The Ukrainian Defense Forces attacked the Novocherkassk landing ship in the occupied port of Feodosia with two British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles. The port of Feodosia is protected by several S-400 Triumph divisions of the 31st Air Defense Division of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which recently discovered problems with target identification. This time, the S-400 missed two cruise missiles, which were launched from aircraft over the territory of Ukraine and in order to reach Feodosia they had to fly at least 250 km. across the occupied territory of Ukraine. I don’t think that after such incidents, Russian S-400s will be bought by other countries on the international market.

Putin cannot stop the war in Ukraine and withdraw his troops from there for the reason that then he will immediately lose authority both among the elite and ordinary citizens of Russia and, most likely, will be removed or killed. Therefore, already fighting for his life, he will send more and more thousands of mobilized people into the furnace of war. But the mobilized citizens of Russia are not mindless cattle that can be sent to slaughter for a long time. Now, during active assaults on Ukrainian positions, over a thousand Russian occupiers die every day.

After the invasion in February 2022, Russia, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has already lost more than 356,000 of its soldiers and officers, 5,940 tanks, 11,025 armored vehicles, 329 aircraft, 324 helicopters, 8,391 artillery systems, 945 MLRS, 617 air defense systems, 23 ships and boats , as well as other military equipment.

  Russia has a lot of resources, but they also tend to run out. Instead of improving the quality of life in its country, Russia now produces weapons in three shifts, which are destroyed in the war, and the citizens of the country only become poorer, a significant part of them die at the front in Ukraine. Putin can be stopped by food and bloody riots or mass unrest in the regions with the aim of separating from the central government of the Kremlin and creating independent republics. We will be able to see all this already next year, 2024.

The Novocherkassk landing craft was built in Poland under the USSR and put into operation in 1987. At the same time, from 1990 to 2007, Novocherkassk was mothballed. And only after that he was introduced into the active composition of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Thus, it was used in the Navy for only 16 years. In fact, this is the newest ship of its class.

On March 24, 2022, exactly a month after the start of the Russian invasion, Novocherkassk was already coming under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Berdyansk port, when another large landing ship, Saratov, was destroyed, since the missile strike fell on the front, bow part of the ship, where the explosive cargo was located , then it not only burned, but detonated for several hours. Therefore, the ship was almost completely burned out.

According to preliminary data, Novocherkassk carried 4,400 artillery shells and 280 missiles for the Grad MLRS. Information about the Shahed-131/136 attack UAVs on board is being clarified.

According to information from Russian telegram channels, 23 crew members were found burned in their cabins. However, at the time of impact there were 62 crew members on board. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the death of one serviceman

You can also see photos of the ship after the fire online. More precisely, what is left of him. The entire front half of the ship is now under water, it has completely disappeared. Large wreckage of the ship is now shown 650 meters away. The force of the explosions was so great that the nearby training vessel UTS-150 of the Black Sea Fleet also sank. To downplay the losses (Novocherkassk is estimated at about $8 million), Russia came up with the idea that they shot down two Ukrainian Armed Forces aircraft that were launching a missile attack on it.

https://focus.ua/voennye-novosti/615552-obuglennyj-metall-vyglyadyvaet-iz-vody-obnarodovali-foto-togo-chto-ostalos-ot-bdk-novocherkassk

https://www.dialog.ua/war/287164_1703613530

I see that you have absolutely no grasp of the situation that occurred before the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Thanks to the pro-Russian leadership at that time, led by President Yanukovych, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had very low combat effectiveness and strength. According to the acting Ukrainian resident Turchynov, after Yanukovych fled Ukraine, there were about six thousand combat-ready troops in Ukraine at that time. Therefore, Russia captured the Crimean peninsula almost without firing a single shot.
What kind of military maneuvers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on borders are you talking about, and even with the participation of NATO? This is complete nonsense.

Putin’s Russia has long been hatching plans to seize Ukraine, and it would still find a pretext for this. And as a matter of fact, this pretext, like the pretext for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, is periodically changed in the Kremlin to this day.

The Black Sea waters are gradually getting rid of the presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which terrorized shipping in this sea and tried to block the export of agricultural products by Ukraine from its ports for supply to the world market.

Today, December 26, at about 02:30, tactical aviation of the Ukrainian Air Force attacked the large landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet "Novocherkassk" with cruise missiles in the port of occupied Feodosia. The ship carried ammunition, as well as possibly Iranian drones, which were nicknamed "Shaheds" because the ship was detonated for several hours after the large explosions. At that time, loading and unloading operations were taking place on the ship, so the entire crew of the ship, numbering 90 people, was present. According to preliminary data, the ship and its crew sank.

In addition, over the past three days, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have shot down five Russian fighter-bombers: four of the latest SU-34 and one SU-30 in southern Ukraine. The occupiers cannot understand why Ukraine is shooting down their planes, they have strengthened reconnaissance and at the same time reduced air attacks.

https://tsn.ua/ru/exclusive/vsu-unichtozhili-desantnyy-korabl-novocherkassk-chto-izvestno-o-nochnoy-bavovne-v-krymu-foto-video-2479468.html

If the coronavirus originated and was released intentionally or by negligence as a biological weapon, then it was unlikely to be produced to restrain economic growth in one or more states. Most likely, it was developed to reduce the total population on our planet. Such viruses cannot be directed to a specific country and keep it there within its borders. What it was, perhaps we will ever find out. But perhaps this will remain a big secret. It must be assumed that we will see the appearance of such viruses more than once.

Scientists around the world are working to develop "artificial suns" - devices that generate energy by heating hydrogen atoms to temperatures above 100 million degrees Celsius and holding them long enough for them to fuse to form heavier atoms. A similar process occurs inside our sun, combining hydrogen atoms and releasing energy, light and heat.

China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said it has reached a major milestone in its quest to create an artificial sun powered by nuclear fusion, generating a plasma current of more than 1 million amps for the first time.

However, the challenge is to control this process so that the reactor does not explode when replicating the process on Earth. China is also cooperating with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world's largest fusion reactor, which is being built in France jointly by the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States.

I remember that the predictions of the famous Bulgarian soothsayer Vanga said that we would be able to launch several of these “artificial suns” in low orbit and they would evenly illuminate our planet around the clock, since, like the sun, this reaction releases light and heat. These will be balls with a diameter of approximately six meters. But after some time, two of them will collide in the sky. However, all the same, this will be the greatest progress in the field of providing people with clean and inexhaustible energy.

Yes, indeed, the use of thermonuclear fusion in the energy sector may become a turning point in assessing the safety of nuclear energy. Recently, many countries have begun to abandon nuclear power plants precisely because of problems with their safety during periods of increased seismological activity and other climatic anomalies, as well as an increase in the frequency of man-made disasters, including at nuclear power plants.

Along with improving technologies for using renewable energy sources, humanity can solve the problem of energy shortages and finally get rid of the use of fossil fuels, which pollute our planet and lead to drastic negative climate change.

Putin during the "Direct Line" on December 14 did not directly nam the losses of the Russian army in their attempt to seize Ukraine. However, these losses are easy to calculate from what they were published.

So, according to Putin, the number of Russian group is now reaching 617 thousand people, of which 244 thousand mobilized fights at the front. In the war there are also 486 thousand volunteers who, on their own initiative, signed a contract.

By the time of the military invasion of Russia in Ukraine, the group was 250 thousand people.

At the same time, 41 thousand mobilized were fired due to age, that is, this amount does not apply to losses.

If out of 617 thousand of the composition of the Russian army, subtract all the above categories of war participants and add 41 thousand those who were sent back to Russia by age, the number of irrevocable losses of the Russian Federation in the war with Ukraine will be about 322 thousand soldiers.

The irretrievable losses include the dead and the wounded. As for the losses of private military companies, then, according to Putin, according to Russian law, they do not exist, therefore it is impossible to count. Therefore, the real figure of Russian losses is much higher.

Sources:
https://apostrophe.ua/news/world/2023-12-14/putin-na-pryamoy-linii-progovorilsya-poteryah-rossiyan-v-voyne-skolko-priehalo-iz-ukraini/31 0356

A link to Putin’s video about the loss of the army, including as follows from Russia itself

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=8yLnRE1qOlUz8Xyt&v=sEgw2OrqWTo&feature=youtu.be

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=vybaCgXko_J27wkR&v=OGpR9WU6RB0&feature=youtu.be

Closed to these figures is evaluated by the losses of Russians and American intelligence, indicating that Russia has already lost 315 thousand of its troops in Ukraine.

According to official data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the irretrievable losses of Russians in Ukraine amount to 351,350 military personnel.

It is foolish to deny the negative impact of war on the development of cryptocurrency. War is the total destruction of people, the environment, and material wealth. It all depends on the size of the territories that are at war. If people die, their cryptocurrency wallets with the cryptocurrency in them disappear forever from the market. In these cases, the cryptocurrency market cannot react with price movements. And in war-torn zones, there are other problems than determining the damage caused by the war to cryptocurrency. And this is still impossible to determine due to the specifics of the functioning of cryptocurrency.
In addition, during the period of expanding military conflicts, states are forced to tighten the circulation of cryptocurrency, fighting against the illegal proliferation of weapons and the financing of terrorism.

Stopping the war in your understanding and Putin’s understanding is the complete capitulation of Ukraine with the disappearance of this state from the world map and the forced transformation of Ukrainians into new Russians through blackmail, intimidation, mass deportation to remote areas of Russia, as well as torture and mass physical destruction of the dissatisfied. Ukrainians already went through this as part of the USSR; they already saw the prospect of surrender in Bucha and other de-occupied settlements, where each had special torture chambers and mass graves of killed and tortured civilian and military Ukrainians. Such a stop to the war, after which even more Ukrainians will die, is not for Ukraine.

Ukraine will resist the invasion of the Russians as best it can and has already dispelled the myth of the invincibility of the Russian “second army of the world,” which has been trying to capture the small town of Avdievka for three months now and has so far made little progress in the area of the landfill and industrial zone.

Ukraine will be able to defend its freedom and independence, and Russia will face a sad end.

However, in general this statement is true. States will legalize cryptocurrency if at least general control over the movement of funds in cryptocurrency is observed. You should always remember that it is much easier to prohibit than to control some process. Therefore, KYC will in the future spread almost everywhere where cryptocurrency will be converted into fiat. Especially now, when military conflicts are growing, the demand for weapons is growing and various terrorist associations are raising their heads.

I agree that piracy in any case negatively affects the image and economy of the countries where this illegal fishing is carried out. Areas where piracy is recorded try to bypass merchant ships, which means states there will lose profits from a decrease in the number of trade transactions.

Piracy is not carried out by the state, but by individuals. Today they can capture a merchant ship, and tomorrow they will attack the decoy ship and destroy all the pirates. After all, international society will not tolerate such facts of open violence for a long time. Piracy must be fought extremely harshly, and if you try to attack merchant ships, everyone must simply be destroyed. This is the only way to restore order and calm in such regions.

I wonder what arguments you have that Ukrainian President Zelensky killed one million people?
Meanwhile, Putin has indeed already killed even more than a million people, both Ukrainians and Russians, unleashing one of the most brutal wars in Ukraine. During the “direct line” on December 14, he admitted that the irretrievable losses of Russian troops in Ukraine amount to more than 300 thousand people. This is how you need to destroy your people for the sake of your imperial ambitions to forcibly recreate the new USSR. But after all, Putin’s efforts lead to the exact opposite result. It is likely that in a few years we will be able to observe how great Russia will disintegrate into separate independent republics, the central power of which was maintained only by the repression of the security forces.

Russia can gradually be written off from the category of economically and technologically powerful countries in the world with great military potential. Now in Ukraine its military power is being destroyed at a rapid pace and Putin’s Russia is forced to direct its economic potential into the military sphere, while exposing the financing of everything else that is not related to the war against Ukraine. Having attacked Ukraine, Putin counted on a quick victory and now cannot come out of this war with dignity, which turned out to be a war of depletion of its resources against the resources of the Western world, including the United States. It is already quite obvious that Russia is losing in this confrontation. After the war with Ukraine, Russia will emerge weakened, with a undermined economy, high inflation and high prices. Of course, if it remains a single state at all, of which there are serious doubts. Ukraine may bury Russia’s former power forever.

As for China, this country always takes into account its interests. China is now helping Russia a little and behind the scenes in order to then, without war, seize its territories, which it has long considered its own, and not only these territories. This process has actually already begun and Putin has no choice but to come to terms with it.

The reality is that if humanity wants to survive the drastic ongoing climate change, then gasoline and diesel engines must be abandoned decisively and quickly. This must happen despite economic problems and losses. If this is not done, then there will be even more losses in the future. In some regions the planet will become unsuitable for human habitation. Natural disasters will intensify throughout the planet, which we can already observe. Therefore, where carbon dioxide emissions occur, the fight must be tough and uncompromising. For this reason, old cars with petrol and diesel engines should be disposed of as quickly as possible.

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Russia's colossal losses in manpower and equipment on the Ukrainian fronts are directly related to global food security, because the higher they are, the calmer the rest of the world will live. After all, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet with missiles and drones and it was forced, for the sake of its safety, to move away from the shores of Ukraine, the “grain corridor” from Ukraine found a second life. According to the Administration of Seaports of Ukraine, over 11 months of continuous production, cargo turnover increased by 597%. During this hour, Ukrainian ports handled 52.8 million tons of cargo. This is 7.2 million tons more than last year.
The faster the Ukrainian Armed Forces defeat the hordes of Russian orcs, the faster peaceful life and supplies of products from Ukraine to countries in need will improve.

As for my participation in this war, I had already served my time and at the age of 40, in 2002, with the special rank of lieutenant colonel, I retired. But if necessary, I have not yet forgotten how to handle weapons. By the way, I served in military service in 1980-1982 in the city of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region, where there was “training” on the MAZ-543 for missile units. These vehicles, in various modifications as special equipment, are taking an active part in this war.

And about the short life expectancy of a Ukrainian soldier on the front line, Medvedev probably came up with it after a long drinking binge?

Today, during a direct line, Putin for the first time acknowledged the colossal losses of Russians in the war against Ukraine, which amounted to 363 thousand military personnel.
Thus, he stated that the invading army numbered approximately 250 thousand people. Then 244 thousand were mobilized to the front and 486 thousand volunteers were recruited under contract, which together amounts to 980 thousand. Also, according to Putin, 617 thousand Russians are now taking part at the front. Thus, direct losses amount to 363 thousand.

This is even slightly more than what is officially reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which states that Russian losses amount to 342,800 people. In the last 24 hours alone, Russian losses at the front amount to 1,300 people.

Source:
https://uanews.net/ru/post/287421

The process of climate change on our planet has started and has become almost irreversible. It will take a lot of effort from almost all countries to correct the situation. And since all countries are unlikely to agree on joint actions even under the threat of major disasters, the ongoing process will only accelerate, and therefore the melting of glaciers is inevitable. Maps are already being published about which regions and in which countries flooding will occur. Along with this, the climate will change very sharply, since the direction of currents, winds, warm and cold atmospheric fronts will change and often simply cannot be predicted.