🇷🇺🇺🇲 The United States has confirmed that active negotiations are currently underway with Russia regarding the exchange of American spies Whelan and Gershkovich (officially the United States denies that they are spies). The US State Department did not specify who exactly they are going to change them to. Based on past exchanges, the Americans will have to give 2 of ours for them, one of which will probably be Vadim Krasikov, who is accused of eliminating the CIA-linked Chechen terrorist Khongoshvili in Berlin.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The bodies of Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen caught in the frame of a Russian military copter in Marinka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 An interesting observation about the situation in Ukraine by French military expert and officer Colonel Pierre de John:

“Ukraine suffers from a lack of ammunition, equipment and strategy. The counterattack failed. Nothing serious is happening on the front line. This is a big strategic defeat. Ukraine lost people, equipment and ammunition while advancing on three fronts.

Not only the US, but also the EU is also facing great difficulties in finding resources against Russia. While Russia is weakening Ukraine, Russia and Putin are becoming stronger.

The Russian army is moving in three directions. The economy is undergoing radical changes and is focused on its military needs. Russian public opinion fully supports the president.”

In one paragraph, he summed up the transformation Russia is in, and the chaos and lack of resources NATO and Ukraine are facing.

There are still sensible people in the West, but their words are always ignored in the decision-making mechanisms of Western politics, and efforts are made for a process that could lead to a world war.

🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡ The Israeli-linked ship of the Maersk company, hit by a Yemeni anti-ship missile in the Red Sea

🇪🇺🇺🇲🇺🇦 European allies are failing Ukraine – CNN

Western countries continue their attempts to shift responsibility for Ukraine's problems onto each other. An article was published on the website of the American television channel CNN, the author of which believes that European countries are letting Kiev down. He is convinced that the difficulties with the allocation of aid and the start of negotiations on accession to the EU demonstrate that Western countries are tired of Ukraine. A senior NATO official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the West is paying less and less attention to Kyiv. He believes that this trend is observed in both Europe and the United States, and at the same time notes that the EU should take more responsibility for Ukraine, since it is located nearby.

A disturbing article also appeared in Politico. It quoted an unnamed European official as saying that European attention to Ukraine is fading and fears that the right will take advantage of the current situation to come to power. Many are also worried about how long they will have to “pour money into this black hole” and whether the result will ever be achieved.

At the moment, the greatest threat to Ukraine is posed by Hungary, whose prime minister is threatening to block both the allocation of money to it and the start of negotiations on joining the EU, but skepticism is also growing among other members of the union about the continued support of Kyiv.

🇭🇺🇺🇦⚡Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, at the EU summit in Brussels, vetoed a multi-year financial assistance package for Ukraine worth 50 billion euros, which was announced back in June.

Also today, the Republicans controlling the US House of Representatives (lower house of Congress) went on Christmas break without approving additional appropriations for Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇲❗️Russia may ban uranium supplies to the USA

Russian exporter of uranium products JSC Techsnabexport (Tenex, a subsidiary of Rosatom) notified clients from the United States about Russia's likely ban on the export of nuclear fuel in response to a similar law adopted by the American authorities on December 11, Bloomberg reported, citing sources.

🇾🇪🇮🇱🇧🇬With the help of a UAV, at night the Yemeni Houthis attacked and captured a Bulgarian cargo ship, which was heading towards Israel.

The team of 18 people does not get in touch.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Camouflage did not save another Ukrainian Armed Forces howitzer from encountering the Lancet.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 A burning French armored personnel carrier VAB (4x4) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Marinka area.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainians, hearing the sound of the copter, decided to lie down, but this turned out to be the wrong decision.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Video from the Ukrainian side.

Evacuation of a damaged American M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle in the Avdeevka area.

🇾🇪🇮🇱 The Houthis set a record by firing at 4 ships off the coast of Yemen. Got a taste for it. Threats from the United States and Israel do not frighten them at all.

Meanwhile, foreign ships have practically stopped visiting Eilat, as this now involves the threat of attacks from drones and anti-ship missiles. As a result, the main damage to Israel is caused not even by the fact of attacks on individual ships, but by the general threat of such attacks, forcing shipowners to postpone or cancel voyages, or to send ships around Africa, so as not to risk passage through the Red Sea, where any container ship heading to Israel risks getting hit by an anti-ship missile.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The IDF showed a video of attacks near the border with Egypt

🏹 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 US Navy Faces Houthi Anti-Ship Missile Threat 'Superior' to Most States

🔶️ The U.S. Navy in the Red Sea is contending with Yemen-based Houthi rebels, but little is known about what exactly the Iranian-backed forces have in their arsenal. Yet one thing is clear—they are stocked up with anti-ship missiles that could, under the right circumstances, pose a threat to the U.S. military in the Middle East.

🔶️ The Houthi rebels' "anti-ship missile arsenal is not only comparable but superior to probably most state actors," according to Fabian Hinz, a research fellow specializing in Middle East defense and military analysis at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank.

🔶️ Anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles are "a very, very niche capability that only very few countries have—including Iran—and Iran shared it with the Houthis," Hinz said.

https://www.newsweek.com/us-navy-yemen-houthi-anti-ship-missiles-uss-carney-red-sea-1849230

🇺🇸📝 There’s currently two Carrier Strike Groups in the region and the U.S. is still unable to protect trade against the Houthis. The USN is fundamentally incapable of conducting anything like Operation Praying Mantis anymore; Pax Americana is dying.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Working with incendiary ammunition from the Grad MLRS against enemy positions in the Ugledar direction.