Russian FPV drone fires RPG-26.

After the strike, the drone crashed.

The U.S. State Department urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately.

The embassy noted that the governments of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are considering closing their borders with Belarus.

Al Arabiya claims there are movements at military airports in West Africa in preparation for a possible intervention by ECOWAS in Niger.

WaPo:

The U.S. plans to use the winter lull at the front to replenish Ukraine's weapons stockpiles.

The Pentagon plans to ramp up munitions production in the hope of reducing the intensity of the fighting.

German Bundestag Defense Committee Head, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann:

We have enough Taurus cruise missiles. We can give a part away. They are ready for use.

Destroyed Ukrainian M1126 Stryker APC with a mine trawl in Robotyne area of ​​the Zaporizhzhia region.

Photo of Russian R-500 (9M728) cruise missile shortly before hitting the Drama Theater building in Chernihiv on Saturday.

Zelensky:

Swedish CV90 IFVs to be produced in Ukraine.

Meeting of two kamikazes: a Ukrainian FPV drone meets its Russian colleague (Lancet).

Turkish President Erdogan:

The physical intervention of UN troops in the TRNC is unacceptable.

The UN Peacekeeping Force has cast a shadow on its neutrality and damaged its reputation.

Let them live up to their name instead of destabilizing.

Zelensky:

Greece will train Ukrainian pilots on the F-16s.

Disgraced Wagner chief Prigozhin says he’s in Africa.

“We will make Russia greater on all continents.”

The New Yorker:

Elon Musk admitted that he spoke with Putin in 2022.

The conversation came after the Ukrainian military advancing in southern Ukraine suddenly lost Starlink communications.

CNN reported in October that Musk promoted his "peace plan" for Ukraine at conferences and in conversations with members of think tanks.

In October, Musk denied the conversation.

Then he wrote on Twitter that he only spoke to Putin once - about 18 months ago, about space.

Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky:

We betrayed the Ukrainians. It is not them who betrayed us. We again present ourselves as victims and explain to ourselves that we were forced to do all this because they were the first to start, no!

We started first. We stabbed in the back.

#BREAKING The U.S. approves massive Apache sale to Poland

The U.S. approved the sale of 96 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for $12 billion.

The sale also includes:

1.844 x Hellfire
460 x JAGM
508 x Stinger MANPADS
7.650 x APKWS-II

Failed Russian FPV kamikaze drone strike on Ukrainian soldiers.

Wait for it.

Satellite image of the destroyed Russian Tu-22M3 bomber aircraft after Ukrainian strike on Soltsy airfield, Novgorod region, 18.08.2023.

India’s Russian-made 51P6A launchers of the S-400 air defense system with 9M96E missiles.