Ukraine expects to hold a peace summit with UN mediation. The Ukrainian government expects to hold a Peace Formula summit by the end of February, preferably at the UN, with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as a possible mediator. The Minister of Foreign Af... #AntonioGuterres #DmytroKuleba #PeaceSummit
Ukrainian forces will enter Crimea with weapons in hand. Ukraine expects no significant changes along the front line soon, even after Russia’s recent mobilization, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said in an interview with Liga.net. “Rus... #DeocupationOfUkraine #KyryloBudanov #liberationofUkraine
Ukrainian drones attacked a Russian military airfield deep inside enemy territory. Three Russian soldiers were killed on December 26 after a Ukrainian drone attack at the military airfield in Saratov Oblast, according to Russian state news agencies. The incident occurred in the west... #DroneAttacksOnRussia #RussianMilitaryAirbasesAttacks
Putin is ready to negotiate with everyone involved regarding Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is prepared to “negotiate with everyone involved in this process about acceptable solutions” regarding the war in Ukraine, according to the Russian state news... #MykhailoPodolyak #Putin #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
Russia will supply Iran with Su-35 fighter jets, despite Israel’s warning about providing weapons to Ukraine in response to such a move. Russia will soon supply Iran with advanced Su-35 fighter jets. According to Western intelligence, the 24 fighter jets were originally intended for Egypt. The Americans talked Cairo out of the deal, an... #FighterJetsToIran #RussianFighterJets #Su-35
The war decreased the flow of foreigners to Ukraine by nearly 50%. About 2 million foreign citizens entered Ukraine in 11 months of 2022, which is half as much as in the same period last year, said the head of the State Tourism Development Agency, Maryana Oleskiv. A... #foreignersInUkraine #MaryanaOleskiv #UkraineTourism
The US’ provision of Patriot missile systems is another strategic loss for Russia. US President Joe Biden announced a new military aid package to Ukraine totaling almost $2B. The strongest element is the Patriot anti-aircraft missile complex, which will significantly strengthen Ukra... #JoeBiden #PatriotSystems #USmilitaryairforUkraine #Zelenskyy
With nuclear blackmail, the Russian Federation is trying to appease its population and intimidate the Western audience. According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), President Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu’s comments about increased nuclear readiness are most likely aimed at appeasing domestic nationalist ... #NuclearBlackmail #RussianNuclearweapon #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
The US Ministry of Defense announced the composition of the new military aid package to Ukraine. It will include one Patriot air defense battery and its ammunition, additional ammunition for HIMARS, 500 Excalibur rounds, HARM missiles, high-precision aviation ammunition, Claymore anti-personnel a... #PatriotSystems #USmilitaryairforUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukrainian military personnel completed their training in the Czech Republic. At the Libava training ground in the Czech Republic, the first group of Ukrainian servicemen completed their training as part of the European Union EUMAM mission. According to the commander of the gr... #EUMAM #RomanNahonchyk #trainingforUAF
A New aid package from the US includes the Patriot air defense system for Ukraine. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced an additional $1.85B in security assistance for Ukraine before President Zelenskyy’s arrival in the White House. The new aid package will include t... #AnthonyBlinken #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PatriotSystems #USmilitaryAid
Zelenskyy’s visit to Bakhmut thwarted Putin’s plan to present himself as a leader. President Zelenskyy’s visit to the front-line city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region on the 300th day of the war has undermined the Russian president as a leader involved in the war, according to the I... #WagnerGroup #YevgenyPrigozhin #ZelenskyyInBakhmut
The aggressor continues to destroy Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and divert resources from the Far East. As the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine clarified, the enemy is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv areas. It is trying to improve the tacti... #DamageinUkraine #RussianTroops #WarinUkraine
President Zelenskyy visits the most contested front line in Bakhmut. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a surprise visit to Bakhmut, a city hailed by his deputy defense minister as an eastern fortress amid heavy fighting over the last several months. The visi... #WarinUkraine #ZelenskyyInBakhmut
The Lend-Lease program for Ukraine has not started yet. The US currently transfers military aid to Ukraine under various programs and has not used the Lend-Lease act to provide assistance to the Ukrainian budget, said a spokesman from the Ministry of Forei... #LendLease #OlegNikolenko #USmilitaryairforUkraine
The Prime Minister of Britain calls for others to ignore Russian ceasefire calls. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak urged others to ignore any calls from Moscow for a ceasefire until it withdraws from the occupied territories in Ukraine, reported Sky News. Sunak addressed the lea... #RishiSunak #WarinUkraine #Zelenskyy
The UN Secretary-General is not optimistic about negotiations with Russia. UN Secretary-General António Guterres is not optimistic about effective peace talks regarding Russia’s war against Ukraine in the near future and believes that the military confrontation will co... #AntonioGuterres #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
During the last massive attack Friday, Russia used every type of weapon except for drones. On December 16, the enemy did not launch any Shahed-136 drones into Ukrainian territory, but it employed every other type of weapon, said Yurii Hnat, ae spokesman from Ukraine’s Air Force. Hnat explai... #MissileAttackOnUkraine #WarinUkraine
The Pentagon will increase military aid and stockpile weapons for Ukraine. US President Joe Biden said that his country will continue to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs to fight Russia “as long as necessary”. The Pentagon is using a series of shortened c... #JoeBiden #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PentagonAid #USweaponsforUkraine
Russia is losing in Ukraine and will continue to fail in all its war aims. The head of the UK’s armed forces has stated that Russia is losing in Ukraine, offering a blunt assessment of the state of the war as Moscow’s unprovoked invasion creeps toward its 10-mont... #RussianlossesWar #TonyRadakin #WarinUkraine
Putin is preparing to undertake a major offensive in January. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov stated that Vladimir Putin is preparing for a major new offensive in the new year, despite a series of humiliating battlefield setbacks for Russia in recen... #OleksiyReznikov #ValeryZaluzhny #WarinUkraine
Britain allows the transfer of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine. The UK has not ruled out the possibility of transferring Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, said the British Ministry of Defense, Ben Wallace, in an interview with Times Radio. “I’m... #BenWallace #BritainAidforUkraine #MilitaryAidforUkraine #PatriotSystems #StormShadow
The US will supply Ukraine with equipment to create smart bombs. The Biden administration plans to provide Ukraine with modern electronic equipment to turn unguided aerial munitions into smart bombs, writes the Washington Post. The equipment necessary for productio... #JoeBiden #SmartBombs #USmilitaryairforUkraine
Germany is building its own munitions factory, which Ukraine needs. The German company Rheinmetall is building a new plant to produce medium-caliber ammunition (20-35 mm). Rheinmetall said the focus is to restore Germany’s ammunition supply and establish its ind... #GermanyMunitionsFactory #MediumCaliberShells #Rheinmetall
Russia is firing missiles that Ukraine produced in the 1990s. According to the ISW, the Russian invaders are striking Ukraine with rockets transferred from Ukraine to the Russian Federation in the 1990s as part of an international agreement that Russia violated ... #BudapestMemorandum #WarinUkraine
Negotiations with Russia to end the war should be left to the Ukrainian President. US National Security Council Special Coordinator for Communications John Kirby told CNN Wednesday that any discussions on whether it’s time to negotiate with Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine ... #JohnKirby #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
Most Ukrainians support the de-occupation of all Ukrainian territories, and 5% support the continuation of the war in Russian territory. The confidence of Ukrainians that victory in the war means the liberation of all state territories, including the occupied Crimea and Donbas, increased from 74% in March to 85% in November, according ... #liberationofUkraine #UkraineAccessionToNATO #WarinUkraine
The Russians are strengthening their defenses near the Kharkiv and Luhansk regions. Russian forces continue to build up and consolidate their forces in eastern Ukraine to bolster their defensive capabilities against prolonged Ukrainian counteroffensives near the border of the Kharki... #ISW #RussianTroops #WagnerGroup #WarinUkraine
The Prime Minister of Ukraine announces the list of the most critical weapons. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, “Ukraine needs an anti-missile, anti-aircraft defense Patriot system, such as the IRIS-T system that our country received from Germany and the Crotale syste... #DenysShmyhal #NATO-standardTanks #PatriotSystems #WeaponsforUkraine
Ukraine calls on the EU to increase military support. Ukraine needs more weapons and ammunition to win the war and achieve a just peace, said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during an online speech at the Council of Foreign Ministers of the EU. ... #DmytroKuleba #EuropeanPeaceFund #WeaponsforUkraine
The EU Council has increased the fund that helps Ukraine with weapons by €2B. On December 12, the EU Council approved a decision to increase funding for the European Peace Fund in 2023 by €2B, announcing the European Council’s website. There is still the possibility that ... #EuropeanPeaceFund #JosepBorrell #WeaponsforUkraine
German concern KMW will repair heavy military equipment for Ukraine. Ukraine’s allies will repair worn out and war-damaged large-caliber equipment. According to an intergovernmental agreement between Germany and Slovakia, a special center was created in Slovakian... #KMWgermany #MilitaryEquipmentRepair
Slovakia announced its readiness to provide Ukraine with MiG-29 fighters. Slovakia is ready but has not yet sent MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine; this issue was discussed in detail with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of th... #MiG-29forUkraine #MilitaryAidforUkraine #SlovakiaAidforUkraine
It is unlikely that Belarus will participate in the war against Ukraine. Even though the Russian Federation constantly conducts information operations indicating that Belarusian troops may join the Russian invasion of Ukraine, such a development is unlikely, said analysts ... #BelarusandWarinUkraine #WarinUkraine
The Pentagon does not object to Kyiv striking military targets inside Russian Federation territory. The US Department of Defense has become less concerned about the possibility of an escalation in the Russian-Ukrainian war and has given Ukraine the green light to strike targets in Russian Federation... #DroneAttacksOnRussia #Pentagon #RussianMilitaryTargets #WarinUkraine
The US provides another $275M in military aid to Ukraine. US President Joe Biden has ordered the allocation of $275M in military assistance to Ukraine, the White House reports. These funds are earmarked for defense products and services from the Ministry of ... #HimarsForUkraine #JoeBiden #JohnKirby #USmilitaryAid
Ukroboronprom is developing a kamikaze drone with the option to return. State concern Ukroboronprom is developing a kamikaze drone with the possibility to return to its launch site, said Oleg Boldyrev, project head for Ukroboronprom. According to Boldyrev, the drone has a... #OlegBoldyrev #UkrainianDrone #ukroboronprom
The government has simplified the import of equipment for the army. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine exempted several military and dual-use goods from state export control during martial law. “We are talking about goods our soldiers need at the frontline or represe... #ArmyEquipmentImport #MilitaryGoods #YuliyaSvyridenko
Russian forces tried to break through Ukrainian lines in all regions but had no success. Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian troops repelled Russian attacks near 15 settlements in the eastern Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv regions over the past day. According to its statement, Ru... #RussianForces #WarinUkraine
NATO funds from multiple countries may provide Ukraine with $3.4B intended for Afghanistan. Ukraine may receive additional funds as a result of the redistribution of the fund created by NATO countries to support the Afghan army. As Politico writes, NATO countries are ready to consider redist... #AfghanArmy #NATOandUkraine #NATOsupportUkraine
Russia continues sabotaging the world with its Zaporizhzhia NPP occupation. Russian troops have placed several Grad rocket launchers near power unit number six of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, near the plant’s dry storage of spent nuclear fuel, Ukraine’s nucl... #DmytroKuleba #Energoatom #IAEA #zaporizhzhiaNPP
The US Senate has supported a resolution recognizing the Russian Federation’s actions in Ukraine as genocide. The US Senate Committee on International Relations adopted a resolution recognizing the Russians’ actions in Ukraine as genocide, the US Senate reported. “Crimes committed against the Ukra... #BenCardin #UkraineGenocide #USsenate #WarinUkraine
NATO sees no prospects for negotiation or relationship with Russia any time soon. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said the conditions are currently not ripe for peace negotiations because Russia has shown no sign of engaging in negotiations respecting Ukraine’s sovereignty and te... #JensStoltenberg #NATOandRussia #RussianUkrainianNegotiations #WarinUkraine
Russian drones were used to attack Ukrainian territory overnight due to a shortage of missiles. Russia launched 14 Iran-made kamikaze drones from the southeast in an overnight attack on Ukraine following a three-week break, according to Ukraine’s Air Force. Ukraine’s air-defense troops shot dow... #AndriyErmak #DroneAttackOnUkraine #IranianDrones #WarinUkraine
Strikes on Russian airfields demonstrate Ukraine’s ability to attack the enemy’s rear. Ukrainian forces most probably carried out the strikes on Engels-2 air bases in the Saratov region and Diaghilev in the Ryazan region, demonstrating Ukraine’s ability to strike Russian military ... #MilitaryOperationsUkraine #RussianMilitaryAirbasesAttacks #WarinUkraine
Ukrainian intelligence announces the shortage of high-precision missiles in Russia. The stockpile of high-precision missile weapons in Russia is running out, said the head of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov. “They reached a critical minimum a ... #KyryloBudanov #MissilesProductionRussia #RussianMissiles
Russia has claimed that Ukraine launched drone attacks against two Russian military airbases. The Russian Defense Ministry said Ukraine used drones to attack two Russian military airfields on Monday morning. “On December 5, Ukraine disabled two long-range Russian aircraft. It attempted to str... #DroneAttacksOnRussia #RussianBombersDamages #RussianMilitaryAirbasesAttacks #WarinUkraine
On Monday, Ukraine downed more than 60 of 70 Russian missiles. Ukraine used military aviation, air defense systems, and mobile units to counter the attack shooting down 38 cruise missiles launched from strategic bombers inside Russian territory and 22 Kalibr miss... #MissileAttackOnUkraine #UkraineENergySystem #WarinUkraine
Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy system, and one of the missiles landed in Moldova. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that the rocket’s fall in Moldovan territory again proves that Russian missile terror poses a substantial threat to the security of both Ukraine and neighbori... #MissileAttackOnUkraine #RussianRocketInMoldova #WarinUkraine
The dynamics of Ukraine’s operational success depend on conducting military operations in winter. Ukraine’s ability to maintain the military initiative on the battlefield and the dynamics of operational success depends on whether the Ukrainian army continues to conduct military operations in... #MilitaryOperationsUkraine #UkraineCounteroffensive #WarinUkraine
