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On December 19, several videos documenting some of the Russian military’s recent operations against Kiev forces surfaced online.
Nine of the videos show a series of drone attacks that targeted Ukrainian troops, posts and equipment, across several directions within the special military operation zone over the last few days. Notably, at least one of the attacks was carried out using a Molniya-2 fixed-wing, first-person view suicide drone.
Another video shows an attack with a TOS thermobaric rocket launcher on Ukrainian fortifications in the direction of Kharkiv, possibly near the settlement of Vilcha.
Three more videos show recent airstrikes with UMPK-equipped guided glide bombs that hit positions of Kiev forces in the cities of Huliaipole and Orekhov in the direction of Zaporozhye, as well as in the settlement of Volchanskie Khutory in Kharkiv.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Kiev forces have lost 668 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 100,867 drones, 638 air defense systems, 26,606 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 1,633 multiple rocket launchers, 32,021 artillery pieces, and 49,447 support vehicles since the start of the special military operation.
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no comment necessary. leave it to the beavers. they ll build the damned thing.
kazakhstan on an irreversible collision course with russia?
by andrew korybko
global research, december 19, 2025
region: europe, russia and fsu
theme: intelligence
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the production of nato-standard shells hints that kazakhstan plans to follow in azerbaijan’s footsteps by having its armed forces conform with the bloc’s standards ahead of what its leadership might have been duped by the west to believe will be an inevitable crisis with russia after the ukrainian conflict ends.
sputnik reported in early december that kazakhstan will build four factories that’ll produce russian- and nato-standard shells, which prompted first deputy chairman of the duma defense committee alexei zhuravlev to harshly condemn this development. in his words,
“we try to ignore how a seemingly fraternal republic has swiftly abandoned not only the russian language but also the cyrillic alphabet. how they’re creating ‘yurts of invincibility’ while supporting ukraine.”
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he added that “now they’re switching to nato ammunition standards, clearly intending to abandon russian weapons in the future, replacing them with western ones. astana may not have been the largest buyer of russian military-industrial complex equipment, but the move itself is certainly unfriendly and must be responded to accordingly. we all know what such cooperation with nato has meant for kiev.”
this is the latest manifestation of kazakhstan’s pro-western pivot that accelerated in recent months:
30 september 2023: “kazakhstan’s pro-eu pivot poses a challenge for the sino-russo entente”
2 july 2025: “why’d erdogan decide to expand turkiye’s sphere of influence eastwards?”
9 august 2025: “the tripp corridor threatens to undermine russia’s broader regional position”
akhstan to be
9 august 2025: “the tripp corridor threatens to undermine russia’s broader regional position”
2 november 2025: “the west is posing new challenges to russia along its entire southern periphery”
12 november 2025: “a us think tank considers armenia & kazakhstan to be key players for containing russia”
13 november 2025: “the us’ central asian minerals deals could put more pressure on russia & afghanistan”
23 november 2025: “why’d kazakhstan join the a
23 november 2025: “why’d kazakhstan join the abraham accords when it already recognizes israel?”
2 december 2025: “the ‘community of central asia’ could reduce russia’s regional influence”
19 december 2025: “turkish curriculum’s renaming of central asia to turkistan is turkiye’s latest soft power flex”
in brief, the “trump route for international peace and prosperity” (tripp) will turbocharge the turkish-led injection of western influence along russia’s entire
southern periphery by creating a military logistics corridor between nato member turkiye and the central asian republics. kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan are part of the russian-led csto mutual defense bloc and the turkish-led “organization of turkic states” (ots) socio-economic one that’s recently begun discussing a joint military structure and drills.
azerbaijan, whose armed forces completed their conformation to nato standards in early november, will help those two follow suit through its role in the “community of central asia” (cca, the newly rebranded annual consultative meeting of heads of state) that it joined later that same month. the cca is therefore expected to function as the means for the nato-backed ots to “poach” kazakhstan and kyrgyzstan from the
csto for irreversibly shattering russia’s “sphere of influence” in central asia.
grand strategic context
the context within which these newly accelerated processes are occurring, which were unleashed by tripp (and its origins in turn stem from nikol pashinyan seizing the armenian premiership in 2018 after his successful color revolution that later led to the next karabakh conflict), is the ukrainian peace talks. the us is essentially relying on the a
zeri-turkish axis (ata) to jointly pressure russia along its entire southern periphery for raising the odds of putin agreeing to a lopsided peace deal in ukraine’s favor.
he’s thus far refused, but kazakhstan’s planned production of nato-standard shells adds a sense of urgency to ending the special operation so as to refocus russia’s strategic attention towards its entire southern periphery in the hopes of averting the irreversible shattering of its “sphere of influence” there. ideally, the us would help manage turkish-russian tensions in this space through the five means described here as part
of a grand deal detailed here, here, and here, but that can’t be taken for granted.
kazakhstan’s anti-russian plans
russia must therefore prepare itself for the possibility of an inevitable crisis with kazakhstan, and also ata by extension that might then come to involve nato as a whole due to turkiye’s membership therein, after it just decided to build nato-standard shells. its new factories’ purpose is to stockpile these shells
ahead of what kazakhstan appears to have already concluded will be an inevitable crisis with russia sparked by the undeclared plan to have its armed forces conform to nato standards.
the only reason why it’s setting this scenario sequence into motion is because its leadership has been duped by the west (including ata and ukraine) to believe that russia will set its sights on historically russian territory within kazakhstan’s soviet-drawn borders after the special operation ends. kazakhstan thus no longer wants to be dependent on russian military-technical equipment and has instead quietly decided to transition to nato wares instead with ata’s help.
this is expected to occur in parallel with its armed forces conforming with nato standards under the cover of closer cooperation within the ots or at least within the cca, which includes azerbaijan with whom it, kyrgyzstan, tajikistan, and uzbekistan now jointly drill and consult each other. conforming with nato standards, transitioning to its wares, and stockpiling its shells are meant to help kazakhstan’s armed forces hold out long enough in a conflict with russia for more
nato-backed ata support to arrive.
ata in action
if turkish and/or azeri troops (respectively formal and informal nato troops who have mutual defense obligations) aren’t already deployed to kazakhstan by the time that a crisis erupts, and such an advance deployment could also trigger a crisis, then they’d have to speedily be dispatched there afterwards.
the only realistic way in crisis conditions is by air over the caspian sea, possibly under the cover of civilian airliners to deter russia from shooting them down, but another supplementary route is also possible.
casual observers don’t know that ata is allied with pakistan, which can be considered an unofficial member of the ots, so any troops that they might have already deployed there by that time could be airlifted from there to kazakhstan.
this could also be done under civilian cover to deter russian jets from shooting them down from their airbase in kyrgyzstan’s kant. if afghan-pak ties stabilize and the pakafuz railway is built by then, pakistan could also ship military equipment to kazakhstan that way too.
as a means for either “deterring” or at least “restraining” russia, ata might also try to stir trouble in the north caucasus, which could provoke a russian response for invoking their mutual defense obligations and thus draw nato member turkiye and “major non-nato ally” pakistan into the fray. a multi-front conflict with turkiye in the black sea, azerbaijan in the north caucasus, it and kazakhstan in the
caspian sea, and kazakhstan in central asia (with aid from ata and pakistan) could easily overextend russia.
trigger events
the following events could contribute to sparking the worst-case scenario of a russian-kazakh crisis:
kazakhstan making tangible progress on conforming its armed forces to nato standards;
its increased import of us, turkish, azeri, and/or pakistani weaponry (all increasingly standardized);
more drills between its armed forces and the aforesaid countries’;
freezing its membership in the csto just like already “poached” armenia has done;
the deployment of us, turkish, azeri, and/or pakistani advisors/troops (even under pmc cover);
the passing of ukrainian-like discriminatory legislation against kazakhstan’s russian minority;
pogroms against them;
and/or meddling in the “orenburg corridor” amidst the external revival of “idel-ural” separatism.
depending on what happens, russia’s kinetic response could be framed as preventive or preemptive.
concluding thoughts
the kazakh leadership’s threat perception of russia that’s responsible for its decision to produce
nato-standard shells is based on the false premise that the kremlin has revanchist plans for re-incorporating historically russian land within kazakhstan. this shows that they never took seriously russia’s reason for the special operation, namely to neutralize ukrainian-emanating threats from nato precisely of the sort that kazakhstan is now on the path to produce in the same mistaken belief that this will “deter” russia.
so long as kazakhstan doesn’t pose a security threat to russia and treats its minority with respect, russia doesn’t care what else kazakhstan does, but its decision to produce nato-standard shells indisputably poses a latent security threat to russia as explained. kazakhstan therefore risks creating the same crisis with russia that its aforesaid decision and consequent military-strategic trajectory are meant to avert all because it let itself be duped by the us, turkiye,
azerbaijan, and ukraine unless it soon changes course.
this article was originally published on the author’s substack.
andrew korybko is an american moscow-based political analyst specializing in the relationship between the us strategy in afro-eurasia, china’s one belt one road global vision of new silk road connectivity, and hybrid warfare. he is a regular contributor to global research
the traitorous alawites obeyed putler and that’s why nato will kill them in moscow.
blah blah blah ramses. etcetera.
trivial. pursuits in attempted mind control futile fantasies from communist central command
there will be no one world government one language one nazionist team gruppenfuhrer. it won’t happen.
the globalist will not succeed
global intelligence is pure propgandas for the globalist
the russian people will have more prosperity christmas than the average ukrainian family who will be mourning losses. the central banking war cartel offers its member citizens increased inflation and debt to all peoples whose currency it rules. this all because they threw russia out of the swift system changing global trade creating brics
biden ordered the fed to print more new usd than anyone ever before in history and msm refuse to report it he created global inflation with intent and they conceal the truth. he funded indirectly october 7th and obama set up ukraine allegedly in a manner very discretely concealed by msn, which followed 2013s historic election of the first ever jesuit pope.
who obama declared as the global moral authority for rule of law. the jesuits who launched the inquisition. their morality them who hitler modelled his ss on.
catholic biden catholic hitler.
“russia didn’t start the war putin takes nato to the cleaners shuts nbc bbc journos on kremlins future” you tube.
blue eyes are about 15 % of the population normally. look how how coincidentally they all are there.
here’s another of the multitude of videos all scripted from the sane source, read robot style.
i’m not interested in the content of that source, i’ve seen dozens already, but in the creation the creator who is behind the puppets.
but most people won’t even query
“europe reels after russias response as eu 105 billion asset move turns against it” you tube . i already know the outcome.
and on puppets in position, look at these top ceos, we all live in the same world we can all read a person , what a load of it
“trump unveils trump gold card offering expedited us residency” |drm news you tube
unbelievable. say no more.
obama clinton & biden ordered air strikes without congressional approval – killing civilians” christine agauyo
you tube
that’s war crimes. why isn’t msm screaming their heads off? about the morality, instead gaining oboma the piece prize saying we did it hoping to shame him into better behaviour oh as if get outta town, look what happened to the mother with the infant who wanted to see him brutally shot to death by his security after snatching the baby from the car. shame give it a rest everything about him is ahameless in your face shameless allegedly.
putler is the son of a jewish woman and it’s all a hoax to destroy russia. http://www.whale.to/b/communism.html
on obama ….
“obama clinton & biden ordered air strikes without congressional approval – killing civilians” christine agauyo
you tube
if the jews are stupid enough to want a third trump term, they will produce a third obama term.
mia ramses python shit head circumcised cranium et al.
biden was just a tiny link in the chain. the links are all from trump to clinton to obama and bush. certainly, elections cannot change anything. however, the time has come when the traitor putin and all the traitorous russians and the equally traitorous alawites will pay. their judgment day will begin in moscow. no rocket, no walnut, not hazel, no coconut, no hazelnut will solve this. the end of traitorous russia is much closer than you can possibly imagine.
nato will attack russia from all sides. the oka will flow all bloody and will carry hundreds of heads. the fat traitor mehar al-assad should not think that he is safe in moscow. all who listened to putler and betrayed syria will pay. their heads will ride on the surface of the russian oka river.
here s the traditional christmas according to common morality today xmas trees never existed before ww1
but now they’ve been made the “tradition”
by whom?
who business is christianity? who is all about jesus? @allegedly.
“london christmas trees arms race.” swilliamisn you tube
should some business be considered frauds?
and king charles duty as sovereign is to defend the faith, being christianity, but just observe for yourself his commitment to that defense.. look at who’s on site working to protect the sacred tree as if at a a christian thing even anyway it’s a symbol, when depicted 2 dimensionally as the egyptians would of a pyramid.
and that architecture that has the pyramids, often on octagon 8 pillars / columns is all over the city. tradition over all of the courts and important institutions. all saying the pharoah rules here really. allegedly. and rome conqueried egypt and caesar be came pharoah really. and now he’s pope, the rule of law. allegedly.
and the vatican works politically exactly the sane way as communist ussr and china do the cardinals aka senators elect the leader ( the team leader, in german the gruppenfuhrer) not the citizens. only the elite inner circle are real enough to have any say in anything. no one else. just a literal handful of people rule everyone. unelected. by the people who are only free to obey.
as undetectable mind cntrolled robots exactly as dr joseph mengels as a nazionalist intended to create. the goal then from dr cameron, the scot, who started it all in canada, but where their victims escaped and launched compensation claims so the operation monarch and mk ultra were out sourced via their hitler s personal security chief set up cia into north america.
infiltrated into north america, funded by taxpayers, serving the elite circle. allegedly.
nb as he moves up the ladder, the 33 steps how white his christmas becomes..
here’s them coming from every angle, with their occult circles and their satanic pentagtams fully displayed , and at x mass time always their satanic angels of lights and their false prophets, as the bible tells.
“bering yachts is a pyramid scheme? answering questions about nauti styles law suit sy news you tube
rule brittania etc.
what a load of crap name a business that doesn’t rely on turnover for its income? name one. what’s he on about, that’s not how things work. and as for the pay, how does that work when they tint get paid by anyone for their videos, they say, and just 4 years ago they were struggling living on a cramped tiny cabin cruiser and now their buying an 8 million dollar boat? paying in cash. you can see who’s supported by sy can’t you.