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On December 16th, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense Belousov attended the meetings of the Board of the Ministry of Defense, summing up the interim results of the ongoing Special Military Operation in Ukraine.
- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation liberated the area of about 4, 500 square kilometers and 189 settlements this year. The rate of advance of the Russian military now averages about 30 square kilometers per day.
- This year alone, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine exceeded 560,000 soldiers killed and wounded. The total Ukrainian losses amounted to almost 1,000 000 servicemen. The Ukrainian military lost more than 40,000 soldiers in the Kursk region alone.
- The Armed Forces of Ukraine are forced to go on the defensive and use reserves, the staffing of Ukrainian units on the frontlines does not exceed 45-50%.
- In 2024, Russian air defense shot down 86 Storm Shadow and Scalp missiles, 215 ATACMS, 1629 HIMARS rockets and more than 27,000 drones.
- Over 427,000 servicemen signed contract and entered service with the Russian army in 2024. More than 1,200 people sign a contract every day.
- Compared to 2022, the supply of upgraded tanks has increased 7 times, infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers 3 times, unmanned vehicles 23 times, artillery ammunition 22 times. Currently, Russian troops use more than 3,000 drones every day, and their number is constantly growing.
- The Russian Defense Ministry should be ready for any development of the situation, including a possible military conflict with NATO in Europe in the next decade.
Putin and Belousov once again announced Moscow’s conditions for the start of negotiations:
- The realities on the frontlines should be taken into account, that is, four former regions of Ukraine within their borders from 2014 should be considered the Russian territory.
- The points of the thwarted Istanbul Agreements that include “denazification, neutralization, demilitarization” may worsen for the Ukrainian side. If Ukraine refuses to negotiate, the agreement conditions will worsen in the future.
- If Kiev refuses to negotiate, it will achieve its goals militarily and the Ukrainian positions on the frontlines will worsen.
erdogan fool putin and finally succeed to convince and betray assad.before russians went into syria assad used to fight with his army against turkey ,usa,france,jordan,israel,britain and lots of puppets.
türkiye, having fired a single shot, has driven the russian army out of syria. turkey’s goal is to drive all foreign actors out of syria. assad is a monster who massacred his own people. the ultimate goal is the liberation of palestine.
on monday vladimir putin stated in a meeting with top russian defense ministry officials that the west is pushing russia beyond its red line with the recent escalations of using ukraine to bomb deep inside russia.
“the tactic is very simple: they push us to ‘a red line’, from which we can not retreat, we start to respond and then they immediately scare their population – in the old days it was with the soviet threat and now it’s with the russian threat,” putin said monday.
“one last positive point here: politics is rich with irony, and the u.s. debate on russian aggression in ukraine is no exception. the reason for biden’s timidity was that putin got into his head with his nuclear threats, even as ukraine and the west moved past numerous kremlin ‘red lines’ with no sight of a mushroom cloud on the horizon,” the atlantic council said november 18. regardless of western outlets and think tanks flirting with ending the world in a game of ‘poke the bear’.
and another russian “warning “.. russia warns israel against annexing golan heights
deputy foreign minister sergey ryabkov has advised “hotheads” in west jerusalem to refrain from trying to exploit the situation in syria 🇸🇾.. does putin ever get tired of “warnings” ..maybe.. just maybe.. some day he will step up to the plate..!
dont forget to mention to liberate all nonmuslims and from their lifes just like they did in turkey in the past. and of course the kill the kurds as well.
assad biggest mistake was to invite putin instead of russian army.when 250 wagners and some russian soldiers were bomb by france,britain an usa putin deny that their died.putin settle turkey and usa/nato in syria.
assads mistake was to think he could choose between the quatari/ us and the iranian/ russian pipeline deal. he looked at the deals and probably failed to read the fineprint in the us offer “if you pick our contract we wont throw your country into chaos and kick you out of office”. ghadaffi made the same mistake when he took the chinese offer. china didnt even care to evacuate him.
mr putin looking stressed and worried and tired like he does not sleep anymore. now him and mr med and mr lav whining that all russia redlines have been crossed, its better to keep quiet. haloo where is the oreshnik, oooh it under development and testing so does not really exist. the g7 eu us and uk are increasing pressure and are notvafraid of redlines. there seems is nowhere left to go and looks like to give up and to retreat out of ukraine.
if russia leaves ukraine the smo would not end but then be fought on russian soil. the zionists/globalists want to destroy any government they can not control.
be rest assured they would do it if they could but the west has prepared the russian demise. the ukrainians and voluntarys from western and pro western countrys (incl. now syria) would follow the russian forces and bring the war to russia. the goal was never to safe ukraine but to destroy russia and take its ressources and deny china the energy they need. now they can either win or die.
regarding ukraine, when will you understand that the west wants the war to last as long as possible. the longer the war is the weaker russia becomes. the ukrainians are the sacrifices of the western game.
the dnieper should be the new border and odessa added transnistria
there where a couple territorys which had 2014 and even 2022 still a relative big number of pro russians living there. dnipro was not one of them. the only regions who would have ever been ok with living under russian rule were crimea, donetks, lugankst, kharkiv and odessa. everyone else hated them at least since the 90s or in the case of the galician west since forever.