Today, December 18, is the Day of Military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine, UNN reports .
Military counterintelligence is one of the SSU units that directly performs combat missions on the front line.
An important task of military counterintelligence is also to blocking the illicit trafficking of military munitions in order to prevent to prevent them from being used to commit sabotage, terrorist attacks or other serious crimes.
In addition, jointly with the command of military units military counterintelligence officers of the SBU conduct constant work to strengthen counter-sabotage protection of military facilities.
Only in the first year after the Russian full-scale military counterintelligence exposed dozens of enemy agents in the first year after the Russian full-scale invasion.
Since 2012, December 18 has been the International Day of the of the Arabic language. The event was established in honor of the fact that on December 18, 1973 Arabic was included in the list of official languages of the United Nations. Nations.
There are currently more than 300 million people. Arabic is divided into three types: classical (the language of the Qur'an), literary (used by the media and politicians), and spoken (used in everyday life and divided into various dialects).
Today we can also celebrate Cookie Baking Day.
The event aims to encourage people to indulge in the art of baking and experiment with different cookie recipes.
Cookies have been a part of human cuisine for many centuries, It is believed that the first cookies in the modern sense were baked in the seventh century in Persia.
According to the church calendar, December 18 is the Day of Remembrance of of St. Modestus.
At a young age, Modest became a monk and headed the monastery of St. Theodosius the Great in Palestine.
After the Persians captured the Jerusalem Patriarch Patriarch Zacharias, he was replaced by Modestus. On his initiative, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was restored. Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Today Modest, Mykhailo, Mark, and Zoya celebrate their name days, Victoria.