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🔹 US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Kyiv FM Kuleba discussed preparations for ZSU counteroffensive; 🔹 G7 countries expressed willingness to aid Kyiv "as long as it takes"; 🔹 Russian strikes damaged infrastructure facilities in Khmelnitsky and Mikolaiv Oblasts; 🔹 Authorities in Russian Zaporizha Oblast report increase in terrorist actions guided by Kyiv; 🔹 Russian Investigative Committee going to verify information on ZSU use of chemical weapons in Donbas; 🔹 Russian forces destroyed ZSU positions with US-supplied howitzer in Kherson front; 🔹 Russian Duma Cossack deputy Viktor Vodolatsky wounded in ZSU missile strike on Luhansk; 🔹 ZSU Commander in Chief Zaluzhny calls his Russian counterpart Valery Gerasimov "a formidable enemy".
🔹 Republics of Donbass celebrate an anniversary of their recognition of independence by Russia; 🔹 Italy FM: Sending fighter jets for Kyiv is virtually impossible; 🔹 Pushilin says Russian forces on the offensive along line of contact in DPR; 🔹 Russia closely watched Biden's visit to Ukraine, says Kremlin spokesman; 🔹 2 HIMARS launchers destroyed near Kramatorsk; 🔹 Kyiv Intelligence service revealed used of US-supplied Black Hawk helicopters; 🔹 Kuleba says Beijing gave Kyiv its plan for peaceful solution in Ukraine; 🔹 NATO wants to help Kyiv develop a system of military procurement; 🔹 Rosgvardia troops found hidden stashes of weapons in Russian-controlled parts of Zaporizha and Kherson Oblasts.
🔹 Kyiv FM: Kyiv grateful for military help from the West, but no ally has done enough; 🔹 Kyiv Border Guard reported that Ukrainian colonel was killed near Soledar (DPR); 🔹 Kyiv ambassador to UK say ZSU received armaments with due expiry date; 🔹 Hungary FM praised Russian Christmas ceasefire as a right step; 🔹 Kyiv Minister of Culture called for temporary ban on Russian music, poetry and literature in leading Ukrainian theaters; 🔹 Rada MP Bilozir: Talks on accession to EU move from Autumn 2022 to Spring 2023; 🔹 UK considers sending Kyiv British Challenger 2 main battle tanks.
🔹 Putin says Russia launches strikes against power facilities in Ukraine in response to actions of Kyiv; 🔹 RuFM speaker: Visit of US vice Secretary of State Victoria Nuland to Kyiv may be a prologue to a new coup; 🔹 WSJ: Kyiv FM says US did not ban ZSU from using US weapons again Crimea; 🔹 Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov says Zelensky tries to grab power in crackdown on large business in Ukraine; 🔹 Bloomberg: EU will provide 2 bln euro more to arm Kyiv and other countries; 🔹 Borrell says EU weapons caches depleted because military industrial complex in EU was "underfunded"; 🔹 SBU raids three churches in Zhitomir Oblast.