❗️Wagner boss Prigozhin accuses Russian Defense Minister Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Gerasimov of treason for cutting off the mercenary group from ammunition supplies.
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IMF forecasts the Russia economy to grow faster than Germany’s and Britain’s in 2023.
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Washington Post: CIA director secretly traveled to Kyiv to brief Zelensky on Russia’s plans and emphasize the urgency of the moment on the battlefield.
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Politico: While condemning Russia in public, behind the scenes, global CEOs and leaders question how long the West can ignore Moscow.
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Von der Leyen: The EU is on a long-term path toward rebuilding Ukraine and destroying the Russian economy.
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Speaking at Davos, Kissinger backs Ukraine’s NATO bid and says the U.S. should intensify its military aid to Kyiv.
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“We’re in a hot war with Russia. It’s a proxy war and NATO is fighting it through Ukraine,” says American political scientist Ian Bremmer.
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CNN: The war in Ukraine has offered the U.S. and its allies a rare opportunity to study how their own weapons systems perform.
For the US military, the war in Ukraine has been an incredible source of data on the utility of its own systems.
Ukraine is "absolutely a weapons lab in every sense because none of this equipment has ever actually been used in a war between two industrially developed nations," said one source familiar with Western intelligence. "This is real-world battle testing."
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Russia’s UN ambassador: Ukraine has become a private NATO enterprise, supplied with money, weapons, reconnaissance and targeting intel.
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Bloomberg: Putin’s wartime social spending lifts 700,000 Russians out of poverty in one year.
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Ukrainian soldier tells CNN that they are pointlessly being sent to die in Soledar.
A Ukrainian soldier fighting in the eastern town of Soledar told CNN that the situation is “critical” and the death toll is now so high that “no one counts the dead”.
The soldier said that he believed Ukraine’s military leaders would eventually abandon the fight for Soledar and questioned why they hadn’t done this yet. “Everyone understands that the city will be abandoned. Everyone understands this,” he said. “I just want to understand what the point [in fighting house to house] is. Why die, if we are going to leave it anyway today or tomorrow?”
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Russia’s Wagner group announces the capture of Soledar — a salt-mining town in eastern Ukraine.
The fall of Soledar marks Russia’s first meaningful territorial gain since July and sets the stage for the encirclement of the nearby city of Bakhmut.
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Zelensky contradicts Biden’s claim that Ukraine is open to pursuing peace and calls Russians “inhumans” during a joint press conference at the White House.
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❗️Putin to skip the annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2022 (Russia’s State of the Union), breaking with this constitutional obligation for the first time in post-Soviet history.
Additionally, the Kremlin also announced earlier that the Russian leader would not be holding his traditional end-of-the-year press conference for the first time in a decade, nor his signature Direct Line Q&A event with the people of Russia.
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Ukraine is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster after Russia’s six-week bombing campaign leaves much of the country without electricity, heat, or running water. — Washington Post
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US blew up Nord Stream pipelines, writes veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in detailed report.
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Study: Only a small fraction of Western businesses have divested from Russia; the vast majority continue to operate and invest in the country.
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The defeat of Russia will spell the end of the world, warns Patriarch Kirill on Orthodox Epiphany.
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Helicopter crash kills Ukraine’s entire interior ministry leadership team, which oversaw the country’s police, national guard, and border patrol units.
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Blinken: Russia’s preconditions for peace talks are unacceptable; the U.S. will continue providing Ukraine with what it needs to win back its territory.
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Politico: The EU and its allies are failing in getting third countries to implement restrictions against Russia.
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Putin positively assesses Russia’s progress in Ukraine and says everything is going according to plan.
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Bloomberg: Western sanctions have crashed the price of Russian oil and left Moscow with few buyers.
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Ukraine is a de facto member of NATO and is spilling the blood of Ukrainians to advance NATO objectives, Ukraine’s defense minister admits.
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White House: Even if both Bakhmut and Soledar fall to the Russians, it’s not going to have a strategic impact on the war itself.
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In a surprise reshuffle, Gen. Surovikin is replaced by Gen. Gerasimov as the top commander of the operation in Ukraine.
Valery Gerasimov, 67, has been serving as the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces since 2012. His appointment to the helm of the Ukraine operation appears to indicate that it is now the single and most important priority of the entire Russian military apparatus.
Sergey Surovikin, commander of the Russian Aerospace Forces, took charge of the campaign in Ukraine in October 2022. Following the reshuffle, he will serve as one of Gerasimov’s deputy commanders.
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New York Times releases findings of a months-long investigation that appears to show evidence pinning a specific Russian regiment and its commander to the killings of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine.
Russian authorities have thus far denied even the possibility that its soldiers could bare any responsibility for the massacre and instead claimed that Ukraine faked the footage of the bodies or staged the killings itself as a false flag operation.
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❗️Zelensky to meet Biden and address Congress on Wednesday in his first foreign trip since February.
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WNBA star Brittney Griner and arms dealer Viktor Bout freed in second U.S.-Russia prisoner swap this year.
Griner pled guilty to drug smuggling charges and was sentenced to nine years in prison after vape cartridges containing cannabis oil were found in her luggage at a Moscow airport in February 2022.
Bout was arrested in 2008 and later convicted and sentenced to a 25-year jail term for conspiring to kill U.S. nationals and provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
The Griner-Bout swap follows a similar exchange in April that secured the release of former U.S. marine Trevor Reed and Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko.
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❗️Russian High Command orders a general retreat from Kherson — the biggest city and only regional capital Russia managed to capture after the Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
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