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2024-12-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: December 17, 2024
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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] 21:20 Germany is ready to send its peacekeepers to Ukraine, but only on condition that Russia agrees to such a mission. This was stated by German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
20:33 The North Atlantic Alliance has taken over the coordination of Western military aid to Ukraine from the United States of America. This concerns the launch of the NATO Security Assistance and Training Centre for Ukraine (NSATU).
19:50 German concern Rheinmetall has received an order to supply Ukraine with another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles as part of military aid. The delivery of the batch of combat vehicles is scheduled for the first half of 2025.
18.44 The Polish authorities are preparing the 46th tranche of aid for Ukraine. It will be provided in January. This was stated by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk at a press conference in Lviv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
17:34 In the occupied Vasilyevka of the Zaporizhia region, Russian soldiers were killed in a fire in the basement of an apartment building . It is still unknown what caused the fire.
16.55 Since the beginning of the current day, 88 combat clashes have occurred on the front, more than a third of which were in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a report as of 16.00.
16:25 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky does not need any intermediaries to maintain contacts with US President-elect Donald Trump. The Ukrainian leader said this at a meeting of the All-Ukrainian Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
15.55 Russian troops are carrying out intensive offensive actions in the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, actively using units of the DPRK army. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky.
"For the third day, the enemy has been conducting intensive offensive actions in the Kursk region, actively using units of the DPRK army. North Korean mercenaries have already suffered heavy losses," he said.
15.47 The SBU military counterintelligence neutralized the agent network of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (known as the GRU). The spies were reconnoitering air defense positions and trying to locate secret military airfields with F-16 aircraft.
15.25 In most cases, the construction of fortifications in the third line of defense has been successfully completed. This was reported by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
"This year, the government allocated more than 37 billion hryvnias for the creation and construction of fortifications in the third line of defense. The work was carried out and coordinated by regional military administrations. Most of them have been successfully completed," said the head of the Cabinet of Ministers.
As a result, one person was killed by Russian troops in Belozerka, and another was hospitalized with injuries. This was reported by the press service of the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday, December 17.
13:31 President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Lviv, where he visited the Field of Mars and paid his respects to the fallen defenders of Ukraine.
12:37 On Tuesday night, the Russians launched 31 Shahed-type attack drones and other types of drones at Ukraine. Almost all of them were destroyed or lost, the Ukrainian Air Force reported .
12:13 The commander of the 211th brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleh Poberezhnyuk, has been placed under suspicion. He involved four subordinates in the construction of his own house in the Khmelnytsky region instead of their service in the combat zone.
11:08 As a result of the attack of Russian drones on Kiev, the fall of UAV fragments was recorded in the Solomensky, Pechersky, Dniprovsky, and Goloseevsky districts of the city. This was reported by the Kyiv State Aviation Administration.
11:01 Ukraine's Western allies must fulfill their promises of military aid, given Russia's intentions to seize a critical mine in the city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Bloomberg reported .
10:52 The bombing of the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, in Moscow was a special operation by the SBU. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine, citing sources in the special service.
9:28 Russian assault units have carried out a series of attacks on Ukrainian positions in the eastern direction over the past 24 hours. Given this, some of them have become impossible to hold, OSGV Khortytsia reported .
8:59 The partisans are actively countering the plans of the Russian troops to advance in the Zaporizhia direction. In October, an agent of the ATESH movement, operating as part of the Russian Vostok group, transmitted data on the location of the enemy command post and personnel in the region.
7:57 ISW notes that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has stated that a change in the Ukrainian government is allegedly a prerequisite for negotiations with Russia. He also distorts Ukrainian legislation and questions the legitimacy of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
7:26 An explosion occurred on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow on Tuesday morning, December 17. As a result of the explosion, two Russians were killed : the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian armed forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant.
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