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2024-01-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 8, 2024
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 22:45 According to updated information, during the morning attack within the Khmelnitsky region, air defense forces shot down three missiles, two people were killed, two more were wounded, the OVA reported. In addition, the search operation is still ongoing for another person who, according to preliminary information, was supposed to be at the site and with whom contact was lost.
20:56 Historical data show that the size of the army, after the wars gained momentum, remained at a stable level, and new mobilized only replaced the dead and wounded. Read more about mobilization in the history of wars in the material Every Second Man .
20:19 In the Pokrovsky district of the Donetsk region, search and rescue work at the sites of shelling on January 6 has been completed, said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Igor Klimenko. Investigators examine the found fragments of bodies, criminologists remove biological samples and carry out identification. It has already been possible to identify five victims, three dead from the village have been identified. Exactly is a three-year-old girl, her parents are 32 and 30 years old. In Pokrovsk, a 34-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman have been identified. Preliminarily, 11 people, entire families, were killed as a result of the Russian strike.
19:51 As a result of the morning Russian attack, 45 people were injured and four were killed, Zelensky said in an evening video message. He also announced a busy month in terms of foreign policy: “There will be many steps, and I am sure: we will be able to strengthen our state, our air defense, our work with partners regarding drones. As well as sanctions against Russia. And another priority task is to bring real decisions for use in the interests of Ukraine and subsequently - confiscation of Russian assets to restore justice."
19:42 Scholz called on other EU countries to provide greater military support to Ukraine this year. According to him, arms supplies to Kyiv planned by most EU member states until this time are “too small in any case.”
19:10 Kuleba said in an interview with El País that in no format of communication with Western allies, Ukraine is not being pushed to negotiate with Moscow: “The allies do not ask us to start negotiations with Russia in order to freeze the war - neither when we meet with delegations, nor at "closed meetings in a narrow format. This is not something that anyone can decide to bring up for discussion. Everything else is just noise."
18:59 The Main Intelligence Directorate states that it has received 100 gigabytes of secret data from a Russian enterprise that produces Orlan drones. Intelligence received documentation for 194 nomenclature items: drawings, technical specifications, patents, software. We are talking about both existing and future military developments. According to preliminary estimates, the value of the data obtained could reach $1.5 billion.
18:35 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, thanked him for his mediatory role in the return of Ukrainian children illegally deported by Russia, for his contribution of $20 million to the Grain from Ukraine initiative, and also invited a representative of Qatar to the next meeting of advisers in Davos.
17:56 In Ukraine, the corruption scandal with the family of Lviv businessman Ihor Hrynkevich - one of the largest suppliers of the Ministry of Defense - has not subsided for a week. The money that should have been spent on uniforms, body armor and underwear for the military, they spent on the luxury of life and art. For more details, see the article Scandal with a family from Lviv .
17:27 Ukrainian hackers from the KibOrg group published the complete client database of the Russian Alfa-Bank, containing data of approximately 38 million unique individuals and legal entities of the Russian Federation. The bank's press service denied the hack, but the Russian publication Important Stories checked the database with a random sample and found out that the data actually concerns real residents of Russia.
16:31 Kuleba said in an interview with El País that Putin does not want “neither a frozen conflict nor peace.” The minister also warned that Russia would be able to break through Ukraine's defenses at the front if the West did not continue to provide assistance.
15:58 In Nizhny Tagil, an explosion occurred next to an oil depot near the San Donato railway station, Russian public pages write. One tank was damaged, which, together with other cars, left the oil depot. Another magnetic explosive device was allegedly found on a nearby barrel.
15:29 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the Emir of Kuwait Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, thanked him for his timely assistance with power generators, invited him to send a representative to the next meeting of advisers in Davos and to take part in the preparations for the upcoming Global Peace Summit.
The Ukrainian president also had a telephone conversation with the King of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa - this is the first conversation with the leader of this country in the entire history of bilateral relations. We discussed global food security and support for the Peace Formula.
15:04 Russia keeps 19 thousand troops on its northern borders near Ukraine - this figure has not changed for several months, said Yuri Povkh, spokesman for the press center of the Northern Defense Forces. “There is no need to say that there are signs of the creation of strike groups by the enemy. This is a contingent that can be described as troops covering the border; this is not a strike force capable of breaking through the battle formations of our troops,” he explained.
14:40 In Kharkov, as a result of the morning shelling, the building of the Small Southern Railway was damaged, UZ reported. This is a structural unit of the regional branch of the Southern Railway of Ukrzaliznytsia JSC, which is engaged in the education of young railway workers.
14:29 Accounts have appeared on social networks that pose as defenders released from captivity. They promise to provide information allegedly about military personnel who were “seen” in enemy captivity, after which they begin to ask for money, said Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets. Fraudsters may post photos and videos on their profiles after the last big exchange or other similar events. Lubinets called on people to be careful and not send money to anyone.
13:38 British intelligence noticed that at the end of 2023, the activities of the Soviet counterintelligence unit SMERSH ("death to spies"), founded by Joseph Stalin, were resumed in Russia. In particular, at the beginning of January 2024, photos of operatives with SMERSH patches appeared in open sources. According to analysts, this is another example of how the Russian authorities are deliberately introducing a perception of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict in the spirit of World War II and focusing on supposedly external threats.
13:06 According to the National Police, as a result of today's missile attack in Ukraine, four people were killed and 38 were injured.
12:52 According to updated data, in Novomoskovsk, Dnepropetrovsk region, 27 people were injured as a result of a missile strike, 11 remain in a medical facility, four of them are children. There are four victims in Krivoy Rog and the region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
12:40 During today’s massive attack on Ukraine, only 18 missiles were shot down, because the enemy used a large number of ballistic missiles, explained Air Force spokesman Yuriy Ignat. He recalled that such targets can only be shot down by means such as Patriot.
12:08 Intense hostilities in the Kupyansk direction began in October 2023 and have not subsided for a day since then. The enemy is trying to break through the Ukrainian defenses, but he is not succeeding, said the commander of the Ground Forces, Alexander Syrsky. “Our soldiers adequately repel the enemy and ruin his plans. Escalations in this direction occur constantly, but our Defense Forces manage to destroy the enemy’s offensive potential and inflict significant losses on him,” he added.
11:34 During a massive Russian strike on Ukraine at night and in the morning of January 8, air defense destroyed eight Shahed attack drones and 18 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles , the Air Force command reported. A total of 59 enemy air attack weapons were recorded:
- eight attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area;
- seven S-300/S-400 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region;
- four Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles from four MiG-31K aircraft (launch area - Ryazan, Tambov);
- 24 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles from 11 Tu-95MS strategic bombers (launch area - Engels);
- eight Kh-22 cruise missiles from Tu-22M3 bombers from the Belgorod region;
- six Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Dzhankoy and Chauda areas (Crimea);
- two X-31P guided aircraft missiles from tactical aircraft (launch area - Belgorod region).
Critical infrastructure facilities, industrial civilian and military facilities were attacked. This time the enemy attacked different regions of Ukraine. In particular, missiles flying along a ballistic trajectory were aimed at the Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Khmelnytsky regions. However, not all the missiles that failed to be shot down reached their targets.
10:55 In Zmiev, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region, a woman died who was rescued from the rubble of a private house after a missile strike, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. Two more people were injured.
10:52 In Zaporozhye, the number of victims as a result of the morning rocket attack has increased to five, said the head of the Air Defense Forces Yuri Malashko. The enemy attacked the city with five rockets, high-rise buildings and private houses were damaged.
10:49 In the Khmelnytsky region, two missiles were destroyed during the morning attack, but infrastructure was also hit. Rescuers are working to contain the fire, two people are known to have died, the fire department reported.
10:47 Over the occupied Rubizhne Luhansk region there was an “abnormal discharge of aircraft ammunition”, no one was injured, said the leader of the “LPR” Leonid Pasechnik.
10:42 Former officials of the Ministry of Defense were informed of new suspicions regarding the embezzlement of almost another 1 billion hryvnia on the purchase of body armor, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported. According to the investigation, during the period of martial law, the suspects purchased 50 thousand low-quality body armor for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which could not be used in the army. The bulletproof vests were purchased from a non-resident company, the ultimate beneficial owners of which are citizens of the Russian Federation.
10:26 The morning massive missile attack did not have critical consequences for the energy system, Ukrenergo reported.
09:51 In Kiev, one of those wounded during the rocket attack on the capital on January 2 died in the hospital, Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said. This is the third victim in a house in the Solomensky district damaged as a result of the attack. In total, 22 people hospitalized on December 29 and January 2 remain in hospitals in Kyiv medical institutions. One of the wounded is in serious condition.
09:37 In Krivoy Rog, as a result of a morning missile attack, a shopping center and more than 20 private houses were damaged, one person was wounded, said the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Sergei Lysak. In the Lozovatskaya community of the Krivoy Rog region, a private house was destroyed, one person was killed.
A fire broke out in Novomoskovsk, it has already been localized. The blast wave overturned a minibus passing by. Three administrative buildings, two gas stations, a five-story building, and cars were damaged. In the city, preliminary, there are 24 victims, five of them are children from four to 17 years old.
09:08 In the Khmelnitsky region, at least six explosions occurred during the morning rocket attack, operational and rescue services are working at the sites of the attacks, the OVA reported.
09:01 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 8:
- personnel - about 365,170 (+440) people,
- tanks - 6031 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,194 (+14),
- artillery systems - 8666 (+13),
- MLRS - 953 (+2),
- air defense systems - 638 (+1),
- aircraft - 329 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 6822 (+11),
- cruise missiles - 1787 (+1),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,542 (+19),
- special equipment - 1328 (+1).
08:49 In Kharkov, during a morning missile attack, an enterprise and an educational institution were damaged, one person was injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. In the town of Zmiev, Chuguevsky district, a private house was damaged, two people were pulled out from under the rubble, another one remains under the rubble. In addition, one of those wounded as a result of the shelling of Kharkov on January 2 died in the hospital at night.
08:25 Over the past 24 hours, 35 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled six enemy attacks near Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and another 15 attacks near Pervomaisky and Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, three attacks were repulsed in the Maryinka and Novomikhailovka areas of the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, Ukrainian forces repelled two enemy attacks in the Sinkovka and Ivanovka areas of the Kharkov region; on Limansky - four attacks east of Ternov, Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - three attacks near Kleshcheevka and Andreevka, Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - one attack west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; the enemy unsuccessfully tried to storm the positions of the Defense Forces three times in a day.
08:17 Five explosions occurred in Zaporozhye, it is known that missiles hit residential areas - in open areas and near houses. As of 08:00, two casualties are known, said the head of the OVA, Yuri Malashko.
07:43 Russia is massively attacking Ukraine with missiles. At least four strikes were recorded in Kharkov; no casualties were reported. In the town of Zmiev, Chuguevsky district, a hit was recorded in a private house - two people were injured, two more, according to preliminary data, are under the rubble, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
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