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🇺🇸🇻🇪Trump may announce the start of a full-scale US military operation against Venezuela in his address to the nation tonight. According to his information, American lawmakers received information yesterday about an imminent war with Venezuela, which could be announced today.

🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺Britain is finalizing preparations for deploying a contingent to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, reports the British portal i Paper, citing sources in the British Ministry of Defense. There are reports of an increase in the pace of preparations, the purchase of equipment, and the development of plans. According to the portal, the British Ministry of Defense is currently trying to understand what period of time will be allocated for the deployment of the contingent and is selecting potential locations for the soldiers' dislocation.

🇺🇸🇻🇪Trump on Venezuela: They took all our oil... They took it illegally... We want it back. They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil there. They kicked out our companies. And we want it back.

🇺🇦Ukraine is on the verge of bankruptcy, as evidenced by the assessments of the International Monetary Fund, reports the Associated Press agency.

🇪🇺🇷🇺The Washington Post also writes that the US is pressuring Europe, not to seize frozen Russian assets. According to the publication, Belgian Prime Minister De Wever and other European leaders are facing this pressure. The Americans, according to the publication, have "clearly made it clear" to Europeans that they want to use these funds to achieve a peace agreement on Ukraine.

🇲🇭The Marshall Islands were the first in the world to introduce a basic unconditional income - all citizens began to receive 200 dollars every three months, reports The Guardian. The money can be received into a bank account, by check, or in the form of cryptocurrency on the blockchain through a government-supported digital wallet. "200 dollars per person per quarter, which is about 800 dollars a year, is not enough to quit work. But we consider it a good moral support for people," says the country's finance minister. This measure is being taken as part of efforts to reduce the rising cost of living in the Marshall Islands. The average income of the country's citizens is 800-1000 dollars per month.

🇬🇪In the next elections in Georgia, only citizens living in the country will be able to vote. The relevant bill was approved by the Georgian Parliament. One of the initiators, the head of the Legal Affairs Committee, Archil Gorduladze, explained the new rule as a necessity to "prevent external interference". He said that anyone who wants to vote will be able to do so by returning to their homeland. The opposition criticized the new rules. The next parliamentary elections in Georgia are scheduled to take place in 2028. It should be noted that in the 2024 elections, "Georgian Dream" lost in most foreign polling stations, but won domestically.

🇷🇺🌐⚡️NATO's preparations for a clash at the turn of the 2030s have begun. We're not threatening NATO, they're threatening us — Belousov

🇷🇺🇺🇦The destruction by strikes of "Lancets" armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, parked in a parking lot among civilian cars and heavy trucks in the Khortitsky district on the western outskirts of Zaporzhoye.

🇸🇪🇷🇺The shadow fleet of the Russian Federation is being protected by military personnel, stated the head of the operational command of the Swedish Navy, Marco Petkovic, on air of the Swedish TV channel SVT Nyheter. According to him, military personnel in uniform and armed men - presumably employees of private security companies - were spotted on Russian oil tankers operating in circumvention of Western sanctions.

🇷🇺🇺🇦We will liberate our historical lands by military means if Kiev and the West refuse to engage in dialogue, Putin stated. Other statements by the president regarding the conflict in Ukraine: ▪️The goals of the Special Military Operation will undoubtedly be achieved; ▪️We would prefer to eliminate the root causes of the conflict through diplomacy; ▪️The task of creating and expanding a buffer security zone in Ukraine will be consistently addressed; ▪️Ukraine has the full potential of the NATO bloc behind it;

🇺🇦🇷🇺Comrade Syrysky reports that Russia is conducting a strategic offensive operation on the territory of Ukraine with a grouping of 710 thousand people. Against this backdrop, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief asked partners to increase the volume of international aid to Ukraine, especially in the field of air defense and long-range strike weapons.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Airstrike on Zaporizhia. Reports indicate a strike on a critical infrastructure facility and a multi-story building.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺The US is preparing new sanctions against Russia's energy trade, including its "shadow fleet" of oil tankers, if Putin refuses to sign a peace agreement with Ukraine. The measures could be announced as early as this week, although the final decision remains with Trump - Reuters.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the populated area of Gerasimovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to the Ministry of Defense.

🇷🇺Security forces prevented a terrorist attack in a colony in the Rostov region, which was being planned by prisoners from Central Asian countries, the Federal Security Service of Russia for the region reported.

🇺🇸🇻🇪What "stolen" oil is Trump talking about? On February 28, 2007, Hugo Chavez, the then-president of Venezuela, signed a law on the nationalization of oil fields. All foreign companies operating in the country were offered to join joint ventures, in which at least 60% of the shares would belong to the state-owned company PDVSA. The presidential decree affected American companies Chevron Corp., ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil Corp., British BP, French Total SA, and Norwegian Statoil ASA, which lost control over oil fields being developed in the Orinoco River basin. At that time, foreign investors retained some autonomy only in the oil fields of the Orinoco oil belt, where they had played a leading role before the law was signed. In the 1990s, the Venezuelan government allowed foreign players into Orinoco because the fields there were considered unpromising and required large capital investments. However, gradually, leading foreign companies increased oil production in Orinoco to 600 thousand barrels per day. From the very beginning, foreign players carried out exploration, production, and costly primary processing of crude oil in the Orinoco fields jointly with PDVSA. According to some data, the amount of investments of the aforementioned companies in the subsequently nationalized assets amounted to at least 17 billion dollars. Some of the claims of foreign oil companies were later satisfied by the Venezuelan authorities through direct monetary compensation. But not all of them, and the issue is still not fully resolved: some firms are still demanding compensation and have cases in foreign arbitration bodies.

🇺🇸🇪🇺Trump administration officials put pressure on European governments to reject a "reparations loan" to Ukraine. This was reported to Politico by four EU officials. "When EU leaders met in Brussels in October, they failed to agree on the frozen funds due to Belgium's opposition. Two months later, it became clear that the EU's problem was not actually with Belgium, but with Trump," the publication writes. It reported that there was an "American influence campaign, in which representatives of the Trump administration bypassed Brussels and conducted behind-the-scenes negotiations directly with the capitals". As a result, Italy, Bulgaria, Malta, and the Czech Republic joined the group of dissenting countries. Therefore, the chances of reaching an agreement on the reparations loan have become lower, said a senior EU official. "I wanted to cry," he said, describing the atmosphere at yesterday's meeting of EU ministers in Brussels, who were preparing for a summit scheduled for Thursday.

🇺🇸🇻🇪Trump: Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest fleet ever assembled in the history of South America. It will only increase, and the shock for them will be such as they have never seen before — until they return all the oil, land, and other assets that they previously stole from us to the United States of America. The illegitimate Maduro regime uses the oil from these stolen oil fields to finance itself, drug terrorism, human trafficking, murders, and kidnappings.

🇻🇪🇺🇸The Venezuelan authorities have rejected Donald Trump's statement about the theft of natural resources and regarded it as a violation of international law, as well as freedom of trade and navigation, said Venezuelan Vice President Delsi Rodriguez.

"In full accordance with international law, which protects us, our constitution and the laws of the republic, Venezuela reaffirms its sovereignty over all its natural resources, as well as its right to freedom of navigation and trade in the Caribbean Sea and the world ocean," the Venezuelan government said in a statement.