Russia fires 55 missiles at Ukrainian territory: hypersonic missiles come through anti-aircraft defenses

In renewed attacks on the Ukrainian energy supply, Russia has also used hypersonic missiles.

The news ticker in the Ukraine war.

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  Barely a chance

  ": Russian expert sees significant weaknesses in US Abrams tanks.

• After the battle tank commitment

  : Selenskyj also calls for long-range missiles and fighter jets

• Explosions in Zaporizhia and Dnepropetrovsk:

  Russia sends Iranian-made combat drones.

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  The information on the Ukraine war processed here comes partly from the warring parties in Russia and Ukraine.

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Also on Thursday Russia carried out far-reaching attacks on major Ukrainian cities.

A total of 55 rockets are said to have been fired at areas in Ukraine.

This is reported by the Ukrainian military leadership.

Of these, 85 percent were intercepted, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valeriy Saluschnyi told the Telegram news service.

The Russian army has also used two hypersonic missiles of the type Kinzhal (German: Dolch), which cannot be intercepted by the anti-aircraft defense.

In addition, drones are said to have been involved in the attacks.

According to Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko, several objects of the energy infrastructure were hit, which is why the electricity went out.

The situation is particularly difficult in the Kyiv, Vinnytsia and Odessa regions.

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A crater from an explosion can be seen next to a destroyed house after a missile attack.

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"Hardly a chance": Russian expert dismantles Abrams tank

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.: A Russian expert is now disassembling the Abrams battle tank model: even “old tanks of Soviet design” could beat them, former Colonel Sergei Suvorov believes in an interview with the state news agency Tass – and counts what he sees as weak points of the US vehicle to:

• Incidents in which the Abrams tanks burst into flames, such as in the Iraq war

• The cause: A bullet-prone engine at the rear of the vehicle

• Difficult maintenance of the main battle tank model

• Only limited suitability for use in dusty areas

The US M1 Abrams main battle tank therefore had "hardly a chance" in a battle against a Russian tank, Suvorov concluded.

However, he qualified that the power of the Abrams also depends on the skill of its driver.

Tanks, drones, anti-aircraft defenses: weapons for Ukraine

Tanks, drones, anti-aircraft defenses: weapons for Ukraine

Civilians under fire: New attacks on residential buildings in Kyiv

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.: The Russian military hit another civilian building in Kiev in the morning, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, according to

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The incident happened in the Holosiiv district.

Battles for Kherson: "The invaders fought back"

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.: Ukrainian soldiers have suffered a setback in the Cherson region.

At dawn they attempted to cross the Dnieper River near the town of Nowa Kakhovka.

"The enemy tried to secretly come to our side of the river at night," Russian official Vladimir Rogov told Telegram.

"We fought back the invaders," he was quoted as saying by the state news agency Tass.

The information could not be checked independently.

In September, Moscow declared the four Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson to be annexed.

Large parts of the international community do not recognize the annexations. 

New Russian attacks: air alert in large parts of Ukraine

Update from Thursday, January 26, 8:40 a.m.:

Russia is launching another attack on Ukraine, reports the

news portal with reference to the head of the President’s office, Andriy Yermak.

The first missiles have already been intercepted over Ukraine.

Governors of many Ukrainian oblasts are urging residents to stay in shelters.

There is an air raid warning in all regions of Ukraine.

News in the Ukraine war: Selenskyj thanks Scholz and Biden for announced tanks

First report from Thursday, January 26, 6:50 a.m.:

Kiev – The federal government has promised Ukraine 14 Leopard 2 tanks from Bundeswehr stocks.

Other countries such as the USA also want to supply battle tanks to Kyiv in the Ukraine war.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the announced deliveries of Western-style heavy battle tanks in the fight against the Russian invaders and at the same time called for additional weapon systems.

In his daily video address on Wednesday (January 25), Zelenskyy thanked both Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden for their decision.

At the same time, he added that his country now needs, above all, long-range missiles, fighter jets and more artillery to form "a fist of tanks," according to the President of Ukraine.

The key to this, however, now lies in the speed with which Ukrainian tank crews are trained and the delivery of tanks to Ukraine.

The quantity of tanks to be delivered is also decisive.

News about the Ukraine war: air raids and attacks in southern Ukraine

Meanwhile, air alarms were triggered again in large parts of Ukraine on Wednesday evening.

According to media reports, explosions could be heard in Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk - possibly due to the use of anti-aircraft defenses.

The regional military administrator Vitali Kim wrote on Telegram that there are new waves of Russian combat drones made in Iran.

Also in the Kherson region there was a Russian attack on Wednesday (January 25), in which civilians were injured and killed.

Russian troops had launched an attack on the town of Beryslav, news

.

“In the middle of the day, the Russians made a targeted attack on a busy place.

Enemy shells hit a grocery store where people were.

Two people were killed by Russian shelling," the military administration of the Kherson region said on Telegram.

The administration also stated that three people were injured in the attack and required medical attention.

(talk to dpa)

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