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Russia seizing control of Maryinka would amount to Kremlin’s most significant battlefield gain since May

So much for ‘never abandon your own’.

Russia's likely capture of Marinka won't give it a strategic boost unless it sorts out its inability to fight with armored vehicles, experts say.

Russian former city councillor and pro-peace politician Yekaterina Duntsova vowed to form a political party on Wednesday after authorities confirmed she would not be able to run in the elections in 2024. But she said she wanted to form a movement for the "tens of millions" of Russians who wanted "a peaceful democratic future and simple common sense" but had no party representing them. 

Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, Commander of the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group, believes that the situation at the front has not yet reached a stalemate, but admits that the situation is difficult.

Ukraine's Defence Forces killed over 790 Russian invaders during the day of 26 December. The total number of Russian fatalities has reached 355,750. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook Details: The total combat losses of Russian troops between 24 February 2022 and 27 December 2023 are estimated to be as follows [figures in parentheses represent the latest losses - ed.

Russia’s potential capture of Marinka in Donetsk Oblast represents a limited tactical gain and doesn’t allow for any operational significant advance unless Russian forces have considerably improved their ability to conduct rapid mechanized forward movement, “which they show no signs of having done,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.

The European Union has drawn up a £17.4 billion workaround fund to overcome Hungary’s opposition to further support for Ukraine, it has emerged.

The U.S. Ambassador to Kyiv, Bridget Brink, has condemned the Russian strike on Kherson train station on Dec. 27, describing it as an act of barbarism.

The Donetsk Peoples Republic (DPR) representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination (JCCC) of issues related to Ukraines war crimes said Ukrainian troops had shelled the DPR territory 54 times over the past day.