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Update from January 24, 7 a.m.:
According to US information, Russia has sent tens of thousands of new troops to the front lines in Ukraine in recent months.
However, these soldiers have done little to change the conflict because they are "poorly equipped and poorly trained," an anonymous US official told CNN.
In addition, they were "rushed" to the battlefield.
War in Ukraine: Heavy clashes continue in eastern Ukraine
Update from January 23, 8:05 p.m .:
Russian occupation troops and Ukrainian defenders fought again this Monday for Bakhmut and Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian attacks were repelled with heavy losses, the Ukrainian general staff said in Kyiv.
In order to conquer the entire Donetsk region, the Russian army attacked "regardless of their own losses".
The representation could not initially be independently verified.
The Russian military meanwhile spoke of an intensification of the fighting in the central Zaporizhia region.
After advances by the Russian units in the past few days, a regrouping and repositioning of units on the Ukrainian side has now been observed, the state agency TASS reported.
Fled from the Ukraine war?
Russian Wagner mercenary arrested in Norway
Update from January 23, 6:35 p.m .:
An escaped mercenary from the Russian Wagner Group has been arrested by the police in Norway.
The person concerned was arrested in accordance with Norwegian immigration law, the police immigration unit told the German Press Agency on Monday.
It will be checked whether she should be arrested.
Several Norwegian media had previously reported on the arrest.
The detainee is Andrei Medvedev.
His Norwegian lawyer Brynjulf Risnes told the broadcaster NRK that the reason for the arrest was discrepancies about the security measures taken by the Norwegian authorities.
Medvedev has problems adapting to it.
His client is not accused of any crime.
Medvedev is said to have been a member of the Wagner group for months in 2022 before fleeing to Norway and applying for asylum.
Report on Makiivka losses: Alleged Russian soldier tells of heavily drunk men
Update from January 23, 5:45 p.m .:
Apparently there are new details about the immense losses of the Russian army on New Year’s Eve near Makiivka.
According to t-online
, a Russian soldier reported to the independent Russian portal
Samara Protocol
that "at least 300 soldiers" were killed in the attack with a US rocket launcher of the Himar type
.
The man is said to have helped clear away the rubble and salvage the bodies on site.
A survivor of the Ukrainian attack told
Samara Protocol
that most of the men were heavily drunk that New Year's Eve.
"Only those who were still halfway sober came out," the portal quotes the man as saying: "After the first explosions there was great confusion and some people started shooting at each other."
According to various sources, those killed were recently mobilized men.
"They just drafted everyone, regardless of their physical condition," one of the men said, according to the report. "Two arms, two legs - off to the front lines.
Anyone who refused went straight to jail.” The report cannot be independently verified.
In connection with the high losses in a former educational institution in the Donetsk region, which Moscow had not denied, allegations have been made in Russia over the past three weeks.
Among other things, an alleged survivor claimed that so many Russian soldiers were killed because they were listening to a speech by President Vladimir Putin at the moment of the attack.
This too cannot be verified independently.
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Hundreds of Russian soldiers are said to have been killed by Ukrainian shelling in this building near Makiivka.
© IMAGO/Ivan Noyabrev
For artillery battles: Estonia supplies Ukraine with all its 155 mm howitzers
Update from January 23, 5:05 p.m .:
Artillery equipment is being fought on both sides on several sections of the front.
Estonia will now hand over all of its 155mm howitzers to Ukraine in the country's largest-ever aid package.
This is reported by the Ukrainian media project
The Kyiv Independent
.
"We want to set a precedent so that other countries don't have excuses why they can't provide Ukraine with the necessary weapons to win the war," said Estonian Ambassador Kaimo Kuusk.
Russian attacks reported in Sumy Oblast: Apparently the small town of Voroshba was bombed
Update from January 23, 4:30 p.m .:
Apparently there were Russian attacks in the small town of Voroshba in the Sumy Oblast.
As governor Dmytro Zhyvytskyj reports on Telegram, a residential building and the railway infrastructure were hit by shells.
“Around 2 p.m., ten shells exploded in the city center.
There was a direct hit in a residential building.
One of the apartments was completely destroyed.
Three other apartments are badly damaged.
The explosions also destroyed the business premises of local residents.” Gas and power lines were also partially damaged.
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Ukrainian soldiers in the Sumy region.
(archive photo)
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News about the Ukraine war: civilian dies from Russian shells
Update from January 23, 2:50 p.m .:
According to reports from the Ukrainian military administration, the Russian army is continuing to bombard the Kherson region.
“Russian shells hit a building in the village of Antonivka.
Shrapnel not only broke windows and damaged walls, but also killed a man,” Yaroslav Yanushevich, head of the regional military administration, wrote on Telegram.
Already on January 21 and 22, Russia fired rocket launchers and barrel artillery in and around the settlements of the Kherson region.
News about the Ukraine war: Russian commander-in-chief criticized by Wagner boss
Update from January 23, 1:14 p.m
.: The new Russian commander-in-chief in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, is likely to be met with skepticism in the troops and in Wagner’s private army.
Gerasimov attaches great importance to increasing discipline, the British Ministry of Defense said, citing intelligence information.
"Together with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, he is increasingly considered aloof and he is accused of relying on presentation instead of substance," it says.
Gerasimov is concerned about non-compliant uniforms, the use of mobile phones and civilian vehicles and haircuts that do not conform to the norm.
“The measures are met with skeptical feedback.
But the greatest mockery was for improving the standard of troop shaving.”
Both officials of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and the head of Wagner's private army, Yevgeny Prigozhin, had criticized the measures, it said.
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
Concern about electricity: network operators report nationwide blackouts
Update from January 23, 1:03 p.m
.: The people of Ukraine do not come to rest: there have already been blackouts in five regions of the country since midnight.
This was announced by the electricity network operator Ukrenergo, according to the
Kyiv Independent
.
The reason is increased power consumption.
This information could not initially be verified.
Russia reports successes in Donetsk: "Advancing on practically the entire front"
Update from January 23, 11:44 a.m
.: Putin's troops are advancing "on practically the entire front" in Donetsk.
The governor Denis Puschilin, appointed by Moscow, said this in a live broadcast of the state news channel Rossiya 24, as reported by the Tass news agency.
This information could not be checked independently.
In the course of its attack in September, Russia illegally annexed the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
Nuclear power plant as a weapons store?
Russian secret service accuses Kyiv of calculation
Update from January 23, 10:53 a.m
.: The Russian foreign intelligence service (SWR) accuses Kiev of stationing western weapons on the site of nuclear power plants.
The calculus behind it is that the Russian troops would not strike because of the danger of a nuclear catastrophe, said SWR boss Sergej Naryschkin in Moscow.
"If there is a large detonation and a nuclear power plant is destroyed, for example, by a new misdirection of a missile by the Ukrainian air defense system, the blame for the tragedy is always blamed on Moscow," said the SWR report.
The SWR data cannot be checked.
In the last week of December, railway wagons with the "deadly cargo" were brought to the Rivne nuclear power plant, it said.
SWR did not present any evidence.
Ukraine, on the other hand, accuses Russia of also stationing military technology on the site of the occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
Putin gets his own rocket launcher
Update from January 23, 9:53 a.m
.: Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin now has his personal rocket launcher.
This is reported by the Russian independent media company
Proekt
.
This information could not initially be verified.
The Pantsir system was installed about ten kilometers from Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, near Moscow, and was designed to protect them.
The Pantsir-S1 air defense system is designed to protect against a variety of weapons, including aircraft, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred to the Defense Ministry as late as Friday (January 20) when asked whether Russia was concerned that Moscow could be the target of an attack.
Shelling in Donetsk: number of civilians killed increases
Update from January 23, 9.43 a.m
.: The Russian attacks claim more civilian lives in Donetsk.
According to a Telegram entry by regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, four people were killed and three others injured in the cities of Bakhmut and Avdiivka in one day.
The information from the
Kyiv Independent
could not initially be checked independently.
New figures in the Ukraine war: high losses for Russia
Update from January 23, 8:50 a.m .:
According to Norwegian estimates, almost 180,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or injured in the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine.
Ukrainian losses are believed to have totaled more than 100,000 dead and wounded soldiers, Chief of Staff Eirik Kristoffersen said in an interview with Norwegian broadcaster
TV2
on Sunday .
In addition, 30,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed so far.
The general did not explain how the numbers came about.
Despite heavy casualties, Russia is capable of "continuing this war for quite a long time," Kristoffersen said, citing Moscow's mobilization and weapons production capabilities.
The Norwegian general also called for the rapid delivery of battle tanks to Ukraine, where Germany in particular has been slowing down so far.
Head of the Wagner Group: Prigozhin has fallen out of favor with Putin?
Update from January 23, 6.40 a.m .:
According to an assessment by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Yevgeny Prigozhin seems to have lost Vladimir Putin's trust.
Because the head of the "Wagner" mercenary group was unable to keep his promise to conquer the hard-fought Bachmut with his own forces.
Because the regular Russian army failed to capture Bakhmut, the Russian president is said to have turned to Prigozhin and his ally, Army General Sergei Surovikin.
According to the US think tank, he is said to have given them the chance to conquer the Donetsk city with mobilized, former prison inmates and airstrikes.
But the efforts of the "Wagner" mercenaries failed, and the airstrikes did little more than inflict suffering on Ukrainian civilians and deplete stocks of Russian precision missiles.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry has turned its attention to mobilizing Russian reservists and conscripts and improving conditions for the regular army.
According to the ISW, Putin now appears to have decided to stop relying on Prigozhin and his irregular forces, and to instead rely on Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Russia's conventional military again.
Ukraine War: Russia launches airstrikes in Zaporizhia region
Update from January 22, 10:17 p.m .:
The Ukrainian state news portal
According to Ukrinform
, "during the day, Russia carried out five airstrikes on Ukrainian Defense Forces positions and one rocket attack on critical infrastructure in the Zaporizhia region."
More than 20 attacks were fired from multiple rocket launchers, the portal reported, citing the Ukrainian General Staff.
The danger of air and missile attacks by Russia on civilian objects remains high throughout Ukraine.
The main efforts of Russia should be focused on conducting an offensive in the direction of Bakhmut.
Offensive actions in the areas of Zaporizhia, Avdiivka and Lyman are said to have been unsuccessful
.
The villages of Kupyansky, Novopavlivskyi and Khersonskyi were also attacked.
War in Ukraine: American delegation travels to eastern Ukraine
Update from January 22, 7:39 p.m .:
An independent American delegation traveled to the eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum to get an idea of the situation in the region, as reported by the American television channel CNN.
Among the members of the delegation was retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, who was received by Ukrainian official Oleh Syniehubov.
Syniehubov reported via Telegram: "Our American allies have personally seen the extent of the destruction caused by Russian missile attacks." Despite the enormous destruction, sometimes also of critical infrastructure, normal life in Izyum is slowly going on again, said Syniehubov.
Ukraine war: Recapture of areas in the east says it is “difficult”
Update from January 22, 4:50 p.m .:
According to Ukrainian information, recapturing the areas occupied by Russia in the east of the country is difficult.
"Very serious clashes in Luhansk are ongoing," said the region's military governor, Serhiy Hajdai, according to US broadcaster CNN.
Despite the "difficult" situation, the Ukrainian military is under control.
He underlined: "It is very difficult to advance there because the occupiers brought very large reserves with them." Nevertheless, the Ukrainian army liberated the area: "Step by step, meter by meter."
War in Ukraine: London warns of "local Russian advances" in Bakhmut
First report from January 22nd:
London – The British secret service estimates that there is currently a military stalemate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Despite this "dead end" in military events, there is "a realistic possibility of local Russian advances around Bakhmut," the Ministry of Defense said in London on Saturday.
The city in the Donetsk region has been the focus of fighting for months.
Personnel and equipment: intelligence predicts problems for Russia
Moscow under Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin will find it difficult to implement the announced significant increase in its military.
"Russia will most likely have difficulty finding personnel and equipment for the planned expansion," London said in its intelligence briefing on Sunday (January 22).
Shoigu wants to increase the Russian army: to 1.5 million soldiers
The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently announced, among other things, that he wanted to increase the number of troops from 1.15 to 1.5 million soldiers.
"Shoigu's plans signal that the Russian leadership most likely assumes that an increased conventional military threat will persist for many years beyond the current Ukraine war," it said in London.
(dpa/frs)
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