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2023-01-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 17th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:50 Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte said that his country will allocate another 2.5 billion euros to support Ukraine in the war, and will also join the Patriot air defense systems project jointly with Germany. According to him, the attack in the Dnieper only strengthens the determination to continue supporting Ukraine.
In turn, Zelensky also confirmed in an evening video message that the Netherlands is providing Ukraine with another Patriot battery: "That is, we already have three guaranteed batteries. But this is just the beginning. We are working on new solutions to strengthen our air defense."
22:41 The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said in an interview with CNN that Ukraine needs to be provided with all the military equipment it can handle, including advanced systems: "I very much hope that there will be a big step forward at the meeting in Ramstein" .
21:08 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, at a meeting with Biden at the White House, confirmed his intention to transfer Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, Reuters writes.
20:59 American partners have promised to train Ukrainian operators of Patriot air defense systems in ten weeks, Reznikov said. According to him, the preparation usually lasts ten months.
20:26 The IAEA has already placed experts at two Ukrainian nuclear power plants - Rivne and South Ukrainian, said the agency's director general Rafael Grossi. A few days later, the same group will arrive at the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, the last of three in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
20:24 Olena Zelenskaya, during her speech in Davos, announced that she would give Chinese Vice Premier Liu He a letter with President Zelensky's proposals to end the war. She asked that this letter be delivered to President Xi Jinping. She also said that she had letters for European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Swiss President Alain Berset.
20:21 During the last missile attack, nine thermal power plants were damaged, Shmyhal said. In particular, one block of a thermal power plant in the east and eight blocks of thermal power plants in the west of the country were damaged. Three main substations and one overhead line were also damaged. This has led to an increase in power shortages in the power system.
19:34 The Netherlands is considering sending Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, writes Bloomberg. The decision must be made soon.
19:11 The World Economic Forum, which is held under the sign of Ukraine, has started in Davos. Read more in the material Tanks and NATO membership .
19:03 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that on Saturday, January 14, the enemy used S-400 anti-aircraft missiles from the Bryansk region in Kiev. The representative of the Air Force Yuri Ignat, in a commentary to the UP, specified that at that time the enemy fired more than ten such missiles that flew along a ballistic trajectory - there are no means to destroy them yet.
“You need to understand that there is a threat from there too, so you need to take certain countermeasures. The enemy doesn’t have many options where to place them. I won’t say what needs to be done there, but steps are already being taken on this,” Ignat added.
18:56 The Russians are trying to isolate the civilian population of the Kherson region from access to alternative sources of information. Along with stopping the broadcast of all Ukrainian TV channels, they made mobile communications available only to Russian operators, the General Staff said in an evening summary.
Also, the invaders are actively looking for their deserters in the temporarily occupied territories. Under the pretext of searching for Ukrainian saboteurs, the Russians are carrying out raids on settlements in the Kherson region.
18:09 A new defense minister has been appointed in Germany - Boris Pistorius. Tomorrow he will meet with the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, on the eve of a new meeting in the Ramstein format, where they should discuss the issue of supplying tanks to Ukraine, Reuters writes.
German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said that "the new German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will first consider the issue of deliveries of Leopard 2 tanks." According to him, Ukraine "should receive all the military equipment that is necessary to win the war."
18:03 Zaluzhny said that today in Poland he had his first personal meeting with the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley.
17:45 Olena Zelenska presented the Ukrainian formula for peace at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
17:27 Another 20,000 Ukrainian military will be trained in the UK this year, Defense Minister Ben Wallace said. According to him, Australia will also join the training mission along with Canada, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Sweden, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway.
17:14 The occupiers caused damage to the Zaporozhye NPP for 40 billion UAH, said the head of Energoatom Petr Kotin. According to him, Energoatom will bill Russia for the damage caused by the ZNPP as a result of shelling and blackouts. He also stressed that if the occupation continues for another 1-2 years, the station will completely fail.
17:09 International assistance to Ukraine has exceeded 113 billion euros. This amount includes military, financial and humanitarian assistance from foreign governments, according to a study by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
According to the Ukraine Support Tracker system, which tracks the scale of international assistance, 40 countries have become donors to Ukraine. The EU allocated almost 52 billion euros, the US - 48 billion euros. Half of the allocated funds is financial assistance, another third is military assistance, and the rest is humanitarian support.
At the same time, the European Union has become a leader in providing financial assistance: EU member states and European institutions have pledged to provide Ukraine with almost 35 billion euros for budgetary needs. And the United States remains the leader in military support - the amount has already reached 23 billion euros.
16:55 The death toll as a result of a missile attack on a high-rise building in Dnipro has increased to 45 people, including six children , said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
16:28 Zelensky said that during a video conference meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, he discussed the situation at the front, the need to increase defense support for Ukraine, and the diplomatic process of implementing the Ukrainian peace formula. "Ukraine appreciates the important defense decisions made by the German leadership at the beginning of this year, as well as the significant support in the humanitarian, financial and defense spheres from the very beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion," the Ukrainian president added.
15:59 Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto confirmed that Helsinki is ready to take part in a coalition of countries that will transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine: "The discussion on Leopard tanks continues. I hope this decision will be made, and Finland is undeniably ready to play its role in this support".
15:43 The bodies of 15 dead as a result of a rocket attack on a high-rise building in the Dnieper remain unidentified. 20 people are missing, including four children, the National Police said.
14:56 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that Russia should stop trying to recruit Serbs to participate in hostilities on the side of PMC Wagner in Ukraine. Vučić has criticized Russian websites and social media groups for posting ads in Serbian in which the Wagner Group encourages volunteers to join its ranks. "Why are you from Wagner calling someone from Serbia when you know it's against our rules?" Vucic said.
14:40 The leadership of the "Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR" appointed "guilty" of the death of Russian mobilized in Makeevka as a result of the Ukrainian strike. According to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the deputy head of the Makeyevka police department and seven other "people's policemen" who have already been arrested were "appointed" as such "guilty". All of them were formally charged with "negligent attitude to functional duties." The accused will subsequently be sent "to perform tasks" to checkpoints near the settlements of Opytnoye and Mayorsk.
Intelligence also reported that personnel who are not planned to be involved in hostilities are arriving en masse on the territory of the "DPR". These subunits are distributed among "temporary deployment points", and their main task is to strengthen the counterintelligence regime. The greatest attention is paid to the locations of the Kadyrovites, the level of confidence in which on the part of the military command is sharply declining.
14:19 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda hopes that at the NATO summit in July in Vilnius new wordings regarding Ukraine's membership will be found: "Because every time we repeat what we said at the summit in Bucharest in 2008, -" We keep the doors open "It's not enough anymore."
14:17 Ukraine has received the first tranche of macro-financial assistance from the EU in the amount of 3 billion euros, the European Commission announced.
14:06 Putin said that the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation has “gained serious momentum” over the past year and continues to increase its capacity: defense enterprises work in several shifts, some around the clock.
13:33 In Dnipro, search and rescue operations have been completed at the site of a missile attack on an apartment building , the State Emergency Service reported. According to the latest data:
- 39 people were saved, including six children,
- 44 people died, including five children,
- 79 people were injured, including 16 children,
- 47 reports of missing persons were received, of which 23 people were found dead, four people were found alive with relatives, in hospitals.
13:19 The EU hopes that the sanctions will plunge the Russian economy into recession for a decade, said the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
12:54 The Ukrainian military is still in Soledar and is rebuffing the Russian army, Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesman for the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in a comment to Suspilny: "The situation is the same as yesterday. Our units are there and constantly hit the enemy with fire."
12:51 Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg urged to maintain a sense of proportion and "not go too far" in relation to Russia, despite the war unleashed by it in Ukraine, since today's actions will determine the status of the free world for many years to come. In turn, the speaker of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Oleg Nikolenko said that "calls to continue dialogue with Russia, to respect its history and culture reinforce the Kremlin's sense of impunity."
12:45 Peskov said that Russia is forced to increase the size of the army to 1.5 million people because of the "proxy war" that the West is allegedly waging against it. He clarified that this is a "proxy war", which "includes elements of indirect participation in hostilities, and elements of economic war, financial war, legal war, going beyond the legal field, and so on."
12:19 On the territory of the occupied Donetsk region, the Russians are introducing a rule of mandatory military registration of all private vehicles, said the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, Petr Andryushchenko.
12:15 Russian media write that the first "volunteers" from Serbia began to be trained in the occupied Zaporozhye region as part of a "volunteer battalion."
12:01 Only the continuation of the war guarantees the preservation of power to Putin and his henchmen. Russia's blitzkrieg has failed, and for Putin, this means that the war must be dragged out, because the alternative is only an international tribunal or a revolt within the country. Putin will not give up his strategic goal - a genocidal war, that is, the destruction of the Ukrainian people and state, said Andrei Yusov, spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
According to him, the enemy is preparing various scenarios, and is also engaged in disinformation - for example, he makes stuff about the landing on Odessa and constantly discusses the topic of Belarus. At the same time, as of today, there are no formed strike groups and there is no threat of involving Belarus in a full-scale invasion.
Yusov also recalled that Russia has a human resource for mobilization, and they have a large amount of Soviet weapons in storage: “Yes, bad, yes, of poor quality, but old Soviet tanks will be able to start, drive and fire ... We must remind both to ourselves and to the world that we are still dealing with a large, terrible and dangerous enemy, which has a significant quantitative composition, various types of weapons and is waging a terrorist genocidal war.
11:52 Klitschko said that he had met in Davos with Vice-Chancellor - German Economy Minister Robert Habek: "We talked about further support and assistance. In particular, about the transfer of weapons. Positive decisions have been made. Good news will be coming soon."
11:30 Freelance adviser to the Office of the President Oleksiy Arestovich wrote a letter of resignation after he stated that the tragedy in the Dnieper, "apparently", was the result of the work of the Ukrainian air defense. This caused a flurry of criticism, since his "version" was immediately picked up by Russian propaganda and the authorities.
11:27 The death toll as a result of a strike on a high-rise building in the Dnieper has increased to 44 people , Mayor Boris Filatov said.
11:22 Poland intends to transfer about 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine, Duda said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Polish president expressed hope that other partners would also provide Ukraine with Leopard tanks.
10:48 As of the morning of January 17, there is a significant shortage of power in the energy system, especially during the morning and evening consumption peaks, Ukrenergo reported. Consumption limits for the whole day have been brought to all operators of distribution systems. Due to their excess, emergency shutdowns have already been applied in six regions of Ukraine.
10:25 Russians last night fired at the settlement of the Ochakovsky community of the Nikolaevsky area therefore one person was lost. Damaged social infrastructure and residential buildings, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
10:16 The contract with Rosatom was signed by 650 employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, the head of Energoatom Petr Kotin said. According to him, these are mainly working personnel who received the lowest salary, but there are also managers among them. Now about 6,000 NPP employees remain in Energodar, but only half go to work.
10:14 In Dnipro, the body of a dead child was pulled out from under the rubble of a destroyed residential building - the number of victims, thus, increased to 41 people (of which four were children). 79 people were injured (of which 16 were children) and 39 people were rescued (of which six were children), the Office of the President reported.
09:57 British intelligence reports that the strike on a multi-storey residential building in the Dnieper on January 14 was most likely carried out by a Kh-22 Burya (NATO classification - AS-4 Kitchen) supersonic long-range air-launched anti-ship missile, which has low accuracy when used against ground targets.
According to analysts, the statements of the Russian side that the Ukrainian air defense was to blame for the strike are unfounded. Experts recalled that this missile is inaccurate when used against ground targets, since its radar guidance system does not distinguish targets well in urban areas. The intelligence also recalled that similar weapons were the cause of other incidents with mass casualties among the civilian population, including an attack on a shopping center in Kremenchug on June 27, 2022.
Analysts note that the use of such missiles for strikes on Ukrainian territory indicates the inability of the Russian Federation to deliver long-range precision strikes. Russia likely has difficulty with dynamic target identification and access to fast and accurate combat damage assessments, intelligence points out.
09:26 In the Kherson region over the past day due to Russian shelling, one person was killed, two were injured, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
08:59 Over the past day, the enemy fired at the front-line settlements of Kupyansky, Chuguevsky and Kharkiv districts of the Kharkiv region. Two people were wounded in Kupyansk, Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA, said.
08:57 In the Donetsk region over the past day as a result of enemy shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Severny. Another person in the region was injured, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:46 Russia has increased the number of rocket carriers in the Black Sea to six, the total salvo - up to 44 Calibers, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. According to her, the record charge during the war was 48 sea-based missiles. Gumenyuk added that this may indicate the preparation of another massive strike against Ukraine.
08:25 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 17th.
- personnel - about 116,950 (+870) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3121 (+3),
- armored combat vehicles - 6215 (+11),
- artillery systems - 2104 (+5),
- MLRS - 441 (+3),
- air defense systems - 220 (+0),
- aircraft - 286 (+0),
- helicopters - 276 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 1872 (+0),
- cruise missiles - 749 (+0),
- ships/boats - 17 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 4877 (+7),
- special equipment - 190 (+0).
08:17 The enemy does not leave his intentions to completely capture the Donetsk region, is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, the General Staff said in the morning report . On the Kupyansky, Limansky and Novopavlovsky directions, the enemy is trying to improve the tactical position, on the Zaporozhye and Kherson - continues to defend.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by invaders in areas of more than 20 settlements, including: Belogorovka, Luhansk region; Verkhnekamenskoe, Controversial, Krasnopolevka, Salt, Soledar, Belogorovka, Bakhmut, Northern, Kamenka, Vodyanoye, Nevelskoye, Maryinka, Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
In the settlements of Zavodovka, Gornostaevka and Cairo of the Kherson region, the invaders stopped the broadcasting of all Ukrainian TV channels, only Russian television is broadcast.
07:42 The rescue operation in the Dnieper continues for more than 63 hours, 90% of the debris of the house destroyed by the Russian missile has been dismantled. 40 people died, 39 were rescued, 79 were injured (including 16 children), 28 victims remain in hospitals, ten of them are in serious condition. At the same time, 25 residents of the house are still being searched for, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
05:10 Blinken will visit China on February 5-6, where he will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. There he will discuss a number of issues, including the war in Ukraine, writes Politico. The United States hopes that China will not provide support to Moscow and will not provide assistance to the Russian Federation, including in circumventing sanctions.
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