On December 24, a car bomb exploded in a Kabul government compound and then gunmen attacked it, according to local media. Interior ministry deputy spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said that a number of gunmen raided the compound where the Ministry of Public Works and other offices are located. At least one police officer was killed and seven others were wounded in the attack. The health ministry says that at least 16 people were wouned in the incident. “More than 200 people have been evacuated by the security forces, but many are still being held as hostages by the militants,” Rahimi said. According to reports, at least 2 gunmen were killed. The rest is them is involved in exchange of fire with security forces. Click to see the full-size image

Click to see the full-size image Since the November incident between a Ukrainian Naval group and Russian coastal guards in the Black Sea, Russian officials as well as representatives of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have repeatedly warned that the Kiev government is reinforcing its military group in eastern Ukraine and preparing provocations to trigger a military escalation there. The data below is taken from reports of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine ( SOURCE ). It allows to get a general look at the recent deployments of military equipment and offensive weapons by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the period from December 18 to December 21. The maps also includes similar data collected by the OSCE SMM about actions of the LPR and the DPR during the same period. Ukrainian Armed Forces: December 18: Three self-propelled howitzers (2S3 Akatsiya, 152mm) at the railway station in Kostiantynivka (60km north of Don