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[Regnum] Representatives of the American Communist Party sent 55 boxes of humanitarian aid to Donbass. This was reported on December 30 by American journalist Jackson Hinkle.
“We, the communists, fully support the special military operation,” Hinkle said in a conversation with RIA Novosti.
He noted that the party members' contribution is still small, but they want to improve people's lives and help them "in the fight against NATO aggression." The humanitarian aid shipment included dry milk, children's toys, as well as New Year's gifts, canned meat, and medicine.
The journalist recalled that in the past Russia helped the United States, including during the Civil War, and the current situation in Donbass is perceived in the party as an opportunity to thank Russia.
The delivery took place in coordination with the Russian Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, in September, representatives of the People's Front brought humanitarian aid to the Kursk, Belgorod and Voronezh regions for large families who had fled their homes due to shelling of the regions by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Residents received food, bed linen, dishes, clothes, toys for children and household appliances.
In 2024, activists of the Luhansk regional branch of the United Russia party joined the work of providing humanitarian aid to residents of the LPR and participants in the special operation. They handed over more than a thousand units of tactical equipment to military personnel, food and warm clothes to residents of frontline territories.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22:58 Ukrainian soldiers had the opportunity to use both Soviet and American tanks in combat and, in their opinion, the Abrams is superior to Soviet and modern Russian equipment.
22:27 The country's top military leadership has simplified the procedure for soldiers and sergeants with combat experience to obtain officer ranks. This was stated in the evening video address of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
20:49 Residents of the Kursk region in Russia complained about explosions in the city of Lgov on Monday evening, December 30. This was reported by the acting governor of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein.
20:26 The prisoner exchange took place on December 30 - 189 Ukrainians were released from Russian captivity. Among them are soldiers from Azov. This was reported by the commander of the 12th special forces brigade Azov, Hero of Ukraine Denis "Redis" Prokopenko.
20:23 Operators of the 412th Nemesis regiment destroyed a self-propelled launcher 9A310M1-2 Buk-M1-2 SAM system in the Zaporizhia direction. The corresponding video of the destruction of the enemy air defense was published by the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook on Monday, December 30.
18:58 A new $1.25 billion package of military aid from the US to Ukraine will strengthen the air defense and firepower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Pentagon reported details .
18:43 On the night of December 30, Ukrainian partisans in the Moscow region at the Dmitrov station and the Lobnya depot damaged two Russian locomotives that were supposed to be sent to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
18:29 The commander of the 211th pontoon bridge brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleg Poberezhnyuk, has been chosen as a preventive measure - detention with the possibility of posting bail of more than UAH 12 million. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
18:05 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree appointing Olha Reshetilova (Kobylinska) as the Ukrainian Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Military Personnel and Family Members of Soldiers. The main task now is to prepare a bill on the military ombudsman and all the necessary systemic foundations for the work of this institution, the president noted.
17:52 Metropolitan of the UOC MP Oleg Ivanov (Elisey), who blessed the occupiers to seize Izyum, has been given an in absentia charge. He is currently hiding in Russia, the SBU reported.
17:41 189 Ukrainians, including defenders of Azovstal and Zmeiny Island, have been returned from Russian captivity. This was announced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
17.18 Since the beginning of the current day, 104 combat clashes have occurred on the front in nine directions. According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the most intense fighting continues in the Pokrovsk area.
16.50 The US authorities have decided to transfer $3.4 billion to Ukraine as direct budget aid. This is the last payment to Kiev for the money that the US Congress allocated for these purposes for 2024.
16.21 Russian invaders continue continuous bloody assaults in Donetsk region, suffering record losses. Details were reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky.
15.43 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law providing for the liquidation of medical and social expert commissions (MSEC). This was reported by the press service of the Verkhovna Rada.
14.53 Kyiv has sounded 500 air raid alarms in 2024. During this time, Russian troops have carried out about 200 strikes on Kyiv, using more than 1,600 weapons. This was reported by the Kyiv City Military Administration.
14:45 Law enforcement officials have reported the deputy commander of the 110th separate mechanized brigade (OMBr) as a suspect. He created a scheme to extort money from soldiers evading military service, the State Bureau of Investigation reported .
13:55 US President Joe Biden announced the allocation of $2.5 billion to Ukraine for defense needs. According to him, the Pentagon is currently supplying hundreds of thousands of artillery shells, thousands of missiles and hundreds of armored vehicles that will strengthen Ukraine's positions in the winter.
11:15 Russian military attacked utility workers in Kherson with a drone. Some of the utility workers have minor injuries. The equipment needs repair.
10:40 A series of explosions thundered in the village of Chernomorskoye in the temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of December 30. This was reported by the Telegram channel Krymsky Veter.
The explosions were heard from 4:00 to 7:00. In particular, they sounded in the area of Uzkaya Bay, where Ukrainian sea drones had previously visited, attacking boats and ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
10:31 Ukrainian defenders destroyed the enemy headquarters together with Russian occupiers in the Zaporizhia region. This was reported by the Main Intelligence Directorate and a video of the attack was released.
9:35 At night, Russia launched 43 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other drones at Ukraine, air defense destroyed 21 of them. Enemy drones were shot down in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Odessa, Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
9:17 In the Razdelnyansky district of the Odessa region, as a result of falling debris from downed Russian attack drones, five residential buildings were damaged.
8:15 Over the past 24 hours, 186 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. In particular, in the Pokrovsk direction, the defenders stopped 43 assault and offensive actions of the Russian invaders.
7:20 As of December 30, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were approximately 787,940 people (2,010 per day).
02:30 The Armed Forces of Ukraine have eliminated former Russian national football team player Alexei Bugayev, who fought against Ukraine. He was convicted of drug trafficking and, in order to avoid punishment, signed a contract with the Russian Defense Ministry in the fall. However, Bugayev's military career did not last long.
01:22 On Sunday evening, December 29, Russian occupiers dropped explosives from a drone on a suburb of Kherson. As a result of the attack, an elderly couple was injured.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of two territorial defence brigades near Kazachaya Lopan, Velikiye Prokhody, and Liptsy (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 65 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, one motor vehicle, one 152mm D-20 gun, two 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade of the AFU, two territorial defence brigades, and one national guard brigade near Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Glushkovka (Kharkov region), Ivanovka, Shadrigolovo, Torskoye, Terni (Donetsk People's Republic), and Serebryansky forestry. Eight counter-attacks launched by AFU armed formations were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 530 troops, one tank, one infantry fighting vehicle, four armoured personnel carriers, including three U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, one armoured fighting vehicle, eight motor vehicles, one German-made 155mm Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm Giatsint-B gun, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and inflicted losses on formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one airmobile brigade of the AFU near Dalneye, Chasov Yar, Kurakhovo, and Razliv (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 295 troops, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, one Kozak armoured fighting vehicle, and two pickup trucks. Two electronic warfare stations and two field ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Novoolenovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, two assault battalions of the AFU, one naval infantry brigade, and one assault brigade of the National Police of Ukraine near Dzerzhinsk, Vozdvizhenka, Dachenskoye, and Peschanoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Eleven counter-attacks launched by the AFU armed formations were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 420 troops, two tanks, including one German-made Leopard tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armoured personnel carrier, one UK-made Snatch armoured fighting vehicle, five pickup trucks, one 155mm Bogdana self-propelled artillery system, two 152mm D-20 guns, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, three 122mm D-30 howitzers, and one electronic warfare station.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Dneproenergiya, Bogatyr, Zelenoye Pole, and Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic). Two counter-attacks launched by the enemy's assault detachments were repelled.
The AFU losses amounted to more than 175 troops, three motor vehicles, one 152mm D-20 gun, one U.S.-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery system, and one U.S.-made 105mm M-119 gun. One electronic warfare station and one field ammunition depot were destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of three territorial defence brigades near Antonovka, Mikhaylovka, and Yantarnoye (Kherson region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 75 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, and two field ammunition depots.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck power infrastructure that ensured operation of Ukrainian defence industry enterprises, infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots, attack UAV command posts and launch sites, as well as engaged AFU manpower and hardware clusters in 143 areas.
Air defence systems shot down four U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 65 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 650 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 38,878 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,103 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,504 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,093 field artillery guns and mortars, and 29,644 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
In the course of offensive operations, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one heavy mechanised brigade, five mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, two territorial defence brigades, and one assault battalion of the AFU near Daryino, Kurilovka, Leonidovo, Loknya, Maryevka, Makhnovka, Nizhny Klin, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Cherkasskaya Konopelka, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five counter-attacks launched by AFU assault detachments were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on AFU manpower and hardware near Aleksandriya, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Kazachaya Loknya, Kruglenkoye, Lebedevka, Nikolsky, Rubanshchina, Russkoye Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo as well as Basovka, Belovody, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 310 troops, one infantry fighting vehicle, ten armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, and one artillery gun.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 45,530 troops, 262 tanks, 204 infantry fighting vehicles, 142 armoured personnel carriers, 1,359 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,237 motor vehicles, 337 artillery guns, 42 MLRS launchers, including 11 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 13 anti-aircraft missile launchers, seven transport-loading vehicles, 83 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 28 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, seven armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 12/30/2024 to 00:00 12/31/2024.
A total of 13 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past day.
There were reports of 4 civilians being injured.
DAMAGED:
Civil infrastructure facility,
Vehicle.
A total of 13 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 43 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:10 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Lgov in the Kursk region; there is currently no information about casualties or damage – Khinshtein.
19:26 A large fortified area of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Uspenovka area of the DPR has come under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
19:09 Advance of the Russian Armed Forces to Sudzha:
War correspondent Timofey Ermakov reported that Russian fighters were able to move from the settlement of Cherkasskaya Konopelka to the village of Makhnovka, breaking through the enemy's defenses. The fighting is taking place directly in the settlement. There are 2.5 kilometers left to Sudzha.
18:12 Russia and Ukraine conducted a prisoner exchange according to the formula 150 for 150, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
Following the exchange, Russian servicemen are now in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary assistance, the Russian Ministry of Defense noted.
18:00 Kyiv has five times refused to allow the Ukrainian Armed Forces to withdraw Ukrainian servicemen holding positions in Velyka Novosilka in the DPR, which is almost completely surrounded by Russian troops, Rogov reported.
17:20 Russian air defense forces shot down the third Ukrainian missile since the beginning of the day in the skies over Kursk Oblast, the regional operational headquarters reported.
16:21 Footage of the destruction of a Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup truck by an FPV drone crew of the North military group in the Khar'kov region.
15:30 Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 310 servicemen in Kursk direction in 24 hours — Russian Defense Ministry
15:21 Armed Forces of Ukraine attack using a drone hit a hospital in the Kherson region, seriously injuring the head doctor and killing his deputy, Saldo reported.
14:19 Russian Armed Forces approach Sudzha in Kursk region.
After the Russian fighters consolidated their positions in the village of Cherkasskaya Konopelka, a comprehensive firefight was inflicted on the Ukrainian terrorists. Up to 50 fighters of the 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fled from their positions in the vicinity of the Agronom farm. After that, assault units of the Russian Armed Forces broke into the settlement, and battles with Ukrainian Armed Forces reinforcements are underway.
14:04 A Ukrainian Armed Forces missile was shot down in the border area of Kursk Oblast, the regional government reported.
13:59 Footage of liberation of the settlement of Novoolenovka in the DPR by units of the Center group of troops in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
13:46 As a result of Ukrainian armed aggression, a civilian resident of Gorlovka in the DPR was wounded, said the city's mayor Ivan Prikhodko.
13:28 Another German Leopard 1A5 tank was destroyed in the Shevchenko area (south of Krasnoarmeysk) –video.
13:05 UAV operators are destroying equipment and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Operators of the strike FPV reconnaissance drones of the 132nd Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 51st Guards Army effectively destroy personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including the German IFV "Marder", in any terrain and in any weather conditions. All attempts by the enemy to hide from retaliation are unsuccessful.
12:44 The Ukrainian Armed Forces have pulled back a significant portion of their troops to the main line of defense near the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, southwest of Krasnoarmeysk. According to Russian security agencies, this is the vicinity of Novoalexandrivka, Novosergeevka, and Nadezhdinka.
12:30 In the Boguslav direction, fighting has intensified on the eastern outskirts of Glushkovka.
The enemy, holding back the advance of our forces, launched a counterattack, which resulted in the destruction of up to 15 militants from the Kyiv Troops.
12:21 The Russian Armed Forces have liberated the settlement of Novoolenovka in the DPR, the Ministry of Defense reported.
12:19 From 10:00 to 12:00 Moscow time, two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed by air defense systems on duty. One UAV was intercepted over the territory of the Bryansk region and one over the territory of the Krasnodar region.
11:20 Russian air defense forces destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Bryansk region. There were no casualties or damage, the region's governor Bogomaz reported.
11:00 Russian military hoisted the tricolor on one of the multi-story buildings in the Yuzhny microdistrict in Kurakhovo –video.
10:25 The situation in Chasov Yar at this hour:
Today, since early morning, the fighting has intensified with renewed vigor. The enemy's territorial defense units are "notably battered." The Russian Aerospace Forces are delivering lightning strikes on enemy positions, destroying the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants, writes "Frontovaya Ptichka." The enemy continues to mine the area as it retreats.
10:08 In the Kursk region, paratroopers evacuated to the rear of the almost undamaged M-113 VSU. The vehicle hit a mine and lost a track.
09:18 The Russian Armed Forces struck a hangar with Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in the Poltava region, a drone warehouse in Sumy, and also near a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Dnipropetrovsk region, there are wounded there. This was reported by representatives of the pro-Russian Mykolaiv resistance.
09:11 Army aviation crew on a Ka-52M helicopter destroyed manpower and a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the border area of the Kursk region.
08:50 Over the past week, the airspace defense and electronic warfare system "Dome of Donbass" detected and intercepted 168 enemy UAVs over Donetsk and Makeyevka.
Increased activity of enemy reconnaissance UAVs has been recorded over technical water junctions in the Budyonovsky and Leninsky districts of Donetsk. In Makeyevka, an enemy aircraft-type drone aimed at attacking the Makeyevka Machine-Building Plant has been suppressed.
08:19 A Ukrainian Armed Forces missile was destroyed this morning over the Kursk region, the regional authorities reported.
08:15 Air defense forces destroyed one Ukrainian UAV over the Belgorod region overnight, the Defense Ministry reported.
08:09 Artillerymen stopped rotation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
08:07 Ukrainian soldiers in Selidovo changed into uniforms without insignia and were shot by local residents, said city resident Marina Kovaleva.
08:01 Pokrovskoe direction: Russian Armed Forces advanced in the village of Shevchenko to a depth of up to one km from the direction of Starye Terny.
In the area of Novoelizavetovka, Russian Armed Forces advanced along a number of forest belts in a section up to 2.5 km wide and to a depth of up to 1.6 km. Clashes continue in the northern and eastern parts of the village. Near Novovasilyevka, Russian Armed Forces advanced to a depth of up to 350 meters
One young woman in the Donbas I follow on V Kontakte speaks of having to use a soup ladle to collect enough water to bathe in. Her situation won't improve until Slavyansk is under Russian control. by Kirill Velesov
[REGNUM] One of the main gifts for the residents of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) for the New Year should be water, which will finally flow uninterruptedly into the homes of the frontline region of Russia around the clock during the holidays.
In any case, this is the promise made by the First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic, Andrei Chertkov, during a direct line.
According to him, the residents of the DPR have to make do with a quantity of water that is two or even two and a half times less than what is needed for normal life. And if during the year the situation with water supply was more or less tolerable for the war-hardened residents of Donbass, then by the end of December the water supply schedules had been reduced even more.
Currently, water reaches the districts of the republic's capital every other day at best.
The main operator of the republican water supply, the State Unitary Enterprise "Voda Donbassa", warned Donetsk residents about this in an SMS the other day, although residents of some areas of Donetsk report that their already meager water supply was cut off even earlier. At the same time, local authorities are calling on residents of Donetsk and Makeyevka to urgently stock up on water.
As Aleksandr, a resident of Donetsk's Kalininsky district, told a Regnum correspondent, his district now receives water on even days starting at 17:00. However, the brown liquid that flows in a thin stream from the taps can only be called water conditionally.
The whole point is that during the downtime, the pipes oxidize without regular pressure in the system and primarily produce an aqueous solution of rust.
Those lucky enough to live on the first floors of apartment buildings have every chance of draining the cloudy substance and waiting for relatively clean water.
According to Alexander, in his building, residents of the fifth and sixth floors may not receive water at all. Although the established schedule provides for water supply from 17:00 to 22:00, the weak pressure does not reach the upper floors.
However, as previously reported by IA Regnum, residents of the mining village of Lidievka in the Kirovsky district have been living without water for two years, relying on rain and volunteers who do not allow them to die of thirst.
Surprisingly, Donetsk residents say that there are places in their city where water flows regularly.
The reason for this is that houses in such "anomalous" zones are located near main water supply systems. But this is an exception that does not affect the overall sad picture.
WHERE IS THE WATER?
According to the official version, the reason for the water crisis was that during the summer-autumn period, not enough water accumulated in the reservoirs of Donbass.
And until the territory of the DPR is liberated from the Ukrainian occupiers up to Slavyansk, where the main water pipeline of the region, the Seversky Donets-Donbass Canal, created back in the 50s of the last century, begins, water will not be able to flow to Donetsk.
The Don-Donbass Canal, built in record time, in four months, is 194 kilometers long and has a capacity of about 300,000 cubic meters, although it helps Donbass not to finally turn into the dehydrated planet Arrakis from Frank Herbert's science fiction saga "Dune", but it cannot fully satisfy the needs of the republic.
Meanwhile, the waterways of Donbass, which have not seen repairs for a long time, continue to burst.
On December 28 alone, utility workers eliminated 258 accidents in water supply and sewerage networks. Unstable pressure in the system is detrimental to pipelines.
And it is not possible to eliminate accidents immediately. The reason is the lack of human resources.
The issue of a shortage of skilled labor in the republic is acute, even despite the patronage assistance of Russian regions, said Yuriy Leonov, deputy of the People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic and chairman of the People's Council committee on agro-industrial complex and land relations, in a commentary to IA Regnum.
Rusty water also hits the pockets of Russian citizens in the DPR.
As previously reported by IA Regnum, people whose houses are not equipped with meters have to pay for water that is not available. The moratorium on water supply payments, introduced by the head of the DPR in March 2022, was lifted in August of this year. After that, consumers began to receive bills with astronomical amounts.
Donetsk resident Olga, whose parents live in Svetlodarsk, 30 kilometers from Artemovsk, told the Regnum news agency that they are forced to pay for dirty water, which is already supplied irregularly, as if it were drinking water.
The DPR authorities acknowledge the problem.
The current standards are excessively high, and Donetsk officials should review them as early as January next year, Chertkov assured. Currently, the water standard per person per day in apartment buildings can reach 300 liters.
Heavy fighting is taking place on the territory of the republic. And it is especially difficult with water in the cities and towns of Donbass recently liberated from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
For example, in Avdeevka, where about a thousand residents remain, people were saved throughout the war by wells in the old part of the city, said volunteer and journalist Yulia Andrienko.
In Selidovo, the Ukrainian Armed Forces mined wells and approaches to water wells before retreating. As a result of an explosion near one of them, according to local residents, 12 people were killed.
There will be water. Alas, not for everyone.
Despite all the difficulties, residents of the republic will hear the long-awaited hissing in the taps on New Year's Eve. According to Andrey Chertkov, the head of the DPR ordered utility workers to provide round-the-clock water supply on December 30 and 31 of this year, as well as on January 1, 2025.
"Perhaps a small reserve will be formed now and there will be enough water during the New Year holidays. But, unfortunately, not everyone will have water. The problems are caused by the fact that many utilities have not changed for decades. In some places, the technological opening is several millimeters. It is necessary to apply high pressure so that the water reaches the upper floors, and because of this, it begins to burst in other places," explained Yuri Leonov.
However, major repairs were carried out in some areas, but the volume of work required throughout the republic is enormous. The deterioration of water supply and sanitation systems is 90%.
"The employees of the water utility, who work as dispatchers, are now taking on a large portion of negativity. But this is the situation, and the mobilization of society must be colossal. There is no way to tell people that everything will be fine. But it is also impossible to claim that the authorities of the republic are doing nothing," noted the deputy of the People's Council of the DPR.
The Donbass industry has been absorbing water resources in huge quantities since the beginning of industrial development of the region in the 19th century. In Soviet times, the problem of water supply was generally solved, now, after all the trials and tribulations, the residents of Donbass need to wait for the final liberation of the region so that the water problem becomes a thing of the past.
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[Regnum] The Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Russia, Mufti Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, may be awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree, Kirill Kabanov, a member of the Human Rights Council and Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, reported with reference to an informed source.
Gainutdin had previously said that the decision of the council of ulemas (theological scholars) of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate to allow Muslims to enter into up to four religious marriages allegedly does not violate secular law, and that some other violations of the law are also associated with representatives of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate, Kabanov noted.
"I would like to remind you that it was the religious organization headed by Ravil Gainutdin that gave our country the largest number of extremists, its spiritual leaders, about which the Investigative Committee was recently notified. It is his students who actively and publicly advocate for wearing niqabs and polygamy, for which the prosecutor's office has already issued them four official warnings," Kabanov wrote on his Telegram channel.
According to some reports, the initiative to award the mufti may be connected with Gainutdin's recent anniversary (he turned 65), but awards of this level are given not for length of service, but for merit, added the head of the National Anti-Corruption Committee.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on December 19, the Ulema Council allowed Muslim men to enter into up to four religious marriages (nikahs). After the Prosecutor General's Office issued a representation due to the fatwa, which contradicted Russian legislation and the principles of state family policy, the decision was revoked.
Kabanov had previously called the reaction to the revocation of the fatwa on polygamy too positive. He noted that the provocateurs had carried out a relatively successful anti-Russian information campaign and had received only a warning instead of a criminal investigation for their attempts to change the country's constitutional order.
In September, Islamic scholar Roman Silantyev asked the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to initiate a ban on the Council of Muftis of Russia and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims. The expert noted that the structures controlled by Gainutdin are the most criminalized religious organizations in the country.
[Breitbart] President Joe Biden announced Monday a military aid package of $2.5 billion for Ukraine and vowed to continue “surging” aid for the remainder of his time in office.
“Today, I am proud to announce nearly $2.5 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, as the Ukrainian people continue to defend their independence and freedom from Russian aggression,” he said in a statement.
He said the aid consisted of $1.25 billion in U.S. military equipment and $1.22 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which is a fund for additional training, equipment or advisory efforts for Ukraine’s military.
Biden said the $1.22 billion is the last of the USAI funds appropriated by Congress for 2024.
Biden has approximately three weeks left in office, but said he has directed his administration to “continue surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible,” and that the Department of Defense is “in the process” of delivering hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds, thousands of rockets, and hundreds of armored vehicles.
“At my direction, the United States will continue to work relentlessly to strengthen Ukraine’s position in this war over the remainder of my time in office,” Biden said.
The DOD provided more detail on the aid. It said the $1.25 billion in U.S. military equipment included missiles for air defense munitions for rocket systems and artillery, and anti-tank weapons, and that the $1.22 billion in USAI would provide Ukraine with additional air defense, air-to-ground, Unmanned Aerial Systems, and other capabilities.
Specifically, the aid included:
• Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
• HAWK air defense munitions;
• Stinger missiles;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions;
• Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
• Air-to-ground munitions;
• High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs);
• Unmanned Aerials Systems (UAS);
• Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
• Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles;
• Small arms and ammunition and grenades;
• Demolitions equipment and munitions;
• Secure communications equipment;
• Commercial satellite imagery services;
• Medical equipment;
• Clothing and individual equipment; and
• Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.
The Pentagon said this was the 73rd delivery of military equipment provided to Ukraine since August 2021, and the 23rd USAI package.
The Pentagon added, “The United States continues to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated Capability Coalitions to provide the support Ukraine needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression.”
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Until Biden and Obama, I didn't know that Presidents could snap their fingers and magically *billions* of dollars would magically appear, to be disbursed without any congressional oversight.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
