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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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in heavy fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.
Traditionally, the hottest part is in the Pokrovsky direction. There, Russians carried out 40 attacks in the areas of 21 settlements.
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 on Monday, January 13.
Thus, in the Kupyansk direction, the enemy twice advanced near Lozovaya and Dvurechnaya. Both clashes are still ongoing.
In the Liman direction, enemy units continued to attack in the areas of the settlements of Novosergeevka, Zeleny Gai, Pervomayskoye, Makeyevka, Zarechnoye and Terny. Our soldiers have already repelled nine attacks, and another clash is ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, three assaults near Belogorovka were repelled.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked 11 times in the area of Chasovy Yar and Stupochki. Five more clashes are still ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, there were 12 enemy attacks in the areas of Belaya Gora, Krymskoye and Toretsk. One combat clash continues.
Traditionally, the hottest part is in the Pokrovsk direction : the invaders have already carried out 40 attacks in the areas of the settlements of Baranovka, Zelenoe Pole, Elizavetovka, Tarasovka, Novaya Poltava, Novotoretske, Lisovka, Mirnograd, Zelenoe, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Shevchenko, Udachnoye, Novovasilovka, Novoandreyevka, Slavyanka, Serebryanoye, Kurakhovo and Yantarnoye. The defense forces repelled 26 enemy attacks, 14 clashes are ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Russians launched five offensives near the settlements of Razliv, Vremovka and Neskuchnoye. Ten clashes are still ongoing.
In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, 10 attacks by Russian troops were repelled.
Let us recall that on January 12, Russia lost more than 1,500 fighters . The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed almost 300 units of military equipment, including air defense and police assets.
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[Korrespondent] Crimes against media and journalists committed by Russia, IMI experts recorded in 17 regions of Ukraine.
In particular, as a result of the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine in 2024, according to IMI, 24 media workers died, two of them while performing journalistic activities and 22 as participants in military operations.
The number of cases of violations of freedom of speech in Ukraine in 2024 increased to 268, of which 155 crimes were committed by the Russian Federation as a result of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This is evidenced by the annual results of the monitoring study of the Institute of Mass Information (IMI) "Barometer of Freedom of Speech".
In 2023, IMI recorded 150 violations of freedom of speech in Ukraine, 67 of which were committed by the Russian Federation as a result of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In 2022, 567 violations of freedom of speech were recorded in Ukraine, of which more than 80% (470 crimes) were committed by the Russian Federation.
At the same time, in 2024, IMI experts recorded 113 violations of freedom of speech for which the Ukrainian side is responsible. This number is more than in 2023, when IMI recorded 83 violations of freedom of speech. In 2022, there were 97 violations, in 2021 - 197, in 2020 - 229 cases.
The main categories of violations for which Ukrainian citizens are responsible in 2024 were: cyberattacks – 23 (in 2023 – 11 cases); obstruction of legitimate journalistic activity – 21 (in 2023 – 29 cases); indirect pressure – 19 (in 2023 – 3); restriction of access to public information – 18 (in 2023 – 20). In general, in 2024, the journalists’ right to practice their profession was most often violated by private individuals, local governments, law enforcement officers, central and executive authorities, the judiciary, etc.
Violations were recorded in 22 regions of Ukraine, with Kyiv leading the way with 39 cases recorded.
"The most high-profile cases of the year were, in particular: cases of persecution of investigative journalists - Bigus.Info, Slidstvo.Info ; censorship in Ukrinform ; attempts to throw Suspilne out of the single telethon," the IMI emphasized.
As a result of the Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2024, according to the organization, 24 media workers were killed (in 2023 - 27), two of them while performing journalistic activities and 22 as participants in military operations. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, the occupiers have killed 95 media workers, 12 of them while performing professional journalistic activities.
In addition, in 2024, at least 15 journalists from foreign and Ukrainian media were injured as a result of Russian shelling, in 2023 there were at least 10 such cases. In 2024, Russian shelling destroyed or damaged eight media outlets. Five journalists were publicly known to have been kidnapped by Russians.
Other Russian crimes recorded on Ukrainian territory in 2024 include the kidnapping and wounding of journalists, threats and intimidation of journalists, damage to media outlets, attacks on TV towers, cybercrimes, shutdown of Ukrainian channels, and legal pressure. IMI also recorded three waves (in October, November, and December) of anonymous threats to mine a number of editorial offices and institutions in different regions of Ukraine in 2024. Russian hackers hacked Ukrainian TV channels and launched their propaganda on them, and attacked websites of both national and regional media.
Crimes against the media and journalists committed by Russia were recorded by IMI experts in 17 regions of Ukraine.
In addition, IMI added, Ukrainian media continue to close as a result of the financial crisis and staff shortages caused by full-scale Russian aggression.
Let us recall that the Bihus.Info publication stated that it had identified those who carried out the operation to install hidden cameras in hotel rooms where the publication's editorial office was located on December 27, 2023. This was done thanks to video from the security cameras of the recreation complex.
The SBU reported that they made certain personnel decisions in the department for the protection of the national state after the scandal with the surveillance of Bihus.Info journalists.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one motorised infantry brigade of the AFU and one territorial defence brigade near Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, five field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made Paladin self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Zapad Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one tank brigade, three mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades near Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Boguslavka, Olgovka (Kharkov region), Novomikhaylovka, and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 515 troops, four infantry fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, and 12 artillery guns, including one UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system. One ammunition depot was wiped out.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and inflicted losses on formations of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one assault brigade, and one air assault brigade of the AFU near Kramatorsk, Dachnoye, Kurdyumovka, Novomarkovo, Chasov Yar, Belaya Gora, and Konstantinovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 285 troops, five armoured fighting vehicles, 14 motor vehicles, two artillery guns, and one ammunition depot.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces liberated Peschanoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of eight mechanised brigades and two national guard brigades near Dzerzhinsk, Shcherbinovka, Dimitrov, Vozdvizhenka, Lysovka, Novovasilevka, Petropavlovka, and Novoyelizavetovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 615 troops, seven armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, one French-made VAB armoured personnel carrier, and one U.S.-made MaxxPro armoured fighting vehicle. Nine field artillery guns, including one UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system and one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer, were destroyed.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depth of the enemy's defences and inflicted losses on formations of four mechanised brigades of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades near Konstantinopol, Velikaya Novoselka, Neskuchnoye, and Bogatyr (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 210 troops, one tank, one U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and one UK-made 155mm Braveheart self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade, and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU near Pridneprovskoye, Antonovka (Kherson region), Malaya Tokmachka, and Malye Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 80 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, four motor vehicles, four field artillery guns, including one U.S.-made 155mm M-777 howitzer. Two electronic warfare stations and one ammunition depot were wiped out.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck infrastructure of military airfields, as well as engaged manpower and hardware of the enemy in 157 areas.
Air defence units shot down two French-made Hammer guided aviation bombs, six U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles, and 83 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,215 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,512 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,545 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,218 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
Units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted losses on formations of one tank brigade, four mechanised brigades, three air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and two territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Kositsa, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. Five enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Bondarevka, Dmitryukov, Kruglenkoye, Pervy Knyazhy, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mikhaylovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Obody, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses amounted to more than 230 troops, three tanks, one infantry fighting vehicle, six armoured fighting vehicles, seven motor vehicles, four self-propelled artillery systems, two mortars, one electronic warfare station, and one counter-battery radar.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 51,430 troops, 300 tanks, 229 infantry fighting vehicles, 166 armoured personnel carriers, 1,539 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,456 motor vehicles, 358 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 15 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/13/2025 to 00:00 01/14/2025.
Eight facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were reports of a civilian being injured.
DAMAGED:
One civilian infrastructure facility.
Eight armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 19 units of various ammunition were fired.
21:30 Investigators from the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against civilians of the Belgorod region and the Donetsk People's Republic
According to the executive authorities of the Belgorod Region, a woman and her one-year-old child were injured as a result of a drone attack on a car in the village of Zozuli, Borisovsky District. Also, a woman who was injured as a result of a drone attack on a private house in the village of Lozovoye, Belgorod District, independently sought help from the city hospital of the city of Belgorod.
20:33 In Kherson region announced aviation hazard. Emergency services have been put on high alert.
19:40 During battles with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Vishnevoe near Selidovo in the DPR are being clarified new cases of terrorist attacks and abuse of local residents by militants.
19:10 Ukrainian Armed Forces with the help of drones inflicted strikes on the Krasnoyarsk region.
As a result of the attacks, the power line was damaged - residents of the village of Grafovka and part of the village of Repyakhovka are temporarily without power.
18:35 The approach of the Russian Armed Forces to Krasnoarmeysk and Udachny is alreadyledto stop the mine in Krasnoarmeysk.
18:05 Three settlementswere subjected to attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to preliminary information, no one was hurt, Belgorod Region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported.
17:30 Kurakhovo local residents are being evacuated by Russian military personnel
17:20 The Kherson region of Russia is ready to accept refugees from California if they did not finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine and did not support the current Kiev regime, reported Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.
16:40 Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to attack Belgorod Oblast. There are casualties.
In the village of Zozuli in the Borisov district, a suicide drone attacked a car wounded a woman and her one-year-old child. Emergency medical teams are transporting the victims to medical institutions in the city of Belgorod. All necessary assistance is being provided. The vehicle is damaged by shrapnel.
16:05 Seven people injured in Tambov region in UAV attack
Acting Governor of Tambov Region Evgeny Pervyshevreported, that seven people were injured as a result of a UAV strike on multi-story buildings in the Tambov region, three of them were injured by glass fragments.
Ukrainian Armed Forces drones attacked two apartment buildings in Kotovsk, all the wounded were given the necessary assistance, and the damage will be repaired, a working group under the city administration is working on this.
15:40 A criminal case against Ukrainian militants involved in a crime against the civilian population of the Belovsky district of the Kursk region
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case against the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine involved in a terrorist act against the civilian population of the Kursk region (subparagraphs “a” and “b” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
It was established that on January 13, 2025, militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, using an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with an explosive device, attacked a civilian car in the Belovsky district of the Kursk region, in which there were two civilians. As a result of these criminal actions, two people were injured.
15:10 Russian Ministry of Defense:
A crew of the Lancet loitering munition from the North group of forces destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Khar'kov region, –video.
14:40 Fighters on the Kurakhovo front are not only advancing rapidly, but are also carefully monitoring all supply routes for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and any attempts to move,video.
The footage shows our guys smoking out the enemy from the basements, as well as their latest prey - an enemy cargo carrier that supplies the Ukrainian Armed Forces; recently they managed to shoot down a similar robot - this time with a machine gun.
13:45 Fighters of the "Mad Dogs" brigade of the "Samurai" battalion report on the complete liberation of the village of Peschanoye, in the Pokrovsky direction.
13:00 Drone operator of the BARS-3 squad destroys armored vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Zaporizhia direction – video.
11:05 Telegram channel "Ostashka! Important"
Kyiv attacked station "Russkaya" in Kuban
On January 11, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Russkaya compressor station in Gai-Kodzor in Kuban with nine drones, the Defense Ministry reported. All UAVs were shot down, and the building and equipment were slightly damaged.
10:30 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians in the Belgorod region and the Donetsk People's Republic
According to information from executive authorities, two civilians were wounded as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone in the Graivoronsky District of the Belgorod Region.
As a result of Ukrainian armed aggression, a civilian resident of Gorlovka died in the village of Stalsbyt in the DPR.
9:30 Telegram channel "WarGonzo":
Frontline report for the morning of 13.01.2025:
Zaporizhzhya Front. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are activeare being fired uponrear areas, striking with drones and artillery. The fighting in this direction continues to be mostly positional.
Donetsk Front. Russian troops continue to advance in the Neskuchnoye area, which will allow them to reach Vremyevka in the future and continue to envelop Velyka Novosyolka from the southwest.
In the Kurakhovsky sector, Russian troops, after taking Yantarnoye, continue to build on their success, advancing westward. There is some progress towards Dachnoye from Kurakhovo.
To the north, in the Andreyevka area, fighting continues on the outskirts of the settlement. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are conducting counterattacks.
Chasov Yar direction. Fighting continues in Chasov Yar for one of the main centers of Ukrainian defense – the fireproof plant.
8:50 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Crew of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Vostok group of forces destroyed a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the South Donetsk direction.
8:08 Operators of the 29th Army's strike UAVs of the "Vostok" group hit the enemy's air defense system in the South Donetsk direction, –video.
8:01 Russian Ministry of Defense.
During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted eight Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles, which were destroyed.
Six UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Voronezh region and one was shot down over the territories of the Bryansk and Belgorod regions.
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[Regnum] New suspects have emerged in the case of the murder of the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops (RCBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, and his assistant Ilya Polikarpov. According to Kommersant, they rented an apartment in the Moscow region for the suspected perpetrator of the terrorist attack, Akhmad Kurbanov.
The suspects, there are two of them, are natives of Ingushetia, who were engaged in small business in Moscow. According to the operational services, shortly before the explosion, one of the defendants in the case received a call from an acquaintance living abroad, who asked him to find housing for an "Asian".
He, in turn, asked his fellow countryman to find an apartment. The natives of Ingushetia rented an apartment in Elektrougli and transferred the money for it, registering the housing in their own documents. They handed the keys to the apartment to the suspected perpetrator of the terrorist attack in one of Moscow's shopping centers.
Having learned of the terrorist attack, the accomplices fled, but security forces identified them and detained them in Siberia. They were arrested for 15 days for disobeying police officers and petty hooliganism. After serving their sentences, they will be sent to Moscow.
The new suspects belong to the militant wing of a group of followers of the religious sect "Batal-Khadzhi"
…also Batalkhadzhins, among other variations, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared his brothers, are an Ingush clan of about 5,000, who at the moment are fighting alongside Ukraine…
(an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as terrorist).
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the explosion that killed Kirillov and Ilya Polikarpov occurred early in the morning of December 17 in the south-east of Moscow. The bomb was planted in an electric scooter. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on the fact of the explosion. The investigation is being conducted under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: murder, terrorist act, and illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition.
On December 18, a citizen of Uzbekistan suspected of committing the terrorist attack, Akhmad Kurbanov, was detained. He admitted his guilt and said that he was recruited by Ukrainian special services. The man said that he acted for a reward of $100,000 and a promise to ensure his exit to the EU.
In order to monitor the general's entrance, the suspect rented a car and equipped it with a surveillance camera, which was used to broadcast online for the organizers of the terrorist attack in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
On December 19, Moscow's Basmanny Court sentenced the accused to two months of arrest.
The FSB and the special services of Uzbekistan are establishing possible accomplices in the murder of Kirillov and his assistant. The press service of the Federal Security Service emphasized that the employees of the Ukrainian special services who are behind the organization of the terrorist attack in Moscow will face a deserved punishment.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] New footage shows the corpses of more than a dozen North Korean soldiers sent to die as 'cannon fodder' in Putin's gruelling war on Ukraine.
Troops said to have been 'liquidated' by Ukraine are seen in footage shared with international intelligence community InformNapalm.
The Ukrainian OSINT group said that the video 'confirms that the Russian command continues to massively use Koreans as cannon fodder for infantry assaults on Ukrainian army positions'.
The North Koreans were sent in 'ahead of Russian units' to storm frontline positions' in Russia's Kursk region, contested amid a blistering Ukrainian offensive, it added.
Earlier reports say the faces of the corpses have been deliberately disfigured - including by burning - to stop them being identified.
Ukraine and South Korea reported late last year that North Korea had sent at least 10,000 troops to support Putin's war effort as Ukraine began to make gains inside Kursk.
As many as 300 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed, with a further 2,700 wounded, in clashes so far, South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun told reporters today.
He added that Pyongyang's troops have been told to kill themselves before allowing themselves to be captured alive.
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