On the day that the Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have hit and destroyed the Russian warship Novocherkassk during an airstrike on Feodosia in Russian-controlled Crimea, Moscow bombed the Kherson train station, which was filled with civilians. On Wednesday, Russia stepped up again and sent dozens of drones in several waves, including over front-line territories.

Ukrainian military forces are firing mortars across the Dnipro at Russian positions in the Kherson regionPhoto: Roman PHILIPEY / AFP / Profimedia

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07:52Half of Russian exports of oil and petroleum products in 2023 went to China, while India’s share increased to 40 percent in two years, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Novak said, according to Russian state news agencies, Reuters reports.

“The main partners in the current situation are China, whose share has increased to approximately 45-50%, and, of course, India,” said Novak, who deals with Russia’s energy sector.

“Previously there was practically no supply to India; in two years, the total share of supplies to India reached 40%.”

Novak added that Europe’s share of Russian crude oil exports fell from 40-45 percent to 4-5 percent.

07:45Russia launched a total of 46 attack drones over several night waves, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Wednesday, adding that its air defense systems shot down 32 drones.

Most of the drones that could not be shot down got to the front-line territories in the east and west of Ukraine, in particular in the Kherson region, the Air Force reported in the Telegram messenger.

Summary on Tuesday:

  • On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the Ukrainian troops managed to strike the amphibious ship “Novocherkask” of the “Ropucha” class, which was stuck in the east of Crimea, in the port of Feodosia.
  • The Ministry of Defense of Russia confirmed the “damage” of the amphibious assault ship “Ropucha” type “Novocherkask”
  • On December 25, Oleksandr Lukashenko announced that the transfer of Russian nuclear weapons to Belarus was completed at the beginning of October.
  • The Air Force of Ukraine claims that it did not lose a single plane during the attack on the ship in Feodosia.
  • Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, whose fate is causing concern in the West, confirmed on Tuesday that he had arrived in the Arctic colony and said he was in “good spirits”.
  • British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said on December 26 that Ukraine’s recent attack on a ship in Feodosia demonstrates that there is no stalemate in the war.
  • Two Russian ships left the port of Feodosia in occupied Crimea after the attack on the landing ship “Novocherkask” on the night of December 25-26
  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Russian troops bombed a train station in the southern city of Kherson.
  • General Valery Zaluzhny, who reportedly has a strained relationship with President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, gave his first wartime news conference on Tuesday. The head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine expressed his disappointment with the work of the military commissions, as well as his dissatisfaction with the bill, which provides for changes to the army recruitment program.

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