Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title
[Korrespondent] 21:45 Peskov said in an interview with Bloomberg that Russia “was, is and will be open” to negotiations on Ukraine, but “is determined to continue the special operation until its goals are achieved.”
The agency also writes, citing sources in the Russian Federation, that Putin, through unofficial channels, is allegedly sending signals to the United States that he is open to discussing future security measures for Ukraine. According to them, Putin may be ready to consider abandoning the demand for Ukraine's neutral status and non-entry into NATO, but will insist on recognizing Russian control over the occupied territories.
21:18 Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets confirmed in a comment to Sky News that some Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Russian list of persons allegedly on board the Il-76 aircraft have already been exchanged.
20:34 Igor Strelkov (Girkin), sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a court in The Hague, is still inaccessible to international justice, but in Russia he received a real sentence. He was given four years in prison for calling for extremist activities. About what this means, see the material Sentence to a Terrorist.
20:19 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the air defense allegedly stopped an attack using the RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system, two rockets were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region. And the regional governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, claims that one person was killed as a result of a drone attack in the Belgorod village of Lozovaya Rudka.
20:16 Over the past year, Russia purchased more than $1 billion worth of chips from the United States and Europe, Bloomberg writes.
19:31 The pro-Russian Prime Minister of Slovakia after his visit to Uzhgorod softened his harsh tone towards Ukraine. About why he abruptly changed his position - in the material “Did Fico Change His Shoes?”
19:23 Peskov claims that Russia allegedly promptly informed Kiev about the transportation of Ukrainian prisoners of war by Il-76 aircraft. And the Russian permanent representative in Vienna, Lukashevich, said that Moscow did not invite either the OSCE or the UN to investigate the Il-76 crash.
18:37 Zelensky said that he had a telephone conversation with the President of Slovenia Natasha Pirc Musar, they discussed the work on a bilateral document on security guarantees, the current defense needs of Ukraine.
17:56 The European Commission announced that it is allocating 15 million euros for the construction of new bomb shelters for schools in hot spots of Ukraine, and Lithuania will provide an additional 500 thousand euros and will take responsibility for the implementation of the project.
17:30 In Russia, prisoners who go to fight against Ukraine no longer receive pardons from Putin, the BBC Russian service reports. If previously recruits were promised money and a pardon after six months of participation in hostilities, now the contract is signed for one year and extended automatically. Prisoners will be able to receive full release and expungement of their criminal records only if they receive a state award or are dismissed due to the end of the war, loss of health, or reaching the age limit.
16:53 Ukraine is working to prepare for the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Olga Stefanishyna. She recalled that on January 29 in Uzhgorod a meeting is planned between the head of the OP Andrei Ermak, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba and his Hungarian colleague Peter Szijjártó. It will be connected, in particular, with the preparation of Orban’s upcoming visit to Ukraine. The last time the Prime Minister of Hungary came was in 2010, Stefanishina noted.
16:50 In the Nikolaev region, a Kh-59 guided missile fired from a Russian Su-34 fighter was destroyed, the Air Force reported.
16:31 The new head of the OSCE, Foreign Minister of Malta Ian Borg said that he will visit Kiev next week. According to him, this visit will be a demonstration of “steadfast support” for Ukraine.
16:28 The Russian Il-76 aircraft, which crashed on January 24 near Belgorod, previously delivered weapons to the airfield in Engels and to Belgorod itself, said GUR representative Andrey Yusov: “This is the aircraft that supplied S-300 and S- missiles to the Belgorod region 400 for attacks on Kharkov and the region. The Russians themselves say that those activities that are used to supply enemy forces and equipment are used at the same time, probably for transporting prisoners." Yusov emphasized that if this is true, then the Russians have actually admitted to yet another war crime.
16:22 Russia recruited more than 200 Nepalese citizens for the war in Ukraine, at least 14 of them died, said the country's Foreign Minister Narayan Prakash.
16:06 Sweden and the UK announced they are joining the newly created “drone coalition” - there are now four participating countries, along with Ukraine and Latvia, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense reported.
15:59 France delivered two M270 LRU MLRS to Ukraine, the country’s Ministry of Defense reported.
15:28 Zaluzhny said that he had a telephone conversation with the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Wieslaw Kukula, and spoke about the operational situation at the front. They also discussed security risks and possible interaction in the context of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation. In particular, the issues of training Ukrainian military personnel in Poland, as well as the exchange of combat experience. The Commander-in-Chief emphasized the importance of strengthening the capabilities of the Ukrainian air defense system.
15:25 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico confirmed that his country will support the allocation of 50 billion euros to Ukraine from the EU: “I understand that some of our statements may cause controversy. But we are asked to approve 50 billion euros for Ukraine for the next four years. Slovakia agrees and will agree. We will not create any obstacles."
15:12 Bloomberg writes, citing sources, that Hungary has changed its mind about blocking the creation of an EU military fund of 5.4 billion euros for Ukraine. This will pave the way for an agreement to reorganize the mechanism designed to ensure a stable supply of weapons to Kyiv, as soon as the participating countries sort out the technical issues.
15:06 Last week, the Russians suddenly broke into one of the districts of Avdeevka, known as the Tsar’s Hunt, and captured several streets. The occupiers, as the Ukrainian military reported, suddenly found themselves in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. It was a mystery to our soldiers how the enemy was able to break into the city unnoticed. Read more in the article Underground pipe.
14:27 Russian public pages write that as a result of a Ukrainian strike on a military training ground near the occupied Ilovaisk of the Donetsk region, 24 Russian servicemen were killed. According to some reports, the strike was carried out on a cluster of UAV operators.
13:53 There were supposed to be military-political VIPs of the Russian Federation on board the Il-76, but at the last moment the FSB forbade them to board, said GUR representative Andrei Yusov. According to him, Ukrainian intelligence found out this after the plane crashed. Yusov also noted that only five bodies were delivered to the local morgue in Belgorod the day before, and Russian rescuers were not allowed to inspect the crash site. All this data will be transferred for international investigation.
13:44 Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis arrived in Kiev - this is his eighth visit to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in February 2022.
13:40 Russia is increasing the use of gas grenades using prohibited lethal substances, said Andrey Rudyk, speaker of the Center for Research of Captured and Advanced Weapons and Military Equipment. In December 2023 alone, 81 cases of the use of gas grenades were recorded, and in total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 626 cases of chemical attacks against the Ukrainian military are known.
According to Rudyk, Russia, contrary to its obligations under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, is developing new RG-V gas grenades using chloroacetophenone.
13:18 The Moscow City Court sentenced terrorist Igor Girkin-Strelkov to four years in a general regime colony for calling for extremism. He was also banned from administering Internet pages for two years.
13:11 “Head” of Crimea Sergei Aksenov issued a decree according to which a “special regime” of entry and exit is introduced on the administrative border between the peninsula and the occupied part of the Kherson region. According to the decree, the regime of entry in the north of Crimea “is equal to the regime of entry across the state border of the Russian Federation.” The places of crossing the administrative border are the automobile checkpoints Armyansk, Perekop, Dzhankoy, as well as the railway checkpoints Armyansk and Dzhankoy.
To cross the border, foreign citizens or stateless persons must have “a valid identification document recognized in accordance with international treaties by the Russian Federation.” In addition, according to the document, Russian military convoys will move along specially designated roads in agreement with the Border Directorate of the FSB of Russia, Radio Liberty reports.
13:05 The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution calling on member countries to recognize the deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The document was approved unanimously.
12:56 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, at least 25 representatives of religious personnel have been killed, the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience reported. As of today, the destruction of more than 500 religious buildings has been recorded, 9% of which were completely destroyed, 16% were damaged beyond repair.
12:13 Ukraine has not yet seen any signs that there were a large number of prisoners of war on the Il-76 military plane that crashed in the Belgorod region of the Russian Federation, said Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets: “I cannot say affirmatively that there really were prisoners of war there. After analyzing the photos and videos that we saw on the Internet... if the Russians had any photos or videos that our prisoners of war were there, they would have already used them. We did not see any signs that there were there were so many people - citizens of Ukraine, or non-citizens of Ukraine."
11:56 Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen expressed confidence that Orban will lift his veto on the €50 billion aid package to Ukraine. According to her, the Hungarian Foreign Minister gave a “positive signal.” If this does not happen, then, according to her, the EU “will find another solution.”
11:50 Russia is resorting to new tactics of using drones and preparing new powerful attacks on Ukraine, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, during today’s night attack in the south, the enemy resorted to “tactical tricks”: “They used low passage of drones over water, making their detection as difficult as possible for air defense systems, and approached in the direction of actually residential areas, although they also maneuvered among industrial "This is a search for new tactics to plan for the upcoming powerful actions."
11:43 The SBU has opened criminal proceedings into the crash of an Il-76 in the Belgorod region, Ukrainian media report citing sources in the Security Service. The investigation is carried out under Art. 438 of the Criminal Code - violation of the laws and customs of war. Currently, the SBU is carrying out a set of measures to clarify all the circumstances of the plane crash.
11:21 The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a military training ground in occupied Ilovaisk, Donetsk region, the opposition Russian publication Astra reported. Local publics and residents reported explosions in Ilovaisk on January 24 at around 3 p.m. According to the publication's sources, as a result of the shelling at a military training ground near the village of Pokrovka, there were killed and wounded servicemen, their number is being established.
11:10 Ukrainian media report, citing sources, that the oil refinery in Russian Tuapse was attacked by SBU drones the night before. After two powerful explosions, a large-scale fire started there, and the installation for the primary processing of petroleum products - vacuum and atmospheric columns - was damaged.
10:52 NATO underestimated Russia's ability to produce ammunition and recruit troops, said the commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, Martin Herem. According to him, predictions that Russian troops would reach the limit of their resources did not materialize. The Russian army is capable of producing several million artillery shells a year, far outpacing European efforts, and can recruit hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.
10:17 Both black boxes of the Il-76 that crashed in the Belgorod region have been found, Russian media report citing emergency services.
09:58 The delay in helping Ukraine in Congress is due to pressure from Trump and his desire to build a campaign on migration issues, Voice of America correspondent Ostap Yarysh reports, citing several sources in the American media. They note that a compromise on Ukraine and the border is supposedly not in Trump’s interests, because it would add points to Biden before the election.
09:29 In Odessa, six people were injured as a result of a night drone attack, said Oleg Kiper, head of the OVA. One of the drones hit a partially inhabited multi-storey new building in the Khadzhibey district - a fire broke out, several apartments were damaged, and one person received burns. Another downed drone crashed through the roof of a two-story residential building in the Primorsky district. In the same residential area, another UAV fell, the blast wave damaged surrounding houses, and four people were injured.
Another attack drone fell near a high-rise building in the Primorsky district, without detonation. There were no casualties. It was also recorded that a warehouse of a furniture factory in an industrial area of Odessa was hit, a powerful fire started, and one person was injured by the shock wave.
09:04 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 25:
- personnel - about 379,610 (+950) people,
- tanks - 6257 (+30),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,621 (+42),
- artillery systems - 9067 (+59),
- MLRS - 972 (+1),
- air defense systems - 660 (+1),
- aircraft - 331 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7033 (+35),
- cruise missiles - 1844 (+2),
- ships/boats - 23 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,044 (+39),
- special equipment - 1420 (+4).
08:46 On the evening of January 24, the enemy fired at the village. Bolshaya Rogan, Kharkov region - four people were injured, including a 17-year-old teenager. Four residential buildings and cars were damaged and destroyed, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OVA. In addition, the Russians attacked the village with KAB. Olkhovatka, Kupyansky district, a farm was damaged, no people were injured.
08:37 In the Nikolaev region, as a result of the evening shelling of the village. In Dmitrovka, Kutsurubskaya community, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged, leaving three settlements without power supply. Residential buildings were also damaged, but no people were injured, said Vitaly Kim, head of the OVA.
07:53 Over the past 24 hours, 58 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevka direction, the Defense Forces repelled four enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area and another eight attacks near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, nine attacks were repulsed near Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansky direction, six enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - four attacks near Ternov, east of Dibrova, Donetsk region, and five more attacks in the areas of Makeevka, Serebryansky forestry, Lugansk region; on Bakhmutsky - seven attacks near Vasyukovka, Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - two attacks south of Zolotaya Niva and east of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - one attack in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, measures are continuing to expand the bridgehead; over the past 24 hours, the enemy unsuccessfully tried seven times to storm the positions of the Ukrainian troops.
07:38 In the Krivorozhsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, during a night drone attack due to a hit, one of the enterprises caused destruction, a building caught fire. Rescuers extinguished the fire, no people were injured, said Sergei Lysak, head of the OVA.
06:40 At night, air defense destroyed 11 of 14 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk area and Cape Chauda, the Air Force command reported. The drones were destroyed within the Odessa and Nikolaev regions. In addition, the Russian Federation attacked with four S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the Belgorod region in the direction of Kharkov and one from the occupied territory of the Donetsk region.
01:32 Military assistance to Ukraine is in the national interests of the United States, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said: “This was never about charity, this is not about demonstrating charity or about abstract principles of international relations. This is about cold, hard American interests ". He explained that Washington's direct interest is to prevent authoritarian regimes from redrawing the world map using force.
"It is in our interests to help reduce the military capabilities of a significant adversary without sacrificing American lives. It is in our interests to deter aggressive behavior before it sparks a broader conflict and directly threatens our closest allies and trading partners," McConnell said.
00:49 Air Force Commander Nikolai Oleshchuk called Russian propaganda messages about the crash of the Il-76 plane a “fake flow of information to an external audience.” According to him, in this way the Russian Federation is trying to discredit Ukraine in the eyes of the world community in order to reduce international support.
At the same time, Oleschuk emphasized that the Air Force “beat, beat and will beat the enemy, wherever he is.” "The air force is doing everything to reach the enemy both in the sky and on the ground. You read our reports. Many Russian aircraft and crews will never be able to terrorize our people. They are destroyed. We have more and more tools and capabilities to get the enemy where he doesn’t expect it,” added the commander of the Armed Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
00:12 A day of mourning has been declared in Kharkov on Thursday, January 25, said Mayor Igor Terekhov. According to him, the rocket attacks on January 23 led to one of the largest tragedies in the city in terms of the number of victims during the entire period of a full-scale war.