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🔹 In Russian Belgorod, 2 power substations damaged after probable UAV strikes; 🔹 ZSU fired 102 shells targeting civilian infrastructure in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Shmyhal: Canada will give Kyiv Russian An-124 cargo plane; 🔹 Kyiv-Warsaw talks on grain exports are scheduled for April 17; 🔹 Russian ambassador says Denmark "has no red lines" for weapons transfer to Kyiv; 🔹 Series of explosions reported in Zaporizha in the night.
🔹 Zelensky raised Ukraine's military spending by 14,5 billon dollars; 🔹 Authorities in Crimea and Sevastopol ban military parades and "Immortal Regiment" march on Victory Day 2023 due to security concerns; 🔹 Russian Interior Military to monitor Russian citizens who renounced citizenship of Ukraine; 🔹 Shmyhal: Kyiv shall start the offensive as soon as its ready, maybe in summer; 🔹 Israel says ready to host Russia-Ukraine peace talks; 🔹 The Guardian reports "Russian hackers" are tweaking CCTV cameras in Ukrainian cafes to monitor movements of ZSU.
🔹 Zelensky says recapturing Crimea shall "restore peace" in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv MOD Reznikov confessed he asked Santa Claus to bring fighter jets; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal rules out peace with Russia "for another 100 years"; 🔹 Prigozhin says Kyiv brings Leopard tanks to Chasiv Yar near Bakhmut; 🔹 Zaporizha advisor says Kyiv sent ZSU troops to borders of Transnistria; 🔹 ZSU twice shelled Vasilyivka in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Estonia sends Kyiv new package of military aid worth over 1% of country's GDP; 🔹 Saudi Arabia to give Kyiv 410 mln dollars; 🔹 Biden's advisor Jake Sullivan rules out giving Kyiv fighter jets at present moment.
🔹 Russian Human Right Council issues abroad a 12th report on war crimes committed by Kyiv forces; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal orders reform of corruption-ridden procurement monitoring system in ZSU; 🔹 France MOD Lecornu announced shipments of large caliber munitions; 🔹 Kyiv deputy FM Melnik: Berlin can give Kyiv ten times more Leopard 2 tanks; 🔹 UK MOD Wallace: Challenger tanks shall be in Ukraine by summer 2023; 🔹 Ukrainian proNATO politician Oleg Soskin calls to impeach Vladimir Zelensky for violation of Constitution; 🔹 Large outcry after ZSU draft officers used ambulances to hunt men eligible for mobilization.
🔹 Bloomberg: Germany tomorrow may permit Poland to send Leopard 2 for ZSU; 🔹 Sky News: Biden is ready to give ZSU 10 Abrams tanks to persuade Germany; 🔹 Boris Johnson called to accede Ukraine to NATO; Д 🔹 Metropol: Freight wagons with hundreds of dead Ukrainian servicemen found on Ukraine-Hungary border; 🔹 Citizens of Rovno Oblast attacked members of military conscription patrol who tried to enlist him, with a scythe; 🔹 RT: ZSU lost over 200 troops trying to counterattacks Russian forces near Vuhledar; 🔹 Ukrainian media reports that Zelensky can sack prime-minister Shmyhal; 🔹 Director of IAEA says inspectors did not find any military equipment in Ukrainian nuclear power plants; 🔹 Italy Parliament approves a decree on further military aid to Kyiv in 2023.
🔹 Zelensky's office accepted resignation of notorious unstaffed advisor Olexiy Arestovich; 🔹 NBC: ZSU strengthen fortifications on border of Belarus; 🔹 Kyiv spent 1 trillion hryvnas ZSU in 2022; 🔹 Bloomberg: Netherlands consider giving Kyiv the Patriot SAM missile systems; 🔹 Kyiv says dialogue with Russia "must be grounded on some universal principles"; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities warn that ZSU moves forces to Donbas; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal: Kyiv to buy 100 mln euro worth of power equipment; 🔹 Iran FM condemns Western interference in conflict in Ukraine; 🔹 Evacuated citizens of Kherson Oblast relieved from communal fees until the end of special operation.
🔹 Republican Jeffrey Young calls for removal of Joe Biden from office due to ZSU military crimes in Ukraine; 🔹 In the morning, air raid alert sounded in Kyiv-controlled Zaporizha, Kharkiv, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dniepropetrovsk and Mikolaiv Oblasts; 🔹 China representative in UN calls for immediate cessation of hostilities that threaten Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Unattributed explosions reported in Kyiv and Ochakiv; 🔹 Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov files a court case against ombudsman Taras Kremin' because of new fines for using Russian language; 🔹 Newsweek: US violate former promises, expanding involvement in Ukraine conflict; 🔹 Kyiv PM Denys Shmyhal says Kyiv wants to become EU member in less than 2 years; 🔹 Russian UN representative Vasily Nebenzya says Russia is open to achieve goals of special military operation in a peaceful manner; 🔹 Russian embassy in UK warns that Kyiv may resort to chemical weapons.
🔹 Ursula von der Leyen says EU to give Kyiv new tranche of macrofinancial assistance in January; 🔹 Around 400 foreign mercenaries were spotted in Seversk; 🔹 Putin emphasizes need for moral support for participants of special military operation in Ukraine; 🔹 Russia points that protection of human rights is a key goal for special operation in Ukraine; 🔹 Bloomberg: Scholtz can authorize transfer of Leopard tanks for Kyiv on next week; 🔹 Kyiv PM hopes that Ukraine will join EU in less than 2 years; 🔹 Kyiv ambassador says Israel to give ZSU missile and drone detection systems.
🔹 RuMOD accused Kyiv of staging a provocation with bodies from graves, unearthed in Kharkiv Oblast; Kyiv plans to present people who died of natural causes as "victims of Russian torture and executions"; 🔹 Reuters: Germany economy minister anticipates Germany "possibly" could give Kyiv Leopard tanks "in the future"; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal: Ukraine turned into a largest mine field in the world; 🔹 Russian Patriarch Kirill: Power in Ukraine will change before long; 🔹 SBU warned that "counter sabotage operation" will proceed in one district in Kharkiv on January 9 and 10; 🔹 50 prisoners of war returned to Russia.
🔹 Monument to XVII century Russian polymath Mikhailo Lomonosov dismantled by authorities in Dnipro; 🔹 RuFM: Germany crossed moral boundaries when decided to supply Kyiv with heavy weapons; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal authorized military registration of Ukrainian refugees; 🔹 Green tape becomes sign for Ukrainian Territorial Defense; 🔹 All regions of Ukraine start power austerity for 8 AM to 11 PM; 🔹 Secretary of Kyiv National Security Council: 2023 will be the year of offensive for Ukraine.
🔹 5 civilians dead and 15 wounded after ZSU strike on Vasilyevka (Russian-controlled Zaporizha Oblast); 🔹 Head of Kyiv National Security Council threatens that if Germany will not give tanks for ZSU, it "risks to have a war on its own territory"; 🔹 ABC: Head of Kyiv intelligence Budanov announces major ZSU offensive in spring of 2023; 🔹 White House says US to give Kyiv new package of military aid, but do not anticipate cessation of hostilities in Ukraine;. 🔹 Macron told Zelensky that France will give ZSU armored combat vehicles; 🔹 RuMOD: Italy can't be mediator in Ukraine talks, while providing support to Kyiv; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal: Kyiv government contemplates creation of decentralized power grid in Ukraine.
🔹 Putin: conflict in Ukraine is rooted in US attempts to divide historic Russia; 🔹 Arestovich: US may stand Ukraine up after 2023, but that would not pay for them. 🔹 PM Shmyhal: Foreign aid to fight blackouts in Ukraine amounted to 1,5 bln dollars; 🔹 New wave of mobilization started in Ukraine; 🔹 Russian artillery landed strikes on ZSU near Soledar; 🔹 The Guardian: Zelensky's chief of staff Yermak says Kyiv gonna prevail and take back Crimea in 2023.