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2024-01-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 30, 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] 22:32 According to the legislative initiative of the Ministry of Defense, all citizens of military age will be required to register an electronic account of a conscript subject to military service. Summons will also be sent to the conscript’s electronic account. In addition, all citizens aged 18 to 60 years who are registered (or deregistered) must have a military registration document with them and present it at the request of a TCC representative, police officer or border guard. Read more in the material New draft law on mobilization: basic norms .
21:43 As a result of a cyber attack by GUR specialists, a large-scale failure occurred in the Russian Ministry of Defense server, which was used for special communications, military intelligence reports. As a result of the cyber attack, the exchange of information between units of the Russian Defense Ministry that used a server located in Moscow was stopped. The software on the attacked server was approved by the FSB of the Russian Federation as meeting state information security standards. The corresponding software was installed at various strategic facilities in the Russian public sector, including military ones.
Meanwhile, Russian media write that today there was a large-scale failure in the operation of sites in the .RU domain zone. The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation announced “a technical problem related to the global DNSSEC infrastructure (this is a set of DNS protocol extensions that guarantees the integrity and reliability of data).”
21:26 The Cabinet of Ministers submitted to the Verkhovna Rada an updated bill on military service and mobilization. The Ministry of Defense claims that comments and observations on the document were taken into account jointly with the General Staff, the government and people's deputies. The agency also published an infographic about the updated version of the draft law:
20:49 Politico writes that Ukraine will receive the first batch of GLSDB missiles from the Pentagon tomorrow. It is expected that the new ammunition, capable of covering a distance of about 150 km, will have significant potential for Ukraine, the publication notes.
20:13 The head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, at a joint briefing with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced the creation of an International Group on Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration. It included world-class politicians - former presidents of Poland Alexander Kwasniewski and Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, former prime ministers of Great Britain Boris Johnson, Sweden Carl Bildt, Finland Sanna Marin, Poland Marek Belka, Slovakia Mikulas Dzurinda, former US Secretary of State, former ambassador to NATO and US Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker and many other famous politicians and figures.
The main task of the new working group will be to prepare a comprehensive vision of Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration, in particular future membership in NATO.
19:35 Zelensky said in an evening video message that he held a meeting with the Ministry of Strategic Industry, Minister Alexander Kamyshin reported on the results of work on the production of drones and ammunition: “We are increasing production. It is very important: we are adding new positions, the development of new types of weapons continues. Domestic production of drones, equipment "And by the way, today the minister reported separately on the production of long-range drones - this is one of the key tasks for the defense industry."
19:31 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of Finland Sauli Niinistjo, they discussed the situation on the battlefield, preparations for the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland.
19:23 In the occupied Oleshki of the Kherson region, on January 10, the Russian military started shooting, as a result of which a local resident died, the prosecutor’s office reported.
19:18 CIA Director William Burns said that refusal to help Ukraine would be the biggest “own goal” in US history. He emphasized that 2024 will be the most difficult year for Ukraine during the entire war, since now the United States is “practically leaving the conflict, risking scoring one of the strongest own goals in its history.”
19:07 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Sinelnikovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. The rocket hit the yard of a residential building, no people were injured. In addition, the Russians attacked the Nikopol region with ten kamikaze drones and also shelled it with artillery. Nikopol, Marganetskaya and Pokrovskaya rural communities were under attack, one person was wounded.
18:16 Member of the European Parliament from Latvia Tatyana Zhdanok secretly worked for the FSB for decades. Journalists obtained her email correspondence with curators from St. Petersburg. Read more in the article Loud scandal in the European Parliament .
18:09 Macron called on EU countries to be ready to compensate for the reduction in aid to Ukraine from the United States: “We must organize ourselves in such a way that if the United States makes a sovereign choice to stop this aid or reduce it, it should not have an impact on the ground.”
18:05 Budanov said that the Russian offensive on the front began in November 2023 and “will dry up completely somewhere in early spring.” The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate admitted that Russian troops had advanced near Avdeevka, Donetsk region, but “this is not what they expected.” According to Budanov, the enemy wanted to quickly reach the barrier line along the Black Stallion River in the Kharkov region and reach the administrative borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. “As you understand, this is not even close,” he noted and added that “when the enemy’s move ends, the move of the Ukrainian troops will begin.”
Also, the head of Ukrainian military intelligence expressed hope that “this year the Crimean Bridge will be destroyed.” According to him, there will be more blows as Ukrainian industry increases production volumes.
17:44 Former NATO Secretary General, head of Rasmussen Global Anders Fogh Rasmussen is visiting Ukraine. Zelensky said that he had already met with him and thanked him for his help in creating the draft Kyiv Security Treaty, which formed the basis of the Vilnius Declaration.
17:30 EU countries do not agree with Orban’s conditions for lifting the 50 billion euro veto for Ukraine, writes Reuters. A senior European official told reporters that EU leaders do not want to agree to an annual review of support for Kyiv, since this would give Orban the right to veto the decision each time.
17:03 The Russian army once again attacked Berislav, Kherson region, from a drone, one person was killed, OVA reported.
16:58 The Russians again struck the Kharkov region, at the moment there were no casualties, said the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
16:24 Zelensky will take part in the EU summit on February 1 online, European Pravda reports, citing an EU official.
15:55 Defense forces hit a radar station of the Russian air defense system near the village of Razdolnoye in Crimea, StratCom reported.
15:37 The Russians fired artillery at the village of Tokarevka, Kherson region, one person was wounded, the OVA reported. In addition, Russian aircraft attacked two settlements in the Berislavsky region - residential buildings and the building of the Point of Indestructibility were damaged.
14:58 A mechanism for transferring income from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine has not yet been created, said Christian Wiegand, a representative of the European Commission. According to him, Brussels welcomes the approval by EU countries of the proposal to transfer these revenues to a separate account for subsequent transfer to the EU budget. Now the decision must be approved by the EU Council. “The purpose of this proposal is that the proceeds from the reinvestment of these assets will be transferred to the EU budget and used for Ukraine. The European Commission is working to prepare the next steps. There is no exact timing yet,” Wiegand added.
14:39 Russia has not shown readiness to transfer to Ukraine the bodies of prisoners who were allegedly on board the Russian Il-76 that crashed near Belgorod on January 24, said GUR representative Andrei Yusov. At the same time, according to him, such work is being carried out on the Ukrainian side. “If the worst is confirmed, we will do everything possible to take our defenders with a shield or on a shield,” Yusov added.
He also admitted that the plane could have carried both ammunition and prisoners, who were used as human shields. At the same time, Russia’s reaction and the circumstances of the crash were provocative, because a regime of silence was not declared over Belgorod, and the Russian Federation did not inform in advance that it was going to use air traffic to transport prisoners.
14:07 Russians fired artillery and FPV drones at Avdeevka, Chasov Yar and New York in the Donetsk region - one person was killed, three were wounded, the prosecutor’s office reported. In particular, in the city of Chasov Yar, two people were injured as a result of an FPV drone attack on the private sector. One person died in Avdeevka, another was wounded in the New York town of Toretsk.
13:48 The Russians launched a missile attack on the Kharkov region, according to preliminary information - without casualties. The details are being established, said the head of the OBA Oleg Sinegubov.
13:11 The population of occupied Melitopol has become larger than it was before the full-scale invasion and occupation, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the Russians are eradicating Ukrainians, but they are bringing in thousands of Russian citizens. Thus, until February 24, 2022, 150 thousand people lived in Melitopol. Within six months after the occupation, more than half of the indigenous residents left the city for territory controlled by Ukraine and abroad. However, in almost two years, the Russians brought about 100 thousand of their fellow citizens to Melitopol.
12:53 At night, the Russians hit a residential building in the village of Veletenskoye, Belozersk community, Kherson region - one person was killed, one was injured, the OVA reported.
12:49 The Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo made four flights to Minsk in January. According to the Belarusian Gayun monitoring group, the same Boeing 747 transport aircraft delivered military equipment from China to Belarus for four days in a row. At the same time, the plane was parked in a VIP parking lot intended for parking Lukashenko’s plane. This parking lot makes it possible to quickly unload and remove the cargo without unnecessary witnesses.
Experts also remind that the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus have adopted Chinese CS/VN3 Dajiang armored vehicles since 2017 - a Boeing 747 can bring at least four to five such vehicles in one flight. But in addition to armored vehicles, the Belarusian military-industrial complex also uses Chinese components for the production of Polonaise MLRS missiles.
12:27 The head of the Tax Committee of the Verkhovna Rada, Daniil Getmantsev, said that Ukraine is not even considering the option of stopping Western funding: “Currently, we are not even considering the option of refusing this assistance. For us, this is critical, because the timeliness and completeness depend on it non-military expenditures."
11:55 Orban said that he is ready to agree to macrofinancing for Ukraine at the summit on February 1 if the amount is approved unanimously every year.
11:34 EU leaders at the summit on February 1 will emphasize the need to speed up supplies of ammunition and missiles to Ukraine, Reuters reports with reference to the summit’s draft decision. The leaders will also reaffirm their determination to continue to provide Kyiv with “timely, predictable and sustainable military support.”
10:59 In the morning, the Russians dropped explosives from a drone near the humanitarian headquarters building in Berislav, Kherson region, one person was wounded, OVA reported. During a night attack by drones, an enemy UAV hit an agricultural enterprise - a fire broke out, which has already been extinguished, no people were injured. Over the previous 24 hours, one person was killed and another was injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
10:25 Defense forces destroyed a Russian Su-34 fighter in the Lugansk region, said General Staff Speaker Andrei Kovalev.
09:58 The massive night attack by drones did not lead to critical consequences for the balanced operation of the energy system, but there was damage to equipment at one of the Ukrenergo substations in the central region. Currently, industrial consumers are being healed using backup schemes, the company reported.
09:27 At night, the Russians struck Mirnograd in the Donetsk region - one person was killed, one was wounded, said the head of the OBA Vadim Filashkin. The rocket hit the annex to the hotel - at the time of the strike there were about 30 people in the hotel, they were not injured. Three residential buildings were also damaged.
09:13 At night, the Russians attacked the city of Zmiev, Chuguevsky district, Kharkov region, with at least six Shahed drones. A civilian enterprise and private residential buildings were damaged, two people were injured, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In addition, on the afternoon of January 29, the enemy struck the village of Velikiy Burluk with KABs, damaging a civilian cheese-making enterprise. Another civilian enterprise was damaged as a result of shelling in the village. Khatneye.
09:06 In the Cherkasy region, during a night attack, an enemy drone hit an abandoned structure in the Uman region, no people were injured, said the head of the OVA Igor Taburets.
08:57 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 30:
- personnel - about 384,140 (+960) people,
- tanks - 6300 (+10),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,725 (+29),
- artillery systems - 9144 (+31),
- MLRS - 972 (+0),
- air defense systems - 663 (+3),
- aircraft - 332 (+1),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7084 (+35),
- cruise missiles - 1846 (+0),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,191 (+42),
- special equipment - 1448 (+5).
08:39 In the Kiev region, during a night attack, as a result of falling debris on the territory of one of the enterprises, a fire broke out, an administrative building and a hangar were damaged. The fire was quickly extinguished, no people were injured, said the head of the fire department, Ruslan Kravchenko.
08:30 Over the past 24 hours, 70 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 16 enemy attacks in the areas of Novobakhmutovka, Avdeevka and eight more attacks near Pervomaisky and Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, eight attacks were repulsed near Georgievka, Pobeda and Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, seven enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka and east of Peschany, Kharkov region; on Limansky - four attacks in the areas of Serebryansky forestry in the Lugansk region and Ternov in the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - three attacks near Bagdanovka and Ivanovskoye, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - two attacks in the Zolotaya Niva area of the Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - two attacks west of Verbovoy and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; over the past 24 hours, the enemy has carried out eight unsuccessful assault operations.
08:18 In the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, a Russian drone hit civilian infrastructure, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak. A fire broke out, which rescuers have already put out; no people were injured.
08:07 In the Nikolaev region, during a night attack, as a result of the falling debris of a downed drone, a truck caught fire, the driver was injured, said the head of the OVA Vitaly Kim.
07:59 Air defense at night destroyed 15 of 35 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from three directions: Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Crimean Cape Chauda. The drones were destroyed within the Nikolaev, Sumy, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, Kherson and Kyiv regions, the Air Force command reported. The enemy sent some of the UAVs along the front-line territories, trying to hit the infrastructure of the fuel and energy sector, civilian and military facilities on the front line and the border with the Russian Federation.
In addition, Russia fired two S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles at the Donetsk region.
06:44 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense systems allegedly destroyed and intercepted 21 drones over the Crimea (11), Belgorod (5), Bryansk (3), Kaluga (1) and Tula (1) regions.
06:26 All recent attacks on targets on Russian territory were carried out not by foreign weapons, but by the developments of Ukrainian factories and underground workshops, Minister for Strategic Industries Alexander Kamyshin said in a comment to Time magazine. He added that there is no time to test new weapons at the training ground, so they are tested in combat conditions, and the necessary changes are made based on the results.
04:53 US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discussed with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg the critical need to quickly increase defense production for the needs of Ukraine, the Pentagon reported following the meeting. They also stressed the importance of maintaining NATO unity and continued support for the Alliance.
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