This attack has become one of the largest in recent years. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia launched 158 different missiles and drones. Kyiv, Lviv, Odessa, Dnieper, Zaporozhye and other cities fell under the blow. They also destroyed residential buildings, educational institutions, a shopping center and a maternity hospital. “They beat everyone in the arsenal. We have not yet seen so many goals,” Ukraine said.

The leadership of the Russian brewery Baltika appealed to the administration of the President of Russia with a request to help protect its brands in the countries of friendly countries. The Vedomosti writes about this on Friday, noting that the first vice-president of the Baltic Alexander Dedegkaev turned to the head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino. The publication writes that he got acquainted with the content of his letter, which is addressed to Vaino.

Conversation with Andrei Kuraev At the end of 2023, the Ministry of Justice of Russia again updated the lists of foreign agents, entering them, among others, protodiacon and the famous Orthodox publicist Andrei Kuraev. In October, he moved to the Czech Republic. Kuraev is one of the most consistent opponents of the public policy of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 2020, the Diocesan Church Court deprived him of the sanctions for his critical statements.

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Explosion in the port of Feodosia after the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, December 26, 2023 As a result of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Assault ship Novocherkassk, 74 Russian sailors were killed, another 27 were injured. This was reported by the Sevastopol News and Independent Television of Sevastopol with reference to the message of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet.

The Belgorod Regional Court sentenced a resident of Tver to four years in a maximum security colony in the case of preparation for the commission of state treason. He was also appointed a year of restriction of freedom. This was reported on Friday "RIA Novosti" with reference to the press service of the regional department of the FSB. The name of the convict is not called.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested Ksenia Gusev for 10 days under the article on disobedience to the police - she was detained on December 28 near the Tver court after the sentence of the sentences of the Mayakovsky Readings. It is reported by Sotavision.

The losses of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine on December 29 amounted to 40,559 people, according to the Russian BBC service and the Mediazon. These are only those whose names were established by open sources. The real number of losses can be at least one and a half to two times higher, the investigators emphasize. Since the last report, over the past two weeks, the list of losses has replenished 1175 names. Among them are five officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel and above.

The first anti -war work of the Russian street artist Philippenzo was the inscription "War - this is now", which he applied over the phrase "Youth is now." Then there were "Porage", "Our Qing!", "Russian Rainbow".

An unknown flying object in the morning on Friday violated the airspace of Poland from Ukraine. For some time, the Polish air defense services followed him, then he disappeared from the radar. Its fall was not recorded. According to the newspaper "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", the Polish military was looking for a fallen object or its fragments southeast of the city of Zamostz-between it and the Ukrainian border.

More than five thousand cases of unauthorized abandonment of military units were received in Russian courts in the past year. This was reported by the publication "Mediazon", analyzing the data of the vessels as of December 29. As the journalists clarify, of all 5024 cases under this article, the absolute majority - 5006 - concern the escape from the service committed after the start of mobilization in September 2022, when the criminal punishment was tightened.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia in 2023 introduced in the register of "undesirable" 50 organizations. This is more than doubled by the 2022 indicator - then 23 organizations recognized as "undesirable". It is reported by "Virtsta." In total, 122 organizations in the register: a third of them are engaged in political activities and support for democratic institutions, another 24 - cultural and educational activities, and 19 are religious organizations.

In Russia, the campaign continues against the participants of the "almost naked party" organized by Nastya Ivleeva and gathered dozens of pop stars. Under the pressure of the "Z-patriots", who considered the event inappropriate against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, participants in the party, from Ksenia Sobchak to Philip Kirkorov, record public apologies and undergo repression. Their corporate parties are canceled, the names are deleted from the posters, the tax service checks the income.