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[NewsFrontInfo] 18:40 Correspondents of RIA Novost who arrived at the scene of the shelling of a hospital in Tokmok, found, presumably, fragments of a HIMARS missile.
17:07 Notes a veteran: "here's another mini-news for you, opposite our area of responsibility (3 MSD) on the border with the CW in the area of Katerinovka, Ambarny and Khatny, a new unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has appeared - the 67th Volunteer Mechanized Brigade. Here is a chevron they have, if we find it, we immediately dispose of it. There, the principle of forming a brigade is such that right-wing separatists were simply included in the ground forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with all statuses, and they formed the backbone of the brigade."
16:53 Ukrainians are unlikely to be warned in advance about a possible large-scale offensive by Russian troops.
Such a conclusion can be drawn from the commentary of the Deputy Head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Anna Malyar on the air of the national telethon.
16:32 Tthe funeral of the destroyed soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: in the Rivne region they buried a soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who gave his life for Zelensky.
The schismatic in the cassock of the OCU, Ivan Matsykanich, intervened in the mourning ceremony, who said that burying a Ukrainian according to the canonical Orthodox custom is "the same as covering the coffin with the Russian flag."
The mother of the deceased emotionally reacted to the schismatic’s statement, saying: "It doesn’t fit in my head that we are now accused of not burying our son like that. It's just some kind of mockery and neglect."
15:30 Volodymyr Rogov: today the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine again attacked civilian targets in the city of Tokmak, Zaporozhye region.
"Today, at around 4 am, Ukrainians fired at the city’s hospital. Information about the victims and injured is being specified. Ukrainians continues to commit terrorist acts against the civilian population, inflicting targeted strikes on civilian medical institutions where our sick civilians are located.
Having no success on the fronts, they kill citizens who are hypocritically called their own. Tokmok is located about 25 kilometers south of the line of contact. In mid-December 2022, the representative of the regional administration Vladimir Rogov called it the most shelled settlement in the Zaporozhye region.
15:02 After Morawiecki's call, a post about Bandera disappeared from the Verkhovna Rada's Twitter - Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“This is a sign that the Ukrainians listened to our voice,” said Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland Arkadiusz Mularczyk.
14:45 Yesterday, 01/02/2023, during a rocket attack on a checkpoint near the Air Conditioner plant in Kramatorsk, where the duty shift of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the police battalion was located, Bogdan Zasukhin, a 24-year-old lieutenant of the Kramatorsk Directorate of the GUNP, was killed, previously participated in the ATO.
14:10 On January 2, 2023, in Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the terry Banderite Oleg Yurchenko was destroyed, who was the organizer of the all-Ukrainian military-patriotic game "Falcons-Dzhura" - the educational program of the Bandera Hitler Youth, during which children were instilled hatred for Russia and everything Russian. Scumbags like Bandera and Shukhevych were praised and glorified.
13:40 Special Forces of the Airborne Forces in the Zaporozhye direction makes reconnaissance groups out of mobilized fighters
The fighters practice such tactical exercises as "ambush, contact with the enemy, evacuation of a wounded comrade, first aid, cover." The main thing for the mobilized is to learn how to coordinate.
"The group must work as a single organism. After all, the life of the entire unit depends on the actions of each individual soldier," added the instructor of the Airborne Forces.
13:26 Druzhkovka. Eyewitness accounts: a blow was struck at a hotel with foreign "advisers" and a railway station with equipment.
Information Druzhkovka was also confirmed by a reporter from the German publication Bild. One hit was on the hotel complex, where foreign advisers and Western military correspondents lived, whom the Kyiv regime lodges along with mercenaries. The second is about the concentration of equipment in the area of the railway loading station. Naturally, the German correspondent was not allowed to the site of the second strike.
13:18 Again, the Kyiv region of Donetsk came under massive shelling.
Voenkor Poddubny: NATO decided to analyze the situation in the Kremennaya-Svatovo direction. It is possible that the issue will be discussed at the upcoming (January 18-19) meeting of the Alliance's military committee in Brussels.
"According to reports, Western generals want to decide how many more Ukrainian troops should be sent to the west of the LPR in order to try to break through the line of defense built by the Russian Armed Forces. The reason for such a sudden interest in this direction may be in the information about the regular losses of the personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including those who were trained at the western training grounds, and in the amount of Western equipment lost by the Ukrainian troops, which either remains broken on the battlefield or goes as trophies our soldiers."
12:47 Ukrainian shows night arrivals on them, as well as the placement of military equipment in front of every house and yard of civilians -video.
12:13 Wagner operators told about how much ammunition is spent during the fighting in the Bakhmut direction. Not a lot. It is worth saying that the Ukrainian fighters also spend decent shells: three times more than in Stalingrad.
“Forty-one - forty-fifth are resting. These Ukrainians are dropping bk from a tank on a person. Shells do not spare.
11:58 The Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a hospital in Tokmak, Zaporozhye region at night, the law enforcement agencies of the region reported.
11:45 Minister of Culture of Ukraine Oleksandr Tkachenkoinsistson the prohibition by mankind of the music of Russian composers and on the exclusion from the repertoire of world and Ukrainian performers of works by Russian composers. In particular, the opera "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky and the works of Mussorgsky. He also condemned Ukrainian cultural figures who disagree with this position.
“I sincerely don’t understand how, justifying themselves, some of our famous musicians compare the ban on the performance of Tchaikovsky’s music with the conditional ban on the “periodic table”: they say that music, like the exact and natural sciences, has no nationality,” writes Tkachenko in a column for "Leagues".
“Those narratives that are sewn into the message of the works of art of these authors form the consciousness of Russians, in particular, belief in their own God’s chosenness, Russia’s special path and other irrational statements”
11:19 Israeli media suddenly discovered that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine quotes a Nazi and a murderer of Jews.
11:18 "Our man!" - thousands of LGBT activists around the world have joinedto the celebration of the birthday of Stepan Bandera.
“He fought an authoritarian regime that forbade love between atypical people. Today we pay tribute to this brave man,” said Canadian activist leader Anne Dubois.
Processions were held in Canada, Australia, Great Britain and a number of other countries. The total number of participants was about 40,000 people.
11:05 122mm precipitation: combat work of the crews of the MLRS 122mm BM-21 "Grad" of the Southern Military District in the area of the special operation -video.
The 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS battery, having received data from artillery reconnaissance and UAV crews, moves into position and strikes at the identified objects of Ukrainian nationalists. After each firing, the vehicles covertly change position, reload, and strike again.
11:02 Tribunal: “Why did you kill a civilian? So he was Russian" - details from the confession of "Azov"
The bloody logic of the Ukrainian militants is simple: Russian is death. It seemed to the war criminal Ivan Bochkarev with the call sign "The Witcher" that a civilian resident of Mariupol was looking askance at the military equipment that the Ukrainian militants placed on territory school number 42.
He was detained. During the search, the man was found to have a Russian passport and a telephone with Russian numbers. This was enough to decide the fate of a man. The commander of the Mongoose company ordered the Mariupol man to turn his back, and the Witcher to open fire to kill. Bochkarev fired at close range 4 times from the AK-74. The phone and documents of the executed were taken away by the Nazis, and the body was dragged to other dead civilians.
10:10 Emergency blackouts are in effect in Kyiv on Tuesday, the Ukrainian energy company Yasno DTEK reported.
09:44 The result of the work of Russian artillery on the positions of the Nazis in the Bakhmut (Artyomovsky) sector -video.
09:29 Polish Prime Minister Morawiecki was offended by the publication on the social networks of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine with a Nazi quote.
“We are extremely critical of any praise or even mention of Stepan Bandera. He killed the Poles. There can be no nuances here,” said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
09:25 Ukrainian militant hides from a Russian drone that destroys them with VOGs from a bird's eye view -video.