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21 December 2023
The Mykolaiv region has allocated UAH 1.2 billion of extra-budgetary funds to support the Defense Forces, and about a billion more was allocated by the region's communities from their budgets.
In the city of Kerch, temporarily occupied Crimea, locals reported a number of explosions, while the Crimea Kerch Bridge was shut down for traffic.
The Russian military has launched an artillery strike on the village of Tiahynka in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, killing a civilian woman.
In the regional budget for the next year, 60% of the resources available for distribution are allocated to the Armed Forces, the security and defense sector, and expenses related to the elimination of Russian armed aggression.
The Ukrainian military eliminated 508 Russian terrorists in the Tavria sector on December 20, and almost ten occupiers surrendered.
At night, the Russian military shelled a medical institution in Kherson, one of the departments was seriously damaged, and a residential building was hit.
Ukraine would like all Ukrainian men of conscription age, who currently live abroad, to visit the recruitment centers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the morning, the enemy attacked Nikopol. Two women were killed.
In the Cherkasy region, the Air Defense Forces shot down four attack drones at night, as a result of the fall of the wreckage several outbuildings and the roof of a residential building were damaged.
A warehouse of a civilian enterprise has been destroyed in Russia’s drone attack on the Kyiv region last night. The rest of its buildings and vehicles were damaged.
Over the past day, the enemy attacked the Zaporizhzhia region 139 times, including three times with air strikes.
On December 20, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 131 times, having fired 687 projectiles.
At night, the Russian military fired mortars at the Krasnopil community.
As of 08:00 a.m., December 21, 2023, four Russian warships were remaining on combat duty in the Black Sea and another one in the Sea of Azov. No missile carriers were among them.
Two civilians have been injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Since the outset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has seen 350,270 soldiers and officers killed in action.
Ninety-nine combat engagements took place across the front lines in Ukraine on Wednesday, while Ukraine’s Air Force 17 times hit enemy weapons clusters, including an air defense system.
Russia launched overnight Thursday several groups of Shahed kamikaze drones at Ukraine from three directions: Chauda in occupied Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Kursk.
A group of eleven applicants for Russian citizenship originally from ex-Soviet republics received summonses to a military draft office along with the Russian passports they had sought.
The latest report by U.S. officials, confirmed by satellite imagery, says North Korea has delivered more than a thousand containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia.
In the Poltava region, 11 more vehicles were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has analyzed remarks that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made during the Russian Defense Ministry's Collegium on December 19 regarding the Russian army's current strength.
20 December 2023
The U.S. administration believes that Russian troops are waiting for dirt to freeze in order to intensify offensive operations in the east of Ukraine, in particular in the Avdiivka area.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine discussed with the prime minister and minister of defense the issue of journalists' access to the front lines.
Discussions around the issue of additional military mobilization are still underway.
Ukraine needs to boost its electronic warfare capabilities to efficiently counter enemy drones.
Russian forces shelled the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region, on Wednesday evening, damaging the building of a fire station.
Ukrainian forces on Wednesday repelled 29 enemy attacks on the left back of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region.
Russian invaders struck the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, with 11 kamikaze drones and artillery on Wednesday, December 20.
Ukraine's defense forces have destroyed a Russian Grad multiple rocket launcher and a field ammunition depot on the southern axis.