作者: 彌勒熊 dodobear1020

A string of stunning losses in northern Shan State has the regime and its chief international backer reevaluating their relationship. As the escalating conflict between Myanmar’s military regime and its opponents wreaks bloodshed across the country’s northeastern borderlands, neighbouring China has found itself straddling two seemingly incompatible positions: one calling for peace, the other preparing for war. Just hours after urging an immediate ceasefire in northern Shan State on Sunday, Beijing declared that it would continue live-fire military drills on its side of the frontier in order to test its forces’ “mobility, border control abilities, and firepower capabilities.”

A long-term paid volunteer with the UN’s food assistance agency says he was forced to flee the military’s bombing of Loikaw on his own after realising he was not included in his employer’s exit plan. After United Nations (UN) staff evacuated the Karenni State capital of Loikaw earlier this month amid escalating fighting, a long-term local volunteer with its food assistance agency said that he and others like him were left behind.

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $ 739.5 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week. These are the results of currency interventions published on the central bank’s website, Ukrinform reports. Between November 27 and December 1, 2023, the National Bank sold $739.5 million and purchased $1.6 million on the interbank foreign exchange market.

In the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have repelled 56 Russian attacks in the Kupiansk, Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka and Zaporizhzhia directions. The relevant statement was made by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports. Ukrainian warriors continue holding positions on the left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region, inflicting fire damage on Russian occupiers.