In Belarus, one train loaded with Russian soldiers stopped recently for half a day near Ukraine’s border, then returned with all the soldiers aboard, Budanov said, calling it a “carousel.”

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NYT: Budanov says no intelligence points to imminent threat from Belarus. Intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the New York Times that Russia has tried to raise alarms in the Ukrainian army by loading soldiers on trains that bring them toward Belarus’s border with Ukraine.

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"US spending of 5.6% of its defense budget to destroy nearly half of Russia’s conventional military capability seems like an absolutely incredible investment," Timothy Ash writes in his cost-benefit analysis of US support for Ukraine.

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A number of local social media channels published videos of explosions alleging that the accident took place after a drone flew by, the Ukrainian media reported. Occupation authorities have not commented on the accident.

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Explosions reported near oil depot in Russian-occupied Crimea. Late on Dec. 23, explosions were heard in Crimea near the oil depot in the village of Rozlyvy, 95 kilometers northeast of Simferopol.

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Online war chronicle for December 23. Russia is digging in in Crimea, and the US Senate has voted to allocate $45 billion for Ukraine. #news #war #liga https://news.liga.net/ua/politics/chronicle/novaya-ugroza-iz-rossii-vse-glavnoe-ob-eskalatsii-voennoy-agressii-rf-protiv-ukrainy-live

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IAEA continues work on preventing nuclear accident at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia power plant. Diplomatic talks continue to establish a nuclear safety and security protection zone around Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

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A Russian military from Sakhalin went to war in Ukraine, was wounded, returned home and now calls on Russian television and complains that he cannot receive any medical assistance
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— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) 24 décembre 2022

A Russian soldier from Sakhalin went to war in Ukraine, was wounded, returned home and is now appealing on Russian television, complaining that he cannot receive any medical assistance

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