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Russian Foreign Minister Claims the United States and NATO are Trying to Defeat Russia On the Battlefield

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In an interview with Russian state media outlet TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov proclaimed that the United States and its NATO allies are aiming to achieve victory over Russia on the battlefield in Ukraine. Since Russia launched its special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the Collective West has flooded Ukraine with copious amounts of economic and military aid.

The latter aid is designed to turn Ukraine into a Western proxy against Russia in hopes of creating a prolonged conflict that would degrade Russia’s military capacity. Some elements of the national security state want to create an Afghanistan 2.0 scenario in Ukraine so as to bleed Russia dry.

“The actions by the collective West and their puppet [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky confirm the global nature of the Ukrainian crisis. It is no secret that the strategic goal of the US and its NATO allies is to win a victory over Russia on the battlefield as a mechanism of weakening or even destroying our country,” Lavrov highlighted. “Our opponents will just do about anything to achieve this goal,” he added.

Lavrov believes that the US stands to benefit most from a “hot conflict” in Ukraine, in which it can extract large economic and strategic benefits.

“Washington has also been solving a key geopolitical goal of breaking the traditional bonds between Russia and Europe and making their European satellites even more dependent on them,” Lavrov stressed.

From a big picture perspective, the Russian foreign minister may be on the mark here. Historically, Anglo-American geopolitics is centered on the principles of divide and rule. Namely, preventing a unified Europe, especially a Europe that’s integrated with Russia. The Russo-Ukrainian war, especially the West’s involvement in the conflict, has facilitated this wedge between Russia and Europe. Europe is not only disconnected from Russian oil and gas, but it’s also now more dependent on the US for security affairs. Due to the large amounts of military aid European countries have sent to Ukraine, these countries will have to increasingly turn to the US for weaponry due to their depleted munitions stocks.

The US national security state is a clear winner in this conflict, while the Middle Americans and most of continental Europe comes out on the losing end. As is life in the Globalist American Empire.
 
Russian soldiers released from Ukrainian captivity Defense Ministry
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Freed servicemen will now be airlifted to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation, the military said


Some 82 Russian servicemen were released from Kiev-controlled territories on New Year's Eve as a result of negotiations, the country's Defense Ministry announced in a statement on Saturday.

The POWs were facing "mortal danger in captivity," the ministry added, in a post on Telegram.

"Russian Aerospace Forces' aircraft will transport the released servicemen to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation at medical institutions of the Russian Defense Ministry," the military said. It added that the soldiers were also receiving the necessary psychological assistance.


The acting head of the Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said on Telegram that in the latest of a series of such swaps, Russia and Ukraine exchanged 82 prisoners on each side.

Later on Saturday, Kiev confirmed the exchange. According to Andrey Yermak, chief-of-staff for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, "140 people are returning home," including 82 soldiers from the country's armed forces.

"132 men and eight women, 22 officers and 118 sergeants and soldiers," he announced in a post on social media.

Saturday's swap marks the third this month. The previous exchange was reported by the Russian military on December 6, when 60 servicemen were freed. Another 50 POWs returned from Ukrainian captivity on December 1.
 
Ukraine is attacking Belgorod, Russia tonight.

Happy New Year’s Eve Russia. The fireworks are just starting. twitter.com/MWspecter/stat…
 
Published December 31, 2022 8:31am EST

Russia readies air defenses over Moscow, gives shelter maps to border city ahead of New Year
Russia prepares for possible strikes ahead of New Years celebrations

Caitlin McFall By Caitlin McFall | Fox News

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RUSSIA Published December 31, 2022 8:31am EST
Russia readies air defenses over Moscow, gives shelter maps to border city ahead of New Year
Russia prepares for possible strikes ahead of New Years celebrations
Caitlin McFall By Caitlin McFall | Fox News

Russia on Saturday stationed air defenses over Moscow and handed out shelter directions to citizens in Belgorod near the Ukrainian border in preparation for New Years festivities.

Some 2,000 servicemen will oversee Moscow’s air defenses while "on duty at combat posts on New Year's Eve," Russia’s defense ministry said according to state owned media outlet, TASS.

"In total for the period of the New Year holidays and weekends, about 20 thousand military personnel of the air defense-missile defense formation of the Aerospace Forces will be on combat duty for air defense," the outlet said on Telegram.


Light decorations installed for the coming new year in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 22, 2022.
Light decorations installed for the coming new year in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 22, 2022. (Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

US NEITHER 'ENCOURAGED NOR ENABLED' UKRAINE TO STRIKE ACROSS RUSSIAN BORDERS: BLINKEN

The ministry did not say whether it assessed there will be an attack on the capital city as the new year rolls in, though according to Ukrainian news outlet Pravda, Russia is also prepping areas along the Ukrainian border.

The region of Belgorod – which shares a border with Ukraine’s Kharkiv oblast and who's regional capital sits roughly 20 miles inland from the border – has seen several strikes in recent months as Ukrainian forces have pushed the frontline further east.


According to the Ukrainian news outlet, Russian authorities have provided residents in the region with maps for shelters in the city in case of renewed attacks.

Russia is accusing Ukraine of being behind the explosion and fire.
Russia is accusing Ukraine of being behind the explosion and fire. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

KYIV, LVIV WITHOUT POWER AFTER RUSSIA LAUNCHES 'MASS’ AIR AND SEA BASED CRUISE MISSILE ATTACK ACROSS UKRAINE

Ukraine ousted Russian forces from Kharkiv in September and by October Belgorod reportedly began to see an increase in shelling.


The regional governor claimed a massive fire broke out in mid-October after shelling fell on a Russian oil depot.

Shelling in the region then killed two in November and power lines were reportedly damaged in early December.

A police expert holds a fragment of a drone with a handwritten inscription reading "For Belgorod. For Luch" after a drone attack in Kyiv on Oct. 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
A police expert holds a fragment of a drone with a handwritten inscription reading "For Belgorod. For Luch" after a drone attack in Kyiv on Oct. 17, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Another shelling incident was reported on Dec. 18 in which one person was killed, eight others injured and a dozen residential building damaged, according to the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov.

It remains unclear if the incidents in Belgorod were intentional and the Ukrainian government has not publicly commented on strikes that have targeted several Russian locations, including at least four separate strikes on Russian bases earlier this month.
 
Ukraine anashambulia Russia muda huu

Happy new year Russia

BREAKING:
Explosions reported in Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh and Rostov moments ago.

The picture is from Rostov.

Happy New Year’s Eve to Russia from Ukraine.
 
Oleksiy Danilov, the head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has sent a New Year’s greeting to the Russian people.

He decided to remind that the every Russian will feel the consequences of the war sooner or later as the war drags on.
 
Urusi inashambulia Ukraine muda huu

[emoji298]️Air defense is working in Kyiv region, — the head of Regional Military Administration Kuleba said.
 
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