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🔴❗️🇮🇳🇺🇸 And in a BIG move - Trump announces trade deal with India (something that was being discussed for nearly a year) - at a cost of, as he claims, New Delhi stopping oil purchases from Russia 🇷🇺 Modi confirmed India is now will paying just 18% tariffs for exporting its goods and services to US (Trump has imposed 50% tariff on India in August - out of which 25% were a penalty for buying Russian oil) The big Q is whether India will really stop buying Russian oil (we most certainly won't come to now from officials) and what else India traded to have the deal signed 50% tariff did hurt India already, and would hurt it much more going ahead if the deal wasn't signed. Geopolitically,...

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🔴 Trump asks Putin to pause energy strikes for 1 week? In a major development, Trump claims he personally asked Putin to stop striking Ukraine’s energy infra as millions in Kyiv battle extreme cold without lights & heating “I personally asked President Putin not to fire on Kyiv and the cities and towns for a week during this . . . extraordinary cold,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting on Thursday. “And he agreed to do that. And I have to tell you, it was very nice.” This is happening 5 days after talks in Abu Dhabi, details of which are still unknown. Moscow has not yet reacted to the statement. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov earlier today, commenting on peace talks, said...

Trump: 'because of extreme cold, I personally asked Prez Putin not to fire on Kiev, and cities and towns for a WEEK' 'He agreed to do that, and it was very nice' Ukrainians 'were very happy about it, because they are struggling badly'

🔴 Yesterday’s talk in AbuDhabi didn’t yield any immediate results. But what is different from most other engagements so far: there is a relatively well kept silence on the details of the discussions. Whether this is a sign of seriousness of all the sides, we might come to learn soon. The Davos forum earlier this week demonstrated the complete confusion in the Western camp. Zelensky’s rage is understandable. But Europe has no muscles left, as the Greenland saga demonstrated. What’s more important is that Russia continues its attack on Ukraine’s entry systems, and it’s almost impossible to think how people in Kyiv are surviving the coldest winter so far in this nearly 4-year long confli...

❗️🔴 Images emerge from the first trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 TASS reported, citing sources, that the talks concluded and that territorial issues are still the most complicated. "The withdrawal of the Ukrainian military from Donbass is important and various security parameters are being considered regarding this issue," the source stated. The Russian delegation is headed by Igor Kostyukov, chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Army. The Ukrainian negotiators are led by National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov. https://tass.com/politics/2076305 @RussiaWire

❗️Russian, Ukrainian and US negotiators will hold their first trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi on Friday, a senior Kremlin aide announced after Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump’s envoys in Moscow on Thursday night. Putin held nearly four hours of discussions with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump’s son‑in‑law Jared Kushner, and Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum. On the Russian side, presidential aide Yury Ushakov and investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev took part. On a conference call with journalists, Ushakov described the talks as “substantive, constructive and extremely candid.” He said a trilateral security working group, involving...

🔴📌Meanwhile, U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to land in Moscow tonight. "If both sides want to solve this, we're going to get it solved," Witkoff told an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the ongoing negotiations on Ukraine with Moscow, Kyiv and European leaders. Witkoff said that he and Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, would head from Moscow directly to Abu Dhabi for meetings with working groups handling specific components of the peace plan, including what he called “military-to-military” aspects and “prosperity” “I think we’ve got it down to one issue, and we have discussed iterations of that issue, and that means it’s solvable,” he said, without elaborating...