https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-ship-sent-evacuate-syria-bases-broke-down-portugal-ukraine-2024-12?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=topbar

Massive US bombing of Yemen

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-plans-to-continue-weapons-supply-to-1734717437.html

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/12/18/ukraine-is-winning-the-economic-war-against-russia

minutes ago, waseem Assad, Bashar Assad cousin, said in an audio message to the families of Saydnaya prisoners: Families looking for their children in Saydnaya prison, don't bother yourselves. As of 2019, there were 139,000 detainees and they were all hanged and burned, and the ashes and remains of the bodies were placed in trucks carrying containers and thrown into the sea.

The Russians lost another Ka-52.

According to the data, Russia has already lost more than 60 of these helicopters out of about 124 in service, half of the entire fleet, due to a possible shortage of spare parts, the Russian military is increasingly resorting to (cannibalizing) damaged or worn-out helicopters to keep the remaining aircraft in combat readiness.

Syrian Transitional Government Prime Minister Mohamed al-Bashir says he plans to repatriate millions of Syrian refugees, protect all citizens and provide basic services, but he acknowledges that this will be difficult because the country lacks foreign currency. “In the treasury, there is only the Syrian lira, which is worth little or nothing,” he told an Italian newspaper. He noted that it currently costs 14,000 liras to buy one U.S. dollar.

We have no foreign currency and we are still collecting data on loans and bonds. So yes, we are in a very bad financial situation, al-Bashir said. Stressing that Syria is now a free country, he called on all Syrians abroad to return to the country with pride and dignity. He stressed that the rights of all people and all sects in Syria will be guaranteed

https://www.livemint.com/news/world/us-treasury-transfers-20-billion-in-ukraine-loan-funds-to-world-bank-facility-11733858150445.html

Two-thirds of the pilots you see in the photo are no longer alive. Three pilots were killed by Syrian revolutionaries in the Syrian civil war, and the rest were killed in Ukraine. Death is the reward for serving a dictator.