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[Korrespondent] 22:40 The European Union may in the coming days create a military fund to assist Ukraine within the framework of the European Peace Fund. This issue was discussed today at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers, Borrell said.
21:14 Russia is preparing a mass settlement of the occupied territories of Ukraine under the Soviet code name Zaporozhye virgin lands. According to the Russian Federation, the occupied territory of the Zaporozhye region should become Moscow’s second pilot project to change the ethnic composition of the population after the Far East, said the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the Russians are threatening to deport Ukrainians who do not want to receive Russian passports. At the same time, applications are already being formed to bring residents from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan to the occupied territories.
20:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine cut off Russian missile carrier ships from the logistics base and Caliber reserves in Sevastopol, said Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk: “Enemy ships are forced to quickly swim to the shores, quickly load one missile and quickly get out of there. They were cut off from Sevastopol, where their logistics base in the Black Sea, where all the infrastructure is. And most importantly, the Calibers remained in Sevastopol."
18:52 Russia was able to increase the range of Soviet aerial bombs seven times - up to 70 km, writes Bild military observer Julian Repke. According to him, the bombs were able to be improved by equipping them with a planning and correction module. Wings and a rudder were attached to the warheads, making the bombs controllable. They are launched from Su-34 fighter-bombers. In the sky, the improved FAB-500s look like small planes or drones. According to Repke, Ukraine currently does not have enough air defense to shoot them down.
18:46 Zelensky awarded state awards to representatives of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense who took part in the operation to sink the Russian military boat Ivanovets on Lake Donuzlav in Crimea. “An effective act. But also effective and extremely useful: the smaller the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, the greater the security in the region and in the world in general,” the president emphasized.
17:01 Taiwan's Ministry of Economy said it has strengthened controls over the export of goods to prevent Russia from using them in the war against Ukraine. The fine for the first violations of exports to the Russian Federation was increased more than 15 times - to 1 million Taiwanese dollars (about 32 thousand US dollars).
16:54 Commander of the Ground Forces Alexander Syrsky said that he visited military units and units in the Kupyansk direction. According to him, the operational situation remains tense, with heavy fighting taking place on all sectors of the front.
“In order to resolve problematic issues critical to the sustainability of defense, the necessary instructions were given and a redistribution of forces and assets was carried out. The main priorities remain effective reconnaissance, the coordinated use of all fire weapons, the protection of our units with electronic warfare, and the preservation of the lives of our military personnel.” , - said the commander.
16:35 A package of military aid from Estonia has arrived in Ukraine. It included, in particular, Javelin anti-tank systems, ammunition, machine guns, land and water transport, and diving equipment, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
15:23 The DeepState project showed satellite images showing the consequences of the attack on the Belbek airfield near Sevastopol on January 31. According to preliminary information, the Russian command post was hit.
15:19 In the Russian city of Engels, the crew commander of the Tu-95 strategic bomber, Major Oleg Stegachev, was shot, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. It is known that he received gunshot wounds, but whether he survived is being clarified. The Russian Aerospace Forces pilot served at Engels Air Base and was directly involved in missile strikes on Ukraine.
15:12 As a result of yesterday’s attack in the Poltava region, a filled granary was damaged and part of the harvest was lost, said the head of the OBA, Philip Pronin.
14:43 After criticism of his words about Crimea, Polish President Andrzej Duda made a new statement: “My actions and position regarding Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine have been and remain clear from day one: Russia violates international law, is an aggressor and occupier. Russian attack on Ukraine and the occupation of internationally recognized territories of Ukraine, including Crimea, is a crime. This war cannot end in a Russian victory."
13:30 An oil refinery in Volgograd was attacked by SBU drones, the UP reports citing a source in the special services. According to him, two drones hit a primary oil refining installation, without which the plant would lose “a significant part of its production capacity.”
13:23 Polish President Andrzej Duda is not sure that Ukraine will be able to regain control over Crimea: “I don’t know whether Ukraine will return Crimea, but I believe that it will return Donetsk and Lugansk.” He also said that the island is a “special place” because it “was in Russian hands most of the time.”
At the same time, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that Warsaw “recognizes the independence of Ukraine within its internationally established borders.” And a number of deputies from the Civic Coalition criticized Duda’s statements and recalled that “there are cities that in their history belonged to Poland for less time than to another country.” The Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland Vasily Zvarych emphasized that “Crimea is Ukraine: it is and will remain.”
13:17 The Wall Street Journal writes that Ukraine is trying to compensate for the lack of ammunition by producing a million drones in small, dispersed enterprises. Drones are produced in small factories due to the threat of Russian strikes. Most parts are made using 3D printers.
One such enterprise produces 3,000 FPV drones per month. The plans are to increase production to 10 thousand. Ukraine currently produces 62 types of drones. Manufacturers are working to increase the flight range, the ability to carry a larger load, as well as good protection against electronic warfare.
11:30 In the morning, the Russians shelled Kupyansk, Kharkov region. Previously, they hit civilian infrastructure with FAB-500s, said the head of the OVA, Oleg Sinegubov. There were no reports of casualties. A nine-story residential building, private residential buildings, electrical networks, and other civil non-residential infrastructure were damaged.
11:24 In the Sumy region, the movement of civil transport was banned in a five-kilometer strip from the state border of Ukraine on a number of road sections. This was done to prevent losses among residents of border areas, the OVA reported.
11:15 At night, the Russians attacked the DTEK power plant, the company reported. The equipment of the thermal power plant was seriously damaged. It is not specified where this happened.
10:48 Canadian Conservatives, who are in opposition, demand that thousands of CRV7 aircraft missiles be transferred to Ukraine, which are subject to disposal, CBC reports. We are talking about 83 thousand missiles that it was decided to dispose of three years ago. The Canadian Ministry of Defense said it was considering this option, but not all missiles have warheads - only 8,000 are equipped with them. It is also necessary to conduct tests and find out whether their use on Ukrainian equipment is possible.
08:52 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 3:
- personnel - about 387,940 (+880) people,
- tanks - 6341 (+10),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,805 (+13),
- artillery systems - 9300 (+26),
- MLRS - 979 (+1),
- air defense systems - 663 (+0),
- aircraft - 332 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7161 (+15),
- cruise missiles - 1847 (+0),
- ships/boats - 24 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,352 (+36),
- special equipment - 1473 (+3).
08:43 Over the past 24 hours, 77 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 29 enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area and another 15 attacks near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, seven attacks were repulsed near Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled five enemy attacks near Sinkovka and Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - five attacks in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - two attacks near Bogdanovka and Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - one attack south of Zolotaya Niva, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - three attacks in the Rabotino area and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region; on Kherson - seven attacks.
08:25 During a night attack by drones, the equipment of the NEC Ukrenergo substation and two high-voltage overhead lines were damaged. Household and industrial consumers in the city of Krivoy Rog were de-energized, the company reported. The head of the Krivoy Rog Defense Council, Alexander Vilkul, said that emergency power outages are being introduced in the city. Some hospitals, water and heat supply, where possible, are switching to generators. Also, the tram will not run, and there will be continuous interruptions in communications.
07:37 In the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, five enemy UAVs were destroyed during a night attack, and there were also several hits, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. Two fires broke out, leaving about 15 thousand people and two boiler houses in Krivoy Rog without electricity in the area, which provide 43 thousand subscribers. The city's high-speed tram is partially out of power. Also, some houses were left without water supply. No people were hurt.
07:09 Air defense at night destroyed nine of the 14 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and from the Crimean Cape Chauda. The enemy sent a significant part of the drones to energy infrastructure facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Force command reported. UAVs were destroyed within the Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Nikolaev and Zhytomyr regions. In addition, Russia fired two Kh-59 guided missiles from the Belgorod region.
06:56 Russian media reported a fire in the Krasnoarmeysky district of Volgograd - on an area of 300 square meters. oil products were burning. The public clarifies that the fire on the territory of the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka oil refinery began after a drone attack. Volgograd Governor Andrei Bocharov later stated that air defense allegedly repelled a UAV attack on the territory of the region; as a result of the fall of a downed drone, a fire broke out at the Volgograd Oil Refinery. The open fire has been extinguished, there are no casualties.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the interception and destruction of four UAVs by air defense at night over the territory of the Belgorod region, two over the Volgograd region, and another one over the Rostov region.
01:48 The Czech Republic offered the European Union to purchase ammunition for Ukraine outside Europe after it became known that the EU would be able to provide Kiev with only half of the promised million shells on time, Politico writes, citing sources. According to Czech government estimates, there may be 450 thousand artillery shells available outside the bloc.
At the same time, France, which is one of the leaders of the European military industry, insists that all orders for shells for Ukraine are distributed within the EU.