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On December 24, Kiev’s forces carried out another massive strike on civilian targets in the Russian city of Donetsk. The Republican trauma center became one of the main targets of the strike. Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine inflicted a series of strikes on the Kalinin hospital.
Kiev’s forces have been systematically shelling civilian targets in DPR and LPR. In the second half of December, the Kiev regime even intensified these terrorist acts as a kind of ‘response’ to the dare situation in which Kiev’s forces have found themselves in the areas of Bahmut and Soledar.
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In recent weeks, Russian forces have achieved a series of tactical breakthroughs in these areas, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces still show a fierce resistance despite heavy casualties that they suffer there. Pro-Kiev sources report the intensification of the work of Russian artillery in these directions.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters were shot down near the settlements of Selidovo and Gruzskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic). Moreover, a SU-27 warplane of the Ukrainian Air Force was shot down by the Russian Aerospace Forces near the village of Kamyshevka.
Over the past weeks, the Russian advance in the region of Donbass has no resulted in any significant gains. However, the situation on the frontline demonstrates advantage of the Russian side and the Kiev regime has been suffering large losses in manpower and military equipment.
A statement of the Russian Defense Ministry on the military situation on December 24:
The Russian Federation Armed Forces continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, artillery strikes hit the manpower and military equipment of units of the 14th AFU Mechanised Brigade near Petropavlovka and the 92nd AFU Mechanised Brigade near Krakhmalnoye in Kharkov region. Up to 50 Ukrainian personnel, four armoured fighting vehicles, and two pickups were eliminated.
In Krasny Liman direction, Russian air strikes and artillery fire on positions of units of the 111th Territorial Defence Brigade close to Torskoye and the 25th AFU Airborne Brigade close to Terny (Donetsk People’s Republic) destroyed over 40 Ukrainian servicemen, three armoured fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In Donetsk direction, the Russian troops destroyed a combined tactical group of foreign mercenaries and defeated units of the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Razdolovka (Donetsk People’s Republic). The enemy lost up to 60 Ukrainian military and mercenaries, four armoured personnel carriers, and three pickups.
In the South Donetsk direction, more than 40 Ukrainian personnel, four armoured fighting vehicles, and six motor vehicles were annihilated as a result of air and artillery strikes against a concentration of units of the 92nd AFU Mechanised Brigade close to Vodyanoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian force grouping hit: the command post of the 65th AFU Mechanised Brigade near Lezhino and a depot of rocket and artillery weapons close to Novoselovka (Zaporozhye region), as well as 53 artillery units, manpower and military hardware in 92 areas.
Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces has shot down 1 Su-27 airplane of Ukrainian Air Force near Kamyshevka (Donetsk People’s Republic). In addition, Ukrainian Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters were shot down near the settlements of Selidovo and Gruzskoye (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Air defence facilities have shot down 1 Mi-8 helicopter of Ukrainian Air Force near Kirovo (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Fifteen Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been also intercepted during the day in the areas of Yegorovka, Yelenovka, Kirillovka, Volodino, Artemovsk, and Olginka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Kolomyichikha (Lugansk People’s Republic), Novaya Zburyevka (Kherson region), and Pologi (Zaporozhye region).
In total, 352 airplanes and 192 helicopters, 2,719 unmanned aerial vehicles, 399 air defence missile systems, 7,222 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 936 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,704 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 7,737 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Zelensky and his friends will be captured is will be tried for war crimes.
Doubt it, Zelensky will be longone living a life of luxury. Ukraine would be better of loosing and let Russia anex it, thus wiping billions of debt
Typical comment. If there are no news You talk people down. Thats how the Russian heroes are made. Lie makes medals too.
Leaning on the bottle today?
Sure. Yesterday it was about womens clothe in Washington.
I want the Taliban to go to war against the US again I want more US soldiers dead
You have to wait. US soldiers lives longer then the Russian ones.
I want Massoud back.
Not on CNN
You all should be killed. Right now it seemes the only way the rest of us can get some peace.
Too big mouths cant cover there are no brains behind them
Next time Kiev Forces strike and kill civilians in Donetsk, Russia will mobilize and storm Donbass to defend our Slavic brothers in Donetsk, if Ukraine do it again.
If Kiev forces do it again, Russia will retaliate with a new modernised Kinzhal missile to test if this missile works, if Kiev forces kill more civilians in Donetsk again..
I suspect if they could do what you suggest they do, they would have already done it.
Russia sat outside Kiev for a month and left. Ukraine couldn’t repel them or do f all except loose kherson and Mariupol. Oh and the NPP
I want the Taliban to go to war against the US again I want more US soldiers dead
Send them a mail.
He is just mimicing your behaviour Mister Cheerleader of Bandera.
Banderas just revenged what the Poles did to West Ukraine after WW1, where the Pilutsky lovers also defetaed the Red Army and made Stalin make a fortress zone all the way from Murmans to Odessa.
banderas by the way was prison by Gestapo as well.
Bandera was nazi. Pilsudski was centrist.
Thats right. His comment might be true but also very infected. This is no one way only no matter what.
Rustica for very good reasons has a lot of troops in Donetsk.
As usual its an unrealistic wish to cover the Rustica 12 killed civilians fx in Kherson.
There is no Bakhmut left. The Putin terrorist cockroaches already destroyed the entire city. Don’t tell me that the Wagner freaks were having another drunken party at a recreation center and were blown away to pieces.
What’s the need for all these claims when no territory is gained by Russian forces? All we read is high casualty, high casuality, heavy losses, etc on Ukrainian forces. Yet, Russia didn’t seem to have advanced an inch. The Ukrainian forces were supposed to be non-existent since several months ago. Perhaps their ghosts are doing the fighting.
The armed forces of the failed Ukrainian CIA project receive an endless stream of weapons from the US and NATO vassals while the Ukrainian army, third largest in Europe at the beginning of the Russian operation, has only lost a few tens of thousands killed in the fighting. Ten thousand Ukrainians at a time are being trained by the imperialists on various methods of being turned into taco meat by Russian ordinance. Meanwhile, we’re about to enter the ninth year of the ATO ethnic cleansing operation in Donbas.
None in the rest of the world recognize any of that.
Of course not cause you all watch news who belong to the same couple families. But you should remember that those same news told you first covid is no threat then 2 vaxines make you imune for ever then 3 vaxines make you do not transmit the virus and then what … no real evidence for any impact nothing.
Or shall we talk about the babys in the incubators in kuveit or the weapons of mass destruction or the russia collusion?
The advantage of the eastern people to the western is the eastern know that their governments are lieing to them…
Just as here we actuallyproduce news by knowledge Ourself. Fx Ourmany Ukra refugees has dayli cirect contact to family and friends. They send voideos and pictures as well as texts.
And You ar highly incórrect about the procedures. We here as a minimum can try to replace the no good/bad ones.
Your version for what we kbow or not isfar out. Our Goverments are no owners and controllers of most of the medias at all. Thats included in Our constitutions too.
You always try that kind of dirty trick. Ukra fx are ruinned by nazis even they are not even in the PM and are about 2,15%. Tha might be so in Rustica but not theree and here.
The nazis just as many others dont like You at all. You should wonder if You might need some changes. Russia seemes not to be a succes any here would like to have.
Wenn die CIA und der Westen die Ukraine so sehr unterstützt. Warum schneidet man vom Westen aus nicht die Waffen weg? Ich dachte Putin wäre schlau? Wenn er schlau wäre, dann würde er von Bela-Russ aus ins West-Ukrain reinmaschieren und die Waffenlieferung aus Polen abkappen.
Warum tut das der Putin nicht? Er weiss doch, dass die Waffen hauptsächlich aus Polen kommen. Also muss das russichsche Militär den West-Ukraine angreifen. Warum tut er das nicht? Können Sie mir das erklären? Merhaba
Its easy. Putin has to show his hardhead supporters in the Duma at least something.
His suport for the invacsion was a compromis too. hey kind of support nukes , ballistics and like that.
As we see the Rusians Leadership not even know their own miliatry capabilities eevn they prepared for 2 years.
The change in the Ukra forces during 8 years was ignored.
The support for Rusticas also has declined during the last 30years because the Ukras now are able to see their choises with no kind of walls against it.
Thats my short version. Rustica is still big in its many Empire leftovers. We see well where the money for a better life for the proletars are hidden.
Cant you read, its not about land, its about destroying AFU, without taking casualties yourself. Its working dummy. Its boring for armchair generals but it works!
Ukraine has many millions.
Russia has done no serious breakouts at al there at Bakmut. As written before my now old grandmother even the last Year could advance better then those Wagner meatgrinders.
And attack better too with some smaller missiles in her big handbag as well.
How many centimeters pr days is the advance – 12, 14, 15.
And my grandmother didnt need all that heavy stuff as well. Some coffe and and a powernapping here and there would do it.
No fuel as well. She still had 2 feet when she died.
Wagner are mercs mercs get money as long as the war goes just like the western mercs they have zero interest for it to end.
They mainly are financed by an Oligarc friendly to Putin.
Its just stalemate all over. No Chruistmas present for PUTTY even its kept to January 5.
He think he is Tiger woods in Sibiria only hitting his own balls. No wait. He kill his own people and their balls too.
It might be the purpose all the heroic men has to be rewarded having 2 wives each to make less LGBTs.
Russians are using teleskpopes to see Bakmut. They also has old postcards.