Main events December 29 Rescuer at the place of shelling in Ukraine. Photo: Igor Klimenko/Telegram Rescuer at the place of shelling in Ukraine. Photo: Igor Klimenko/Telegram The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation inflicted a massive blow to Ukraine. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 30 people were killed as a result of the attack, more than 160 were injured.

The wives of Russian conscripts who are demanding their husbands return Russian women walk past pictures of servicemen who fought in Ukraine during a street exhibition in Moscow, October 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV Vladimir Putin declared 2024 the “year of family”. But in thousands of Russian homes, this New Year will be celebrated without husbands, fathers, sons, and brothers.

Sites “Independent Television of Sevastopol” and “News of Sevastopol” were reported with reference to the press service of the Black Sea Fleet that 74 sailors were killed and 27 suffered during the attack of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces on December 26 on the Novocherkassk ship. Later, the publication from the first site was deleted. “74 Black Sea sailors died during the APU attack on December 26 on the Novocherkassk ship, another 27 were injured.

What Russian diplomats from the windows of their embassies see the world. Photo collection The burnt Russian tank brought from Ukraine against the backdrop of an illustration with the image of Vladimir Putin at the Russian embassy in Riga, February 24, 2023. Photo: Vladislav Dokshin / "Novyevropa" “Stop the war,” Riga and Berlin, Copenhagen and Tallinn, Munich and New York, London and Warsaw tells them ...

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Political scandal in the Kurgan region as a model of the presidential election campaign for the poor region Elena Sitnikova at a meeting with residents of Smolino. Photo: Elena Sitnikova / VK The last week of the outgoing 2023, the first detention of the head of the city in the history of Kurgan self -government.

Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army Gen. Wieslaw Kukula during a press conference after the National Security Council meeting in Warsaw, 29 December 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/PIOTR NOWAK POLAND OUT General Wiesław Kukuła, chief of the Polish General Staff, has said a Russian missile entered the country’s airspace Friday from the direction of Ukraine. The missile went 40 kilometres into Polish airspace and left it three minutes later.

A photo report Smoke rising over Kyiv after the shelling, 29 December. Photo: Oleg Petrasiuk / EPA-EFE Eighteen people were killed and 132 were injured in Russia’s overnight missile strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv and Dnipro. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian army had launched 110 missiles. Most were shot down, he said, but multiple residential buildings were damaged or destroyed as a result of the massive shelling.

In 2023, Russian courts received 5,024 criminal cases of unauthorized abandonment of the military unit (Article 337 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), calculated the Mediazone. According to the publication, this indicator is an absolute historical record for Russia. So, in 2022, 1001 cases of escape from the service were instituted, in 2021 - 615 cases. The authors of the study emphasized that 5,024 criminal cases relate to the exclusively unauthorized abandonment of the part.

Iya Baratel tells the Christmas stories of former Ukrainian prisoners returning from Russia home Former prisoners with "white passports" near the Embassy of Ukraine in Tbilisi. Photo from social networks Since June 2023, the New Gazeta Europe publishes the stories of Ukrainian prisoners forcibly exported from the Kherson region to Russia. It is believed that in total, about 2500 convicted citizens of Ukraine were illegally exported to Russia from the Kherson colonies.

Dmitry Kuzmin in the courthouse. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov Dmitry Kuzmin in the courthouse. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov Dmitry Kuzmin, a 19-year-old anti-war activist, has been fined 30,000 rubles (€300) for “discrediting the Russian army” in social media posts. Kuzmin, who has been detained on multiple occasions and expelled from two St. Petersburg universities for his weekly solo protests, received notice of the fine as he exited a special detention centre where he had been serving a six-day sentence.

Anna Asti is a Russian star with Ukrainian roots that walks in bars and hit parades, while the war is in her native country. Can it be called "Our Taylor Swift"? Anna Asti. Photo: Instagram Anna Asti gained popularity as part of the Ukrainian duet Artik & Asti, and after the group broke up, she began her own solo career and led Russian hit parades.

In St. Petersburg, activist Dmitry Kuzmin was fined 30 thousand rubles Dmitry Kuzmin. Photo: Dmitry Tsyganov Anti-war activist, 19-year-old Dmitry Kuzmin, Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg today fined 30 thousand rubles for discrediting the Russian army. The most severe punishment for individuals, which provides for an administrative article imputed by a young man (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation) is a fine of 30 to 50 thousand rubles.

30 people were killed, residential buildings were destroyed On the night of December 29, the Russian army fired at the Ukrainian cities - Kyiv, Odessa, Lviv, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Dnieper. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, 30 people were killed, more than 160 were injured. President of the country Vladimir Zelensky said that the Russian army launched 110 missiles.

The command of the Polish army put all available means and forces on alert after the airspace was violated by an “unidentified object” from Ukraine, reported . the press service of the army’s operational command “In the morning, an unidentified air object entered Polish airspace from the side of the border with Ukraine, and from the moment it crossed the border until the signal disappeared, it was observed by the radars of the country’s air defense system.