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🔹 RuMOD reports ZSU retreated a few kilometers from positions in LPR; 🔹 In the night, ZSU shelling hit residential quarters in Aleshki and shop in Chaplinka (Kherson Oblast); 🔹 Die Welt: Netherlands and Denmark refused to give Kyiv their Leopard 2 tanks; 🔹 Zelensky issues a decree giving ZSU 10th Separate Mountain Assault Brigade the name "Edelweiss", just as SS Abwehrgruppe 218 death squads; 🔹 Loud explosion in Donetsk, Air Defense shot down ZSU missile; 🔹 DPR reports ZSU executed a group of medics who traveled to Vuhledar to evacuate wounded.
🔹 Russia says IAEA never proposed to remove Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya) from Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in Odesa, Mikolaiv, Kirovohrad, Dniepropetrovsk, Poltava, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kherson Oblast; 🔹 Washington Post: US may be able to supply Abrams tanks to Ukraine only by late 2023 or even later; 🔹 Ukrainian SAM missile hits residential building in Kharkiv; 🔹 Newsweek: US wants Ukrainian titanium to supply military-industrial complex; 🔹 Zelensky acknowledged that ZSU is in dire situation in Bakhmut and Vuhledar; 🔹 Head of Munich Security Conference advocates for sending fighter planes for Kyiv.
🔹 UN SG representative notes that "giving tanks to ZSU is by no means a step towards peace"; 🔹 IAEA experts reported huge explosions in the area of Zaporizha NPP; 🔹 Sources reports Russian tanks destroyed ZSU strongpoints in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Donald Trump says he could negotiate ceasefire in Ukraine in 24 hours; 🔹 Russian and Kyiv ombudswomen discuss exchange of wounded prisoners; 🔹 Air raid alert sounded in the morning in Kharkiv Oblast; 🔹 Hungary PM Victor Orban says peace talks on Ukraine could take years.
🔹 Nuland: US can't bring Abrams tanks to Ukraine by spring; 🔹 France MP calls Parliament to discuss possible transfer of Leclerc tanks to Ukraine; 🔹 Sweden to donate 2 mln dollars to IAEA to "strengthen nuclear safety of Ukraine"; 🔹 Mayor of Donetsk says ZSU deliberately shelling repair teams in the city; 🔹 Hungary FM accused Kyiv of harsh mobilization of Hungarians in Transcarpathia and called for negotiations with Russia; 🔹 Spain to give Kyiv Leopard 2A4 tanks that were kept in storage for over 10 years; 🔹 Pentagon: Next few months could be decisive for conflict in Ukraine.
🔹 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.
🔹 Deputy head of Zelensky administration Kyrylo Timoshenko resigns after corruption scandals; 🔹 Zelensky announced massive cadre overhaul in Kyiv government; 🔹 Russian rip up ZSU positions in first line of defense in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 RND: German Rheinmetall concern can supply Kyiv with total of 139 Leopard tanks; 🔹 Ukraine forces fired 3 HIMARS missiles at Ilovaysk.
🔹 Politico: France evaluates giving Kyiv Leclerc main battle tanks; 🔹 Turkey FM Mevlut Cavusoglu says returning to Ukraine talks becomes harder; 🔹 Stabilization power shutdowns begin in Kyiv; 🔹 Polish general Waldemar Scrypczak calls to create an army out of Ukrainian refugees; 🔹 Sources report US won't give Kyiv Abrams tanks due to problems with logistics; 🔹 Kresy: Ukrainian pupils in Polish school file a complaint against teacher due to her political views and actions against "Ukrainization of Poland"; 🔹 State Dept about possible strikes against Crimea: ZSU to decide how to you Western weapons; 🔹 USAID will give Kyiv 125 mln dollars to help power supply.
🔹 RuMOD Sergei Shoigu inspects headquarters of "Vostok" group of forces in the area of special military operation; 🔹 RIA reports: Influx of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine is caused by dwindling mobilization resource; 🔹 ZSU begin building fortifications in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 National Security Council secretary Danilov says Kyiv was preparing Ukraine for war before start of Russian special operation; 🔹 The Guardian: To start counter-offensive, Kyiv need supply of tanks from the West to increase sevenfold.
🔹 Kyiv reports damage to critical infrastructure in 5 regions after large-scale precision strike; 🔹 Reports: Kyiv plans to send mobilized rookies to defend Bakhmut; 🔹 Debris of ZSU missile fell in Moldova, prime minister Natalia Gavrilita cites it as disrespect to countries independence; 🔹 Turkey will promote "local ceasefires" in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv FM: Zelensky to visit United Nations General Assembly in September 2023; 🔹 Blackouts in some regions in Ukraine after missile strikes; 🔹 PM Sunak informs Zelensky that UK will give Kyiv British Challenger 2 main battle tanks.
🔹 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.