Ukraine

Moscow said on Monday (26 December) its forces had shot down a Ukrainian drone close to a long-range bomber base deep inside Russia, while Ukraine said the ...

Russia has 60 to 70 strategic bomber planes of two types – the Tu-95MS Bear and the Tu-160 Blackjack. Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday its forces had killed about 60 Ukrainian servicemen the previous day along the Kupiansk-Lyman line of contact and destroyed numerous pieces of Ukrainian military equipment. Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power stations have left millions without electricity and Zelenskyy said in an address to the nation that Moscow would aim to make the last days of 2022 dark and difficult. Saratov’s regional governor Roman Busargin said on Monday civilian infrastructure facilities had not been damaged in the latest incident at the base and there was no threat to residents. As the war entered its 11th month, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday he was open to negotiations, and he blamed Ukraine and its Western allies for failing to engage in talks. Moscow said on Monday (26 December) its forces had shot down a Ukrainian drone close to a long-range bomber base deep inside Russia, while Ukraine said the Russians had unleashed heavy artillery barrages on its cities in the past 24 hours.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is adamant that his country's future is in the EU, but is under pressure over Constitutional Court reforms.

Civil society and international partners with the help of Zelenskyy managed to clean the Constitutional Court, as well as other high judicial authorities. In a sign of the Constitutional Court’s importance, it ignited a crisis in 2020 when it recognized certain parts of Ukraine’s law as unconstitutional. That decision canceled public access to the electronic declaration of assets, as well as criminal punishment for lies in electronic declarations. It also recommended making the decisions of the advisory group binding, making it impossible for candidates with negative evaluations to become Constitutional Court judges. And precisely because it is not controlled by the government, it can control the government,” Zhernakov said. With these kind of rules, the advisory group won’t be able to push through independent candidates,” said Zhernakov from the “Independent anti-corruption infrastructure is an important component of democracy in Ukraine,” [Andriy Yermak, head of the president’s office, said in a statement](https://t.me/ermaka2022/1018) on Klymenko’s appointment. The new procedure establishes an advisory group of three government officials and three independent experts with the same number of votes during the selection of judges. In 2021, the notorious Kyiv Administrative District Court blocked the appointment of the former detective from the NABU anti-corruption bureau. All of the judges and officials identified on the tapes deny their authenticity to this day, however. Zelenskyy submitted the bill to kill off the court as a priority back in April 2021. This could throw a major hurdle in the path of Ukraine’s European aspirations.

The Russian military said it has shot down a Ukrainian drone approaching an airbase deep inside Russia – the second time the facility has been targeted this ...

Local residents are lining up to donate blood for the wounded, Mr Yanushevich said Monday. On Sunday, Russian forces attacked the city of Kramatorsk, where Ukrainian forces are headquartered. For the first time in weeks, Russian forces did not shell the Dnipropetrovsk region, which borders the partially occupied southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, its governor, Valentyn Reznichenko, reported on Telegram. On December 5, unprecedented drone strikes on Engels and the Dyagilevo base in the Ryazan region in western Russia killed a total of three servicemen and hurt four others. Kreminna is in the eastern Luhansk region, which is almost entirely under Moscow’s control, and is on an important supply route for Russian forces and serves as a gateway for movement into other strategic positions. On the nominal front line in Ukraine, Luhansk’s Ukrainian governor, Serhiy Haidai, said Russian forces withdrew from their military command operations post in the town of Kreminna as Ukrainian forces approached after months of intense fighting.

Three Russian servicemen have been killed after a Ukrainian drone crashed near a Russian air base, a state news agency reports. On Saturday, Russia struck ...

Some context: Earlier this month, CCTV footage appeared to show an explosion lighting up the sky in Engels. But he did suggest the attack was the “consequence of what Russia is doing.” “If the Russians thought that the war would not affect anyone in the deep rear (of Russia) or anywhere else, they were deeply mistaken.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Dec. 20 endorsed a law that sets a new procedure for selecting judges to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU).

We give 90 percent of the information about the schemes to the media. To steal from the budget now means to undermine the trust not only of Western elites but of their societies and voters – the trust that is the key to getting weapons and money. What is the name of corruption in Ukraine today? Judges listen to Vovk as he is still in office because only the High Council of Justice will be authorized to remove him. That's why he is persuading judges not to vote for electing members of the High Council of Justice, so he can keep his status. I mean the reform of the Constitutional Court, the core of which is the procedure for electing judges. And I "like" the position of some officials on the sovereignty of Ukraine. Then the High Council of Justice will become Vovk and the Kyiv District Administrative Court were the key group that blocked this election, motivating congress delegates not to vote. 20 endorsed a law that sets a new procedure for selecting judges to the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CCU). Now the competition commission should consist of six members – three from Ukraine and three international experts. In an interview with Kyiv Post, he explained the current state of Ukraine's judicial system, whether it is independent and who is involved in corruption in the country.

Ukraine's foreign minister told the AP that his government is aiming to have a summit, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António ...

Kuleba said they have long "prepared for this step to uncover the fraud and deprive Russia of its status." He said that the U.S. Security Council after the collapse of the Soviet Union. member states to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the U.N. While Kuleba didn't mention a specific time frame, he said only that it will be "very much less than six months." Kuleba praised Washington's efforts and underlined the significance of the visit. Zelenskyy's visit to the U.S. Usually, the training takes up to a year. last week, and he revealed that the U.S. "Every war ends in a diplomatic way," he said. Kuleba also said he was "absolutely satisfied" with the results of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the U.S. "This is really about bringing everyone on board."

Russia can only be invited if it has faced a war crimes tribunal first, says foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba.

Zelenskiy’s visit to the US was his first foreign trip since the war started on 24 February. “This is really about bringing everyone on board.” “Every war ends in a diplomatic way,” he said. Usually, the training takes up to a year. “The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favour to a certain country,” he said. “Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.”

Three Russian military personnel were killed early on Monday when a Ukrainian drone attacked a base in Russia's Saratov region, Russian news agencies ...

Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN ... Bellingcat’s Christo Grozev reports that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian businessman and founder of Wagner Group, said he has “nothing to say about this video”, which Grozev writes means the Putin ally is essentially endorsing the attack on Gerasimov. Ukraine has called for Russia to be removed as a permanent member of the security council. China will “deepen strategic mutual trust and mutually beneficial cooperation” with Russia, Wang Yi said in a video address on Sunday. Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will speak before the end of the year, Russian state-owned news agency Tass reported. Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said he spoke to India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, in a phone call in which he discussed a “peace formula”. Russian forces’ rate of advance in the Bakhmut area of eastern Ukraine has probably slowed in recent days, according to analysts. Vladimir Putin claimed Russia was ready to negotiate with all parties involved in the war in Ukraine, while accusing Kyiv and its western allies of “refusing” to negotiate. Repair work is ongoing at generating facilities, and several power grids have been damaged due to nine mass Russian attacks, it said in a statement. Russians troops are working “round the clock” at new anti-aircraft missile system positions to defend against missile and air strikes by Ukraine, the Russian Interfax reported late on Sunday, citing the defence ministry. Russian-supplied Iskander tactical missile systems, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and S-400 air defence systems have been deployed to Belarus and are prepared to perform their intended tasks, a senior Belarusian defence ministry official has said. This includes laying additional fields of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, it said in its latest intelligence update, which would “almost certainly [be] going beyond Russian doctrinal guidelines”.

Three military personnel were killed in the falling wreckage of a Ukrainian drone at Russia's Engels airbase in the Saratov region, Russia's defence ministry ...

Russian air defence troops downed a Ukrainian drone as it approached an air base in southern Russia and three people died as the conflict enters its 305th ...

Russia has lost everything this year but is trying to make up for its losses with the pride of his propagandists after the missile attacks on our country, on our energy,” he said. "Due to the scale and complexity of the damage, restoring the equipment and functioning of a number of key facilities requires considerable time … It also said repair work is ongoing at generation facilities and several power grids have been damaged as a result of nine Russian attacks recently. We must be aware that our enemy will try to make this time dark and difficult for us . Engels, in the southern Saratov region, lies more than 600 kilometres from Ukraine. “Every war ends as a result of the actions taken on the battlefield and at the negotiating table.” This is not a greenhouse with cucumbers and tomatoes... Health Minister Viktor Liashko said each of the generators would help provide uninterrupted power to operating rooms, intensive care units, and oxygen stations, the statement added. "I had a phone call with PM Narendra Modi and wished a successful G20 presidency," Zelenskiyy wrote on Twitter. "Tomorrow we will officially express our position. We have a very simple question: Does Russia have the right to remain a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to be in the United Nations at all?" “Every war ends in a diplomatic way," he said.

Ukraine's foreign minister on Monday said that his government is aiming to have a peace summit by the end of February — but that Russia could only be ...

Haidai told Ukrainian television on Monday that Russian forces in the region are "suffering huge losses and medical facilities are overwhelmed with wounded soldiers." Russian forces relocated to Kreminna and several other areas in September after they pulled back from the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine. In another cross-border incident that couldn't be independently confirmed, Russia's Tass news agency reported Monday that the country's security forces had killed four Ukrainian saboteurs attempting to enter the Bryansk region from Ukraine. The incidents have outraged Russian military bloggers who say they show the country's weak air defences and security systems in general. Russia's Defence Ministry didn't comment on the withdrawal claim. Kuleba, who has been second only to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in carrying Ukraine's message and needs to an international audience, told AP that he was "absolutely satisfied" with the results of Zelenskyy's visit to the U.S. Kuleba said they have long "prepared for this step to uncover the fraud and deprive Russia of its status." "Every war ends in a diplomatic way," he said. Usually, the training takes up to a year. The Defence Ministry claimed no Russian aircraft were damaged. It marked his first foreign trip since the war started on Feb. Despite Putin's comments, Moscow's forces have kept attacking Ukraine — a sign that peace isn't imminent.

Three Russian servicemen have been killed after a Ukrainian drone crashed near a Russian air base, a state news agency reports. On Saturday, Russia struck ...

This is obvious, so we are moving to the Tribunal.” "I don't think it is so dangerous, I think we are moving in the right direction, protecting our national interests and the interests of our citizens, our people. “Russia doesn’t want negotiations, but tries to avoid responsibility.