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The U.S. and U.K. carried out strikes against targets in Yemen, escalating tensions sparked by a spate of Houthi maritime attacks in the Red Sea.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Russias forces have the strategic initiative on the frontline in Ukraine.

“This latest destruction of (Russian dictator Vladimir) Putin's navy demonstrates that those who believe there's a stalemate in the Ukraine war are wrong,” Shapps wrote on X. “They haven't noticed that over the past 4 months 20% of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed.”

The U.K. plans to sign a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding to "keep Kyiv in the fight" against Russia in the Black Sea, the Telegraph reported on Dec. 18, citing unnamed British military sources.

Moscow has lost 346,070 troops since February 24, 2022, according to statement from Ukraines military.

"(Ukraine has) made concrete changes, not least in the fight against (corruption)," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said, adding that these steps help the country "to move closer to NATO membership."

The lines on the map haven't moved much. But wars aren't won on maps. Ukraine has done some brilliant work on the ground to set conditions for next year.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s ability to use its Novorossiysk naval base to reload vessels with cruise missiles is likely to become a significant factor in the fleet’s operational effectiveness, the U.K. Defense Ministry said in its intelligence update on Nov. 25.

Ukrainian military operations have destroyed 15 Russian warships in the Black Sea and damaged 12 others since the start of the full-scale invasion, Navy spokesperson Dmytro Pletenchuk reported on Nov. 17.

Ukraine will soon have fire control capabilities over occupied Crimea, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an online address to the second parliamentary summit of the international Crimea Platform on Oct. 24.