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2023-01-19 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 18th, 2023
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Korrespondent] 22:35 Zelensky said in an evening video message that the situation at the front remains difficult: "The epicenter of the most brutal and principled battles is in the Donbass. We are gradually recording an increase in the number of shelling and offensive attempts from the invaders."
21:58 According to CNN, the new package of military assistance to Ukraine from the United States will include, in particular, Stryker armored personnel carriers and small-sized GLSDB high-precision missiles capable of flying 150 km. And Abrams tanks allegedly do not want to be sent because of the complexity of operation and maintenance.
In turn, the Süddeutsche Zeitung writes that Scholz, during a telephone conversation with Biden, announced his readiness to allow the supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, but only on the condition that the United States provide its Abrams.
21:37 The United States will allocate $ 125 million to repair the energy system of Ukraine, said the head of USAID Samantha Power. This amount will be used to purchase backup electricity for water and heat supply systems in Kyiv. Gas turbines, transformers and other vital energy equipment will also be replenished.
20:54 The day before, Russian propagandists announced that their leader Vladimir Putin would come out to the Russians with a new "urgent appeal." They expected that the President of the Russian Federation would announce a new wave of mobilization, because in Russia they say they want to increase the army to one and a half million people. The American Institute for the Study of War suggested that Putin could have officially declared war on Ukraine today. However, the head of the Kremlin vaguely repeated his old theses about the "situation" in Ukraine and once again changed the goal of a full-scale invasion. Read more in the material What Putin said today .
20:09 Zelensky at a forum in Davos announced Ukraine's desire to join NATO. He stressed that the alliance is the best guarantee of security: “We understand that at the moment we are not there yet, unfortunately. Russia understands this well, and they are doing everything possible to make it not easy for us to join. But we are on the way to NATO because NATO is the best guarantee of security for us, for our country, for our children."
19:57 Zelensky, during a speech at a forum in Davos, said that the hostilities have slowed down, Russia is preparing for revenge: "The war really slows down in winter. There are understandable circumstances and understandable reasons. Everyone gets tired - nature, people and, thank God, the enemy too. It all looks like this: daily fierce battles in the east of our state ... We stand steadfastly and firmly ... As for other parts of our state - south and north - we control the situation ... We see that Russia is trying to go, to strengthen and prepare for revenge. We believe that they will not succeed, because they are not fighting against Ukraine, but against a civilized approach to life."
19:36 Polish President Andrzej Duda also said at a forum in Davos that the situation in Ukraine could be critical in the near future. He stressed that the Russian army, which has not yet weakened, is preparing for a new offensive in Ukraine, so Kyiv needs to provide more tanks. "In a few months or weeks, the decisive moment will come, and we will understand whether Ukraine will survive," he said.
19:31 The United States is preparing in the coming days to announce one of the largest military aid packages to Ukraine, which, however, will not include tanks - Washington is not yet ready to satisfy this request from Kiev, CNN reports, citing two American officials.
18:56 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said that the next weeks could become critical for hostilities in Ukraine: "The next six weeks - two months may be critical for hostilities in Ukraine. I spoke on the phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday and agree that Russia might launch a big offensive again."
Rutte stressed that with this in mind, the West must do more for Ukraine: "That's why now, together with the United States and Germany, we are participating in a joint mission that will be of decisive importance."
18:24 The Russian army is focusing its main efforts on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut direction. It also conducts unsuccessful offensive operations in the Avdeevsky direction and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Limansky direction. In the Zaporizhia direction, the enemy carried out unsuccessful offensive operations in the areas of the settlements of Orekhov and Gulyaipole. The enemy is on the defensive in the Kupyansk, Novopavlovsk and Kherson directions, the General Staff reported in the evening summary.
17:46 Podolyak, after Putin's today's statement, again stated that negotiations are impossible: "Putin is very predictable in his Orwellism:" NVO is an attempt to end the war... War is peace... Slavery is freedom... Occupied the lands of Donbass are a historical part of Russia under the wild name L/DPR. "There will be no insight. Negotiations are impossible. Russia is aimed exclusively at war."
17:37 Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that his country cannot support Russia's invasion of Ukraine and recognizes Crimea and Donbass as Ukrainian territories: "We said from the very beginning that we could not and have no right to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine. For us, Crimea - this is Ukraine, Donbass is Ukraine, and it will always be so."
In an interview with Bloomberg, he also predicted that in the war between Ukraine and Russia, "the worst is ahead" as both sides deepen into the conflict. Vučić also said that he had not spoken to Putin for "many months" and, despite his "traditionally good relations" with Russia, he did not support all of the Kremlin's decisions.
17:15 Consultations are underway between NATO countries on sending tanks and other modern weapons to Ukraine, Stoltenberg said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. He stressed that Ukraine needs not only tanks, but also "more air defense systems", as well as "spare parts, ammunition and maintenance of the equipment already transferred." The Secretary General believes that now "the key moment of the conflict is taking place," and the prospects for a peaceful settlement "depend on NATO military supplies."
16:58 The IAEA launched an observation mission at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
16:47 The European Parliament adopted an appeal to Scholz with a call to allow the supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The appeal also indicates the need to create a European consortium in order to immediately supply tanks to Ukraine. The dpa agency notes that such an appeal by the EP to the head of government of one of the EU countries is an unusual step, especially considering that it was prepared by a politician from a party that is part of the ruling coalition in Germany. The corresponding proposal to the EP was made by the deputy Reinhard Butikofer from the German Green Party.
16:18 Search and rescue operations at the crash site in Brovary have been completed. According to the final data of the State Emergency Service, a total of 14 people died, including one child, 25 people were injured, including 11 children.
15:31 Head of the National Police Igor Klymenko will act as Minister of Internal Affairs , Shmyhal said.
15:20 Canada will transfer another 200 armored vehicles to Ukraine, Defense Minister Anita Anand said during a visit to Kiev. It is expected that all 200 vehicles will be shipped to Ukraine by summer.
15:02 Latvia will soon transfer another batch of military aid to Ukraine, Minister of Defense Inara Murniece said following a visit to Ukraine: "In the near future we will send new batches of military support to Ukraine - Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems, helicopters, machine guns with ammunition." Sending the first batch of military equipment is expected on January 25.
In addition, according to her, this year Latvia will continue training Ukrainian military at various levels, and it is planned to increase the intensity of training at least twice.
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14:33 Deputy Interior Minister Bogdan Drapyaty and head of the State Emergency Service Serhiy Kruk announced the names of the pilots and passengers of the helicopter that crashed in Brovary. Another name of the deceased was learned by the journalists of Ukrainska Pravda. In particular, Denis Monastyrsky, Yevgeny Enin, Yuri Lubkovich, Alexander Vasilenko, Konstantin Kovalenko, Ivan Kasyanov, Tatyana Shutyak, Mikhail Pavlushko and Nikolai Anatsky were killed.
13:49 UN Secretary General António Guterres said he does not see the prospects for the end of the war in Ukraine in the near future: "This war will end. Everything ends. But I do not see the end of this war in the near future, unfortunately. I do not see a chance that in now there may be peace talks between the two sides."
13:21 The SBU is considering three versions of the tragedy in Brovary: a violation of flight rules, a technical malfunction of a helicopter, or deliberate actions to destroy a vehicle.
13:18 Poland hopes to supply up to 100 Western tanks to Ukraine together with its allies, said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
13:14 The Office of the President clarified the data on the tragedy in Brovary: 16 people died, including three children, 30 people were hospitalized, including 12 children. Search work continues.
12:52 Putin said that the fighting in the Donbas has not stopped since 2014, and everything that Russia is doing today is allegedly "an attempt to stop the war." He also said that Russia "was simply led by the nose, deceived." "Nevertheless, we have done everything possible to resolve this situation by peaceful means. Now it has become obvious that this was by definition impossible," the Russian president added.
12:33 NATO countries should increase the production of equipment and ammunition both for Ukraine and for their own defense, said Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana. He also said that NATO would expand the alliance's combat groups on the eastern flank to the brigade level as soon as possible.
12:14 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the capture of the settlement of Sol, Donetsk region.
11:52 Die Welt writes that Bulgaria secretly supplied Ukraine with ammunition and diesel fuel in the spring. Transportation was paid by the USA and Britain, cargo flights went through the Polish Rzeszow. According to the publication, at some points Bulgaria covered a third of the needs of the Ukrainian troops.
11:46 According to the official information of the State Emergencies Service, as of 11:00, as a result of a helicopter crash in Brovary, 15 people were killed, including three children, 25 people were injured (including ten children), who were hospitalized in hospitals (the information is being specified).
11:44 Reuters showed a photo from the crash site of a helicopter in Brovary. Police are asking witnesses to the tragedy to contact law enforcement to assist in the investigation.
11:21 The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs flew by helicopter on a business trip to one of the hot spots, the President's Office reported. The speaker of the Air Force, Yuri Ignat, specified that they were flying on a Super Puma helicopter donated by France. To clarify the causes of the incident, a state commission will be created.
11:18 Electricity consumption in Ukraine on January 18 is predicted to be somewhat less than the day before - this is facilitated by warming. At the same time, there is a significant shortage of power in the power system, especially during the evening peak of consumption. Generation now does not cover a quarter of consumption in the country, Ukrenergo reported.
Consumption limits for the whole day have been brought to all oblenergos. Due to their excess, emergency shutdowns have already been applied in Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Zaporozhye, Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Cherkasy regions of Ukraine. Also in the area of hostilities in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions there are damages in the networks of regional power companies.
11:12 In Russia, they are preparing for a new wave of mobilization - residents of Moscow are under the gun of military registration and enlistment offices, a ban is introduced to gather in groups of more than 20 people, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported. According to intelligence, groups of employees of the military registration and enlistment offices arrive at Moscow enterprises to carry out campaigning. These measures are accompanied by moral pressure and intimidation of people.
In addition, campaigning among foreign citizens, including migrants from the former Soviet republics, is intensifying: men of military age applying for Russian citizenship are invited to sign a contract for military service - after that, the issue of granting citizenship is resolved automatically.
In Moscow, "voluntary" groups of 3-5 people are being formed to patrol the central streets, squares, places near metro stations and large shopping centers. Their task is to prevent a possible gathering of people to prevent protest actions. According to the instructions, any group of more than 20 people is considered "suspicious".
11:06 British intelligence reported that control of Soledar has probably passed to the Russian side. According to analysts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have probably left the city and continue to defend in the vicinity of Bakhmut.
11:02 Lavrov said that there could be no talks about negotiations with Zelensky. According to him, Russia is ready to consider any "serious proposals from the West" for negotiations, but so far there have been none.
10:51 The death toll from the plane crash in Brovary has risen to 18, including three children. It is known about 29 wounded, including 15 children, said the head of the Kyiv OVA Oleksiy Kuleba.
10:19 As a result of the helicopter crash of the State Emergency Service in Brovary, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was killed: the minister, the first deputy minister and the state secretary, said the head of the National Police Igor Klimenko. A total of 16 dead are known , including two children. Nine of the 16 dead were on board the helicopter. Also, 22 victims are in the hospital, of which ten are children.
Based on Igor Klymenko's report, among the dead are Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky, First Deputy Minister Yevgeny Yenin and State Secretary Yury Lubkovich.
10:07 According to preliminary information, as a result of a helicopter crash in Brovary, three people were killed, five were injured, the Brovary police department reported. Among the dead - two pilots, there are injured children. Air Force Speaker Yuri Ignat added that the helicopter belonged to the State Emergency Service.
09:26 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that Putin in the coming days, and possibly even on January 18, may announce a second wave of mobilization in Russia. Analysts drew attention to Peskov's statement that Putin would make a speech in St. Petersburg on January 18 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet army breaking through the Nazi blockade of Leningrad. The ISW recalled that Putin likes to use symbolic dates to address his people.
Some Russian pro-war bloggers noted that the Russian president would use this opportunity to declare either mobilization or war on Ukraine. Ukrainian and Western intelligence has also repeatedly warned of Putin's mobilization preparations scheduled for mid-January.
09:15 In the Kupyansky district of the Kharkiv region, the Russians fired at a local hospital - a paramedic was wounded. Also, as a result of Russian shelling over the past day, two people were injured in the Donetsk region, four in Kherson region, according to the IVA.
09:07 In Brovary, Kiev region, an aircraft fell on a social infrastructure facility, the President's Office reported, without specifying details. Local publics write that after the crash of a helicopter or a drone, a fire broke out in a kindergarten. Irina Pryanishnikova, the speaker of the Kiev region police, specified that a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, a fire broke out, and people were being evacuated.
09:01 The United States began to use ammunition from warehouses in Israel to supply Ukraine, writes The New York Times. This is the military property of the Americans for use in the Middle East conflicts. Israel agreed to this after meetings in the government. The US decided to satisfy the request in order to avoid tensions with an ally, and also because the ammunition is American property, although Israel also has access to them, the newspaper notes.
According to the NYT, about half of the 300,000 shells intended for the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been seized from Israeli warehouses and sent to Europe in order to get to Ukraine through Poland.
08:53 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 18.
- personnel - about 117,770 (+820) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3130 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 6225 (+10),
- artillery systems - 2108 (+4),
- MLRS - 442 (+1),
- air defense systems - 220 (+0),
- aircraft - 287 (+1),
- helicopters - 276 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 1876 (+4),
- cruise missiles - 749 (+0),
- ships/boats - 17 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 4889 (+12),
- special equipment - 190 (+0).
08:45 The enemy is focusing its main efforts on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut direction. He is also conducting unsuccessful offensive operations in the Avdeevsky direction, the General Staff said in the morning summary . The units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka in the Lugansk region and Sol, Krasnaya Gora, Bakhmut, Klescheevka, Vodiane, Nevelskoye, Maryinka and Pobeda in the Donetsk region.
Due to the small number of collaborators, the occupiers are forced to import officials from Russia to perform managerial functions in the occupied territories. In addition, there is a shortage of workers in various industries, as local residents do not want to cooperate with the occupiers. Therefore, the Russians are trying to bring workers from the Russian Federation and the Crimea.
07:27 The United States may announce new military assistance to Ukraine by the end of the week, said John Kirby, adviser for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council.
04:23 Russia convened a meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the alleged harassment of the Russian Church in Ukraine, Ukraine's permanent representative Serhiy Kyslitsa said: "We have already heard crazy statements about combat mosquitoes, Ukrainian dirty bombs and chemical weapons, secret laboratories, etc. Today, the Russian representative went even further. This is a real mockery of the Security Council, when an accomplice of crimes against humanity dresses in the mantle of a preacher and tells the Security Council which denomination in Ukraine should be recognized as canonical and which as heretical."
Kyslytsya read out a statement from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which notes that it "did not turn to any state for help in protecting its rights, especially to the state that carried out a treacherous armed attack on our country."
03:18 Biden and Scholz had a telephone conversation during which they discussed support for Ukraine. According to the German federal government, both sides agreed that support for Ukraine in the fight against Russian aggression must be "effective, continuous and closely coordinated."
02:22 Biden intends to fulfill the promises he made to Zelensky regarding the transfer of everything necessary for self-defense, said White House Speaker Karine Jean Pierre. According to her, the agreements involve, among other things, the transfer of air defense systems.
01:55 Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said at a meeting of the Security Council that "violations of humanitarian law by Kiev" led to the tragedy in the Dnieper. He stated that the Russian missile was allegedly knocked out by a Ukrainian air defense installation located in residential areas.
"Just as there would be no need on our part to carry out strikes against an infrastructure facility that supports the military potential of Ukraine, if the Ukrainian leadership showed readiness for peace negotiations on realistic terms that would eliminate the reasons that necessitated the SVO," Nebenzya added.
01:46 In Moscow, the police detained four people who laid flowers at the monument to Lesya Ukrainka, where a memorial appeared in memory of those who died because of the Russian strike on the Dnieper.
01:20 The German weapons manufacturer Rheinmetall announced that it would be able to transfer from 10 to 15 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine in 2023 if the German authorities make an appropriate decision. They added that the repair of Leopard 2 is quite expensive, so the company cannot finance it on its own.
00:17 Russia's demands to Ukraine to take into account the "new territorial realities" are unacceptable and harmful to the establishment of a peaceful negotiation process, Blinken said.
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