In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct, full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repel the enemy
- Bad weather conditions continue to slow down the pace of military operations between Ukraine and Russia along the entire front line, - ISW, situation at the front.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces have advanced in the Kremennaya area and have recently continued localized attacks in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions.
▪️Ukrainian troops are also expanding their fortifications throughout the Kharkov region, in particular in the direction of Kupyansk and Borovaya (35 km west of Svatovo).
▪️Ukrainian forces captured positions on the outskirts of Stepovoye.
▪️Russian troops have not captured Marinka, Ukrainian forces maintain some positions on the outskirts of the city.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to hold positions on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River and conduct counter-battery fire. Ukrainian forces also continue to effectively use drones and artillery to disrupt Russian logistics in the area. 
AFU maintain positions on the eastern bank of the Kherson region and conduct counter-battery fire in this area - ISW, situation at the front.
▪️Ukrainian forces continued localized ground attacks near Kremennaya with confirmed success, advancing west of Dibrova.
▪️Ukrainian troops also repelled an attack by Russian troops in the Staromayorsky area (9 km south of Velikaya Novoselka).
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue offensive operations in the Melitopol (west of Zaporozhye region) direction. 
The Ukrainian Armed Forces continued ground operations on the left bank of the Kherson region and recently took a confirmed position on Belogrudny Island, - ISW, situation at the front.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces recently counterattacked near Avdiivka and regained lost positions. Geotagged footage released on December 4 shows Ukrainian troops attacking Russian positions in the forest south of Stepovoy.
▪️Ukrainian forces repelled Russian attacks in the area of Marinka (on the western outskirts of Donetsk) and Novomikhailovka (10 km southwest of Donetsk).
▪️According to British intelligence, Russian troops captured most of Marinka.
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces are preparing to intensify attacks near Verbovoy when the weather improves. 
- Dead Russian soldiers in the Avdeevsky direction 
- Shot down Russian BMP-2 and dead troops in the Donetsk region 
- Ukraine has begun sending cats to the front to fight mice, rats and snakes, Bild reports. 
- 1998. Elimination of the Ukrainian air-to-ground missile X-22 as part of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program. 
2002. Elimination of the Ukrainian strategic bomber Tu-22 at a military airfield near Poltava, November 12, 2002. The bomber was destroyed as part of Ukraine's renunciation of nuclear weapons, which was stipulated in the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994. 
Where are these representatives of the memorandum now?
- New Russian thermobaric warhead for the kamikaze UAV "Shahed-136" ("Geran-2") weighing 40 kg.
Such a warhead is capable of demolishing part of a residential building, which makes the UAV actually an analogue of the TOS-1A ammunition. 
- EU leaders risk leaving Ukraine empty-handed at a dangerous moment in its war against Russia, as disagreements over finance threaten Kiev's €50 billion lifeline and Hungary vows to derail EU membership talks.
Disputes within the EU over money and the future of Ukraine are jeopardizing important promises made to Kyiv several months ago — just at the moment when the flow of American financial and military support for Ukraine suddenly stalled politically.ki divided Congress.
EU member states are far from reaching an agreement on replenishing the bloc's joint budget, including 50 billion euros for Ukraine, ahead of a summit in Brussels on December 14-15, officials involved in the discussions said.
EU efforts to reach a compromise are being hampered by the victory of a far-right party in elections in the Netherlands last month and a recent German court ruling to curb government borrowing. The budget agreement will be "very, very difficult," the senior official said.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration's proposed $60 billion package is struggling to get through Congress.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday again vowed to veto the start of Ukraine's EU membership talks, telling public radio it would be "contrary to the interests of several member states." and that accession may only become possible “in many years.”
“We are in good enough shape to dare to say it, no matter how much pressure we are under,” — he said. 
- In 2023, Spain purchased a record amount of Russian gas in its history, El Mundo reports.
In the nine months of 2023, Madrid imported six times more Russian gas than in 2018. 
- Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, known for his pro-Russian views, vetoed the supply of 100 old BTR-60 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine.
The already ratified agreement on the free supply of 100 supported armored personnel carriers to Ukraine has been returned to parliament for re-discussion.
Radev said that the deputies are not sufficiently familiar with the specific parameters of the deal and cannot objectively assess whether these armored personnel carriers are really no longer needed by Bulgaria itself. For example, to combat natural disasters and protect the border.
The equipment was manufactured about 40 years ago and was stored in the warehouses of the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Opponents of the transfer of armored personnel carriers to the party in parliament accused the authorities of transferring equipment free of charge. 
- Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny asked US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for 17 million shells and $350-400 billion for the “deoccupation of Ukraine,” the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper reports.
Austin was presented with these calculations, as well as “preliminary ideas” General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on long-term planning.
«Austin was informed of the need for 17 million shells. He was, to put it mildly, surprised, because the whole world could not collect so many shells,” a source told Ukrainskaya Pravda.
According to him, Kyiv also requested “350-400 billion dollars” from Washington.
In addition, Zaluzhny allegedly complained to Austin about the interference of the office of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in troop control.
«Well, it is clear that the president also found out about such conversations. And they don’t promote trust,” — said a senior military source. 
- The White House has issued a stark warning that the US will run out of funds to help Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that Congress' failure to approve new support will “raise” Kyiv.
The warning from Shalanda Young, the White House budget director, in a letter to congressional leaders on Monday represents the most concrete assessment yet of Washington's weakening financial and military support for Ukraine.
“Without Congressional action, by the end of the year we will run out of resources to purchase more weapons and equipment for Ukraine, as well as to provide equipment from the US military stockpile,” — Young wrote to political leaders of both parties.
«There is no magic source of funding that could satisfy this need. We've run out of money — and there’s almost no time,” — she said. 
- Why the Ukrainian counteroffensive did not go according to plan, Washington Post.
The article is based on interviews with more than 30 Ukrainian and American officials, as well as with more than 20 officers and soldiers on the front lines.
Ukrainian, American and British militaries played eight large board war games to develop a campaign plan.
The Pentagon wantedthe offensive began in mid-April to prevent Russia from strengthening its position.
Modeling has shown that, in the best case, Ukrainian troops will be able to reach the Sea of Azov and cut off Russian troops in the south in 60-90 days.
The United States favored a concentrated offensive along the southern axis, but Zaluzhny believed that his troops should attack at three different points along the 600-mile front: in the south (towards Melitopol and Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov) and in the east (towards Bakhmut ).
Zaluzhny planned to turn the huge length of the front into a problem for Russia. He wanted to stretch Russia's much larger forces and weaken their fighting power.
Western officials saw problems with this approach, which would also reduce the firepower of the Ukrainian armed forces at any point of attack.
Western military doctrine prescribed a concentrated offensive against a single target. But they didn’t put enough pressure and in the end did what Zaluzhny wanted. 
The planned start of the counteroffensive: On June 7, the 47th brigade will advance 14 kilometers to Robotin in 24 hours to liberate Melitopol and cut off Russian logistics.
Everything “didn’t go according to plan”: dense minefields, constant shelling, heavy losses of people and equipment.
The fourth day shocked and undermined morale: many burned Western Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and Leopard tanks, huge losses of personnel.
Zaluzhny gave the order to stop the attack in order to preserve the remaining weapons.
Massive mechanized offensive with artillery support (on the advice of American colleagues) Zaluzhny exchanged soldiers for small groups of 10 people, who would go on foot.
He decided that this method would save equipment and lives, although it would be slower.
Initially they wanted to reach the Sea of Azov in 2-3 months.
Instead of breaking through 14 km on the first day, over the entire 6 months since June, the Ukrainians advanced approximately 19 km and liberated several villages.
70% of the 47th brigade, which was supposed to launch a counteroffensive and was equipped with Western equipment, had no combat experience.
In 2023 alone, Ukraine returned only about 518 sq. km at the cost of thousands of losses and billions of dollars in aid.
- Head of the Polish security service: The countries of NATO's eastern flank have 3 years to prepare for a Russian attack
Estonia and other countries that make up NATO's eastern flank, as well as the alliance as a whole, have a three-year window during which to avoid war with Russia, according to the head of Poland's Bureau of National Security (BBN).
According to other expert estimates of European NATO member countries, the time frame ranges from five years to a decade.
Jacek Seviera, Minister of the Office of the President of Poland and head of BBN, asked for comment on a report by the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), which states that NATO has five to ten years to adequately prepare for a Russian invasion. attack said:
"Unfortunately, yes."
Siviera even called the German time frame "optimistic", citing US research as the basis for his claim. 
- It turns out that South Korea is the largest supplier of shells to Ukraine after the United States.
WaPo notes that Ukraine is experiencing a significant shortage of shells, and South Korea sent more shells to Kyiv in just 41 days than the entire European Union.
«Indirect» South Korea's supply of 155mm artillery shells to Ukraine this year has made it a larger supplier of ammunition to the war-ravaged country than all European countries combined.
South Korean law prohibits the supply of weapons to war zones, but US officials have tried to persuade Seoul to provide ammunition, estimating that about 330,000 155mm rounds could be transported by air and sea within 41 days from Korea. 
- The petition to mobilize people's deputies and officials received 25 thousand votes.
Its author – People's Deputy Dubinsky, who is now in a pre-trial detention center. Now the petition must be considered by President Zelensky. 
- Ukraine for the first time reached the level of 6 self-propelled guns "Bogdan" per month, – Zelensky.
They plan to increase their production further. In addition, we received missiles in short supplyadvanced air defense systems and modern anti-aircraft systems.
- Ukrainian counter-offensive: everything did not go according to plan, and Zaluzhny had to change tactics.
Analysis of the situation from the Washington Post:
▪️Ukrainian and Western militaries played eight large board war games to develop a campaign plan.
▪️ America favored a focused offensive along the southern axis, but Zaluzhny believed that his forces should attack at three different points along a 600-mile front.
▪️The Commander-in-Chief wanted to turn the huge length of the front into a problem for Russia. He planned to stretch out a much larger enemy force and weaken their combat power.
▪️Western officials saw problems with this approach, which would also reduce the firepower of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at any point of attack. The Allies dictated a concentrated attack on one target. But in the end they did as Zaluzhny wanted.
▪️Planned start of the counteroffensive: the 47th brigade advances 14 kilometers to Robotino in 24 hours on June 7 in order to sack Melitopol and cut off Russian logistics.
▪️Everything did not go according to plan: dense minefields, constant shelling, heavy losses of people and equipment.
▪️The 4th day shocked and undermined morale, many burnt Western Bradley infantry fighting vehicles were destroyed. and Leopard tanks, massive losses of personnel.
▪️In the end, Zaluzhny gave the order to stop the attack in order to preserve the rest of the weapons. Zaluzhny changed the mechanized offensive with artillery support to small groups of soldiers of 10 people who would go on foot. He decided that this method would save technology and life, although it would be slower.
▪️At first it was planned to reach the Sea of Azov in 2-3 months. Instead of breaking through 14 km on the first day, over the entire 6 months since June, the Ukrainian Armed Forces advanced approximately 19 km and liberated several villages.
▪️70% of the 47th brigade, which was supposed to launch a counteroffensive and equipped with Western equipment, had no combat experience.
▪️Ukraine returned only about 518 sq. km at the cost of thousands of losses and billions of dollars in benefits in 2023 alone. 
- Crimea has been attacked by a record number of drones since the end of summer, – rossmedia.
The Russian Ministry of Assassinations allegedly announced the downing of 41 Ukrainian UAVs. There is no information about arrivals yet. But some media outlets wrote about a possible hit at the Zaliv shipyard. in Kerch and a successful attack on an oil depot near Feodosia. 
- There will be no NATO for Ukraine, Blinken told Europeans to stop talking to Ukraine about the alliance, – People's Deputy Goncharenko with reference to sources.
▪️The topic of NATO irritates the US elite and they have clearly signaled that Ukraine will not become a member of the alliance immediately after the war. Our main strategy right now – EU.
▪️The Pentagon is not very happy about Zaluzhny’s article. There is some controversy over this.
▪️In 2024 they will not give money to Ukraine. Now this will probably be the last tranche of aid. Next we will move to a credit form of cooperation.
▪️Biden waited 50 years for his presidency. This is not a man of decisive action and powerful steps. His main slogan: do no harm. Therefore, there will be no breakthrough in the United States in relation to Ukraine.
▪️For the White House: Ukraine – resisted and is already good. Next, they will switch to the domestic track and during the elections will focus on the economy, health care and familiar topics for voters.
- Russian troops captured most of the ruins of Marinka – British intelligence.
Marinka has been on the front line since 2014. Before the war its population was 9,000 people. According to British intelligence, it is now completely destroyed. 
- USA target – Ukraine's victory in the war, it must regain its territory, – State Department
«Ukraine itself must decide how and when to negotiate on Russia. Therefore, we understand that no simple solution or settlement will mean that the front line will remain where it is today. The US doesn't think this is what it should be."
A very important message, especially against the background of various “insights” 😏
- Sausage products of the “Casademont” brand, despite the sanctions, are sold in grocery chains in Russia.
The investigation helped us find out that Casademont products are sold in Russia and, as we see, in our favorite supermarkets Novus, Megamarket and Auchan too.
Choose products from other Ukrainian and European brandsChinese brands that do not support the enemy 🤬 
- The Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Su-24M bomber near Zmeiny Island.
Under the cover of a Su-30SM fighter, he tried to launch a missile and bomb attack on the south of Odessa region.
Are you a Patriot? 
- Everyone who, since the beginning of the war, received the title of Hero of Ukraine or became a holder of the Order of the Golden Star receives their own housing – Zelensky.
According to him, 360 Ukrainians have already been awarded such awards since the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion.
- After women in Ulyanovsk refused to tear off stickers “Bring back your husband!” I'm crazy" from their cars, they were called for a preventative conversation.”
Two women were given a warning, citing an article about “discrediting the army.” They claim that the policeman who came to them was amazed that he was sent to the military spouses, and allegedly this was at the request of Ulyanovsk.
The security forces summoned at least four relatives of the military for questioning. 
- The Russian sex dating app no longer provides users from the Russian Federation with the opportunity to indicate their sexual orientation
Unlike users outside the Russian Federation, who can choose between “hetero”, “bi”, “gay”, “queer” or "asexual" in their profile, Russians in this application are now limited to search parameters such as height, age and languages spoken.
It is worth noting that the application was developed in Russia and is popular primarily in the CIS countries. 
- Bulgaria will not transfer 100 old armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, — The Bulgarian President vetoed it.
He noted that armored personnel carriers could be useful for his country in the context of countering natural disasters and ensuring border security, for example. 
- Brazil will offer Putin participation in the G20 summit, but does not guarantee that he will not be arrested there
Brazilian President Lula da Silva emphasized that the country, having signed the International Criminal Court Convention, is responsible for its compliance. 
- It was restless in Crimea tonight: the peninsula was attacked by a record number of UAVs since the end of summer
Some media outlets report that the Zaliv shipyard was hit. in Kerch and a successful attack on an oil depot near Feodosia. 
- Oh, what happened? 
- We don’t abandon our own, but finish off 
- This evening, during a combat mission over the Black Sea near Zmeiny Island, a Su-24M bomber of the Russian Aerospace Forces, operating under the cover of a Su-30SM fighter, was shot down.
Ukraine claims that the Su-24M was shot down from the American MIM-104 Patriot air defense system located near Odessa. 
- Still, Russia has come a long way. From the lack of sex in the USSR to late Putin's Russia, in which communist attributes are actively used in sexual games. And the ropes are no longer needed. The main thing — Do not tighten the Pioneer tie too tightly. 
- Pocket propaganda book from the Russian Orthodox Church 
Good thing. Let's continue, "He was called up under the contract - he remained in the package."
- State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev proposed banning Russian IT specialists from working with Russian companies from abroad in order to encourage their return to Russia 
- Director Alexander Sokurov announced that he ended his professional career due to censorship
Director Alexander Sokurov announced that he has completed his professional career. According to him, he is not working on new projects because he is prohibited from making films in Russia. In October, the Ministry of Culture did not issue a distribution certificate for his film “Fairy Tale”. The director's words are quoted by RBC.
Well, where should I go now? What should I do? I — Russian person, I have a Russian passport. Why should I realize my business abroad? Why should I leave and not them? 
- Oh no... 
- A short excursion into history 
- In 1917, Russia began to disintegrate. The Bolsheviks saved Russia by filling it with tens of millions of corpses. Their grandchildren still lead the empire, which is becoming a demographic midget under the Bolshevik wise leadership. But the problems are still the same as a hundred years ago. 
- The “Government” predicted the appearance of 70 thousand disabled amputees in the Russian Federation per year 
Russian authorities are preparing for a sharp increase in demand for prosthetics to replace amputated limbs. This follows from the amendment of the Ministry of Labor to the law on social protection of persons with disabilities, which was reviewed by the Baza telegram channel. “The projected need for prosthetics in the coming period is estimated at at least 60–70 thousand products per year, taking into account new regions,” — states the explanatory note to the bill.
It's time to lay the curbs. 
- Vision test 
- Brazil will invite Putin to the G20 summit, but refused to give guarantees that he will not be arrested there
Brazilian President Lula da Silva recalled that Brazil has signed the International Criminal Court convention and is responsible for its compliance.
What are your forecasts? 
- Ingenious "multi-move" 
- How ironic 
In Russia there are no political repressions and no political prisoners! Disagreeing with the authorities is a criminal offense, but not a political article…
- Invest in Russia and beyond 
- North and South Korea from space 
- Russian Rainbow
Street artist Philippenzo presented his new work — "Russian Rainbow". On canvas — six longitudinal stripes, like the LGBT flag. But the painting's colors refer to the Russian flag.
According to the artist, initially he wanted to call this work “Faggot Flag” (The editors do not support such language and consider it offensive. — Editor’s note)
«In the context of how the Russian authorities declared LGBT people extremists. To put it in Russian, fagots banned gays. But then I thought that, ve“Probably, the public is not yet ready for such a naming, and I may be misunderstood, so this wonderful picture has a new name.”
In a conversation with “New-Europe” Philippenzo admitted that, as in the case of other paintings, the idea for this work suddenly dawned on him. “I don’t set a task: I need to draw on such and such a topic, but I only relay the images that appear in my head. It's like automatic updates, you wake up in the morning and it's already downloaded. The rest — It's a matter of technique, I just need to draw beautifully.
“As for the ban itself, the regime, having chosen its most unprotected internal enemy, exposed its phenomenal weakness,” —
said the artist. 
- In 2003, the Tatu group as an LGBT couple, she performed in T-shirts with the slogan “Fuck the war!” 20 years later, singer Shaman performs as a Nazi — and the battle cry “I am Russian!” calls on Russians to participate in a war of conquest. So in 20 years the country has slipped from freedom into fascism (@yoshkinkrot) 
- We demand!! 
- Difference in worldview 
