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Kyiv: Ukrainian Forces advancing towards Svatove and Kreminna despite buildup of Russian troops
Ukrainian troops are advancing towards Svatove-Kreminna, even though the Russians are deploying large numbers of weapons and troops to the area, said the head of the Luhansk regional military administration Serhiy Haidai.
"We are gradually moving forward. However, the Russians managed to amass a huge amount of equipment and personnel there: newly mobilized, prison inmates, Kadyrov fighters, regular troops, and some paratroopers who were transferred from the Kherson region. Therefore, the …
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Kyiv: Russia has run out of Iranian kamikaze drones
The speaker of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, Yuri Ignat, said that the Russian troops have not used Iranian kamikaze drones for several weeks. This is not so much because of the cold weather, but because the shipment of drones delivered by Iran has been used up, said Ignat at a briefing.
"For several weeks, the use of kamikaze drones of the Shahed type has not been observed. There are different opinions, factors and signs that suggest that probably the first batch that the occupiers …
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Russia asks Israel not to interfere with transfer of air defense systems from Syria to Ukraine
Russia has asked Israel not to interfere or hinder its efforts to transfer military equipment from Syria to Ukraine.
Israel’s national broadcaster Kan-11 reported, citing an Israeli official, that recently representatives of Russia and Israel had a series of talks in which Moscow asked Jerusalem "not to interfere" with the transfer of Russian weapons from Syria to Ukraine.
Kan described this request as "extraordinary".
Russia and Israel have been jointly coordinating their air operations in …
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Russian strategic airbases rocked by explosions
On the morning of December 5, emergency situations occurred at two Russian air bases. In one of the accidents a fuel truck exploded at the Dyagilevo airfield, reported the Russian news agency TASS.
"Three people were killed, five were injured. Two out of five suffered serious injuries," TASS quotes one of its sources. The Ryazan Regional Hospital confirmed that 5 people had been hospitalized. "We accepted five victims after the explosion at the airfield near Ryazan," TASS correspondents were …
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Kremlin concerned about skilled specialists fleeing Russia
In mid-November, a meeting was held in the administration of the Russian President of Russia to discussed how to attract back the Russians who had left the country. At the meeting, the Kremlin officials discussed a three-stage program for the bringing back the most sought-after specialists, reported the news outlet Verstka, referring to its sources in the Kremlin.
The meeting was attended by the Chief of the Presidential Directorate for Supporting Activities of the State Council of the Russian …
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Kyiv: Iran has stopped supplying weapons to Russia
Russia is experiencing a shortage of certain types of weapons and is trying to replenish it through supplies from other countries. Russia is currently in talks with Iran, but there have been no signs that Iran has sent new shipments of weapons to Russia, said the representative of Ukraine's Defense Ministry Intelligence Directorate, Vadym Skubitsly on Espresso TV.
Commenting on the pause in Russian missile strikes on Ukraine, Skibitsky explained that Russians, firstly, conduct additional …
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China suspected of providing military assistance to Russia
China is reportedly providing military assistance to Russia. Russian An-124 Ruslan planes are flying almost daily to China and returning to Moscow the same day, reports the Ukrainian military news website Defence Express.
Flights to China of the cargo planes belonging to the Russian company Volga-Dnepr have been regularly reported by the freight tracking online services. According to Defence Express, some flights have been carried out secretly with Russian cargo planes flying with their …
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Russia cancels Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty talks with USA
The previously scheduled meeting of the bilateral Russia-USA consultative commission on the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START) will not be held in Cairo, said the Russian Foreign Ministry.
"The previously scheduled session of the bilateral consultative commission on the Russian-American START Treaty scheduled in Cairo (November 29 – December 6) will not take place on these dates. The event is postponed to a later date," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. …
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Israel trying to prevent Iran from supplying weapons to Russia
In the last month, Israel, which previously tried to stay neutral neutral towards Russian aggression against Ukraine, has started changing its position. Israel has started began to provide intelligence data to international organizations and allied countries about Iran’s deliveries of weapons to Russia. Jerusalem is trying to put pressure on Tehran and stop the shipments of weapons, reports the Israeli news website Walla, citing high-ranking sources in the Israeli Defense Ministry and the …
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Kyiv: Russia will not be able to hold on to left bank of the Dnieper River
The head of the press center of the Ukrainian Forces South, Natalia Gumenyuk, said she believes that the Russians will not be able to hold the territories of the Kherson region on the left bank of the Dnieper, where they fled after a successful counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Speaking on the TV channel Espresso, she said that the Russians are beginning to realize this, as well as the fact that their strategy failed immediately after the loss of Kherson.
Meanwhile, according to …