The bargaining for peace is currently becoming more intense. US President asserts his goodwill. The news ticker about the Ukraine war.
Update, 11:19 a.m: Russia has proposed a new medal for recovering bodies from combat zones. The Russian Ministry of Defense wants to honor soldiers and civilians who rescue soldiers killed in life-threatening combat conditions.
The draft is seen as a rare official indication that Moscow is struggling to keep track of missing soldiers almost four years after the start of the war. It recently became public that Russian authorities are “disguising” soldiers who died at the front as deserters. While Russia, like Ukraine, classifies its combat losses as a state secret, British military intelligence estimates loudly Reutersthat more than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded since the invasion.
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Table of Contents
- Current Ukraine war: Putin glosses over it Business von Russia
- Trump and Putin: The story of their relationship in pictures
- Current Ukraine war: Putin facing new offensive? Mobilization of reservists 2026
- Gerasimov is currently reporting from “unknown fighting methods”
- Current Ukraine war: Lithuania declares a state of emergency because of balloons from Belarus
- Current Ukraine war: According to Zelenskyj, the strongest security guarantees from the USA
- Current Ukraine war: Zelensky sends revised peace plan to Trump administration
- Current Ukraine war: Weapons for Ukraine – Trump boasts of “full price”
- Current Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Territorial cessions ab
- Current Ukraine war: head of the law firm Yermak falls – Zelensky brings in a successor
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Current Ukraine war: Putin glosses over it Business von Russia
Update, 10:35 a.m: Putin is increasing his efforts to portray the Russian economy as resilient in order to justify his ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine to the population – but Russia’s economy is currently doing significantly worse than the Kremlin leader is trying to portray. That is the conclusion in the current report on the situation in the Ukraine war from the US Institute for War Studies (ISW).
Putin said yesterday (December 8) at the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects that Russia is working to increase the birth rate. At the same time, he highlighted numerous support measures that the Kremlin offers to families with children.
Putin explained that the birth rate is falling due, among other things, to unspecified “external challenges” – probably with a view to the demographic effects of the Ukraine war, writes the ISW. According to the current ISW situation report, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin now claimed that Russian GDP growth has been around ten percent in the past three years despite the “unprecedented” sanctions pressure.
Current Ukraine war: Putin facing new offensive? Mobilization of reservists 2026
Update, 9:51 a.m.: Is Russian President Vladimir Putin planning a new offensive in the Ukraine war? The Kremlin chief has signed a decree calling up reservists for the beginning of 2026. The order, issued on December 8, stipulates that Russian reservists will be called up for exercises with various security forces, including the armed forces, the National Guard and the FSB intelligence agency.
As the Kyiv Post reports, winter training is unusual in Russia. Last year, Putin ordered for the first time in two decades that training for combat operations should begin in January.
Gerasimov is currently reporting from “unknown fighting methods”
Update, 9:12 a.m: According to Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Russian troops have gained ground along the entire front in Ukraine. Moscow’s armed forces already controlled more than 30 percent of the buildings in the eastern Ukrainian city of Myrnohrad, according to Gerasimov Reuters announced.
The neighboring community of Pokrovsk is now the focus of the Russian offensive. Gerasimov said that the Ukrainian troops in Myrnohrad were being specifically targeted by the Russian units. The Russian military personnel “acted intelligently” and chose “unexpected and unknown combat methods,” Gerasimov said, according to the Russian state news agency Tass at the appointment.
Current Ukraine war: Lithuania declares a state of emergency because of balloons from Belarus
Update, 8:31 a.m: Lithuania has declared a state of emergency due to mysterious balloons from Belarus. Interior Minister Vladislav Kondratovich justified the measure with disruptions to air traffic and concerns about national security. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described the approach loudly Reuters as an “unacceptable hybrid attack” against the EU country. The Belarusian government in Minsk rejected the allegations.
Current Ukraine war: According to Zelenskyj, the strongest security guarantees from the USA
Update, December 9, 7:58 a.m: According to Zelenskyj, the European partners within the so-called “Coalition of the Willing” have agreed on a package of security guarantees for Ukraine – “as good as”, according to a correspondent for the European Truth reported from an online press conference last night.
When asked whether he believed that the promised security guarantees would take effect if necessary, Zelenskyj began his answer, according to the report: “We have no other partners.” “The strongest security guarantees we can get come from the United States,” he continued. “Of course only if it is not the Budapest Memorandum, i.e. not empty promises, but a legally binding agreement that was passed by the US Congress. That is exactly what we are concerned about. So far they have been positive about such an approach,” the quoted Pravda Selenskyj.
Current Ukraine war: Zelensky sends revised peace plan to Trump administration
First report: Kiev – Struggle for peace in Ukraine: According to information from Kiev, a revised version of the US peace plan for an end to the Ukraine war is to be transmitted to Washington today (December 9th) – and will have significantly different features. The peace plan drawn up by the US government has now been shortened from 28 to 20 points, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced loudly dpa Ukrainian journalists with. “The openly anti-Ukraine positions have been removed.”
Current Ukraine war: Weapons for Ukraine – Trump boasts of “full price”
Meanwhile, according to a media report, it emerged that US President Donald Trump boasted that under his presidency the US did not spend any money to support Ukraine in its defense against Russia. In fact, they even made money from it. A reporter from the Ukrainian news agency now quoted these words Ukrinform the president.
Trump recalled that the USA sells its weapons to NATO countries “at full price” and NATO then passes them on to Ukraine. Trump is said to have said this at a “round table” with representatives of the American agricultural industry, at which media representatives were present. According to the report, Trump reiterated that he wanted to stop killing people.
According to Trump, the situation is “great” at the moment, but there is a problem: “A lot of people are dying, and I want it to stop.” He reiterated that 27,000 soldiers died in Ukraine last month.
Current Ukraine war: Kyiv rejects Territorial cessions ab
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has once again categorically ruled out meeting Russian demands for territorial cessions. “And we don’t have the moral right to do it either,” Zelensky emphasized at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.
According to the head of state, his government has no legal authority to make territorial concessions under Ukrainian law, the country’s constitution and international law. Moscow, with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, insists “that we cede territories, but we don’t want to cede anything, and that’s what we’re fighting for,” Zelensky said.
Current Ukraine war: head of the law firm Yermak falls – Zelensky brings in a successor
The week before last, the powerful head of the Ukrainian President Zelensky’s office fell: Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian head of state’s closest confidant, had to resign after corruption investigators carried out searches at his house.
On Monday (December 8th), Zelenskyj, according to the Kyiv Post has now presented a shortlist of five candidates to succeed Jermak. According to the report, the candidates under consideration are:
- Denys Shmyhal, Ukrainian Defense Minister
- Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation
- Sergiy Kyslytsia, First Deputy Foreign Minister
- Kyrylo Budanov, head of military intelligence
- Pavlo Palisa, Deputy Head of the Presidential Office
According to two decrees, Yermak is no longer a member of the National Security Council and the so-called Stavka, Zelensky’s military-political command center. Jermak was a member of both committees as head of the presidential office. (Editorial with news agencies)
