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❗️The US Congress did not agree on $61 billion in aid to Ukraine and went on winter break.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has decided not to extend the work of both houses of Congress by a week.

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Ukrainian channel Strana:

The Kyiv region was attacked with missiles, OVA reports.

There is no information about casualties or damage.

At the same time, Air Force Speaker Ignat said that the consequences of the Daggers’ arrivals would not be reported.

“Let the enemy draw his own conclusions about where he hit or didn’t hit. Let’s not feed him information,” Ignat said.

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Via Boris "Colonel Cassad" Rozhin:

Brief information summary on the situation on the Left Bank of the Dnieper from @Dnepro_Rub

Over the past 24 hours, the enemy has not taken any active actions. Efforts were concentrated on the transfer of personnel, but the routes of the boats were exposed, and therefore the transfer of troops became less intense: over the past 24 hours, 6 boats crossed the river. Due to the danger of the crossing and the situation on the Left Bank, Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel continue to refuse to carry out combat missions. The enemy is also experiencing difficulties with evacuation; during the day, one boat evacuated (up to 6 wounded). Cases of failure of weapons and equipment have become more frequent.

Enemy losses : 46 people, 2 boats, 2 observation posts, 9 attack UAVs.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban on Ukraine’s accession to the EU:
“There were seven preconditions, Ukraine did not fulfill three of them. Now there is no point in discussing the start of negotiations with Ukraine on joining the community.”

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Washington Post:

PARIS — An unspoken, unspeakable potential endgame in the Russia-Ukraine war is suddenly being uttered out loud: Kyiv is at risk of losing — and suffering unimaginable carnage and consequences.

-In fact, Putin’s main advantage is strategic patience — the capacity to wait out what he is confident is finite Western political will and resources to sustain Ukraine, buttressed by his indifference to Russia’s staggering casualties. In the end, he believes, Ukraine will be forced to capitulate.
If he is right, the timetable of that ending would be accelerated if Congress and the E.U. fail to approve fresh support. That would leave Ukraine’s government unable to maintain basic services, and its military increasingly short of artillery ammunition, air defense capability and other equipment. Ukraine’s already badly battered front-line forces would become more brittle.

-That grim scenario would be a staggering blow to Western prestige and credibility, revealing that pledges to back Ukraine for “as long as it takes” were empty.
A failure on that scale — let alone actual defeat in Ukraine — would have much more lasting repercussions than Kyiv’s inability to break through Russian battle lines. It could raise the curtain on a new era of aggression by authoritarian states, unchecked by the world’s diminished democracies.

Zin Note: Blah blah blah, Western prestige, blah blah blah, democracy, blah blah blah authoritarianism...

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Can anyone explain this "Western prestige" that I keep hearing about?

It's been reported that the X-59s want a turn.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian fighters stormed a stronghold of Ukrainian militants in the Zaporozhye direction

The paratroopers entered a forest plantation where a unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was located. The assault group suppressed enemy resistance with dense small arms fire.

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"We established ourselves along the forest belt in the direction east of Bogdanovka."

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should be around here then

Svetlana Loboda changed her mind about giving up the Russian language - because "the Russian-speaking audience is very large": It is not the Russian language that kills Ukrainian children and Ukrainian people. Most of Ukraine speaks Russian. The Russian language does not belong to the Russian authorities. If only the Russian authorities spoke Russian, we would categorically not speak the language. But millions of people around the world speak Russian. That's the way it happened. I will continue to write songs in Ukrainian and Russian for the Russian-speaking audience, because it's big.

Note: it's not time to change shoes, aaahhhh!!! Changing slippers in a jump-we'll remember that.

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Panorama of today's Bakhmut (Artemovsk). The city is under the control of the Russian army.


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Ukrainian channel Strana:

The Russians have regained control of the waste heap near Gorlovka, the capture of which was recently announced by Vladimir Zelensky.

The Ukrainian military public page Deep State writes about this.

The Telegram channel verified a video with a Ukrainian flag removed from the waste heap of the Gagarin mine.

According to Deep State analysts, after the Ukrainian raid on the waste heap, which the president announced, the Russians will now strengthen the defense there, and it will become more difficult to break through to this height.

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Lt.Col. Oleg Shalandin on International law. War crimes. Part 1 of 3

Our armed forces, as you know, conduct a special military operation. Media sometimes use the wording that AFU “committed a war crime”, and this applies to the launches of ballistic missiles, and to artillery fire, and to the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

And what is a “war crime”? Let's figure it out.
A war crime is a serious violation of the norm of international humanitarian law during an armed conflict, and international law (yes, it exists!) establishes individual criminal liability for such deeds.
To ensure that the persons responsible for war crimes are unable to evade judicial persecution and punishment based on internal legal norms regarding the statute of limitations against ordinary crimes, the Convention on the inconsistency of the statute of limitations and crimes against humanity was adopted in 1968.
Four Geneva Conventions were adopted on the protection of war victims in 1949, each of the documents contained a list of the so-called “serious violations” - criminal acts directed against the fundamental rights of persons related to the relevant categories of patronized persons (wounded, sick, medical and spiritual staff, persons who suffered a shipwreck, prisoners of war, civilians.
Two additional protocols for the Geneva Conventions were adopted in 1977, the first of which expanded the list of “serious violations” to be criminalized in international armed conflicts, the second in armed conflicts of a non-national nature.
The Roman Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was adopted in 1998, designed to administer justice against persons who committed crimes against humanity, aggression, genocide and war crimes. In accordance with Art. 9 The “elements of crimes” are attached to this statute, which should help the court in the interpretation and application of substantive law.
There is no generally accepted classification of war crimes in the international legal doctrine.
In Art. 8 of ICC Statute Military Crimes are located taking into account the context of the armed conflict:
• serious violations of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949;
• other serious violations of laws and customs applicable in international armed conflicts;
• serious violations of Article 3, common for the four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, in the case of an armed conflict of a non-national nature;
• Other serious violations of laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts of a non -international nature.

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Lt.Col. Oleg Shalandin on International law. War crimes. Part 2 of 3

Military crimes can be qualified on the objective side, distinguishing relations, regulated by Geneva Law (protection of property and property protection) and relations regulated by Hague law (the application of prohibited means and methods of conducting military operations), depending on the additional object of criminal encroachment). Military crimes are conditionally divided into the following groups:
1. Military crimes against persons
Military crimes are recognized only by acts that harm persons who are under protection in accordance with international humanitarian law.
2. War crimes against property and other protected rights.
Five provisions of the ICC Statute specifically criminalize the expropriation or destruction of property. In accordance with Art. 8(2)(a)(iv) of the ICC Statute, “unlawful, wanton and large-scale destruction and appropriation of property not justified by military necessity” and committed in the context of an international armed conflict entails criminal liability.
Art. 8(2)(b)(xiii) of the ICC Statute criminalizes – also in the context of international armed conflicts – “the destruction or seizure of property of the enemy, unless such destruction or seizure is strictly dictated by military necessity.” Art. 8(2)(b)(xvi) of the ICC Statute criminalizes the looting of cities or towns in international armed conflicts.
3. War crimes related to the use of prohibited methods of warfare.
Methods of warfare are the order, tactics and methods of using weapons to suppress the enemy's forces and his ability to resist. The first group of war crimes associated with the use of prohibited methods of warfare consists of deliberate attacks on non-military targets. Articles 8(2)(b)(i), (ii), (ix) and (xxiv), and Articles 8(2)(e)(i), (ii) and (iv) of the ICC Statute establish responsibility for direct attacks on civilians, civilian objects and other similar targets. A special case of attacks on non-military targets are attacks on unprotected populated areas. Art. 8(2)(b)(iv) of the ICC Statute criminalizes causing disproportionate collateral damage.
Additional Protocol I, Art. 37 prohibits the "treacherous" killing or wounding of persons belonging to an enemy nation or army. Perfidy refers to the abuse of trust obtained fraudulently through the commission of a specific act contrary to international law. According to Art. 8 (2) (b) (xi) of the ICC Statute, such actions in the context of an international armed conflict constitute a war crime.
Declaring that there will be no quarter or threatening to give such an order is also a “classic” war crime under Article 8(2)(b)(xii) of the ICC Statute.
Art. 8 (2) (b) (xxiii) and art. 8(2)(b)(xxv) of the ICC Statute criminalize, respectively, the use of human shields and the commission of acts that expose civilians to starvation—that is, methods of warfare that primarily affect non-combatants.

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