⚡️ Air raid alerts blare in central-Eastern Ukrainian regions; Poltava, Chernigov, Dnepropetrovsk, Sumy, and Kharkov.

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⚡️The number of Ukrainian refugees who arrived in Europe exceeds 7.9 million people.

The most amount of refugees accepted by one country is Russia, with more than 2.8 million people - Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

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❗️Patriarch Kirill, head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, calls on ceasefire in Ukraine for the Orthodox Christmas on 7 January 2023.

The Christian Orthodox Christmas is celebrated according to the Julian calender, which runs '2 weeks behind' the Gregorian calender most widely used.

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POSSESSED: Some Ukrainian Tiktokers have lost the plot - tomorrow is Orthodox Christmas Eve, it's not too late to redeem your soul....

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⚡️🇵🇪 Protests continue in Peru - thousands of people take to the streets of the capital, speaking out against the overthrow of President Pedro Castillo.

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⚡️British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak intends to pass law that will allow companies to fire workers that take part in strikes and protesting.

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📞 Erdogan phones Putin, to talk about Syria, bilateral relations, and taking steps toward a negotiation process in Ukraine - Erdogan's office.

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⚡️Funeral procession begins in the Vatican for Pope Benedict XVI, who died on 31 December, aged 96.

As many as 100,000 Catholics are expected to attend.

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⚡️France considers it has a duty to provide military assistance to Ukraine, but the supply of tanks to Kiev, as promised by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, will not make Paris party to the Ukrainian conflict - French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

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⚡️ India and China become main buyers of Russian oil as countries of the EU, G7 and Australia impose price cap.

Earlier, Putin signed a decree that states oil will not be sold to countries with price caps.

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⚡️Ukrainian wounded in Artyomovsk-Bakhmut, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) - one of the most heavily fortified Ukrainian strongholds in the Republic.

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◾️Russian Federation (RF) Armed Forces destroyed more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the Yuzhno-Donets direction, Donetsk Republic (DPR, ex-Ukraine)

◾️RF Forces are conducting successful offensive operations in Donetsk, up to 60 Ukrainian military have been destroyed;

◾️RF Forces destroyed more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in Krasnoliman, DPR;

◾️RF Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR;

◾️RF Armed Forces destroyed up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers in Kupyansk, DPR;

◾️Russian air defense systems shot down a Su-25 aircraft and 21 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine;

◾️In the DPR, the Russian military killed more than 55 extremists of Sheikh Mansur battalion (Chechens against Kadyrov);

◾️Russian military destroyed two warehouses of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;

◾️Russian air defense systems intercepted five HIMARS missiles of the multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and four HARM missiles over the past day;

◾️RF Armed Forces destroyed a Grad "Hail" MLRS system and two Alder MLRS launchers in the DPR;

◾️Russian Armed Forces destroyed a M777 system in the Nikolaev region, as well as the AN / TPQ-37 counter-battery radar in the Lugansk Republic.

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⚡️Death toll from the shelling of hotel in Vasilyevka, Zaporozhye region (ex-Ukraine), by the Armed Forces of Ukraine rises to six, 37 people were injured.

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⚡️McDonalds franchise to leave Kazakhstan, due to supply chain issues for meat products.

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❗️Pakistan launches airstrikes on Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) strongholds in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.

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⚡️Norway hands over 10,000 shells for 155mm artillery to Ukraine, from its own army supplies.

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⚡️NATO Chief Stoltenberg calls for additional military assistance to Ukraine.

🗣 Weapons are the path to peace, he said.

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