[UPDATE – Dec 15th, 2024] Ukraine – Russia WAR: Situation on the Ground – December 2024, 1/2

💥D1021-Dec 10th 00:00Z:  Russian forces struck targets of the adversary in the western regions of Ukraine. Air defense forces’ work against Ukrainian UAVs was noted in the Astrakhan, Rostov and Belgorod Regions. The Russian Armed Forces have entered the culmination of the Battle of Kurakhovo. The 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade, operating in the Kurakhovsky direction, crossed the overflowing Volchya River and landed in the area of ​​the village of Dachnoye. This means that the H-15 Zaporizhzhya-Donetsk highway no longer exists for the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison – it is simply impossible to leave along it. In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian troops…