Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 22.50 During a conversation with the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Air Force, the President of Ukraine instructed not to reduce the number of specialists needed to carry out combat missions. Volodymyr Zelensky reported this in a video address.
22.26 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that the next meeting of the contact group on Ukrainian defense issues in the Ramstein format will take place in Brussels a week before the Munich Security Conference. It will take place on February 14-16.
21.15 The Cabinet of Ministers has allowed enterprises to rebook workers through the Diia portal without having to wait 72 hours. This was reported by the Ministry of Economy. The rule will be in effect from January 22 to March 1 for enterprises that have updated their status as critical. Reservations for such workers will be made in real time.
19:21 President Volodymyr Zelensky has released a new video of the interrogation of captured North Korean soldiers.
"Communication between captured soldiers from North Korea and Ukrainian investigators continues. We are establishing the facts. We are checking all the details. The world will know the full truth about how Russia is using these guys who grew up in a complete information vacuum, know nothing at all about Ukraine and are used by Russia solely to continue and expand this war," the statement says.
18:51 The South Korean government plans to hold consultations with Ukraine regarding the transfer of North Korean soldiers captured by the Ukrainian military, the South Korean Foreign Ministry said.
18.15 The Ministry of Defense has developed three versions of a bill on demobilization. However, none of these documents directly contain the term "demobilization".
17.31 During demining in the Kherson region, two Zaporizhzhya policemen-explosives experts died - Senior Lieutenant Oleksiy Safonov and Lieutenant Ilya Dergilev. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
17.25 Law enforcement officers detained two more enemy henchmen
| …such a charming word choice… |
17:19 Since the beginning of the day, 84 combat clashes have occurred on the front in nine directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a report as of 16:00. Most enemy attacks are recorded in the Pokrovsky direction. There, Russian troops are trying to advance in the areas of 12 settlements.
16.45 In Zakarpattia, the police have not recorded any complaints about the theft of money from the TCC, and no Interception plan has been announced in the region . Meanwhile, the Zakarpattia Regional TCC and SP called the information about a repeat offender stealing 27 thousand euros fake .
16.16 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed that military personnel from other units, except for specialists in acute shortage, are being sent to the infantry and attack aircraft. This does not include specialists from the Air Force's engineering and aviation service who service aircraft.
16:00 President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to calls for mobilization. According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have about 100 combat brigades and all of them need additional staffing. This should be a priority for partners.
15:31 In the Obolonsky district of Kiev, a restaurant refused to serve a soldier due to an alleged "order from management." The police opened a criminal case on this fact - gross violation of public order based on obvious disrespect for society.
15:18 On Tuesday night, the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out the largest strike on military facilities in Russia. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, targets were hit at a distance of 200 to 1,100 km deep in the Russian Federation - in the Bryansk, Saratov, Tula regions and the Republic of Tatarstan.
14:55 In Zakarpattia, a mobilized soldier stole 27 thousand euros from the head of the TCC and disappeared. People's Deputy Olha Vasylievska-Smaglyuk stated that the perpetrator was a "former recidivist", but did not specify where she got this information. It was claimed that the head of the TCC "collected this money for the guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine to buy drones."
14:35 A Russian court has wrongfully convicted seven Ukrainian prisoners of war for participating in military actions in the Kursk region. This was reported by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.
14:03 The State Bureau of Investigation has exposed a scheme involving the delivery of defective large-caliber machine guns to the front. The former director of a department of the Ministry of Defense and two heads of a state enterprise are suspected in the case, due to whose actions the state budget lost more than 193 million hryvnia, and the military received unusable weapons. This was reported by the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday, January 14.
12:12 Ukrainian military carried out a precise strike on the Bryansk Chemical Plant in the city of Seltso. This was reported by the Ukrainian Armed Forces Unmanned Systems Forces. This operation became an example of coordination between intelligence, missile forces, rocket artillery and unmanned systems.
12:06 Since the summer, the Russians have been stockpiling missiles and fuel at the airfield in Engels. The oil depot near the local airfield is one of the key ones for the needs of the Russian strategic aviation. Now it has been seriously hit, said the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation Andrei Kovalenko.
11:40 President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada bills on extending the martial law and mobilization in Ukraine. They are proposed to extend them from February 8 for another 90 days.
11:18 The Ukrainian military again hit the infrastructure of the Russian military airfield Engels-2 in the Saratov region of the Russian Federation. Tu-95MS and Tu-160 aircraft of the 22nd heavy bomber aviation division of the Russian Federation are based there. This was reported by the 14th Separate BpAK Regiment.
10:38 On Tuesday night, military-industrial complex (MIC) facilities in the cities of Saratov, Engels, Kazan, Bryansk and Tula were hit in Russia. This was reported by the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Andrey Kovalenko.
9:59 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has arrived in Kiev. He plans to hold talks with the Ukrainian government on further military support in the defensive battle against Russia.
9:44 On the night of January 14, the Russian Federation launched 80 "shaheeds" at Ukrainian territory. The drones were launched from four directions.
9:29 Almost 166 battles took place on the front over the past 24 hours, January 13. Half of them were in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
8:30 Over the past 24 hours, the Russian military lost 1,330 soldiers at the front. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
7:59 DPRK troops delivered a unique air defense system to the Kursk region, but the Russians mistakenly destroyed it. This was reported by Forbes.
7:48 Russian troops intend to block Ukrainian land lines of communication in Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in the Donetsk region. Thus, the enemy wants to force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to retreat from the cities in the coming months. This is evidenced by the report of the American Institute for the Study of War.