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2023-12-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: December 26, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:32 For a long time nothing was heard about negotiations between Ukraine and Russia. The New York Times reported, citing its own sources, that Putin has been sending signals through intermediaries at least since September about his readiness for a ceasefire in Ukraine. On whether such proposals should be believed, see the material Negotiations in 2024 .
21:59 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have partially withdrawn from Marinka, Donetsk region. Today, Ukrainian forces are still in the northern part of the city, but the main line of defense lies in the vicinity of the settlement. About what this means for the general situation at the front, see the material Gateway to Two Cities .
21:20 The Russians massively shelled Kherson while about 140 civilians were waiting at the railway station for the departure of an evacuation train, said Interior Minister Igor Klimenko. As a result of the shelling, a police lieutenant from the Kirovograd region was killed and two more police officers were wounded. It is also known that two civilians were injured; the rest were taken to safe places in time.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported that as a result of the shelling, the station and rolling stock were damaged, several railway workers were known to be wounded, and passengers were in shelter. Once the situation in the station area has stabilized, people will be transferred to buses.
21:07 Zelensky said that today he held a meeting on working with NATO next year: “Ukraine’s strategy in relations with the Alliance is absolutely clear - this is the foundation of security for Ukraine and for the whole of Europe together with Ukraine. We are forming appropriate tactics for such a strategy actions. Foreign policy, communication, institutional steps in our state. Everything should be as meaningful as possible."
21:01 The Russians attacked an evacuation train at the railway station in Kherson, Zelensky said in an evening video message. According to him, the number of dead and injured is being established; there were many civilians at the scene.
19:46 The next meeting of World Formula advisers will take place in Switzerland, Zelensky said. The President said that during a telephone conversation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, he invited his representative to this meeting.
19:19 Russian troops stopped using guided bombs after the destruction of Russian fighters in the Kherson direction, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, in December alone, the enemy dropped 330 KAB from tactical aircraft. “Since December 22, we have not recorded a single launch of guided bombs in our area of responsibility. Not only on land, but also in the Black Sea,” she noted.
18:27 As a result of the Russian strike on Chernobaevka, four people were wounded, said the head of the Kherson OVA, Alexander Prokudin.
18:01 The Russian army continued to attack the Kherson region throughout the day, said the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. In Kherson one person was wounded, in Nikolskoye one was killed and one was wounded. Another person was wounded as a result of shelling at Shiroka Balka. According to preliminary information, there are casualties in Stepanovka and Chernobaevka, the data is being clarified.
17:48 Taiwan has expanded the list of sanctioned goods for Russia and Belarus. In particular, it is prohibited to export to them machinery and equipment that can be used for military purposes. The sanctions included equipment for the production of semiconductors, as well as some chemicals and medicines. There are a total of 45 items on the list.
17:26 The Ukrainian authorities have finally decided to strengthen conscription into the Armed Forces, so the day before the Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Verkhovna Rada bill No. 10378 to improve the issues of mobilization, military registration and military service. The document will “cut off the air” for draft dodgers, and will also significantly reduce the list of reasons for deferment. About what other changes the bill envisages and when the new rules will come into force can be found in the material Mobilization in Ukraine: main changes and deadlines .
16:54 Zaluzhny said that next year “should and will” be different from the current one in terms of military strategy. In particular, he said, it is planned to “act more efficiently, and most importantly, to save people.” “We have found the problems and found somewhere, perhaps, 90% of the solutions to these issues that must be resolved. We are working on this, and our partners absolutely agree with us,” the commander-in-chief noted.
At the same time, Zaluzhny is confident that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will not have problems with weapons, because the West will continue to supply them, and its own production will also be increased.
16:19 In the Dneprovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, two X-59 guided aircraft missiles were destroyed, the Air Command of Skhid reported.
16:15 The city of Maryinka no longer exists, Zaluzhny said. According to him, Ukrainian troops retreated from the western outskirts of the city: in some places they dug in in the surrounding area, in others a little further.
The commander-in-chief also admitted that in 2-3 months Avdiivka will be captured by the Russians: “We don’t need to get hung up and make some kind of show or grief around a specific locality. Conducting military operations is subject to its own laws, which do not depend on whether the deputies like it or journalists. The enemy has the opportunity to concentrate his forces in a certain direction. And in two or three months they can do what happened with Bakhmut. Every piece of land is dear to us, we will defend exactly as much as there are forces. If the forces are not enough, we will save people, and then we will win back."
15:59 Zaluzhny announced an agreement with the Ministry of Defense, which provided for the demobilization of the military after 36 months, “but under certain conditions.” According to the commander-in-chief, the first factor is the absence of aggravations at the front, the second is that these people “will have someone to replace them.” Answering a question about electronic subpoenas, Zaluzhny said that Ukraine would be satisfied with any method of mobilization that would provide the army with replenishment of reserves.
15:34 As a result of today's Russian shelling of the Bakhmut and Pokrovsky districts of the Donetsk region, four people were killed and two were wounded, the prosecutor's office reported. In particular, in the morning the Russian army shelled Toretsk with artillery, as a result of which two people were killed. Another person was killed and one was wounded in the village of Severnoye near Toretsk. In Avdeevka, one person was also killed and one was injured. Also one death in the village. Konstantinovka, Pokrovsky district.
15:18 The military command did not make any mobilization requests with specific numbers, Zaluzhny said. According to him, the figure of 400-500 thousand mobilized was formed for the next year. “It takes into account the coverage of the current shortage that has arisen. The formation of military units and forecasting our losses that we may suffer over the next year. I cannot voice this figure, and what figure relates to this or that section. This is a military secret,” - explained the commander-in-chief.
14:45 In the area of the occupied village of Vladimirovka, Zaporozhye region, a Russian serviceman in a Lexus car flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into a KAMAZ truck with wounded Russian military personnel. As a result, two people were killed and 13 were injured, the Russian opposition publication Astra reports, citing sources.
14:13 The Russians are shelling the Kherson region, one person died in Nikolskoye, another in Tyaginka, said the head of the OVA Alexander Prokudin.
13:49 The attack by Ukrainian forces on a Russian warship in Crimea on the night of December 26 shows that “those who believe that the war in Ukraine has reached a dead end are mistaken,” said British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps. "They have not noticed that 20% of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed in the last four months. Russia's dominance in the Black Sea is now in question, and the new Maritime Capabilities Coalition led by Britain and Norway is helping Ukraine win at sea," the British minister said.
13:12 A photo of the large landing ship Novocherkassk after the Ukrainian strike appeared on the Internet. OSINT analysts state that there is practically nothing left of him. "As you can see, the entire front half of the vessel is now under water or has completely disappeared," said analyst Oliver Alexander.
12:46 Zelensky said following a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters that 2024 “should be a time of significant growth in domestic defense production, we will ensure contracting and budget.” Special attention, according to the president, is paid to the production of all types of necessary drones, in particular FPVs and ammunition for them. “Ukraine must become able to provide all the necessary needs for drones,” he emphasized.
12:41 The EU will, in any case, approve the allocation of 50 billion euros to Ukraine, even if Budapest is against it, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said: “There will be a decision that Ukraine will receive this money. One question remains: will 27 countries do it together - all EU members including Hungary. Hungary was given a month to conduct additional negotiations on whether the 26 EU countries will allocate this money without Hungary."
12:27 Shoigu again stated that the Russian armed forces allegedly fulfilled the “main goal” for the outgoing year - “thwarted the counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.” In addition, according to him, enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex have significantly increased the production of the most popular types of weapons, “challenging the vaunted Western military-technical potential.”
11:55 Near Feodosia on the night of the 26th, the Ukrainian army lost the great landing ship Novocherkassk of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation. In the Crimean public, eyewitnesses immediately assumed that the ship could transport Iranian kamikaze drones Shahed-136. The military forces of the Russian Federation completely blocked the area across the Kerch Channel and isolated areas near the Feodosia port. Report - in the material Enchanting blow .
11:18 As a result of a night Russian strike on the village of Podoli, Kurilov community, Kharkov region, one person died - his body was discovered by rescuers while extinguishing a fire in a private house, the State Emergency Service reports.
10:49 Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat denied the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the destruction of two Ukrainian Su-24s during an attack on the Novocherkassk landing ship. According to him, more than one missile is launched to destroy such a ship. We are talking about the winged Storm Shadow and SCALP.
10:32 In Kiev, from December 25 to 28, exercises are being held with the participation of a group of forces and means of defense of the capital in cooperation with the city military administration, patrol and national police and other structural units, KGVA reports. The exercises include, in particular, the deployment of temporary roadblocks, the installation of restrictive signs, and elements of engineering barriers. The objective of the exercise is to improve management systems, organization, and effective interaction to ensure public safety in the event of an escalation of the situation and certain measures to protect the civilian population.
09:59 In the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours, the Russians shelled more than 15 settlements - one person was wounded in the village. Peschanoye, Kupyansky district, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA.
09:16 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 26:
- personnel - about 354,960 (+1010) people,
- tanks - 5899 (+22),
- armored combat vehicles - 10,956 (+37),
- artillery systems - 8366 (+19),
- MLRS - 934 (+0),
- air defense systems - 614 (+1),
- aircraft - 329 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 6458 (+22),
- cruise missiles - 1618 (+1),
- ships/boats - 23 (+1),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,109 (+34),
- special equipment - 1239 (+5).
09:10 Over the past 24 hours, 98 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Maryinsky direction, the Defense Forces continue to contain the enemy in the Novomikhailovka area of the Donetsk region, where six enemy attacks were repelled.
In the Avdeevsky direction, over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have repulsed 27 enemy attacks east of Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka and another 13 near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Liman direction, 29 enemy attacks were repelled in the Serebryansky forestry area of the Lugansk region and Vesely, Donetsk region.
In addition, in the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled six enemy attacks near Sinkovka, Kharkov region; on Bakhmutskoye - four attacks near Bogdanovka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - three attacks in the Staromayorsky area of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - seven attacks near Rabotino and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces continue to expand the bridgehead; the enemy carried out 12 unsuccessful assault operations, trying to dislodge Ukrainian units from their positions, but was rebuffed and retreated.
08:51 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the large landing ship Novocherkassk “received damage” in Feodosia tonight “while repelling an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces using aircraft guided missiles.” Moscow claims that during the anti-aircraft battle, air defense systems allegedly destroyed “two Ukrainian Su-24s that were launching missiles.”
The “head” of occupied Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, said that as a result of a night attack on Feodosia, one person was allegedly killed and two were injured. Meanwhile, the public writes about a large number of ambulances that were heading to the scene of the attack.
08:25 The first group of Ukrainian pilots completed the basic training program in the UK and began training on F-16 fighters in Denmark, the British government announced. Six Ukrainian pilots have completed training in piloting and aviation terminology in English, and ten more trainees remain in Britain for basic flight training and aeromedical and centrifuge training.
08:13 The General Staff denied the fake news about the death of 108 military personnel in the Avdeevka direction before Christmas. This information was disseminated the day before by political strategist Vitaly Bala. According to him, the defenders were given leave; they allegedly boarded buses, but did not get home.
07:54 In Nikolaev, during a night attack, an attack drone hit one of the industrial enterprises - warehouse buildings were damaged, no people were injured. In the Odessa region, a UAV hit the open area of one of the infrastructure facilities - the fire was quickly extinguished, without injuries, the Southern Defense Forces reported.
07:02 Air defense at night destroyed 13 of 19 Shahed attack UAVs , which Russia attacked from the south-east - from the areas of Balaklava and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. The drones were destroyed within the Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev and Khmelnytsky regions.
The Air Force Command also reported that at about 02:30 tactical aviation attacked the large landing ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet Novocherkassk in the Feodosia area with cruise missiles .
04:25 Defense forces knocked out the large landing ship Novocherkassk of the Russian Black Sea Fleet , Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk said. He thanked “the Air Force pilots and everyone involved for their meticulous work.”
The ship was in the port of Feodosia. As Crimean public pages report, citing eyewitnesses, the first explosions were heard at 2:49-2:50, after which a fire started on the ship. At 3:31 a.m. there was a large explosion that blew out windows in the houses closest to the port. After this, the detonation of ammunition began. According to some reports, there were Iranian “martyrs” on board the ship, which he could have brought from Novorossiysk.
The “head” of occupied Crimea Sergei Aksenov confirmed the attack in the Feodosia region. According to him, the port area has been cordoned off, the detonation has now stopped, and the fire has been localized. Residents of several houses will be evicted.
02:47 On Monday, December 25, the Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a previously announced bill on improving certain issues of mobilization, military registration and military service (No. 10378). The document involves changes in the mobilization procedure, military service and introduces the possibility of partial dismissal or respite for active military personnel.
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