“These new territories are a major gain for Russia,” the president said. “Even Peter the Great sought access to the Azov Sea, and it is now an internal sea of the Russian Federation.”
“Most importantly, the people who live there showed in a referendum that they want to be in Russia and feel they are part of our world,” Putin said. “They are now with us, millions of them, and that is the greatest outcome.”
Putin cancels annual marathon year-end TV news conference
The event is a staple of Putin's calendar, giving him the chance to showcase his command of issues and his stamina as he sits alone on a stage in a large auditorium for a question-and-answer session with reporters that can last more than four hours.
But the war, which began on Feb. 24, has not gone well for Putin. His forces were beaten back from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on, and have suffered major battlefield setbacks in the east and south of Ukraine.
So there are more and more information leaking that poland is preparing to move into west ukraine next year.
Based on some sources (even US gov) polish army want to increase its power from 170k soldiers to 270k in march 2023 and will train them for 33 days for being offensive (not to defend).
Now there are two diffrent opinions what is happening.
One is claiming polish army is going to move into west ukraine to protect it against russia and create a refferendum to join back to poland and be under polands/nato protection.
Second is claiming poland is going to attack in may 2023︀ west ukraine (since from may ukraine force will be irrelevant) and start a refferendum where︁ there will be not much opposition from a military stand point to be integrated into︂ poland.
Either way the Refferendum part seams to be legit.
Army moving to Ukraine seems︃ also legit as it has been confirmed by diffrent sources.
The only question which leaves︄ is how they will move into ukraine.
I don't know if you know George Friedmen︅ .......the US think tank from STRATFOR.
He claimed already for serveral years that poland will︆ be the big winner from that conflict and should poland really get west ukraine it︇ could mean a lot of financial aid for rebuilding west ukraine which many organisations like︈ the EU declared
I always thought a 'peacekeeping' force was︉ likely.
It's still insane that most people in the UK and USA are buying the︊ idea Ukraine is winning and will prevail. Everyone should read the interview with their armed︋ forces leader in the Economist, it was interesting.
Even a few of the generals in︌ America who have been pushing to the government narrative are planting seeds that Ukraine is︍ struggling. "Done all they can reasonably do"
Do you know what Poland's losses are in︎ Ukraine already? I've read a few stories about quite a lot of families losing sons.️ And you can't hide it for long once people start talking to one another.
There are enough polish︁ army people who went to ukraine for money or carreer.
Officaly they of course asked︂ to step out of polish army first before going to ukraine.
The only diffrence there︃ is a real front not like in iraq or afghanistan
The local administration’s press service said the blast occurred along the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod pipeline. It added that the operating company had been conducting maintenance work on the conduit before the fire broke out.
Of the three dead and one injured, “all of them were working on the gas pipeline,”local emergency services confirmed.
The regional directorate of Russia’s Ministry of Emergency Situations said earlier that the fire was caused by a gas leak at an underground pipeline close to the village of Yambahtino.
Last year , if memory serves well, it was only US and Ukraine against...now tell me in what kind of world we're living...
Most of the against countries form strangely enough the EU territory. What a coincidence!
Truly mindblowing. Videos that good should be behind a paywall, is the creator on Patreon? I would like to support him or her. Although I'm currently a bit cash-strapped as I send Denys Davydov $1000 a month for his excellent work.
I think it's inaccurate.
They want us to to eat insects also and have no cash to completely lose freedom and private opinions.
But, you know, it's XMas...RT must've been merciful..