RUNNING UPDATES ON THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE - 11.01.2025
Including geopolitical issues affecting the balance of power in the ongoing end game war to establish our common future, a closely monitored prison planet or tolerance for diverse modes of governance.
NINE DAYS TO GO: WHAT FINAL ACTS OF MURDEROUS IRRESPONSIBILITY WILL THE WEST CARRY OUT BEFORE BIDEN’S FINALLY KICKED OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE?
COLLECTIVE WEST | RUSSIA
Putin ready for ‘unconditional’ Trump meeting – Kremlin.
The talks only require a mutual desire to resolve problems through dialogue, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is open to direct talks with US President-elect Donald Trump, but no specific details have yet been finalized, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
Previously, Trump announced that a meeting with Putin is being set up, suggesting that it will likely take place after he officially assumes office on January 20. Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign, the Republican repeatedly vowed to end the Ukraine conflict “within 24 hours” of entering office and said he would compel Moscow and Kiev to restart negotiations.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Peskov confirmed that Putin and Trump have expressed their readiness to communicate, adding that there are no preconditions to holding a meeting between the two leaders.
“President Putin has repeatedly stated his openness to contacts with international leaders, including the US president and, in particular, Donald Trump,” Peskov said.
“No conditions are required for this. What is required is a mutual desire and political will to conduct a dialogue, to resolve existing problems through dialogue,” the spokesman added, noting that Moscow has recognized Trump’s readiness to solve problems through talks. “We welcome this.”
Peskov stated that there are still no specifics on when and where the meeting would be held and that Moscow is currently acting on “the assumption of mutual readiness for the meeting.” He added that it is likely there will be “some movement” in this regard after Trump enters the Oval Office.
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Speaking to journalists at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier this week, Trump said he might need up to six months after taking office to help Moscow and Kiev reach a deal. His special envoy on the Ukraine conflict, retired US Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, told Fox News that he would like to set a 100-day timeline to end the conflict.
While Trump has yet to lay out any specifics about how he would achieve a peace deal between Moscow and Kiev, some media reports have suggested that the president-elect’s team is considering a freeze of the conflict along the current battle lines.
Moscow, however, has repeatedly stated that it seeks to end the conflict once and for all instead of putting it on hold, which it said could be used by Kiev to recuperate and rearm itself for a future conflict.
Putin has stated that a ceasefire and peace negotiations with Ukraine can only take place after Kiev withdraws its forces from all Russian territories, abandons its NATO ambitions, and commits to a neutral and nuclear-weapons-free status.
Biden's Last-Minute Russia Sanctions Designed to Trip Up Trump, Shoot Europe in the Foot (Again).
The Biden administration has announced major new sanctions targeting two Russian oil companies, and vessels involved in the shipment of Russian energy resources abroad. Sputnik reached out to a veteran independent financial and energy market analyst to find out who the sanctions are designed to hurt, and who they'll actually impact.
On the one hand, “Trump will be happy with the sanctions because it will mean that the Europeans have to buy more oil and LNG from the United States. And that will raise their costs,” geopolitics analyst Tom Luongo told Sputnik.
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As for the timing of the new sanctions, Luongo says the White House seems to have taken a page out of the playbook used by the Obama administration in 2016, “which is to disrupt [Trump] as much as possible, to lay so many things in front of him that it derails him, precludes him from getting anything done,” including when it comes to easing tensions with Russia and stopping the bloody conflict in Ukraine.
“They’re talking about figuring out how they could dump more billions of dollars into the thing and keep it going for as long as possible. That’s what these sanctions are targeting. And they’re targeting Trump trying to end this project,” Luongo believes.
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PROFESSOR TUOMAS MALINEN: New PSYOP: Pro-War Propaganda Preps Finns To Die For NATO.
BORZZIKMAN: These Cold-Blooded Tactics by Putin Dealt a Crushing Blow To The WEST in UKRAINE and The ARCTIC.
MILITARY UPDATE: Deadly attack: Three Iskander-M Missiles Destroy HIMARS MLRS Convoy.
MILITARY TUBE TODAY: Russian warriors clearing Ukraine positions even at close range in Terny.
Russian Forces Launch 28 Strikes at Ukrainian Targets in One Week.
Over the past week, Russian forces launched 28 coordinated strikes at Ukrainian military infrastructure, temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed units and foreign mercenaries, Russian Ministry of Defense (Mod) said on Friday.
"From January 4 to 10, the Russian Armed Forces carried out 28 coordinated strikes using high-precision weapons and attack drones," the MoD statement said.
"These strikes hit military airfield infrastructure, weapon depots, assembly workshops, storage facilities for attack drones, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed units and foreign mercenaries," the ministry stated.
Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed multiple missiles and drones launched by Ukrainian forces over the week.
"Air defense systems shot down eight US-made ATACMS tactical missiles, five French-made Hammer guided bombs, 41 US-made HIMARS multiple rocket launcher projectiles and 689 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry reported.
Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft also shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 jet.
Russian Air Defense Shoots Down Ukrainian Fighter Jet
Other Developments
Battlegroup Tsentr:
Prevented 94 Ukrainian attempts to regain lost positions
Ukrainian forces suffered over 3,485 casualties, 11 tanks — including four German-made Leopards — and 40 other armored vehicles
Liberated Dachenko and struck multiple Ukrainian brigades and equipment depots
Battlegroup Sever:
Eliminated over 2,835 Ukrainian personnel in a week
Destroyed 30 tanks, 122 armored vehicles and 30 artillery pieces
Repelled two counterattacks and targeted brigades in the Kharkov Region
Battlegroup Yug:
Secured Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People's Republic
Ukrainian losses included up to 1,715 personnel, three tanks — including one Leopard — and 20 artillery pieces
Disrupted 16 attempts to regain tactical positions and destroyed six ammunition depots
Battlegroup Zapad:
Liberated Nadia in the Lugansk People's Republic
Ukrainian forces lost up to 3,530 personnel, one tank and 46 artillery pieces
Stopped 19 Ukrainian attempts to regain positions and destroyed 15 ammunition depots
Battlegroup Vostok:
Improved positions on the frontline
Ukrainian losses totaled over 1,120 personnel, one tank and 26 artillery pieces
Thwarted eight Ukrainian attempts to regain positions and destroyed six ammunition depots
Battlegroup Dnepr
Ukrainian losses reached 685 personnel, two armored vehicles and 11 artillery pieces
COLLECTIVE WEST | GLOBAL MAJORITY
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EUROPE | BRITAIN
SEBASTIAN SAS: The LATEST Sanctions On Russia Will BACKFIRE On Europe.
SEBASTIAN SAS: EU's Ideology Leads To Bankruptcy As Russia Pushes Forward.
Hungary Chooses China and BRICS Over EU: A Major Shift in European Politics.
NON-ENGLISH NEWS
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Russian Siege of Toretsk Reaches Its Final Battle | RUAF Storm Andriivka.
Ukraine War Update: MASSIVE Russian Advances Deep Into Kursk Pockets.
[ Kursk Front ] Flanking attack towards Kositsa by Russian forces west of Russkoe Porechnoe.
[ Toretsk/Niu-York Front ] New MASSIVE Russian offensive west of Niu-York!!! Toretsk is 95% cooked.
GROK PICS
VICTORY BELONGS TO RUSSIA: IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME
Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
NINE DAYS TO GO: WHAT FINAL ACTS OF MURDEROUS IRRESPONSIBILITY WILL THE WEST CARRY OUT BEFORE BIDEN’S FINALLY KICKED OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE?
