Participants in the G7 summit, in a statement following the summit on December 12, said they would seek to hold the Russian president accountable for the invasion of Ukraine and for Russia to pay for the damage caused by the war. The final statement released by the British government reads, in part: We resolutely state that Russia will ultimately pay a price to rebuild the critical infrastructure damaged or destroyed by its brutal war. War crimes and other atrocities cannot go unpunished.

In the suburbs of Melitopol in the village of Konstantinovka, a bridge was damaged, RIA Novosti reports, citing representatives of the Russian-appointed administration of the region. According to preliminary data, they said, one of the pillars of the bridge was blown up by explosives. The roadbed has received significant damage, traffic on the bridge has been stopped.

Composer Angelo Badalamenti died at the age of 85 in his house in New Jersey. This was written by The Hollywood Reporter (ThR) with reference to his niece Francis Badalamenti. Earlier, his grandson nephew on Instagram announced the death of the composer. Kevin Winter / Getty Images Angelo Badalamenti on the theater stage at the ACE Hotel in Los Angeles, April 1, 2015.

In its December 12 evening digest, the Ukrainian General Staff reported the Russian military’s attempts to advance on the Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Zaporizhzhia directions. The Russian army’s attempts to advance from Kreminna towards Lyman have been registered for some time by Russian sources, but not the Ukraine General Staff, as pointed out by BBC News Russian. No significant Russian advances have been reported in the Zaporizhzhia direction since last summer at the latest.

The first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, presented the head of the government of the annexed Kherson region, Andriy Alekseenko, with the Order of Courage. This was reported by TASS, citing a statement by the regional administration appointed after the Russian occupation. The award ceremony took place in the Kremlin.

As part of the investigation of the fire in the MEGA Khimki shopping center, where the OBI construction hypermarket completely burned down, the foreman and the welder were detained, Interfax reports.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the evening report on December 12 said that Russian troops were trying to advance "in the Limansky, Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Zaporizhzhya directions." For some time, different Russian sources have been reported about the attempts of Russian troops from Kremennaya to Liman-but not the Ukrainian General Staff, the Russian BBC service notes , and there was no data on any significant movements of the Russian Federation in the Zaporizhzhya direction

Vladimir Zelensky came to the show of David Letterman (or rather, Letterman himself came to him in Kyiv). This is what the President of Ukraine said Netflix In October 2022, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky gave an interview to the American comedian and TV presenter David Letterman for his show on Netflix “My next guest needs not to be represented” (My NEXT GUEST).

Musician Andrei Makarevich was included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the list of "foreign agents" at the request of the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Center "E"). This became known from a court decision, excerpts from which were published by the head of "Agora" Pavel Chikov. The document, in particular, states that “the majority of the materials published by Makarevich A.V.

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, is urging the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to prevent the discrimination of people who don’t want to share their biometric data with the state.

The negotiations were attended by the former Permanent Representative of the UN and the head of the World Armenian Congress AFP / Scanpix / Leta Britney Grainer (extreme on the left), Viktor Butt (second on the right) and people accompanying them during the exchange at Abu Dhabi Airport. Hard of a video widespread by Russian state media.

General Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, told The New York Times that the Ukrainian military found fragments of a Kh-55 cruise missile designed in the 1970s to carry a nuclear warhead in October after one of the strikes carried out by Russian troops. . Skibitsky claims that the warhead was removed, adding ballast to disguise that the missile was not carrying a payload.

Kadyrov sends Chechen special forces to raid Urus-Martan after a violent clash between two law-enforcement officers Late on December 11, Chechen special forces raided the republic’s Urus-Martan district, looking for eyewitnesses who had failed to intervene in a clash between two law-enforcement officers the day before. The state-owned Chechen broadcaster Grozny reported that over 500 law-enforcement troops had “concentrated” in Urus-Martan.

The partially recognized Republic of Kosovo intends to submit an application to join the European Union on December 15. This was reported by the local TV channel Radio Television of Kosovo, which has reviewed the document. The channel reports that the application was submitted in November 2022. It emphasizes that EU membership is a strategic goal for Kosovo and is supported by more than 90% of the country's population.

Nominees for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globe Awards have been announced in Los Angeles. Martin McDonagh's Banshee of Inisherina, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson, led the way in terms of nominations. The tape is nominated for eight awards, including Best Comedy Film, which also features: Everything Anywhere, All at Once with Michelle Yeoh, Babylon directed by Damien Chazelle, Knives Out: The Glass Onion by Rian Johnson and Triangle of Sorrow » Ruben Ostlund.