The United Kingdom has transferred 900 generators to Ukraine and sent about 15,000 extreme cold weather kits, the head of Britain’s defense ministry, Ben Wallace, said.
“Britain has handed over 900 generators to Ukraine and sent about 15,000 extreme cold weather kits to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including cold weather clothing, heavy sleeping bags and insulated tents,” Wallace was quoted as saying by the press service of the AFU General Staff on Sunday.
He also expressed his belief that another 10,000 cold-weather kits will be delivered to Ukraine on Christmas Day.
The situation with power supply in Kiev has significantly improved, said SCM public relations and communications director Natalia Emchenko.
“In Kiev today, all districts should be more or less with electricity. Not 100%, but under current conditions it should be enough,” she wrote in her Facebook on Sunday.
At the same time, Yemchenko noted that power engineers have done “absolutely impossible, almost a miracle.”
For his part, the general director of energy supplier YASNO Serhiy Kovalenko noted in his Facebook that Kiev, although not completely, should be sufficiently supplied with electricity, given such significant restrictions in the last week.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will transfer 2,500 household generators to the civilian population of Ukraine, the local news agency WAM reported.
“The generators will help the civilian population partially provide themselves with electricity, which will alleviate the difficult living conditions of families affected by the crisis,” the report said.
In particular, Ukraine will receive 2,500 household generators with a capacity of 3.5 to 8 kilowatts.
Also, about 1,200 household generators were delivered to Warsaw on December 24, and the country will hand over the rest in January.
The UAE is providing generators as part of the $100m humanitarian aid, which the UAE has allocated for Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has voiced the main tasks for diplomats for the next year, in particular, negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU and preparations for the NATO summit.
“There are specific tasks for you and me for the next year. I will outline some of them that we have to implement to make next year a really winning year for all of us. So, the beginning of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU. Preparing for the planned NATO summit and ensuring concrete results of that summit for Ukraine, which we all know about,” Zelensky said at the Ukrainian ambassadors’ conference on Friday.
He noted that all ambassadors will be presented with updated defense and security needs, and called for constant work to ensure those needs are met.
“Ukrainian energy and our country’s needs to recover from Russian strikes, Fast Recovery Plan – please work as closely as possible with the government, with the Office, international organizations and partner states to ensure that all these arrangements are provided with concrete content and result,” the president said.
Zelensky also called for strong new sanctions packages against Russia for next year.
“The terrorist state must feel real pressure, and it is your actions – the actions of our diplomatic corps – that must be aimed at. Court for the crime of aggression and the responsibility of war criminals – work so that the countries of your stay support us,” the head of state stressed.
In addition, he noted the need to block Russian assets associated not only with state representatives, but also with Russian business supporting the war.
“All these funds will be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do everything so that the countries where you work, help to build an appropriate compensatory effective mechanism,” he said.
Zelensky called on diplomats to facilitate the return of Ukrainians to their homeland so that all their rights and legitimate interests in host countries are satisfied.
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A logistical operation to send military and military-technical aid to Ukraine began Friday, Dec. 23, according to the Bulgarian Defense Ministry’s press service.
“Starting today, a logistic operation will be carried out in which the aid approved by the National Assembly will be sent to Ukraine,” said Deputy Defense Minister Ekaterina Gramatikova.
In turn, the country’s defense chief Admiral Emil Eftimov said that the course of negotiations or the provision of military assistance must remain confidential.
“Learned conclusions about the course of hostilities in Ukraine – not only on the basis of the tactics and equipment used, but also the logistics system, the state and capabilities of the DIC in both our country and NATO and EU allies. On this basis, we proposed a certain set of weapons and equipment,” he said.
