describing incendiary effects that turned a countdown into a fire scene.

And then came the second event, predictably quieter, cleaner, more revealing than the smoke, Western silence.

Moscow’s UN mission in Geneva put it bluntly: if international human-rights officials can’t condemn this publicly and immediately, “silence” starts to look like complicity, not because Russia says so, but because that is what selective morality is: a political instrument, not a principle.

Let’s be very clear about the strategic anatomy here.

When violence is directed at soldiers, it’s part of the ugliness of war. When violence is directed at infrastructure, it’s coercion. But when violence is directed at civilians at a symbolic moment — New Year’s Eve, it’s terror by design.

Not terror as a hashtag. Terror as a as the main method for the Kiev regime, condoned, if not organized by its patrons. It's goal, to make ordinary life feel impossible. Make celebration feel punishable. Make parents feel helpless. Make the state look unable to protect.

That’s why the timing matters as much as the body count. And that’s why the argument Moscow is making at the UN isn’t merely rhetorical, but a bid to force the international system to admit, on record, that civilians are civilians, no matter what passport they hold, no matter what territory they live in, no matter what narrative is currently approved.

But here’s the reality the West has trained itself not to see. When deaths fit the permitted script, outrage arrives pre-packaged including, loud condemnation, hashtags, urgent meetings, moral theater. When deaths contradict the script, the system reaches for fog...“cannot be verified,” “no comment,” “unclear circumstances.”

When large Mockingbird media report the incident, they do so while emphasizing that Ukraine hasn’t confirmed responsibility and independent verification is limited, which may be methodologically correct, but it also illustrates the broader asymmetry, that some atrocities, those that fit the informational war, get instant moral certainty; others get procedural caution that functions like anesthesia.

The inevitable consequences will be much more than emotional. We're talking doctrinal.

A state as strategically patient as Russia can absorb many things, but it cannot absorb one thing indefinitely. And that is the creeping normalization of terror against its civilians, especially when it’s met with knowing silence by those hypocrites in Western Europe, who parade as the guardians of international law.

Moscow never labored under illusions about Western hypocrisy. That mask was torn off years ago, in Yugoslavia, in Iraq, in Donbass. But what we are witnessing now is not hypocrisy. It is complicity through omission.

And once it becomes clear that international “human rights” mechanisms are not merely biased, but functionally weaponized, then restraint itself must be re-evaluated. It stops being a diplomatic virtue and starts becoming a strategic liability.

Which brings us to a key observation: Putin appearing more often in military fatigues. We should read that as beyond symbolism, not costume. A leader’s public presentation in wartime is messaging to multiple audiences at once: the armed forces, the public, Western adversaries, and the diplomatic layer. Kremlin-released footage and widely circulated clips have shown Putin in military attire receiving briefings at command post, at an increasing rate, to close out 2025, and that visual language is not accidental.

Part 2/2 👇

https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2006926000026788174

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George Galloway

Just ponder this. The Germans murdered 25 civilians. In Kherson. In Russia.

https://x.com/georgegalloway/status/2006896875266593067

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Chay Bowes

Jan 1
Today in Ukraine, Ukrainians commemorate the birthday of Nazi Stepan Bandera

Forces under his command carried out mass genocide against Polish civilians, with a particular focus on women, children, and the elderly

Today, his monument in Lvov is being adorned with flowers

https://x.com/BowesChay/status/2006726215902879911

Gabe
Jan 1
Poland’s “greatest ally” is celebrating the birthday of Stepan Bandera today, right across the border in Lvov. Poland took in, housed, and fed millions of Ukrainian refugees, and this is how Ukrainians show their appreciation.

https://x.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/2006782002499039720

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RT

Jan 1
Latvia bans Russian language in the country

Starting January 1st, the state halted all Russian-language public broadcasting and canceled Russian language education in schools

All this despite about 40% of its population speaking Russian

https://x.com/RT_com/status/2006677085256093951

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Putin's Payback IMMINENT, Trump & CIA's Cover BLOWN | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ifPT82d2ya0

Russia just sent a massive message to Trump & the CIA, and the situation in Ukraine is unraveling says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and retired former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. The two esteemed analysts join the show to break down the cover up that's been blown open and the Russian assault which has the collective west in a state of panic.

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𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇮🇪

This is how the RUSSIAN HEROES enjoyed their nights celebration with PUTIN !!!

WORK BROTHERS !

https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/2006897313378435242

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Victor vicktop55 commentary

RT recalled the explosive statements made by Budanov, head of Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR), who will become Zelensky's chief of staff:

He threatened to kill Russians worldwide and likely proposed blowing up Ukrainian nuclear power plants if the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated.

▪️ He admitted that Ukrainian intelligence was behind terrorist attacks against several media figures in the Russian Federation;

▪️ He said he does not consider those who do not fight against Russia to be Ukrainian citizens;

▪️ He repeatedly threatened to destroy the Crimean Bridge and claimed that work was underway to do so;

▪️ He also threatened to carry out terrorist attacks on the railway;

▪️ He declared his intention to retake Crimea "by force and diplomacy," and that Ukrainian units would "enter there armed";

▪️In the summer of 2023, he promised to "drink coffee in Yalta" and visit Sevastopol after some kind of "victory";

▪️Called Crimeans "people with a modified psyche" who should be held accountable. And in regard to "certain people for their actions," he said, only "physical extermination" is possible;

▪️Speaked out against peace talks. Later, he acknowledged their necessity.

🟩 RT in Russian

https://x.com/vick55top/status/2007101317173375166

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-- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 --
@GeromanAT

Zelensky Sidelined

Budanov Named No. 2;

CIA Role In Drone Strikes Confirmed;

Insurgency After Defeat

https://x.com/GeromanAT/status/2007184585281691667

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3C8k0XL8qa8