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TASS reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost 906,500 servicemen—killed and wounded—since the beginning of the special military operation.

The number of military personnel killed and wounded in 2024 alone was 462,500. This is more than the total number of losses in 2022 and 2023.

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On November 22, 1960, the first batch of compact Zaporozhets cars was produced.

The ZAZ-965 project, based on the Italian FIAT 600, was developed at the Moscow Compact Car Plant. Soviet engineers made numerous modifications to the Italian design, fully adapting it for local roads. One distinctive feature of the Zaporozhets, popularly known as the “Hunchback,” was its engine placement, positioned behind the passenger compartment.

On November 22, 1960, the first batch of ZAZ-965 cars rolled off the assembly line at the Kommunar plant in the Soviet city of Zaporozhye.

The car cost 1,800 rubles (roughly equivalent to 20 average monthly Soviet salaries at the time). Disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War received a ZAZ-965 with manual controls for free, though they were not allowed to sell it.

The Zaporozhets was highly economical, consuming just 4.5 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers (52.3 MPG). It was also known for its good off-road capability and easy maintenance and repair.

In nearly 10 years of production, over 300,000 ZAZ-965 cars of various modifications were produced.

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The Russian army has struck the "Impulse" plant located in Shostka, Sumy Region.

The enterprise had strategic importance for the Ukrainian defense industry.

"Impulse" was the only enterprise in Ukraine capable of producing—from start to finish—a full range of detonators for industrial explosives. The plant’s products were used in the coal and mining industries, metallurgy, heat and power engineering and construction. It also worked for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which made it an important part of the country's military-industrial complex.

Source: @epoddubny

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Twelve people including a female local official were wounded in the center of Gorlovka (DPR).

Ukrainian military were hitting residential neighborhoods with NATO cluster munitions all morning long.

According to objective control data, the attack was launched from Katerinovka, northwest of Toretsk.

Gorlovka residents have suffered massively from Ukrainian shelling since 2014. They are now eagerly awaiting for Toretsk and its surroundings to be captured by the Russian army.

Source: @epoddubny

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❗️Today Russia has tested its newest medium-range "Oreshnik" ballistic missile system under combat conditions.

"Oreshnik" (translates as "hazel") in its non-nuclear hypersonic configuration flies towards the target at a speed of Mach 10 (about 3 km/s), which makes it impossible to intercept by any existing missile defense system in the world.

Following the launch of "Oreshnik," President Vladimir Putin addressed the nation making the following points:

▪️After strikes on Russia with Western missiles, the conflict in Ukraine has become global in nature;

▪️ On November 19, 6 ATACMS missiles were launched at targets in the Bryansk region followed by strikes on the Kursk region with Storm Shadow missiles on November 20. Russian air defense systems repelled the missile attack in Bryansk. Unfortunately, there were casualties in the Kursk region;

▪️ The enemy failed to achieve the goals it set when striking the Russian Federation with Western long-range missiles;

▪️ Russia considers herself entitled to use weapons against military targets of countries that authorize the use of their weapons against Russia;

▪️ Russian forces used the newest medium-range system, the "Oreshnik," on Nov. 21. The target of the Russian strike was a military-industrial facility in Dnepropetrovsk; the target was successfully hit. Russia used a medium-range ballistic missile in a non-nuclear hypersonic configuration.

▪️ In addition to other considerations, the use of "Oreshnik" is a response to US plans to produce and deploy medium-range and shorter-range missiles.

▪️The Russian Federation will give Ukrainian residents an advance warning, so that they could leave the dangerous zone if and when this type of missile is used. Russia will do this for humanitarian reasons openly, publicly, and without fear of response from an adversary who will also receive this information;

▪️Targets for further tests of Russia's newest missile systems will be determined based on threats to the country.

Summarized by @epoddubny

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Battlefront update: Significant Russian gains across Donbass.

▪️Bolshaya Novoselka (Map 1): encirclement is looming. On Wednesday, Russian troops advanced 2km to reach Razdolnoye (north of Bolshaya Novoselka), while to its south they advanced 4km from Novodonetskoe. Two pincers around Bolshaya Novoselka have thus been formed. Moreover, today the Russian army marched 5 kilometers along the highway from Shakhterskoye, and reached the outskirts of Bolshaya Novoselka between the pincers.

▪️Kurakhovo (Map 2): a Ukrainian grouping is encircled in the pocket between Dalnee and Uspenovka, Russian troops fighting in the center of Kurakhovo. On Wednesday, Russian military crossed the reservoir and took control of the elevator, and some high-rise buildings in the center of Kurakhovo. At the same time, north of the reservoir, the Russian Army took Berestki and Solntsevka and reached Starye Terny (Map 3).

▪️Toretsk (Map 4): The Russian advance accelerated after Ukraine moved its best troops to Chasov Yar. Advancing in the center of Toretsk, Russian troops have moved beyond the high-rise buildings and entered the northern outskirts, approching the "Toretskaya" mine. Gains were also made in the area of Zabalka, towards the heaps of the "Tsentralnaya" mine. Should the Ukrainian army lose control of either mine, the rest of Toretsk will become undefendable.

▪️Chasov Yar (Map 5): Fighting for the refractory plant in the city center. Since the Ukrainian army lost control over the positions west of Kleshcheevka, the defense of Chasov Yar has been gradually falling apart, despite reinforcements. The main reason is logistics: rotation has become a lot easier for the Russians, who no longer need to worry about enemy drones attacking from the Kleshcheevka area, while for the Ukrainian army the situation is the opposite.

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Tucker Carlson: Imagine you’re Joe Biden.

In the last six months alone, you’ve lost your throne atop the Democrat Party, your influence in American politics, your dream of incarcerating your top political opponent, and any hope of having a say in the next administration. At the same time, your ineffectual party lost the White House, the Senate, and the House, suffering election-night defeats so humiliating that even MSNBC has come to embrace your incoming predecessor.

It’s safe to say you have nothing left to lose.

In a way, it’s an empowering set of circumstances. Sure, you’re widely regarded as an extraneous afterthought, but you also have the unique opportunity to spend the next two months using the presidency to do whatever you’d like without any possibility of facing the personal or political consequences.

What could anybody do about it, vote you out of office? Already happened. Prosecute you? You’d probably be six feet under before any real investigation got off the ground anyway. The world is your oyster.

So what would you do? Use your final ounces of capital to fight for one last policy to help your voters?

Biden has other ideas. Rather than thanking his constituents for continuously rewarding his mediocrity with reelection after reelection, the outgoing president is proactively endangering them by beating his decades-old war drums one final time.

In the past 72 hours, Biden’s mind-numbing decisions have dragged humanity to the brink of extinction-level violence in the name of a foreign end that has nothing to do with the United States. And it’s been entirely unprompted.

No one baited the president into allowing Ukraine to launch American missiles into Russia. Nor did anyone force his hand into giving Kyiv antipersonnel land mines, continuing to invest billions of taxpayer dollars into the slaughter of a generation of Eastern Europeans, and refusing to facilitate good-faith negotiations in the name of long-lasting peace.

He’s made those decisions because, in his moment of complete liberation, Joe Biden’s top priorities are to stoke global chaos, lure Vladimir Putin into using his nukes, and put America’s interests last.

That will define his legacy.