The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, has reported a shooting incident near the border with Ukraine. According to his information, the village of Terebreno in the Krasnogorozhsky district, adjacent to the Sumy region of Ukraine, is under fire. The governor claims that the situation is "under control".

Reports from residents  suggest that a reconnaissance group, consisting of several military personnel, entered the village. There are also reports of helicopters in the sky and …

Russian scientist Vladislav Galkin from Tomsk, who was working on hypersonic technology, has been arrested on charges of high treason, reports the Russian news outlet T-Invariant.

Galkin was a co-author of works related to hypersonic research alongside Valery Zvegintsev, Anatoly Maslov, and Alexander Shiplyuk, who were previously arrested in connection with the treason case at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Elena …

Ukraine's Armed Forces have received the first shipment of AQ-400 kamikaze drones, manufactured domestically. Full-scale production of these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has already begun, with an initial target of producing 100 units per month. According to Defence Blog, the UAVs are capable of carrying a payload of up to 32 kg (with the potential to increase it to 70 kg) over a range of 750 km.

Terminal Autonomy is the company behind the production of the AQ-400, and they plan to ramp up …

The headquarters of the Russian group "Dnipro," responsible for the Kherson direction, has once again been targeted by the Ukrainian Forces. On December 15, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out extensive attacks on Russian targets in the occupied territories of the South, including Crimea, reported the Russian telegram channel "Paratroopers for Honesty and Justice," associated with officers of Dnipro group of forces.

"Another missile strike was conducted on the headquarters of the "Dnipro" …

Ukraine may be preparing a counteroffensive for next year, which was planned for this summer by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, reports Welt, citing German expert and Senior Research Fellow at the Munich Security Conference, Nico Lange.

Although the Ukrainian counteroffensive this year clearly reached a deadlock and Western support is somewhat wavering, there are signs that Kyiv is preparing a plan for 2024. Lange notes that most of the tanks and …

Germany will supply Ukraine with additional 155 mm artillery shells as part of military assistance. The budget committee of the German Bundestag approved a framework agreement with a French ammunition manufacturer, as reported on the website of the German Bundestag.

This agreement allows for the production and delivery of up to 350,000 large-caliber projectiles. Under the framework agreement, the French company has already received an order from Germany for the production of 68,000 …

"Russian troops are conducting active assault operations in the Tavria direction," said Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavsky, commander of the operational-strategic forces grouping Tavria, on Telegram.

"The occupiers are not reducing the number of clashes in the operational zone of the Tavria group of forces. For three consecutive days, there have been about 80 assault actions daily. The overwhelming majority of them are in the Donetsk region. Assault groups are mainly composed of up to 20 …

One of the Shahed drones, launched by Russia into Ukraine on the night of December 14, violated NATO airspace and crashed in Romanian territory, reports Aussiedlerbote. Eurofighter jets, which are stationed in Germany, were promptly scrambled in response to the incident.

Germany was able to identify the Russian drone, even making visual contact, but NATO did not issue any orders to shoot them down. A total of 70 Russian unmanned aerial vehicles of the Shahed 136 type were used in Russian air …