One of Vladimir Putin’s allies has made a boastful five-word prediction for the new year.
The Deputy Chair of Russia’s Security Council and former President, Dmitry Medvedev, posted a gif on X on December 31.
It read: “Happy New Year, World! Happy New Year, beloved Russia!”
He then called 2025 “the year of victory!”
In a separate video article on his Telegram channel, Newsweek reports, Medvedev also said that 2024 a year of “serious achievements” and discussed “those that protect our homeland. “
Putin’s troops invaded Ukraine in February 2022, meaning that the resulting war will have been going on for three years next month.
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The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports that Russian forces gained 4,168 square kilometers, largely comprised of fields and small settlements in Ukraine and Kursk Oblast, at a reported cost of over 420,000 casualties in 2024.
Putin’s advances “slowed” in December, experts added.
The ISW reported: “The ISW observed geolocated evidence to assess that the Russian forces won 593 square kilometers or 18. 1 square kilometers consistent with the day in December 2024, while the number of Russian casualties in December 2024 remained similar to the rate of victims estimated in November 2024.
“The Ukrainian general personnel reported a daily average of 1,585 Corps of Russian workers in December 2024, marking a fourth fourth time top in the daily victims rate of Russia, according to reports that the Russian Russian Workers Corps of Russia reached a new top of 1,523 victims consisting of victims consisting of victims consisting of victims consistent with through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the victims through the vomitors through Vomiters through vomitors through victims through patients during the day of Russia in November 2024 “.
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Observers add that Western aid remains “critical to Ukraine’s ability to stabilize the frontline in 2025”.
The ISW states: “Ukrainian defenders have largely stalled Russian advances near Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, but Russian forces continue to make gradual, grinding advances in the Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Velyka Novosilka directions.
“Ongoing Ukrainian manpower constraints and morale issues are also creating vulnerabilities in Ukraine’s defensive lines, and Ukrainian officials must address these issues and steel defenders against Russian infantry assaults in eastern and southern Ukraine.”
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