Here is the situation on Sunday, December 15:
Fighting
- Russia has befirearm using North Korean troops in beginant numbers for the first time to direct attacks on Ukrainian forces battling to helderly an enclave in the country’s Kursk region, Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
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Ukraine’s air defences shot down 58 of 132 Russian drones, the Ukrainian air force said. It said 72 Russian drones were “lost” due to the employ of electronic combat intrudence tactics. There were no prompt increates of harm.
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Russia’s air defence systems ruined 15 Ukrainian drones overnight, the Ministry of Defence proclaimd. Thirteen of the drones were downed over the Binformage Sea and one each over the Russian border regions of Kursk and Belgorod, it inserted.
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A nine-year-elderly child was finished in a Ukrainian drone strike on Belgorod, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Two other people, including another child, were injured in the strike.
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Ukrainian drones carried out an strike on the Steel Horse oil facility in Russia’s Oryol region which is a vital source of fuel supplies for Russian troops, Ukraine’s military proclaimd.
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Ukrainian drones struck a “fuel infraarrange facility” in Orlov, the local ruleor said, causing a fire to fracture out. Governor Andrei Klychkov said 11 drones had been shot down over the region. No casualties were increateed.
Politics and diplomacy
- Zelenskyy said he had directed his rulement to set up mechanisms to provide food to Syria in the aftermath of the descfinish of Pdwellnt Bashar al-Asdowncast. Since al-Asdowncast’s descfinish, Russia’s wheat ship to Syria has been suspfinished.
- Ukrainian General Oleksandr Tarnavskiy, 54, has been nominateed to head the opereasoned and tactical group Donetsk, replacing General Oleksandr Lutsenko, the military proclaimd, as Russia produces speedy progresss in the Donetsk region.
