Western allies intend to supply Ukraine with armored fighting vehicles for the first time, but not the heavier tanks it has requested to fight Russia.

The latest on the war in Ukraine, day 316:

01:01 Foreign Policy: Russia is afraid of paranormal attacks from the West/ What does the document from the Kremlin show?

00:17 Ukrainian journalists allegedly identified 4 Russians who launched Shahed drones in Ukraine.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Emmanuel Macron told Zelensky during a phone call that his government would send AMX-10 RC light armored combat vehicles. US President Biden said that the shipment of Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine is under consideration. This highly effective 25mm armored vehicle with automatic cannon has been a staple of the US Army for delivering soldiers to the battlefield since the mid-1980s.
• The United States is looking at ways to target Iran’s drone production through sanctions and export controls, the White House said. According to Ukrainian intelligence, parts manufactured by 13 American companies were found inside one Iranian drone shot down in Ukraine last fall.
• Heavy fighting around the mostly destroyed Ukrainian-held town of Bakhmut will continue for the foreseeable future with an uncertain outcome as the Russians gradually advance, according to a senior US administration official.
• Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said heavy Russian losses meant Moscow would likely have to announce a second partial mobilization in the first quarter of the year.
• The General Staff of Ukraine reported that over the past 24 hours, Russia has launched 7 missile strikes, 18 airstrikes and more than 85 volley fire attacks on civilian infrastructure in Kramatorsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. It said there were civilian casualties, but did not give details.
• Vladimir Putin sent a frigate armed with hypersonic cruise missiles of a new generation into the Atlantic Ocean.
• Germany is looking for new ways to help Ukraine protect its population and infrastructure, Foreign Minister Annalena Burbok said, stressing that any weakening of Europe’s resolve in this matter would be an advantage for Moscow.
• The Makiivka massacre, caused by a Ukrainian strike with the worst casualties in a single attack on Russian forces recognized by Moscow since the invasion began in February 2022, drew criticism from the top Russian propaganda led by Margarita Simonyan.
• The head of military intelligence of Ukraine, General Kyrylo Budanov, claims that Vladimir Putin will die “very soon”, but not before the end of the war. Budanov also said that in the spring Ukraine is planning a new offensive against the Russian troops and this season the occupiers will have a “hot” month.
• On Wednesday, Klaus Iohannis held a telephone conversation with Zelenskyi, in which he talked about the law on minorities adopted by Kyiv, to which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania took an extremely critical position.
• A train with dozens of Turkish 4×4 BMC Kirpi armored vehicles was filmed passing through the Bacau railway station, most likely heading to Ukraine, where a batch of 50 such vehicles had already been delivered since the summer.
• Dmytro Rogozin, the former vice-prime minister of Russia and the head of Roscosmos, who was wounded in Donbas at the end of last year, sent an angry letter to the French ambassador to Russia, in which he also wrote a fragment of a projectile that was allegedly removed from his body.
• The Ukrainian army received a new batch of tanks from the EU country, the Armed Forces of Kyiv are armed with Slovenian M-55 S1 combat vehicles.
• The Russian military claims that its soldiers, who died during the Ukrainian KHIMARS attack on the barracks in Makiivka, are to blame for their deaths because they allegedly revealed their position.

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• Wednesday’s military events were broadcast LIVE here on HotNews.ro