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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚔️ Front #Summary for 16 Dec 2023 by 18:54⚡️

🔹In #Kherson Direction, the AFU's attempts to expand its zone of control and the Russian army's desire to levelling these attempts are unchanged. Already the overseas New York Times recognises that holding the foothold in #Krynki is a "suicide mission". Nevertheless, part of #Krynki will also remain behind the enemy. From there, the AFU are trying to attack our positions in the forest from the ruins of the village. In #Tyaginka ours struck an ammunition depot, and hit nine boats on the #Dnieper.

🔹In #Zaporozhye Direction, our forces took new positions to the north of #Verbovoye. Combat work to regain the positions abandoned in the summer is methodically continuing. From the field, they report on the powerful work of artillery on the retreating AFU forces and their serious losses. Unfortunately, there are also significant losses in the ranks of our army.

🔹In #SouthDonetsk Direction, our units are advancing in #Novomikhaylovka. We have gained a foothold on the northeastern outskirts and reached the warehouses in the south. Thus, the village is semi-encircled. Fighting continues on the approaches. Our forces have not entered the village itself yet. The density of mines and positions of the AFU complicate the assault. Over the past few days, we have managed to make significant progress near #Pobeda and partially bypass the so called "Menagerie", a powerful fortified area of the AFU on the territory of a former animal farm. The cleansing of #Maryinka is nearing completion.

🔹In #Donetsk Direction, at the #Avdeyevka front, fighting continues in #Stepovoye, a part of our forces are bypassing the village from the north towards #Ocheretino. There are advances at the Coke Plant, we are waiting for news from the stormtroopers. On the southern flank, our troops continue to advance along Yasinovatsky Lane, connecting the Industrial Zone and the southern outskirts of #Avdeyevka. There were reports that our army hit a AFU officers' base in the #Avdeyevka direction with a Tornado-S MLRS missile with a range of 120 km.

🔹In #Bakhmut Direction, our units are advancing northwest of #Kleshcheyevka. The AFU are holding their positions firmly. Fierce fighting continues here, as well as west of the city and near #Bogdanovka. Our army is dealing massive blows to the positions of the AFU in Chasov Yar.

🔹In #Svatovo Direction, fighting continues in #Sinkovka. Powerful attacks of our army are reported from the field. Fighting continues in the #Serebryanskoye forest. At #Terny and #Kislovka, our forces are attacking, but so far without advances.

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Shrine/mausoleum of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi, the founder of the Turkic branch of Sufism.
Built over his burial place - he died in 1166 - by the orders of badass Timur, in the early 15th century.

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🇺🇦😭 Nobody wants to talk about Ukraine anymore.

The Spectator admits that no one cares about Ukraine anymore and that by continuing to provide weapons and financial support, the West is killing it.

“At the moment, few topics cause more rejection than Ukraine. I sensed in our collective turn to the Middle East this fall a strange undertone of joy that we could now immerse ourselves in a different story. Ukraine suddenly seemed like yesterday's news of the second plan.”

🔻At the beginning, the story was filled with exciting dramatic events. But Ukraine's counteroffensive last summer was simply a failure. For several months in a row, every centimeter of liberated territory was gained at the cost of enormous losses. The battle lines have hardly budged for several months, and now the visual picture of the conflict resembles the meat grinder of the Western Front of the First World War;

🔻The average age of the Ukrainian army is now 43 years. The young men are running out, not because they don't want to serve, but because they are dead. Ukrainian women are sent to the front line. The Russian public did not rebel. Russian GDP has grown since last year. The ruble began to rise against the dollar. Western sanctions have failed;

🔻No matter how much ammunition the US and NATO deliver to Zelensky, we will not provide him with soldiers. I say this with a heavy heart: if a negotiated settlement ceding captured territory to Putin looks inevitable, perhaps it is time to call on the Zelensky government to begin negotiations to bring this dismal war to its depressing conclusion. Prolonging the protracted stalemate only leads to an increase in the number of victims and the pointless destruction of Ukrainian homes and infrastructure;

🔻Sitting back and giving weapons so that they continue to fight until the last Ukrainian, only for the country to end up where we always knew it would end up, is not just immoral, it is murder.

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Ukrainians are showing an increasing inclination towards territorial concessions to Russia

Monthly polls reveal a growing number of people expressing a willingness to end the conflict through territorial concessions in favor of the Russian Federation, according to Bloomberg.

The latest survey indicates that 19% of respondents are now willing to make concessions. In November, this figure was 14%, and in May, only 10% supported it.

The article in the American edition notes that while the majority of Ukrainians still oppose peace in favor of the Russian Federation, the rising number of those in agreement suggests a deep crisis within the country.

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🇺🇦💀The Ukrainian military called the counter-offensive on the Dnieper suicide - The New York Times.

“It’s impossible to gain a foothold there [the left bank of the Dnieper]. It’s impossible to move equipment there,” the newspaper reports the words of one of the Ukrainian fighters named Alexey. “This is not even a fight for survival. This mission is suicide.”

The military also denied statements by Ukrainian officials that the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to gain a foothold on the left bank of the Dnieper and create several strongholds. The fighters called this information exaggerated.

The reasons for the numerous losses in the area of ​​the village of Krynki, according to the soldiers, are poor training and logistics of the Ukrainian military.

According to The New York Times, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not yet commented on the accusations of military personnel.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: Decembe 16 (Recap)

1️⃣ Israel says it arrested 90 people at the besieged Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza where witnesses say people were crushed by Israeli bulldozers.

2️⃣ A senior Hamas official says more than 8,000 people are missing under the rubble from Israel’s bombardment.

3️⃣ Netanyahu appears to confirm captive release talks have resumed as the Israeli army admits it killed 3 Israeli captives in Gaza.

4️⃣ A Houthi spokesperson says the Yemen-based group is in Oman-mediated talks over its Red Sea “operations”.

5️⃣ Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin is headed to the Middle East including for talks with Bahrain on response to “aggression at sea that threatens shipping and the global economy”.

6️⃣ French official dies after Israeli bombing in Rafah.

At least 18,787 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7. In Israel, the revised official death toll stands at about 1,147.

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