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Russian forces advance towards strategic city in Ukraine's east.​


MOSCOW, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Russian forces are just 1.5 km (1 mile) outside the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after Russian units pushed up from the south towards the road and rail hub.

The fall of Pokrovsk, an important logistics centre for the Ukrainian military, would be one of Ukraine's biggest military losses in months.

December 13, 20249:01 AM GMT+3

 
Hapa Assad atakua amepanda cheo ama ameshushwa cheo?

Russian MP proposes sending Assad to Mariupol
The exiled former Syrian leader should aid in the reconstruction of Donbass, Dmitry Kuznetsov has argued

Exiled former Syrian leader Bashar Assad should contribute to the rebuilding of Russian cities damaged during the conflict with Ukraine, Russian politician Dmitry Kuznetsov has suggested. He added that Assad could potentially be given Russian citizenship.

Assad, who ruled Syria for nearly 25 years, was overthrown earlier this month, when a coalition of armed opposition groups dominated by Islamists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured Damascus in a lightning offensive.

According to the Kremlin, Assad and his family have been granted asylum in Russia. He has not appeared in public or released statements since the fall of the Syrian capital on Sunday. It is unclear what he plans to do next.

“I believe Bashar Assad and his family could become benefactors of one of the areas of Donbass that was devastated by warfare, and could move into one of the newly built houses in Mariupol,” Kuznetsov, who sits on the parliamentary foreign relations committee, told Gazeta.Ru on Thursday.

The Black Sea port city of Mariupol, currently part of Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, was seized by Russian troops in 2022, after a three-month siege. The Russian authorities are engaged in reconstruction of the city.

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“I am in favor of [Assad] proving himself in service to the Russian people, and after that – for his contribution to the recovery of Donbass – we could consider the issue of citizenship,” the politician said.

Another legislator, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, argued earlier that Assad deserves to be granted citizenship because he “has done enough for Russia.”

According to Russian officials, Assad made a decision to step down following negotiations with unspecified opposition groups. Mikhail Ulyanov, a senior Russian diplomat, described the decision to grant Assad asylum as evidence that Moscow “does not betray its friends in difficult situations.”

Russia intervened in the Syrian civil war in 2015, in order to help the Assad government fight various opposition forces, as well as the terrorist group Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS). While future of the Russian military bases in Syria remains unclear, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that it maintains contacts with the new HTS-led authorities in Damascus, and that its diplomats and military personnel are not under immediate threat.
 
13 Dec, 14:24
Russia hits Ukraine's power grid after Kiev attacks airfield in Taganrog with ATACMS
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack was carried out with the help of high-precision long-range airborne and sea-based weapons, as well as strike drones

© Russian Defense Ministry Press and Information Office/TASS
MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. In response to Kiev’s attack on a military airfield in Taganrog using ATACMS missiles, the Russian army carried out a precision strike on major Ukrainian fuel and energy facilities that support the country’s defense industry, the Defense Ministry reported.

TASS has compiled the key details about the strike.

Defense Ministry report
- In response to the ATACMS missile attack on the Taganrog military airfield, Russia's military carried out targeted strikes on crucial Ukrainian fuel and energy infrastructure facilities that ensure the operation of its defense enterprises, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

- The attack was carried out with the help of high-precision long-range airborne and sea-based weapons, as well as strike drones.

- According to the ministry, the strike was a success, hitting all designated facilities.

Aftermath of the strike
- In the morning, an air alert went off throughout Ukraine. Explosions occurred in several areas, including the Lvov Region.

- Ukrenergo announced restrictions on power supply.

- Infrastructure damage was reported in a number of regions.

- Russian missile strikes hit a UAV production facility in the city of Borispol and a Ukrainian heavy equipment repair facility in Pereyaslavl, said Vladimir Rogov, Chairman of the Civic Chamber Commission on Sovereignty, Patriotic Projects, and Support of Veterans.

- According to him, more than 120 attacks using various weapons, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, were carried out.

- Rogov added that the Russian Armed Forces had launched a missile strike on the facilities of an airport in Kiev, where pilots of F-16 fighter jets were undergoing training.
 
Ukrainian defenses shot down 81 out of 94 missiles and 80 out of the 193 drones launched by Russia early on Dec. 13, the Air Force said.Apart from the 80 drones that were shot down, 105 reportedly failed to reach their targets thanks to electronic warfare measures.
 

U.S. military launches Dark Eagle hypersonic missile in Thursday test from Cape Canaveral​

According to a Congressional Research Service summary, Dark Eagle is a truck-launched system that fires hypersonic missiles that can exceed 3,800 mph — more than five times the speed of sound.

Reportedly developed by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, these missiles have a range of 1,725 miles.

"They can reach the top of the Earth’s atmosphere and remain just beyond the range of air and missile defense systems until they are ready to strike, and by then it’s too late to react," the CRS summary said.
 
Wa ukraine wa Rûsahunga mna roho ngumu sana. Yaani mnapigwa kiberiti wazima wazima bado ham pay attention? Mnastahili kupigwa nuklia labda akili itakaa mahala pake.
Unafikiri Putin ana mawazo kama yako ,anajua anachofanya unadhani nyuklia ni kama ngumi unarusha tuu hovyo
 
Hii haitoshi tunataka kitu kippige mpaka NATO wakeme
 
Trump blasts Biden over long-range missile strikes into Russia

Ukrainian attacks using Western medium-range missiles are foolish and a major escalation, the US president-elect has said


US President-elect Donald Trump has criticized Ukraine’s strikes deep into Russia using Western-supplied weapons, saying that they only escalate the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.

Trump made the statement on Thursday in an interview with Time magazine, which named him the 2024 Person of the Year.


“I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that?” he asked rhetorically.

According to the president-elect, such attacks are “just escalating this war and making it worse.”

“That should not have been allowed to be done… And I think that is a very big mistake, very big mistake,” he said of strikes deep into Russia’s internationally recognized territory.

Trump returned to the issue later in the interview, saying that “the most dangerous thing right now” is the fact that “[Ukrainian leader Vladimir] Zelensky has decided, with the approval of, I assume, the President [Joe Biden], to start shooting missiles into Russia.”

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“I think that is a major escalation. I think it is a foolish decision,” he stressed.
 
Hatimae idadi ya waliokufa waliovamia kursk Sasa yafika 40,000.


13 Dec, 18:34
Ukrainian losses exceed 40,260 troops: situation in Russia’s Kursk Region
According to the report, Russian operational/tactical and army aircraft, missile forces hit enemy manpower and equipment in the Kursk and Sumy regions

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces have lost more than 200 soldiers in the Kursk area over the past day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The enemy's losses since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region have exceeded 40,260 servicemen.
 
Russian troops liberate seven communities in Kursk Region, Donbass area over week
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 3,350 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy tanks in its area of responsibility over the week, the Defense Ministry reported
 
Haya yalikua ni mapigo ya wiki mzima,tokea tarehe 7hadi 13 desemba 24.

Military operation in Ukraine
13 Dec, 18:29
Russian troops liberate seven communities in Kursk Region, Donbass area over week
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 3,350 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy tanks in its area of responsibility over the week, the Defense Ministry reported

MOSCOW, December 13. /TASS/. Russian troops liberated seven communities in the Kursk Region and the Donbass area over the week of December 7-13 in the special military operation in Ukraine, Russia’s Defense Ministry reported on Friday.


Russian forces pound Ukrainian army, mercenaries’ deployment sites over week
Russian forces delivered 15 strikes by precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting energy facilities of Ukrainian military-industrial sector, army and mercenaries’ deployment sites over the past week, the ministry reported.

"In the week of December 7-13, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 15 combined strikes by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting energy facilities supporting the operation of Ukraine’s military-industrial sector, infrastructure of military airfields, assembly and storage facilities of unmanned aerial vehicles, weapons arsenals, ammunition depots and deployment sites of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries. All the goals of the strikes were achieved," the ministry said.

Kiev loses over 12,000 troops in all frontline areas in past week — report
The Ukrainian army lost more than 12,000 troops in battles with Russian forces in all the frontline areas over the week of December 7-13, according to the latest data on the special military operation in Ukraine released by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

The latest figures indicate that the Ukrainian army suffered roughly 2,230 casualties from Russia’s Battlegroup North, more than 3,350 casualties from the Battlegroup West, over 1,830 casualties from the Battlegroup South, more than 3,340 casualties from the Battlegroup Center, 1,050 casualties from the Battlegroup East and 290 casualties from the Battlegroup Dnepr.

Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicts 2,230 casualties on Ukrainian army over week
Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted roughly 2,230 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed seven enemy tanks and 33 armored vehicles in the Kursk area and the Kharkov Region over the week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, Battlegroup North units continued destroying Ukrainian armed formations on the territory of the Kursk Region. Combat aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery struck manpower and equipment of two armored, six mechanized and two air assault brigades of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and four territorial defense brigades," the ministry said.

In the Kharkov direction, Battlegroup North units inflicted losses on formations of a motorized infantry brigade and two air assault brigades of the Ukrainian army, a territorial defense brigade and a border guard detachment of Ukraine’s Border Guard Service, it said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the past week amounted to 2,230 personnel, seven tanks, 33 armored combat vehicles, including four US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 34 motor vehicles and 22 field artillery guns, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicts over 3,350 casualties on Ukrainian army in week
Russia’s Battlegroup West inflicted more than 3,350 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed five enemy tanks in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup West units improved their frontline positions and inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of six mechanized brigades and an airborne brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade, two territorial defense brigades and a National Guard brigade. They repelled 71 counterattacks by assault groups of the Ukrainian army," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the past week totaled more than 3,350 personnel, five tanks, six armored combat vehicles, 23 motor vehicles and 48 field artillery guns, including eight NATO-produced 155mm howitzers, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicts over 1,830 casualties on Ukrainian army in week
Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted more than 1,830 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed 10 enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup South units gained better tactical positions and inflicted casualties on formations of five mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade, a mountain assault brigade, two airmobile brigades and an air assault brigade of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade and a territorial defense brigade. They repulsed nine counterattacks by Ukrainian armed formations," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the week amounted to more than 1,830 personnel, 10 armored combat vehicles, 11 motor vehicles and 10 field artillery guns, including three Western-made weapons, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicts over 3,340 casualties on Ukrainian army in week
Russia’s Battlegroup Center repelled 64 Ukrainian counterattacks and inflicted more than 3,340 casualties on enemy troops in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported.

Over the week, Battlegroup Center units "inflicted losses on five mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade and two infantry brigades of the Ukrainian army, a marine infantry brigade, a special operations brigade, three territorial defense brigades and a National Guard brigade. They repelled 64 enemy counterattacks," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the week amounted to more than 3,340 personnel, two tanks, 15 armored combat vehicles, including a US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicle and five US-manufactured M113 armored personnel carriers, 20 motor vehicles and 38 field artillery guns, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicts 1,050 casualties on Ukrainian army over week
Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 1,050 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed nine enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported.

During the week, Battlegroup East units "inflicted casualties on formations of two mechanized brigades and a mountain assault brigade of the Ukrainian army and six territorial defense brigades. They repelled 20 counterattacks by enemy assault groups," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the week amounted to 1,050 personnel, nine armored combat vehicles, including three MaxxPro and two HMMWV armored fighting vehicles of US manufacture, 12 motor vehicles and 22 field artillery guns, among them three 155mm self-propelled artillery systems, it specified.

Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr inflicts 290 casualties on Ukrainian army over week
Russia’s Battlegroup Dnepr inflicted roughly 290 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed eight enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the week, the ministry reported.

"Battlegroup Dnepr units inflicted damage on manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades and an infantry brigade of the Ukrainian army, four territorial defense brigades and a National Guard brigade," the ministry said.

The Ukrainian army’s losses in that frontline area over the week amounted to 290 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, 32 motor vehicles and eight field artillery guns, it specified.

In addition, Russian troops destroyed three Olkha multiple rocket launchers of the Ukrainian army over the week, the ministry said.

Russian air defenses destroy 279 Ukrainian UAVs, 21 HIMARS rockets over week
Russian air defense forces destroyed 279 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 21 US-made HIMARS rockets over the week, the ministry reported.

"Air defense capabilities shot down 21 rockets of the US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, 12 rockets of the Czech-made Vampire multiple rocket launcher and 279 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said.

Russian Black Sea Fleet’s forces destroy eight Ukrainian naval drones over week
The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s forces destroyed eight Ukrainian seaborne drones over the week, the ministry reported.

"The Black Sea Fleet’s naval aircraft and water area protection boats destroyed eight seaborne drones," the ministry said.

Over 80 Ukrainian soldiers surrender to Russian troops in past week
More than 80 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to Russian troops over the past week, the ministry reported.

"During the week, 87 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered at the engagement line," the ministry said.

Overall, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 649 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 37,633 unmanned aerial vehicles, 586 surface-to-air missile systems, 19,775 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,500 multiple rocket launchers, 19,549 field artillery guns and mortars and 29,190 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation, the ministry reported.
 
Russian troops strike Kiev airport used to train F-16 pilots — politician

MELITOPOL, December 13. /TASS/. Russian forces launched a missile strike on facilities at an airport in Kiev where F-16 fighter pilots were reportedly being trained.

"The strike targeted a closed airfield in Kiev, where pilots were being trained to operate F-16s equipped with Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles for strikes on [Russian territory]," Rogov told Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station. "The Russian army hit hangars and warehouses at the site, with secondary detonations continuing for up to two hours."

Rogov previously stated that the Russian strike on Ukrainian territory involved over 120 attacks using various weapons, including hypersonic Kinzhal missiles.
 
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