In Ucraine, the casualties are not discussed publicly, but looking at the rapidly growing cemeteries one can imagine the figures can safely be at 100,000 or more if we add to this number the huge figures on the missing and disabled.
There are fewer and fewer men left willing to go to war, so the Office of the President has to capture men by force to replenish the reserves and do the offensive that Zelensky promised the US in return for a huge military loan. 
There is a huge risk of a revolt within Ukrainian society against the forced mobilisation and trapping of men. 
Many sources point out that such a scenario could happen if the AFU begins to lose and depression begins to grow in society. Bankova has convinced Ukraine is winning, but this track is very destructive if the trend is broken. 
So at this moment Zelensky is sending all reserves into the Bakhmut meat grinder to hold on to the trend, but this leads to great losses.
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Special operations, 7 January. Main: 

▪️ AFU continued artillery shelling on Saturday despite the ceasefire, the Russian Armed Forces were complying with it, the Russian MoD claimed;

▪️ Ukraine's ambassador in London cofessed Ukraine was losing people "left and right" and the figures are "enormous";

▪️ Russian Armed Forces in Donetsk direction thwart enemy attempt to attack Russian positions near Krasnogorovka and Georgievka, enemy losses up to 50 men - Russian MoD;

▪️ The UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine will be held on 13 January, according to the programme of events;

▪️ Zelensky has introduced a decision by Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council on sanctions against 119 Russian cultural figures, including Petrosyan, Galustyan, Kirkorov and Bilan; the list also includes Dmitry Kiselev, director-general of Russia Today, and Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Media Group.

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❗️ Local media report air raid alert and explosions in Zaporozhye

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There are sounds of explosions in Zaporozhye. The air defence is working.
The Geraniums are probably blooming again.

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❗️Luganskgaz crews have started to repair a gas pipeline that was damaged by an explosion

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"Prigozhin's target near Bakhmut could be the salt and gypsum deposits." - USA media.

Well, there you have it all figured out. 
After the victory, Prigozhin will take over the market for plaster busts of Lenin.

Note: And the bald head, he will cover it with salt, sure ... 

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💥 Arrival in temporarily occupied Kramatorsk.
💥 Explosions in Kharkov region.

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❗️ At least five explosions in Kramatorsk after ceasefire ends - air-raid alert sounds in eastern Ukraine

There are also reports of rocket attacks on facilities in Kharkov Region. Ukrainian media claim missile launch from Russian territory.

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"Russia will not  return the annexed parts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions to Ukraine voluntarily."

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Pentagon chief Robert Gates expressed this opinion in a column for the Washington Post.

Note:  no sh*t, Sherlock...

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💥 Explosions in Konstantinovka are reported.
Meanwhile, a video of the arrival in Kramatorsk.

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Situation in Artemovsk direction as of 00.05 Moscow time 08.01.23:

1. To the south of Bakhmut, fighting is taking place near Kleshcheyevka, where the Wagners are pounding and storming the AFU strongholds. Kleshcheevka itself has not yet been entered. To the south our troops are trying to advance from the Kurdyumovka and Ozeryanivka areas, but no results are known yet. 

2. In Bakhmut itself there is fighting in the southeastern outskirts, where "orchestra" is fighting for every house. 

Part of Opytnoye has been taken, fighting is taking place in the centre of the village, and no one is marking a clear front line there now.   

In the vicinity of the town's industrial area fighting is taking place in the area of the plaster factory and Patrice Lumumba street. There is little progress and the fighting is mostly positional in nature.

3. The town of Podgorodnoye is taken, where the system of the Ukrainian armed forces is similar to Opytnoye, but they are still breaking there, while in Podgorodnoye they have already broken through. 

Enemy strongholds between Podgorodnoye and Krasnaya Gora are being stormed, ours have not entered the latter yet. 

4. In Soledar, fighting continues in the residential areas in the central part of the city. PMC Wagner assault units have reached the salt mine 1.3, taking it. The enemy have marked themselves off GP Artemsol (video with Butusov). They are sitting on the Sol station, on the western outskirts of Soledar, having transferred the 46th Brigade from the Zaporozhye direction to reinforce it.

Our troops have entered the town from the Yakovlevka side and there are reports of advances westwards to the Seversk-Soledar highway, but even here the real front line is difficult to mark at the moment. 

5. According to military expert Boris Rozhin, the capture of Soledar will allow us to cover the enemy positions in Bakhmut from the north. At the same time, problems arise in the enemy defence north of Soledar at the line of Veseloe - Belogorovka - Berestovoye - Spornoye. 

Cutting the Seversk-Soledar route will enable an offensive along it to Seversk. If the offensive towards Seversk and northwards develops, the enemy is deprived of the opportunity to use a bridgehead near the second Belogorovka at Seversky Donets to put pressure on Lisichansk and through the forested area to Kremennaya. 
This is a complex impact.

6. The enemy tries to cling to areas of weapons depots, Artemsol underground communications and urban development.

7. Retreating to Artemovsk, the enemy will attempt to hold the defenses in the western part of the city, if necessary by withdrawing to equipped positions near Chasov Yar, using the dominant heights, before retreating to Druzhkovka-Kramatorsk and Konstantinovka. With the enemy pushing through at Artemovsk, the front is hardly likely to crumble. 

8. A defensive breakthrough at Soledar could have more serious consequences for the AFU. But everything depends on the pace of our advance and how quickly the enemy will be able to stabilize the line after losing Soledar. 

The position of the AFU in this direction is close to critical, which is confirmed by the redeployment of formations from the Zaporozhye direction to Bakhmut and Soledar. If their front line is shattered, it will be shattered not only there.   

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One of the arrivals at Kramatorsk.

‼️💥Most powerful explosion near Kramatorsk
Looks like the same one can be seen from Kostyantynovka.

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The moment of arrival at Konstantinovka.

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The arrival in Kramatorsk is most likely to fall at the machinery. Fragments of "burning" debris can be seen flying around. Most likely detonation of the BKM at the time of explosion.
There is a probability of an air defence hit, too.
The Russian Federation used a single strike and did something quite precise.
Most likely they "sketched" the location of the installation.

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Kherson

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Before judging Zelensky for rejecting the Christmas truce try walking in his shoes first…

🎻 🎶 Sometimes you wonder how such talented people end up in the war.
An improvised concert of a soldier of the Russian Guard for colleagues on the front line.

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