Photo: USM.Media A civilian ship under the flag of Panama was blown up by a mine in the Black Sea. The balker was heading to one of the Danube ports in order to load Ukrainian grain, the southern operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said . " The ship lost its move and control, a fire arose on the upper deck. In order to avoid flooding, the captain fixed the ship on the shallow ," the military said.

Photo: Valentin Sprinchak / TASS The Vilnius airport was detained by a citizen of Lithuania, who had a backpack with the symbols of the Russian private military company Vagner, he was appointed a fine for a demonstration of prohibited symbols, Delfi reports.

Photo: RIA "News" RIA Novosti Russian propaganda state publication issued a publication that the Bogdan Khmelnitsky Volunteer Battalion allegedly participated in hostilities for the first time. The unit is claimed It consists of Ukrainian prisoners of war.

Vladimir Fesenko - Ukrainian political scientist and head of the Center for Applied Political Studies "Penta". "Dron" reprints opinion with the permission of the author. The original publication is here . On December 26, an outstanding event took place - a press conference of the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces) Valery Zaluzhny. Many have long been waiting for this event. It is very good that it finally took place.

Photo: bundestag.de In Germany, they stated that Russian assets were blocked in the amount of more than four billion euros. This was announced by the representative of the press service of the Ministry of Finance of Germany Nojinnan Ningendadenar at a briefing, Ukrinform reports. "In Germany, in connection with the Russian Combat War against Ukraine, as of the beginning of December, assets were authorized for about 4.1 billion euros," said Ninnde-Dundadengar.

Photo: AP The Russian occupation authorities tried to hide the real number of those who died as a result of the collapse of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric station in the Kherson region. About this writes Associated Press with reference to local medical workers.

Vladimir Bandura. Photo: https://focus.ua The case of the ex-mayor of Svyatogorsk Vladimir Bandura was transferred to court. He faces a life imprisonment for the Stateizer, the State Bureau of Investigation reports . According to the materials of the GBR, the SBU employees completed a pre-trial investigation on the fact of the state treason of the former mayor.

Photo: Mark Makela / Getty images The United States will provide Ukraine with weapons and equipment in the amount of $ 250 million in the framework of the last military assistance package in 2023, said the head of the State Department of Anthony Blinken.

Sergey Fursa - and a N -Investment Banker, specialist of the DRAGON CAPATAL debt sales securities. "Dron" reprints opinion with the permission of the author. The original publication is here . Ukrainians who avoid mobilization are similar to politicians who do not want to take responsibility for mobilization. Both of them are sloppers. The only difference is that ordinary Ukrainians are afraid for their lives, and this fear is natural.

Photo: press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / TASS The Netherlands must increase the number of armed forces and take other measures in case of war with Russia. This was stated by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the country, Lieutenant General Martin Weinen in an interview with De Telegraaf.

Photo: kyiv.comments.ua Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal closed the alarm about the country's finances, demanding an urgent meeting with international donors, since Kiev is faced with "extremely high uncertainty" about its budget in early 2024. In a letter from the key coordination group that controls financing, the Prime Minister said that financing is necessary next month and should be aimed at the main needs of the Ukrainian budget, Bloomberg writes .

The consequences of Kherson shelling. Photo: State Service for Extraordinary Situations (State Emergencies Ministry) of Ukraine The second part of the report of journalist Ksenia Keleberda for Dron from Kherson. The first was published on December 27 . Meaning In Kherson, the main thing is to find what you can hold for - and then life in a city where there is almost no life, it takes on meaning. The doctor Elena Oleinik sees him in helping our wounded soldiers.

Photo: Sergey Konkov The National Council of Latvia in Electronic Media closed access to all Yandex resources, said the chairman of the Council of Ivar Abolins. According to him, the Yandex.Music service is still working, but it will also be blocked in the near future, since it makes it possible to listen to the podcasts and other content of Russians who have fallen under the sanctions of the EU.

Photo: Getty images During a meeting in Moscow in March 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Chinese colleague Xi Jinping that Russia "will fight [at least] for five years" in Ukraine. This was reported by the publication Nikkei Asia with reference to sources.

Destroyed Maryinka. Photo: AP The Moldova Parliament voted to join the expanded partial agreement on the creation of the damage register that Russia caused to Ukraine as a result of a full -scale war, NEWSMARER reports. As stated in the statement of the parliament - the non -alignment of Moldova to the agreement "negatively affects the image and foreign policy of the country." "Our goal is to contribute to investigations of crimes against humanity and document them," the report said.