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🇺🇦 pushed back 🇷🇺 near #Shevchenko and in #Udachne

🇷🇺 advanced in Velyka Novosilka, near Vozdvyzhenka, Slovianka and Sribne

🇷🇺 intensifies air attacks on the border with Chernihiv Oblast

🇷🇺 spy vessel 'Yantar' mapping critical seabed infrastructure entered #UK waters on Monday. The 🇬🇧 Royal Navy tracked it for two days. Today the ship entered 🇳🇱 waters.

🇮🇳 banks blocked payments for 🇷🇺 #oil imports after #US sanctions

Undersea cables connecting Taiwan and Matsu Island were severed this morning

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The #Shevchenko hype becomes even funnier because when you start searching for news report about “Russia capturing lithium reserves” it seems like they “captured” them… twice. First wave of such reports was in the beginning of January, then in mid-January (now). Each time they captured a different Shevchenko - the one near Kurakhove and the one near Pokrovsk - but none of them has the lithium ore reserves, which are in the third Shevchenko near Velyka Novosilka :)

An interesting hoax by #Russia propagandists who write about “the Russian army taking control of #Ukraine’s largest #lithium deposits in the village of #Shevchenko”.

Below is a headline from a Russian portal in English talking of this achievement, with even Denis Pushilin himself officially boasting about it in Russia. Even some Ukrainian media have repeated this without checking.

Russians even posted a map to add credibility to their victory. And indeed, the Russian army has practically taken the village of Shevchenko near #Pokrovsk. The only problem is that the map of Pokrovsk area looks completely different than the one posted about lithium reserves.

Upon checking, the secret turned out to be very simple - the lithium deposits are indeed in a village of Shevchenko, only quite elsewhere, north-west of Velika Novoselka, in Ukrainian-controlled territory. Such is the charm of the Donbas that the same village names are repeated in completely different places (my map below shows three).

The Russians have published a map in such low resolution that it is difficult to see anything there, so I attach the original, where you can clearly see the town of ‘Velika Novosilka’ south-east of the deposit - the map is from a publicly available report by the Ukrainian Geological Survey:

https://www.geo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SHEVCHENKIVSKE_license.pdf

"I would rather take all the dogs than my belongings," says #Olena, who was evacuated by the #UAnimals team from the village of #Shevchenko, #Donetsk region.

The team managed to evacuate #Olena, eight cats, and fourteen dogs. The evacuation took place 1.5 kilometres away from the #Russian offensive.

In the video, drones can be seen and heard flying overhead while volunteers put the animals in carriers and load them into an evacuation vehicle.

📹: uanimals. official / Instagram

Ukraine Daily summary - Tuesday, December 24 2024

2025 – A Turning Point for Ukraine -- Germany provides Ukraine with 15 Leopard 1 tanks, 2 IRIS-T systems, 2 Patriot launchers -- Mysterious fire engulfs Russian Shahed warehouse -- Assassinations of pro-war figures seek to demoralize Russia, punish war criminals -- How Ukraine’s new drone-missile hybrids are changing long-range weapon technology -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Tuesday, December 24 20242025 – A Turning Point for Ukraine -- Germany provides Ukraine with 15 Leopard 1 tanks, 2 IRIS-T systems, 2 Patriot launchers -- Mysterious fire engulfs Russian Shahed warehouse -- Assassinations of pro-war figures seek to demoralize Russia, punish war criminals -- How Ukraine’s new drone-missile hybrids are changing long-range weapon technology -- and more