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[REGNUM] The reaction of official and unofficial Tatarstan to the series “The Boy’s Word. Blood on the Asphalt” is reminiscent of a common cinematic plot: someone comes to a city where something happened in the past to conduct an investigation, but everyone around them is dissuaded with stock phrases, and attempts to talk are met with hostility.
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[LB] Defense forces continue their assault south of Bakhmut.
by Iryna Lysohor
In the Avdievka direction, Ukrainian soldiers continue to restrain the enemy, who does not stop trying to surround Avdievka. The defense forces successfully repelled 51 enemy attacks east of Novokalynovy, east of Novobakhmutivka, Stepovoy, Avdiyivka, south of Severnoy and Tonenkoy, Pervomaisky and Nevelsky of the Donetsk region.
In the Mariinsky direction, the Defense Forces continue to hold back the enemy in the Novomykhailivka district of the Donetsk region, where the defenders repelled 13 attacks. The spokesman of the General Staff, Andriy Kovalev, announced this on the air of the telethon.
In the Shakhtarsky direction, our defenders repelled all enemy attacks in the area southeast of Vugledar, Donetsk region.
"In the Vugledar direction, the Defense Forces continue to actively inflict casualties on the occupying forces in manpower and equipment, exhausting the enemy along the entire front line," the spokesman said.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the defenders repulsed eight attacks north of Priyutny, west of Verbovoy, and south of Robotyny.
Eight enemy attacks were repulsed on Kupianskyi in the Synkivka, Petropavlivka, and Ivanivka districts of the Kharkiv region.
On Lymansky, two enemy attacks were repulsed in the Makiyivka argon of Luhansk region.
The defenders continue their assault south of Bakhmut. In the Bakhmut direction, the defenders repelled five enemy attacks in the area of Bohdanivka, Ivanivka, Klishchiivka, and Andriivka.
During the day, there were a total of 95 combat clashes, the enemy launched two missile and 13 air strikes, and fired 63 rocket salvo fire systems.
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[VESTI] On December 13, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled 11 enemy attacks in the Maryinsk direction. In the Mar'inka area, the Russian Federation is amassing forces for assaults, but the defense of the city continues.
Direct speech: “Maryinsky direction. Containment of the enemy continues in the areas of Novomikhailovka and Krasnogorovka - 11 attacks were repulsed. In the area of Mar'inka, the enemy is accumulating forces for further assault operations. Continues information injections and provocations about the supposed complete capture of this city. The defense of Mar'inka continues.”
What we are talking about: British intelligence reported on December 5 that the Russian military is “gradually advancing through the ruins of Mar'inka” and “controls most of the built-up area” of the city. However, in the Russian Federation it was only on December 13 that the alleged capture of Marinka was reported.
Ukrainian fighters restrain the occupiers in the districts of Novomykhailivka and Krasnohorivka.
by Vera Perun
In the Maryinka region, the Russians are gathering forces for further assaults.
This was announced by the commander of the operational and strategic group of troops "Tavria" Oleksandr Tarnavskyi.
Ukrainian fighters restrain the occupiers in the districts of Novomykhailivka and Krasnohorivka. 11 enemy attacks were repulsed here.
Also, the Russians continue information leaks and provocations about the alleged complete capture of Mar'inka. But the defense of the city continues.
On the morning of December 13, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that in the Mariinsky direction, the Defense Forces continued to hold back the enemy in the Novomykhailivka area of Donetsk region, where they repelled 13 attacks.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21:40 Russian hackers hit Kyivstar’s cyber defenses due to a compromised account of one of its employees, said company CEO Alexander Komarov. According to him, in any organization there may be people “who conditionally target Russian missiles or give up their passwords because social engineers work well.”
21:36 In Odessa, one of those wounded during a night drone attack died, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA.
21:15 At the second Ukraine-Northern Europe summit in Oslo, the prime ministers of Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the presidents of Ukraine and Finland signed a joint statement. The Nordic countries emphasized that they are ready to provide support as long as Ukraine needs it. They also support the start of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU.
20:41 The European Commission has unblocked 10 billion euros for Hungary, frozen due to rule of law problems, on the eve of the EU summit, at which Orban promised to block financial and political support for Ukraine. The EC made this decision after the Hungarian government adopted laws to strengthen the independence of the judicial branch of government, the statement said.
19:09 Some public pages wrote today that the Russians captured Marinka, Donetsk region. The commander of the operational-strategic group of troops of Tavria, Alexander Tarnavsky, said that in the Maryinsky direction the containment of the enemy in the Novomikhailovka and Krasnogorovka areas continues - 11 attacks were repelled. In the Marinka area, the enemy is accumulating forces for further assault operations, and also continues to spread information and provocations about the supposed complete capture of this city. “The defense of Marinka continues,” Tarnavsky emphasized.
18:55 By the end of the year, the EU will send 500 thousand ammunition to Ukraine, and in 2024 the 1 million shells promised by the European Union will be delivered, a high-ranking European official told reporters on condition of anonymity, Interfax-Ukraine reports. At the same time, he admitted that there would be a “slight delay” in the delivery of the promised million. In addition, according to the official, the EU is working privately "to obtain some shells from other countries that have them."
18:27 The Ministry of Internal Affairs showed the consequences of falling rocket debris in the Dnieper district of Kiev during a night attack.
18:19 Already this week, on December 14-15, a summit of leaders of EU member states will be held, at which they will discuss financial assistance to Ukraine and the issue of starting negotiations on the state’s accession to the EU. However, not all EU countries are ready to support this decision. First of all, Hungary is putting a spoke in the wheels of Ukraine’s movement into the EU; Austria is ready to join it. Read more in the article Veto from Putin .
17:38 A coalition conference on air defense in Ukraine took place in Berlin. The German Ministry of Defense recalled that Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, at a meeting in the Ramstein format on November 22, announced that Germany and France would lead the Coalition for Integrated Air and Missile Defense. And today the kick-off conference of the coalition on the issue of long-term strengthening of Ukraine’s air defense was held in Berlin. It was attended by about 70 participants from 22 countries, as well as representatives of the EU and NATO. The goal of the coalition is to coordinate the development of an air defense architecture in Ukraine that will be compatible with NATO.
17:27 For almost a day and a half, 24 million Kyivstar subscribers remain without communication due to a cyber attack. The hack of one of the Ukrainian mobile operators is the largest hacker attack on telecommunications infrastructure in the world. Everything that is known at the moment is in the article Who hacked Kyivstar and how?
16:52 Danish Prime Minister Matte Frederiksen said that tomorrow she will officially announce in the country’s parliament a new support package for Ukraine worth 1 billion euros. It will include tanks, ammunition, drones and other equipment.
16:25 Zelensky commented on the information from The New York Times that the Americans are advising Ukraine to go on the defensive: “The situation at the front is not a crisis. In winter, all operations slow down, so it is important to restrain the invaders. As for the statements of US generals, some individuals, I will tell you "So: in any case, this is not about a crisis, it is about winter, and in winter operations always slow down - counter-offensive or defensive. Therefore, I think that this signal is connected precisely with this."
16:03 Zelensky said that during a conversation with Orban he asked him to name at least one reason why Ukraine should not be in the EU: “I asked him to give me at least one reason. Not three, not five, not ten, but only one reason and I'm waiting for an answer."
15:47 The second Patriot air defense system from Germany will begin performing tasks in Ukraine this year, Scholz said. In addition, armored vehicles, ammunition and winter protective clothing for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and electric generators will be provided. The Chancellor also confirmed that the draft new German budget retains 8 billion euros for military assistance to Ukraine.
15:04 Ukraine and Sweden have already begun bilateral work on security guarantees, Zelensky said during the second Ukraine-Northern Europe summit. He expressed hope that similar work will begin with the rest of the summit participants.
14:28 Norway will provide Ukraine with additional NASAMS air defense systems, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said. Some of the systems will be sent from the country’s warehouses, others will be ordered from manufacturers, the country’s Ministry of Defense clarified.
14:21 Ukraine has done everything to not give any chance to this or that state to block the start of negotiations on accession to the EU, Zelensky said. “Therefore, if there is no positive result, the question is not in Plan B, we have only one plan - this is our choice to be in the EU. If there is no positive result there, this will indicate that Putin vetoed this decision,” - the president emphasized. According to him, Russia “began to work with countries, not only in Europe, but also on other continents, and put pressure on them.”
14:06 Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, more than 2.6 thousand square meters have already been cleared. km of territory, said Oleg Shuvarsky, head of the mine action department of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, the area of de-occupied territories where humanitarian demining is possible today is estimated at 45 thousand square meters. km. Taking into account the scale, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine decided to increase the number of personnel in demining units within the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the State Special Transport Service to almost 5,000 people.
13:58 Norway will provide Ukraine with additional financial and humanitarian assistance totaling $800 million, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said at a joint press conference with Zelensky in Oslo. According to him, the money will go towards salaries of doctors, teachers, other workers and various social projects.
13:27 The enemy again began firing 48N6DM missiles from S-400 systems at the Ukrainian capital. About what their main danger is, see the material Attack on Kiev .
13:09 Kyivstar denied information that Russian hackers obtained personal data of Ukrainian subscribers and also destroyed the company’s computers and servers.
12:56 Putin plans to mobilize another 170 thousand Russians, said UK political coordinator Fergus Eckersley at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine. According to him, since the beginning of the invasion, more than 300 thousand Russian soldiers have been killed and wounded.
12:23 Slovakia believes that Ukraine is not ready to begin negotiations on accession to the EU, but will not interfere, said Prime Minister Fico.
12:11 Residents of a multi-storey residential building in the Dnieper district of Kiev, which suffered the most as a result of a night rocket attack, are housed in the Indestructibility Point, the KGVA reported and showed a photo of the house.
12:05 According to the International Monetary Fund, about 2 million Ukrainian refugees will remain abroad forever after the end of the war with Russia. “Migrants need time to return to Ukraine. Thus, we expect only a small net influx next year in 2024,” said IMF representative Sana Nadeem. According to her, by the end of the forecast period (until 2027) “there will be a net negative outflow of 2 million people in relation to the pre-war scenario.”
11:46 Germany's ruling alliance, after lengthy negotiations, has concluded an agreement on a revised financial plan for 2024, Bloomberg writes. A press conference will be held today in Berlin to explain the details of the agreement. Earlier, German Minister for European Affairs Anna Luhrmann confirmed that the country would double military assistance to Ukraine to 8 billion euros in 2024.
11:01 Russian hackers from the Solntsepek group took responsibility for the attack on Kyivstar. They claim that they managed to penetrate the operator’s network and gain a strong foothold there. During the attack, the organization’s internal network infrastructure, which provides communications not only to millions of subscribers, but also to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, was allegedly destroyed. The hackers also claim that they were allegedly able to obtain the personal data of millions of the company’s clients. Kyivstar assured that there was no leak of personal data of clients.
10:54 Zelensky said that he arrived in Oslo to participate in the second Ukraine-Northern Europe Summit. “Together with the leaders of Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Finland and Sweden, we will talk about strengthening defense, political and economic cooperation, about our common future in Europe. Our goal is security and a just and strong peace on the continent,” the president emphasized.
He will also hold bilateral negotiations with summit participants, meet with King Harald V, visit the Storting, and communicate with Norwegian politicians and entrepreneurs.
10:41 Orban again said that he would not allow the EU to “make a mistake” and start accession negotiations with Kiev, even if he is the only one of the 27 leaders who opposes it.
10:22 Zelensky from the United States flew to Oslo on an unannounced visit, DW reports. In the capital of Norway, he will take part in a summit of leaders of the Nordic countries, at which they will discuss, in particular, issues of joint defense and support for Ukraine.
09:13 According to preliminary information, the enemy could strike Kiev with 48N6 missiles from the S-400 complex, the Presidential Office reported. They clarified that “the Russians’ target is a critical infrastructure facility. We know where they are hitting.”
09:05 As a result of a night missile strike in the Dnieper district of Kiev, 35 private houses were left without electricity due to damage to power lines by missile debris. DTEK emergency crews plan to restore power supply before 14:00.
08:56 In the Odessa region, during a night attack, air defense forces shot down nine suicide bombers. One of the downed drones fell on the territory of a municipal auto repair facility in Odessa, two civilian employees were injured, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA. A fire broke out on the spot, which was promptly extinguished by State Emergency Service employees. The hangar was destroyed, three cars burned, 11 were damaged.
In the Odessa region, as a result of falling debris from another downed drone, a port infrastructure building was damaged, but no people were injured.
Another drone was destroyed in the Khmelnitsky region. According to the OVA, there were no casualties, destruction or damage to infrastructure.
08:38 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 13:
personnel - about 341,500 (+850) people,
tanks - 5682 (+18),
armored combat vehicles - 10,594 (+15),
artillery systems - 8076 (+3),
MLRS - 919 (+0),
air defense systems - 605 (+0),
aircraft - 324 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 6173 (+10),
cruise missiles - 1596 (+0),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,662 (+12),
special equipment - 1176 (+6).
08:23 According to the General Staff, at night Russia attacked Kiev with S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles and Iskander cruise missiles.
08:17 Over the past 24 hours, 95 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, the Defense Forces repelled 51 enemy attacks in the Avdiivka direction: in the areas east of Novokalinovo, east of Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoe, Avdeevka, south of Severny, south of Tonenkoe, Pervomaisky and Nevelskoye of the Donetsk region.
In addition, in the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - in the Makeevka area of the Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - in the districts of Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka of the Donetsk region; on Maryinsky - in the Novomikhailovka districts of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in areas north of Priyutnoye, west of Verbovoy and south of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. The enemy did not conduct offensive actions in the Shakhtarsky direction.
07:39 The number of victims as a result of the night attack on Kiev has increased to 53 people , the mayor's office reported. Of these, 20 were hospitalized, including two children; 33 injured were treated by doctors on the spot, including six children.
07:06 At night, air defense destroyed all enemy targets: ten ballistic missiles and ten attack UAVs , the Air Force command reported. Russia attacked with Shahed-type drones from the Balaklava area, almost all drones were shot down in the Odessa region. And exactly at 03.00 the enemy launched a missile strike on Kyiv. The missiles flew towards the capital along a ballistic trajectory; their type will be determined after studying the debris.
06:25 At night, the Russians again attacked Kiev with ballistic missiles , said the head of the KGVA Sergei Popko. All enemy targets were destroyed, but as a result of air defense work, about ten cases of falling debris were recorded in the Darnitsky, Dnieper, Desnyansky and Goloseevsky regions. Apartment and private buildings, cars, and a hospital were damaged. As of 06:00, 51 victims were recorded , including six children.
02:20 Following the meeting with Biden, Zelensky named Ukraine’s goals for 2024: “Protection for our people, strengthening air defense, depriving terrorists of their advantage in the air, joint production of weapons, further isolation of Russia and the use of frozen Russian assets.” The president also said that his meetings in the White House and Congress - with both parties and both chambers, with the speaker - "were very productive." He thanked him for bipartisan support.
In turn, Biden said that the United States is striving for Ukraine’s victory in the war with Russia, and Washington will not refuse to support Kyiv. The American president called the voices of Republicans opposing aid to Ukraine small and assured of “powerful bipartisan support.” Financing negotiations are ongoing.
Biden also said that Ukraine will become a NATO member “when all allies agree to this and all the conditions are met. But now we must make sure that they win the war first.”
00:34 The new package of military assistance from the United States worth $200 million for Ukraine included, in particular, shells for HIMARS, AGM-88 HARM anti-radar missiles, anti-tank missiles, 155-mm artillery shells, 4 million rounds of small arms ammunition, etc.
00:12 Russian troops attacked the Odessa region with attack drones, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OBA. The attack injured two people and damaged civilian infrastructure.
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[KavkazUzel] Residents of the Separatorny village blocked traffic along Akushinsky Avenue due to a two-day lack of electricity. The action stopped when the power engineers promised to provide light to the homes of Makhachkala residents within a few hours.
The "Caucasian Knot" wrote that since August 9, several protests against power outages have taken place in Makhachkala. On the evening of August 25, local residents blocked traffic in Semender, after which the mayor's office announced the restoration of electricity supply. On August 26, residents of Gamidov Street achieved the restoration of electricity after the road was blocked.
Residents of Makhachkala should more actively fight for their rights with the help of official complaints about power outages, Dagestan activists said and explained the procedure for filing complaints at a meeting with residents of the Reduktorny village.
Residents of Makhachkala blocked Akushinsky Avenue today due to a two-day lack of electricity, Novoe Delo reported on its Telegram channel.
As follows from the video published in the telegram channel “What’s up with the Dagestanis,” cars were stuck in a traffic jam and honking, and groups of people and police officers were visible at the crossing.
The closure of the movement was confirmed by the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan Gayana Garieva in her Telegram channel “Criminal Chronicle of Dagestan”. “The houses are incredibly cold, there is no water, there is no light. In some areas, they were notified of power supply, which has not actually been restored. Police officers are trying to control the situation,” she wrote.
An hour after the start of the action, the Makhachly mayor’s office announced that traffic along Akushinsky Avenue had been restored. “Deputy Minister of Energy and Tariffs of the Republic of Dagestan Rajab Nabiev and employees of the Makhachkala City Hall continue to talk with residents of nearby houses,” municipal authorities wrote in their Telegram channel,
The power supply to de-energized consumers in the village of Separatorov and Gamidov Street will be restored within two to three hours, the Dagestan Ministry of Energy promised. “The prolonged disconnection of consumers, according to power engineers, is due to the fact that specialists for a long time could not find the location of the damage to the power line. The situation was complicated by unfavorable weather conditions. Currently, power engineers are doing everything possible to quickly solve the problem,” the department reported with reference to company "Dagenergo" at 22.33 Moscow time.
As follows from the video published in the Telegram channel of the Ministry of Energy of Dagestan, traffic has resumed on the road, groups of people are standing by the road.
At a press conference between energy workers and the administration of Makhachkala on December 12, activists asked what the government had done to resolve the issue of power outages, and asked why Rosseti was not fined, because according to the law, if electricity is turned off for more than 72 hours," Rosseti should be fined from 600 thousand to a million rubles.
To this, the head of the Ministry of Energy of Dagestan, Marat Shikhaliev, responded that their priority is improving the quality of services, not fines, the Patient Monitor/Housing and Communal Services project reported today. “We are still confident that it is the “flogging with a ruble” that will best force the energy workers to move,” the activists said in a statement.
Since August 9, Makhachkala residents have blocked highways at least ten times, including today’s action, in protest against the power outage. Thus, in Semender, traffic was interrupted on August 24 and 25. On August 18, traffic along Akushinsky Avenue was blocked by residents of the Nauchny Gorodok microdistrict in Makhachkala, who demanded that the authorities solve the problem with the supply of water and electricity to their homes. On August 17, protests took place on Akushinsky Avenue, on the evening of August 16, local residents blocked Gamidov Avenue, and on August 15, residents of the Reduktorny village tried to block the road. On August 9, Makhachkala residents blocked Magomed Gadzhiev Street.
On August 18, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, called the deterioration of electrical networks in the republic unthinkable; he turned to the federal authorities for help in solving this problem and called on residents of the republic not to block the routes. Residents of Makhachkala said that problems with electricity and water had been observed before, but in the last year they have worsened.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, artillery, and heavy flamethrower systems repelled eight attacks of assault groups of AFU 14th, 43rd, 60th, 115th Mechanised Brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Sin'kovka, Ivanovka, Yagodnoye (Khar'kov region), and Lake Liman.
Clusters of AFU 115th Mechanised, 57th Mechanised Infantry Brigades' manpower suffered losses north-western Lake Liman and north of Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region).
The enemy losses were up to 55 troops, one U.S.-made M113 armoured personnel carrier, and two armoured fighting vehicles.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces repelled one attack launched by the AFU 63rd Mechanised Brigade near Chervonaya Dibrova (Donetsk People's Republic).
Artillery inflicted fire damage on AFU manpower close to Serebryansky forestry.
The AFU losses amounted to up to 100 Ukrainian troops killed and wounded, one tank, and two motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by artillery repelled four attacks of AFU 24th Mechanised, 5th Assault Brigades near Kleshcheyevka and Shumy (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, strikes were delivered at enemy manpower and hardware near Krasnoye, Kleshcheyevka, Kurdyumovka, Kirovo, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 250 Ukrainian military personnel, one U.S.-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle, three armoured fighting vehicles, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, one 152mm Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, one 152mm D-20 and one 122mm D-30 howitzers.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of AFU 79th Air Assault, 58 Mechanised Infantry, and 128 Territorial Defence Brigades near Novomikhailovka, Novodonetskoye, and Staromayorskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 130 Ukrainian troops, two pickups, two Akatsiya self-propelled artillery systems, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system have been eliminated.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery repelled one attack of the AFU 117th Mechanised Brigade's assault groups north of Novoprokopovka (Zaporozhye region), and inflicted fire damage on AFU 128th mountain assault, 33rd, 65th Mechanised Brigades' manpower and hardware close to Pyatikhatki, Rabotino, and Nesteryanka(Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 50 Ukrainian troops and three motor vehicles.
In Kherson direction, as a result of actions of the Russian Group of Forces supported by artillery and aviation, the AFU lost up to 30 Ukrainian troops.
In addition, three 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems and one unmanned aerial vehicle command post have been eliminated.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged assembly and repair workshops for unmanned aerial vehicles, three ammunition depots and one fuel depot, one Ukrainian 79K6 Pelican phased-array radar station, as well as AFU manpower and hardware in 118 areas during the day.
Russian air defence forces intercepted two HIMARS MLRS projectiles.
In addition, six Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were shot down close to Kremennaya (Lugansk People's Republic), Belogorovka, Krinichnaya, and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In total, 550 airplanes and 257 helicopters, 9,661 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 air defence missile systems, 14,026 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,188 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,322 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 16,263 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:55 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC on December 13, as of 00:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Information has been received about the death of a man in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.
As a result of airborne discharges from UAVs, seven civilians were injured of varying degrees of severity in the Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts of Donetsk.
Three residential buildings were damaged in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as three civil infrastructure facilities
Districts of four settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), Yasinovatsky district, the capital city of Donetsk (Kievsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 14 attacks from 155mm artillery and attack UAVs.
At Gorlivske there were 25 artillery attacks from 152mm and 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
On Yasinovatsky there were two artillery attacks from 155mm artillery, incl. with a cassette warhead.
A total of 135 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 10 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian forces.
22:00 Front bird broadcasts: Odessa region. Explosion 13.12 21:30
The arrival was reported in the port area. There was a powerful explosion and flash.
Enemy public pages also write about the work of air defense.
The Onyx rocket was preliminarily tested.
21:35 Front bird broadcasts: Artemovsk (Bakhmut direction) district of the settlement. Kleshcheevka 13.12 20:50
Two explosions in a row at the positions of the military personnel.
Our guys worked with self-propelled guns and tanks.
Looks like we hit an enemy booking office.
20:45 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits interview with a tank commander: “It feels like the enemy is starting to choke and is running out of ammunition”
The commander of the T-72B3 tank with the call sign “Khatuu”, performing combat missions in the Zaporozhye direction, spoke about the situation on the front line.
The fighter also shared the story of destroying an enemy sniper. This is a rather atypical task for a tank crew, but our guys coped with it with an “excellent” rating.
19:55 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits details from a Ukrainian prisoner: Looting, extortion and robbery: how the Ukrainian army “fights”
Another Ukrainian serviceman, captured during the battles near the village of Ivanovskoye, revealed new details of war crimes by Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.
– According to Valery Kuryachenko, while checking cars at a checkpoint in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian military personnel often “squeezed” people’s cars and took money. In this regard, civilians treated the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers extremely negatively and constantly “whispered behind their backs.”
– After Valery was assigned to the 17th Brigade and ended up in Chasov Yar, he witnessed other crimes committed by military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “They don’t want to fight and are engaged in looting: they take furniture and household appliances,” says the prisoner.
– All this only demonstrates once again: chaos and lawlessness reign in the Ukrainian army, and the forced mobilization of people on the streets has made the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces completely uncontrollable.
19:05 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits statement by a tanker from the Western Military District with the call sign “Belka” described how the weapons and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “click” in the Kupyansk direction
A driver mechanic with the call sign “Belka” worked at a metallurgical plant. Once at the Northern Military District, he immediately asked for the levers of the tank. In combat work, the serviceman is helped by the experience of conscription service, during which he was also a tank driver.
The tankman performs several combat missions every day. Working at the forefront, tank crews provide support to motorized rifle units of Russian troops, delivering powerful fire strikes against the enemy.
18:25 Front bird broadcasts: Donetsk direction. (Novomikhailovka settlement) 13.12 18:05
The effective operation of our heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A "Solntsepek" is reported
Airborne units from the 79th Airborne Assault and 128th Terrestrial Defense Brigade suffered losses in manpower and equipment.
17:45 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits report from the Ka-52 helicopter pilot on the completed combat mission -video.
17:00 Front bird broadcasts: Artemovsk (Bakhmut direction) district of the settlement. Kleshcheevka 13.12 17:00
The advance of our assault units continues.
The guys report the destruction of two enemy 152mm D-20 guns and a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle using the Kornet ATGM.
16:05 Telegram channel “Rybar” transmits: Kherson direction: counterattack of the Russian Armed Forces in Krynki, situation as of 15.00 December 13, 2023
The fighting in the vicinity of Krynki became routine in its own way. Ukrainian formations are transferring more and more forces to the village, and Russian troops are striking at them.
“However, yesterday night our units conducted several local attacks in the area south of the so-called “greenhouses” adjacent to the forest, as well as from the eastern outskirts of Krynoki.
– As a result of the fighting, the Ukrainian naval infantry retreated from the eastern outskirts deep into the settlement. Similarly, the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreated to prepared landing positions under the cover of five mortar crews on Frolov Island.
That night, the command of the Katran group again deployed two assault groups of the 38th Naval Infantry Brigade, which immediately replaced the wounded in the forest belt. In general, the situation has practically remained the same.
14:05 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC for December 13, as of 13:00, information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- on the territory of the car service station on the street. Tsereteli, a man born in 1951 died.
Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
- infrastructure of a car service station, 5 cars were also damaged on the street. Tsereteli.
13:25 On the Telegram channel “Kherson Bulletin“The information department of the Kyiv regime continues to carry out “dudos” attacks. Kyiv is trying to fight information portals that publish an alternative point of view.
Representatives of the Kyiv regime use the simplest methods of combating unwanted information portals - from filing complaints to artificially increasing subscribers.
This Telegram channel actively publishes video and photographic materials of the destruction of Ukrainian Armed Forces militants in the Kherson region, where a “large-scale springboard” is unfolding on Ukrainian television and Telegram channels. This information is categorically disliked by representatives of the Kyiv regime, which is deceiving its own citizens about a certain “bridgehead” in the Kherson direction.
13:05 It was quite noisy in Odessa last night. Russian “Geraniums”attackedinfrastructure and facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
An auto repair plant with Ukrainian military equipment was hit, after which a fire broke out there.
A hangar was also destroyed and the customs building in the Odessa region was damaged. It is reported that representatives of Western states were stationed at the facility.
The air defense, as usual, “shot down” all the drones. And all the damage is exclusively from debris.
12:30 Front bird broadcasts: Kupyansk direction. district settlement Sinkovka 13.12 11:50
The guys from the spot report that our troops are advancing.
In addition, it is reported that a powerful explosion occurred on the outskirts of the village. Sin'kovka after the work of tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
UVAB-250 and UVAB-500 accurately hit fortified enemy positions.
12:00 Khersonsky Vestnik transmits: The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery eight rounds;
-- n.p. Dnepryan six rounds;
-- n.p. Krynki 27 rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha 13 rounds;
-- n.p. Obryvka of three rounds;
-- n.p. Podlesnoe two rounds;
-- n.p. Saga six rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Proletarka, n.p. Korsunka, n.p. Aleshki, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Krynki, n.p. Golaya Pristan, firing a total of 32 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
11:25 “WarGonzo” transmits: “For all this time, fewer people lived in the village than are now dying for it” - thoughts out loud from the scene
Today, in our column “Thoughts Out Loud from the Scene of Events,” a fighter from one of the units fighting in the Bakhmut direction will make a report on the situation in this sector of the front.
“For the last two weeks there have been serious battles for the village of Bogdanovka, which we are trying to take with the help of the volunteer corps. Chasov Yar rises above the plain, at the bottom of which is Soledar, from which our offensive is coming, and between them on the hills there are villages. One of them is Bogdanovka, where the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to sit tight, and for which battles are now taking place.
The enemy is not trying to attack, but he is seriously planning to hold the defense - there are all the possibilities for this, the supply of ammunition continues to be carried out through Grigorovka and Chasov Yar. There is basically an extensive network of roads there. We managed to close one of them for the APU, but this did not spoil the weather for them much. The road through Chasov Yar is, in principle, the best and most convenient in terms of quality and distance.
Nevertheless, our units are slowly entering Bogdanovka itself, trying to gain a foothold. This settlement is strategic, like the captured Khromovo, because it opens the road to Chasov Yar itself and makes it possible to cut off the enemy’s logistics. However, to storm Chasov Yar, our units will have to first cross the Seversky Donets-Donbass canal, and this is also not an easy task.
Now for the enemy. It’s not the elite units that stand against us, but a hodgepodge of rank-and-file units, mostly terrestrial defense. Despite the fact that until recently, in the Bakhmut direction, we fought with the 3rd Separate Assault Brigadeand other elite units. Regarding aerial reconnaissance, the advantage is slowly passing to us. The Ukrainian Armed Forces use FPV drones, but they are most successfully suppressed by our electronic warfare. In principle, in this area it becomes obvious that a turning point in the war of drones has occurred and now we are in the lead.
Local fighters call Bogdanovka another “granny village.” The name means that the village itself never had any significance, and throughout its history, many times fewer people lived there than are now dying for it.”
10:30 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement from the head of the press center of the “West” group:
Units of the West group of forces continue to carry out combat missions of a special military operation in the Kupyansk direction.
– During active operations, with the support of artillery fire, units of the enemy’s 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade were defeated in the Sin'kovka area.
– The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 105 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles, and a 122mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S1 “Gvozdika.”
09:45 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov region. 13.12
New explosions are reported in the Khar'kov region.
Earlier there were reports of a boom in the sky.
A number of monitoring publics also reported the sound of an explosion in the sky.
09:20 Telegram channel “WarGonzo“: frontline report for the morning of December 13, 2023
– In the Kherson-Crimean direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian positions on the left bank of the Dnieper in Krynki. It is worth saying that in this area the fighting is of a “swing” nature. From time to time, opposing sides try to seize the initiative. But they cannot achieve significant success. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Veletinsky, Kherson, Antonovka, Prydneprovsky, Tokarevka, Novotyaginka and Tyaginka. RF Armed Forces - in Golaya Pristan, Alyoshki, Poima and Cossack Camps.
– In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces attacked from Novoprokopovka to Rabotino and from the Novofedorovka area. The Ukrainian Armed Forces held their positions. But it is clear that the Ukrainian troops have gone on the defensive. The Russian Armed Forces are seeking to nullify the successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in this sector, achieved during their summer-autumn counteroffensive. Ukrainian positions in Plavny, Pyatikhatki, Malye Shcherbaki, Novoandreevka, Orekhov and Novodanilovka are under fire. Russian ones - in Zherebyanki, Kopany, Novoprokopovka, Verbovoy and Novofedorovka.
– On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, after artillery shelling, continued their assault operations near Novomikhailovka and Marinka. In the last of the listed settlements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lose their last positions, but do not retreat. The Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, attacked at Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye. They also tried to advance to Tonenkoe and Severny (a settlement west of Avdievka). The fortified area of the Armed Forces of Ukraine itself, after artillery bombardment, was attacked from the industrial zone in the southeast, near the coke plant to the northeast.
Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery and aviation, continued assault operations in the Stepnoye area (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions). The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked waste heaps northwest of Gorlovka, trying to force some Russian troops to be transferred to this area.
08:40 Telegram channel “Fisherman“: chronicle of a special military operation: events of December 11-12, 2023
– In the Kupyansky sector, Russian troops continue offensive operations and are fighting on the northern outskirts of Sinkovka. However, there is no talk yet of the imminent liberation of the village: the enemy is trying with all his might to hold an important line of defense on the approaches to Kupyansk.
– South of Pervomaisky, the Russian army is fighting on the outskirts of Zagoruykovka, having advanced a kilometer to the populated area. In addition, units of the Russian Armed Forces approached the eastern outskirts of Ivanovka, forcing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to transfer units from other areas
Meanwhile, on the northern flank of Bakhmut there are fierce battles near Bogdanovka and near the Chasov Yar-Khromovo highway. The command of the 3rd Assault Brigade "Azov", due to large losses in manpower, was forced to send the unit to the rear for replenishment.
– To the west of Bakhmut, Russian troops drove the enemy out of the forest belt adjacent to the Eighth Headquarters. In Kleshcheevka, after taking height 215.7, units of the Russian Armed Forces expanded the control zone by 200 meters.
– In the south of the Avdeevsky fortified area, the Russian army, after a powerful artillery barrage, moved on to a new stage of the offensive. Units of the RF Armed Forces established control over the Vinogradniki cooperative and gained a foothold on the outskirts of Kolosova Street, effectively entering the urban area.
To the southwest of Avdievka, Russian units are trying to reach the southern outskirts of Severny and Tonenkoye. A little to the west, aviation and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces are actively working on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Pervomaisky, clearing the way for assault units.
– In the Kherson direction in Krynki, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, despite regular losses, continue to hold a bridgehead. Taking advantage of the bad weather, the enemy transferred six groups on motor boats to houses in the central part of the village.
08:10 Official summary of Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 December 12, 2023 to 00:00 December 13, 2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 10 incidents of firing from the AFU.
Information was received about the injury of two civilians in the Budennovsky district of Donetsk and the Central City district of Gorlovka.
Seven residential buildings were damaged in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, the Central City district of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of two settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Tsentralno-Gorodskoy, Nikitovsky districts), the capital city of Donetsk (Budennovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out four attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky there were Six artillery attacks from 155mm and 152mm artillery.
A total of 34 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 11 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
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[REGNUM] The Duma commission to investigate the interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia records: after the start of the presidential campaign, the activation of NATO intelligence services, non-governmental organizations controlled by them and “agents of influence” began. This was stated by the head of the commission, State Duma deputy Vasily Piskarev.
Attempts are being made to organize illegal actions on Russian territory, provocateurs are being trained, in particular in the Baltic countries and Georgia, and pseudo-observers are being trained at foreign expense, Deputy Piskarev listed.
“They are forming a base to disrupt the elections... And here the “waiters” who have settled are not sleeping, they are simply hiding ,” noted the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova .
“The main goal of the Russian emigrant opposition is to delegitimize the elections in March 2024,” the foreign agent media outlet Voice of America quoted another foreign agent, former State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov , who emigrated through Ukraine to Bulgaria.
According to the Duma commission on countering interference, Mikhail Khodorkovsky joined the work of “delegitimization”, who non-publicly resumed the work of the Open Russia structure (an organization recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation).
By 2023, the backbone of this structure has been “evacuated” from Russia and distributed in EU countries, an RT source reported in early December . The professional media studio is located in London (on Baker Street), and the work of Khodorkovsky’s network is carried out mainly through Lithuanian companies.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) published a statement back in October calling on European countries to consider Vladimir Putin “illegitimately elected” if he wins the vote in March.
In the opposition camp itself, disagreements have emerged regarding election tactics.
At the beginning of autumn, foreign agent blogger Maxim Katz (former municipal deputy of the Moscow Shchukino district from Yabloko, now living in Israel) told the foreign agent publication Meduza: taking into account the presidential campaign, the oppositionists should join forces. Katz is confident that there are enough citizens in Russia who sympathize with liberal politicians, and pro-Western media resources need to start working together and agree on a common strategy for working with the audience.
It was proposed to start the fight with a meeting in London, which Katz scheduled for October 8. Key functionaries of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK, the structure of Alexei Navalny , recognized as a terrorist and extremist , by a court decision included in the list of extremist organizations and banned in the Russian Federation), foreign agents Maria Pevchikh and Leonid Volkov (included in the list of extremists and terrorists) were invited .
“Get together the three of us, then convince the active opposition, then convince opinion leaders who sympathize with us. And then, together, we can convince the 30 million people watching us. And then, together with them, convince 60 million neutral-minded people,” Katz voiced his ambitious plans.
However, instead of unification, numerous mutual accusations of blackmail, spam attacks, lies, manipulation, inaction and ineffective approaches followed.
Navalny personally put an end to it. From Vladimir colony No. 9 (where he is serving a sentence for economic crimes), the founder of the FBK told Katz: “ go to hell with your coalitions,” because this is “an imitation of activity ” and “a fake.”
However, the public quarrel only says that the ambitious “Navalny team”, working from London (where Pevchikh lives) and Vilnius (where Volkov often appears) intends to act separately, without coordinating actions with Khodorkovsky’s structures, with the organizers of the “Vilnius Forums” or other emigrant centers.
Another scandal helped expose the Navalnists’ tactics. In mid-November, a foreign agent living in Brazil, one of the former leaders of the unregistered Libertarian Party, Mikhail Svetov, accused Navalny’s structures of owning a so-called bot farm - networks of well-paid (from 1.2 thousand to 1.8 thousand euros) paid commentators on social networks, which, by analogy with “troll factories,” are called “elf factories.”
The duties of the “elves” include publishing at least 120 posts or comments of the required content per day. The work is carried out through fake accounts on VKontakte and other social networks, obtained through phishing (stealing passwords) or purchased on the dark side of the Internet.
Recently, Navalnists, in connection with the March elections, launched another campaign “for Russia without Putin,” where Zhdanov’s bot farm may well be used as a tool. Navalnists call on their like-minded people who remain in Russia to paint graffiti, put up leaflets, make phone calls, but most importantly, spread propaganda on the Internet.
Work on social networks is on a grand scale. The high-ranking curators of the “elf factory” are representatives of the Free Russia Foundation, an undesirable organization in Russia with a head office in Washington and branches in Tbilisi and Vilnius. The immediate leader of the bot farm is called Oleg Stepanov, the former head of Navalny’s Moscow “headquarters” (“Navalny Headquarters” is a foreign agent recognized as an extremist organization in Russia).
In addition to working to discredit the elections, the non-systemic opposition will actively exploit the topic of SVO and mobilization and try to attract relatives of those mobilized and themselves, lawyer Ilya Remeslo told IA Regnum . The expert cites the example of the “Way Home” project, which posed as a community of wives of SVO participants, but in reality was the product of foreign media specialists and FBK employees.
“ Their idea is that they are trying to incite the relatives of those mobilized against the authorities, demanding the immediate withdrawal of all those mobilized from the front, which threatens disaster for Russia ,” says Remeslo. But they made a number of mistakes; it turned out that the project was directly carried out by those who work for Navalny, “and that’s where they got burned.”
Another “sector of attack” is interethnic relations. Ex-FBK employee Vitaly Serukanov recalled in a commentary to IA Regnum about the recent events in Dagestan, inspired by ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev (foreign agent, included in the list of terrorists and extremists) and the Ukrainian special services.
Serukanov also recalled the intensification of the theme of “decolonization of Russia” with the creation of “post-Russian independent states,” which is regularly promoted in the emigrant environment. On the eve of the elections, this thesis is quite in demand among Western patrons of the opposition, Serukanov notes.
And after the elections, Remeslo believes, the non-systemic opposition, together with foreign politicians, will certainly take up the idea of recognizing the elected president as illegitimate.
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[Regnum] FSB officers did not immediately find Daria Trepova (listed as a terrorist and extremist) after she committed a terrorist attack that took the life of military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky ( Maxim Fomin ). A department employee who participated in the search spoke about this on December 13, Fontanka reported.
He explained that one group, after identifying the suspect, checked the plane to Bukhara at Pulkovo, for which Trepova bought a ticket, and the other went to check information from CCTV cameras, which showed that the girl entered one of the houses on Fyodor Abramov Street and left there on the 21st floor.
Law enforcement officers began checking apartments at the entrance and talked four times with Dmitry Kasintsev , in whose apartment they later found Trepova. At first he did not arouse suspicion and each time he said that he was alone at home and offered to go to the apartment. Later, one of the operatives met Kasintsev in the hall of the first floor, and the man’s behavior seemed suspicious to him. They went up to the apartment together.
“It turned out that Trepova was hiding in the closet. She immediately confirmed that she was the person who brought the figurine to the bar ,” the publication reported about the witness’s testimony.
As Regnum reported, Tatarsky’s murder occurred on April 2 in a cafe on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg during his creative evening. During the event, Trepova gave the military correspondent a bust with his image, which, as investigators later established, contained explosives. The explosion also injured more than 40 people. Trepova was arrested.
Investigators also established the involvement of journalist Roman Popkov (a person included in the list of terrorists and extremists), who lived in Ukraine, in the terrorist attack. He gave instructions to Trepova by correspondence. In addition, according to investigators, another Ukrainian citizen, Yuri Denisov, arrived in Russia in February and handed over a bust with explosives to the perpetrator of the terrorist attack.
On December 13, TV channel “78” reported that a car GPS tracker was installed in a figurine with explosives. Curators used it to track the movement of the bust. According to journalists, Trepova, several hours before the explosion, removed a special magnet from the figurine, which prevented the device from working.
Ukrainian curators monitored the actions of the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that claimed the life of military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky ( Maxim Fomin ), Daria Trepova (listed as a terrorist and extremist) through a car GPS tracker.
According to a source from TV channel 78, an ordinary car GPS tracker was previously placed in the figurine filled with explosives. Trepova did not know about this, and the curators could thus monitor her to make sure that the necessary actions were completed.
“She clearly understood that the explosion had to take place, because a few hours before the terrorist attack, according to instructions, she removed a special magnet from the figurine, which did not allow the explosive to go off,” the publication says.
As IA Regnum reported, on April 2, 2023, Tatarsky’s creative evening took place in a cafe on Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg, which ended with an explosion that took his life. Trepova was one of the guests of the event. She presented the military correspondent with a figurine with his image as a gift; he thanked her for the gift, which, as it later turned out, contained explosives. As a result of the terrorist attack, Tatarsky was killed and more than 40 people were injured.
The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of murder, which it later reclassified as a case of terrorism, and Trepova was arrested. Investigators have established the involvement of journalist Roman Popkov (a person included in the list of terrorists and extremists), who lived in Ukraine, in the terrorist attack. He corresponded with Trepova and gave her instructions. Another person involved, citizen of Ukraine Yuri Denisov , according to investigators, arrived in Russia in February 2023 and handed over the same figurine to the performer.
Trepova herself was aware of what she was doing; forensic experts declared her sane. The Second Western District Military Court extended Trepova's arrest until April 18, 2024. She was also sued for 1.6 million rubles. Later, at the hearing in the murder case, data were announced that Tatarsky died suddenly from an explosive injury a fraction of a second after the explosion. He had no chance to survive.
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[Regnum] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian Armed Forces fighter Anton Baydrakov to 18 years in prison for the murder of a resident of Mariupol and an attempt to seize power in the Donetsk People's Republic. This became known on December 13.
“The court sentenced Baidrakov to 18 years in prison, with the first three years to be served in prison, and the rest of the sentence in a maximum security penal colony,” the Prosecutor General’s Office reported on the Telegram channel.
According to the prosecution, in 2021 the man underwent military training with the aim of seizing power and changing the constitutional system in the DPR, and in December he was sent to the territory of the republic as part of the Marine Corps brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. A few months later, it became known that he illegally detained a resident of Mariupol in an industrial zone and killed her.
Baydrakov was convicted on charges of training for terrorist purposes, violent seizure of power, murder and cruelty to civilians.
As Regnum reported, on November 21, the court sentenced the company commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Marine Brigade , Alexander Svinarchuk, to life imprisonment for ordering the execution of 37 civilians in Mariupol . According to the investigation, from February 28 to April 9, 2022, he gave orders to his subordinates to shoot civilians. Thus, the Ukrainian military killed 21 civilians and tried to shoot another 16 people who had taken refuge from the shelling in a safe place.
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[REGNUM] Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, elected to this position by the new parliamentary majority (Civic Platform - Third Way - New Left), is preparing today, December 13, to take the oath of office to Polish President Andrzej Duda . After which he will fly to Brussels to participate in the EU summits, which will end on December 15.
The day before, Tusk presented a government in the Polish Sejm, which included representatives of three blocs, and named some of the priorities of his policy. Including the foreign policy section.
Explaining that now “there is a war on our borders,” the prime minister called for “returning” the country on the Vistula to the Euro-Atlantic community.
“Poland is and will be a key, strong, sovereign element of the North Atlantic Alliance, Poland will be a loyal, stable, confident ally of the United States, Poland will regain its leadership in the European Union ,” Tusk said. At the same time, he emphasized that “no one will beat him” in the EU and he will return Poland to its “rightful place.”
First of all, in Europe, the prime minister is going to talk about Ukraine. “I will go to Brussels with the justified hope that we will find a way to convince our traditional allies to stand unequivocally for freedom, republican values and the defense of Ukraine from Russian aggression,” Tusk announced.
He promised to demand the full mobilization of the West to help the Kyiv regime. However, he made a reservation that this could not mean the use of “friendly assertiveness” when it comes to national interests, and mentioned Polish entrepreneurs, transporters and farmers in this context.
Together with Tusk, foreign policy tasks will be implemented, first of all, by two ministers - national defense and foreign affairs.
The Polish Sejm dismissed the government and named a new prime minister.
The first position was taken by the chairman of the Polish Peasant Party ("Third Way") Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysh , a doctor by training. He has no military experience, but for the ruling coalition this is not a minus, but a plus. They believe that a civilian politician should control the Ministry of Defense.
“The views of the leader of the Polish Peasant Party on the army are unknown, we are dealing with a politician who in this regard can be called a “blank slate ,” notes the newspaper Rzeczpospolita. In turn, opponents of Kosiniak-Kamysh claim that he is under the strong influence of Tusk and Radoslaw Sikorski, who returned to the post of head of the Polish Foreign Ministry.
However, both Tusk and Sikorsky will have to compete for the soul of the Minister of Defense with Duda. The President has long been interested in defense issues. This year he introduced a bill on army reform, which involves strengthening the role of the general staff. Kosinyak-Kamysh himself said that he was open to cooperation with Duda.
Thus, the first statements of the Minister of Defense indicate that he has a chance to find a common language with the president. Like Duda, he is betting on investment in Poland's defense potential and cooperation between national armies within NATO.
This can be seen as a divergence in the positions of Kosinyak-Kamysh and Sikorsky. The latter expressed interest in Warsaw's “leadership” in the European defense project, which is an initiative of Paris. Many Western and Polish experts perceive this project as an alternative to the “pro-American” North Atlantic Alliance.
But does this mean the prospect of splits in the Polish establishment between supporters of orientation towards Washington and supporters of orientation towards Brussels? As for Sikorski, perhaps the new-old foreign minister is playing for the long haul, anticipating difficulties in Polish-American relations if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election next year.
With this development of events, Washington will impose forced “strategic autonomy” on the European Union, and Warsaw will have to rely solely on Brussels. In this context, the Polish diplomatic department will now urgently need to revive the Weimar triangle Germany - Poland - France. And also to build new regional alliances outside of Central and Eastern Europe, to break into Scandinavia with a projection on Great Britain.
It’s difficult to say how Sikorsky can do this, although he is known for his ability to make sharp turns. As head of the Polish Foreign Ministry from 2007 to 2014, he set out to reset relations with Russia at the end of the 2000s. Moreover, as Sikorsky himself stated in June of this year, “we were there (in Moscow - editor’s note) before Barack Obama.”
But we must not forget that during the Euromaidan in Kiev, Sikorsky, together with German and French diplomats, had a hand in the overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych . And after the reunification of Crimea with Russia, according to him, Warsaw “decided that it would not be possible to come to an agreement with Putin.”
Tusk himself in his “speech from the throne” did not mention Russia separately, only indirectly in the context of the Ukrainian conflict. Therefore, it is not yet entirely clear how exactly the prime minister and the head of the Foreign Ministry will build relations with Moscow.
Something will probably become clearer after Tusk’s trip to the EU summit. The Onet portal admits that the head of the Polish government may have a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky in Brussels .
In addition, according to the publication, “an early visit of the new head of the Polish government to the Ukrainian capital is possible . ”
However, first Tusk must “synchronize watches” in Brussels with European partners, after which his statements about unconditional support for the Kyiv regime can be adjusted. After all, not everyone in the EU shares this position. In particular, the Austria-Hungary-Slovakia situational bloc is opposed.
Given the eclectic nature of the Polish government and ruling coalition, Tusk will have to take into account the sentiments of those of his allies who care little about the interests of Ukraine.
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