Tea time.

It's funny 'cause it's true.

h/t: freeonis_

Crimea is a Russian humanitarian disaster. No electricity? No fuel? No generators?
No refrigeration. No communications. A swift decline for the elderly.
But that's Russia's fault / problem. They wouldn't want Western help anyway, right?!
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"Whole cities in Crimea are now pleading with the Russian occupational authorities, saying they've been without electricity and water for 7 days and that survival by using generators is no longer possible because fuel has run out."
- JayinKyiv

Y'know... they still need to go after the main promoter of this clusterfuck.
(Who happened to be in the White House at the time...)
https://web.archive.org/web/20210106192450/https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1346900434540240897

Caolan drops a part of his interview with Robert Brovdi, in this case, discussing Ukraine's Crimea strategy.
The remainder is going online later this week.

Anne Applebaum seems to agree with Robert Brovdi's plan for Crimea.
It's not about invasion. It's about undermining Russia's plans there, forcing large numbers of Russians to go back home.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

While not a massive fall as yet, Moscow, which has been a huge bastion for both new construction and high housing prices, is now seeing their housing market slow considerably and their new construction practically cease.

Housing prices actually falling in central Moscow is something altogether new. Lots of people's real estate investments are also collapsing in value, of course... or simply on hold indefinitely, waiting for construction and prices to come back.

Stanimir Dobrev / delfoo reports that the situation in parts of Russia are getting measurably worse. Namely, they are running out of their local fuel stockpiles. Presumably, this is happening elsewhere too...
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In Southern Yakutia they are introducing limits on fuel sales due to low remaining volumes. At the Tommotsk depot there's 10 tons of AI-92, 25 tons of Ai-95 and 34 tons of diesel. At Nizhne Bestyahsk there, 6 tons of Ai92, 9 tons of Ai-95 and 27 tons of diesel.

Ukraine doing their bit to make sure the damage they do to Crimean infrastructure isn't repaired anytime soon.

Russians shopping less frequently for food, due to high prices and more expensive fuel... paying more for their groceries due to inflation.

Angry comments to Crimea's governor tell the truth about how bad life is getting there...

h/t: Tatarigami

Sounds like Russian regional governments are going to get hosed again.

They can't find anyone willing to guarantee them stable prices for fuel, due to the current dilemma... and they are burning through all the local reserves at a fast clip.

The end result will be either more local debt, or fewer public services.

Yup.
See also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1NZLgKM2c

The Sea of FAFO.

Clement Molin on a part of the front we don't hear about that much about 50km southwest of Pokrovsk, that is currently a pretty excellently orchestrated killing ground, where Ukraine leverages its defensive advantages to bleed Russia white, with standard and midrange drones preventing the flow of Russian reinforcements to the front.

Arguably, Ukraine's aggressive defense and supply interdiction here provides part of the blocking effort that helps enable gradual Ukrainian gains near the Dnipro.

One of the reasons for this could simply be that the Hornet might have better camera functionality at long range. Video of midrange drones filming other midrange drones was popular for a reason.

The camera feed of midrange drones can be awful... barely enough to manually decide to lock on a given target. We're usually not talking Starlink here. There's a reason why a lot of these drones are designed to choose their targets independently... or at least as independently as possible.