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AP News: Mali’s armed forces, supported by Russian mercenaries, committed abuses against civilians since the withdrawal of a U.N. peacekeeping mission late last year, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.
Reuters: A Ukrainian drone struck the roof of a police barracks in Russia's Caucasus region of Chechnya early on Thursday, injuring four people, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said, the second such incident in a week.
ISW: Russian forces may well continue making gains towards Pokrovsk, but the losses they are taking to do so will temper their ability to translate these gains into more far-reaching offensive operations.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced 170 million euros in financial support for six European countries bordering Russia and Belarus to bolster their border protection efforts.
Austrian oil and gas company OMV has terminated its long-term gas supply contract with Russia's Gazprom, OMV said on Dec. 11. The contract was originally set to last until 2040.
AFP: Ukraine on Wednesday denied having discussed with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban a Christmas ceasefire and prisoner exchange in its war with Russia.
CNN: Russian forces are now just three kilometers (1.9 miles) from the outskirts of the key eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk after making advances Wednesday, according to Ukrainian mapping service DeepState. They have also destroyed or captured Ukrainian positions near the city, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said.
France 24: Russia on Wednesday vowed retribution against Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of firing Western-supplied missiles on a military airfield in its southern Rostov region.
Reuters: Hungary and Slovakia are seeking ways to make payments for Russian gas that were thrown into uncertainty by new U.S. sanctions on Russia's Gazprombank, officials said on Wednesday.
Reuters: European Union ambassadors agreed a 15th package of sanctions on Russia over its war against Ukraine, targeting its shadow tanker fleet and Chinese firms making drones for Moscow, diplomats said.
Reuters: The United States is continuing to look for creative ways to reduce Russia's oil revenue and lower global demand for oil creates an opportunity for more sanctions, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Wednesday.
BBC News: Russian naval vessels appear to have temporarily left their main port in Syria, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show, amid continuing uncertainty about Moscow's military future in the country after the fall of its ally, Bashar al-Assad.
The Moscow Times: Russia’s leadership is betting that chaos and infighting among the Islamist rebels who overthrew Syria’s regime will allow Moscow to hang onto its strategically important foothold in the country, Russian officials told MT.
AP News: President Joe Biden has approved a new national security memorandum ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House that could serve as a road map for the incoming administration as it looks to counter growing cooperation among China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, the White House said Wednesday.
Politico: French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk the deployment of a postwar peacekeeping force in Ukraine when the two meet in Warsaw on Thursday, a European Union diplomat and a French official told POLITICO.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk jailed nine Ukrainian soldiers captured after defending Mariupol to between 24 years and a life sentence, the city's exiled authorities reported on Dec. 11.
AP News: Russia could launch its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again soon, the Pentagon said Wednesday, as both sides wrestle for a battlefield advantage that will give them leverage in any negotiations to end the nearly 3-year war.
Ukrinform: The House of Commons of Canada has approved the allocation of 764 million Canadian dollars (approximately 587 million USD) for military aid to Ukraine.
The Kyiv Independent: A Ukrainian missile struck a boiler plant in Russia's Rostov Oblast overnight on Dec. 11, damaging critical infrastructure in the city of Taganrog, local Russian officials claimed. Separately, Ukrainian forces struck a Druzhba oil loading pipeline near the city of Bryansk, setting it on fire.
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