Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 18 December 2023

  • The Russian Federation destroyed the Avdiiv coke-chemical plant, it will be impossible to restore it
  • The Odesa Art Museum has resumed operations after the Russian attack
  • Spotify has completely stopped working in Russia
  • Oil is rising due to the drop in Russian exports and concerns about the situation in the Red Sea
  • The Economist pointed out problems with recruitment to the ranks of the Armed Forces and predicted difficult decisions by the authorities
  • Once again, Russia did not allow IAEA representatives to the thermal power plant near the ZNPP
  • Russia is preparing to import chicken eggs from Iran
  • More than a thousand Russian citizens are to be expelled from Latvia
  • Energoatom signed an agreement with Westinghouse to purchase a reactor unit for the Khmelnytskyi NPP
  • At night, air defense destroyed all the drones that attacked Ukraine
  • 17 December 2023

  • ISW: The Russians are making progress near Stepovoy, and the ZSU has advanced east of Nevelsky
  • The Czech minister called Orbán a Trojan horse working in the interests of the Russian Federation
  • Russia lost another thousand soldiers, 60 BBM, 44 tanks and 38 artillery systems
  • The Armed Forces of Ukraine are defending themselves in most directions, holding positions in the Kherson region
  • The Russians shot down their Su-25
  • A listening device was found in Zaluzhny's office
  • Since the morning, 25 enemy attacks have been repulsed in the Avdiyiv direction
  • Battles took place in the Belgorod region, and a Russian stronghold was destroyed
  • Russia activated DRG in Sumy region and Kharkiv region
  • Gazprom announced a new daily maximum of gas supplies to China
  • The Russians hit the center of Kherson, a man was killed
  • Ukraine has officially temporarily removed Raiffeisen Bank from the list of war sponsors
  • Putin threatened Finland with problems
  • In Poland, there is a queue of more than 2 thousand trucks in the direction of Ukraine
  • The Russians increased the activity of artillery in the Tauri direction
  • Moldova conducts military exercises near Transnistria
  • In Odesa, a downed drone fell on a private house and exploded, killing a man
  • The Air Force of Ukraine shot down 20 drones and an Kh-59 missile at night
  • The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that 33 drones were shot down at night
  • UAVs attacked a military airfield in the Rostov region
  • The Russians launched Shahedi from different directions
  • 16 December 2023

  • The Russians have increased the number of strikes in the Zaporizhzhia region, there are wounded civilians
  • Another 1250 Russians, 19 of their tanks and 37 artillery systems were destroyed at the front
  • ISW reported a slight advance of Russian troops in three directions
  • During the day, 89 combat clashes took place at the front, the occupiers are advancing in six directions
  • The Parliament of Moldova approved the first National Security Strategy in 12 years
  • Austria unblocked sanctions against Russia after Ukraine's concession on Raiffeisen
  • Austria blocked the 12th package of EU sanctions against Russia
  • The Russian Federation attacks the most in the Avdiiv direction
  • Hungary is blackmailing Bulgaria about joining Schengen because of a tax on Russian gas
  • Ukraine and Romania resolved a 20-year dispute over the Danube-Black Sea canal
  • Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey are preparing an agreement on demining the Black Sea
  • Radio Bulgaria filmed an interview with the ambassador of the Russian Federation after the outrage of Ukraine
  • German Defense Minister: We have five to eight years to make up for the lack of defense production
  • 2,400 trucks are waiting to enter Ukraine from Poland
  • The mayor of London refused to provide Ukraine with scrapped cars
  • Finland withdrew trains shared with Russia
  • Partisans blew up a car with a Russian officer in Mariupol
  • In Lithuania, Orban was hinted at the need to leave the EU
  • The invaders attacked Ukraine at night with 31 drones, almost all of them were shot down
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