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Amaryllis

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Fri Jan 2, 2026, 10:27 AM 3 hrs ago

Trump's Team Sent New Year Greetings to Russia -- Then Putin Hit Ukraine's Lifelines Overnight

https://levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-trumps-team-sent-new-year?

While Donald Trump’s administration was officially wishing Russia a “Happy and Prosperous New Year” — not Ukraine, not our allies, not the people under attack — Russia was preparing its next wave of violence.

My sources tell me that behind the scenes, even as those official greetings were being exchanged, private New Year messages were also passed — conversations involving Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Kirill Dmitriev, centered not on peace, not on stopping the war, but on normalizing Russian money, rehabilitating oligarch-linked capital, and reopening financial pathways for a regime actively bombing civilians.

And while Trump was celebrating at Mar-a-Lago, Vladimir Putin responded the only way he ever does.
With violence.

Overnight, Russian missiles and drones slammed into Ukraine’s railway and logistics infrastructure across Volyn, Sumy, and Odesa. In Kovel, a locomotive depot was hit repeatedly — seven drone strikes on a single facility. In Konotop, a railway station was struck, damaging freight railcars. In Odesa, logistics hubs were hit again, with the threat of repeat attacks so real that repair crews are struggling just to begin restoration.

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Trump's Team Sent New Year Greetings to Russia -- Then Putin Hit Ukraine's Lifelines Overnight (Original Post) Amaryllis 3 hrs ago OP
Fascist USA is now a satellite state of the new USSR, commie all the way. nt yaesu 2 hrs ago #1
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