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A quick housekeeping note: I’m feeling a bit better, no fever, but my sinuses are still killing me, so I’m just going to run down the basics.

Russian occupation authorities and proxies in Donetsk have sentenced a group of Azovstal defenders, who are POWs, to lengthy prison sentences:

⚡️ Russian proxies sentence 9 Azovstal defenders to 24 years, life in prison.

Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk jailed nine Ukrainian soldiers captured after defending Mariupol to between 24 years and a life sentence, the city’s exiled authorities reported on Dec. 11.

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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) December 11, 2024 at 8:55 AM

From The Kyiv Independent:

Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk jailed nine Ukrainian soldiers captured after defending Mariupol to between 24 years and a life sentence, the city’s exiled authorities reported on Dec. 11.

Russia often uses trumped-up charges to jail captured Ukrainian soldiers, activists, journalists, and regular civilians for lengthy terms.

Moscow’s proxies in Donetsk now sentenced soldiers of the 36th Marine Brigade who fell into Russian hands after a gruesome siege of Mariupol and its Azovstal steel plant in the spring of 2022, the exiled Mariupol City Council said on Telegram.

Andrii Shestak, Nazarii Moroz, Vladyslav Yavorskyi, Vadym Shulha, Serhii Yampolskyi, Maksym Kolbasin, Dmytro Shalara, Volodymyr Penzin, and Kostiantyn Romaniuk are to serve their sentence in a high-security prison, according to the statement.

The occupation authorities accused the soldiers of shelling the village of Staryi Krym near Mariupol in March 2022.

Ukraine’s former Prosecutor General said that nine out of 10 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW) are subjected to physical and moral torture. While Ukraine has managed to bring back home some of the captives, including Azovstal defenders, through prisoner exchanges, many more remain in Russian captivity.

Again, the Azovstal defenders are POWs and these prison sentences constitute violations of the Geneva Conventions and are war crimes.

Here is President Zelenskyy’s address from earlier today. Video below, English transcript after the jump.

Achieving Reliable Peace Is a Challenging Task, and We Must Be Capable of Handling the Challenge – Address by the President

11 December 2024 – 19:15

I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!

I have just spoken with the Prime Minister of Spain about our joint work – all of us in Europe – to achieve unity, which can bring peace closer. I am grateful to Spain for its support. And especially for the support in strengthening our air defense. We will continue working this week and next to strengthen our shared European positions, ensuring they help restore security in Ukraine and throughout Europe. Coordination and joint work always lead to achieving results. This is what Europe needs now, not some individual efforts in defiance of everyone else on the continent. Achieving reliable peace is a challenging task, and we must be capable of handling the challenge. The European position on peace must be as strong as possible.

Today I held several important meetings. Together with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Sybiha, we are already preparing replacements in the diplomatic corps for the near future. We will present them in a week and a half. We are currently interviewing candidates for the positions of Ukrainian Ambassadors. There are some strong proposals.

Today, First Deputy Prime Minister Svyrydenko reported on meetings and negotiations in the United States, as well as on Government programs, including eSupport. Almost six and a half million Ukrainians have already applied for eSupport, including one million six hundred thousand applications for children. The development pace of this program is good, as we expected. It is obvious that people need the program. And the first payments are already being made. We see that about half of the payments were transferred to utilities. A significant part goes to volunteer funds, and it is very important that people can support our army with these funds. The eSupport program will be open for three months of the winter – this is the time to apply for it. And the funds will be available for spending throughout the whole coming year. Today, the Ukrainian-German Business Forum was held in Germany, with Chancellor Scholz and Prime Minister Shmyhal attending. I am waiting for the Prime Minister’s report on the agreements reached.

And one more thing.

Regarding any missile threats. The action algorithm remains the same. If there is a threat and an air raid siren sounds – you have to react. Know where the shelter is. And take care of yourself. I am grateful to all defenders of our skies who protect Ukraine. Glory to our warriors! Glory to our people!

Glory to Ukraine!

Apparently President Zelenskyy gave an interview to CBN – that’s Christian Broadcasting News – two days ago. From Ukrainska Pravda:

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an interview with the American broadcaster CBN, has stated that the West has not responded decisively enough to the situation in Georgia and Russia’s efforts to establish control over the country.

Source: European Pravda, citing CBN

Details: The president emphasised that Ukraine’s defeat would lead to “explosions of war” in other parts of the world, both in Europe and beyond, citing Georgia as an example.

Quote from Zelenskyy: “America’s actions regarding the situation in Georgia today, I believe, are weak. It’s very similar. Part of Georgia was occupied [by Russia – ed.]. Nothing has happened to it; it’s just a dead part of Georgia. There’s nothing alive there. No civilisation, nothing.”

More details: Zelenskyy added that Moscow deliberately created a frozen conflict to prevent Georgia from developing and joining the European Union or NATO.

“And today, Georgia, which was free and democratic yesterday, is usurped by oligarchs. All power belongs to businesses directly connected to Moscow, to the energy sector, and so on,” Zelenskyy stated, adding that Georgia’s government is now “completely under the political control of the Russian Federation”.

Quote from Zelenskyy: “What strong measures have the United States taken? What strong measures have European countries taken? I don’t see them; I’m telling you frankly. The same thing will happen in Moldova; the risks are high.”

Background:

• Since 28 November, mass protests have been ongoing in Georgia due to the decision by the ruling party, Georgian Dream, to halt progress towards EU membership until 2029.
• During the protests, both demonstrators and journalists covering the events in Tbilisi have been subjected to violence by law enforcement and hired provocateurs.

Here’s the video with English subtitles.

The US:

Once again: infiltration at all levels:

I spent the last few weeks writing about Russian sabotage operations. But don’t forget those influence ops! Meet Nomma Zarubina, who made the rounds of the DC think tank circuit before being arrested by the FBI. Oh, and she’s got some interesting friends!
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— Alex Finley (@alexzfinley.bsky.social) December 10, 2024 at 10:26 AM

From Rant! With Alex Finley:

This week brought news that (yet another) individual has been arrested by the FBI for supporting Russian intelligence in their influence operations. Nomma Zarubina is a Russian national who was working for the Washington, DC-based think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). For those of you not wonky enough to be familiar with DC think tank reputations, bless you; I wish I were still one of you. But I’m not, so I will tell you that CSIS is one of the biggies. It is highly regarded and has been home to such thinkers as Madeleine Albright and Zbigniew Brzezninski, who, I think it is fair to say, had to deal rather a lot in their day with the Russian menace.

Zarubina was allegedly recruited in 2020 by the FSB (Russia’s domestic spy service), which gave her the codename Alyssa. Her task was to network in policymaking and influential circles in the United States, including among journalists, experts, and Russian opposition supporters. The likely purpose for this was to report back to Moscow who was influential in these circles (spot and assess) and to help seed narratives among them to influence policy discourse (a tactic we’ve seen repeatedly here at Rant! and in the Foreign Influence Operations course).

Oh, she’s also a hottie.

US authorities claim Zarubina’s mentor is Elena Chernykh Branson, an American-Russian dual national who fled to Russia in 2020, after the FBI raided her Manhattan apartment. Branson, before she ran to Russia, ran the Russian Community Council of the USA, which claims to be a cultural organization preserving Russian culture and language. The center was used (allegedly) as cover for Russian influence and propaganda purposes. (For more on cultural organizations being used as cover for Russian intelligence operations, see Class 7, Class 8, and Class 18.)

After Branson, the mentor, fled to Russia, she was interviewed by Russian-state media outlet RT about her harrowing experience having her apartment searched by the FBI.

Her interviewer?

Mariia Butina, the red-headed hottie who, like Zarubina (the mentee), circulated amongst the DC crowd before being arrested for being a Russian spy. For more on Butina, see Class 9.

Back to Zarubina, the mentee and most recent to be arrested. She had been interviewed by the FBI multiple times, always denying she had a relationship with Russian intelligence services. Eventually, it became clear she did indeed have a relationship with Russian intelligence, and the FBI arrested her for lying to them.

Interestingly, Zarubina told The Insider, which did a great deep dive into her social media and managed to actually interview her, she had long-standing contacts among members of the “U.S. counterintelligence headquarters,” with whom she’d shared classified information.

More at the link!

Here’s the link to CSIS’s leadership, from Board of Trustees to resident and non-resident subject matter experts. This is who Zarubina had access to!

I also highly recommend Alex Finley’s classes on this and related topics. They overlap with a lot of what I’ve written here about this stuff for over a decade. It is well worth your time.

‘[McConnell] doesn’t know if the US will spend more on Ukraine military aid but ‘the goal here is for the Russians not to win’. Of Ukraine and Israel, he says, ‘We’ve got two democratic allies fighting for their lives. I don’t think we ought to micromanage what they think is necessary to win.'”

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— Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 9:48 AM

From The Financial Times:

Mitch McConnell is standing in his office smiling. Hanging on the walls are faces, mostly stern, from Washington’s past. McConnell’s portrait might soon join them. Last month, the Republican leader in the US Senate stepped down from the role he has held for longer than anyone in US political history. At the age of 82, McConnell is “ready to do something else”.

A pivotal politician in a tumultuous time, McConnell earned power and used it to shift the country to the right during his 17-year tenure. He won races across the country, raised more than $1bn to boost his colleagues and negotiated trillion-dollar-plus bills, including the aid that lifted the country out of the pandemic. He became enormously influential and broadly unpopular, making enemies among Democrats for blocking judicial nominations to the Supreme Court and among Republicans for his occasional, sharp criticisms of Donald Trump. With the latter preparing to return to the White House next month, the veteran lawmaker issues a warning from America’s past. “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”

Warming to his historical theme, McConnell turns to one of the portraits behind him, an influential Senate Republican of the wartime era named Robert A Taft. Son of the 27th president William Howard Taft, Robert was “a raging isolationist” who opposed Lend-Lease before the second world war and both the creation of Nato and the Marshall Plan afterwards, says McConnell. “Thank goodness Eisenhower beat him for the [presidential] nomination in ’52 and had a much different view of America’s role in the world.”

McConnell has been Kentucky senator since 1985. Having committed to serving the final two years of his term, he intends to spend the time pushing back against the increasingly isolationist elements of today’s GOP. “The cost of deterrence is considerably less than the cost of war,” he says, reeling off the figures to prove it. In the second world war, the US spent 37 per cent of GDP on the fight. Last year that figure was about 2.7 per cent.

His words are targeted directly at Trump and vice-president-elect JD Vance, who have argued that the US should not be spending any more money on Ukraine. McConnell is a strong believer in the Ronald Reagan view of the US role in the world, rather than the Trump one. “To most American voters, I think the simple answer is, ‘Let’s stay out of it.’ That was the argument made in the ’30s and that just won’t work,” he says. “Thanks to Reagan, we know what does work — not just saying peace through strength, but demonstrating it.”

Trump has also said that enemies within the US are more dangerous than Russia and China. “I don’t agree with that,” says McConnell.

Though some of his biggest moments as Senate leader came during Trump’s first presidency, he is no fan of the president-elect. Having blocked Barack Obama from replacing the late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, McConnell was instrumental in the confirmation of three conservative justices to the court under Trump. Yet in The Price of Power, a new McConnell biography by reporter Michael Tackett, McConnell calls Trump “stupid” and a “despicable human being”.

After a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol on January 6 2021, McConnell said the then-president was “practically and morally responsible” for inciting the violence. Yet he didn’t vote to convict him in the ensuing impeachment trial which, if successful, would have barred Trump from running for the White House again. His rationale was that Trump was already out of office.

Today, McConnell acknowledges for the first time that he voted for Trump last month, although he can’t bring himself to mention his name. “I supported the ticket,” he says. Asked if he wishes he had done more to prevent Trump from becoming president again, McConnell says: “The election’s over and we’re moving on.”

It’s characteristic of McConnell’s brand of politics. He prizes GOP power above almost all other considerations. You could call it Republican First. But he recognises that the struggle for the future of his party is an uphill one. “He has an enormous audience, and he just won a national election, so there’s no question he’s the most influential Republican out there,” he says of Trump. He also calls Trump’s recent victory after losing in 2020 a “remarkable comeback”. As to his own part in shaping the foreign affairs of the next administration, McConnell says, “No matter who got elected president, I think it was going to require significant pushback, yeah, and I intend to be one of the pushers.”

He will chair the Senate appropriations panel’s subcommittee for defence, making decisions on how to spend billions of dollars for the Pentagon. “That’s where the real money is,” says McConnell. He doesn’t know if the US will spend more on Ukraine military aid but “the goal here is for the Russians not to win”. Of Ukraine and Israel, he says, “We’ve got two democratic allies fighting for their lives. I don’t think we ought to micromanage what they think is necessary to win.”

McConnell’s appetite for a scrap is not in doubt. He overcame polio at an early age and repeatedly sought recognition from his peers, starting with winning a role as “king” in a first-grade school pageant. Through an uncommon devotion to politics, he fought his way up from Senate intern to leader. Reflecting on his legacy, he considers his part in dramatically changing the make-up of the Supreme Court as “the most important thing that I’ve been involved in”. The court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe vs Wade is just the most prominent example of how the six conservative justices have shifted US law to the right.

More than anyone else, McConnell – American Insurgent – is the architect of the moment we’re in. McConnell remade himself from a moderate to liberal – for the era – Republican into the money worshipping, conniving senator he is today. Unlike Gingrich, who broke the House, but was too much of a buffoon to actually benefit from doing so, McConnell broke the Senate and has politically and personally profited handsomely from doing so. It was the removal of all limits for political donations that allowed ultra high net worth conservative and GOP donors to hollow out the Republican Party, which is what created the opportunity for the President-elect to just walk right into the space, take the GOP, and remake it in his image. As I wrote back in June 2018:

Senate Majority Leader McConnell really isn’t a politician or like any politician who has ever served as Senate Majority or Minority Leader. Rather than view him as a politician, it is more appropriate to understand Senator McConnell as an insurgent, albeit a non-violent one. He recognizes no legitimacy but his own. When out of power he’ll do whatever is necessary using asymmetric, irregular, and/or unconventional means to achieve power. And once he achieves power he will do whatever he can to achieve his objectives to consolidate his gains as quickly as possible using any means necessary as he believes his actions are self justifying – that his achievement of power justifies his by any means necessary strategy. This is, by the way, the basic argument of the premier Italian fascist (national-syndicalist) theorist Sergio Panunzio, who delineated the fascist theories for the use of political violence and low intensity warfare in the 1920s. As a result, there is no law, rule, tradition, norm, ethic, promise, and/or deal he won’t violate or renege on. This also makes him an unreliable interlocutor and makes it impossible to negotiate with him in good faith as he doesn’t believe in good faith negotiations.

Since Senators Corker, Flake, and Collins, let alone anyone else, cannot negotiate with Senator McConnell in good faith, because Senator McConnell doesn’t do anything in good faith, if they want to get anything done, then they need to rely on their leverage as senators in a very slim Senate majority caucus to force their initiatives through. This means threatening to and/or actually caucusing with the Democrats. The last thing that Senator McConnell wants is to lose control of the Senate. Whether now because of the defections of a pair of his retiring members using it as leverage to achieve their own objectives or in the mid terms because enough voters want a check on the President to override the partisan Republican advantage in this senatorial election cycle. It is why he’s ground everything in the chamber other than handling nominations, specifically judicial nominations, to a halt. It is why he doesn’t want to do the legally required annual budgetary resolution so he can avoid having his members take tough votes before the midterms. And it is why he’s cancelled most of the August recess under the pretense that it is the only way he can move judicial nominees because of what he alleges is Democratic obstruction. Nominations that only exist because he prevented President Obama from seating almost any judicial nominees during his final two years in office. The Democratic minority has no tools to stop these nominations, regardless of what Senator McConnell says because Senator McConnell in conjunction with Senator Grassley has gotten rid of the blue slip rule and refuses to recognize Democratic senators holds on nominees. Senator McConnell’s cancellation of the August recess is really just a thinly veiled attempt to keep incumbent Democratic senators up for reelection off the campaign trail. Every Senate rule, tradition, norm, ethic, and even law (Congressional Budget Act) has been bent or stretched to breaking or just outright ignored by Senator McConnell in his quest to consolidate his power and achieve his revanchist and reactionary objectives. As an insurgent, albeit a non-violent one, Senator McConnell only understands and recognizes the application of leverage and force. Senators Corker, Flake, and Collins have the ability to apply significant leverage and force. The question is whether or not they have the will to do so. The sad reality is the answer is almost certainly not.

Senator McConnell recreated America in line with his vision, it is a little too late for him to be sad about the fact that he won and, as a result, ultimately lost.

Georgia:

23:00 December 11 – #Tbilisi

#GeorgiaProtests continue for the 14th day.

Today part of public servants, students, teachers and professors marched from different locations joining the main rally on Rustaveli Avenue.

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 11, 2024 at 2:07 PM

#GeorgiaProtests

Day 14

22:50

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 2:28 PM

Doctors held a protest march in Batumi

#GeorgiaProtests
#TerrorinGeorgia

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:49 PM

Getting rid of the Georgian Dream menace is first and foremost a mental, societal revolution, the conscious rejection of the Trojan horse Soviet/Russian revanche against Georgia’s independence. This process has been brewing for almost 6 years now.

— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 4:30 PM

The population of Georgia – less than 3.7 million.
So this is like 900 journalists affected and 3000+ persons tortured in two weeks in a country of 37 million.
Those punished – 0.
#TerrorInGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM

The general director of critical to gov’t @MtavariChannel Giorgi Gabunia, stated at a special briefing:

“One of the founders, Zaza Okuashvili, has decided to shut down Mtavari Arkhi. As long as we are able, we will continue to fight and remain on the air.”

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:17 PM

Georgian Dream Parliament approved a legislative package on its first reading, 88-0, banning pyrotechnics, lasers, and face coverings at rallies. Two more readings and the president’s signature are needed, the president can veto it, though GD can easily override.
#GeorgiaProtests

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 11, 2024 at 11:42 AM

🧵1/ Due to ongoing massive anti-Russian protests, “Georgian Dream” has announced several new restrictions:

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

2/ The sale and purchase of pyrotechnics will now require a license. Severe penalties will be imposed for non-compliance.

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

3/ Lasers are prohibited, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs claims they interfere with police operations.

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

4/ People dressed in uniforms or clothing similar to those used in the Ministry of Internal Affairs system will be fined.

— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

5/ Fines for acts of disfigurement and vandalism will increase.

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

6/ Fines for blocking roads with vehicles as part of organized actions will be increased.

— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

7/ The Ministry of Internal Affairs will have broader authority to detain individuals administratively, conduct searches, and seize documents. This is expected to ensure timely court presentations and prevent delays in cases.

— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

8/ Employment within the Ministry of Internal Affairs and recruitment into the police force will now be possible only through a ministerial order.

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:03 AM

Good luck enforcing that.

This town of 3,000 keeps going hard! #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:25 PM

The Georgian Trade Union Confederation opposes Georgian Dream’s proposed amendments to the Civil Service Law, aimed at simplifying reorganization in the public sector, calling them unacceptable.
#GeorgiaProtests
netgazeti.ge/news/755898/

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM

Current and former public servants join the main protest at Rustaveli from the First Republic Square. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:50 AM

President Zourabichvili is not going to go quietly!

🔥🔥 👏🏻👏🏻 #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:18 AM

Indications that the regime plans on jailing President Zourabichvili. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests #freeGeorgia

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 4:48 AM

Russia’s butcher’s bill from yesterday’s attack in Zaporizhzhia keeps rising:

Death toll from Dec. 10 Russian missile attack on private health clinic in Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine, rises to six. Five-year-old girl among the dead. Rescue work still going on, people feared still trapped under rubble. Area hit a residential area – literally no military targets for miles around.

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— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 1:30 AM

Correction: Five-year-old among injured, not dead.

— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 1:33 AM

The Dnipro River, Kherson Oblast:

Strike on a Russian assault group on a boat, Dnipro river, Kherson region.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 4:16 AM

Pokrovsk:

The assault on enemy trenches in the Pokrovske direction was shown by the fighters of the 2nd separate detachment of the CSO “Omega” of the National Guard of Ukraine.

t.me/c/1377735387…

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:46 AM

Kharkiv:

Fighters of the “Karakurt Colony” company of the 2nd mechanized battalion in the Kharkiv direction captured a group of occupiers. Among them is the “standard-bearer” who was waving the tricolor.
t.me/c/1377735387…

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:44 PM

Sevastopol, Russian occupied Crimea:

Russian monitoring channels reporting a large-scale drone or missile attack happening now, affecting Sevastopol.

— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 12:55 PM

🤡In Sevastopol, after the explosions, an “urgent repair” was announced, and part of the city will be without power.
www.rbc.ua/rus/news/sev…

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 3:58 PM

Kherson Oblast:

#Kherson #HumanSafari #HumanRights

A rare video: a drone hunts a person. My contact recorded it, hiding. The chase continued for 5 minutes. The drone then left and dropped explosives on a critical infrastructure object.

Another drone malfunctioned; dropped on a roof.

Sound on

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— Zarina Zabrisky (@zarinazabrisky.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 5:38 PM

#Kherson A Russian drone dropped explosives on a 91-year-old woman walking down the street.

Later, a drone attacked and injured a man, 50.

Yesterday, 1 killed, 15 injured.

#HumanSafari

📸 Telegram

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— Zarina Zabrisky (@zarinazabrisky.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 10:40 AM

Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, Russia:

Ukraine prosecuted two targets in Taganrog over night:

russian Taganrog has a loud night. Sound on!

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 10, 2024 at 8:58 PM

In addition to the ATACMS strike on the aircraft repair plant in Taganrog, a strike was carried out on the Russian military base where the 5th aviation group of the 6955th air base is stationed. (47.2373575, 38.8637012) t.me/astrapress/7…

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 11:04 AM

Indeed Russian aircraft plant in Taganrog, Rostov region of Russia, was targeted by ATACMS tonight.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 11, 2024 at 7:32 AM

That’s enough for tonight.

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— Eugene Kibets (@eugenekibets.bsky.social) December 8, 2024 at 4:13 AM

Open thread!