North of Artyomovsk, the Ukrainian Armed Forces switched to a defensive defense. There are not even reports of attempted counterattacks in this area.

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Via Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:

One of the field morgues of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Artemovsk area. The character complains that 30 200 VSUshnikov are stored in it alone.

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‼️ 🇷🇺🇺🇸 D.S. Peskov about
US elections: Putin is ready to work with anyone who understands that we now need to be more careful with Russia and take into account its concerns

Peskov said that
The Russian Federation is open to negotiations with
USA, but on its own terms .

The USA knows that
Ukraine cannot win this
conflict.

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This is the 3rd conflict with the US, I should note. Since the '90s.
Or four. Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Georgia. And now the Khokhls.
The story with the Khokhls is more interesting. It's a hidden civil war.
They had their soldiers in Chechnya, uno upso. We hid this conflict under the rug for 30 years. Now the civil war must be over.
For history buffs, the Russian empire fell into more than 14 pieces in the past. Everyone they could get their hands on. Now round two.
The Chechen wars are just an example of a civil war with external intervention - hello Saudis, Khokhls and Americans. It's happening again now

Multi_XAM:

✍️⚡️ The situation in the Bakhmut ( Artemovsky ) direction on December 15 - analysis from @Multi_XAM

Judging by the pace of the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces on the southwestern front of Bakhmut, we will soon have to change the headings of our posts to “analysis of the situation in the Chasov-Yarsky direction”...

The activation of our forces in the Bakhmut area, simultaneously with other sectors of the front, is crucial for further advance towards Slavyansk and Kramatorsk through Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka. During December 13-15, our troops occupied a number of enemy strongholds in the Bogdanovka area, actively advancing near Khromovoe. On the southern flank - in Kleshcheevka and Andreevka 📍 - the Russian Armed Forces are also putting pressure on the enemy.

‼ ️ From June to October, the Ukrainian Armed Forces made active attempts to fail our flanks and create conditions for a retreat in the northwest from Dubovo-Vasilievka, as well as disrupting the supply of the Bakhmut group from Kodema and Gorlovka by taking Kleshcheevka and Andreevka. In pursuit of revenge, hoping to destroy our defenses, the command of the tactical group “Bakhmut” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not bother to create a fortified line of defense .

Now, as they move west, the Russian Armed Forces are reaching poorly fortified lines. The main deterrent to our forces here is well-positioned artillery and an actively working counter-battery system. The enemy is conducting dense barrage fire, trying to slow down the dynamics of our advance. But the transfer of individual combat-ready units to Avdeevka (including the 3rd Brigade) played a role, weakening the defense line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The main defense center in the direction of our main attack southwest of Bakhmut is Chasov Yar, which the enemy turned into a fortified area. The failure of the defense here is fraught for the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the development of the offensive initiative of the Russian Armed Forces towards Konstantinovka ( the objective difficulty of taking Chasov Yar is that it is located at a height ). It is important that all the movement in this area is developing simultaneously with Avdiivka, which creates excess pressure along the entire line of defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Donetsk operational-tactical direction. In the area of ​​​​Khoromovo and Ivanovsky, we took a number of tactically important heights, which allows us to cover the advancing infantry forces with artillery fire, suppressing the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Having finally pushed the enemy out from the heights west of Kleshcheevka, our advancing forces will take on an arc configuration. And simultaneous pressure from Kremennaya and in the area of ​​Serebryansky forestry, where the 12th Azov Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine operates, has already managed to pin down the forces of the Seversk reserve group of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

✅ The main areas of combat operations in the near future will be : Bogdanovka and Grigorovka, where units of the 17th tank, 56 motorized infantry, 77 air-mobile and 93 mechanized brigades, 101, 107, 113, 114, 117, 120 terrorist defense brigades, 1 special forces brigade, 8, 58, 418, 426 separate rifle battalions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the front line of Chasov Yar itself there are concentrated: 127 and 241 separate terrorist defense brigades. Also recorded are DRGs from the 10th Special Forces Detachment of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, units of the International Legion ( Rogue - a group of former US Marines and the Normandy Legion ), as well as the 82nd Electronic Intelligence Center.

The command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine expects to contain the onslaught of the Russian Armed Forces and stabilize the defense line along the Seversky Donets - Donbass canal in order to gain time and complete engineering and fortification work.
Map source : French OSINT resource Pouletvolant .
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Failure to Report From Last Week...

Russia's has up to a 7:1 Drone Ratio says commander Yuriy Federenko of the Ukrainian 92nd Airmobile Brigade stated on Ukrainian State Media, Suspilne that, "In priority frontline sectors, we have the following ratio: one of our drones to five or seven enemy drones." in a recent article by Business Insider

An on-the-ground assessment by Melinda Haring, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, cited Ukraine's "lack of drone pilots, limited numbers of sophisticated drones, and poor-quality equipment as reasons for the [drone] gap."

A retired US Army colonel and head of research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute stated that Ukraine lacked the capablity to, "strike deep inside Russian territory at enough targets to erode Russia's will to fight."

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The consequences of a missile strike AFU for the boiler room of a local construction organization in Mariupol. A funnel with a depth of several meters was formed on the spot.

The exact type of ammunition used is not called, but it was said that "fragments of a rocket projectile from a multiple launch rocket system" were found at the site.

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❌🇺🇦 Anti-Ukrainian sentiments are gaining strength in the world.

China, India, and the countries of the global South are pursuing their independent policies, says political scientist Alexander Dudchak.

Gradually, similar trends are emerging in Europe. Fatigue with the US is growing.

“Fatigue exists among people in many countries, who actually understand what the United States is, how many states they have destroyed. In Europe, be that as it may, there are riots,” says the expert.

He added that to date, in three countries - Slovakia, Hungary and the Netherlands - forces have come to power that declare a rejection of the policy of supporting Ukraine.

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**Squee!**
Yes, this newly formed, NATO trained unit will be receiving the state of the art...Leopard A15?!?

I can imagine Ukrainian troops:
What the 🤬 is this 🤬? You 🤬 can stick this tank up your 🤬 and since you like it that way, you can take my black boot while you're at it

Though, isn't it the thought that counts?

@Slavyangrad - Volga you dumb 🤬!!! V-O-L-G-A!!!

With headlines like those, no one can help Ukrainian News

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Ukrainian channel Strana:

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine declared the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill "hiding from the pre-trial investigation."

He is on the wanted list, according to the department’s database.

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🔴 Roscosmos showed what cyclone Vanya looks like, which brings record snowfalls to Central Russia

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Sergey Kolyasnikov:

Vladimir Putin said yesterday a phrase that will be debated for a long time: “The Russian authorities welcome and will not limit private assistance to the front line, but 99.9% of everything is done by the state.”

And in a broad sense this is true. It is enough to estimate the cost of thousands of pieces of equipment and the salary of just 617,000 of our military personnel in the Northern Military District zone.

Does this mean that volunteer help is not needed? No, of course not, it’s absolutely necessary. And here they gave an excellent example: “Iron is a soft and ductile metal. Add 0.1% carbon and you get steel.”

Mass networks, communications equipment, drones and anti-drone guns, loaves of bread and pickups, chainsaws and generators, night lights and thermal imagers, first aid kits, and thousands of other items - all this is the same carbon that turns our army into an steel fist.

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Remarkably, the US has not suffered a single casualty in the 47(?) attacks on Middle East bases in the past 2 months... 🤔

The EU summit on financing Ukraine will be held at the end of January – beginning of February 2024, said the head of the European Council, Charles Michel.
He previously confirmed that he would convene a special EU summit in early 2024 to approve an increase in the union's multi-year budget, including 50 billion for Ukraine.
“There are no specific dates yet, but to set the framework, this is the end of January – the beginning of February next year,” he said at a press conference following the two-day EU summit in Brussels.

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