🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Oleksiy Khuleba: 500,000 homes in Kharkiv Oblast left without heating after Russian strikes

🇺🇦 - People excluded from military service through disabilities will now be able to volunteer from the front.

Ukrainian authorities made assurances that individuals in this category will not see forced conscription

🇺🇦 - Regional councillor in Lviv and one accomplice were arrested after trying to extort an entrepreneur of 1.2 million Hryvnia’s on Christmas Day and hiding it in the toilet.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Moscow mayor Sobyanin says 600,000 participants of the SMO are being rehabilitated in facilities around Moscow

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Ukrainian woman in Krasnodar was arrested by Russian authorities for posts on a social media account she used for family and friends, where she made some comments against the Russian invasion of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦 - Lavrov: France has suggested to Russia to conduct secret negotiations without the participation of Kiev

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇰🇵 - Ukrainian troops found a diary with tactics on how to shoot down drones on a dead North Korean soldier in Kursk Oblast

🇷🇺 - Moscow police busted a major criminal operation, breaking up 70 illegal Central Asian brothels and uncovering 20 apartments where illegal migrants were staying

🇺🇦🇨🇿 - Czech foreign minister Lena Zerkal responding to a question, said that Czech companies had tried to invest in Ukraine but they found that they couldn’t due to limitless corruption of local officials