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2024-01-17 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 16, 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] 22:59 The Russians struck the center of Kharkov with two S-300 missiles, damaging multi-storey buildings, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov. At this moment, 16 victims are known, two in serious condition.
22:01 Stoltenberg said that the situation in Ukraine is turning into a war of attrition: “This means that now we not only need to deploy new systems, but also think about having a sufficient amount of ammunition, a sufficient number of spare parts.”
21:56 MEPs will consider a resolution to deprive Hungary of its voting rights in the EU Council on Thursday, January 18, writes Euractiv. The draft resolution calls for the process of depriving Hungary of its voting rights to begin, as well as an investigation into the legality of the European Commission's decision to unfreeze 10 billion euros for Budapest in December 2023.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that in order to deprive Hungary of its voting rights in the EU, the consent of all member countries is necessary, and the current government of Slovakia will never agree to this.
21:29 Zaluzhny said that on the eve of the meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council in a military format at the level of commanders-in-chief and chiefs of general staff, he had a telephone conversation with the chairman of the NATO Military Committee Rob Bauer: “We exchanged views on the tactics and strategy of Ukraine and the Alliance in the context of a large-scale Russian invasion. "He emphasized that in a war of such intensity and scale, technology plays an important role. We discussed the prospects and possibilities of combining the technological efforts of Ukraine and NATO to achieve victory." The meeting will take place on Wednesday, January 17. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will join him via videoconference.
21:25 In the village of New York, Bakhmut district, Donetsk region, after yesterday’s Russian strike, which destroyed the entrance to one of the multi-storey buildings, five people may still be under the rubble, the State Emergency Service reported. Search and rescue efforts had to be suspended because an aerial bomb hit a courtyard between high-rise buildings and did not explode. All residents from the surrounding area were evacuated; work will resume after the situation has stabilized.
20:41 Almost 20 countries have joined the Latvian coalition of drones for Ukraine, said Latvian Defense Minister Andris Spruds.
20:23 Air defense destroyed a Russian X-59 guided missile in the Kropyvnytskyi district of the Kirovograd region. An agricultural warehouse and nearby households in one of the communities were damaged by debris, but no people were injured, said Andrei Raikovich, head of the OVA.
20:14 The next meeting in the Ramstein format will take place in a virtual format next Tuesday, January 23, the US Department of Defense reported. Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin held a telephone conversation today with his Ukrainian counterpart Rustem Umerov to discuss the situation at the front ahead of the meeting.
19:21 The European Union has begun technical work on the implementation of proposals for the use of frozen Russian assets in the interests of Ukraine, Belgian Finance Minister Vincent Van Petteghem said. According to him, the EU Financial Council focused on two key issues - macro-financial support for Ukraine and frozen assets of the Russian Federation, which can be used in the interests of Ukraine. He also said that the European Union is already completing work on the so-called Ukrainian fund, which will help extend financial support for Kyiv.
18:37 Today the Russian army tried to break through the positions of the Defense Forces south of the village of Veseloye and enter Avdeevka. The enemy attacked with a column of armored vehicles of more than ten units. The Ukrainian military says that Putin personally gave the task of capturing the city in the near future. About what the current situation is near the city - in the material Russia made a breakthrough in Avdeevka.
18:19 There are currently no signs that Putin is planning peace talks. The only thing that can convince him of this is the very high cost of continuing hostilities, Stoltenberg said during a panel discussion at the forum in Davos: “There is no sign that Putin is planning peace now, but he will do it when he understands that we will not give up, that We have the military power to support Ukraine." According to the NATO Secretary General, “the more reliable we are in our military support for Ukraine, the greater the likelihood that diplomats will succeed.”
17:40 Putin called the Ukrainian authorities “morons” and said that if they had not abandoned the peace agreements agreed upon in Istanbul, the war would have already ended: “Ukraine then abandoned the agreements with Russia. Assholes, everything would have ended long ago.”
17:32 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called the allocation of 50 billion euros from the EU budget to Ukraine “useless,” since this allegedly “will only lead to new victims,” and Russia will still retain control over Donbass and Crimea.
17:23 Zelensky is convinced that the EU and the United States will approve the allocation of funds to Ukraine: “I think it’s a matter of weeks. I have positive signals that Europe supports us, specifically in the countries of the European Union. And I’m also sure that the issue of assistance in Congress."
16:36 Orban said that Hungary proposes to finance Ukraine “without harm” to the EU budget and without a common loan, and is ready to pay its share from its own budget.
15:51 Zelensky, in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, accused the West of playing into Russia’s hands with its desire to “not escalate the situation”: “We constantly heard that there is no need to allow escalation, and it took us a lot of time "Because of this, we have lost a lot of our experienced fighters who have been fighting since 2014."
15:48 Zelensky said that he met with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and agreed to begin screening Ukrainian legislation - this is the next step towards opening negotiations on Ukraine’s membership in the EU.
15:26 The damage to the Zaporozhye NPP due to the occupation reached 30 billion hryvnia, and the lost benefit of Energoatom was over 167 billion hryvnia, said the head of the state-owned enterprise Petr Kotin.
15:04 The Verkhovna Rada generally supported the bill on the creation of a unified electronic register of those liable for military service and the automatic receipt of a combat participant’s certificate.
14:42 The West should not stop providing Ukraine with weapons and money if it wants Kiev to succeed in the war against Russia, said the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen at the Davos Forum. “Ukraine can win this war. But we must continue to support their resistance,” she stressed, adding that Ukrainians need predictable funding through 2024 and beyond.
14:37 Zelensky said that he had a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussed further defense cooperation. “Air defense and long-range capabilities are especially important for our state,” the president emphasized.
14:33 Israel took part in the discussion of the Peace Formula for the first time at a meeting in Davos on January 14, said the Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky. According to him, at the fourth meeting of advisers, Israel was represented by the deputy head of the National Security Council.
14:28 There are fewer and fewer ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the bays of Sevastopol, said OSINT researcher MT Anderson and showed the corresponding satellite images. “Photo from January 15, 2024. Each time you can see less and less. The pier looks empty after the Alrosa Project 877 B submarine came here last week,” the analyst noted. He added that the frigate berth is also almost empty: only a few ships of the Krivak, Alexandrit and Grisha classes are docked here.
13:59 The government has allocated 792 million hryvnia from the state budget reserve fund to strengthen defense capabilities, Prime Minister Denis Shmyhal said. According to him, these additional funds are distributed by military units “for the most urgent needs” - the purchase of ammunition, thermal imagers, and drones. We are talking about additional funding for each team, proportional to the personal income tax paid in December.
13:35 The Russians shelled Tyaginka, Kherson region, two people were injured, the OVA reported. Another person was wounded as a result of enemy shelling of a residential building in Belozerka. Over the previous 24 hours, two people were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
13:12 The main part of the production of the Bulgarian military-industrial complex, which works “almost 24/7,” goes to Ukraine, said Defense Minister Todor Tagarev.
12:34 There are problems with logistics on the left bank of the Kherson region, but the Defense Forces continue to hold their positions, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, the Russians there lose up to 50-70% of their personnel and equipment after each assault. “Today Krynki can hardly be called a populated area. However, this is our point of indestructibility and the arrangement and expansion of the bridgehead. The enemy over the past 24 hours decided on only one assault, it was ineffective for them,” added Gumenyuk.
12:10 Trump once again said that if he wins the presidential election, he will resolve the war in Ukraine “very quickly,” since he “knows” Putin and Zelensky well. "This should never have happened. You will never replace thousand-year-old buildings with the most beautiful golden domes and churches - now it's all just collapsed," he added.
11:28 Mandatory evacuation has been announced in two front-line communities of the Kharkov region, said Oleg Sinegubov, OBA speaker. He clarified that we are talking about the Kondrashov and Kurilov communities, in which 3,043 people live, including 279 children. The evacuees will be provided with housing and support from international humanitarian organizations.
11:22 The EU has begun an audit of weapons supplied to Ukraine amid statements that a number of European countries sent Kiev several times less weapons than they could, writes the Financial Times. Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz demanded to count and compare military supplies to Ukraine.
10:56 Zelensky said that he began his work in Davos with a meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “We discussed many important issues. The situation on the battlefield, the defense needs of our state, further strengthening of the Ukrainian air defense system, preparations for the next NATO summit in Washington, working with partners on bilateral security agreements within the framework of the G7 declaration, which will be in force until Ukraine joins NATO."
10:35 Confiscation of frozen Russian assets will require a collective decision from all countries where such assets exist, and will take time, said US Special Representative for the Economic Recovery of Ukraine Penny Pritzker during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
10:27 At the meeting in Davos, US Presidential Advisor Jake Sullivan should convey a message to Zelensky from Biden that Ukraine should abandon the offensive and go on the defensive, Bloomberg writes, citing sources.
09:51 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that the Russians are writing about the destruction of Il-22 and A-50 aircraft by their own air defense in order to convince pilots that flights over the Black and Azov Seas are still safe.
09:03 Ukraine will “fight with shovels” if the West stops supplying weapons, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said in an interview with ABC News: “Even if we run out of weapons, we will fight with shovels, because the existence of this nation is at stake for Ukraine.”. The minister also ruled out any negotiations with the Russian Federation until Ukraine takes a stronger position on the battlefield.
08:40 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 16:
- personnel - about 372,090 (+1110) people,
- tanks - 6113 (+24),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,358 (+36),
- artillery systems - 8801 (+30),
- MLRS - 961 (+3),
- air defense systems - 653 (+3),
- aircraft - 331 (+2),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 6877 (+12),
- cruise missiles - 1816 (+1),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 11,731 (+33),
- special equipment - 1365 (+9).
08:27 The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the interception of three and the destruction of five drones over the Voronezh region and on the interception of four drones over the Belgorod region. In Voronezh, 35 apartments in three high-rise buildings were damaged as a result of a drone attack, Governor Alexander Gusev said.
07:58 Over the past 24 hours, 94 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 18 enemy attacks in the areas of Novobakhmutovka, Stepnoy, Avdeevka and another 16 attacks near Severny, Pervomaisky and Nevelsky of the Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 12 attacks were repelled in the areas of Krasnohorivka, Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
In the Liman direction, the Defense Forces repelled 13 attacks near Ternov, Yampolevka, Torskoye in the Donetsk region and another 19 in the areas of Serebryansky forestry, Belogorivka in the Luhansk region and Grigoryevka, Verkhnekamensky, Vesely in the Donetsk region. In addition, in the Bakhmut direction, seven enemy attacks were repelled near Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka in the Donetsk region; on Kupyansky - two enemy ones near Sinkovka, Kharkov region; on Zaporozhye - three attacks west of Verbovoy and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the expansion of the bridgehead continues; the enemy made one unsuccessful assault on the positions of the Ukrainian troops.
07:19 On January 15, the Russians fired artillery at the village. Dneprovskoye, Kutsurubskaya community, Nikolaev region - a residential building was damaged, three people were injured, including two children, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
03:46 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly shot down three drones over the territory of the Voronezh region. Governor Alexander Gusev reported that in Voronezh, a fire broke out in an apartment building as a result of falling debris, the residents were evacuated, and one child was injured. A state of emergency was introduced in the city.
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