Yes, another 6:30 in the morning wake up. This drive was different because it was snowing and traffic was moving slowly. I was going to wait until Paige arrived and go then, but my body must be tuned into 6:30 on Tuesdays, and it woke me up. Food shopping was finished in 40 minutes, so I slowly drove back home to put the food away. Total cost was $51.
I made a mistake asking Joan to look through the recipes and make out next week's menu so I could make a shopping list. After 20 minutes, she was really frustrated, so I told her I could finish it. That made her angry at me that I thought she couldn't do it. She can't anymore, really. She won't remember it next week, so I will do it.
It makes me sad to see her losing more and more each month.
Meanwhile, Ukraine.
Russia has threatened to “resolve the issue militarily” until Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “comes to his senses” and agrees to what Moscow calls “realistic terms” for negotiations.
The warning was issued by Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 12.
The session was convened after Russia’s use of an Oreshnik missile against Ukraine’s Lviv region.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, speaking at the meeting, Nebenzya claimed that Russia does not target civilians, instead accusing Ukraine of attacking civilian targets and Western countries of ignoring these alleged Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory.
Russia’s army in 2025 failed to make useful ground gains at the price of crushing and, at times, debilitating casualties, vindicating the Ukrainian strategy of inflicting maximum losses against Kremlin forces in a war of attrition, Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) General Oleksandr Syrsky said in a Tuesday statement.
Russia’s top military leadership over the past twelve months set itself the objective of ending its war against Ukraine with the total conquest of Ukraine’s southern and eastern Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, along with a planned takeover of the major seaport Odesa, and failed decisively to achieve any of those goals, Syrsky said in 12-month roundup published on his personal social media, and by AFU information outlets.
“The past year was a great test for us. The Russian aggressor sought to end the war against Ukraine – but planned to end it with defeat [of Ukraine], imposing his conditions on us from a position of force,” Syrsky said. “We did not allow the enemy to make critical breakthroughs, thwarted his plans, and repeatedly forced him to postpone the dates of planned operations.”According to most independent analysts, during 2025, Russian Federation forces, deploying 600,000-700,000 combat troops in Ukraine, using primarily infantry-heavy short-range assault tactics, captured between 5,000 and 5,500 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory. That land space represents slightly less than 1% of Ukraine’s total territory, or an area slightly bigger than County Donegal in Ireland, or the English county of Norfolk. Source-Kyiv Post
