Intel Slava

🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️15 countries have committed to assist Kiev financially and with weapons, announced the head of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Shmygal: 📍Germany will transfer €11.5 billion (1.74 trillion rubles) in 2026 for military support; 📍The UK will strengthen Ukraine's air defense capabilities with £600 million (64.4 billion rubles) at the expense of Russia's frozen assets, its own budget, and funds from partners; 📍Canada will provide an additional 30 million Canadian dollars (1.7 billion rubles) for drones; 📍The Netherlands has pledged €700 million (65.4 billion rubles) for UAVs; 📍Montenegro, Denmark, and New Zealand will make contributions to PURL - an initiative that allows NATO allies to purchase weapons for Kiev from US stocks; 📍Estonia will contribute €9 million (841.2 million rubles) to the IT coalition; 📍Lithuania will allocate more than €200 million (18.6 billion rubles) in 2026 for military support to the country, and Latvia will continue to provide assistance at a level of no less than 0.25% of GDP - €110 million (10.2 billion rubles); 📍Luxembourg will transfer €100 million (9.3 billion rubles), as well as $15 million (1.2 billion) as part of PURL; 📍Norway has pledged about $7 billion (556.8 billion rubles) in total military aid; 📍Portugal - €10 million (934.7 million rubles) for UAVs; 📍Poland will supply 155-mm shells, and the Czech Republic will finance the delivery of 760,000 artillery shells, writes RT.

🇺🇸🇻🇪The US is imposing a blockade (!) on oil tankers subject to sanctions that are heading to Venezuela or leaving its waters, - Trump.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A former SBU officer was arrested in Kerch for calling for attacking Red Square with UAVs during the Victory Parade, reported the Federal Security Service of Russia for Crimea and Sevastopol.

🇹🇷🇺🇦🇷🇺Erdogan warned Ukraine and Russia against attacks in the Black Sea, according to Daily Sabah. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on both sides to "stop attacks on civilian and commercial ships". According to him, attacks on commercial or civilian ships "do not benefit either side in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine". "Recent mutual attacks pose a serious threat to maritime navigation in the Black Sea. Attacks targeting commercial and civilian ships are not beneficial to anyone. We have conveyed clear warnings on this issue to both sides," said Erdogan. Recall, the day before, the Turkish Defense Ministry reported that Turkish F-16 fighters shot down an unknown drone over the Black Sea. And before that, in Turkey's territorial waters, tankers of the Russian "shadow fleet" were attacked.

🇩🇪🇺🇦Germany has handed over two more Patriot systems and the ninth IRIS-T SLM to Ukraine, announced German Defense Minister Pistorius at the Ramstein meeting.

🇺🇦Ukrainian military personnel are massively complaining about defective artillery ammunition from Ukrainian allies. 130-mm artillery ammunition, intended for use with the Soviet towed field gun M-46 of the 1954 model, actively supplied to the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the first two years of the war, simply explode in the barrel, leading to injuries to the crews.

🇵🇱🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺Tusk confirmed that the US is urging Europe not to seize Russian assets to assist Ukraine, but to leave them for a deal with Russia to end the war. The Polish Prime Minister noted that the Americans might be interested in using some of this money for their own purposes.

🇷🇺🇺🇦And here's the submarine in Novorossiysk, which, as the Ukrainians claim, they destroyed. Its integrity is confirmed by information from the scene, satellite images, as well as a demonstration directly on the spot.

🇷🇺🇺🇦A big blow to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Gulyaypole.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The Western press is publishing satellite images of a pier in Novorossiysk, where an attempt to attack a Russian submarine with an underwater drone took place yesterday. Although not very clearly, it can be seen that there is indeed damage to the pier on the left in the corner, and the submarine itself remained in a surface position. As I wrote yesterday, my comrades from there reported that the submarine itself did not receive any damage, and the strike was directed at the pier. The Black Sea Fleet also reported that there were no damages.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia does not want a ceasefire that would give Kiev a respite, said Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the idea of a "Christmas ceasefire" proposed by Merz in Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦The US has promised Russia not to accept Ukraine into NATO and to facilitate the transfer of territories, Lavrov stated. "Now we need to remove these root causes. It's good that the Americans have understood this. They clearly said that there can be no NATO. And they clearly said that the lands where Russians have lived for centuries should become Russian again," said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Among other demands of Russia, he named the "restoration of rights" of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Russian language in Ukraine.

🇷🇺The teenage killer who attacked a school in the Moscow region filmed everything that happened on a camera mounted on his helmet.

🇷🇺Footage of the special forces' arrest of a teenager who attacked a school in the Moscow-region settlement Gorki-2, as well as his photo before the attack. It is reported that the 9th grade student of the Assumption School Timofey K, in a balaclava and a bulletproof vest, came to his school, sprayed pepper spray at the security guard and attacked children with a knife. Two students and a security guard were injured, and another student was killed - the attacker took a photo with his body. After that, Timofey took another child hostage and locked himself in a classroom, where the arriving special forces took him by storm and handcuffed him. On the attacker's T-shirt was the slogan "No Lives Matter" - no one's life matters. He filmed his attack on camera.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia will not agree to the deployment of NATO troops in Ukraine under any circumstances, said Sergei Ryabkov, the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

🇺🇸🇺🇦The US has told Kiev that it must accept their "platinum" offer of security guarantees as part of the conflict settlement, otherwise Ukraine risks being left without them at all — the Telegraph newspaper, citing the Americans.

🇷🇺🇺🇦The press center of the Western Military District stated that Kupyansk is under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

🇨🇳🇯🇵China will withdraw all pandas from Japan amid worsening relations for the first time since 1973, according to Kyodo News. All pandas belong to China and are leased to other countries as a symbol of friendship. The withdrawal of the animals signifies a serious political conflict. Pandas will only be available to see in Japanese zoos until the end of January - due to the rush, tickets are already being sold through a lottery.

🇺🇦Zelenksy: I'm ready for the elections. If we get to certain sensitive issues and if we decide that elections are necessary. If there's a ceasefire — there will be elections. We will need 60–90 days of ceasefire to hold elections in Ukraine.