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Early today the Russians launched Iskanders against targets in Kharkiv.

A few hours ago, there were a couple of explosions in Kharkiv: russia attacked our city with ballistic missiles.

The worst part is that there are still no details, except that one person was injured, and I’m starting to worry.

— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:59 AM

Today, a russian Iskander-M missile struck Kharkiv, leaving a massive crater close to residential buildings. A woman was injured.The intent was clear: terror, unrelenting & deliberate. Every strike is a reminder that words of condemnation are not enough—this violence demands action!

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— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 9:08 AM

Kharkiv after today’s russian missile attack

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 10:48 AM

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

A New Step in Our State App “Army Plus” – Transfers Are Now Available for National Guard Warriors: President’s Address

15 December 2024 – 20:12

I wish you health, fellow Ukrainians!

Today marks a new step in our state application “Army Plus” – transfers are now possible for the warriors of the National Guard of Ukraine. Currently, at the first stage, transfers are available within the National Guard, but the goal is to enable transfers between units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Guard as well. In the near future, units from our Border Guard Service will also be integrated into Army Plus. As of today, there have already been 3,607 approved transfer requests for our warriors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The team from the Ministry of Internal Affairs has actively worked with the Ministry of Defense to deliver results for our National Guard. Thank you! This is a concrete positive step for the warriors and an opportunity to give people greater motivation.

Today, we have another positive result from our eSupport program – nearly seven and a half million applications have been submitted. Of these, more than two million are for children. Payments are already being made, and 4.5 billion hryvnias have already been transferred to people. The largest spending category is utility services, and now, in winter, it is really important to support as many of our people, our Ukrainian families as possible. Please, register for eSupport. The program also allows payments for our train tickets, Ukrainian books, donations to volunteers… Everyone can choose the option that best suits their needs. This is support for all our people across the country.

Today, I discussed with our government officials – the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food – the issue of food assistance under the “Grain from Ukraine” program, including aid for Syria. This is our humanitarian program, which has already contributed significantly to stabilizing the food situation in vulnerable regions around the world. Now, we can help Syrians with Ukrainian wheat, flour, and oil – our products that play a global role in ensuring food security. We are coordinating with our partners and the Syrian side to address logistical issues. We will certainly support this region so that stability there can become a foundation for us in moving toward real peace.

And of course, today I received a report from Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi on the situation at the front and in the areas of the Kursk operation. The situation remains difficult in the Pokrovsk sector and with Kurakhove. I am grateful to all the units that are destroying the occupiers there. I would also like to express particular gratitude to our warriors in the Kursk region – we need strength there to achieve the right outcomes for Ukraine and Ukrainians in diplomacy. Everyone fighting for Ukraine right now is truly securing Ukraine’s future. We need a lasting peace. A guaranteed peace. We will undoubtedly achieve our objectives.

Glory to Ukraine!

Georgia:

Regarding the sanctions imposed by 🇪🇪&🇱🇹on Irakli Kobakhidze and other members of the GD gov’t, Kakha Kaladze stated that they “have no problem with sanctions; these are temporary measures, and everything will change after the inauguration of Donald Trump.”

#TerrorinGeorgia

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:36 AM

Rustaveli ave, 19:00

day 18

#GeorgiaProtests
#terrorinGeorgia

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 10:22 AM

🟥 December 15: #Batumi

A protest rally and march by teachers is taking place, demanding:

🚩New parliamentary elections under intnl monitoring, fair management and partisan neutrality of State Security Service and MIA

🚩Free all detainees in connection with #GeorgiaProtests

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM

It’s freezing cold in Tbilisi these days — -1°C during the day and -6°C at night. Yet, people continue to stay in the streets, protesting against GD’s pro-Russian, anti-Western, and anti-EU decisions, along with the violence against protesters. Day 18.

#GeorgiaProtests

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— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 1:17 PM

December 15 – #Tbilisi

Internally displaced persons from #Abkhazia joined the protest march on Rustaveli Avenue.
“The barrier between me and returning is Russian,” read some of their banners.

#GeorgiaProtests

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 15, 2024 at 9:57 AM

Grandmas and grandpas organize a protest of their own! #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 10:13 AM

Various sectoral and professional protests during the day continue, blocking roads. Protests also continue in regions. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests
📷 Publika

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM

President of #Georgia, Salome Zourabichvili reports on arresting the student movement leader, calling it continuation of #terrorinGeorgia – “arbitrary night arrests”.

#GeorgiaProtests

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— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) December 15, 2024 at 5:43 AM

On what the plan is for Georgia. #terrorinGeorgia #GeorgiaProtests

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— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 6:42 AM

Dear partners,
the myth of a polarized Georgia is now just that, a myth. There’s a firm majority that wants change through new, free and fair elections & recognizes President Zourabichvili, some passive fraction that can’t be bothered, and the Russian regime & its hired thugs.

— Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 (@marikamikiashvili.bsky.social) December 14, 2024 at 7:36 PM

Ukraine’s failure to fix organizational issues and replace inefficient commanders has eroded trust in the system to the point, where severe recruitment shortages and desertion levels are so high that no amount of aid can fix it

The window of opportunity to change is closing

— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM

Just to add, there’s no doubt that limited and delayed aid, along with indecisiveness, played a significant role in this. However, if the war ends under very unfavorable conditions, simply blaming Biden won’t fix the situation.

But internal changes still can

— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 2:58 PM

To give you an idea of how outdated the legacy militaries (like US Army / USMC) are: Ukraine’s Territorials alone have at least one Unmanned Systems Battalion, the 422nd. Yesterday it was engaged in one battle with 20 drone teams at once. Across all forces, UA has HUNDREDS of small drone units.

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— Alex Panchenko (@alexpanchenko2.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 4:35 AM

The Kerch Strait:

Russian ships are sinking near Kerch. On their own, without any additional help from AFU. O.o

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:39 AM

Two Russian oil tankers, the Volgoneft-212 and the Volgoneft-239, are in distress in reasonably heavy seas 8 km off the Kerch Strait in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea. The bow of one of them, (Volgoneft-212?) has broken off. 4.3K tons fuel oil could spill.

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— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:18 AM

/2. According to Russian channels, two tankers “Volgoneft-212” and “Volgoneft-239” are sinking in the Kerch Strait at once – they are suffering a disaster a few kilometers from the shore.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:18 AM

Does anyone know where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours…

The Kursk cross border offensive:

Another video fragment of the North Korean attack on the Kursk front has appeared online

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:10 PM

Ukrainian serviceman comments about the North Korean attacks on the Kursk front:
t.me/spqr_ps/1360

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:26 AM

/1. Collection point for dead Russians and North Koreans on the Kursk front. Video by the “Birds of Magyar” unit:

«Kursk region, still warm, Sunday morning massacre. One of a dozen mass enemy raids today. Specifically here 22…

t.me/robert_magya…

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:14 AM

/2. «…Here the Koreans are mixed with the Russians, once again went on the attack together with the snow, like cockroaches. Video from the FPV drone of the 414th separate regiment, so the quality is not very good…»

— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:15 AM

/3. «…After each wave, 4-5 Koreans arrive on buggies, to collect and “line up” the bodies, as in the video, and to mask the faces of the dead.

In the video of a friendly Mavic – one of these Korean buggies is meandering with those already killed after the FPV attack on the infantry.»

— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 7:16 AM

Zaporizhzhia Oblast:

/1. The Security Service of Ukraine
together with the Defense Forces destroyed a Russian train with 40 fuel tanks in Zaporizhia region.

On December 14 Ukrainian units conducted a multi-stage special operation to cut off the logistical routes for fuel supplies from Crimea to Zaporizhia region.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:47 AM

/2. Initially, the SBU organized a sabotage operation to blow up the tracks while the train with fuel tanks was moving near the village of Oleksiyevka, Bilmatsky district. When it stopped and part of the tanks began to burn, the HIMARS MLRS entered the game. me.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:48 AM

/3. The missiles hit the locomotive and the outer cars so that the enemy could not stretch the tanks and save some of the fuel.

As a result, a locomotive and 40 tank cars were destroyed, and an important railway line that supplied Russian troops was put out of action for a long ti

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:48 AM

/4. 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment target a long Russian fuel train with 40 tanks using Switchblade 600 Drones.

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 11:21 AM

Kharkiv:

Fighters from the HUNTERS unit of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade shoot down a Russian “Shahed” drone in the Kharkiv region. Last night, Russian forces launched around 100 Shaheds across Ukrainian territory.

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— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 4:48 AM

Odesa:

#Odesa My friend is cooking at her balcony during yet another power outage.

Many regions are without power due to the Russian attacks on the critical infrastructure.

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— Zarina Zabrisky (@zarinazabrisky.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 5:06 PM

Grozny, Chechnya:

This morning a kamikaze drone made on the base of Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat targeted an OMON base in Grozny, Russia (Kadyrov’s capital).

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 4:56 AM

/2. Kamikaze drone strike on an OMON base in Grozny, Russia (Kadyrov’s capital).

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 4:57 AM

But there were other explosion reported in Grozny overnight. The drone used was the one based on the A22 Foxbat light aircraft. You can even see a little Ukrainian flag on the tail.

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— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 4:03 AM

Ulyanovsk, Russia:

On December 14, 2024, partisans blew up a railway track in Ulyanovsk, Russia.

The explosion occurred in the railway district of Ulyanovsk, on a line near the Sviyaga River, a few kilometers from the local locomotive depot and the Ulyanovsk Motor Plant.
t.me/DIUkraine/5028

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— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) December 15, 2024 at 8:09 AM

MG Budanov’s merry band of mirth makers have been very busy lately.

That’s enough for tonight.

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