In the past 24 hours, the Russian army has continued to launch drone attacks on Ukrainian cities, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Ukrainian air defense systems. The life-and-death struggle on the battlefield between Russia and Ukraine is still the same, and the Ukrainian army continues to bleed the "polar bear".
On the 668th day of the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the Ukrainian General Staff announced that the battle losses of the Russian army (including Russian localities, enterprises, and separatist groups) in the past 24 hours were as follows: 1,040 Russian troops died, with a cumulative death of 35240,000 people;The ratio of the number of wounded and killed in the Russian army is about 1:1. Shot down 3 Russian warplanes, destroyed 17 Russian tanks, 28 armored vehicles, 51 fuel tankers and logistics heavy-duty vehicles, 6 sets of special equipment, 36 artillery pieces, and 19 drones. Unlike the previous Ukrainian fighters who attacked the Russian mainland and were embarrassed to admit it publicly, this time the Ukrainian army generously included the downed three Russian fighters in the Russian army's battle loss statistics.
Senior U.S. and European leaders have revealed that Biden has privately expressed support for seizing more than $300 billion in Russian assets in the West to finance Ukraine. Due to the delay in the position of the Republicans in the US Congress, which has led to the difficult birth of a new round of aid to Ukraine, Biden has set his sights on Russian assets frozen by Europe and the United States. The New York Times reported this week that Biden has begun urgent consultations with allies to study whether he could use Russian dollar assets frozen overseas to continue providing military aid to Ukraine. According to the New York Times, after the war broke out in February last year, Western countries froze and seized about $300 billion of the Central Bank's assets in the Western financial system while imposing severe economic sanctions on Russia. However, only $5 billion of these assets are in the hands of financial institutions in the United States, and the remaining $250 billion is largely in the hands of financial institutions in European countries. The Financial Times published an editorial on Friday opposing Biden's plan to confiscate frozen Russian assets for aid to Ukraine, claiming that the move could set a harmful precedent and undermine the global financial system. There are reports that EU countries such as France and Germany are also currently skeptical about this plan.
The Netherlands** announced on December 22 local time that it would hand over the first batch of 18 American-made F-16 fighters to Ukraine. This is a very generous military aid. Because the two sides clearly said that it was the "first batch", therefore, there should be the next batch, in fact, the number of Dutch and Danish fighters to aid Ukraine is no less than 42. Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Rutte announced the news on the same day on X (formerly Twitter): "Today, I informed Zelensky of my country's decision to prepare for the delivery of the first batch of 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. He stressed that the delivery of the F-16 is "one of the most important elements" of the agreement for military aid to Ukraine.
Ukraine** Zelensky responded on the same day on X: "I spoke with Mark Rutte and thanked the Netherlands ** for deciding to start preparing for the delivery of the first batch of 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine." "The Netherlands is the European country with the most F16s, with a total of 213. According to my rough statistics based on open sources, the number of F-16 fighters that several countries have pledged to provide Ukraine with more than 60 aircraft at present. This does not include the number of F-16 fighters that the United States has not disclosed so far, but has promised to provide to Ukraine. Based on the calculation that the Ukrainian army needs 6 months of flight training, at the latest about 5 months, the F-16 will appear on the battlefield in Ukraine. In short, Russia is evaporating Ukraine, and it is impossible for the goose head to win this war provoked by him. Thank you for your interest and I wish you good health!