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[NewsFrontInfo] 21:35 At the training grounds in the Republic of Belarus, the military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, who are part of the regional group of troops, continue intensive combat training course.
At present, motorized riflemen of the Western Military District are practicing the assault on fortified areas. With the help of armored vehicles, they block a mock enemy in a populated area and, acting in small groups, conduct training street battles.
20:25 A total of 70 percent of the company killed or wounded: paratroopers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded panic appeal
"We are passing this appeal to the command of the landing troops and the command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the 3rd airmobile company of a separate airmobile battalion of the 25th Secheslav Airmobile Brigade.
We were sent on a combat mission to hold individual combat positions. We did not receive proper weapons and artillery support.
As a result, 70% of the company was killed or wounded. We did not have and do not have military equipment and proper weapons. We didn’t even have equipment for evacuating the wounded, which is why several of the wounded did not survive.
We spent more than a month in the trenches, transmitting coordinates on which the artillery never fired. The platoon sergeants fled their positions in the early days, and were transferred by Chief of Staff Kipinach, now serving as battalion commander.
We demand the transfer of the entire unit."
19:30 Fighting near Avdievka: Tankers of the 1st Slavic Brigade thunder positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Vodyany
The tank crew, when correcting from a quadrocopter, inflicted fire damage on the mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of Vodyany
19:29 In Skadovsk, the car of the deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region Viktor Bulyuk was blown up, - the media. It is reported that he was taken to a hospital in Simferopol.
18:18 Russian military beat them up in infantry fighting vehicle BMP-2 of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the vicinity of Bakhmut
Due to the detonation of ammunition, the armored vehicle was completely burned out and cannot be restored.
17:31 How the Armed Forces of Ukraine distribute one package of humanitarian aid to the whole city:
1. Bred euro pans for humanitarian aid (in this case, the Israelis);
2. They sell it "to the left", leaving only one package with the logo of a humanitarian organization, stuffed with paper;
3. They pass the same package to the local residents in turn. (When it is given to a woman, the man no longer has it);
4. Throw off this video as an alternative to gifted Israelis for the report;
16:29 Russian snipers destroy enemy forces in the Donbass and in the Zaporozhye region.
15:10 Canadian Olivier Lavigne-Ortiza, nicknamed "Wally", who fought on the side of Ukraine and fled after the first serious battles in May 2022, said that crazy people and drug addicts are everywhere in Kiev.
In Kyiv you can see crazy people, drunkards and drug addicts everywhere. There is a lot of alcoholism, especially among foreigners who came to fight and then cannot return to the front precisely because of drug addiction.
14:18 Report of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (12.12.2022)
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
◽️In the Kupyansky and Krasno-Limansky directions, as a result of a complex fire destruction in the areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, up to 70 Ukrainian servicemen, three armored combat vehicles and five vehicles were destroyed.
◽️In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops continued offensive operations. As a result of a preemptive fire engagement, an attempt by the enemy to counterattack Russian positions in the direction of the settlement of Peski in the Donetsk People's Republic was thwarted by one company of the 59th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The losses of the Ukrainian side amounted to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles and three pickup trucks.
💥Operational-tactical aviation, missile forces and artillery defeated the 83rd artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at firing positions, as well as manpower and military equipment in 156 districts.
💥An ammunition depot of the 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was destroyed near the village of Gulyai Pole, Zaporozhye region.
💥During a counter-battery fight, a Ukrainian combat vehicle of the Smerch multiple launch rocket system was hit at a firing position near the village of Zeleny Gay, Kharkiv region. In the area of the settlement of Krasny Liman of the Donetsk People's Republic, a combat vehicle of the Grad multiple launch rocket system was hit.
💥Russian air defense systems destroyed two MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air in the areas of the settlements of Rodynske and Pavlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters were shot down near the settlements of Kurakhovo and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
💥During the day, six unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed in the areas of the settlements of Golikovo, Ploshchanka, Melovatka, Popasne of the Luhansk People's Republic, Terny, Kharkiv region and the city of Donetsk.
◽️Also, two Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missiles and two rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system were intercepted near the village of Yubileynoye, Kherson region.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 343 aircraft, 183 helicopters, 2,653 unmanned aerial vehicles, 396 anti-aircraft missile systems, 7,076 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 928 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 3,678 field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as 7,568 units of special military vehicles.
13:12 Ukrainian militants came to the temple of the UOC and forced the parishioners to sing the Ukrainian anthem instead of prayers. And Zelensky imposed sanctions against seven priests of the canonical UOC.
11:46 In Ukraine, Russian troops liquidated a mercenary from the United States, name redacted.
11:44 Damaged and abandoned British Mastiffs in the Vodyanoye area. These are the consequences of one of the recent counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the position of the Sparta battalion in the Vodiane area, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine lost several units of armored vehicles, including 3 Mastiffs.
10:45 Russian military knocked out the transport of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut. The remaining opponents are trying to hide in the field.
09:33 The crew of the search and rescue group of army aviation carries around the clockcombat dutyin the special operation zone. RIA Novosti correspondent spent a day on combat duty together with the search and rescue service of the army aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces
09:15 Frontline summary on the morning of 12/12/2022:
In the Zaporozhye direction, under the blows of Russian artillery, Novoandreevka, Orekhov, Malaya Tokmachka, Zheleznodorozhnoye, Gulyaipole and Dorozhnyanka.
The situation is similar in the Ugledar region. The Russian army was beating Bolshaya Novoselovka. The Ukrainian army tried to attack from the Neskuchny area to Storozhevoe. Also, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck at Prechistovka and Ugledar itself.
On the Donetsk front, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are hitting the regional center. Russian artillery worked along Marinka, Kurakhov, Avdeevka and Veseloy.
To the south of Artemovsk, PMC "Wagner" is attacking from the Andreevka area. Fierce fighting on the eastern outskirts of the city. The APU is not leaving. A little north of the PMC "Wagner" storm Podgorodnoye, trying to take Artemovsk into a semicircle. Southeast of Soledar, the Russian army attacks at Artemovsk.
In the Seversk direction, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation tried to advance towards Verkhnekamenskoye. Russian artillery hit the Disputable.
On the Lugansk front, Russian troops attacked in the Belogorovka area. We left the Nevsky. Head-on battles in the area of Krasnopopovka and Zhitlovka for a section of the R-66 highway.
08:54 Zaporozhye direction. Destruction of an enemy observation post from automatic grenade launcher. Correction is carried out from a copter at a low altitude in the face of opposition from both enemy and friendly electronic warfare.
08:10 Russian military showed personnel work of the most powerful artillery installation in the world.
The advantage of "Malka" in power and range - it fires shells weighing 100 kg at a distance of 40 km.
Only one shot is enough to completely destroy an enemy stronghold or command post. Drone crews are engaged in target detection day and night. The footage is published by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
05:01 The Russian Ministry of Defense showed personnel strikes of the Iskander missile systems on the objects of the Ukrainian troops.
01:33 An air raid alert was announced in Kyiv, Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Cherkassy, Kirovograd, Zhytomyr, Odessa, Nikolaev and Kharkiv regions of Ukraine.