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Ukraine has fired British long-range Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time, The Independent understands, the latest sign of a change in stance from Western countries on involvement in the conflict. Images circulating online appear to show fragments of Storm Shadow missiles in Russia’s Kursk region – the border area into which Ukrainian forces staged a surprise assault in August, taking a swathe of territory they still hold.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...50641.html

Through development, Sea Baby drones can now leverage on multi-role capabilities for maximum tactical advantage. Beyond their enhanced firepower, sea drones are also used as platforms for smaller FPV drones, which can independently strike targets such as coastal defense systems, patrol boats, & helicopters if they stray too close or gather reconnaissance data. A dual-layered approach Ukrainian forces to execute precision strikes simultaneously defending, naval drones on air & surface threats. Eg, (confirmed) during latest raid carried FPV drones enabled the coordinated assault effective post-strike monitoring.

Overall, Sea Baby’s evolution showcases Ukraine’s adaptive, innovative approach to modern warfare. By addressing critical vulnerabilities, integrating new capabilities & repeatedly targeting high-value assets such as Crimean Bridge and Russian naval infrastructure these drones continue to shift the balance in contested areas like the Black Sea, presenting a robust response to Russia’s military presence. New sea drones are not only tools for direct strikes but function as platforms for psychological & operational leverage, able to conduct hit-and-run strikes against long-distance targets on open seas.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/12/14/f...by-drones/

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Through development, Sea Baby drones can now leverage on multi-role capabilities for maximum tactical advantage. Beyond their enhanced firepower, sea drones are also used as platforms for smaller FPV drones, which can independently strike targets such as coastal defense systems, patrol boats, & helicopters if they stray too close or gather reconnaissance data. A dual-layered approach Ukrainian forces to execute precision strikes simultaneously defending, naval drones on air & surface threats. Eg, (confirmed) during latest raid carried FPV drones enabled the coordinated assault effective post-strike monitoring.

Overall, Sea Baby’s evolution showcases Ukraine’s adaptive, innovative approach to modern warfare. By addressing critical vulnerabilities, integrating new capabilities & repeatedly targeting high-value assets such as Crimean Bridge and Russian naval infrastructure these drones continue to shift the balance in contested areas like the Black Sea, presenting a robust response to Russia’s military presence. New sea drones are not only tools for direct strikes but function as platforms for psychological & operational leverage, able to conduct hit-and-run strikes against long-distance targets on open seas.
https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/12/14/f...by-drones/

Reports revealed two tanker, Volgoneft-239, sank after the Volgoneft-212. Its hull also broke into two parts, reportedly due to being struck by a wave. This two Russian tankers carrying tonnes of fuel oil break in half & start sinking near Kerch Strait – videos
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/12/15/7489168/

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Ukraine is now fifth country such laser technology
can down aircraft over 2km altitude using laser,"
Unmanned Systems currently on its way to scale up laser system. “It really works, it really exists,”
This also highlighted progress in development of "mother drones" capable of carrying lightweight drones, mother drones, FPV carriers, range more than 70 km, carry 2 FPVs act as a repeater fly deep to enemy targets. In February, Zelenskyy tasked govt establishing a separate Unmanned Systems within Ukrainian Armed, he explained why new type of troops is important. By summer, Colonel Sukharevskyi was appointed to lead this new branch. 

Zelenskyy recently announced Ukraine used more drones than Russia in July, before that, he said tha plans to increase the production of long-range drones. In a real breakthrough," this project is among most promising initiatives within his work, Sukharevskyi added.

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Ukraine/US say North Korean troops have been killed fighting alongside Russian forces. White House now believes North Korean troops are on “front lines” of Russia’s actively engaged in combat op” against Ukraine.National security spokesman John Kirby confirmed assessment.
Monday. Kirby said North Korean troops are taking casualties in fighting & promised a strong U.S. and allied sanctions response to North Korea.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s military intelligence agency and the Pentagon said Monday that some North Korean troops have been killed during combat against Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region.These are reported casualties since U.S. & Ukraine announced North Korea had 12,000 troops to  help almost 3-year war. Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said 30 North Korean troops were killed or wounded during battle with Ukrainian army over weekend.

The casualties occurred around three villages in Kursk, where Russia has for four months been trying to quash a Ukrainian incursion, the agency, known by its acronym GUR, said in a public post on the Telegram messaging app. At least three North Korean servicemen went missing around another Kursk village, GUR said.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukrain...1fdbf61396

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Russia, US warn each other about planned launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, Russian agencies repor.
https://www.asiaone.com/world/russia-us-...es-russian

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https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-l...e-12541713
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, Russia's Investigative Committee said
https://youtu.be/Jf7lhjLuJOs?si=m7Gw6UvNBwKKDe2Q

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A Ukrainian lawmaker has claimed Ukraine’s first major fighting formation trained exclusively outside the country is “in chaos.” A journalist said unit lost 1,000 men to desertion.  NATO >French. A commander of a high-profile combat brigade that was Ukraine’s first major fighting formation have been trained outside country was replaced shortly after unit returned home after months of training in France, days be4 it went into combat, news reports said.

Col. Dmytro Ryumshin left command of 155th Mechanized Brigade on Dec. 12. The formation had created in mid-2024 & formed, armed trained exclusively in French training bases August to Nov. 155th had profiled by French & Ukrainian govt, as powerful combat element of 2,000 men armed with French-donated AMX 10 light tanks, 128 armored fighting vehicles & 18 CAESAR self-propelled howitzers, one of most effective artillery systems op in Russo-Ukrainian War.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/43953

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https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-l...e-12541713
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, Russia's Investigative Committee said
https://youtu.be/Jf7lhjLuJOs?si=m7Gw6UvNBwKKDe2Q

https://youtube.com/shorts/a392FDmsMXM?s...1YChWr7TPD

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Image is blurr by RFA...  above photo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...s-official

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https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-l...e-12541713
Lt Gen Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Defence Forces (NBC), was outside a residential block early on Tuesday when a device hidden in a scooter was detonated remotely, Russia's Investigative Committee said
https://youtu.be/Jf7lhjLuJOs?si=m7Gw6UvNBwKKDe2Q

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Suspected assassin of Putin’s nuclear general arrested, North Korea suffer losses...Uzbek citizen held by Russia in connection with chemical weapons chief Igor Kirillov’s killing  Putin is
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...66192.html

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Investigative Committee says 29-year-old Uzbek national suspected of carrying out Moscow attack on instructions on Ukraine suspicion of having committed the attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov on Tuesday morning.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/1...r-kirillov

It added the 29-year-old suspect said he had been “recruited by Ukrainian special forces”.

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Investigative Committee says 29-year-old Uzbek national suspected of carrying out Moscow attack on instructions on Ukraine suspicion of having committed the attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov on Tuesday morning.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/1...r-kirillov. It added the 29-year-old suspect said he had been “recruited by Ukrainian special forces”.
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Acording to the agency. He then mounted it on the electric scooter which he left at the entrance to the residential building where Kirillov lived. Suspect also rented a car to monitor the location and set up a camera that livestreamed footage “to the attack organisers, in the [Ukrainian] city of Dnipro. Once Kirillov was seen leaving the building, the suspect detonated the bomb.

Who was Kirillov?
Kirillov is the most senior Russian military officer to be assassinated inside Russia by Ukraine. His murder is likely to prompt the Russian authorities to review security protocols for army’s top brass.

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Image is blurr by RFA...  above photo.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...s-official

https://youtu.be/9OnfGDky1Ts?si=E_8A8eX5P6smrz8w

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“Russia’s angry, of course they’ll want to seek revenge. The problem with that is that they’ve done most of the things they can plausibly do.” Putin can’t hit back at Ukraine after they assassination one of his generals without taking “implausible” steps, like using nuclear weapons, says Shashank Joshi.
https://youtu.be/u84JY5ZAbkc?si=mDriiuf1Etr-Wtn8

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North Korean troops fighting in Kursk are picking up bad habits from the Russians. Mass infantry assaults against outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainians teach the wrong lesson. Two months after deploying to Kursk Oblast in western Russia to reinforce Russian troops battling the then two-month-old Ukrainian invasion of the oblast, a 12,000-person North Korean army corps finally went on the attack last weekend.

For Russia, the North Korean deployment was a critical boost to Russia’s costly effort to eliminate the 250-square-mile Ukrainian salient in Kursk ahead of the January inauguration of the US president-elect Donald Trump – an event that could signal a chaotic new phase of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine.

For North Korea, it was an opportunity to learn. Army of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea hasn’t fought a major land war in seven decades. Yet North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un expects capable of defeating the exceptionally well-equipped South Korean army in the event the tensions across Korean Demilitarised Zone ever escalate into open warfare.

Russia’s Ukraine war, for North Korea, a school house teaching lessons in 21st-century warfare. The lessons are brutal and bloody ones. In 34 months of grinding warfare, Russians have learned to trade enormous numbers of human beings for incremental territorial gains. It’s a horrific strategy, but not always an ineffective one.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12...s-ukraine/

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Don't underestimate North Korean troops in Russia, ex-soldiers tell BBC. What Haneul remembers most about his time in the North Korean military is the gnawing, continuous hunger. He lost 10kg in his first month of service, due to a diet of cracked corn and mouldy cabbage.

Three months into training, he says almost his entire battalion was severely malnourished and needed to be sent to a recovery centre to gain weight. When they were later deployed as frontline guards to the border with South Korea, rice replaced corn. But by the time it reached their bowls, much had been siphoned off by rear units, and the remainder had been cut with sand.

Haneul says his unit was among the best-fed, a tactic to stop them defecting to South Korea. But it failed to prevent Haneul. In 2012, he made a death-defying dash across tlDemilitarised Zone (DMZ) – strip of land dividing North from South.
His experience and that of other military defectors helps shed light on the condition of thousands of North Korean troops deployed to the frontline in Russia's war against Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6238exzjpxo