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  1. Gliding bombs are a relatively cheap type of weapon which use fins to extend their range, but unlike missiles, have no expensive engines. They can still be dropped by high-flying warplanes without entering the range of enemy shorter-range air defense systems. Modern variants are also normally equipped with a guidance system to ensure accuracy. Amid the conflict with Ukraine, Russia launched mass production of upgrade kits that can convert older models stockpiled in its arsenals into gliding bombs. Western media outlets have said these weapons are a major threat to Ukrainian frontline troops. - RT
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  2. The reported “secret meeting” to discuss a Ukrainian peace plan in Saudi Arabia last month was merely an attempt by Kiev and the West to maintain attention on the conflict with Moscow amid growing fatigue, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said. The gathering took place in mid-December in Riyadh, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov mentioned the event in an interview he gave the same month, without naming the host nation. Bloomberg sources described the meeting as making “no major progress,” while some nations that had participated in previous talks did not attend, most notably China, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates. Zakharova dismissed the significance of the gathering, to which Russia was not invited, as irrelevant for the conflict with Kiev. Instead, it was aimed only at propping up Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and his “regime” as part of a Western-advised PR campaign, she claimed in an interview with Radio Sputnik on Wednesday. - RT
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  3. Why Ukraine’s 2024 Strategy Will Fail - Ukrainian President Vlodymr Zelensky laid out Ukraine’s 2024 strategy in a recent interview with The Economist; - The focus will be on “isolating” Crimea; - Crimea can be supplied entirely by sea and air, with any single port exceeding the capacity Russia required to sustain combat operations in Syria for 2015; - Without enough long-range missiles to attack all or at least most of Crimea’s ports and airfields and do so regularly, Russia will be able to maintain the flow of supplies for both the civilian population and Russia’s military presence on the peninsula; - Another popular strategy of “digging in” and “building” throughout 2024 is also disconnected from the realities of the conflict and both Ukraine’s and its Western sponsors’ capabilities; - Ukraine has already “dug in” since 2014 in frontline cities which Russia has nonetheless been able to displace Ukrainian forces and take these heavily fortified cities; - The New Atlas
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  4. NO JUSTICE will be served in cases of Donbass homes used as target practice for Ukrainian missiles, says Russian Rep to UN Nebenzya in video above. Figures on [Ukrainian] strikes on critical infrastructure in Donbass will never appear in UN reviews due to involvement of UN secretariat - Nebenzya. - Intel Report
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  5. Defeat in Ukraine may be but one part to an accumulation of western ‘defeats’. Defeat in Israel would strike at the very core of U.S. political being. Hat-tip to Simplicius’ Bones of Tomorrow, in which he reflects on a Culture that has become debased; its lures that used to trap us into the ‘Myth of the West’ lie withered, as patently false idols. The dimming fire has squandered any sense of ‘magic’ in the guttering West, or indeed of hope to recoup this something ‘lost’. It is the wistful realisation that – as it stands – the myth is never likely to offer anything of lasting value again. The ‘Elect’ though, have deliberately raised the stakes. They do not want to ‘let go’. They have determined that, with the western train wrecked on its own cultural ‘wall’, the ‘End of Time’ story of convergence on a common future is ‘over’ too. And along with it, the claimed western mandate to dictate the ‘direction forward’ is over also. The West, by contrast, is still fed on stories of western leadership, election, innate qualities and exceptionalism. Put simply, this ‘influencer’ fad signally is failing to help westerners cope with the tectonic shifts occurring across the globe. Its peoples are wholly unprepared for the ‘Winter that is Coming’. The need for a return to an integrity of messaging is all the more pressing as attempts to repair one reversal, with a false narrative – inverting realities to achieve the putative ‘win’ – will only lead to further losses. Deceit is exposed in the instant. Trust takes a decade to build. Does the West really believe it can recoup in this way? Nobody beyond their authors believes these western Intelligence narratives, post- Ukraine. They are now tainted for the long run. In the end, military facts are more powerful than political waffle. - LewRockwell
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  6. I’ve written a number of essays trying to point at the baseless and irrational way westerners view military explosives as a far more civilized and humane way of killing human beings than bullets or blades, but I’ve never written anything that sums it up as clearly as this frank admission by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s senior manager of journalistic standards. Military explosives rip human bodies apart. They burn people alive. They trap them under rubble where they die excruciatingly slowly in one of the most horrifying ways imaginable. They leave people without limbs. They dismember and disfigure children for life. Many of the most agonizing deaths in human history have been caused by bombs. There are thousands of Gazans who have yet to be counted among the dead because their bodies are still buried under the rubble of fallen buildings. Many of them would not have died instantly. Some are still alive, waiting for days in a state terror and searing pain for a rescue that will never come. A UNICEF report released last month said that more than a thousand children had had one or both legs amputated since October 7 as a result of damage received by US-sponsored Israeli airstrikes, a number which would be significantly higher by now. We know that many such amputations have occurred without anaesthesia, because Israeli siege warfare has cut off Gaza’s healthcare system from the necessary supplies. If this is not vicious, then nothing is vicious. If this is not brutal, then nothing is brutal. If this is not murderous, then nothing is murderous. But it doesn’t get labeled as such by the western press, because it is being done “remotely”. - LewRockwell
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  7. Russia Rained Down On NATO Facilities In KHARKIV Hundreds Of Its Newest Jet-Powered Kamikaze Drones! The fact that Russia began using the latest kamikaze modifications of 'Geranium' drones in the special military operation zone became known in early January 2024. Let me remind you that on January 2, photos of the wreckage of the Russian kamikaze drone 'Geranium-3' appeared on the network, which was significantly different from its predecessors. In particular, this drone had a more streamlined body and an air intake of an engine with a jet turbine. Even then it became clear that Russia had started using completely new kamikaze drones with a jet engine. At the same time, it is worth noting that it is still unknown exactly how the wreckage of the latest drone ended up at the disposal of the Ukrainian military. It is still unknown whether this drone was shot down or it still reached its target and destroyed it - BORZZIKMAN
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  8. NOTHING BUT FAKES: Russian Rep to UN Nebenzya calls out US in video above on supplying intentionally FAKE INFORMATION to UN on North Korean ammo - info so false even Kiev denies it! Western members of Security Council read carbon copy on North Korean ammunition, but even Ukraine itself denied this, United States and John Kirby are replicating fakes - Nebenzya. Intel Report
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  9. KIEV TERROR INCITED BY US AND BRITAIN, Russian Permanent representative to UN Nebenzya slams Kiev for firing cluster munitions at Russian families in Belgorod Christmas Market, killing 25 including 5 children on December 30. No word of regret from Western colleagues, in fact, some justified it, (such as) the French FM calling Kiev's actions self-defense - Nebenzya. - Intel Report
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  10. "FROZEN IN HORROR" Russian FM Spokeswoman Zakharova (above) weighs in on crisis in US White House as no one in charge of nukes as US Defense Secretary Austin in hospital with prostate cancer. That's issue number one as all thus plays out - who is in charge of nuclear weapons? And there is no answer to this question - Zakharova. So American and Israeli nukes are unmanaged now? - Intel Report
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