Comments by "Levan Gudadze - Opinion" (@LevanGudadze) on "Military Summary" channel.

  1. Also last night, the Russian armed forces carried out drone strikes on the Zelensky regime's logistics and military infrastructure in the city of Izmail on the Danube, in the Odessa region.
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  2. The Investigative Committee of Russia brought charges in absentia against the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov.
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  3. Unfortunately, the Russian armed forces lost yesterday 4 aircraft, 2 helicopters, one Su-24 fighter/bomber and one Su-35 fighter. On my channel, I will talk about this in more detail, because by a strange coincidence, all 4 combat vehicles were shot down in the Bryansk region.
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  4. The looming delivery of US-made F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine will not prevent the “collapse” of the country's military and will only benefit the military-industrial complex, Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Junior has claimed..
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  5. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 600 troops and a dozen military equipment in the last 24 hours.
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  6. The M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks provided to Ukraine by the US have hardly made a difference on the battlefield, President Vladimir Zelensky said in a discussion with journalists from several African nations published by his office on Wednesday.
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  7. The official Hezbollah channel states that the IDF blew up the house of Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political office, in the Lebanese city of Arura..
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  8. The deployment of IDF personnel and military equipment continues along the Gaza border ahead of a large-scale ground operation. In the last 48 hours alone, the IDF has called up 300,000 reservists.
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  9. Multinational companies from ‘unfriendly’ countries made large profits in Russia last year despite sanctions that their home countries placed on Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing calculations by the Kiev School of Economics (KSE). The KSE calculations are based on sources such as the Russian company register, news reports, and corporate statements. Major Western brands that decided to continue operating in the country recorded over $18 billion in Russian profits in 2022, out of the $20 billion reported by all foreign businesses working in the country, the data showed.
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  10. Air raid alarm was once again announced in Sevastopol and the region. Traffic on the Crimean Bridge is temporarily suspended.
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  11. Multinational companies from ‘unfriendly’ countries made large profits in Russia last year despite sanctions that their home countries placed on Moscow, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing calculations by the Kiev School of Economics (KSE). The KSE calculations are based on sources such as the Russian company register, news reports, and corporate statements. Major Western brands that decided to continue operating in the country recorded over $18 billion in Russian profits in 2022, out of the $20 billion reported by all foreign businesses working in the country, the data showed.
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  12. The Chinese Foreign Minister's visit to the United States may take place this week, the White House said.
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  13. Ukraine carried out an attack on Sevastopol on September 22 in close coordination with USA and UK intelligence services, said Russian Foreign Minister Maria Zakharova.
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  14. Special Forces of Ukraine have failed on three occasions to gain a foothold in Energodar, the city in Russia's Zaporozhye Region where Europe's largest nuclear plant is located, Kiev's military intelligence head Kirill Budanov has admitted.
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  15. Japan will start purchasing US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles in fiscal year 2025, a year earlier than originally planned, Defense Minister Minoru Kihara said amid Tokyo’s continuing tensions with China and North Korea. Kihara made the announcement on Wednesday, at a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Washington, DC. Tokyo initially wanted to buy 400 of the latest Tomahawk Block V missiles with a range of around 1,600 kilometers. Now, it will procure a batch of up 200 missiles of the previous model between fiscal years 2025 and 2027. The remainder of the deal consists of newer missiles, which will be delivered as originally planned.
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  16. The Indian Air Force will stop flying its Soviet-era MiG-21 fighter jets in 2025, when they will be replaced with multirole Tejas Mark 1A fighters, Chief of the Air Staff VR Chaudhari told reporters on Wednesday. India currently operates a single squadron of 54 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21s, which it acquired from the Soviet Union more than 60 years ago. Speaking at a press conference in New Delhi, Chaudhari said that the Air Force has ordered 83 HAL Tejas Mark 1A fighters as replacements, and will place another order for 97 of these Indian-built warplanes, replacing one squadron of 45 MiG-21s with three squadrons of Tejas Mark 1As.
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  17. he dollar-based global financial system is not balanced as it does not meet the interests of all countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club. According to Putin, the dominance of the American currency has to end, which is already happening, while the US authorities are “shooting themselves in the foot.” “The Bretton Woods system – it was once created on the basis of the dollar, but all this is gradually collapsing. Currency is a derivative of the power of the country’s economy, which issues this currency,” the Russian leader pointed out.
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  18. According to Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, About 280 thousand people have been accepted for contract service in the Russian Armed Forces since January 1.
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  19. Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-un met at the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur region.
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  20. The UK will not send its military to Ukraine while the conflict is going on, said Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Rishi Sunak, which I will also talk about on my channel, because Sunak's words are contrary to statements from the Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.
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  21. Three leading Greek shipping companies have stopped carrying Russian seaborne oil in recent weeks to avoid US sanctions, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing oil traders and shipping data. The firms – Minerva Marine, Thenamaris, and TMS Tankers – actively shipped Russian oil up until September and October, when they started scaling down their involvement, Reuters has said. The three companies also declined requests for vessels to carry Russian crude loading in November and later, the agency said, citing traders who had previously used the firms’ services.
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  22. Rostec State Corporation plans to modify the Su-25 attack aircraft for new weapons based on their experience of its use in a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. This was reported to TASS by the first deputy general director of the state corporation Vladimir Artyakov. He noted that attack aviation once again proved its effectiveness and indispensability on the battlefield during the special operation. "It is worth noting that the effectiveness of the latest modification of the Su-25SM3 has been increased significantly, the aircraft can use high-precision weapons, among other things. We will continue to improve this machine, taking into account the experience of using it in the NVO zone, including in terms of its refinement for new weapons," Artyakov said.
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  23. Traders in the Czech Republic have recommenced the import of Russian natural gas since October, according to Jozef Sikela, the country’s Minister of Industry and Trade.
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  24. The Abrams tanks expected by Kiev “will not last long” at the front, said the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Kirill Budanov in an interview with the Warzone portal.
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  25. The Pentagon is scrambling to find money to pay for a military buildup in the Middle East amid the Hamas-Israel conflict due to gridlock in the US Congress, which has so far been unable to approve full defense funding, Politico reported on Tuesday.
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  26. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 650 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  27. Spending on defense and security in Russia has more than doubled and reached 6% of GDP.
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  28. The Polish Embassy in France denied the words of its own ambassador about Warsaw's readiness to become a participant in the conflict with Russia when Kyiv is defeated. I spoke on my channel about the statement of the Polish ambassador to France about Warsaw's intention to enter into a conflict with the Russian Federation if the Zelensky regime loses, moreover, many times I predicted the inevitability of a Polish invasion of Ukraine, primarily the western regions of this country, perhaps even on the territory of Belarus and to the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation, so the Polish ambassador did not say anything surprising to me, but many will probably think again after such statements about the risks of a catastrophic escalation of the conflict between the West and the Russian Federation if Warsaw really takes such a step, alone or in company with the Baltic republics and other European countries. Globalists are pushing the world towards nuclear escalation, in other words..
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  29. The majority of Russians do not back any particular side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an opinion poll published on Tuesday shows. According to the survey of 1,500 people conducted between October 13 and October 15 by the Moscow-based pollster FOM, 73% of respondents said that their personal sympathy lies with neither side, while 10% said they support the Palestinians, and 9% said they favor Israel.
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  30. The 82nd brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, armed with British Challenger 2 tanks, as well as German APC Marder and American APC Stryker, began to suffer significant losses in equipment immediately after being introduced into battle, Forbes reports.
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  31. Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjártó told RIA Novosti that he does not see the countries’ intentions to investigate the circumstances of the Nord Stream explosions.
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  32. The US is not pushing Ukraine toward negotiations with Russia, State Department principal deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel has insisted, commenting on media reports claiming that such efforts are taking place behind closed doors. Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that at least some of his country’s Western backers are likely engaged in back-channel communications with Moscow.
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  33. The authorities of Poland and the Baltic countries should withdraw foreign military from their territory before demanding the withdrawal of Wagner PMC fighters from Minsk, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said.
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  34. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 700 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  35. Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 attack aircraft in the area of Kleshcheevka.
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  36. The Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip will be distinguished by “unprecedented ferocity,” writes Reuters.
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  37. At least 2 Russian Il-76 transport aircraft were destroyed as a result of a Ukrainian strike by drones on an airfield in the Pskov region of the Russian Federation.
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  38. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 450 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  39. In the port of Odessa, a dry cargo ship under the Liberian flag was damaged, violating the "grain deal." ➡ According to Kiev, it was a Russian Kh-31P missile that hit the Liberian dry cargo ship, which, in defiance of bans, was heading to the Odessa port for Ukrainian grain. ➡ According to another version, the ship was hit by a Ukrainian AD attempting to intercept a Russian missile.
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  40. Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces have lost up to 600 military and several dozen combat systems, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and artillery.
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  41. Acting head of the DPR Denis Pushilin denied statements from Kiev about the alleged capture by Ukrainian troops of the village of Andreevka near Bakhmut.
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  42. We are waiting for an update.. There is such a mess on the telegram channels that you can’t understand where the truth is and where is the fiction..
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  43. Russian aircraft have struck at the deployment point of foreign instructors of Ukrainian troops in the Chernihiv region, media reports here in Russia today.
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  44. Hungry soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine swam across the Dnieper to surrender to the Russian military.
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  45. According to preliminary information, air defense systems were operational in Sevastopol this morning. Several Ukrainian missiles were shot down, the fragments of which fell at the pier in the Sukharnaya Balka area. The mayor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that special services officers went to the scene of the incident.
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  46. The European Union is not considering any other proposals to resolve the conflict in Ukraine, except for the so-called peace plan of its President Vladimir Zelensky, said the leader of EU diplomacy Josep Borrell.
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  47. From January 1 to December 1, more than 452,000 people have joined the Russian Armed Forces in the interest of the Special Military Operations, stated Medvedev.
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  48. The Czech government has approved the freezing of Russian state property, the country's Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on the social network X. “Today, at my proposal, the government approved the freezing of Russian state property in the Czech Republic,” he said.
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  49. The largest Western military and defense corporations have seen revenues spike due to orders linked to the Ukraine conflict, third-quarter earnings released this week revealed. The surge in revenues is attributed to the sharp increase in military spending by Western countries in order to supply weapons to Ukraine and rearm their own militaries.
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  50. Ukraine not invited for G20 – India
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