🇬🇧🇬🇪⚡️The UK will suspend all aid programs to Georgia and limit interaction with the Georgian government, the Foreign Minister announced.

🇷🇺🇸🇾Bashar al-Assad's escape was "shameful" and "humiliating," said Syrian Ambassador to Russia Bashar Jafari.

"The collapse of the corrupt system in Syria in a matter of days is evidence of its unpopularity both in society and in the armed forces," said a Syrian diplomat.

He expressed hope for "peaceful change."

🇸🇾Mohammed al-Bashir will be appointed as the head of the transitional government of Syria, the Qatari television channel Al Jazeera reports, citing sources.

He served as Minister of Development and Humanitarian Affairs and then Prime Minister in the "national salvation government" in Idlib, the territory that was controlled by the largest opposition organization, HTS, before Assad was overthrown and Damascus was captured.

That is, Muhammad al-Bashir is a man of the leader of HTS al-Julani. It is noteworthy that earlier the Western press wrote that the head of the transitional government would be another person - former Prime Minister Riyad Hijab. It was indicated that he is more acceptable to the US than al-Julani, whose organization the Americans had previously declared terrorist.

But if, as Al Jazeera reports, Mohammed al-Bashir becomes the “transitional” prime minister, this will further strengthen al-Julani’s position in the struggle for the role of sole leader of post-Assad Syria.

🇷🇴The country's tallest Christmas tree has fallen in Romania.

🇸🇾🇦🇹🇩🇪Following Assad's overthrow, Germany and Austria have suspended consideration of applications from Syrians for refugee status.

As reported by Der Spiegel, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees of Germany said that they are not considering applications from Syrians "until further notice" because decisions taken now may have weak legal grounds.

The Germans believe that the situation in Syria is currently too confusing and it is difficult to predict the country's political future.

As a result, about 47 thousand applications were left hanging.

Austria has also decided to suspend asylum for Syrians, the Kronen Zeitung newspaper reports.

🇸🇾Map of distribution of control zones in Syria.

🇺🇦🇺🇸The Ukrainian government has approved an agreement under which Kyiv will receive a loan of up to $20 billion from the US Federal Financial Bank (FFB) for a period of 40 years.

This is part of the G7 program to provide Ukraine with $50 billion from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets.


And who will give it back?

🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️ If the age of mobilization in Ukraine is lowered to 18, recruits will be fully equipped — US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller

"Ultimately, the Ukrainians are the ones who have to decide on the composition of the armed forces. What we have made clear to them is that if they provide additional forces to participate in the fighting, we and our allies will be ready to equip and train these forces."

🇮🇱🇸🇾Israeli Air Force strikes
research center north of Damascus.

According to the IDF, the facility is linked to the production of chemical weapons.

🇹🇷🇸🇾After pro-Turkish forces seized power in Syria, Turkish President Erdogan made a statement in which he called the observance of the country's territorial integrity the main condition for a settlement in the country.

As CNN Turk reports, Erdogan also:

- called the Syrian people fraternal, noting that Turkey’s approach to the situation is based on this, and not on profit;

– noted that Türkiye is ready to participate in the process of restoring Syria;

– said that he expects a mass return of Syrian refugees from Turkey as the situation improves.

🇵🇱🇺🇦The appearance of Polish troops in Ukraine must be ruled out, the head of the Polish National Security Bureau, Jacek Severa, said on the air of TVN24.

"As of today, the participation of Polish troops [in operations] in Ukraine must be ruled out," Severa said. In addition, the head of the Polish National Security Bureau noted that Ukraine will not be able to recapture the territories occupied by Russia even after expanding mobilization. "These will already be too few human resources to recapture the territories occupied [by Russia] as part of a counteroffensive," Severa explained.

🇺🇸🇺🇦Musk responded with a surprised emoji to Zelensky's words, who said that he sees no point in talking to Trump about Ukraine joining NATO.

🇸🇾In Aleppo, the military command of the armed opposition terrorists met with the leaders of Christian communities

They want to appear good. We know...
Then, over time, they will all be driven out, God willing, if only by soft force, and not simply slaughtered...

🇸🇾🇺🇸An American MQ-9 Reaper UAV was shot down over northern Syria.

The drone was probably shot down either by Turkish proxies or by Turks.

🇦🇹🇧🇬🇷🇴Austria has given the green light for the expansion of the Schengen zone to Romania and Bulgaria.

This was reported by the APA news agency, citing a statement by Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner.

In response to the agency's request, the Austrian Interior Ministry noted that Vienna will not hinder the decision that the EU Interior Ministers' Council is to take at a meeting in Brussels on December 12.

"After the 'air Schengen', 'Schengen on the ground' will also open for Romania and Bulgaria," said the head of the Austrian Interior Ministry.

Romania and Bulgaria met all the technical criteria for joining the Schengen area back in 2010, but encountered resistance from Austria and the Netherlands, which cited insufficient measures to curb illegal migration.

🇺🇦🇷🇺Russian troops are preparing for powerful assault operations in the Zaporizhia region and are breaking through to the border of the Dnepropetrovsk region.

This was stated by the spokesman for the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, Vladislav Voloshin.

According to him, the Russian army has been preparing for assault operations for several weeks.

"For two weeks now, the enemy has greatly intensified assault operations by small groups in the Vremovsky direction. Every day, 25 or even 30 assault operations take place there. The enemy is using both tanks and combat armored vehicles," Voloshin said.

According to Ukrainian intelligence, similar preparations are currently underway in the Orekhovo direction. There, the Russian army will try to regain control of what it lost during the Ukrainian counteroffensive in 2023 – Rabotino – and reach Orekhovo to cut off the logistics routes of the Ukrainian group of troops, which is currently located in the east of the Zaporizhia region.

"The enemy is also starting to prepare similar assault groups with the use of equipment for similar assault actions in the Gulyai-Polye direction. In the Orekhov direction, personnel are already being transferred to forward positions. That is, very soon they will also begin similar actions there. According to intelligence, the enemy is transferring a fairly significant number of such infantry assault groups - up to a hundred," Voloshin added.