Kuleba announced a fateful decision against Russia in 2024
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Kuleba announced a fateful decision against Russia in 2024

Dmytro Kuleba

According to the Ukrainian MFA chief, Dmytro Kuleba, he records progress in confiscating Russian assets in favour of Ukraine.

Russian frozen assets can still be confiscated

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs chief predicts that within 2024, it will be possible to approve a unified legal framework for this.

As the diplomat notes, the States and the EU have already worked out how to use the sovereign assets of the Russian Federation.

Moreover, it is noted that individual states have already adopted their own decisions that create a mechanism for transferring money to Ukraine.

Therefore, we are now already in the second phase, when all efforts must be combined into a single legal framework. That is, uniform rules must be created for the countries of the European Union, for the countries of the "Group of Seven", Dmytro Kuleba emphasised.

Journalists asked the head of Ukrainian diplomacy about adopting this legal framework.

According to him, this will happen already in 2024.

He drew attention to the fact that we were very far from adopting this framework just a few months ago.

And now already at the level of the G7, at the level of the European Union, the approval of specific legal norms is being discussed. That is why we came very close to creating a legal regulation for the transfer of Russian assets, Kuleba explained.

The problems in the US pushed the world to confiscate frozen Russian assets

As already mentioned earlier, the team of the American leader Joe Biden intensified efforts to confiscate about 300 billion dollars of sovereign Russian assets frozen in the territory of Western countries.

This happened against the background of the reluctance of members of Congress to provide multibillion-dollar aid to Ukraine.

On December 12, the European Commission approved a proposal for a legislative act on the use of revenues from frozen Russian assets for the recovery of Ukraine, which was taken into account by the European Council on December 14.

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Strikes on nuclear facilities. What is known about the secret negotiations between Biden and Sullivan

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Source:  Axios

As journalists learned, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan presented US leader Joe Biden with options for a potential US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Points of attention

  • President Joe Biden has so far rejected the idea of a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
  • However, the White House is still considering various scenarios for responding to possible provocations.
  • The IAEA warns that Iran has the ability to create at least 4 nuclear bombs.

The US considered a preemptive strike on Iran

The media learned from its insiders that negotiations on this matter took place during a meeting a few weeks ago, which until now had been kept secret.

Joe Biden did not support Sullivan's idea, although he discussed various options and scenarios. To date, the US president has not been able to make any final decision.

According to an anonymous source, these secret negotiations were not the result of new intelligence.

The meeting was part of a discussion of "prudent scenario planning" for how the US should respond if Iran takes steps such as enriching uranium to 90% purity by January 20.

Interestingly, some insiders in Biden's entourage claim that new provocations from Tehran could push the US president to launch a strike.

What is Iran up to?

Official Tehran has long denied that it intends to create nuclear weapons and has publicly lied that its nuclear program is exclusively for civilian purposes.

Despite this, the current and former authorities have recently announced the possibility of changing Iran's nuclear doctrine.

Iran's nuclear program has advanced significantly during Biden's presidency, giving Iran the de facto status of a "nuclear threshold state."

What is important to understand is that the country has already managed to increase its uranium enrichment level to 60%, which is quite close to the 90% level required for the production of nuclear weapons.

It is possible that modern Iranian centrifuges could achieve this in a matter of days.

The IAEA recently warned that Tehran has enough 60% enriched uranium to create 4 nuclear bombs.

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Russian invaders destroyed some positions of the AFU in the Kharkiv region

OSTG "Khortytsya"
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On December 2, the Russian army did not stop active assault operations in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions. In some areas, the enemy was able to destroy the positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

Points of attention

  • The Armed Forces of Ukraine are taking measures to prevent the deterioration of the tactical situation.
  • Ukrainian defenders are successfully repelling attacks by Russian occupiers in various directions.

What is happening in the Kharkiv region?

The Operational-Strategic Group of Troops "Khortytsia" shared new details about the development of the situation on the battlefield.

Ukrainian defenders draw attention to the fact that the Russian army conducted assault operations in Vovchansk — in the Kharkiv direction and in the area of Zagryzove, Dvorichnaya and Kruglyakivka — in the Kupyansk direction.

Khortytsia officially confirmed that as a result of the fire, some positions of Ukrainian troops were destroyed.

Measures are being taken to prevent the deterioration of the tactical situation, the group said in an official statement.

Photo: screenshot

What else is known about the situation at the front?

According to the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Lyman direction, the Russian occupiers vainly attacked the positions of the defense forces in the direction of Nadiya, Terni, Lozova, in Makiivka, and in the Serebryansk forest.

In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy tried to advance in Chasovy Yar and in the direction of Stupochok, and in the Toretsk direction, it stormed our fortifications in the direction of Shcherbinivka and in Toretsk.

It is also worth noting that the Ukrainian Defense Forces do not give the enemy any chance to realize their numerical superiority and develop an offensive in the Pokrov direction.

In the Kurakhiv direction, the enemy actively carried out assault operations in the urban development of Kurakhiv and advanced in the direction of Yantarny and Dachny: the attacks were repelled. The enemy continues to accumulate forces for further attacks.

In addition, it is noted that assault groups of the Russian army carried out offensive operations in the areas of Vremivka, Novoselka and Konstantinopolske — in the Vremivka direction. Ukrainian defenders successfully destroyed two enemy infantry fighting vehicles, and the attack was thwarted.

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