Ukraine Invasion: Part 46

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With thanks to all keeping these threads going 🇺🇦

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Mmm, I don't think this one was giving paid bot vibes.

Reddit has better tools to prevent this. The moderators there can block new accounts and even require that posters have accumulated a specific number of karma points to post.

It's a tricky balance. On a forum I moderate we have a Russian propaganda poster.

Generally they do more harm to their cause than good because there's enough knowledgeable people (including myself with the help of knowledge gained from here) willing to pull their posts apart and they're shown for what they are.

I do need to watch out for ordinary people who are simply war weary and want it to end by any means including Ukraine giving up territory latching on to the "other side of the story".

As if the world's free, independent press and the Russian propaganda machine are equal sides of a coin.

It takes a different kind of discussion with those that just want the horror to stop than with the propaganda trolls.

The increasingly common use of VPNs makes preventing returning banned members very difficult for average forums.

There was a time the use of a VPN was reason enough to be suspicious of a new poster but now many routinely use them to access greater content on Netflix etc.

I'm sure Reddit has the same problem, but they steps they can take discourage trolls by making it harder to create throw-away accounts and jump back on a thread after a specific handle has been blocked.

Best wishes for the New year. Onwards.

Clock ticked over a while ago here - Bonne Annee.....

Rod Stewart giving a shout out to the Ukrainians on Jools Holland when asked what he hoped would come in 2024 🇺🇦

May 2024 be full of blessings for Ukraine and surprises for their enemy.

Slava Ukraini

Good old Rod

Here's hoping for a Ukrainian victory this year

Really impressed by Rod Stewart the last couple of years 🙂

Great speech from Zalensky tonight, here’s to a successful year for Ukraine, and Happy New Year to all (well, nearly all).

Fantastic speech

As others have said - here and elsewhere - he may not be perfect but he has balls of steel

Here's hoping that 2024 brings peace to Ukraine on their terms.

I'd also like to wish all contributors here the New Year they deserve. May it bring for them, all that they wish for others.

Thank you for keeping these threads going, I am incredibly grateful.

Kyiv Independent Telegram Highlights

⚡️Ukraine refutes claim Russia killed its intelligence officers in Kharkiv attack. https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-refutes-claim-russia-killed-its-intelligence-officers-in-kharkiv-attack/

⚡️Death toll from Dec. 29 strikes on Kyiv rises to 23 as more bodies pulled from rubble. https://kyivindependent.com/update-23-killed-in-kyiv-by-russias-dec-29-mass-strike/

⚡️Zelensky delivers https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-delivers-new-years-address-thanking-ukrainian-troops-civil-society/**new year’s address thanking Ukrainian troops, civil society.
President Volodymyr Zelensky at midnight on Dec. 31 delivered his traditional new year's address on television, thanking Ukrainian troops and civil society for the immense sacrifices made in the ongoing struggle against Russia. The Kyiv Independent is republishing his address in full.

⚡️Ukraine not mentioned by name in Putin's New Year address https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-not-mentioned-by-name-in-putins-new-year-address/

Fire erupted in the premises of an unidentified critical infrastructure site in Kyiv Oblast after a Russian drone attack, regional governor Ruslan Kravchenko reported on Dec. 31. https://kyivindependent.com/governor-fire-broke-out-in-premises-of-critical-infrastructure-in-kyiv-oblast-after-drone-attack/

⚡️Air Force: Russia has targeted Ukraine with around 3,800 drones since 2022. https://kyivindependent.com/military-russia-has-targeted-ukraine-with-around-3-800-drones-since-2022/

⚡️Air Force: Patriot air defense systems have already shot down 15 Kinzhal missiles. https://kyivindependent.com/air-force-patriot-air-defense-systems-have-already-shot-down-15-kinzhal-missiles/

Ragnar Gudmundsson

WAR IN #UKRAINE - JAN 1, 2024
■ Recordstrikes,ones below 7-day average, relatively few combat engagements but many settlements under artillery fire
■ Casualties & landbased equipment losses below average but massive drones interception, drone & missile losses at record 7-day level
■ Oryx: 4921added to records (45:20 after removal of duplicates/corrections), 30-day ratio at 3.2x

What a lovely wish @L1ttledrummergirl. The same to you and to everyone too.

UNITED24 Media Telegram Highlights

According to The Insider, Russia withdrew its Black Sea Fleet from Crimea following the loss of 20 ships due to strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Ruslan Pukhov, the director of the Center for the Analysis of Strategies and Technologies in Moscow, suggested that Ukraine effectively forced the Russian fleet out of Crimea, making no Crimean port secure for Russian warships. Oryx, a Dutch analytical center, points out that Russia has lost at least 20 warships, including submarines and amphibious assault ships, since the onset of the conflict.
Following attacks on the port of Feodosia, the Russian fleet's reliance shifted to Novorossiysk. However, even there, the port faced an attack: in August, the amphibious assault ship "Olyenegorskiy Hornyak" was destroyed.

The IT Army of Ukraine stopped the operation of payment terminals in the Russian Federation, — Ministry of Digital Transformation
"New Year's cyber gift to Russians: the IT Army stopped the operation of payment terminals. The largest manufacturer of online cash registers Evotor has not been working since yesterday. Therefore, the attempt of Russians to pay cashless for New Year's gifts is turning into a defeat", — Ministry of Digital Transformation

🇺🇸 US President Joe Biden called aid to Ukraine one of the main achievements of the US in 2023.

We are beyond grateful for our Armed Forces of Ukraine!

There is destruction due to falling debris from downed drones. Fires broke out in residential buildings in different areas of Odesa.

Some of the top pictures from UNITED24 Media.

The man with the apple had just been released from Russian captivity.

Live: Ukraine Telegram Highlights

Agents of the ATESH partisan movement showed how the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the temporarily occupied Sevastopol looks like after an encounter with a Ukrainian missile. [photo below]
The Russians have not abandoned the building - the checkpoint continues to operate there, and the military is on duty from the sea.

❗️❗️Russian troops struck near a store in Kherson when children were inside. A 14-year-old teenager was killed, and a 9-year-old boy is in extremely serious condition, said the head of the Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.

Journalists of the German TV channel ZDF came under Russian shelling https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/charkiw-hotel-zdf-team-ukraine-krieg-russland-100.html in the center of Kharkiv yesterday. They were in the Kharkiv Palace hotel.

🇺🇦This year, the air defense system shot down 1,709 missiles of various types and more than 3,000 Shahed drones.
Among them:
▪️1,045 Kh-101/555/55 (1,360 launched);
▪️397 "Kalibr" (834 launched);
▪️62 Iskander-K (154 produced);
▪️3,095 Shahed-136/131 (3,940 produced).
Also, 15 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aerial ballistic missiles, 329 Russian airplanes and 324 helicopters were shot down.
Over the course of the year, the AFU's aviation flew more than 16,000 sorties, striking the enemy 7,600 times.

❗️The Russian Navy has deployed three Kalibr missile carriers to the Black Sea.
Their total salvo is 24 missiles

Chinese leader Xi Jinping said in his New Year's address that China's "reunification" with Taiwan is inevitable. He stated that "this is the main national interest and the people's desire."

UN at Security Council meeting urged Russia and Ukraine not to strike civilian infrastructure
UN Assistant Secretary General Khaled Khiari urged the warring sides not to attack populated areas, civilian facilities and civilians at a Security Council meeting in connection with the Russian-initiated strike on Belgorod. [I'm sure that Russia will just stop right now]

On New Year's Eve in Lviv, a Russian Shahed drone destroyed the museum of Roman Shukhevych, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and partially damaged the university where the leader of the Union of Ukrainian Nationalists Stepan Bandera studied.

I second this. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

I agree with all previous sentiments and wish there was a like button. Thank you all for your dedication and hard work. Victory and peace to Ukraine.

Ooo I like the way you worded that

Happy New Year to all, here's hoping 2024 brings good news.