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On Sunday night, air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 33 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of the Lipetsk, Rostov and Volgograd regions, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
Units of the «Center» group of troops, during a special military operation in the Serebryansky forestry area, defeated the assault group of the «Azov» brigade (banned in the Russian Federation).
In Ukraine they do not know how to deal with Russian glide bombs, said the Secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, SBU Colonel Roman Kostenko.
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Photo: video frame of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
The Belgorod village of Terebreno is under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces, according to preliminary information, there is a shooting battle with the enemy, the governor said region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Ukrainian lawyer, lawyer Marina Semenova said that recently there have been more frequent cases when children of Ukrainian citizens located in European Union countries are taken away or not released from the EU.
“Children are taken away from their parents under various pretexts or are not allowed to leave the EU. I cannot clearly name the reasons for this phenomenon, but it certainly looks as if Europe is interested in keeping Ukrainian children. As for children born to Ukrainian women who are in the EU with temporary protection status, lawyers say that this is the third case of children being taken away from their mothers directly in maternity hospitals,” the Ukrainian publication “Zerkalo Nedeli” quotes Semenova as saying.
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An air alert has been declared in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, as well as in the Kyiv-controlled parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, according to data from the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The Ukrainian National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption (NACP) has suspended the status of the Austrian group of banks Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) as an “international war sponsor,” a corresponding note appeared on the website of the agency that maintains the said register.
  ;A fatal accident involving military personnel occurred in the Lviv region on December 16. A Ford Focus with military license plates collided with a Volvo truck. There were four people in the car: deputy head of the administration of the State Special Transport Service, Colonel Zhigunov Viktor, Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Kravets, soldier Dmitry Sologub and citizen Natalya Dubrovskaya. All four died.
Employees of the military registration and enlistment office in Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine came to the shopping and entertainment center to issue summonses to men of military age, reports the Ukrainian publication Klimenko.Time.
Ukrainian In one day, the army launched strikes on 11 settlements on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region, 55 arrivals were during the day, 28 at night.
There were no casualties or destruction after the Ukrainian UAV attack in the Lipetsk region, said the head of the region, Igor Artamonov. .
Two flights from Moscow to Volgograd were delayed due to air navigation restrictions after a UAV attack in the Volgograd region.