[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Strange footage shows Vladimir Putin's legs twitching uncontrollably at a public event yesterday amid rumours he has Parkinson's disease.
The 72-year-old Russian leader appeared unable to control his movements as he gave an hour-long speech at a podium in Astana, Kazakhstan.
In the clip, the twitching seems to start in his left foot before affecting both his legs and feet.
Putin then took a wider stance but continued to rock back onto his heels and move his legs.
The Russian leader has been plagued with rumours about his health in recent years - despite the Kremlin vehemently denying the claims.
Last week, Ukraine's internal affairs spokesman Anton Geraschenko claimed during an eight-minute video address, Putin showed signs of serious health problems.
He said that the footage, in which Putin threatened the West with long-range missiles, appeared to have been manipulated, with his hands barely moving.
Analysts suggested the changes could have been made to hide the effects of Parkinson's disease that causes the body to shake.
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I dunno. The video looks like normal movements to me. Nobody stands perfectly still unless they're soldiers who've been ordered to do so. But then, maybe he had to pee. I think if he'd been worried about appearances he could have used a box-like wooden podium that would have concealed his legs. This article sounds like wishful thinking. We've been hearing rumors for years that Putin is a drunk or that he has cancer and he's about to die or Parkinson's or whatever. And yet there he is, alive and well.
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[Korrespondent] The hottest battles are taking place in the Pokrovsky, Kurakhovsky, Vremivsky, Limansky and Kupyansky directions.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to contain the pressure of the occupation forces. The situation in the Pokrovsk, Kurakhovsky and Vremivsky directions remains tense – the enemy is concentrating its main offensive efforts there. This was reported in the General Staff report on Friday, November 29.
In addition, the Russians are currently actively attacking in the Liman and Kupyansk directions.
There have been 172 combat clashes to date. Today, the Russian Federation launched one missile strike, 31 air strikes, and dropped 53 KABs. In addition, the invaders deployed 581 kamikaze drones and carried out more than 3,000 attacks on our troop positions and populated areas.
In the Kharkov direction, Russian terrorists have stormed the positions of our units in the Kudeevka, Vovchanskaya and Tikhe regions five times. Two clashes are ongoing.
The enemy attacked our positions in the Kupyansk direction seven times. Near Kolesnikovka, Lozovaya, Pervomaysky and Zelenoye Roshcha, the units of the Defense Forces repelled all enemy attacks.
In the Liman direction today, Russian troops attacked Ukrainian defenders 20 times in the areas of Grekovka, Novoegorovka, Terny, Yampolevka, Dibrova, Torskoye, Zarechny, Grigoryevka and in the Serebryansky forest. Our soldiers repelled 18 enemy attacks, two clashes are ongoing.
In the Kramatorsk direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled three attempts by invaders to seize our positions in the Vremenny Yar area and in the direction of Belaya Gora.
In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers twice tried to advance forward in the Druzhby and Toretskaya areas, but were rebuffed.
In the Pokrovsk direction, during these 24 hours, the aggressor attacked our positions 34 times in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Dachenskoye, Mlechnoye, Novy Trud and Zheltoye. Ten combat contacts are still ongoing.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, the invaders made 43 attempts to advance at this time of day. 11 attacks are ongoing. The fighting is mainly continuing at Solntsevka, Berestki, Novodmitrovka, Zarya, Kurakhovoye, Dachny, Dalny, Yelizavetovka, Gannovka and Uspenovka.
In the Vremevsky direction , where today the aggressor stormed the front line of our defense 24 times in the area of Veselaya Roshcha, Konstantinopolskoye, Sukhi Yal, Razdolnoye and Novodarovka, three combat contacts are currently ongoing.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy made three unsuccessful attempts to storm the positions of Ukrainian units.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to conduct an operation in the Kursk direction. Today, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 22 attacks by the invading army in this direction.
The General Staff recognized the soldiers of the 68th separate Jaeger Brigade named after Oleksa Dovbush, the 92nd separate assault brigade named after Koshevoy Ataman Ivan Sirko, and the 71st separate Jaeger Brigade of the Airborne Assault Forces for their effective combat work.
Let us recall that soldiers of the special battalion Shkval and pilots of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign eliminated elite Russian units during the fighting in the vicinity of Toretskaya.
It was also reported that fighters from the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimea on November 28 eliminated the Podlet radar station. The approximate cost of such a radar station is 5 million dollars.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 17.15 President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed Mykhailo Drapatiy as the new commander of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The head of state noted that the major general successfully organized the defense in the Kharkiv direction and thwarted the offensive operation of the Russian forces.
16.47 Russian troops continue their attempts to advance deep into Ukrainian territory. The Defense Forces are holding back the invaders, inflicting significant losses on them. The number of enemy attacks has increased to 123 today. This was reported in the General Staff report on Friday, November 29.
14:00 The Russian army has lost more than 80 thousand servicemen since the start of the invasion of Ukraine. This is stated in the study by Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service , which the journalists conducted together with a team of volunteers based on open sources. It is noted that as of November 29, it was possible to establish the names of 80,973 Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine. 22% of them are those who signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense after the start of the war. The first weeks of 2023 were the bloodiest, when the Russian army lost more than 700 people killed.
13.45. The bodies of 502 fallen Ukrainian soldiers have been returned to Ukraine. This was reported by the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. It is noted that among the returned fallen defenders of Ukraine: 397 from the Donetsk direction; 24 from the Luhansk direction; 64 from the Zaporizhia direction. 17 dead have been returned from morgues in the Russian Federation.
11:45 Soldiers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out a successful operation in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation behind enemy lines. This was reported on November 29 by the media, citing a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to the source, Ukrainian partisans in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region discovered the location of a Russian crew of unmanned aerial vehicles. The crew was spotted loading a vehicle with plastic boxes containing drones. The hostile target was destroyed.
11:45 Soldiers of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine carried out a successful operation behind enemy lines in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. This was reported on November 29 by the media, citing a source in the Main Intelligence Directorate. According to the source, Ukrainian partisans in the city of Rylsk in the Kursk region discovered the location of the Russian crew of unmanned systems. The crew was spotted loading a car with plastic boxes with drones. The enemy target was destroyed.
11:30 On the night of November 29, the Ukrainian Defense Forces hit an oil depot in the Rostov region of Russia and destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 air defense radar station in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is noted that the strike was carried out on the Atlas oil depot. As a result of the strike, a fire broke out on the territory of the facility, at least two fires are recorded.
10.06 In Odessa Oblast, seven people were injured as a result of a drone attack. Houses, as well as port and transport infrastructure, were damaged. This was reported by the Odessa Oblast Prosecutor's Office. According to the Odessa Oblast police, 13 residential and summer houses, garages and other yard structures, a gas pipeline, and a car were damaged in three settlements in Odessa district.
9.45 On the night of November 29, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 132 Shahed-type attack UAVs and unidentified drones. 88 enemy drones were shot down. This was reported by the Ukrainian Air Force. Enemy UAVs were shot down in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Odessa regions. 41 drones were lost, probably due to active counteraction by the Defense Forces' electronic warfare systems; one drone returned to the Russian Federation.
9.25 Ukrainian intelligence officers destroyed the Russian Zoopark radar system with FPV drones. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The system was destroyed by fighters from the Krylia unit, which is part of the Active Actions Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The cost of the destroyed radar is about one billion hryvnia.
07.44 Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on an unannounced visit.
07.29 Rostov Oblast of the Russian Federation was massively attacked by drones on the night of Friday, November 29; in the northwest of the region, Russian occupiers were allegedly able to "suppress and eliminate 30 drones using electronic warfare."
04.25 The city of Tuapse in the Krasnodar region of Russia was attacked by a UAV on the night of Friday, November 29. Local residents wrote about a dozen drones, air defense work and explosions. A photo from a surveillance camera also appeared, showing thick smoke over the sea. The city has an oil refinery, which has already been attacked by Ukrainian UAVs more than once.
01.56 Near the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinskaya in the Rostov region of the Russian Federation, a fire broke out at an oil depot after a UAV attack. Numerous videos of fires have appeared on social networks.
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[EngMilRu] From 23 to 29 November, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have carried out on massive strike and 32 group strikes by high-precision air-, sea-, ground-based weapons and attack drones against the power industry facilities that support the work of the Ukrainian defence industry, industry enterprises that provide strategic products for military purposes, as well as the infrastructure of military airfields, assembly and storage sites for unmanned aerial vehicles and uncrewed surface vehicles, arsenals, ammunition depots, deployment areas of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign instructors, technicians, and mercenaries.
In addition, two Grom-2 operational-tactical missile system launchers, one launcher, and one transport-loading vehicle of the Ukrainian Neptune antiship missile system have been neutralised.
All the assigned targets have been hit with of high-precision strikes.
Over the past week, the units of the Sever Group of Forces continue to eliminate AFU formations on the territory of Kursk region.
Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of two tank brigades, five mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one marine brigade, and four territorial defence brigades.
In Kharkov direction, Russian troops have launched attacks on units of one mechanised brigade, one motorised infantry brigade, two air assault brigades, one territorial defence brigade, and one border detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
Over the past week, in the area of responsibility of the Sever Group of Forces the AFU losses were up to 2,420 troops, 10 tanks, 32 armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, two German-made Marder and Fuchs armoured personnel carriers, 105 motor vehicles, three HIMARS and two U.S.-made MLRS multiple-launch rocket system launchers as well as 20 field artillery guns.
The Zapad Group of Forces' units have liberated Kopanki (Kharkov region).
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades, one airborne brigade, one marine brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one Ukrainian National Guard brigade.
In addition, 28 counterattacks launched by AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 3,150 troops, two tanks, 13 armoured fighting vehicles, including three U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, 28 motor vehicles, and 18 field artillery guns, including six 155mm howitzers made by NATO countries.
In addition, 10 electronic warfare stations and 21 field ammunition depots have been hit.
The units of the Yug Group of Forces have captured more advantageous lines and positions, defeated four mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, two airmobile brigades, one air assault brigade, one naval infantry brigade, and one territorial defence brigade.
In addition, eight counter-attacks of AFU formations have been repelled.
The AFU losses were more than 2,790 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 19 motor vehicles, 10 field artillery guns, including eight Western-made artillery guns.
Eight ammunition depots have been eliminated.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units have liberated Novoya Ilinka and Vorovskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have launched strikes on manpower and hardware of seven mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, two jaeger brigades, one naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and one National Guard brigade.
Russian servicemen have repelled 53 enemy counter-attacks.
Over the past week, the enemy losses were over 2,910 troops, two tanks, seven armoured fighting vehicles, 31 motor vehicles, and 27 field artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces' units have liberated Razdolnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian troops have delivered strikes at units of AFU two mechanised brigades, one mountain assault brigade, one artillery brigade, and six territorial defence brigades.
Eight counterattacks of AFU assault detachments have been repelled.
The AFU losses were up to 960 troops, six tanks, including two German-made Leopard tanks, four armoured fighting vehicles, 25 motor vehicles, and 14 field artillery guns.
The units of the Dnepr Group of Forces have engaged manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one infantry brigade, four territorial defence brigades, and one National Guard brigade.
The AFU losses were up to 390 troops, 23 motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, including three U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzers.
Over the past week, 34 Ukrainian servicemen have surrendered on the line of contact, 17 of them have surrendered in Kursk direction.
Air defence facilities have shot down one Neptune long-range guided missile, ten U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, 15 French-made Hammer and U.S.-made JDAM aerial bombs, two U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 353 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 649 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 36,913 unmanned aerial vehicles, 586 anti-aircraft missile systems, 19,562 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,497 MLRS combat vehicles, 18,708 field artillery guns and mortars, and 28,868 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of 21st, 41st, 44th, and 47th Mechanised brigades, the 17th Heavy Mechanised Brigade, the 5th Tank Brigade, 80th , 82nd, 95th Air Assault brigades, the 36th Naval Infantry Brigade as well as 112th, 116th, 117th, and 129th Territorial Defence brigades near Aleksandria, Viktorovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, and Sverdlikovo.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Bogdanovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Daryino, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidovo, Martynovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Novoivanovka, Plyokhovo, Sverdlikovo, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Loknya, Malaya Rybitsa, and Pavlovka (Sumy region).
In the past 24 hours, the AFU losses have amounted to over 340 troops. One armoured personnel carrier, one armoured fighting vehicle, 12 motor vehicles, one artillery gun, and six mortars were neutralised.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses were more than 36,600 troops, 223 tanks, 158 infantry fighting vehicles, 123 armoured personnel carriers, 1,201 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,056 motor vehicles, 305 artillery guns, 40 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 70 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 27 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, six armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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When you're out in Moskva chasing skirt and the press gangs come a'callin'
Bet the Brits are green wth envy right about now...
🚨 Russia: Putin regime enforcers raided 3 largest Moscow nightclubs on Friday night — Simachev, Mutabor/ARMA and Mono. Many men taken to the military conscription offices. Women eventually released after their passports were photographed. Raids with police K9s lasted for hours. pic.twitter.com/T4oeVZEDQE
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[NewsFront] 19:33 Kursk direction: Rubicon drone operators destroyed a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry, –video.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen tried to change their positions in small groups, but were detected by reconnaissance UAVs of the Rubicon Center specialists. The enemy was completely destroyed by FPV drone crews.
18:35 Footage of the use of FPV drones on a T-64 tank and a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle of the battalion tactical group of the 17th separate tank brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Kremyanoye, –video.
17:34 Rotorcraft continue to crush the enemy.
An army aviation crew on a Ka-52M helicopter destroyed Ukrainian forces and a stronghold in the border area of the Kursk region, –video.
16:35 Calculation of the FPV drone of the "North" group destroyed enemy stronghold together with manpower.
Khar'kov region. Aerial reconnaissance by one of the units of the "North" group of troops discovered a concentration of Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in a stronghold camouflaged in a forest belt.
Objective control means confirmed the target was hit.
11:44 Direct hit: destruction of an enemy combat armored vehicle by the FPV crew of the Rubicon Center in the Kursk direction, –video.
10:22 FPV operators of the Sever group continue to actively work on Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the Khar'kov direction, –video.
The video shows another pickup truck, discovered and burned at an enemy stronghold.
9:35 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 11/29/2024:
- Zaporizhzhya Front. The battles in this direction in the last 24 hours have been mainly positional in nature. No significant changes in the LBS.
- Donetsk Front. The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces continues here in several areas. Fighting continues on the eastern approaches to Velyka Novosilka, to the south, Russian troops also continue to break through the Ukrainian defense, there are tactical successes.
The assault on Kurakhovo continues. South of this settlement, the Russian Armed Forces continue to clear the formed "pocket", north of Kurakhovo, Russian troops also continue to have practically daily advances.
- Chasov Yar direction. There have been no significant changes on the ground here, however, the initiative remains on the side of Russian troops. Fighting continues in Chasov Yar and on the flank.
- Kursk region. Heavy head-on battles continue in several areas. The Ukrainian Armed Forces spare neither equipment nor manpower in this direction. It is possible that another attempt to break through is being prepared from the Ukrainian side. Otherwise, why would they try with all their might to hold a bridgehead from which they will be driven out anyway?
9:20 Artillery duel:
Msta-S howitzer crews of the Zapad group destroyed camouflaged M-777 howitzer.
After a precise hit on a US-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, an ammunition depot and Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel were destroyed.
8:10 Su-35S crews provided air cover for bomber and attack aircraft, as well as army aviation helicopters, during air strikes on military facilities and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the border areas of the Kursk region, –video.
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[Regnum] The commander of the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) Oleksandr Pavlyuk was dismissed from his post by the head of the Kiev regime Volodymyr Zelensky, who appointed the commander of the Kharkiv group of forces, General Mykhailo Drapatiy, to this position. This was reported on November 29 in the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian leader.
In addition, Zelensky appointed Colonel Oleh Apostol as the new deputy commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky. As the head of the Kiev regime explained, the personnel changes were made following a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's headquarters together with Syrsky. The reasons for the dismissals were not given.
“The main task is to significantly increase the combat capability of our army, ensure the quality of training of military personnel and introduce innovative approaches to managing people in the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Zelensky explained the personnel decisions.
Later, the head of the Kyiv regime published decrees on the appointment of Drapatiy and the dismissal of Pavlyuk.
In Russia, Drapatiy was put on the wanted list in September 2023. He was charged in absentia in connection with the fact that under his command, the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out more than 70 shellings of populated areas of the DPR and LPR. As a result of the shelling, 154 people were killed and wounded. In May of this year, he was again put on the wanted list.
Earlier, Regnum reported that on September 20, Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov fired two deputy heads of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) Kirill Budanov (included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring) without his knowledge. It was claimed that the decision was made in the office of the head of the Kiev regime in order to weaken Budanov's position.
In November, former Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, retired General Serhiy Krivonos, suggested that Syrskyi could face imminent dismissal. He made this conclusion due to criticism of the military leader by MP Maryana Bezuhla, whom the Ukrainian authorities use as a "litmus test" of public opinion.
Text taken from the Telegram channel of @ukr_leaks
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The collapsed bunker of the ATO headquarters in the area of Chasov Yar, where in March 2024, Polish General Marchak was killed by an Iskander strike.
Friends from the 98th Airborne Division sent a video from Chasy Yar. The ATO-JFO headquarters bunker simply collapsed.
And I so wanted to get to the place where I spent 2 months in 2017.
Yes, the forest is empty. The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants abandoned their positions when our troops began to encircle them from three sides.
Apparently, it was here in the second half of March 2024 that Polish General Adam Marczak, who coordinated the activities of foreign mercenaries in the Chasy Yar area, was liquidated. The buried command post was hit by an Iskander OTRK missile. Along with Marczak, several more NATO officers were destroyed + a certain number of Ukrainian ones.
It was a good strike on the decision-making center.
🚨🚨🚨Ukraine may have struck a Russian Warship VDK 11711 “Ivan Gren” in Russian territory close to Georgia in the port of Tuapse🚨🚨🚨 pic.twitter.com/V4aC3cN7ad
[Stars&Stripes] STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. European Command headquarters was among the targets of a spy ring accused of passing information to Russia over a three-year span, according to British prosecutors trying three Bulgarian defendants. EUCOM’s Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, where Ukrainian troops have spent time with U.S. forces, was surveilled along with various other sensitive locations around Europe, prosecutors said Thursday. Katrin Ivanova, 33; Vanya Gaberova, 30; and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev, 39, are also accused of carrying out espionage in England, Austria, Spain and Montenegro, British newspaper The Independent reported. All three are based in the U.K. and deny the spying accusations.
"They sought to gather information for the benefit of Russia ... about various targets, both people and physical locations, information of particular interest to the Russian state," prosecutor Alison Morgan said in opening statements Thursday, according to the newspaper. Morgan told jurors at London’s Old Bailey that a five-person team of Bulgarians directed by an Austrian agent for Russia had carried out six significant operations, including one to spy on Patch Barracks in late 2022, Reuters reported. Charles Prichard, a spokesman for EUCOM, said Friday that the command is following developments in the case but directed questions about the proceedings to British authorities.
"As for the type of activities alleged in the case, for operational security reasons we will not discuss specific force protection measures. We continue to remain vigilant and take appropriate actions — including training — to ensure the safety and security of our people," Prichard said.
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