Category: Updates
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12/17/2025 — Putin Signs Law Confiscating ‘Ownerless’ Homes in Occupied Ukraine
The new law says authorities may allocate the seized properties as official housing for civil servants, military personnel, officials, law enforcement officers, teachers, and doctors. From: Kyiv Post by John Moretti The Moscow Times reported this week that Kremlin strongman Vladimir Putin has signed into law a decree that any houses in the Russian-occupied territories of…
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12/17/2025 — Ukraine’s Underwater Drone Shatters Russian Naval Myth as Peace Talks Stall on Territory: A Day of Breakthroughs and Deadlock
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / December 16, 2025 From a submarine burning in Novorossiysk to diplomats stuck on the ten percent that decides everything, December 15 showed how fast the war is evolving—and how hard it is to end. The Day’s Reckoning Morning broke with fire on the water. At Novorossiysk Naval Base, an underwater Ukrainian…
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12/15/2025 — ‘It’s scary, but we live on’: inside Ukraine’s besieged east
From: Reuters By Anatolii Stepanov KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Hunkered in the basement of his battle-scarred building in eastern Ukraine, 65-year-old Volodymyr rarely emerges as Russian forces press at the doorstep of his city of Kostiantynivka. “Everything around us has been hit, it all burned up,” he said. “It’s scary, but we’re living on…
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12/15/2025 — Melania, Trump, Olena Zelenska spotlight billion- dollar Russian plot to abduct, indoctrinate Ukrainian kids 
From: Fox News by Emma Bussey First lady Melania Trump and Ukraine’s Olena Zelenska have joined a campaign exposing Russia’s billion-dollar operation to abduct and indoctrinate Ukrainian children, its spokesperson said. While labeling Russia’s “calculated” attempts to strike at his country’s future, Maksym Maksymov of Bring Kids Back UA said the two first ladies’ contrasting…
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12/15/2025 — Russian drones and blackouts test the resilience of Ukraine’s second city
From: Atlantic Council By Maria Avdeeva Situated just thirty kilometers from the Russian border, Ukraine’s former capital Kharkiv has been a front line city ever since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. With Putin’s army now advancing to the east and the bombardment of civilian targets intensifying, Kharkiv residents are facing what may…
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12/15/2025 — “As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me…”
From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 1390) As for you, O Lord,you will not restrain your mercy from me;your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!Psalm 40:11 It was the first snowy day of this winter. Of course, the kids were excited, but it felt like a reminder of what “normal” should look…
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12/13/2015 — Russia’s insistence on a defenseless Ukraine betrays Putin’s true intentions
From: Atlantic Council By Peter Dickinson @Biz_Ukraine_Magvia UkraineAlert As American, Ukrainian, and European officials continue to debate potential peace plans among themselves, there remains very little to indicate that Russia is genuinely interested in ending the war. On the contrary, many of the Kremlin’s key demands during negotiations appear tailored to facilitate a continuation of the…
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12/12/2025 — From Stalin’s camps to Kherson’s basements: Russia deploys Soviet filtration methods in Ukraine
Memorial Human Rights Center documents kidnappings, torture, extrajudicial killings in first Russian rights mission since 2022 invasion From: Euromaiden Press BY MAXIM VOLOVICH A team of Russian human rights defenders traveled to Ukraine for two weeks in January 2025, interviewing survivors of torture, freed prisoners of war, and witnesses to missile strikes. What they found…
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12/12/2025 — Russian Elites Are Now Fleeing Moscow
From: Jason Jay Smart — Russia is discovering that its sovereign territory is no longer a safe haven for its capital or its elite. The forced closure of all four major Moscow airports – Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo, and Zhukovsky – signals a logistical breakdown that grounds high value travel and physically isolates the regime. The…
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12/12/2025 — Putin Threatens Europe as Trump Demands Answers: Russia Rejects Peace While Shadow Fleet Tanker Burns in Black Sea
From: Transform Ukraine By Douglas Landro / December 11, 2025 As the Kremlin threatened military retaliation against European peacekeepers in Ukraine while Russian drones devastated seven oblasts, Trump told European leaders he needed “answers” before attending weekend peace talks—and Congress passed legislation constraining his ability to cut Ukraine aid or withdraw troops from Europe. The Day’s Reckoning Lavrov’s…
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