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Aftermath of the shelling of Dnipropetrovsk region on December 12, 2024
The death toll from the strike on Zaporizhia has risen to 11. Another 22 people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl.
At 1:36 p.m., the Prosecutor General's Office reported that the search and rescue operation was completed. The body of the last victim was pulled out from under the rubble.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 10:00 p.m. On December 12, 190 military clashes occurred.
Almost half are in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions. Another 30 combat contacts occurred in the Vremivske direction.
In Kurshchyna, Ukrainian defenders repelled 18 enemy assaults, two combat contacts are ongoing.
More details on the operational situation as of the evening of December 12 are in the news.
On the evening of December 12, it became known that pieces of a Russian drone fell in the center of Kyiv.
The mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote about this on social networks. “The debris of an enemy UAV fell in the center of the capital – in the Pechersk district. Another UAV is approaching from the left bank towards the central part of the city,” Klitschko said in a statement. The city military administration noted that the debris fell preliminarily in an open area, without fire or casualties. .
Before this, the Ukrainian Air Force warned about the movement of several groups of drones across Ukrainian territory. An air raid alarm was declared in a number of regions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky visited one of the divisions of the 27th Petro Kalnyshevsky Rocket Artillery Brigade, inspected the equipment, listened to a report and awarded the soldiers with state awards. Presidential Office.
This brigade was the first in Ukraine to receive the HIMARS system and now provides artillery support for the defense of the Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions.
Zelensky congratulated the defenders on the Day of the Ground Forces and the recent Day of the Missile Forces and Artillery and awarded them with the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of the 1st-3rd degrees and the Order of Courage of the 3rd degree.
The president also visited the first underground advanced surgical group in Ukraine. This hospital has already saved more than 1,000 lives. Here, doctors receive wounded soldiers directly from the battlefield and provide them with medical care.
Ukrenergo has released information about the power outage on December 13.
According to the company, on Friday, the time of application and the scope of restrictions for household consumers will be as follows:
- 6:00 – 8:00 – one round of outages
- 8:00 – 19:00 – two queues;
- 19:00 – 21:00 – one queue.
For industry and business, the restrictions will be in effect from 6:00 to 20:00.
“The reason for the temporary introduction of restrictions is damage to energy facilities as a result of Russian missile and drone attacks. Repair work at energy facilities continues. Power engineers are working to return the equipment damaged by the enemy to operation as quickly as possible,” Ukrenergo noted.
Representatives of opposition political forces in Georgia have stated that the country's presidential elections scheduled for December 14 are illegitimate, Ekho Kavkaza writes.
“We, the political parties that won the October 26 elections, do not recognize the self-proclaimed government or any of its branches, because instead of elections, Ivanishvili organized a constitutional coup against the citizens of Georgia, Europe and the Euro-Atlantic future of our country… The illegitimate parliament has no authority to elect a president, so Salome Zurabishvili remains the president of Georgia, the supreme commander of the Georgian Defense Forces and the country's highest representative in foreign relations,” reads a joint statement by the three parties, Coalition for Change, Unity – National Movement and Strong Georgia. The Khukhara for Georgia party also made a similar statement.
Demonstrations have been taking place in Tbilisi and other cities for over two weeks. The protesters are speaking out against the decision made by the Georgian Dream, according to which the government will no longer initiate a dialogue on opening negotiations with the European Union until 2028.
The influential American magazine Time has chosen the newly elected US President Donald Trump as the Person of the Year.
As the publication notes, for 97 years, TIME editors have chosen a Person of the Year: the person who, for better or worse, has done the most to shape the world and make headlines over the past 12 months. There have been many years when that choice has been difficult. But not in 2024.
Since he ran for president in 2015, perhaps no one has played a greater role in changing the course of politics and history than Trump. He shocked many by winning the White House in 2016, then presided over the United States through a chaotic period that included the first year of the pandemic and a period of nationwide protests that ended with his election defeat by 7 million votes and the provocative attack on the Capitol. USA January 6, 2021.
The publication notes that if this moment (the attack on the Capitol) was Trump's lowest point, today we are witnessing his apotheosis.
“As he enters his second presidency, all of us — from his most fanatical supporters to his most ardent critics — are living in the Trump era,” Time writes.< /p>
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