a convoy is going to the city of Malorita / agro-town Mokrany with: The exercise involves Belarusian elements deploying to training grounds across Belarus and practising crossing the Neman and Berezina rivers (which are over 170 km and 70 km away from the Belarusian-Ukrainian border Social media footage posted on December 13 showed a column of likely Belarusian infantry fighting vehicles and trucks reportedly moving from Kolodishchi (just east of Minsk) toward Hatava (6km south of Minsk) Belarusian forces reportedly deployed 25 BTR-80s and 30 trucks with personnel toward Malaryta Brest (about 15 km from Ukraine) on December 13 Russian T-80 tanks reportedly deployed from the Obuz-Lesnovsky Training Ground in Brest to the Brest Training Ground also in Brest (about 30 km from the Belarusian-Ukrainian Border) around December Russia reportedly deployed three MiG-31K interceptors to the Belarusian airfield in Machulishchy on December 13 The Central Election Commission released proportional party lists for Tbilisi City Assembly (Sakrebulo) ahead to October 2 local elections Overall 31 parties have presented candidate lists Below is the list of the first 10 Candidates registered by European Georgia has significantly increased the share of proportionally elected candidates in Sakrebulos for 40 elected proportionally and 10 as majoritarians in Tbilisi Sakrebulo from 25/25 ratio The amendments also lowered the party threshold in the proportional vote to 2,5% in Tbilisi and 3% in remaining municipalities across Georgia European Georgia backs Nika Melia of the UNM as Tbilisi Mayoral candidate and Elene Khoshtaria for Sakrebulo chair Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko made new appointments on 12 December Denis Kapsky – Deputy Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus The President approved the appointment of: Vadim Kravchuk – Brest Oblast Vice Governor; Andrei Kuzmich – Chairman of the Zhabinka District Executive Committee; Roman Zhuk – Chairman of the Malorita District Executive Committee; Vyacheslav Metlitsky – Chairman of the Bereza District Executive Committee; Vladimir Privalov – Chairman of the Gomel City Executive Committee member of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee; Dmitry Aleinikov – Gomel Oblast Vice Governor; Dmitry Shabetnik – Chairman of the Svetlogorsk District Executive Committee; Sergei Savitsky - First Deputy Chairman of the Mogilev Oblast Executive Committee; Oleg Korzun - Deputy Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee; Aleksandr Botvinnik - General Director of the open joint stock company “Minsk Motor Plant” Holding Managing Company Aleksandr Balashenko - Deputy Architecture and Construction Minister; Dmitry Kostyukevich - Deputy Justice Minister; Yelena Morgunova - First Deputy Chairperson of the State Committee for Standardization; Irina Kozlova - Deputy Head of the Finance and Budget Policy Department of the Standing Committee of the Union State; Sergei Trus - Head of the Department of Defense Industry and Military-Technical Cooperation of the Standing Committee of the Union State; Dmitry Sanko - Deputy Head of the Organizational and Analytical Department of the Standing Committee of the Union State.