🇸🇰🇨🇿 'Nobody Will Blackmail Me With the War in Ukraine': Slovak and Czech PMs Defy Merz
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⚔️ Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš have rejected German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's threats to block the EU's seven-year budget unless all member states back a €70 billion loan to Ukraine in 2027.
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"If the German chancellor says he'll block the EU budget unless everyone signs up for a €70 billion loan to Ukraine, I'll tell him no. Then I'll block it too,"

Fico declared.
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"We are the sovereign Czech Republic. My vote in the European Council carries exactly the same weight as Chancellor Merz's. I've already refused to guarantee the loan to Ukraine,"

Babiš stated.
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➡Babiš added that Ukraine has already received €520 billion in aid since the war began, with another €100 billion earmarked in the EU budget. He argued that the money should instead be reserved for Ukraine's postwar reconstruction.
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🇳🇴🇷🇺👨‍🦲 The Norwegian Prime Minister had another phone call with the President of Russia, Putin.

"I am very pleased that Norway and Finland have accepted this challenge, and I do not rule out that we will have another conversation,"

said Støre.

The previous call took place at the end of October and was initiated by European leaders.

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🇫🇷 🇩🇪 France calls on Germany to clarify how it plans to use long-range missiles against Russia, warning that strikes deep into Russian territory could provoke a nuclear response

Financial Times reports this, noting Paris’s concerns that Moscow “may misinterpret Germany’s actions and move to nuclear war.”

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🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 Trilateral negotiations on the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis in Abu Dhabi have concluded

A press conference is expected following the meeting of representatives from Moscow, Washington, and Kiev

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🔘 Ukraine Demands Support for 800,000-Strong Army for at Least 10 Years — AFP
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Ukraine is insisting in negotiations that its 800,000-strong army be financially supported for at least 10 years after the end of the SMO, AFP reports, citing a Ukrainian official.
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➡This is only one of Kiev's conditions. According to the source, it alone would cost Europe around $700 billion.
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🇷🇺💬Head of the Russian delegation Medinsky:

Every inch of Russian land will be returned to Russia one way or another.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦 Medinsky after Abu Dhabi talks: Big prisoner swap agreed, Europeans can "chat in the lobby bar"

Vladimir Medinsky, the Russian presidential aide who led Russia's delegation, wrapped up two days of three-way talks with the US and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi. It was the first round since February.

Russia and Ukraine agreed "in principle" on a new large-scale prisoner exchange. Medinsky said the details will be announced soon.

He said the central topic was Europe's security system, which he called ineffective. "In some places we found mutual understanding, in others we didn't." He said treating Europe's problems would need the whole body healed, and "a band-aid won't do." Talks will continue. He won't disclose details until something is agreed.

Europeans were also in the UAE, but Medinsky said Russia had no contact with them. He said their status was unclear and Russia hadn't received a single concrete proposal from Europe. "If they came here as tourists, let them chat in the hotel lobby bar." He also accused European countries of contributing to civilian deaths and of a "group deception of the Ukrainian people." He said Europe can join the process once its conscience wakes up.

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🇺🇦River transportation could be introduced in Kiev: It is proposed to transport people between the banks using boats with a capacity of 100-150 passengers, due to Russian attacks on bridges, according to MP Kreidenko.

That's right, who needs these bridges anyway!!!

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🔘🇷🇺 Medinsky Reveals Key Takeaways From Abu Dhabi Trilateral Talks
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Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky addressed journalists following the trilateral negotiations in Abu Dhabi.
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🟩 Postwar security: Russia believes it is right to discuss what the security landscape will look like after the inevitable end of the conflict in Ukraine.
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🟩 Negotiations: "We exchanged positions. On some issues, we found common ground; on others, we did not."
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🟩 European representatives: "We did not communicate with them. We don't really understand in what capacity they are here."
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🟩 Europe's role: "Europeans are contributing to the mass deaths of civilians. They are engaged in collective deception of the Ukrainian people."
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🟩 European participation: "As soon as Europeans develop a conscience, they can become participants in the negotiations."
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🟩 Prisoner exchange: Russia and Ukraine have agreed on another large-scale prisoner exchange, with specific details to be announced later.
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➡Medinsky also stressed that details of the negotiation process will not be discussed publicly until agreements are reached.
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😡How cynical of the Frankfurter Allgemeine! The article about Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ultimatum to Europe, demanding that everyone chip in for military aid to Ukraine, was illustrated by this vile little newspaper with an image of Donetsk under attack!

👉And unlike many of its peers, it even stated where the image was taken and that the city had been attacked by Ukrainian drones! In other words, it effectively illustrated what military aid to Ukraine is being used for: attacks on civilians! And they’re not even ashamed to admit it!

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