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Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:55 Spain will send Leopard tanks to Slovakia to contain Russia, ABC reports. According to the publication, Spain will deploy 600 military personnel, Leopard tanks and helicopters to the Ukrainian border.
21:29 There is no real threat of encirclement of Avdeevka now, says Alexander Shtupun, speaker of the Tauride Defense Forces. According to him, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are constantly adding reserves in this direction, reformatting and inflicting damage on the Russians.
20:46 The head of the Avdeevka city military administration, Vitaly Barabash, announced the beginning of the third wave of assaults on the city: “The attacks increased gradually, and for about eight days they have been very actively using technology, and, in my opinion, this also indicates that the third wave has begun. Because They didn’t use the equipment for a very long time, and then they went, even despite not very favorable weather conditions.”
20:00 Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said that the main challenge for Prague is to keep Russia as far as possible from the Czech borders: “We must remember that in Ukraine we are holding back the imperial expansion of Russia, which is also sharpening its teeth on the Central European region , Baltic countries".
18:51 Shoigu reported to Putin that Russian troops allegedly completely captured Marinka, Donetsk region. According to him, this will allow Ukrainian combat units to be moved away from Donetsk. In turn, the speaker of the Tauride Defense Forces, Alexander Shtupun, claims that the battle for Marinka continues: “Now our military is within the administrative borders of Marinka, but the city has been completely destroyed. But it is incorrect to talk about the complete capture of Marinka.”
17:29 The Russians have already destroyed the third base with humanitarian aid in Kherson in just a few days, said the commander of the Kherson regional rapid response unit of the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, Nikolai Taranenko. According to him, the enemy is deliberately targeting humanitarian centers. In particular, three suicide bombers hit the Red Cross warehouse at once, and the entire warehouse burned down.
16:33 Russia is preparing an expedition to Africa to search for mercenaries for the war against Ukraine, reports the Center for National Resistance under the Special Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, the enemy is conducting a recruiting campaign in the Kursk region, where he intends to recruit from 50 to 100 soldiers and officers to fill the so-called African Corps. It was created as a replacement for the Wagner PMC mercenaries, who operated in Africa, but were sent to Ukraine.
The expansion of this contingent is planned on the territory of Burkina Faso, and the main activity will be the training and retraining of local mercenaries to be sent to the war against Ukraine.
15:58 Air defense forces destroyed an X-59 missile in the Krivoy Rog region of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
13:17 The Cabinet of Ministers, at the request of the military, is working on a bill on mobilization and should complete its part of the work in the near future, said the head of the parliamentary faction Servant of the People David Arakhamia. He emphasized that the absence of this bill “gives rise to uncertainty and a large number of fakes about checkpoints, about Dii, etc.”
Arakhamia confirmed that the military command has submitted a request for the mobilization of 500 thousand military personnel, and now the government is developing rules: “The President clearly emphasized that he requires an integrated approach to serving in the Armed Forces. Simply recruiting new people will not solve the problems of those who are serving now, "is not a solution. Parliament is waiting for a finished document that can be discussed at the Committee. The military needs solutions to its problems. Society wants to hear answers to all sensitive issues."
11:54 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation accused the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, of committing 104 terrorist attacks, and a Moscow court again “arrested” him in absentia.
10:32 In the Odessa region, 17 enemy drones and an X-31P missile were shot down during a night attack, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA. The wreckage of the downed drone damaged the technical premises of the port infrastructure of Odessa, as well as the inactive administrative building and warehouse of the mothballed facility in the Razdelnyansky district. The fire was quickly extinguished, no people were injured.
10:16 This year Latvia transferred 271 cars confiscated from drunk drivers to Ukraine, with a total value of almost 1 million euros. Currently, 34 more cars are being prepared for transfer, Delfi reports.
10:11 Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat was skeptical about reports of the supposedly possible receipt of F-16s by the end of the year. According to him, it is first necessary to complete the preparation of infrastructure, pilots, as well as aviation engineers. “We take planes to fight, and not to have them at gunpoint,” Ignat emphasized.
09:02 In the Dnepropetrovsk region, five enemy UAVs were destroyed during a night attack, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. In the Pavlogradsky district, as a result of falling debris, a utility room and a grain loader were damaged, and in the Dneprovsky district, debris fell onto the territory of a non-working enterprise - a fire broke out, which was put out by rescuers. No people were hurt.
08:33 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 25:
- personnel - about 353,950 (+760) people,
- tanks - 5877 (+19),
- armored combat vehicles - 10,919 (+31),
- artillery systems - 8347 (+33),
- MLRS - 934 (+2),
- air defense systems - 613 (+2),
- aircraft - 329 (+2),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 6436 (+32),
- cruise missiles - 1616 (+2),
- ships/boats - 22 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,075 (+53),
- special equipment - 1234 (+5).
08:18 At night, air defense destroyed 28 of 31 Shahed-type attack UAVs that Russia attacked from Crimea - from the Chauda and Balaklava areas, the Air Force command reported. The drones were shot down within the Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev, Donetsk, Kirovograd and Khmelnytsky regions. In addition, the enemy used a Kh-59 guided aircraft missile in the Zaporozhye direction and an Kh-31P anti-radar missile from the Black Sea - both were destroyed.
The Air Force also confirmed that, in addition to the Su-34 aircraft, on December 24, a Russian Su-30SM aircraft was shot down over the Black Sea.
07:43 Over the past 24 hours, 66 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, in the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 14 enemy attacks east of Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka, as well as 17 attacks near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Kupyansk direction, 21 enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka, Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region, in the Kherson direction - 23 attacks.
In addition, in the Bakhmut direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks near Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Marinka and Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - southwest of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - near Rabotino and south of Gulyai-Polye, Zaporozhye region.
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