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2025-01-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: January 13, 2024
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] 22.54 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky introduced new sanctions against Russia's financial sector on January 13, affecting 140 entities. This was stated in Zelensky's evening address and on the website of the President's Office.

22.34 Ukraine will have to address the issue of reducing the age of mobilization of citizens. This was stated in an interview with Bloomberg by the current US President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who reported that he discussed this issue with representatives of Donald Trump's team.

22:13 A team of Deepstate analysts, in cooperation with a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, identified a Russian commander who ordered his subordinates to behead a Ukrainian prisoner of war in June 2024. It is noted that the Russian military man has a pseudonym Sber and is the commander of the assault company of the Storm detachment of the 394th MRR of the 127th MSD of the 5th Army. The occupier's name is Dmitriy Anatolyevich Chikhabakh.

21:49 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte believes that the future of global security depends on the outcome of the Russian-Ukrainian war. In order to achieve sustainable peace, it is necessary to increase military aid to Ukraine. This is stated in his statement in the European Parliament.

18:49 Ukraine views the presidency of US President-elect Donald Trump, who will enter the White House next week, as an "additional opportunity." This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha in an interview with ARD TV channel. The common goal of Ukraine and the US in achieving peace and their views on achieving it coincide, the minister noted.

18.46 Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine has received 36 PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzers from international partners, 25 of which were provided by Germany. This was reported on the website of the German Defense Ministry.

18.15 In Vinnytsia, a conflict occurred involving a police officer, servicemen of the TCC and SP, and civilians during the detention of a 40-year-old man who escaped from the TCC. Law enforcement officers are currently conducting an investigation, the police press service reports .

16:54 Since the beginning of the day, Russian invaders have attacked the positions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces 94 times. The enemy is most active in the Pokrovsk direction, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in an operational report as of 16:00.

16:25 Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov arrived on a working visit to the United Kingdom and met with the country's Defense Minister John Healey. According to him, increased military, political and economic assistance to British allies is expected.

16:19 In December, Belarus redeployed units of its army to the border with Ukraine, which had been previously withdrawn from there. Currently, there are about 1,500 troops there, the monitoring group Belaruski Gayun reports.

15:29 Military engineering and fortification structures have been built in the Kiev region , they are already ready to perform defense tasks. This was reported on January 13 by the acting head of the Kiev regional military administration Mykola Kalashnik.

13:46 Up to 400 thousand people left Ukraine in 2024, according to data from the Ministry of Economy . The largest number of Ukrainians was recorded in countries such as Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, and France.

13:35 A Russian agent involved in the drone attack on the government quarter has been exposed in Kiev. On December 31, the suspect recorded a checkpoint in the government quarter and passed a photo with precise GPS coordinates to her Russian handler, the SBU reported .

12:09 Ukrainian intelligence has exposed data on 79 Russian enterprises involved in cooperation in the production and supply of drones for the war against Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate on Monday, January 13.

10:52 Russian military allegedly repelled an attack by nine drones on the Russkaya compressor station in Gai-Kodzor (Krasnodar Krai, Russia), which supplies gas via the Turkish Stream pipeline. Moscow accused Kiev of attempting to allegedly stop natural gas supplies to European countries.

10:31 Ukrainian Special Operations Forces fighters repelled an assault by North Korean troops in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation and killed 18 enemy soldiers. One North Korean fighter tried to deceive the Special Operations Forces soldiers and blow himself up with them on a grenade.

9:56 On the night of January 13, the Russian Federation used 110 Shahed-type attack unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drone imitators against Ukraine. The Air Defense Forces managed to destroy 78 of them.

9:47 The Russian army continues to carry out offensive operations along almost the entire front line. In particular, assaults have been recorded in the Kharkiv direction. This was reported by the OSGV Khortytsya.

8:42 The enemy exerted the greatest pressure over the past 24 hours, January 12, in the Pokrovsk direction. In total, 140 combat clashes took place on the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

7:46 Over the past 24 hours, from January 12 to 13, the Russian Federation lost 1,510 of its soldiers on the front. This is evidenced by data from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

7:27 The losses of North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region continue to grow and already amount to 3,000 people. This was reported by the South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing a briefing by the country's intelligence service.

02:55 For the first time since the start of a full-scale war, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have come close to surpassing the Russians in the use of tanks. But this only applies to certain sections of the front, writes Forbes military observer David Ax. He cites the highly effective operation of Ukrainian FPV drones as the main reason for this: if the Russians try to send tanks to attack, Ukrainian drone operators usually burn them before they reach the line of fire.

01:28 A fire broke out in a children's health center in Sumy due to falling debris from a Russian UAV. The consequences of the enemy attack are still being clarified, but according to preliminary data, there are no casualties.

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