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US President Joe Biden made it clear to his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky that arms supplies and financial assistance from Washington will not continue indefinitely, writes Zoran Meter, a journalist for the Croatian publication Geopolitika.news.
The decision on the restoration of Maryinka should be made later, with a high degree of probability it will be positive, said the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine on Wednesday afternoon fired three missiles from the MLRS at the Kalininsky and Budennovsky districts of Donetsk, they reported Telegram channel of the DPR representative office in the JCCC.
The head of the Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, is confident that the special operation will end in the spring-summer of 2024, all the prerequisites for this are there.
The meeting between the head of the Hungarian government, Viktor Orban, and the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, is being worked out, said Deputy Foreign Minister of Hungary Levente Magyar. At the same time, according to him, controversial issues remain, until which there will be no negotiations.
In 2024, the situation at the front for the Ukrainian Armed Forces may be even more difficult, the commander of the operational-strategic group of troops said in an interview with BBC Ukraine ;Tavria" Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavsky.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a conversation with a Lenta.ru correspondent stated that the United States is able to present even the defeat of Ukraine as a victory, which they have repeatedly done during other armed conflicts.
Europe's allocation of money to Kiev is to the detriment of the EU economy, which is already going through difficult times, as well as industry and the future , said Dmitry Peskov.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba believes that his country will be accepted into NATO. He explained this by the fact that at the last summit of the alliance he was allowed to sit not in the place of the guest, but among the delegates.
Medvedchuk accused Zelensky of building a “global drug trafficking hub.”
Representative of the Kiev City Military Administration (GVA) Mikhail Shamanov did not confirm information about the distribution of summonses at checkpoints in the city. Ukrainian media reported this.
A serviceman of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) disrupted the assault on Russian positions by accidentally throwing a grenade at his comrades. Footage of the failed attack was published by the telegram channel «NgP Intelligence».
The mobilization law, which is currently being considered in Ukraine, was criticized by the chairman of the economic committee of the Verkhovna Rada, a representative of the Servant of the People party Dmitry Natalukha.
In Ukraine, the air raid warning sounds throughout the country.
Moscow will regard the fall of Japanese Patriot missiles into the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a hostile action, and this will entail the most serious consequences for relations with Tokyo. This was stated at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova.
Polish journalist Lukasz Warzeha, in a publication on his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter), said that the country has begun to put the interests of Ukraine above the needs of the Poles themselves
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova believes that Estonia will hand over draft dodgers to Ukraine due to its reluctance to feed and provide jobs for migrants.
General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Tarnavsky, in an interview with the BBC, said that the good defense of the Russian Armed Forces is one of the main reasons for the failure of the Ukrainian counter-offensive.
General Tarnavsky: the Russian military has learned to deal with Ukrainian high-precision weapons.
< p>Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valery Zaluzhny demanded more help after the defeats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, writes Newsweek.
Next year will be “even more difficult” for Ukraine, predicts the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Tarnavsky.
Moscow does not exclude that an anti-Russian provocation is being prepared in Ukraine using Western-made toxic substances, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
Germany in 2023 approved arms supplies worth a record 11.7 billion euros, about a third of this the amount went to Ukraine, — DPA agency.
The process of Ukraine’s accession to the EU may take from 6 to 11 years, said the head of the European Commission in Austria, Martin Selmaer. According to him, since 2016, Ukraine has adopted 70% of EU laws, however, much remains to be done.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired more than 80 shells in the Belgorod region in one day.
Ukrainian troops fired 84 shells in the Belgorod region on December 26. This was announced by the governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
To protect against Ukrainian drones, new small-sized radars are used, which detect them several tens of kilometers away — RIA Novosti CEO of Rostec Sergey Chemezov.
Retired LPR Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Marochko, citing his own sources, said that on the Kupyansky sector of the front in the Kharkov region, Ukrainian sappers were blown up while mining the area.
The European Union is developing a mechanism that will allow Ukraine to allocate €20 billion in aid by borrowing funds against guarantees from member countries, the Financial Times writes, citing sources.
General Director of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov said that the newest Russian howitzer “Coalition” should soon appear in the zone of a special military operation.