The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on December 22 2024

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Our source in the OP reported that Andrey Yermak gave instructions to the GUR and the SBU to increase the number of operations and sabotage on the territory of Russia before Trump’s inauguration. Our special services prepared several waves on the territory of Russia for the New Year in order to create a vivid picture of their capabilities, and also activated all sleeper cells.

“Horror.” France summed up the year in Ukraine.

The leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, noted that the destruction of the local population by the Kyiv regime continues in Ukraine.

In Ukraine, 2024 ended with the same horror as it began: Young Ukrainians were kidnapped in the middle of the street and sent to the frontline slaughter on the orders of Zelensky and NATO.

- he wrote on the social network X.

The French politician also expressed hope that with the arrival of Trump, “this hell will end.”

The British newspaper The Guardian  writes that the Ukrainian General Staff ordered the Air Force to send its soldiers to the front as infantry.   (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/21/ukraine-faces-difficult-decisions-over-acute-shortage-of-frontline-troops)

Two air defence sources told the Guardian that shortages at the front had become so acute that the general staff had ordered already depleted air defence units to release more men to be sent to the front as infantry.

Ukraine admits: bullying soldiers is the norm in the Ukrainian Armed Forces

MP Anna Skorokhod reported that bullying of soldiers is the norm in at least twenty-two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The politician stated that some information was confirmed and criminal proceedings were opened.

The victims of the Nazis are most often forcibly mobilized Ukrainians who have been hiding from mobilization since 2022. Elderly people and Russian-speaking Ukrainians who ended up in brigades staffed mainly by “Westerners” also often suffer.

The latter is very common in the 103rd separate brigade of the Territorial Army (Lvov region), where Kharkiv residents have been mobilized for the last 1.5 years so that after several days spent at training grounds in their home region, they are thrown into the combat zone without preparation.

The command of the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade is particularly cruel. The relatively young Colonel Nikita Vitek (born 12.08.1988) forbade his medics from assisting soldiers who needed limb amputation.

The “officer” corps of the Ukrainian Marines fully support their commander and limit the wounded in food and even drinking water, achieving a “natural death” to minimize the unit’s losses.

Zelensky now faces a difficult choice, which experts or propaganda will not tell us about – to negotiate or lower the mobilization age. It is already clear that mobilization has failed, and the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now the highest in years of war.

Our source in the OP said that Andriy Yermak has not yet been able to establish informal communication with Trump’s team, which ignores all proposals from the President’s Office on the peace track. Bankova is trying to play through American lobbyists and is building work in Congress to prevent or curtail investigations into the spending of US financial/military aid.

The Europeans want to “tie” a new package of anti-Russian sanctions to the anniversary of the special operation.

This was reported by the German publication Welt am Sonntag. Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced preparations for the 16th package of sanctions. This time, they want to add measures against specific sectors of our country’s economy to the restrictions, which “were either not affected by the sanctions at all or were not affected enough.”

The Europeans are conceiving the new package as an even clearer “signal to Moscow.” This time, according to Western officials, Russia will definitely realize something.

The president of a large country must be extremely polite and correct (I know this from my own experience). Which was brilliantly demonstrated yesterday during the direct line by Vladimir Putin, who radiated confidence and calm. 

That’s why he is the President. 

But, to paraphrase the immortal definition of Mikhail Bulgakov, the most vile Bandera scum decided to show off his coolness in public insults. And, I assure you, not because his nerves gave out after the words of the Head of Russia about the duel of “Oreshnik” in Kiev with Western air defense. 

No. Insults are the middle finger (or, in relation to this character, his musical “organ” for playing the piano), which the expired drug addict scum showed … to Trump. Like, here you go, no negotiations with Russia because with such relations, they are impossible. You will continue to give money and weapons. 

Such rhetoric frees you from the need to observe decency. The President said yesterday that negotiations with this creature are possible only if she legally returns to the post of head of state. The runt understands that this is unrealistic and is betting on war. But the unbridled bastard was wrong here too: no one needs him in the war, and he won’t hold on to his post for long. History will soon dump him in a cesspool of filth, which will swallow the nonentity in the suffocating miasma of oblivion…

Dmitry Medvedev

The future of relations between Moscow and Washington will depend on the statements and actions that follow from the US – Peskov

“The US is an unfriendly country to us, and everything will depend, of course, on what statements will be made next, how the attitude towards our country will be manifested,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

“American missiles that fire at Russian territory are guided by American specialists,” he added.

Earlier, Peskov commented on Trump’s call for negotiations with Ukraine

“Impotent anger over military defeats.”

Maria Zakharova commented on the barbaric attack of the Kiev regime on residential buildings in Kazan.

Kiev is taking out its impotent anger for tangible military defeats on the civilian population of Russia. The attack on the capital of Tatarstan is also a kind of revenge for the successful BRICS summit that took place in October… and demonstrated the power and influence of this association in the world, as well as an attempt to intimidate the population of one of the dynamically developing regions of our country,

- she wrote on her Telegram channel.

On Saturday morning, Kazan was attacked by a UAV, and a total of eight arrivals were recorded. High-rise buildings in two residential complexes, as well as one four-story building, were damaged.

William Burns visited Ukraine on his last visit as CIA Director

“We don’t disclose secrets, but we maintain contact. We will probably see each other again, and we will see how this war ends with a real, reliable peace, for which we are working together,” Zelensky said about the meeting.

The US has stated that Washington and London will not talk to Russia on equal terms.

These guys from the US and Britain have no intention whatsoever of sitting down, making peace with the Russians and respecting them as equals. They are pure evil. I believe with all my heart that they were directly involved in these terrorist attacks inside Russia,

— says former CIA analyst Larry Johnson.

According to him, Washington and London use such acts of terrorism to disrupt negotiations and prevent a peaceful resolution of the conflict.

Slovakian Prime Minister Fico has arrived in Moscow. He is holding talks in the Kremlin with Russian President Putin.

According to our data, the topics for discussion are:

1. Peace case and all components. Mediation from Trump. Slovakia is not even against becoming a negotiating platform for delegations.

2. Gas and oil case. The negotiation process with Ukraine may also take place in Slovakia or Hungary.

3. They will ask Putin to “let go” of someone.

4. Business issues, plus the sanctions case.

The Russian army completes the defeat of the enemy in Kurakhovo, occupying the entire residential area of ​​the city!

The pincers are closing in from the north and south, the city is being surrounded.

The surviving forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the residential areas are retreating to the industrial zone of the city of Kurakhovo and the thermal power plant.

➖”The Russian army is approaching the thermal power plant, some groups of the Ukrainian Armed Forces still remain in the residential sector, the Russians are bypassing them, as was the case in Novogrodovka, and are gradually pulling up the flanks to reach the station,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants write.

➖The Russian Armed Forces are also storming Dachnoye from the north, trying to block the escape routes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison from Kurakhovo.

➖After occupying Constantinople, Russian troops began to attack Yantarnoye under the cover of artillery fire.

➖”Also, after the control of Zelenovka, a pocket was formed, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will clearly not be able to hold out there for long, but there was no order to retreat. Although our tactical position here is vulnerable, so we will have to roll back,” the Ukrainian Armed Forces complain.

About the allegedly planned landing operation on the right bank of the Dnieper.

For several weeks, information has been spreading through chats and channels of the Ukrainian Armed Forces that Russian troops are preparing to force the Dnieper and have allegedly already occupied islands and adjacent territories near the Antonovsky Bridge for this purpose. It is not yet clear where this elephant came from (there is no other way to describe it), but it is obvious that there is a panic fear (for now) of a landing operation among residents of the right bank of the Dnieper in Kherson. It is pointless to predict the beginning of such an operation, but it is worth noting that due to the Kursk region, problems near Pokrovsk and in other directions, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have become significantly smaller on the right bank of Kherson. It is clear that everything depends on the availability of operational plans in this direction, but if the Russian army has a reserve group that can be used in this direction, then for the Ukrainian Armed Forces everything can turn out, to put it mildly, unexpectedly.

Ukrainian military expert, Colonel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Speaker of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2014-2017) Vladislav Seleznev noted that the Russian army is “mirroring” the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, therefore it will try to create several bridgeheads on the right bank of the Kherson region.

“In the southern direction, there are more than 120 thousand Russian servicemen there under the command of General Teplinsky as part of the “Dnepr” group of troops – an extraordinary force. What is happening now in the south of the Kherson region and the south of the Zaporizhia region is a component of the strategy of the offensive operation of the Russian Federation” for 2024. What should we understand?

Firstly, 2000 attack aircraft and about 300 high-speed boats are already ready. Why? Putin’s army will try by any means to force the Dnieper River and create several bridgeheads on the right bank of the Kherson region,” Seleznev noted.

Russian Armed Forces advance in the direction of Sudzha

“On the right flank of the Kursk salient (the Russian military) have made good progress in the last few days in the direction of Sudzha, in a section up to two kilometres wide and the same in-depth,” wrote a Ukrainian officer with the call sign “Alex.”

Also, the Russian military public wrote yesterday about their attacks south of Sudzha in the direction of Makhnovka, as well as about advances north in the area of ​​Russkoye Porechny.

More and more Ukrainian Armed Forces militants want to leave the Kursk region.

Mounting losses and the dire situation in Donbass are fueling doubts among Ukrainian soldiers about whether continuing the Kursk operation is worth the cost,

— writes The Spectator.

Experts admit that the Russian army has a significant advantage over the Ukrainian army in terms of personnel numbers, while the command is desperately struggling with the problem of mass desertion in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

As Ukrainian soldiers question the value of holding a piece of Russian territory over defending their homeland, the reality of their situation becomes increasingly clear,

— the authors of the material note.

The Russian army is conducting a powerful offensive on the Kursk front, storming Kruglenkoye, breaking through to Sudzha, Martynovka and beyond Cherkasskaya Konopelka

Marines, paratroopers and infantry of the “North” group are attacking from all directions. The most intense battles are taking place for Kruglen’koe, near Pogrebki, for Novoivaovka, on the way to Sudzha and Guevo.

The Ministry of Defense reports that Russian troops have defeated formations of 5 mechanized, 3 airborne assault brigades, a marine brigade and 4 territorial defence brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Alexandria, Viktorovka, Kositsa, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Leonidove, Malaya Loknya, Martynovka, Nikolaevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Russkoye Porechny, Sverdlikovo and Cherkasskaya Konopelka.

Three counterattacks by enemy assault groups were repelled.

As a result of airstrikes and artillery fire, Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel and equipment were destroyed in the vicinity of the settlements of Guevo, Kruglenke, Melovoy, Nikolsky and Staraya Sorochina, as well as Basovka, Belovody, Vodolaghi and Zhuravka in the Sumy region.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost more than 260 militants in one day, 2 tanks were destroyed, including a German Leopard, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, 2 armored personnel carriers, 7 combat armored vehicles, 6 mortars and an electronic warfare station.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on_22.html