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The often-attacked Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine is reporting Russian attacks.
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There was an air alert again in many parts of Ukraine during the night.
Impacts were reported in several regions.
President Zelensky was nevertheless optimistic.
The news at a glance.
Kiev - Russia has again attacked Ukraine with missile and drone attacks.
There was an air alert late in the evening in many regions in the eastern and central part of the country, including the capital Kiev.
“Enemy drones have attacked the regional center,” wrote the military governor of the southern Ukrainian region of Zaporizhzhia, Yuriy Malashko, on Telegram.
An infrastructure object was hit.
He did not provide any further details.
Rocket attacks were reported in the central Ukrainian region of Poltava.
There was an impact on an industrial property in Kremenchuk, wrote military governor Filip Pronin.
This caused a fire to break out.
According to authorities, the extinguishing work is continuing.
There was initially no information about possible victims.
Attacks were also reported in the oft-attacked Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine.
Information about possible victims and damage has not yet been published there.
Zelensky remains optimistic
Despite the current problems with arms deliveries, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj does not see any war weariness among his country's international partners.
“Despite various challenges and many difficulties, Ukraine has managed to maintain international attention for our, Ukrainian struggle for independence,” he said in his daily video address.
In a review for January, he highlighted the security agreement with Great Britain as a success.
Zelensky also spoke of “good dynamics” in international arms aid.
However, he emphasized the importance of the USA as the most important military supporter in the defense against the Russian war of aggression.
Kiev is waiting impatiently for the decision in Washington - “it is of crucial importance,” he warned.
In the USA, a domestic political dispute between Democrats and Republicans is paralyzing further aid for Ukraine.
Five bodies recovered from rubble
According to authorities, five dead people were recovered from the rubble of a residential building in eastern Ukraine.
“I remind you that on January 15, the Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on a three-story building in Nyu York - three people were injured and five were buried under the rubble,” wrote Vadym, the military governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Donetsk region Filashkin, on Facebook.
The rescue work would have taken two weeks.
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The town of Nyu York is located in Ukrainian-controlled territory directly behind the front line opposite the industrial city of Horlivka, which has been controlled by Russian forces since 2014.
In contrast to many other sections of the front, the Russian military has not yet succeeded in pushing back the Ukrainians at this point.
However, the town was badly damaged by the ongoing shelling.
In addition, the death of another victim, a 13-year-old girl in the Kharkiv region, became known.
The Ukrainian teenager was seriously injured ten days ago when the town of Malyj Burluk was shelled with aerial bombs.
Now she has died in the hospital, said the military governor of Kharkiv, Oleh Synjehubow.
Putin sharply criticizes Ukraine and the Baltics
Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin described his war of aggression against Ukraine as a fight against Nazism at a memorial event.
“We are doing everything, everything, to stop Nazism and finally eradicate it,” he said, according to the media, at the opening of a memorial for civilian victims of fascist terror after Hitler’s Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
The Kremlin chief cited Ukraine and the Baltics as current examples of the rise of Nazism.
The Baltic states are “declaring tens of thousands of people subhuman, depriving them of their most basic rights and subjecting them to hate speech,” he claimed.
Ukraine, in turn, “heroizes Hitler’s helpers and SS men and uses terror against those they don’t like,” Putin continued.
The Kremlin has repeatedly justified its almost two-year war of aggression against Ukraine with the alleged need to protect the Russian-speaking population living there from attacks by Ukrainian nationalists.
What is important today
In the east and south of Ukraine, the battles between the defenders and the Russian attackers continue.
The Ukrainian armed forces are primarily expanding their defensive positions to prevent further advances by Russian troops.
dpa