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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ситуация на Украине и в Донбассе к этому часу:
🔹 Blinken: US acknowledge sovereign right of any country to send tanks to Ukraine; 🔹 NYT: Pentagon sends munitions to Ukraine from storage in Israel; 🔹 RIA source: ZSU reported positions of Polish mercenaries in Soledar on radio; 🔹 President of Switzerland says Bern won't allow re-export of arms to Ukraine from Germany and Spain; 🔹 Large hidden stash with weapons and munitions for ZSU found in LPR; 🔹 Emergency power shutdowns reported in three regions of Ukraine; 🔹 Ursula von der Leyen: Kyiv should get any weapons it could make use of.
🔹 RuMOD: SBU wants to blow up grain storage in Kharkiv Oblast to blame Russia; 🔹 UK to give Kyiv 14 Challenger 2 main battle tanks; 🔹 Russian ombudsman calls for UN and Red Cross to insist Kyiv to observe Geneva Conventions; 🔹 Media reports men in Ukraine fake marriage to women with many children to escape mobilization to ZSU abroad; 🔹 250 more civilians evacuated from Soledar to Shakhtersk; 🔹 Odesa authorities report damage to critical infrastructure; 🔹 Pentagon to sign contract for technical assistance for Patriot SAM launchers operation in Ukraine.
🔹 RT: ZSU lost 200 troops in a failed counterattack in Soledar; 🔹 Kyiv ambassador in London says ZSU moved forces to Belarus border; 🔹 President Niinstö: Finland can give Kyiv only a few tanks, because Russia is its neighbor; 🔹 DPR People's Militia reports that many Polish mercenaries were concentrated in Mar'inka; 🔹 Erdogan wants to discuss humanitarian corridor initiative with Putin and Zelensky; 🔹 President of Syria Bashar al-Asad reiterated support for Russian special military operation in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv ambassador says Turkey did not supply ZSU with cluster bombs; 🔹 Lithuania to give Kyiv L-70 AAA guns and anti-UAV systems.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 RuMOD briefing on special military operation:
🔹 On Kupyanks, Lyman, Donetsk and South Donetsk fronts ZSU lost around 225 troops dead and wounded with 5 armored vehicles, 1 APC, 1 tank and 9 technicals; 🔹 4 enemy infiltration and sabotage groups eliminated near village of Kuz'mino and Serebryansk Forestry; 🔹 RuMOD officially confirmed liberation of Podgorodnoye and blockade of Soledar; 🔹 Army air force, missile forces and artillery landed strikes on 113 enemy groupings, 74 artillery positions and ZSU command and observation post; 🔹 Russian artillery destroyed Uragan, M777, 2 2C7 Pion, 2 radars, 2С1 Gvozdika, D-20 and D-30 howitzers; 🔹 RuAF shot down UAF Su-27 near Popov Yar; 🔹 Air Defense shot down 2 UAVs and 6 rocket projectiles.
🔹 Sweden to give ZSU "Archer" artillery systems; 🔹 Germany FM makes unexpected visit to Kharkiv, pledges new shipments of weapons; 🔹 SBU opened over 1500 treason and espionage ceases after February 24; 🔹 The Guardian: UK did not come to conclusion on giving Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv; 🔹 World Bank expects Ukraine GDP to grow 3,3% in 2023; 🔹 Around 16 500 consumers in Donetsk without power after shelling; 🔹 Poroshenko says Western countries to approve new batches of weapons and equipment for Kyiv on Rammstein Airbase on January 20; 🔹 CNN: ZSU servicemen to begin training to use Patriot SAM systems in US; 🔹 Miners wounded after ZSU shelling hit Skochinsky mine in Donetsk; 🔹 Warger PMC storm troops reached center of Soledar.
🔹 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.
🔹 Unconfirmed reports about liberation of Bakhmutskoye village near Soledar by Russian forces, no official information; 🔹 Kyiv MOD attributes disciplinary violations in ZSU to "Russian-paid instigators"; 🔹 Politico: US can give Kyiv "Hawk" SAM systems from 1960s; 🔹 Biden: Warfare in Ukraine is in key stage; 🔹 During the night, air raid alert sounded in Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dniepropetrovsk Oblasts, and in Kyiv-controlled parts of Zaporizha Oblast and DPR; 🔹 Zelensky declared that Kyiv refuses Christmas ceasefire; 🔹 Germany to give Kyiv additional battery of Patriot SAM systems.
🔹 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.
🔹 White House confirms Zelensky shall visit Washington and meet Biden on December 21; 🔹 US are not going to send troops to Ukraine "not tomorrow, not next year"; 🔹 Spokesman of LPR People's Militia says mobilized ZSU troops start to flee positions in Soledar; 🔹 Belarus restricts access to three parts of border with Ukraine; 🔹 AP: US to give Kyiv Patriot SAM complex in next military aid package; 🔹 World Bank approves additional 610 mln dollar package of financial aid for Kyiv; 🔹 Poll by Szazadveg: more than 80% of EU population wants peace talks on Ukraine; 🔹 Macron: France elaborates sending more CAESAR howitzers for ZSU.
🔹 Deputy RuFM: EU tries to cover up complicity with war crimes in Ukraine by staging a "tribunal"; 🔹 ZSU shelled Russian Bryansk Oblast, with no casualties and damage to power grid; 🔹 1,7 trillion draft budget introduced to US Congress with 44,9 billion for aid to Kyiv; 🔹 Alexander Ananchenko becomes Russian Senator for DPR, Olga Bas - for LPR; 🔹 Blackouts hamper movement of trains in Kyiv subway; 🔹 International Red Cross office in Donetsk damaged by ZSU shelling; 🔹 LPR People's Militia reports ZSU sent reinforcements to Soledar and Bakhmut because of Russian success on that front.