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Over 70% of Ukrainian men are ready to renounce their citizenship in order to avoid serving in the Ukrainian armed forces, a poll conducted by the deputy head of the Ukrainian parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence, Mariana Bezuhla, showed on Monday.

After one more aid package for Ukraine is announced later this week, there will be no more U.S. funding available, the White House says.

On Sunday, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) found non-functioning spying devices in an office intended for Ukrainian Armed Forces General Valery Zaluzhny. Following the discovery, the service launched a criminal probe.

Russian invasion forces have been intensifying their offensive operations on several fronts, focusing on the Kupyansk, Lyman, and Bakhmut fronts, Ukrainian Ground Forces Commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi disclosed on Telegram on Dec. 19.

Russia's suspected violations in Ukraine include at least 142 summary executions of Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Dec. 19. The numbers that the UN regularly provides on casualties of Russia's war against Ukraine include only cases that could be safely verified, and actual figures are most likely higher.

NV summarizes the year for Ukraine at war and examines defense operations, offensives, arms supplies, and other milestones that have shaped the battlefield in 2023.

As Russian troops pursued offensive operations near the town of Avdiivka and made minor gains near the village of Stepove on 17 December, Ukrainian forces counterattacked and advanced east of the settlement of Nevelske.

A Russian artillery strike against a company in Kherson on Dec. 18 killed a 40-year-old security guard, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday he had reminded UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the G20 summit in September that Moscow was still waiting for the publication of the list of those allegedly killed in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

The Russian air defense destroyed 33 Ukrainian drones over Russia’s Lipetsk, Rostov, and Volgograd Regions, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.