RESILIENCE AND COHESION OF UKRAINIAN SOCIETY DURING THE WAR - Periodic report based

The main priority of the oblast’s economic sector is the preparations for the sowing campaign, accom panied by the preparation for the humanitarian demining of the oblast. [...] Despite the tradition of not reporting the death of its own soldiers, the Ministry of Defence of Russia was forced, due to the large number of victims, to admit the fact of the strike and report 89 soldiers killed. [...] On 23 December 2022, representatives of the occupied oblasts, Alexander Ananchenko (in 2018–2022 headed the government of the breakaway DPR) and Natalia Nikanorova (in 2016– 2022 was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the breakaway DPR) have received certificates of membership of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. [...] Alexander Gaglazov, the former Acting Head of the Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia in Tambov region and former First Deputy Head of the Federal Se curity Service of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Kabardino Balkaria, has been appointed as Head of the so called DFSB RF. [...] The official reason was the evacuation of the local population to the Russian controlled areas of the oblast.