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MK continues online broadcasting of events in Ukraine. This is the 697th day of the special operation. A special regime has been announced in the Leningrad region in case of detection of drones. The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, said that the policy of the country's authorities is becoming more and more authoritarian. The head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, said that the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not go according to plan, since the country did not receive all the necessary weapons from its Western partners.
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The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Ermak, said that President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky will meet with Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban.
In France, volunteers of the SOS Donbass organization compiled a list of French mercenaries who disappeared after an attack on a deployment point in Kharkov. It is noted that their fate is not yet known.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk went on a visit to Kyiv.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the preserved agreements and agreements with the United States in the strategic area could be at risk at any time due to Washington’s destructive anti-Russian policy.
The FSB detained a man in an attempt to carry out a terrorist attack at a Ministry of Defense facility in Barnaul.
Su-25SM crews inflicted fire on a concentration of personnel and lightly armored equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansk direction, the Ministry of Defense said.
Russian developers have created a special a camouflage cape that provides protection from enemy thermal imaging reconnaissance equipment. Testing, including in the northwestern district, is planned to be completed in January.