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Ось куди прилетіло по Іванівському - 51.605360, 34.942290.

Відразу впізнали цю будівлю, бо локали там підорів в кінці листопада. З Новим роком, уйобки:)

https://t.me/kiber_boroshno/10881

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17876187

Oleksandra Matviichuk, a leading Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Laureate, says Russia’s goal is to restore its empire by force. “Russian occupation means torture, rapes, enforced disappearances, denial of your own identity, forcible adoption of your children, filtration camps and mass graves,” Matviichuk says.

Russian missile and drone attacks are continuing across Ukraine as the country already faces a cold, dark winter after Russia’s strikes destroyed about half of the country’s energy infrastructure. This comes as Russia and Ukraine completed a prisoner swap, repatriating more than 300 prisoners of war. The U.S. administration under President Joe Biden, meanwhile, has approved billions more in military and economic assistance to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump returns to office with a pledge to curtail aid and end the war. Since Russia’s invasion nearly three years ago, Congress has approved $175 billion in total assistance to Ukraine.

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Oleksandra Matviichuk: Russia wants to destroy completely Ukraine energy system and to make millions of Ukrainians to face the winter without heating, electricity, water, light and internet connection. But what I want to say, that due to the work of ordinary people who repair the civil infrastructure, we are able to meet this New Year Eve with light. And this is a bright symbol of Ukrainian resilience.

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We document how Russian troops destroying residential buildings, schools, churches, museums and hospitals. They’ve taken evacuation corridors. They’re torturing people in filtration camps. They’ve forcibly taken Ukrainian children to Russia. They’re abducting, robbing, raping and killing civilians in the occupied territories. And the entire U.N. system of peace and security can’t stop it. Russia uses war crimes as the method of warfare. Russia instrumentalized the pain. Russia used the pain as a tool how to break people’s resistance and to occupy the country.

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It were ordinary people who helped to survive under artillery fires. It were ordinary people who took people out from the ruined cities. It were ordinary people who broke through the encirclement to provide humanitarian aid. And you know what? Suddenly, it became obvious that ordinary people fighting for their freedom and human dignity are stronger than even the second army in the world.

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Putin started this war to occupy and to destroy the whole Ukraine and to go further, to attack next countries and to forcibly restore Russian Empire. And the problem is that after two-and-a-half years of large-scale invasion, Putin didn’t refuse from this goal, because human life is the cheapest resources in Russian state.

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Peace doesn’t come when country which was invaded stop resisting to Russian aggression. That’s not peace. That’s occupation. And occupation is horrible. It’s just the same war but in another form, because Russian occupation means torture, rapes, enforced disappearances, denial of your own identity, forcible adoption of your children, filtration camps and mass graves. And that’s why we have no other choice, because if we stop resisting to Russian aggression.

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I see that politicians in the European Union started to understand that their countries are safe only because Ukrainians still fighting. I see this even in our human rights work [...] when I interviewed people who survived Russian captivity, they told me that Russians see their future like this: At first, we’ll occupy Ukraine, and then, together with you, we will go to conquer in other countries. And the process of forcible mobilization, Ukrainian citizens to Russian army, all these years is going on in the occupied territories. So, once again, people in the European Union are safe only because Ukrainians are still fighting with Russian aggression and don’t let Putin to go further.

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I personally interviewed hundreds and hundreds of people who survived in Russian captivity. And they told me how they were beaten, raped, smashed into wooden boxes. Their fingers were cut. Their nails were torn away. Their nails were drilled. There were electrical shocks through their own genitalia. One woman told me how her eye was took out with a spoon. Because Russia ignore not just all provisions of international humanitarian law; Russia ignore all senses of humanity. So, that’s why yesterday prisoner swap, it was so important for all people in Ukraine, because we released more than 180 people who will celebrate this holiday with their families. And this is extremely important, as well as thousands and thousands prisoners of the war and illegally detained civilians, among them a lot of women, are still in Russian captivity.

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Victoria Roshchyna [an Ukrainian journalist] worked in occupied territories [in Ukraine], because she thought that this is her journalist obligation to be there with the people who were alone with the occupiers. She was just 27 years old, and she died in September in Russian prison after illegally arrest. And Russians, for several times, refused to return her body to her family, because her body probably can tell more about what happened with her, why she was dead.

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It’s not just a war between two states. This is a war between two systems: authoritarianism and democracy. And only success of Ukraine will provide a chance for democratic future for Russia itself, because Russian people, they can tolerate war criminal being their president, but Russian people will not tolerate loser war criminal.

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https://t.me/a_shtirlitz/30397

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 02.01.25 (орієнтовно)

#NOMERCY #stoprussia

t.me/GeneralStaffZSU/19743

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17867338

The Russian ruble tanked past 115 per USD in January, the lowest on record when excluding the immediate shock after the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2022, as sanctions isolated Russia from global financial and commodity markets.

The currency was halted from domestic trading against major pairs after Western nations sanctioned the Moscow Exchange, magnifying the difficulty for companies to secure hard currency and forcing the Bank of Russia to set forex prices since June.

This added pressure as China’s weakening economy limited demand for goods from Russia’s main export partner, further denting the influx of foreign exchange. The impact on government revenues from energy exports drove Moscow to partially relax the capital controls it had to prop up the ruble, letting it depreciate to support its budget deficit. Despite this, political pressure drove the CBR [Central Bank of Russia] to cut its tightening cycle short in December, compounding pressure on the currency.

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🎄 New Year's gifts from the Forces of Unmanned Systems

The combat crews of the 412th NEMESIS Airborne Division and the 14th Airborne Assault Division joined forces to deliver several Christmas presents to the enemy in the Donetsk region. The result was explosive!

🇺🇦 The forces of unmanned systems are working so that every Ukrainian family can celebrate the holidays safely and with faith in victory!

The Power of Unmanned Systems

https://t.me/army_14reg/213

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17866252

Original article in German -- [Archived version]

German politicians from the conservative Union Party (CDU), the Freedom Party (FDP), and the Greens warn against China’s involvement in the reconstruction of Ukraine. China must definitely play no role in the reconstruction of Ukraine," said Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP), Chair of the European Parliament’s Security and Defence Committee) [...] "On the contrary, it is time to end the sale of European infrastructure."

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„Without China’s support, not only would Putin have not dared to attack Ukraine, he also gets military components from Chinese production", said the FDP politician. [...]

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„Europe should prevent China from playing a role in the reconstruction of Ukraine, because China would create dependencies and consistently exert influence, as it does in all states", said Roderich Kiesewetter, CDU foreign policy [...] "China has a very clear interest in gaining influence in Ukraine because of the existing resources, but also the Ukrainian capabilities in the field of IT and modern warfare".

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Kiesewetter pointed to China’s membership in the autocratic alliance CRINK with Russia, Iran and North Korea. Europe should prevent China from playing a role in the reconstruction of Ukraine as part of the CRINK coalition, because China would create dependencies and consistently exert influence, as it does in all states," said Kiesewter. One should not have any illusions".

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The best way to prevent China’s influence in Ukraine [...] is to "give Ukraine a clear EU accession perspective and above all an invitation in a timely manner and admission into NATO as soon as security conditions allow".

The EU should also support Ukraine in making reparations claims against Russia [...] Built back better must be applied and the clear inclusion of Ukraine in the European and transatlantic security architecture. " This can only be done without China, whose goal is to destroy it and which with CRINK significantly supports and makes possible the war of aggression of Russia, so also the destruction".

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Agnieszka Brugger, a member of the Green Group, said that if the Chinese leadership really meant their alleged peace efforts, "they should use their influence on Russia and North Korea to finally end the brutal violence". Brugger said: "The current actions [by China] give the impression that the Russian war of aggression and its escalation is also in China’s long-term geopolitical interest. “

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Party officials of the Social Democrats, the left-wing Linke, and the far right-wing AfD would support China's involvment in Ukraine's reconstruction.

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‼️ "RZD" to Rust: In December, 9 Units of Rolling Stock Destroyed in Russia

🔥 In December 2024, on the territory of the aggressor state Russia, 9 units of railway rolling stock were destroyed by fire. These were used by the enemy for transporting weapons and ammunition.

In the Moscow region: 1 TE116 diesel locomotive and 2 EP2D electric trains.

In the Ryazan region: 2 VL-80 electric locomotives.

In the Tyumen region: 1 SM-2 locomotive and 1 AGS-1Sh railcar.

In the Rostov region: 1 VL-80 electric locomotive.

In the Sverdlovsk region: 1 UTM-2M diesel locomotive.

⚔️ The fight against the logistics of the Russian occupying army continues!

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!

https://t.me/DIUkraine/5132

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 01.01.25 (орієнтовно)

#NOMERCY #stoprussia

| Підписатися ГШ ЗСУ |

t.me/GeneralStaffZSU/19721

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17854033

Here is the original YT link

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23748634

Europe will receive the last Russian gas sent via Ukraine’s pipelines in the early hours of the new year as the continent braces for a plunge in temperatures that could hasten the drain on gas reserves.

The Russian state energy company, Gazprom, is expected to cut off its exports to Europe through Ukraine’s pipelines on New Year’s Day after a gas transit deal struck between the countries five years ago comes to an end overnight.

In the absence of an 11th-hour deal, the halt will mark a historic shift after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of its neighbour in early 2022. Russia was once the continent’s biggest supplier of gas but it has lost almost all of its EU customers since the war began, as buyers across central Europe have turned to the US, Norway and Qatar for their supplies.

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💥 Historic strike - GUR soldiers destroyed an air target for the first time in the world using the Magura V5 naval drone

🫡 On December 31, 2024, soldiers of the special unit of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine “Group 13” for the first time in history hit an air target using a Magura V5 naval strike drone equipped with missile weapons.

✔️ During the battle in the Black Sea near Cape Tarkhankut in temporarily occupied Crimea, a Russian Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed by the use of R-73 “SeeDragon” missiles.

❗️ Another similar enemy helicopter was hit by fire and was able to reach its base airfield.

⚔️ The fight continues!

🎉 Happy New Year 2025!

🇺🇦 Glory to Ukraine!

https://t.me/DIUkraine/5127