Germany has taken note of Putin's instruction for a temporary ceasefire but continues to insist on troop withdrawal, the German cabinet says.

"We have taken note of the announcement. Any cessation of hostilities contributes to the preservation of human lives. As before, Russia must completely withdraw its troops from Ukraine, and in this way, this war can be ended at any time. That is what we are calling on Russia to do," the representative said.

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⚡️Ukrainian intelligence says Chechen prisoners have started to be recruited into the Wagner PMC.

More than 50 prisoners, mostly imprisoned for political reasons, have been mobilized at two facilities. The phenomenon is beginning to gain mass momentum, and work is being done with employees of the colonies to keep them quiet, the GUR said.

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Ukrainian soldiers complain to their families that they are in big trouble near Soledar. And that their forces are running out. Message from day before yesterday.

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Nikolaev and Odessa should become part of Russia for the safety of Donbass, says 🇷🇺 Duma member Konstantin Zatulin:
 
"What we have to achieve, of course, is to take the threat away from Donbass, as promised." Advance deep into Ukraine—the very part of Ukraine that is called Novorossiya. And I believe the outcome of the military operation can hardly be considered representative or productive for Russia if Odessa and Nikolaev -- i.e., the coast -- remain in Ukrainian hands, and through this coast as well as the Polish border, they will continue to pump Ukraine with weapons.

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The UN secretary-general has disbanded the UN commission for establishing the facts of the shelling of the colony with Ukrainian prisoners of war in Yelenivka, DPR.

This commission did not and could not produce anything intelligible because it could not openly say that it was the Ukrainian armed forces that shelled the colony with their own prisoners of war (Ukrainian POWs, mainly from Azovstal). For the same reasons ,the IAEA cannot say that the AFU is shelling the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the OPCW cannot admit that the militants are staging chemical attacks in Duma,

In fact, the UN commission was simply used to promote the investigation, which was entirely to be expected.

In July, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Yelenovka colony in the DPR, where around 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed.

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Daddy's back!!!

We got something in our eye...

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The New York Post has been criticized for the Ukrainian flag on the front page while supporting McCarthy's candidacy for speaker of the House of Representatives

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About the President's decision.

There can be no talk of a truce! 

Our president's decision as an Orthodox man applies to Orthodox people who need to go to church, to attend services on Christmas Day.
For obvious reasons, we do not consider the leadership of the rest of Ukraine Orthodox.

Therefore.

The decision is about a ceasefire or offensive action on our part.  
But this does not mean that we will not respond to enemy provocations  or give the enemy any chance  to improve their positions on the line of contact during these festive hours.

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⚡️ US to include around 50 Bradley BMPs in next military aid package to Kiev, the decision to be announced on 6 January - Reuters

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Russian Armed Forces grind down Ukrainian militants in Liman direction

Footage shows a burning AFU Bandera vehicle near the village of Torskoye.

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The editor of the Sputnik Lietuva portal Marat Kasem has been seized by state security officers in Latvia, local media reported.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the journalist's detention violates all norms of international law, and Russia demands that international bodies be involved in clearing up what happened.

Qasem's detention is "revenge of the dictatorial regimes" for his truth and integrity, the foreign ministry spokeswoman said in a statement

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‼️🇷🇺Unique Russian Terminators are actively engaged at the Svatovo front
Tank Support Vehicles (BMPT) "Terminator" of the ZVO perform 2-3 sorties per day as part of their tasks at the Svatovo frontline in Donbass. The commander and crew members told RIAN about the peculiarities of the work.


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❗️The new US military aid package for Ukraine will cost nearly $3bn - The Associated Press

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On the formation of army corps within the AFU

A couple of days ago, we wrote about the impending reorganization of the Ukrainian army by reducing the number of anti-tank and reactive artillery divisions (PTADn and READn) within AFU brigades.

Personnel of the disbanded PTADN and READN, primarily officers, will be sent to the base of the 239th Combined Arms Range in Novomoskovsk in Dnipropetrovsk oblast (in/hr A1363).

Where will they be deployed?

Colonel Kokorev, deputy commander of the united command "East" (A1314), has ordered the officer staff of the abolished PTADN and READN of the 53, 54, 92, 93 brigades and 17 detachments of the AFU (in/hr A1302, A0501, A3283, A0536, A0693) to arrive at 239 polygon by 10.00 on January 8.

Within ten days, the disbanded units will join the newly established 10th Army Corps (AK) in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Some will be re-staffed with mobilized personnel and sent back to the front line in regular brigades.

🔻 The Army Corps to be formed will consist of various units from the Soledar and Starobel directions, withdrawn to be re-staffed or disbanded as PTADN and READN. The 10 AK will receive the most recent Western weapons and equipment.

🔻 What else is the AFU planning?

The 10th Army Corps is not the only tactical formation being created. According to the Finder ZVI channel, there are plans to create another AK in the Poltava region based on new formations within the AFU.

In particular, four new brigades are being formed in the Poltava region: the 116th brigade in Oposhna, the 117th in Matveevka and the 118th regiment in Golovach, as well as the 34th marines regiment in Komsomolsk and the 229th logistics battalion in Matyaschivka. Officers are trained at the 179 training center in Poltava.

Three provinces will be included in the area of responsibility of the AK. Now the mobilized men are being trained and are settling in hotels and civilian infrastructure facilities in major cities.

This AK will also be supplied with armaments from extreme western supplies. Likely, a convoy of Turkish Kirpi armored personnel carriers arriving in Ukraine will be handed over to the marines of the 34th AFU brigade.

🔻The ongoing reforms in the AFU are designed to facilitate the activities of tactical formations in operational areas. The creation of two corps tests the American battlefield command and control system.

If the plan is successfully implemented in the ranks of the Ukrainian army will increase the speed of making certain decisions, each corps will have structural units of attack aviation (bases in Mirgorod and Dolhintsevo), and the powers of commanders will be expanded.

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🪖 Truce is out of the question! - Denis Pushylin, acting head of the DNR

"Our President's decision, as an Orthodox man, applies to Orthodox people who need to go to church, to attend services on Christmas Day.
We do not consider the leadership of the rest of Ukraine to be Orthodox for obvious reasons.

The decision is about a ceasefire or offensive action on our part. 
But this does not mean that we will not respond to enemy provocations!
Or give the enemy at least some chance during these festive hours to improve their position on the line of contact.

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