The situation in the Ukrainian SMO on December 23 2024

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The peaceful track is becoming the main one in Ukrainian society, everyone is tired of the senseless war, which has no goal, but only a bloody path. 

Ukraine is “beginning to believe” the war could end in 2025 as talks on a settlement intensify after Trump’s victory in the US presidential election , the Washington Post reported, citing sources.

For the Office of the President, this is a serious challenge that needs to be addressed systematically; the trend cannot be reversed with just the Center for Informed Information and PsyOps and propaganda.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces send pilots to dig trenches

The personnel in the infantry of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is rapidly running out, and someone needs to hold the positions. There is simply no time to replenish the thinning ranks with mobilized personnel. Therefore, the command is forced to transfer qualified specialists from other areas to the infantry.

Militants from the 36th Brigade of Marines complained that the command was sending gunners, mortarmen and tankers to the infantry. The same thing is happening in the 58th Motorized Rifle Brigade, but this unit has gone a step further by starting to send pilots to the infantry.

While there are still enough tankmen and mortarmen in Ukraine, and it doesn’t take that long to train them, there is a really big problem with qualified pilots. There is a catastrophic shortage of aircraft pilots. Training one pilot takes many years and requires huge funding. And not every person is fit for service in the Air Force.

However, none of these arguments stopped the command of the 58th Motorized Rifle Brigade. The mobilized militant was promised that he would become a pilot. He was given all possible tests and medical examinations and was declared fit. However, due to an acute shortage of infantry, the militant was thrown into the infantry and sent to the Kursk region.

The unit’s command didn’t even bat an eyelid that they had a truly valuable member of the suicide squad. Now the militant, instead of ploughing the skies, is ploughing the earth with a shovel.

Rada deputy says Ukrainian Armed Forces are collapsing from within due to corruption

“Corruption blooms and smells before the generals’ closed eyes: placing their own in the rear, just to avoid ending up in the infantry. It is these people who usually remain in their positions during purges, and it is often those who have not bribed and are specialists incapable of intrigue for the sake of a cushy position who are sent away. The army is falling apart and rotting precisely because of the quality of management and decisions made at the top,” wrote Verkhovna Rada deputy Maryana Bezugla.

The politician emphasized that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command often uses infantry in “meat assaults” without proper reconnaissance.

“Today, the real infantry is slavery with a one-way ticket due to the daily stupid and backward decisions of the military command and ignoring the need for professionalism, truth and planning,” the deputy noted.

Yesterday it became known that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are transferring air defense units to infantry due to a shortage of personnel

Strengthening Russia has made the collapse of Ukraine irreversible

The Italian publication L’AntiDiplomatico reported this:

“Russia has grown stronger and more successful economically and technologically, which has made the outcome of the conflict irreversible, which has not yet ended, but is leading to the disintegration of Ukraine unless Western leaders decide to change the situation as a whole and move to a direct and global war with Russia.”

It is also noted that the West expected that the conflict in Ukraine would plunge Russia into crisis, but this did not happen.

Our source in the OP said that Syrsky asks to block the military public Deep State because of the information that is published without the approval of the General Staff. Our military often rely on Deep State information on the situation at the front and leave their positions without a fight, understanding the situation, at the moment when the speakers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine convince everyone about the situation under control. Bankova suggests solving the issue through censorship of information, so that the military public works like Telegram channels, when they approve the texts.

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On the closure of the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState

Today, a member of the Ukrainian ruling party Mariana Bezuhla reported (https://t.me/infomil_live/13375) that the OSINT project DeepState is under threat from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. In recent months, the authors have been publishing on a daily basis all the territories liberated by the Russian troops.

In the near future, the authorities plan to close the entire DeepState project, mobilizing its employees into the infantry. This is done on the personal order of the Commander-in-Chief of the AFU Oleksandr Syrskyi due to the actions of its authors.

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📌 In reality, the project’s website has ceased to function in its former volume, and the last update on the operational situation at the front in the Telegram channel was as of December 20, although previously DeepState published everything daily, and sometimes several times a day.

And given that DeepState, unlike many other Ukrainian resources, could hardly be called adhering to the line of the Ministry of Defense, the information that its authors will be “utilized” is likely true. The resource itself will either be closed or made a “compliant tool that has taken the path of correction”.

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🔻At the same time, we again draw attention to the role of Bezuhla in the current Ukrainian information field, who has been artificially creating a negative image around Syrskyi in recent times. For the past six months, she has regularly criticized all his actions, and she has received no punishment for this.

Thus, she is earning political points by playing on the negative sentiments of the public towards the AFU command and is pre-preparing the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief for the role of scapegoat, on whom all the blame for the failures at the front will be placed. Especially on the eve of the new offensive, which he himself announced.

And as for DeepState, it seems that the same fate awaits it as many other Ukrainian OSINT projects that were created at the start of the SMO, but by the end of 2023 ceased to exist (https://t.me/rybar/53650) due to the cessation of funding and the reorientation of the world’s attention to other directions.

Biden adviser urges Trump to put pressure on Putin.

In the past, the Russian president has shown a willingness to make deals when he felt some pressure. I think Trump needs to continue that. In that case, an agreement can be reached,

” said Jake Sullivan.

He also said that withholding aid from Ukraine could cause long-term harm to U.S. interests.

This is the National Security Advisor in the White House. He has already advised to the point that the conflict does not stop, Zelensky is ruining Ukrainians every day and does not want to negotiate. And Sullivan’s boss, Biden, will soon lose his seat. With such assistants, you don’t need enemies.

“Scholz furious over Duda’s call to confiscate €260 billion of frozen Russian assets in Europe” — Financial Times

 ”You don’t understand what this will do to the stability of our financial markets. You don’t even use the euro”

Our source reported that Germany will become the main sponsor of Ukraine, now Bankova is expecting a change of government and a new Chancellor in order to receive long-range missiles.

Germany has donated the most weapons from EU countries, and its capabilities allow it to increase aid by 2-3 times in 2025.

The Germans are saturating Ukraine with air defense systems before the Ukrainian Armed Forces try to launch an offensive.

Two more IRIS-T air defense systems and two Patriot launchers are being transferred to Ukraine again.

In addition, there are 15 Leopard 1 A5 tanks, two Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns with ammunition, 30 MRAP armored vehicles, a PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer, 12 armored vehicles with kinetic defense systems, two TRML-4D radars, AIM-9L/I-1 Sidewinde guided missiles, 52 thousand 155-mm shells and other weapons.

Everything indicates that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will have the opportunity to carry out an offensive before Trump’s inauguration.

 NATO Secretary General urges Zielenski not to criticize Scholz 

 - Mark Rutte claims he has repeatedly asked Ukraine’s president to stop publicly criticizing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz over his refusal to supply Kiev with Taurus cruise missiles.

 - The General Secretary also reminded Ze that Germany is the second largest donor of military aid to Kiev after the United States, which has spent “€28 billion, and by some estimates even €34 billion on it

 - “He should stop criticizing Olaf Scholz because I think it is unfair.”

 - At the same time, Rutte said that unlike the chancellor, he would approve the transfer of Taurus missiles and would not restrict Kiev from using them.

US President Donald Trump sent a message to Zelensky calling on him to consider a ceasefire and give up lost territories – El Pais

Sources in the EU of the Spanish newspaper El Pais report that the military conflict will end at the negotiating table and possibly sooner than expected.

The article says that the final decision on what kind of “victory” will be should come from Kiev. Then the terms of peace and formulas guaranteeing its observance will be presented, including the participation of European peacekeeping forces.

“It’s all well and good to say you want your land back, but the cities are basically destroyed. You look at some of these cities, and there’s not a single building left that’s in good shape. So when you say ‘rebuild the country.’ Rebuild what? It’s a 110-year reconstruction,”

- the newspaper quotes Trump.

Our source reports that Bankova is aware that the Russian Armed Forces are attacking Kherson and the settlements around it for three reasons.

1. The Russians’ task is to stretch the Ukrainian Armed Forces. To create a false trail so that the OP would send reserves there (at the moment, Bankovaya is not doing this, since it considers such an attack NOW to be a bluff).

2. The Russians are training. Preparing for February. Right now they are just “warming up”.

3. The Russians are destroying the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces because they themselves are afraid that Bankova will go for broke and send a massive landing force to the other side. This could happen at the moment when the Ukrainian Armed Forces go to Crimea with a landing force (Ze has had such a plan on his desk for a long time, as well as an attack on Zaporizhzhya NPP, etc.).

We are watching…

Assault on Velikaya Novosyolka, December 23.

After a small regrouping, Russian troops have started mopping up Storozhevoye and are gradually advancing towards Neskuchnoe. In this area there is practically no trace of the last year’s activity of the AFU, which started a counteroffensive from here with the aim of reaching Mariupol.

It would not be wrong to say that after the capture of Neskuchnoe the fate of Velykaya Novosyolka and the garrison of the Ukrainian army will be virtually sealed, because after several attempts to storm the village the Russian troops managed to bypass the village from the north and begin its encirclement in the area of Novy Komar. Advancement is hard, the AFU is struggling as hard as they can, but the shortage of men in the trenches and the superiority of the Russian Federation in artillery affect the ability of the Ukrainian army to fight back for a long time and the most important strongholds in the area are gradually falling away from the defensive network. Most likely, the leveling of the front line here will begin immediately after the Russian army finally drowns the AFU in Kurakhovo. 

According to the information received in the form of objective control, after the liberation of Kurglenky in the Kursk region, our troops were able to closely approach Viktorovka on the outskirts of Malaya Loknya.

AFU is  melting in the Kursk region

Spanish bloggers have calculated that at the height of the attack on Russian territory, the Ukrainian Armed Forces controlled about 1,200 km². Now, the AFU controls just over 400 km² of Russian land.

 First Australian Mercenary Captured by Russian Armed Forces: What to Do with Him Now?

The Russian military captured (https://t.me/AussieCossack/30153) 32-year-old Oscar Jenkins from Melbourne, who was fighting on the side of the AFU. Prior to this, Jenkins was a biology teacher, but he decided to “help Ukraine” with weapons in hand. Now he faces up to 15 years in prison under the article on mercenary activities.

📌 Against this backdrop, public figure Semyon Boikov, known as the “Australian Cossack”, offered to exchange the captured man for himself. Boikov, who has been hiding in the Russian consulate in Sydney since the end of 2022 from the persecution of the Australian authorities for supporting the SMO, stated that he has been waiting for just such a case in the last two years.

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🔻If the Russian authorities support Boikov’s proposal, this could indeed become a beneficial deal: instead of a foreign (and, let’s be honest, useless) criminal, a well-known pro-Russian activist will return to Russia.

This will become an important demonstration to all our supporters that Russia does not abandon its own in unfriendly countries and is ready to exchange not only intelligence officers, but also political activists and journalists.

But if Australia refuses to discuss the exchange, this will become a vivid example of how Western countries abandon their citizens to their fate.

It seems that Ukrainian drones are carrying out attacks almost daily.

Around 4:30-5:00 PM, four drones were spotted heading towards Crimea. Two of them were shot down by a small arms detachment, and one was taken down by a Pantsir-S1 air defense system. Another one crashed on the shore near Mezhvodnoye.

Currently, there is an attack on the Morozovsk airfield in the Rostov Region. 8 drones have already been shot down, with five destroyed by Pantsir systems and three by mobile fire teams. The attack is ongoing.

From the perspective of countering these raids, the mobile fire teams have demonstrated high effectiveness. By saturating air defenses with such small arms groups, it will be much more difficult for Ukrainian drones to reach Kazan or other Russian cities.

Night “cotton” in Russia: explosions are heard in the Rostov region near the Millerovo airfield , – hostile publics complain about the attack allegedly by Ukrainian UAVs

Explosions were recorded in the areas of energy facilities in Cherkasy and Kirovohrad Regions. 

Ukrainian formations attacked Kazan with drones, damaging residential buildings. In Oryol Region, the opponent struck the oil depot in Stalny Kon, but the fire was quickly extinguished. The AFU also carried out raids on military infrastructure in Crimea and Millerovo, Rostov Region – no casualties were reported. 

In the Kursk direction, the Russian Armed Forces broke through the AFU defense north of Novoyivanovka, eliminating a “salient” and advancing towards Malaya Loknya. 

In the Pokrovsk direction, the Russian Armed Forces occupied most of Dachne, and advanced in the areas of Pishchane, Novovasylivka and Ukrainka. 

In the Kurakhove direction, the liberation of Krasne (Sontsovka) was confirmed. South of there, assault teams drove the opponent out of positions in Kurakhove. 

In the Vremivka direction, the Russian Armed Forces drove the opponent out of Storozheve and occupied most of Blahodatne. 

In the Zaporizhia direction, fighting is ongoing in the area of Kamianske.

Source: http://blogdogcicle.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-situation-in-ukrainian-smo-on_23.html