Ukraine Update…652 days into the Russian move on Ukraine…Zelensky gets a cold shoulder In Wash. DC

Ukraine President makes the trip to Wash. D. C. to lobby for aid and money….

Republicans in the US House say yea…

IF the Democrats give us a sledge hammer against US/Mexican Southern Border crossing….

Biden manoeuvres another $200 Million for the Ukraine after he said the well was dry….

US Intel community report to Congress isn’t remarkable….

It stated that Russia IS sacrificing thousands of troops lives to hold their positions in the East Ukraine with the hope that America and Europe will force Ukraine to accept a settlement of the conflict…With that a nd Putin’s coming re-election?

The feeling IS Russian forces in the Ukraine MUST hold and give Putin SOMETHING sell to his countries voters

US president Joe Biden warned Republicans they would give Russia a “Christmas gift” if they failed to provide additional military aid to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whose meeting with top lawmakers concluded without a commitment for more support.
Zelenskiy travelled to Washington to plead for money to back Ukraine in its war with Russia, but he faced a sceptical reception from key Republican lawmakers. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House of Representatives, would not agree to support Biden’s request to give Ukraine $61.4bn, with objectors insisting on White House concessions on border security as a condition for a deal.
Biden announced an additional $200m military aid package and, amid concerns that the war had reached a stalemate, insisted that Ukraine has made significant progress. “I will not walk away from Ukraine, and neither will the American people,” Biden said.
Moscow said it was watching developments closely. Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, said that “tens of billions of dollars” already provided by Washington had failed to turn the tide of war and that more money would make little difference.
Twelve people were injured and a children’s hospital damaged by debris from destroyed missiles in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital said on Wednesday. The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on the Telegram messaging app that residents from one building were being evacuated and emergency services were working on putting out several fires started by the falling missile debris.
A declassified US intelligence report assessed that the Ukraine war has cost Russia 315,000 dead and injured troops, or nearly 90% of the personnel it had when the conflict began, a source familiar with the intelligence said on Tuesday. The report also assessed that Moscow’s losses in personnel and armoured vehicles to Ukraine’s military have set back Russia’s military modernisation by 18 years, the source said.
Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator, Kyivstar, said it was the target of a major cyber-attack on Tuesday morning that temporarily knocked out its cellular and internet signal. The cyber-attack affected the air raid alert system in more than 75 settlements in the Kyiv region, the regional military administration said.
Poland will demand the full mobilisation of the free world to help Ukraine, the newly appointed prime minister, Donald Tusk, said. He said: “We will demand full mobilisation of the west to help Ukraine. I can no longer listen to politicians who talk about being tired of the situation in Ukraine.”
Russian forces in southern Ukraine have “advanced considerably” around the village of Novopokrovka in the Zaporizhzhia region, Moscow’s occupational authorities have said. “Our units have advanced significantly forward north-east of Novopokrovka,” the Moscow-installed head of the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, wrote on Telegram.
Europeans are generally open to the idea of Ukraine joining the EU, despite the costs and risks, but lukewarm at best about the bloc’s prospective enlargement to also take in Georgia and countries in the western Balkans, according to a survey…..

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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 12, 2023

Dec 12, 2023 – ISW Press

US intelligence reportedly assessed that Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine in fall 2023 and through the upcoming winter aim to weaken Western support for Ukraine instead of achieving any immediate operational objectives. The US intelligence community reportedly shared a declassified intelligence assessment with Congress on December 12 wherein US intelligence assessed that Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine aim to weaken Western support for Ukraine but have only resulted in heavy Russian losses and no operationally significant Russian battlefield gains. This assessment of high Russian losses and lack of operationally significant Russian gains is consistent with ISW’s assessment. US National Security Council Spokesperson Andrienne Watson reportedly stated that Russian forces have suffered more than 13,000 casualties and lost 220 combat vehicles along the Avdiivka-Novopavlivka axis (Avdiivka direction through western Donetsk Oblast) since launching offensive operations in October 2023. Watson added that Russia appears to believe that a military “deadlock” through the winter will drain Western support for Ukraine and give Russian forces the advantage despite high Russian losses and persistent Russian shortages of trained personnel, munitions, and equipment. ISW has assessed that Russian forces have been trying to regain the theater-level initiative in Ukraine since at least mid-November 2023 and have now likely committed to offensive operations in multiple sectors of the front during a period of the most challenging weather of the fall-winter season in an effort to seize and retain the initiative.[4]

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Ukraine Update…652 days into the Russian move on Ukraine…Zelensky gets a cold shoulder In Wash. DC

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