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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is trying to portray the Russian economy as able to support a protracted war in Ukraine — likely to buttress the ongoing Russian cognitive warfare effort falsely claiming that a Russian victory is inevitable.

Two civilians were killed as a result of attacks by Russian drones in the border areas of Sumy region.

Intense fighting continues on the Huliaipole and Oleksandrohrad sectors of the front. Russian troops are trying to cut Huliaipole off from logistical routes and encircle the town.

In Ternopil, the dismantling of a multi-apartment building at 8 Vasyl Stus Street, which was hit by a Russian missile on November 19, has begun.

The military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a Russian informant in the Mykolaiv region, who was spying on the movement of armored vehicles of the Defense Forces near the front line in the south.

The exposure of a Russian influence operation in Norway proves that Russian propaganda abroad is inseparably linked to Russian intelligence services.

Russian security services are planning to organize a series of protest actions under the slogan “Against the War” in major cities — Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kyiv — in an effort to destabilize the situation inside Ukraine.

On the night of December 8, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck several Russian military targets. In the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region, an ammunition depot and a fuel and lubricants storage site were hit, while in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, a drone depot, a mobile fire group, and a Pantsir-S1 air-defense system were destroyed.

FPV drone pilots from the Signum battalion of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh are carrying out forest clearing operations against Russian invaders in the Lyman sector.

Hungary and, likely, Slovakia will challenge in the European Court the EU plan to ban the import of Russian gas and oil.

Russian troops carried out more than 30 attacks on three districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, with no casualties.

Russian forces have attacked the Zaporizhzhia district again. This is already the second strike on Sunday. 

President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel does not rule out that if Russia continues to violate European airspace, countries may begin shooting down Russian drones or aircraft. 

As a result of Russian aggression, a warehouse storing gauze and bandages and a warehouse storing tires burned down in Dnipro on December 6.

In the area of an electrical substation in the eastern district of Belgorod, Russia, on the evening of December 6, an explosion occurred after a Russian aerial bomb fell, leaving part of the regional center and nearby suburbs without electricity.

Heavy strike drones of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine delivered thematic leaflets to Russian military positions, reminding them of personal responsibility and punishment for taking part in a criminal war. 

Moldova has appealed to Romania for electricity assistance following Russian attacks on Ukraine.

The Swedish Navy encounters Russian submarines in the Baltic Sea "almost weekly" and is preparing for a further increase in their numbers in the event of a ceasefire or truce in the war in Ukraine.

During the night of December 6, specialists of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) together with activists of the BO Team cyber community carried out a cyberattack on the information and communication infrastructure of the Russian group of companies Eltrans+.

Ukraine’s strategy is to maximally exhaust the Russian army, prevent its advance, and carry out strikes on Russian territory to undermine its defense capability.