Ukraine is now attacking Russian military manufacturing locations and energy infrastructure like Russian has done for the last two years…(Who could have thought this possible?)
Ukraine is also shelling and rocket attacking Russian occupied occupied territory…
North Korena has become the Russian largest military equipment supplier…
The two countries leaders are growing closer….
Russia has lost OVER 370,000+ troopers in the conflict up to now….
NATO is havinga a HUGE military excise which Russia is supposed to be getting the message from….
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At least 25 people have been killed and 20 people were injured including two children, after shelling at a busy suburban shopping area in the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, according to local officials who said shells had been fired by the Ukrainian military. Ukraine has not commented on the event and the claims could not be independently verified. You can read Sam Jones’s report on it here.
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Russia called the shelling of a market in the suburb of Tekstilshchik, on the outskirts of Donetsk, on Sunday a “barbaric act of terrorism” and accused Ukraine of carrying out the attack with “the use of weapons supplied by the west”.
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A fire that broke out at a chemical transport terminal at Ust-Luga port, near St Petersburg in Russia, after two explosions on Sunday was due to an attack by Ukrainian drones, BBC News reported. An official source in Kyiv told the BBC that the “special operation” of the SBU security service masterminded the attack with drones that were “on target”.
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Russia’s capture of the village of Krokhmalne in the Kharkiv region is a “temporary phenomenon”, the Ukrainian ground forces command spokesperson, Volodymyr Fityo, said. Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday, in its morning summary, that Russian forces had taken control of the village.
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North Korea is Russia’s largest arms supplier at present, Ukrainian military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday. In the interview, Budanov also said Moscow was losing as many or more troops than it can recruit and that the Wagner group still exists, despite reports saying it had been dismantled.
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Russian president Vladimir Putin showed his intention to visit Pyongyangsoon, according to Reuters. The news agency cited a report by North Korea’s state media KCNA on Sunday. Last week, Putin met North Korean foreign minister Choe Son-Hui on her visit to Russia and during the meeting thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong-un for his invitation to visit.
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Europe needs to “step up” and provide more funding for Ukraine, the UK’s defence secretary, Grant Shapps, has said. Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg, Shapps said: “Europe needs to step up and do their part to make sure that Ukraine can continue to defend herself.”
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Russian forces struck Zaporizhzhia oblast 95 times across 16 localities in the last day, reports the Kyiv Independent, citing regional governor Yurii Malashko. He said a 71-year-old man was injured in Huliaipole due to artillery shelling, where there were also two reports of destroyed residential buildings.
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Russia has lost approximately 376,030 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces reported on Sunday. The number, which has not been independently verified, includes 760 casualties over the past day.
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Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Alexander Grushko, said the scale of Nato’s Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises marked an “irrevocable return” of the alliance to cold war schemes.
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Slovakia’s new culture minister, Martina Šimkovičová, has reversed a ban on cooperating with Belarus and Russia, reports the Kyiv Independent, citing an article by the Slovakian publication Pravda on Saturday. Citing leaked documents, Pravda reported that the reversal would be effective from 22 January.
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Russia’s state RIA news agency said on Sunday it had calculated that the west stood to lose assets and investments worth at least $288bn (£226bn/€264bn) if it confiscated frozen Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine and Moscow then retaliated.
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Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk believes that tennis has forgotten the war in Ukraine and she hopes that the success of Ukrainian women at the Australian Open will generate further attention for the issue. You can read Tumaini Carayol’s piece on Kostyuk here.
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Six people are missing after a private jet carrying out a medical evacuation from Thailand to Russia crashed in a remote area of Afghanistan after straying from its flight plan and disappearing from radar screens. It has not been confirmed as related to the Ukraine war. You can read Sam Jones’s report on it here…..
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Jan 21, 2024 – ISW Press
Ukrainian forces reportedly conducted successful drone strikes against targets in Leningrad and Tula oblasts, where repeated Ukrainian drone strikes may fix Russian short-range air defense systems defending potentially significant targets along expected flight routes. Ukrainian media, citing unnamed sources within Ukrainian special services, reported that Ukrainian forces conducted drone strikes against the Shcheglovsky Val Plant in Tula City, Tula Oblast and the “Novateka” plant and gas terminal near the port of Ust-Luga, Leningrad Oblast on the night of January 20 to 21. The Shcheglovsky Val Plant reportedly manufactures Pantsir-S and Pantsir-S1 air defense systems, and the Ust-Luga complex reportedly processes stable gas condensate into light and heavy naphtha, diesel,
There was NO post on this yesterday here…