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🇺🇸 Zelensky convened with the Pentagon's head, Austin, and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brown, in the USA.
President Zelenskyy met in the United States with the heads of US defense companies, including BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics. He proposed creating a European defense center in Ukraine.
According to him, Ukraine is ready to produce more ammunition and military equipment and is willing to cut red tape and place orders. Kyiv also wants to invite American partners to take a stake in Ukrainian defense companies.
Putin is shifting the Russian economy onto "war tracks", and its direction is Europe, — Zelenskyy.
🇺🇸🇺🇦The US and Ukraine are looking for a new war strategy for 2024.
The Americans propose to consolidate positions and build up forces, while the Ukrainians want to go on the offensive from the ground or strike deep into the rear, the New York Times writes, citing sources.
The US aims to create enough of a credible threat that Russia might consider engaging in meaningful negotiations at the end of next year or in 2025.
According to US officials, many Ukrainian leaders do not realize the instability of continued U.S. funding and the inability to provide Ukraine with the military aid it has requested, including a million rounds of ammunition.
🏫Russians restrict access to education for children in the temporarily occupied territories, — Amnesty International.
Ukrainian pupils in the temporarily occupied territories are being forced to learn and sing the Russian anthem in class. Those who refuse are threatened with being taken away from their parents for "re-education in Russian orphanages," according to the results of Amnesty International's research.
In addition, families from the temporarily occupied territories said that the schools that reopened after the occupation do not have enough qualified teachers, and children are left to read textbooks in class on their own. This affects the quality of education and discipline.
⚡️Binance discontinues support for the ruble in P2P transfers. Specifically, Russian users won't have access to peer-to-peer exchanges involving currency pairs such as USDT/RUB, BTC/RUB, FDUSD/RUB, BNB/RUB, ETH/RUB, BUSD/RUB, and RUB/RUB P2P.
The cessation of ruble trading support is set to occur by the conclusion of January 2024. However, Russians will still have the option to engage in cryptocurrency trading through the CommEX exchange, which is acquiring all of Binance's Russian operations. Binance has devised a procedure for transferring Russian users' assets to this new exchange.
Kyiv established a remarkable, multi-layered air defense system, in part with the aid of volunteers such as those from the Hurkit group. They've been involved in the development, production, and testing of spotlight projectors used to illuminate and take down the swarm of drones sent by Russia to target Ukraine's energy sector and other sites. @ liviamagdalena_ and @ maslovsaslov spent time with Hurkit during one of their nighttime tests near Kyiv.
The Ukrainian radio engineering forces employ the cutting-edge radar station 80K6KS1 "Fenix-1" to safeguard the airspace.
The BM-21 Grad self-propelled 122 mm multiple rocket launcher of the Russians. Who knows, maybe some paint can fix it.