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And we can see here with many cases of survivors that were not just raped, but they also were, like, brutally tortured.

And it's just another evidence that, like, the purpose why Russians, like, use this instrument and in the world's history we can see unfortunately that it was one of the most effective instruments to break people and it happened in all wars and conflicts and only 30 years ago it was recognized as a war crime and crime again against humanity.

So now finally we can prosecute these crimes.

And now I can also talk about occupied territories that we cannot have much information about how many people are surviving tortures in captivity, how many people, especially civilian people, were captured because there are no mandatory missions.

It's thought that this was an attempt by the Kremlin to plausibly deny that any African nationals were actively being trained for deployment.

That same month, Russia also fast-tracked a law that would prevent the repatriation or extradition of qualifying foreign nationals who are serving or have served under contract in the Russian Armed Forces.

They claim that this is an attempt to keep their foreign army veterans from facing prosecution or even death if they were to be sent back to their home countries.

And in November 2025, Russia went a step further when they signed Decree No. 821, which now requires foreign nationals who are living in Russia to agree to sign a one-year contract with the military in exchange for Russian citizenship.

So a lot of things were happening overnight last night.

And then over the last month or so, Ukraine hit 30 key Russian military targets.

That's in October, according to the Kyiv Post.

Weapons factories, airfields, aircraft, missile sites, logistics hubs all struck within a month-long campaign targeting Moscow's war machine.

And so Congress is really going to try to re-exert itself in the russia ukraine debate and i think especially when it comes to facilitating timely uh farm sales deliveries to ukraine they're going to push back on the administration significantly and say these things need to go immediately we can't be waiting around we can't be allowing the ukrainians to have a shortage of uh, weapons and arms when they're, they're facing dire consequences if they don't.

I mean, the Russians are still very, very significantly targeting Kiev and, uh, civilian infrastructure in the country.

Um, there's a lot going on where the, the Russians are not relenting in a military sense.

The Ukrainians have had some, uh, great strives on the battlefield, but those, um, advances can be wiped away.

And so I think the Democrats in both the House and the Senate are interested in making sure that the Ukrainians have what they need to defend themselves.

More on that at the end of today's video.

The Economist talked about this phenomenon that we're seeing right now where the Russian army, in their words, stalled at the front, So they've started striking Ukrainian civilian targets.

And the timeline here that they're talking about from June to September lines up.

That is, by and large, where the Russian army kind of came to a standstill.

Operation Vivaldi, other clearance operations in the south.

When they can't advance on the battlefield, they go after soft targets in Ukraine's rear.

And we've seen this start to fall in recent months.

And it directly lines up with this increase of Russian strikes deep inside of Ukraine.

I think that's one of the balances, of course, that everybody knows about is this thing that Ukraine has the ability to choose among many, many products.

The Russians are some more standardized and say, okay, we'll do these, and that's both an advantage and a disadvantage.

Yeah, it's true.

It has pros and cons, because if we're talking about the enemy side, they have really less diversity, but they can increase the manufacturing level in crazy scale, and that can bring some kind of advantage.