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[Regnum] Snow depth in Moscow set a new daily record for December 16 - 39 cm.
Converting using 2.54 cm=1”, that’s15 1/3”.
This was reported by the leading specialist of the Phobos weather centerMikhail Leus.
“Today, the height of the snow cover at the base weather station of the capital, VDNKh, reached 39 cm,” - the weather forecaster wrote in the Telegram channel.
He emphasized that this is not only the maximum value since the beginning of the autumn-winter season, but also a new daily record for the height of snow cover for December 16.
The previous height of snowdrifts on this day was 33 cm and belonged to 1919.
Now, according to the forecaster, the active cyclone “Vanya” has moved to the northeast. The specialist added that one should not expect an increase in snow cover in the coming days; on the contrary, the snow, under the influence of thaws and its weight, will melt and compact, and the depth of the cover will gradually decrease.
As reportedIA Regnum, weather forecasters reported to Muscovites about the approach of cyclone “Vanya” on December 12.< /span>Citizens were warned that the height of snowdrifts due to precipitation could reach half a meter.
Leading specialist at the Phobos weather center Evgeniy Tishkovets said that cyclone “Vanya” brought the strongest storm to Moscow in the last 57 years a>. On the night of December 14-15, up to 17.4 mm of precipitation fell in the city, or about 30% of the monthly norm.snowfall
At the same time, the height of snowdrifts in Moscow reached its maximum for December 15for almost 150 years. Thus, at the capital’s base weather station VDNH, the height of the snow cover was 38 centimeters. At the same time, the height of snowdrifts in the city varied from 31 to 40 cm, which is 2–2.5 times higher than the climatic norm typical for December.
This day became the snowiest day in the last six decades. At the same time, the cyclone brought wind gusts of up to 17 m/s to Moscow.
On December 16, Roscosmos published a satellite image of the cyclone “Vanya”, which enveloped Central Russia and led to record snowfall over this territory. The state corporation clarified that Vanya formed over the territory of Moldova, and then moved to the Baltic Sea, connecting with the Atlantic cyclone.
The name “Vanja” was given to the cyclone by German meteorologists. Ireland and Britain, as well as the federal states of Germany, suffered the most from its impact Bavaria and Lower Saxony
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[VESTI] They live in basements
As of December 16, 1,230 people remain in Avdeevka, Donetsk region; the number of people wanting to leave the city has decreased.
Source: head of the Avdeevka State Military Administration Vitaly Barabash.
Quote: “Yesterday we managed to evacuate five people. As of this morning, 1,230 people remain in the city. Of course, that's a lot. Lately we have seen a decrease in people wanting to leave. On average, 3-6 people now agree to travel per day. During the period of exacerbation, more than 350 people left in our direction".
Details: Whatever the Russians say, Avdeevka has not been captured by the enemy, and the most they can manage, according to Barabash, is to “slightly expand the gray zone.” "If they even manage to advance a little somewhere, then artillery, mortars and rocket artillery are immediately used. That is, the enemy does not have any serious consolidation. The defense line around our city is holding,” said the head of the city. Therefore, according to him, the remaining residents of Avdeevka live in the basements of multi-storey and private houses.
People risk staying in their apartments, which are on the first or second floors.
by Vera Perun
There are currently 1,230 civilians left in Avdiivka in Donetsk region.
Vitaliy Barabash, head of the Avdiiv MBA, told about this on the air.
According to him, the number of people willing to leave the city has decreased.
"Yesterday we managed to take out 5 people. As of this morning, 1,230 people still remain in the city. Of course, this is a very large number of people. It's not like it was a few weeks ago, when 15-18, up to 20 people were taken out a day. Recently, we have seen a decrease in those who want to leave. On average, 3-6 people are now reported to leave per day. During the period of exacerbation, more than 350 people left our direction," Barabash said.
He added that people live in basements of high-rise and private buildings. There are also cases when civilians live in their apartments on the first or second floor. "Fear is so dulled that people no longer pay attention to such things (constant shelling - Ed.)," Barabash noted.
What is the situation in the Avdiyiv direction
The Institute for the Study of War reported that on December 15, Russian troops continued localized offensive operations near Avdievka, Mar'inka and Bakhmut and achieved confirmed successes there.
According to information of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, in the Avdiyiv direction, the occupiers do not stop trying to surround Avdiyivka. Over the past day, the Defense Forces have successfully repelled 20 enemy attacks east of Novobakhmutivka, Avdiyivka, and another 14 attacks east of Stepovoy, south of Severnoy and Pervomaisky, Donetsk region.
Vitaliy Barabash, head of the Avdiivska MBA, said during the telethon that Ukrainian fighters are preventing the Russians from gaining a foothold. "If they even manage to advance a little somewhere, then artillery, mortars and rocket artillery are immediately activated. That is, the enemy does not have any serious fortifications. The line of defense around our city is holding," added the head of the MBA.
According to him, Russia uses many so-called "meat assaults" in the battles for the city. They are joined by the mobilized and Storm-V and Storm-Z groups, who undergo training beforehand.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 18:59 Zelensky said that he held the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: “Different issues, different aspects of defense. Military questions. Veterans' questions. Brigade questions. Issues of fortifications. Issues of weapons production. We are working separately to implement all our agreements with partners on new weapons production.”
17:30 Bild military columnist Julian Röpke writes that Ukraine’s new military strategy is “kill, kill and kill,” with the goal of attacking and even holding areas unfavorable for defense not installed.
According to his information, Ukraine is postponing plans to recapture the occupied territories, and the new goal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is to inflict as much damage as possible on the enemy’s manpower. Thus, the main priority becomes not even defense, but “the elimination of as many Russian soldiers as possible with minimal losses to one’s own forces.” The publication’s source in the Ukrainian army confirmed that “now there is no more pressure or need to force the issue, the goal is simply to inflict maximum losses on the enemy.”
16:18 Ukraine, through the mediation of Qatar, returned three more children, the Presidential Office reported. Two of them were taken out of the occupied territories, another child was on the territory of the Russian Federation and was reunited with his mother on the territory of Georgia.
15:04 Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said that he expects “even greater assistance in mobilization work” from local authorities: “We must change approaches to preparing those liable for military service and population to national resistance. All our people must be trained and prepared. We expect even more assistance from local governments in mobilization work.”
12:57 Donetsk public pages report a large-scale fire in the Budenovsky district. Localresidents publish online videos of black smokewhich is visible from different points. According to Ukrainian media, the attack hit a warehouse of fuels and lubricants. In turn, Russian media write about the shelling of a gas station in Donetsk.
12:38 Ukraine plans a new counter-offensive in 2024 - and it will obviously be like this , as Zaluzhny planned it for this summer, writes Die Welt. The publication notes that Ukraine still has access to more than 95% of all weapons systems supplied by the West. They were not used in the counteroffensive, journalists say.
10:35 Bild writes, citing intelligence data and sources, that Russia allegedly plans to occupy Ukrainian territory outside the four already illegally annexed regions during 2024-2026. In particular, Moscow intends to capture the entire territory of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions and up to the Oskol River in the Kharkov region by the end of 2024. In turn, the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) noted that these goals coincide with the current local offensive operations of the Russian army in the Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov regions.
In addition, according to Bild, Russia wants to capture a significant part of the Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions, including Kharkov, in 2025 and 2026. The Russian Federation also plans to hold the current front line in the Kherson region along the Dnieper River and is concerned about preventing the advance of Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine towards Crimea.
According to ISW analysts, information about Russia's mid- to long-term plans to occupy Ukrainian territory beyond the four illegally annexed territories is also plausible given that Russian officials, including Putin, have recently returned to expansionist rhetoric and Russian troops continue to offensive operations in order to expand their positions in the Kharkov region.
The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, recently stated that Russia now supposedly has no plans to wage war in 2025. “Perhaps by the end of 2024, if nothing changes, they will adjust it. But so far they have no such plans,” says Budanov.
09:11 In the Primorsky district of Mariupol, partisans blew up the car of a Russian military officer from one of the Caucasian units, said advisor to the mayor of the city Pyotr Andryushchenko. The officer is currently in a hospital in Mariupol. The explosion occurred synchronously with yesterday's strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the location of the Russians, which made it possible to hide it from the attention of the police and the FSB until hospitalization.
08:29 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 16:
personnel - about 344,820 (+930) people,
tanks - 5720 (+14),
armored combat vehicles - 10,667 (+13),
artillery systems - 8100 (+1),
MLRS - 920 (+0),
air defense systems - 605 (+0),
aircraft - 324 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 6238 (+12),
cruise missiles - 1609 (+1),
ships/boats - 22 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,710 (+11),
special equipment - 1190 (+1).
08:23 Over the past 24 hours, 96 military clashes took place at the front,the General Staff reported in the morning report . In particular, in the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repulsed 20 enemy attacks east of Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and another 14 attacks east of Stepnoye, south of Severny and Pervomaisky in the Donetsk region. In the Bakhmut direction, Ukrainian forces repelled 18 attacks near Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka in the Donetsk region, and in Maryinsky - 13 attacks in the Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region.
In addition, in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the Sinkovka area of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - east of Ternov, Yampolevka, Donetsk region and Makeevka, Lugansk region; on Shakhtarsky - near Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - west of Novopokrovka and south of Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.
In the Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the Russians are conducting active sabotage activities in order to prevent the transfer of Ukrainian troops to threatening directions.
07:59 Air defense at night destroyed 30 of 31 attack drones of the Shahed type, which Russia attacked from three directions - Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Seshcha, Kursk, the Air Force command reported. Drones were destroyed within the Dnepropetrovsk, Kyiv, Vinnitsa, Chernigov, Sumy, Poltava, Cherkassy, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Khmelnytsky regions.
05:25 Russia attacked Kyiv for the sixth time since the beginning of the month. According to the head of the KGVA, Sergei Popko, judging by the weapons used, the Russians seem to have returned to the tactics of May 2023. Then they constantly changed, combined, alternated types and types of airborne weapons. The same scenario is observed during attacks on the capital in the first half of December: attack UAVs, cruise missiles from strategic bombers, Iskanders, Daggers fly to Kyiv one by one, replacing each other.
Tonight the enemy again attacked the capital with Shahed attack drones. The UAVs flew in groups, waves and from different directions. All enemy targets were destroyed by air defense forces. There were no casualties as a result of the air defense and falling debris.
03:41 Governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt said that "drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" allegedly attacked the Dmitrievsky and Zheleznogorsky districts, there were no casualties. In the village of Krupets, Dmitrievsky district, the attack occurred in the area of the railway station in the city of Dmitriev - the compressor station was damaged. In the Zheleznogorsk region, drones damaged a power line supplying one of the Mikhailovsky Mining and Processing Plant facilities.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled five attacks of AFU 14th, 115th Mechanised, and 25th Airborne Brigades near Olshana, Sinkovka (Kharkov region), and Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 35 Ukrainian troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, three pickups, as well as one D-30 howitzer.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery repelled two attacks of assault groups of the AFU 12th Special Forces Brigade close to Kuzmino (Lugansk People's Republic), as well as inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the AFU near Grigorovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 100 Ukrainian troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.
In Donetsk direction, units of the Yug Group of Forces supported by aviation and artillery repelled four attacks launched by assault groups of AFU 81st Airmobile, 79th, 95th Air Assault Brigades near Belogorovka (Lugansk People's Republic) and Pobeda (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, manpower and military hardware of AFU 5th Assault, 24th, 30th, and 93rd Mechanised Brigades suffered losses close to Krasnoye, Kleshcheyevka, Kirovo, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy has lost up to 290 Ukrainian personnel, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, and four motor vehicles.
In the course of the counterbattery warfare, two 152mm Msta-B howitzers, one 122mm D-30 howitzer, and two 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery systems were destroyed.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, helicopters, and artillery repelled three attacks of the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Up to 90 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer were destroyed.
In Zaporozhye direction, two attacks launched by assault groups of the AFU 118th Mechanised Brigade were repelled by the Russian Group of Forces, air strikes, and artillery fire near Rabotino (Zaporozhye region).
Moreover, the Russian Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of AFU 33rd Mechanised, 128th Mountain Assault Brigades near Rabotino and Kamenskoye(Zaporozhye region).
During the day, a total of 50 Ukrainian troops, three armoured fighting vehicles, one motor vehicle, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, and one 122mm D-30 gun have been neutralised.
In Kherson direction, as a result of artillery and aviation strikes near Tyaginka and Belozyorka (Kherson region), the AFU 36th, 37th N Naval Infantry Brigades' losses amounted to up to 65 Ukrainian troops and seven motor vehicles. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
In the course of the counterbattery warfare, one 152mm Msta-B howitzer, two 152mm D-20 guns, one 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system and one 122mm D-30 howitzer were eliminated.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged AFU manpower and hardware in 125 areas during the day.
Russian Aerospace Forces' aircraft shot down one Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukranian Air Force close to Orekhov (Zaporozhye region).
Air defence and electronic warfare systems repelled one AFU attempt to launch massive strikes by UAVs at facilities on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula. All UAVs were shot down.
In the past 24 hours, 49 unmanned aerial vehicles were eliminated close to Verkhnekamenka (Lugansk People's Republic), Tokmak (Zaporozhye region) Novaya Kakhovka, Kairy, and Alyoshki (Kherson region), as well as nine HIMARS MLRS, Uragan, and Olkha projectiles.
In total, 550 airplanes and 259 helicopters, 9,745 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 air defence missile systems, 14,096 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,188 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 7,353 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 16,359 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 December 16, 2023 to 00:00 December 17, 2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 30 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian forces.
Information was received about the injury of a civilian, a woman, in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.
Three residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk and the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Budennovsky, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky, Petrovsky districts), Makeevka (Chervonogvardeysky district).
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out 22 attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
At Gorlivske there were eight artillery attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
A total of 109 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous 24 hours, 12 artillery attacks were recorded from the AFU.
22:59 Front bird broadcasts: Nikolaevkskaya area. Air defense. 16.12 22:50
The operation of enemy air defense is reported.
Local publics are at a loss.
The hum was heard in the southern part of the region near the port.
Information about arrivals is being clarified.
21:10 Situation in the Artemovsk direction from the TG channel Paratrooper's Diary
On the southern flank of the Chernobylets station, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations under the cover of armored vehicles and previously destroying enemy forces with drones.
Capturing this territory will give our troops access to Ivanovskoye.
19:50 According to operational linesThe DPR representative office in the JCCC on December 16, as of 18:00, received information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kirovsky district):
- on the street Lenina, 27, a woman born in 1982 was wounded.
Information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the AFU in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district):
– st. Borodina, 18, 22 – private residential buildings.
Information about the consequences of the artillery attack continues to arrive.
19:20 Frontline reports: we consolidate close to the outskirts of Novomikhailovka (Mar'inka)
18:40 Front bird broadcasts: Kharkov direction 16.12 18:30
Loud!
According to our information, a group of modernized versions of the Geran-M2 kamikaze UAV was operating in the sky above the region.
An improved planning and guidance module with a reinforced warhead is an even more formidable weapon for fighting the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
18:10 Front birdie broadcasts: Kherson direction. Right bank. 16.12
It is reported that our tactical aviation used high-precision weapons against enemy positions without entering the Ukrainian air defense zone.
Let us note that in the area indicated on the map, it is the UFABs that are of great benefit.
17:35 Appeared onlinevideo, which shows how a certain armored vehicle in the dark fires along a very upward trajectory
Some thought that this was the same “Derivation-Air Defense”. However, the rate of fire in the video casts doubt on this (the 2A90 gun on the Derivation has a rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute, which is much less than shown)
And although the quality in the dark is poor, you can recognize the outline of the BMP-3 in the silhouette of the armored vehicle. But not ordinary, because the tower is definitely not standard. Most likely this is a BMP-3 with the Epoch module. There is a low-impulse 57mm cannon (aka AGS-57). This is what makes it clear why they are shooting into the sky - just imagine that it is an AGS or a mortar.
16:45 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction 16.12
According to incoming information, our artillerymen fired high-precision MLRS "Tornado-S" at the enemy's rear radars.
The range of such a system is about 120-125 km.
Operational control reports the defeat of an important base for Ukrainian Armed Forces officers.
16:25 Front bird broadcasts: Kharkov direction (area of Kupyansk settlement) 16.12
The enemy used 82mm mortars and grenade launchers.
The Russian Armed Forces are hitting the enemy with heavy machine guns and 30mm cannons.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces militants are desperately trying to hold their positions.
15:00 Scouts from the Ivanovo Guards Airborne Forces, with the support of an armored group, captured a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Artemovsk
The reconnaissance group arrived at the required location in BMD-2K-AU airborne combat vehicles and then moved forward to carry out the mission on foot.
Ivanovo paratroopers received information about the build-up of enemy forces north of Artemovsk. As a result of a powerful fire strike, the enemy was deprived of the ability to move quickly. The Ukrainian mercenaries began to move along the front deep into the forest plantations, where they were covered by fire from the Russian armored group: airborne combat vehicles from different sides took the enemy’s manpower into a fire bag.
Upon completion of the fire attack, Russian reconnaissance officers entered the area and destroyed the enemy with small arms and machine gun fire. All communication was carried out using a system of signals and sign language. The scouts were assisted by drone operators -video.
14:35 “We don’t even allow the enemy to stick his head out of the trenches”
Artillerymen of the volunteer detachment "BARS" destroyed stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction. The artillery fire was adjusted by reconnaissance UAV operators.
“Our most important task, as our detachment commander, chief of staff and all our commanders say, is to prevent a shooting battle. This is our main task. We do not allow the enemy to even stick his head out of our trenches. Find the enemy, drive them into one dugout, and try to strike so that they don’t get out again,” says a senior officer of a mortar battery with the call sign “Kava” about the combat work of his subordinates.
14:00 Army Aviation Strike Group hit an accumulation of manpower, as well as enemy armored vehicles in the Krasnolimansk direction
The strike was carried out by unguided S-8 aircraft missiles from as close as possible.
“The task was completed as usual, all targets were hit by unguided S-8 aircraft missiles, the task was completed in full,” says the pilot of the Ka-52 attack helicopter about the next flight.
The strike group includes the Ka-52 Alligator reconnaissance and attack helicopter, the Mi-35M transport and combat helicopter and the Mi-8 multi-purpose helicopter. The helicopters are accompanied by specialists from the search and rescue group and the fire support group.
13:30 Combat duet from the Arctic: joint work of crews of the 120mm Nona-K gun and an automatic heavy-duty grenade launcher
Artyomovskoe direction
From a closed firing position, the crew of the Nona-K gun works at the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold. Artillerymen of the 200th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Northern Fleet hit enemy firing points and dugouts. The operation of “Nona-K” is supported by fire from the crew of the automatic easel grenade launcher AGS-17 -video.
12:50 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 16.12
Local Telegram channels report the sound of an explosion and a flash in the southern part of the region.
The air raid warning did not sound in the area.
12:25 According to operational linesThe DPR representative office in the JCCC received additional information about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic on December 15:
Donetsk:
Kyiv district:
- on the street Sokolinaya, a man born in 1984 and 1994 was injured.
Thus, the total number of civilian casualties from VFU attacks on December 15 was 5 people. Information continues to flow.
Information about the consequences of the artillery attack continues to arrive.
12:00 Telegram channel "Fisherman": Yuzhnodonetsk direction: half-coverage of Novomikhailovka situation as of December 16, 2023
Russian troops continue the offensive operation in the Pobeda triangle - the Zverinets fortified area - Novomikhailovka. The completion of the clearing of the west of Marinka made it possible to free up part of the forces and artillery resources for moving south.
Units of the 20th Motorized Rifle Division are fighting for the fields between Pobeda and Novomikhailovka after inflicting fire on the areas where Ukrainian formations are concentrated.
In three days we managed to approach the outskirts of the village of Pobeda and partially bypass the fortified area “Zverinets” (former fur farm).
During five days of fighting near Novomikhailovka, units of the 68th Motorized Rifle Brigade managed to gain a foothold on the southeastern outskirts of the village. The cemetery is occupied, but it is not yet possible to enter Novomikhailovka itself: both the density of mining and the large number of fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces affect it,
11:30 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. district settlement Krasnogorovka 16.12 11:10
The advance of our troops continues every day.
Assault groups and aviation are working as smoothly and accurately as ever.
The guys from the spot report the destruction of the enemy Bradley infantry fighting vehicle.
10:55 Front bird broadcasts: Chernigov region. 16.12
It is reported that as a result of a night strike by our UAVs, a military support control center in the Chernihiv region was hit.
10:20 Frontline reports: guys are storming on the southern and southeastern outskirts of the village of Novomikhailovka (Mar'inka).
09:50 Telegram channel «Two majors": summary for December 16.
“At night there was counter-use of attack drones. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of 32 enemy UAVs that attacked Crimea. Military channels from the field wrote about arrivals in the Kherson region; the enemy failed to inflict the planned damage. It was reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used S-200 missiles.
By the morning, the governor of the Kursk region spoke about the attack of Ukrainian UAVs on the Dmitrievsky and Zheleznogorsk regions, the compressor station and power lines were damaged.
– Our “Geraniums” hit the enemy capital, Khmelnitsky, Cherkassy, ??Chernigov, Kherson regions. Enemy resources reported 30 UAVs attacking in several waves.
– In the Kherson region, in the Krynok region, the situation remains difficult; the enemy tried to expand the zone of control towards forest plantations. There are heavy battles going on. Using spotter drones, he carried out precise artillery strikes on our positions in the forest south of the settlement.
Russian Armed Forces attacked the ruins of Krynoki, in the basements of which the Armed Forces of Ukraine personnel were hiding. Boats carrying enemy manpower delivered to our shore were destroyed.
– On the Zaporozhye Front, the weather limited the use of aerial reconnaissance assets; the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to advance in small groups of infantry near Verbovoy; they reported shooting battles. West of Rabotino, our troops maintain the initiative and consolidate in the positions occupied the day before.
– Near Mar'inka, the Russian Armed Forces are fighting in the northwestern outskirts of the city and in the south, in the direction of the settlement. Victory. Artillery strikes are carried out on Kurakhovo (15 km west of Mar'inka), where the enemy plans to hold the defense in the future. At night, information was received about the Russian Armed Forces attacking Novomikhailovka from the east.
– In the evening, from the Avdeevsky direction they reported the complete capture of the “Vinogradniki” cottage village. On the northern ledge of the front, the Russian Armed Forces are advancing in the Stepovoye area.
– From the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) sector of the front they reported massive attacks on the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Chasov Yar.
– In the Kupyansky direction near Sin'kovka there are oncoming battles.
– artillery attack of the Belgorod region continues, the number of which decreased yesterday due to difficult weather conditions. Three civilians were wounded in Donetsk (DPR).
09:25 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Caps 26 rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha 14 rounds;
-- n.p. Radensk three rounds;
-- n.p. Korsunka two rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka six rounds;
-- n.p. Sagi nine rounds;
-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery eight rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Novaya Kakhovka, n.p. Kakhovka, n.p. Peschanivka, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Kardashinka, n.p. Korsunka, Maslovka village, firing a total of 15 rounds from cannon artillery.
As a result of the shelling, one civilian was killed, and the destruction of the infrastructure is being clarified.
08:40 Telegram channel «Fisherman": Chronicle of a special military operation for December 15, 2023
– Russian troops continue to attack in several directions at once. In the Kupyansky sector, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to break through the defensive lines of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the north of Sin'kovka and on the Zagoruykovka - Timkovka - Ivanovka - Kislovka line.
– In the Soledar direction, Russian troops concentrated their main efforts on entering the operational space for a further assault on Chasov Yar. In recent days, the Russian Armed Forces managed to advance to the southeastern outskirts of Orekhovo-Vasilevka and reach the eastern outskirts of Bogdanovka.
– In the Avdeevsky direction, units of the Russian Armed Forces were able to dislodge Ukrainian formations from landings west of the railway tracks near Stepovoye. And on the southern flank, Russian military personnel eliminated the last center of resistance of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Vinogradniki SNT.
– Meanwhile, Mar'inka has been almost completely cleared of the Ukrainian Armed Forces - about 1% of the territory of the settlement is under enemy control. For the long-awaited liberation of the city, all that remains is to clear the territory of the agricultural enterprise located on the outskirts and reach the end of Ivan Franko Street.
08:10 Official summary Representative offices of the DPR in the JCCC from 00:00 December 15, 2023 to 00:00 December 16, 2023
Over the past 24 hours, the Representation has recorded 12 incidents of firing by the Ukrainian Federal Unitary Forces.
Information was received about the injury of three civilians in the Kuibyshevsky and Budennovsky (the second was a seriously wounded man born in 1960) districts of Donetsk.
Information about the consequences of the four-time artillery attack of the Budennovsky district, including casualties, continues to arrive.
Two residential buildings were damaged in the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk, as well as two civil infrastructure facilities.
The areas of three settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district), the capital city of Donetsk (Budennovsky, Kuibyshevsky, Kirovsky districts), Mariupol.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy carried out eight attacks from MLRS and 155mm artillery.
On Gorlovsky there were three artillery attacks from 155mm artillery.
In Mariupol one long-range missile attack.
A total of 36 units of various ammunition were fired.
In the previous day, 17 attacks were recorded from the Ukrainian forces.
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[Regnum] Unknown persons fired at In the Nazran district of Ingushetia, the car of a local resident, who after the incident ended up in intensive care with gunshot wounds, was reportedby the press service of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the republic.
The incident occurred on the evening of December 15.
“About 19:00 Moscow time on Friday, on the outskirts of the village of Surkhakhi, unknown persons driving a white Lada Priora car fired several shots, presumably from automatic weapons, at a Toyota Camry driven by a 39-year-old resident of Nazran,” the message says. Lada Priora is a pretty fancy car for the region.
Is someone in the Mafiya?
The victim was taken to the Ingush Republican Clinical Hospital. The police are busy looking for criminals. The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case under the article “Attempted Murder,” which provides for up to 15 years in prison as punishment.
As reported IA Regnum, in January 2022, in the center of Cherkessk (Karachay-Cherkessia) two young people they shot a man from a car. After he fell, the attackers began beating the victim with a baton.
The victim was hospitalized. Users of social networks suggested that the cause of the incident was supposedly blood feud. The shooters allegedly took revenge for the death of their uncle.
In mid-September 2023, in Miass (Chelyabinsk region), due to a conflict, shot a car in which there was a family of gypsies. a>
As a result of the incident, three people were injured.
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[Regnum] The Ukrainian army can prepare to a new counter-offensive in 2024. This opinion was expressed on December 16 by German security expert and political adviser Nico Lange, as quoted by the newspaper Die Welt.
“Ukraine is likely gathering resources for a new counter-offensive next year,” he said.
According to the expert, Kherson could be the starting point for a new counter-offensive by Ukrainian troops.
Kyiv’s offensive plans can be evidenced by the list of weapons it transferred to Washington: Black Hawk and Apache helicopters, F-16 and F-18 aircraft, various missile systems, Abrams tanks, drones and ammunition, the authors of the article noted.
“In general, the Ukrainian order indicates a new attempt to transition to a maneuver war, if possible using a combination of different combat systems, which was never realized during the Ukrainian counter-offensive in the summer,” — Lange clarified.
The publication recalled that in the summer the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to break through Russian defense lines with the help of German Leopard tanks and American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, but their counter-offensive was a disaster.
As reported IA Regnum, on December 14, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba announced a “difficult” military situation for Kyiv in the conflict zone. He also admitted that the counter-offensive of Ukrainian troops did not achieve rapid success.
Earlier on the same day, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that the special operation showed that Russia is impossible win the military conflict. The politician admitted that the Ukrainian conflict would drag on due to the tense situation.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on December 13 that US politicians, after the failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ counter-offensive, stopped saying that they want Russia’s strategic defeat. According to him, now they say thatRussia cannot be allowed to win in Ukraine.
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[ColonelCassad] “Russia is increasing the production of correction and guidance modules for aerial bombs,” this is the headline of a new interesting study by Conflict Armament Research (CAR), dedicated to the UMPC. Western researchers paid special attention to the filling, comparing the two modules they received - one from January 2023 (first image), the second from October 2023 (second image).
The first thing they noticed was that it was more the archaic structure of the earlier version of the UMPC, which is not surprising.
The guidance unit is a primitive electronic system consisting of a voltage regulator (left), a navigation board (center) and an inertial measurement unit (right).
The conclusions reached by analysts from CAR are that UMPC marks a new level of high-precision weapons in the hands of the RF Armed Forces, this a real evolution that significantly increases the effectiveness of front-line aviation on the battlefield.The second thing that caught my eye even when compared with the newer model is a more complex structure, consisting of five main elements, including the inertial measurement module "SMART" and the fairly well-known “Comet” satellite data reception module, which is also installed in the “Geranium”.
As stated, "SMART" allows you to throw bombs 35-40 kilometers, after which the wings and satellite guidance come into play; the bomb is planning on the target, which we have repeatedly seen in the footage. At the moment, it is reliably known about the ability of aerial bombs with UMPC to cover at least 60 kilometers in the air.By the way, the first documented case of using UMPC occurred only in March 2023, while in The article states that one "sample" found by the Ukrainian military near Bakhmut in January of this year. This suggests that the Russian army skillfully hid the appearance of new ammunition for almost three months.
Also, interestingly, CAR complain about the lack of markings on some boards. Later, researchers will come to the conclusion that this is being done on purpose so that the same curious people would not figure out the supply routes of some components.
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the Russian army skillfully hid the appearance of new ammunition for almost three months.
These assemblies are part of a bomb designed to blow up everything within so many meters, so probably not a lot of useful post-event wreckage. Maybe that counts as "skillful hiding" in some Russian sense of the phrase.
The guidance unit is a primitive electronic system consisting of... a whole bunch of commercial off-the-shelf components. No need to invent the wheel when you can buy flight controllers, GPS modules and servos in bulk on eBay. And for production, there are lots of little factories in China to do the assembly work.
From a biological point of view, bombs are evolving to become smaller and more precise. And more intelligent. Once one weapon system gets the 'gene' for smart guidance, it can easily spread to others. Traditional war-fighting is about to run up against fast, cheap and out of control.
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