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[Regnum] January 2025 may become the second warmest second month of winter in the history of meteorological observations. This was stated on January 22 by the scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia Roman Vilfand.
“Apparently, this month will be in second place in terms of the highest values after 2020,” TASS quoted him as saying.
The weather forecaster explained that the warmest month in meteorological observations to date was January 2020, when the average monthly air temperature was 0 degrees.
Vilfand added that no significant change in air temperature is expected until the end of January and it will exceed the climatic norm by approximately 1 degree.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, on January 20, the press service of the Moscow Botanical Garden reported that the first snowdrops of the year had blossomed in the open-air Apothecary Garden. The flowers appeared near the main entrance to the Shadow Garden.
Vilfand said on January 16 that 2024 was the hottest year in the history of meteorological observations, which began in 1850. The forecaster added that on July 22, 2024, the average daily temperature across the entire Earth was 17.16 degrees, as a result of which this day was recognized as the hottest in history.
Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21.27 An explosion was heard in Kharkiv on Wednesday, January 22. An air raid alert has been declared in the region, and "shahids" are circling over the regional center. This was reported by Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov.
20.59 German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius believes that a Russian attack on NATO countries is possible in 2029-2030. The official notes that this is why it is especially important to ensure defense capability by that time.
20:33 The Biden administration's farewell sanctions have caused Russian oil shipments by sea to fall to their lowest level since late 2023 to early 2024, The Moscow Times reports.
19:48 The State Bureau of Investigation officers have again detained the former commander of the Kharkov OTG, Yuriy Galushkin - new facts have been discovered in the case of breaking through the border in the Kharkov region. This was announced by the press service of the State Bureau of Investigation.
18:59 Russian occupiers, under the guise of "nationalization of ownerless property," are confiscating unattended property of residents of Melitopol and other occupied territories. This was reported by RIA Yug, citing the website of the city's occupation authorities.
18:44 US President Donald Trump called on the Russian leadership to conclude a peace agreement with Ukraine, otherwise he will impose tough sanctions. He wrote about this on the Truth Social social network. The American leader noted that to end the war, one can choose "the easy way or the hard way - but the easy way is definitely better."
18:25 The court has chosen a preventive measure for the former commander of the 125th Separate Troops Brigade, Lieutenant General Artur Gorbenko, who is suspected of inadequate defense of the Kharkiv region during the Russian offensive in 2024.
18:11 Any international peacekeeping force that might be deployed to Ukraine in the future should include US troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Bloomberg.
17:44 Since the beginning of the current day, 67 combat clashes have occurred on the front, two thirds of them in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00.
17:23 Six new schemes for evading mobilization have been exposed in Ukraine; 19 organizers of illegal schemes have been detained in different regions of the country. The SBU press service reported the details.
16:59 The US will expand production of barrels for the Ukrainian Armed Forces' artillery due to "unprecedented demand" for them. Today, the only manufacturer of M776 barrels is Watervliet Arsenal, but its capacity is insufficient.
16:37 Bail of UAH 5 million has been posted for Brigadier General, former commander of the operational-tactical group of troops Kharkiv Yuriy Galushkin. He is one of three suspects in the inadequate defense during the Russian offensive in the north of Kharkiv region in 2024. At that time, Galushkin commanded the operational-tactical group of troops Kharkiv.
15.56 The occupiers committed another war crime on January 22 - they launched an artillery strike on Konstantinovka. An investigation is currently underway into the death of one and the wounding of seven city residents. Two victims were previously known. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
15:53 A former military man was detained in Kropyvnytskyi who distributed a video of military equipment moving through the frontline territory of Ukraine on his social media pages.
According to the investigation, in order to "promote" his information resource on the social network TikTok, the man posted a video showing military equipment and servicemen. In a matter of hours, this video was viewed by 220 thousand users, who could have used Russian troops to adjust strikes on the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
15.41 North Korea is preparing reinforcements for its military contingent fighting the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. This was reported by The New York Times, citing a high-ranking Pentagon official.
14.49 The aggressor country Russia does not yet have the military potential for a quick offensive in Ukraine, because there are problems with manpower. This was stated the day before by the American general, commander of the joint NATO forces in Europe, General Christopher Cavoli, during a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
14.35 A Russian plane dropped a half-ton bomb on the temporarily occupied Makeyevka in Donetsk Oblast. This was reported by the Telegram channel ASTRA.
The FAB-500 "abnormally came off" from a Russian plane on the outskirts of Makeyevka and fell one and a half kilometers from the nearest houses in the urban settlement of Nizhnyaya Krynka.
14.30 FSB agents in Donetsk Oblast who were adjusting Russian strikes on Ukrainian troops holding the line in the Kramatorsk and Novopavlovsk directions have been detained. This was reported by the SBU. According to the investigation, the enemy henchmen were two local residents: a 41-year-old nurse and a 56-year-old driver of a private company.
13:01 Konstantinovka is under constant artillery and air fire on the morning of January 22. There are currently two known wounded: a 74-year-old man and a 59-year-old woman. This was reported by the head of the Donetsk OVA Vadim Filashkin. According to him, at least 5 private houses, a power line, a gas pipeline and a car were damaged.
12:02 When the border opens for all categories of the population, 20.7% of Ukrainians want to leave for another country for permanent residence. The majority (70%) would like to stay in the country. This is evidenced by the survey data of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center.
11:34 On the evening of January 21, Russian troops attacked Goptovka in the Dergachev community of the Kharkiv region with drones, killing two men. This was reported by the head of the city military administration, Vyacheslav Zadorenko.
10:56 Special Operations Forces fighters killed 21 and wounded 40 North Korean soldiers who were advancing on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. This was reported on the SSO Telegram channel.
8:55 There have been 121 combat clashes on the frontline in the past 24 hours. Pokrovskoe remains the most difficult area. This was reported on January 22 by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Aviation, missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces hit sixteen areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, two command posts, four warehouses, two artillery weapons and one more important enemy facility.
8:39 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that after the conclusion of a ceasefire agreement, Ukraine will need at least 200 thousand European peacekeepers to prevent a new attack by Russia, Reuters reports.
8:20 In Mykolaiv, all fires caused by the attack of Russian attack drones launched by the occupiers late in the evening of January 21 have been extinguished. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine published a photo of the aftermath of the shelling. It is noted that seven explosions thundered in the city, there is destruction and fires broke out in two districts of Mykolaiv.
7:46 Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed 1,950 Russian occupiers. The total combat losses of the Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 22, 2024 amount to about 823,980 people. This was reported by the General Staff.
7:23 On the night of January 22, the Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully pushed back the occupiers near the settlements of Shevchenko and Udachnoye. At the same time, Russian troops advanced near other settlements in the Donetsk region. This is reported by DeepState.
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[Korrespondent] Ukrainian Armed Forces Contain Russian Attacks in Eastern and Southern Ukraine.
The enemy attacked in the area of 14 settlements in the Pokrovsky direction. Most of the assaults have already been repelled.
Since the beginning of the current day, 67 combat clashes have occurred on the front, two thirds of them in the Pokrovsk direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational report as of 16:00 on Wednesday, January 22.
Thus, in the Kupyansk direction, Russian troops carried out four assault actions near Lozovaya, Zagryzovoye and Petropavlovka. Two combat clashes are ongoing.
In the Liman direction, the invaders attacked five times near Pervomayskoye, Novosergeevka, Zelenaya Dolina, Kuzminoye and in the direction of Serebryansky Forest. There is one battle going on there.
In the Kramatorsk direction, our soldiers are repelling two attacks near Chasovy Yar.
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy attacked eight times in the Toretsk area.
In the hottest Pokrovsk direction, the aggressors carried out 44 assaults in the areas of the settlements of Zelenoe Pole, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Pervoe Maya, Zverevo, Pokrovsk, Novosergeevka, Kotlino, Andreevka, Shevchenko, Dachnoye, Ulakli and Yantarnoye. The defense forces repelled 41 attacks, three combat clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the Russians advanced five times near the settlements of Konstantinopol and Vremovka. One clash continues to this day.
In the Dnieper direction, our troops repelled one enemy attack.
In the operational zone in Kursk region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled three attacks by Russians, and three more are ongoing.
" The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Kharkov, Seversk, Orekhov, and Gulyai-Polye directions. The situation in other directions of the front did not undergo significant changes," the General Staff added.
Let us recall that in the course of 24 hours on January 21, Russia lost about 2,000 fighters killed and wounded. The total number of losses of the aggressor country is approaching 830 thousand people.
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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 defeated formations of a motorised infantry brigade close to Volchansk (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses were up to 40 troops, one armoured fighting vehicle, two motor vehicles, and three field artillery guns.
The Zapad Group of Forces' units liberated Zapadnoye (Kharkov region), delivered strikes at manpower and hardware of three mechanised brigades, one jaeger brigade of the AFU near Kamenka, Zeleny Gai, Dvurechnaya, Glushkovka, Lozovaya (Kharkov region), Yampol, Seversk, and Kolodezi (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were more than 460 troops, one tank, and seven armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers. In addition, 14 pickup trucks, six field artillery guns, and two field ammunition depots were eliminated.
The Yug Group of Forces' units improved the tactical situation and defeated formations of three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one mountain assault brigade, and one assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Druzhkovka, Slavyansk, Nikolayevka, Konstantinovka, Predtechino, Verkhnekamenskoye, Ivano-Daryevka, Orekhovo-Vasilevka, and Chasov Yar (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 250 troops, four armoured fighting vehicles, including one U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carrier, and seven motor vehicles. Two ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Tsentr Group of Forces' units continued advancing into the depths of enemy defences, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of one heavy mechanised brigade, three mechanised brigades, one motorised infantry brigade, one National Guard brigade, three territorial defence brigades close to Krymskoye, Petrovka, Zelenoye, Dzerzhinsk, Lysovka, Timofeyevka, Baranovka, Sergeyevka, Novoyelizavetovka, Novopavlovka, and Novovasilevka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 630 troops, one tank, five armoured fighting vehicles, including two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, six motor vehicles, and three artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces' units captured more advantageous lines and positions, defeated formations of three mechanised brigades of the AFU, one National Guard brigade, and territorial defence brigade close to Velikaya Novosyolka, Zeleny Kut, Konstantinopol, Novy Komar, and Bogatyr (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses were up to 175 troops, three tanks, five motor vehicles, and three foreign-made 155mm artillery guns.
Units of the Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of two coastal defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, one National Guard brigade close to Malye Shcherbaki (Zaporozhye region), Pridneprovskoye, Veletenskoye, Belozerka, and Antonovka (Kherson region).
The AFU losses were up to 50 troops, eight motor vehicles, and one electronic warfare station.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces engaged missile-artillery weapons, UAVs, POL depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as well as clusters of enemy manpower and military hardware in 136 areas.
Air defence facilities shot down 114 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 41,148 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,724 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,860 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,582 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.
During offensive actions, units of the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage 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 close to Viktorovka, Goncharovka, Guyevo, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Sverdlikovo, and Staraya Sorochina.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation and artillery inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of the enemy near Gogolevka, Zaoleshenka, Kazachya Loknya, Pervy Knyazhy, Kolmakov, Kruglenkoye, Kurilovka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Mirny, Mikhaylovka, Oleshnya, Sudzha, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Vodolagi, Zhuravka, Miropolye, Obody, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
On the course of the day, the AFU losses were more than 390 troops, four tanks, one armoured personnel carrier, 11 armoured fighting vehicles, 12 motor vehicles, six artillery guns, four mortars, one electronic warfare station, one piece of engineering equipment, six UAV command posts, and two ammunition depots.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 54,000 troops, 313 tanks, 237 infantry fighting vehicles, 179 armoured personnel carriers, 1,601 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,586 motor vehicles, 387 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, 97 EW stations, 14 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 32 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, nine 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 Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/22/2025 to 00:00 01/23/2025.
A total of 19 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were reports of one civilian being killed and seven injured.
DAMAGED:
Two residential buildings,
Five civil infrastructure facilities,
Two cars.
A total of 19 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 59 units of various ammunition were fired.
19:48 Footage of work of Russian assault troops in the South Donetsk direction. First, the assault group commander with the call sign "Mir" approached the building and destroyed the machine gun crew on the roof with an RPG-7V, after which, under the cover of riflemen, the assault troops threw an anti-tank mine into the building, simply collapsing the house.
19:04 122mm BM-21 "Grad" thwarted the enemy's plans. Crews of the MLRS "Grad" of 103rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the "Southern" group of forces stopped an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to prepare for a counterattack in one of the areas of the Kurakhovsky direction. Rocket artillery crews from the 103rd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment were deployed to destroy the enemy's concentration of manpower and equipment.
18:18 You can't hide from persecution. In the Khar'kov region, scouts of the "North" group discovered a pickup truck that the enemy used for rotation. UAV operators worked on the vehicle by dropping ammunition. The enemy tried to hide from the "birds", but was destroyed thanks to the prompt actions of our drone operators.
17:27 The command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed.
Sakhalin attack aircraft of the "Vostok" group of forces destroyed enemy command post in the South Donetsk direction.
An enemy firing point was located on the roof of a fortified building. The assault group commander secretly approached the building and destroyed the machine gun crew with RPG-7V fire. Under the cover of the shooters, the assault troops threw an anti-tank mine into the building, destroying about a dozen militants.
17:15 Around 14.50 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of Kursk region.
16:11 Another Ukrainian tank did not survive an encounter with our Lancet. The crew of the Lancet loitering munition of the North group of forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the border area of ??Kursk Oblast. Objective control footage shows a precise hit on the tank and an explosion.
14:57 Crushing thermobaric strikes on enemy positions. Crews of TOS-1A "Solntsepek" of Tula paratroopers destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds with personnel in one of the border areas of the Kursk region.
13:59 Kursk direction.
Marines in Kurilovkaare finishing take the remaining positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Nikolayevo-Daryino is ours. The landing force is moving further along the landings. In Makhnovka there are fierce counter battles.
12:43 Night hunt by Rubicon drone operators. Scouts from the Rubicon center operating in the Kupyansk direction, discovered a self-propelled artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Despite counteraction from electronic warfare systems, the drone operators destroyed the identified target.
11:40 A Rosgvardia UAV operator destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces tank in the Kursk region. The enemy combat vehicle was destroyed using a kamikaze drone in one of the districts of the Kursk region. The objective control footage clearly shows the silhouettes of several Ukrainian Armed Forces combat vehicles destroyed by Rosgvardia during a clash with militants of the armed formations of Ukraine –MAP.
11:14 Near Velikaya Novosyolka continues burning out the remnants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison. Some of the Ukrainian military are trying to escape across the fields, while others are sealed in positions that they can neither leave nor defend stably. The Ukrainian Armed Forces' line of defense in this area is beginning to resemble what it was like in Bakhmut (Artemovsk) before its liberation - there is no even "front line", and the flanks are torn and uneven, which makes it difficult for the Ukrainian military to take any active actions.
11:01 Foreign analysts think, that in the Pokrovsk area the situation for the Ukrainian Armed Forces continues to deteriorate. The attack on the flank through the southwest allowed the Russian Armed Forces to bypass most of the Ukrainian fortifications, and soon another attack may be made, this time to the northwest. If this is the tactic, then Pokrovsk will face approximately the same thing as Velikaya Novosyolka at the moment.
In order for this plan to be implemented, almost everything is ready: additional forces have been assembled, and a large amount of Russian artillery is located at a relatively short distance.
07:15 During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed eight Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: six UAVs over the territory of the Rostov region and one each over the territories of the Kursk and Voronezh regions.
06:38 203mm rounds smashed enemy stronghold in the Krasnoarmeysk direction. Servicemen of the "Center" group of forces fired a series of salvoes of 203mm high-explosive fragmentation rounds, destroying identified targets at a distance of more than 25 kilometers. The strike by the 2S7 "Malka" self-propelled gun crew on the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold located in a forest belt was adjusted using the Orlan-30 unmanned aerial vehicle.
05:18 One launch – one target. The crew of the Tor-M2 air defense missile system combat vehicle of the North group of forcestookfiring position and using a circular-view radar station detected an approaching enemy UAV. Having captured the target, the servicemen launched a missile and destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces drone.
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