Photo: Ankasam.org The European Council decided to start negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova to join the European Union. This was reported according to the results of the first day of the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday evening, December 14, the head of the European Council Charles Michelle. Also, the leaders of the European Union decided to provide Georgia with the status of the Candidate country to join the EU, wrote Michelle in the social network X.

Air Defense System "Patriot". Photo: US Department of Defense Germany over the past week, among another military aid, passed on to Ukraine the second Patriot anti-aircraft missile system and missiles to it. This was reported on the website of the Government of Germany.

Photo: Alamy/All Over Press The authorities of Finland plan on December 18 to sign an agreement on cooperation in the field of defense with the United States, Reuters reports .

Screenshot: News.liga.net The Russian military may have used Ukrainian prisoners of war as a living shield during the fighting in the Zaporizhzhya direction. This was reported by the Ukrainian Service "Radio Liberty", having studied the video shot by the drone of one of the APU units. The video was shot in the vicinity of the worker of the Zaporizhzhya region, but the exact location is not reported for security reasons, Radio Liberty reports.

Photo: northern_sentry / Twitter The employee of the Norwegian Arctic University of the University of Norwegian University Tromseyo, who pretended to be a professor from Brazil Jose Assis Giammaria, was in reality a Russian citizen Mikhail Valerievich Mikushin, a personnel officer of military intelligence of the Russian Federation, reports the Norwegian edition of VG. On October 28, the Norway Police Service (PST) reported that he was charged with espionage.

US President Joe Biden. Photo: ar To be signed by US President Joe Biden, the bill on the annual defense costs with a record amount of 886 billion US dollars for the Pentagon was submitted by the House of Representatives today, December 14. The document shall indicate the help for Ukraine for hundreds of millions of dollars, reports The Hill .

Photo: RIA Novosti / Maria Devakhina The State Duma of the Russian Federation introduced a bill on the ban on abortion in all private clinics in Russia. The bill was developed by the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Gleb Nikitin. At the end of November, he was approved in the local legislative assembly. Then the media reported that the bill would be submitted to the Russian parliament, but it was expected that the amendments would be registered in the State Duma next year.

Photo: Armed Forces are fighting in the village of Krynka on the left bank of the Dnieper. Photo: Getty images The division of Russian paratroopers suffered extremely large losses while trying to knock out Ukrainian forces near the village of Krynka on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.

Photo: SBU Based on the materials of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the real term of conclusion received one agent of the Main Directorate (GUR) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, operating in the Nikolaev region. According to the press service of the SBU, the man collected intelligence on the estimated quantity and geolocation of personnel and military equipment for defense forces in the region.

Photo: Izvestia/Andrey Ershtrem The wives of the Russian mobilized massively sent questions to the "direct line" with Vladimir Putin, but the president did not answer any of them, notes the publication The Moscow Times. The Telegram channel "The Way Home", which is associated with the relatives of the mobilized, called for " falling asleep " the organizers of the president’s press conference with questions about the demobilization of the called military.

Vladimir Zelensky gives the award to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov. Photo: press service of the President of Ukraine The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia put on the wanted list of the head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Lieutenant General Kirill Budanov. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The consequences of an impact on Odessa December 14, 2023. Photo: Telegram channel Oleg Kiper On the night of December 14, the Russian military attacked the Odessa region with Dronami-Kamikadze. As a result, the dormitory, 11 buildings were damaged from the fall in Odessa, two cars burned. In the Izmail region, storage facilities near the port were destroyed. "Tonight, Russian troops terrorized the Odessa region with shock drones for more than six hours.

Photo: kremlin.ru Russia does not need to carry out a second wave of mobilization, as contractors and “volunteers” were enough. This was announced during the television show "Results of the Year" by Russian President Vladimir Putin. He claims that daily 1.5 thousand people sign contracts with the Ministry of Defense, which has deployed a large -scale recruiting campaign from the beginning of spring to avoid the second wave of mobilization, which turned out to be unpopular among Russians.

President Andrzej Duda and new Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Photo: Chancellery of Polish Prime Minister On December 13, in Poland, the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his government took the oath. The coalition government of Tuska replaced the cabinet formed by the Conservative Party "Law and Justice", which has led the country for the past eight years. In recent months, the relationship between the departed government in Warsaw and Ukraine could not be called rainbow.