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…
who, on orders from the Russian Federation, were setting fires in the Vinnytsia region. The main "targets" of the defendants were cars of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteer organizations, the SBU reported.
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.
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[Korrespondent] The Ukrainian Armed Forces are engaged in heavy fighting in the east and south of Ukraine.
Most enemy attacks are recorded in the Pokrovsky direction. There, Russian troops are trying to advance in the areas of 12 populated areas.
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 on Tuesday, January 14.
Thus, in the Kupyansk direction, the Russians attacked twice in the area of Novaya Kruglyakovka and Tabayevka. The battle is currently ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invaders carried out 12 attacks near the settlements of Kopanki, Grekovka, Novoegorovka, Raigorodka, Makeyevka, Zarechnoye, Terny and Grigoryevka. Six clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy tried to advance near Belogorovka, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka and Vyemka. 11 attacks were repelled, three combat clashes continue.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled five assaults. Eight attacks are ongoing. The Russians are trying to break through to Stupochki, Predtechino, Aleksandro-Shultino and the Chasovy Yar area.
In the Toretsk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling two assaults in the Toretsk area.
In the Pokrovsky direction, Russian troops carried out 23 attacks near the settlements of Yantarnoye, Novotoretskoye, Promin, Zelenoe, Novy Trud, Chunishino, Zverovoye, Uspenovka, Novoandreyevka, Nadeyevka, Petropavlovka and Shevchenko. The defense forces repelled 15 assaults, eight combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defense of our defenders five times in the areas of the settlements of Velikaya Novosyolka and Neskuchnoye. The fighting continues.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy once unsuccessfully attempted to storm the positions of our units.
In the Kursk direction, 12 armed clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day, four of which are still ongoing.
Let us recall that on January 13, Russia lost more than 1,300 soldiers at the front in one day . The total losses of the aggressor country exceeded 800,000 people.
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[KavkazUzel] Murad Yusupov and Akhmed Zakayev were sentenced in absentia to 19 and 20 years of imprisonment in the case of the terrorist organization "Separate Special Purpose Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria".
… a special forces unit of Chechen volunteers, part of the International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. It is one of several Chechen units. It sounds like it should be part of the War on Terror, but it looks like they’re actually just part of the Ukraine fight against Russia.
As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, the case of two natives of Chechnya, Akhmed Zakayev and Murad Yusupov, who were accused of organizing and leading the terrorist community "Separate Special Purpose Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria*" (OBON), was submitted to the Southern District Military Court for consideration. In June 2024, Akhmed Zakayev was arrested in absentia by a court decision.
The Southern District Military Court sentenced Murad Yusupov and Akhmed Zakayev to 19 and 20 years in prison.
"The court sentenced Zakayev to 20 years of imprisonment for the totality of [crimes], with the first three years to be served in prison and the rest of the term in a strict regime penal colony; Yusupov to 19 years of imprisonment, with the first three years to be served in prison and the rest of the term in a strict regime penal colony," TASS quotes the court representative as saying.
According to the investigation, in July 2022, Zakayev proclaimed himself the leader of the so-called independent Chechen Republic of Ichkeria on the territory of Ukraine, recruited Yusupov and other unidentified persons to the group to participate in military actions on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Zakayev, as the investigation believes, also created the terrorist community "Separate Special Purpose Battalion of the Ministry of Defense of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria as part of the Foreign Legion of Ukraine", which he led until July 28, 2022, then handed over leadership to Yusupov.
According to the prosecution, the members of the terrorist group were armed with machine guns and hand grenade launchers. They recruited new members and set up training camps. Cases were opened in absentia against Zakayev under Part 2 of Article 205.2 (public calls to commit terrorist activity), Part 1 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (leadership of a terrorist group), and against Yusupov - also in absentia under Part 2 of Article 208 (participation in an armed formation on the territory of a foreign state...), Part 1 of Article 205.4 (leadership of a terrorist group) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Zakayev and Yusupov have been included by Rosfinmonitoring in the list of individuals for whom there is information about their involvement in extremist activity or terrorism.
Miraculously, this time, I didn't need the VPN.
[EngMilRu] Last night, the AFU launched a missile strike at objects in Bryansk region by six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow air-based cruise missiles, and 31 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles from the territory of Ukraine.
During the air defence battle, all air attack means were shot down by air defence crews. There were no casualties or wounded as a result of the attack.
In addition, two UK-made Storm Shadow air-based cruise missiles were shot down over the Black Sea waters.
These actions of the Kiev regime, supported by Western curators, will not go unanswered.
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In Kharkov direction, units of the Sever Group of Forces defeated formations of one motorised infantry brigade and two territorial defence brigades close to Liptsy and Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, five motor vehicles, and two field artillery guns. Three ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of decisive actions, units of the Zapad Group of Forces liberated Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on manpower and hardware of two mechanised brigades, one assault brigade, one airmobile brigade of the AFU, and two territorial defence brigades close to Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Zagoruykovka, Boguslavka, Lozovaya (Kharkov region), Ivanovka, and Torskoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 600 troops, one tank, eight armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 and one Turkish-made Kirpi armoured fighting vehicles, 13 motor vehicles, and five artillery guns, including two NATO-made guns. Three ammunition depots and four electronic warfare stations were wiped out.
Units of the Yug Group of Forces took more advantageous lines and positions and defeated formations of two mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, and one air assault brigade near Konstantinovka, Markovo, Podolskoye, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Minkovka, Yantarnoye, Kramatorsk, Dachnoye, Kurdyumovka, Sukhiye Yaly, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 220 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M113 and one French-made VAB armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and four artillery guns.
Units of the Tsentr Group of Forces improved the tactical situation along the front line and inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of five mechanised brigades of the AFU and two national guard brigades close to Shcherbinovka, Shevchenko, Dzerzhinsk, Slavyanka, Novovasilevka, Ukrainka, Solenoye, Vozdvizhenka, Petrovka, Lysovka, Petropavlovka, and Novoyelizavetovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 500 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, and two motor vehicles. Eight field artillery guns were eliminated.
Units of the Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing into the depth of the enemy's defences and liberated Neskuchnoye (Donetsk People's Republic).
Losses were inflicted on formations of two mechanised brigades of the AFU and three territorial defence brigades close to Konstantinopol, Velikaya Novoselka, Novopol, Bogatyr, Vremevka (Donetsk People's Republic), and Novodarovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses were up to 220 troops, seven motor vehicles, two artillery guns, including one 155mm Polish-made Krab self-propelled artillery system.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of one mechanised brigade, one infantry brigade, and two coastal defence brigades of the AFU close to Veseloye, Novopokrovka, Novoandreyevka, Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region), Pridneprovskoye, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, eight motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces struck power object ensuring operation of a Ukrainian defence industry enterprise, infrastructure of military airfields, as well as engaged clusters of the enemy's manpower and hardware in 148 areas.
Air defence units shot down six U.S.-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles, eight UK-made Storm Shadow air-based cruise missiles, one U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectile, and 180 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles, including 146 outside the special military operation.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,395 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,526 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,508 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,569 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,255 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, one heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, one naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the AFU near Viktorovka, Guyevo, Ivashkovsky, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Novaya Sorochina, Pogrebki, Sverdlikovo, and Cherkasskoye Porechnoye. In addition, three enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery engaged AFU manpower and hardware close to Agronom, Viktorovka, Guyevo, Zamostye, Ivashkovsky, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Martynovka, Mikhaylovka, Mirny, Nikolsky, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Sverdlikovo, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, and Zhuravka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU losses were over 460 troops, three tanks, two armoured personnel carriers, 22 armoured fighting vehicles, 18 motor vehicles, six artillery guns, and one mortar.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 51,900 troops, 303 tanks, 229 infantry fighting vehicles, 168 armoured personnel carriers, 1,561 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,474 motor vehicles, 364 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] 23:57 Official summary of the Department for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/14/2025 to 00:00 01/15/2025.
A total of 41 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were reports of two civilians killed and five injured.
DAMAGED:
Two residential buildings,
Four cars,
Three civil infrastructure facilities.
A total of 41 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 101 units of various ammunition were fired.
20:06 War Chronicle:
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have officially confirmed the dispatch of aircraft technicians to the infantry. They write that this measure is forced, that the situation on the battlefield is difficult. It is unknown whether the Ukrainian Armed Forces are able to draw parallels and look for cause-and-effect relationships, but perhaps this is somehow connected with the losses of 50+ thousand people in the Kursk region.
19:34 Calculation of the 122mm BM-21 MLRS "Grad" of the group of forces "Center" destroyed the enemy's stronghold, and also disrupted its rotation in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
19:27 On the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction reports Frontline soldier:
We are gaining a foothold on the outskirts of the village of Udachnoye.
19:03 Crews of the Tor anti-aircraft missile systems of the Vostok group of forces continue to cover the attack aircraft from enemy air attack weapons.
The crew chief, call sign "Lev", spoke about the targets that the complex entrusted to him destroys.
18:54 They report that the Ukrainian Armed Forces translated into the infantry of Western artillery repairmen trained abroad.
18:32 Aerial reconnaissance assets of one of the units of the North group of forces discovered accumulation of Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in a dugout in a wooded area.
Having waited for the right moment, the operator of the group’s combat UAV destroyed the dugout and the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants with a precise hit.
Objective control means recorded a direct hit on the target and a fire.
18:10 They report, that the Russian Armed Forces have reached the outskirts of the village of Zverevo near Pokrovsk
17:53 Artillerymen and UAV operators destroyed mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
Aerial reconnaissance assets of the 144th Motorized Rifle Division of the 20th Guards Combined Arms Army of the "West" group of forces in a wooded area near the settlement of Terny in the Donetsk People's Republic uncovered a firing position of a mortar crew of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was firing in the direction of Russian troops.
The camouflaged shelter, along with the militants' mortar crew and the abandoned weapon of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, were destroyed by precise hits from artillery and an attack UAV operator. Objective control means recorded direct hits on the shelter with Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower, explosions and detonation of unspent ammunition.
16:33 Orekhovskoe direction
Artillerymen of the 122mm howitzer D-30 of the Dnepr group of forces struck enemy positions in an abandoned building in the Zaporizhia region.
16:31 From 11.30 to 16.00 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles. Two UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Belgorod region and one over the territory of the Kursk region.
16:03 Russian army liberated Terny –MAP.
14:58 In the Donetsk People's Republic, servicemen of the "East" military group released the village of Neskuchnoye and raised the Russian tricolor on one of the buildings. Russian assault groups completed the clearing of about 400 buildings in the village and adjacent territories from Ukrainian Armed Forces formations, having consolidated their positions at the achieved lines.
The agglomeration of Neskuchnoye, Vremevka and Velyka Novosyolka is located at the junction of the borders of the DPR and Zaporizhia Oblast and is a strategically important defense and logistics hub for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is gradually coming under the control of our units.
13:42 We refute information about a successful counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Shevchenko (Kurakhovskoye direction). Our source reports that there was a battle on the farms above. It is quiet in Shevchenko itself.
13:20 Two Ukrainian missiles were destroyed in the border area of the Kursk region
This was reported by the acting governor of the Kursk region, Khinshtein.
13:10 Crews of 152mm self-propelled artillery units 2S19 "Msta-S" of the Airborne Forces artillery unit perform fire missions to destroy armored vehicles, fire weapons, ammunition depots and fortified positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.
12:05 Based on incoming operational informationdata, after the liberation of Novolizavetovka, the Russian Armed Forces began to storm Nadezhdinka.
11:23 Russian Armed Forces assault aircraft crossed the Oskol River in two more places north of Kupyansk, —reportsDonetsk stringer.
11:18 The 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crews of the 9th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Southern group are constantly striking on strongholds, areas of concentration of personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, ensuring the advance of assault units.
10:39 War Chronicle:
Western analysts have begun to worry that the loss of Pokrovsk, which could follow the breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces through Chasov Yar, threatens the collapse of the front.
If this happens, the Russian army will not only be able to straighten a huge section of the front, but also to pull significant forces to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. And given that these cities will most likely not be taken head-on, the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces is, to put it mildly, not the best.
9:40 FPV drone crews at the Rubicon center always achieve their goals. This time they destroyed equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk border area.
8:30 On OK footage Iskander OTRK hit at the concentration area of the 78th Separate Assault Regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of the settlement of Tokari in Sumy region.
According to information from the source, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to:
— 17 units of armored vehicles;
— Eight units of automotive equipment;
— up to 180 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
8:21 Over the past few days, Russian soldiers have reduced the distance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in Petrovskoye, Khar'kov Oblast, to two km, — a military expert Marochko.
7:56 Changes to map for 13.01.2025
Overall results:
+ 9.76 km²
– 0 km²
Total: 9.76 km²
7:35 Changes to map over the past 24 hours:
— Advance in the Kotlino area
— The Chasovoyarsk refractory plant was taken
— The control zone in the west of Toretsk has been expanded
— Advance west of Makeyevka
7:14 Russian Armed Forces hit targets in Cherkasy region.
5:02 Calculations of the 220mm BM-27 Uragan MLRS of the Zapad group of forces are striking artillery batteries, armored vehicles, command posts, strong points, communication centers, and enemy ammunition depots in the special operation zone.
This time, the Uragan MLRS crews destroyed a concentration of manpower and armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, an enemy ammunition depot was destroyed by fire.
3:41 Explosions are reported in the area of the Vasilkov airfield in the Kyiv region.
3:02 Targets in Sumy region were hit.
2:43 Explosions thundered again in the Kirovograd region.
2:33 Strikes were carried out on targets in the Vinnytsia and Odessa regions.
2:15 Targets in the Kyiv region were hit.
1:59 Repeated explosions are recorded in Dnepropetrovsk.
1:57 Targets in Cherkasy and Kirovograd regions were hit.
1:44 A significant number of UAVs have been recorded in the skies over Ukraine.
1:21 Russian aircraft and UAVs strike targets in Ukraine
Explosions occurred in Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye.
0:11 Explosions in Cherkasy region.
0:10 Explosions are reported in Brovary, Kyiv region.
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[REGNUM] Recently, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that there had been a real "breakthrough" in the exhumation of Polish victims of the Volyn massacre. What is it?
"Finally a breakthrough. The decision has been made on the first exhumations of Polish UPA* victims. I would like to thank the Polish and Ukrainian Ministers of Culture for their fruitful cooperation. We are waiting for further decisions," Tusk wrote.
The prime minister did not disclose any other details.
At the same time, the Polish Ministry of Culture, which is responsible for negotiations with Ukraine on the issue of a dignified burial of the victims of the genocide, reported that there is no point in waiting for them - due to the " delicate nature of the issue, details will be made public only after they [the exhumations] are carried out."
In turn, the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Andriy Sybiga, seemed to confirm the “breakthrough,” calling some agreements of the working group “an excellent result.” However, he did not go into details either, but instead dragged Russia into the dispute.
"We [Ukraine and Poland] respect each other and defend ourselves together against Russian imperialism. Every resolved bilateral issue is a blow to Moscow," the minister said.
True, it is quite possible that Sibiga’s statement referred to the exchange that took place the day before between Poland and Ukraine of lists of places for searching and exhuming the remains of “mutual historical conflicts”: victims of genocide by Warsaw and “martyrs” of Ukrainian propaganda – OUN-UPA militants.
The fact that the Poles were preparing such a register became known a few days after another prominent official from Poland, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, proudly stated that the parties had agreed to conduct exhumation work on Ukrainian territory.
Unofficial sources claim that compiling a list of graves of Ukrainians from the UPA* and their monuments, which are located on Polish soil, was a requirement of Kyiv to advance the issue.
It is worth noting that activists in memory of the victims of the Polish genocide reacted sharply to this news and directly demanded that any dialogue with the Kyiv regime on this topic be suspended.
"Poland has the right to exhume its citizens in accordance with all moral and ethical principles. Poland has the right to exhumation carried out by Poles and on Polish terms. We should not negotiate on a partnership basis with a state that builds its identity on the criminal ideology of Bandera," the activists emphasized in their letter.
They added that “no one in their right mind can imagine that the price of exhumations will be the glorification of the murderers of the Polish people on Polish territory.”
The situation was predictably commented on by the head of the Institute of National Remembrance of Poland (IPN) and the so-called "civil candidate" for president from the former ruling party "Law and Justice" (PiS) Karol Nawrocki. He stated that at present it is impossible to talk about a breakthrough in the exhumation case.
"We have already experienced many such breakthroughs, or rather statements about breakthroughs. One of them was reported by the head of Polish diplomacy Radoslaw Sikorski. This did not happen. I do not know what the Prime Minister considers a breakthrough," he concluded.
It is interesting that a few days before Tusk’s announcement, Nawrocki made a rather loud statement that he “does not see Ukraine in any structure – neither in the European Union, nor in NATO,” explaining this by Kiev’s unwillingness to take seriously the memory of the victims of the Volyn genocide.
“A state that is unable to answer for a very brutal crime against 120,000 of its neighbors cannot be part of international alliances,” Navrotsky said.
The Kiev authorities predictably accused Navrotsky of manipulation, pointing out that the politician “puts opportunistic considerations above the strategic interests of his own country’s security, good-neighborly Ukrainian-Polish relations, and the common values of freedom, democracy, and justice.”
Some, by the way, in keeping with the established tradition, simply accused the head of IPN of working for the Kremlin.
But in assessing the situation, one must nevertheless agree with Nawrocki: the Poles have already seen many such “breakthroughs” in the exhumation issue. Manipulations of national memory have long been used as political propaganda, so it is not surprising that now few believe in any progress.
For example, the latest such "breakthrough" was a photograph of the alleged exhumation process that had begun. At the end of October 2023, it (yes, one) was published by an official from the former ruling party PiS, Michal Dworczyk, after the lost parliamentary elections.
Again, there were no details, except that the photo, according to Dvorchik, was taken on the territory of the former village of Puzhniki in the Ternopil region. However, it is known that at least 150 Poles died in this place, which means that many remains should have been found. And most importantly: after the publication of this data, there was no further progress at least on this burial.
And the most interesting thing is that, judging by the words of a certain anonymous Ukrainian official, Kyiv gave its consent to excavations in this very place.
His statement also indicates that permits for searches and exhumations on the territory of Ukraine will only be issued separately for each specific burial site.
Dvorchik himself, by the way, said that he does not believe in a “breakthrough”.
"Tusk, as usual, threw out one slogan and gave no details. Why? Because there are no details. I do not believe in any breakthrough in this matter. We have had problems for many years, if there is another important step, it is very good, but it is sad that Donald Tusk and some politicians are trying to use this dramatic situation related to genocide in current politics," said the PiS MEP.
In particular, due to such vague data, there are now even more skeptics about any changes in the exhumation issues than during the PiS rule. And the former Prime Minister of the Republic Leszek Miller stated that he does not see a “breakthrough” in the issue of exhuming Poles killed by the UPA.
"I am surprised that Polish politicians and journalists have been deceived by this again and continue to talk about a 'breakthrough' over and over again," Miller said.
He also criticized the agreement on the lists, noting that “in Poland lie UPA bandits who died in battle with weapons in their hands, and on the other side are women, children, brutally murdered and defenseless people.”
At the same time, former PiS Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, under whom the agreements on work in Pużniki were reached, also expressed skepticism about any progress on the exhumation issue.
"The question is whether the 'breakthrough' that was loudly announced by Tusk is really a new discovery or simply the completion of actions and procedures that began during my government?" Morawiecki clarified.
In general, exhumation of remains since 1992 has taken place only in a few settlements in Volyn.
At the same time, historians believe that there are about 1,500 places in this territory where OUN-UPA crimes against Poles were committed. Excavations in Ostrovki and Vola Ostrovetska alone took place in two long stages - so many murdered people were found there. At the same time, the situation was complicated by the fact that local Ukrainians did not reveal the burial places of Polish victims.
In total, more than 600 people were exhumed from these places: among them women and children, some of the bones were charred or burned, which confirms evidence of the arson of the building in which the victims were locked.
In 2013, excavations began at the Gaja site to exhume the remains of Poles killed on August 30, 1943. In total, about 600 Poles were killed that day, many of them shot in the school. A few days after the massacre, a Polish self-defense unit from a nearby town arrived in the colony. The Poles were shocked by what they saw: ditches and cellars were filled with corpses. Nearby lay the murder weapons: axes, pitchforks, hoes, saws and beams, covered in blood.
The bodies of some of the victims were buried in a former execution pit, its location was determined in 2001, and it was then discovered that local Ukrainians had made a garbage pit in the grave, thus causing numerous postmortem injuries to the bones.
As a result, in 2017, the Ukrainian authorities announced a block on issuing permits to the Polish side for search and exhumation work on their territory; since then, there have been no particular “breakthroughs” on this issue.
Although the parties signed various documents “on the resolution of sensitive issues concerning national memory,” and assembled some working groups, no one saw the results, except for that single photograph.
It is clear that if there had been any real progress, we would have been inundated with statements and papers, since it would have been literally an information bomb. But what Tusk brought to the public is nothing more than another populist injection, which is designed exclusively for the domestic electorate.
The issue of exhuming the victims of the genocide committed by the OUN-UPA* will not be resolved at least as long as the ideology of the current criminal regime in Ukraine is based on the myth of the “heroic Banderaites,” and excavations in Volyn are capable of very quickly turning these legends into dust.
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[REGNUM] The Russian army is advancing in the SVO zone. The offensive continues in the Kharkov and Zaporizhia regions, but the main frontline events are taking place in the DPR. Heavy fighting is taking place in the Pokrovsk direction. After liberating the village of Shevchenko, the Russian army drove the enemy out of a number of villages to the south, east and west of Pokrovsk, continuing the operation to encircle the city.
With the liberation of Shevchenko, Russian troops approached the highway linking Pokrovsk and the Dnepropetrovsk region. On the same section of the front, the Russian Armed Forces occupied the settlements of Novovasilyevka and Novoelizavetovka.
In addition, military operations continue in the Uspenovka area. Also, advanced units have occupied the southern part of the Zverevo settlement.
The M-30 highway, which connects Pokrovsk with Dnepropetrovsk via Pervomaysk and Pavlograd, and the highway to Lozovaya and Kharkov are still under the control of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. However, as Russian troops advance northeast from the city, both roads may end up under the fire control of the Russian Armed Forces, which will seriously complicate the "Ukrainian" supply of the city's garrison.
Simultaneously with the offensive south of Pokrovsk, Russian troops advanced east of the city. The advancing forces cut the road between Pokrovsk and Konstantinovka, two enemy defense nodes. As a result, the enemy's logistics were disrupted, which could lead to the most serious consequences for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a frontline source for Regnum reported.
"Our tactics remain unchanged: we talked about it, now we see the result. The road to Konstakha (Konstantinovka) is under our control, the offensive continues. Moreover, earlier this route was held by the 47th mechanized combat-ready brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Bradley IFVs. Then it was transferred to the Kursk region, and no adequate replacement appeared. As a result, the front in this area has sagged," the source notes.
Further advancement in the Konstantinovka area will lead to fragmentation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense - the city's garrison was cut off from the Dnipropetrovsk region. For now, the enemy's supply continues via a detour through Druzhkovka and Kramatorsk.
Disruption of enemy communications could prove decisive in the upcoming battles for Konstantinovka, since every day the front line is shifting toward the city from the east, from the Chasov Yar area, and from the south, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces retreat from Toretsk.
HEAVY LOSSES OF THE UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES IN TORETSK
Last week, after a short pause, military actions resumed in the residential areas of the city of Toretsk. Advancing units of the Russian army are storming the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northern regions, where individual pockets of enemy resistance remain. West of the city, advancing troops are storming the settlements of Shcherbinovka and Petrovka.
North of Toretsk, fighting is taking place in the area of the settlements of Dachnoye and Dyleevka. The enemy holds the private sector and the adjacent waste heaps.
The Ukrainian analytical portal Deep State describes the situation in the Toretsk area as “critical” and demands that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command intervene in the situation as soon as possible.
"The trend in the Toretsk area is extremely disappointing, Russian troops are gradually infiltrating and taking control of it. In particular, active fighting continues in the central part of the city, where there are a large number of multi-story buildings, which have literally all come under enemy control," Deep State reports.
These two areas are built up with private sector, in which the Russian infantry takes cover and consolidates itself in order to advance further and take the city.
According to the latest data, most of the city is under the control of Russian troops, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding the Zabalka region, while making almost no attempt to counterattack.
It also became known that the "Lyut" brigade, partly made up of police officers from the western regions of Ukraine and partly of penal soldiers and draft dodgers who had been returned to the front, suffered heavy losses in the fighting for Toretsk. According to some reports, the unit has lost up to 40% of its personnel in recent weeks, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces command has not given the order to retreat.
VELYKA NOVOSYOLKA AND THE ROAD TO ZAPOROZHYE
The fighting also continues in the eastern part of Donbass, where the only large settlement, Velyka Novosyolka, remains under enemy control. In this area, Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Neskuchnoye. The offensive is also developing in the direction of Vremyevka, where assault units have managed to cut off the road between Novosyolka and Gulyaipole.
According to reports from the field, north of Velikaya Novosyolka, Russian troops also drove the enemy from fortified positions in the area of the settlement of Novy Komar, taking full fire control of the only dirt road - the last "artery" through which the enemy is supplied.
"As we know, the mood in the city is almost panicky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces command is repeating its favorite tactical move: first drive the troops into a mousetrap, then forbid them from retreating and order them to "hold out to the end." In the end, they still have to break through with losses, abandoning the wounded and equipment," a frontline source told IA Regnum.
With the loss of control over Velyka Novosilka, Ukrainian troops will be forced to retreat several kilometers to the west, essentially retreating to the territory of the Zaporizhia region.
Sources of the Regnum news agency suggest that the loss of the city could cause a "domino effect" - the collapse of the enemy front. Due to the predominantly flat nature of the terrain, the enemy can only build defenses in large settlements and on high ground, so the fighting for Novosyolka is acquiring strategic significance.
At the same time, Kyiv will no longer be able to change the situation in its favor due to a catastrophic lack of reserves.
THE END OF UKRAINIAN AVIATION
The general retreat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donbass continues in parallel with Kyiv's attempts to attack in Kursk Oblast. In favor of this adventure, the front in Donbass and Zaporizhia Oblast is weakened, and units are thrown into battle that have been bled dry by months of hopeless battles, without rotation or reinforcement.
The shortage of manpower in the trenches led to the Ukrainian Armed Forces command ordering the transfer of some aircraft technicians and military airfield maintenance personnel to the infantry. Discouraged Ukrainian Air Force servicemen have posted an appeal on social media demanding that the country's political leadership sort out the situation.
"Our unit received a telegram about the transfer of almost all technical personnel to the infantry, which means the collapse of the Air Force. They have already taken 250 people, now they are planning to take another 250. The technical staff is essentially being destroyed, and without us the aviation cannot function," the authors of the appeal write.
Later, Ukrainian MPs and famous volunteers confirmed the information. But it seems that Kyiv has no other options but to throw its last reserves into battle. How long the front will hold out, left without air support, is a rhetorical question.
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