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Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, as quoted by Suddeutsche Zeitung.
Iran resupplies Russia with new batch of kamikaze drones. Russian forces resumed attacks against Ukraine using Iranian kamikaze drones, said Andrii Yusov, the Defence Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate spokesman. He added that Iran shipped a new “relatively small” batch of Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 drones on December 18. Russia receives 250 more Iranian-made kamikaze drones. Russian forces launched 35 Iranian kamikaze drones at Ukraine on December 19, injuring three people. Thirty drones were reportedly shot down. Russia has repeatedly attacked critical infrastructure across Ukraine with missiles and drones since early October, killing dozens of people and causing power outages.
Zelenskyy's visit to Bakhmut thwarted Putin's plan to present himself as a leader. President Zelenskyy’s visit to the front-line city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region on the 300th day of the war has undermined the Russian president as a leader involved in the war, according to the ISW. Putin's decision to reward members of his entourage who did not even take direct part in the fighting, unlike Zelenskyy's visit to Bakhmut near the front line, drew some criticism from Russian nationalists, the report said. At the same time, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian private Wagner military company, released a series of videos claiming that he arrived at the front line near Bakhmut to allegedly talk to Zelenskyy about control of the territories in the area. Prigozhin’s appearance on the front lines further weakens Putin's crated image as a wartime leader, as Putin has not even visited Russian-occupied territories, let alone come close to the front lines.
Ukraine aims for peace summit with UN involvement by end of February. “The United Nations could be the best venue for holding this summit, because this is not about making a favour to a certain country. This is really about bringing everyone on board,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the Associated Press.
Forbes: Ukraine’s wealthiest 20 lose over $20 billion due to Russia’s full-scale invasion. Russia’s all-out invasion slashed the net worth of Ukraine’s wealthiest, destroying plants and factories and shrinking the country’s economy by a third.
Ukraine seizes $54 million worth of assets of Kremlin-linked Russian oligarch Usmanov. Authorities have seized more than 160,000 tons of Usmanov's iron ore stored in underground warehouses at several of Ukraine’s seaports.
Ukraine’s military has downed nearly 900 Russian missiles, drones since September. Ukraine’s military has downed 850 Russian missiles and drones since September, Yurii Ihnat, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Air Force, reported on December 28.
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