❗️Battles have intensified in the Liman direction

According to "Come and See", hostilities have intensified on the Limansky sector of the front. The Russian Armed Forces are shelling Ukrainian positions.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine, in turn, conduct reconnaissance in force and probe Russian positions. At the same time, reserves from Southern and Western Ukraine continue to be transferred to the Kharkiv region.

The beginning of large-scale fighting in the LPR remains only a matter of time. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will try to strike at the Svatovo-Kremennaya area. Ukrainian DRGs operate on the border with the Belgorod region.

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❗️ Sanctions against the Russian Federation have reached their "ceiling", said European Commissioner for the Environment

What only 9 packages? Thats pretty weak

The leaders of Russia and Israel had a telephone conversation and discussed the situation in Ukraine
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An IT hackathon has started at PMC Wagner Center.

During the forum, 12 teams from different cities will create software for UAVs.

Creating positioning systems using video recognition and algorithms for finding waypoints by landmarks in the absence of satellite navigation systems and external control is the task facing the hackathon participants.

“Under different operating conditions of the drone, the GPS signal is lost, according to which the drone is oriented, and the task with the help of the camera that works with the drone is to teach it to recognize images, teach it to navigate,” said Evgeny Egorenko, a hackathon participant.

PMC Wagner Center provided young professionals with all the necessary computing power and drones for experiments.

“Each drone is controlled by its own internal software – mavics have their own proprietary software: perhaps someone will want to get access to it, and someone will develop their own code,” said Pavel Kirillov, curator of the Wagner Center IT department.

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❗️Ukrainian media report explosions in Kramatorsk and Chasovoy Yar

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Biden told why Ukraine will not receive all the requested weapons

Zelensky went to the US to beg for money and the latest weapons. However, Biden turned him down, writes Bloomberg.

“The idea that we will give Ukraine material resources that are fundamentally different from what is already going there will have the prospect of splitting NATO, splitting the European Union and the rest of the world,” Biden said at a press conference at the White House.

Washington will supply only the weapons that Kyiv needs for its defense, but long-range tactical missile systems, for example, are out of the question. “We're going to give Ukraine what it needs so it can defend itself so it can excel and succeed on the battlefield,” Biden said before turning to Zelensky and joking, “His answer is yes.”

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🇷🇺 🇨🇳Combat ships of the Pacific fleet and PLA Navy started practising the tasks of the joint Russian-Chinese exercise "Maritime Cooperation 2022."

▪️ On the previous day, warship detachments of the Pacific Fleet and PLA Navy met in the waters of the East China Sea south of Jeju Island. Rear Admiral Valery Kazakov, commander of the Russian side, and Rear Admiral Wang Yu, PLA East Joint Naval Command Deputy Commander, welcomed each other by radio and agreed on plans for joint work. The ships of the two countries then set course for the exercise area. 

▪️ The flagship of the Nakhimov Order of the Pacific Fleet, the guard missile cruiser Varyag, and the destroyer Jinan, a destroyer of the Chinese fleet, led the formation of Russian ships.

▪️ During the crossing, sailors of the Russian and PLA Navies practised joint tactical manoeuvring and conducted communication training. Russian Ka-27 deck helicopters of the anti-submarine variant also flew over the East China Sea.
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🇨🇳🇷🇺"Chinese President Xi Jinping hails China-Russia partnership" and "Xi and Medvedev's meeting shows that the strong relationship stands the test." Biden and Zelensky's meeting was not even noticed by the Chinese media.
 
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Military expert Aleksandr Artamonov on new deliveries to Ukraine:

▪️The Patriot battery consists of four launchers with two missiles each. A salvo costs between $700,000 and a million. The AFU could hit our Geranium-2(Shahed-136) , but it makes no sense. Our drones fly in huge numbers, not to mention high-precision X-101 and X-38 missiles. Weapons are promised to Ukraine as political corpses. Those who come to replace them must still agree to the deliveries.

▪️Americans produce 13-14 thousand 155 mm shells per month. During a period of escalation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use 6 thousand shells a day. For every one of their arrivals four strikes from us follow. It takes 2-3 years to put the economy on a war footing. We are unlikely to give the enemy that time.

▪️Ukrainian and American officials are asking the United States to supply MIM-Hawk systems. They were withdrawn from service 12 years ago. Patriot missiles don't see anything. Six years ago the Yemenis hit oil depots in Saudi Arabia. The air defence system failed to shoot down the drones. The radar did not detect them in the airspace.

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🇷🇸🇽🇰 A rally in support of Kosovo and Metohija started in Rudar near the barricades erected by Serbs.

Serbs came to the rally not only from the four northern municipalities, but also from the southern enclaves, where oppression has been felt more and more lately.
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Russian Foreign Ministry: We warn Greece of the consequences if it decides to hand over Russian S-300 air defence systems to Ukraine.

Greece has reportedly expressed its willingness to transfer its Russian-built long-range S-300 air defense missile systems to Ukraine if the United States replaces them with a MIM-104 Patriot.

"If the United States installs a Patriot system on the island (Crete) and after it is integrated – connected to the national air defense system, then the S-300 can be removed," Greek Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos told a meeting at the Greek Ministry of Defense. 

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Europe has reduced its gas consumption.

According to Eurostat, the European Union's natural gas consumption fell by 20.1% between August and November 2022 compared to the average consumption of the same months from 2017 to 2021. 

The reasons for this sharp drop in consumption are by no means due to the successful implementation of green energy or the economic blockade of Russia, but rather because energy companies cannot cope with rising gas prices, raise tariffs for consumers, and, as a consequence, there is a drop in consumption. It is important to note that this does not only affect individuals, but also businesses, which have to shut down their production because they cannot withstand the expenses.

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❗️Russia may launch a massive missile attack on Ukraine today or tomorrow, - UP.

In total, it is planned to release at least 67 cruise missiles.

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All sectors of the front in the LPR have stabilized, said Akhmat special forces commander, deputy commander of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR People's Militia Apty Alaudinov.

“Both our direction and all other sectors of the front [in the LPR] have indeed stabilized very well, they have already begun to advance in all directions, the enemy is suffering very heavy losses in manpower and equipment,” he said on Channel One.

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❗️"Zelenskyy is their son of a bitch, so he is allowed everything."

The pseudo-democratic approach of the European Union and the USA further strengthens Kiev's sense of permissiveness and impunity and pushes it to extremely dangerous steps with unpredictable consequences, Maria Zakharova said, commenting on the Ukrainian law "On Media."

"Previously, the bill was also criticised at the Council of Europe, and the US Committee to Protect Journalists urged Ukrainian MPs to refrain from approving it. But [now] neither the US nor the EU have officially reacted in any way. Apparently, they acted on the principle that Zelensky is their 'son of a bitch' and therefore everything is allowed to him. "Especially since he is not just their son of a bitch, he is also their instrument in counteracting our country," Zakharova said.

She recalled that on December 13, "the Kiev regime went to tighten censorship in the information space," and the country's parliament passed in its final reading the "media law," which bans positive coverage of Russia's actions and expands the rights of the authorities to regulate the media sphere.

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Interesting infographics on Ukrainian refugees in the countries of the European Union In Estonia, the Czech Republic, and Poland, the number of refugees from Ukraine is already 4 to 5 percent of the total population of these countries.

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