Military actions in Donetsk region, 75 combat clashes, enemy shelling. How the 1054th day of full-scale war will be remembered. ://baltimorechronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/29b82337d80bf875d033abae9c021a4f.jpg” alt=”The main news for Sunday, January 12: 75 combat contacts, defense of Pokrovsk> Ukrainian Defense Forces
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 16:00 on January 12, there were 75 combat clashes.
On < b>PokrovskIn this direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have made 33 attempts to push our defenders from their positions in the areas of the settlements of Elizavetovka, Lisovka, Zelenoe, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Udachnoye, Kotlino, Novovasilovka, Serebryanoye, Petrovpavlovka, Shevchenko, Dachnoye and Yantarnoye. More details on the operational situation as of the evening of January 12 are in the news.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reports that today The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a high-precision air strike on the command post of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army of Russia, located in the city of Novogrodovkain the Donetsk region.
It is noted that this operation is a continuation of a series of fire strikes on the command posts of the occupiers in the Donetsk direction.
“The Ukrainian Armed Forces demonstrate a high level of coordination and professionalism in identifying and destroying key objects of the enemy's command and control links and military infrastructure,” the report says.
In order to reach agreements in the war, the front line in Ukraine needs to be stabilized and the issue of the lack of human resources needs to be resolved, Mike Walz, the nominee for the post of national security adviser in the team of the newly elected US president, said in an interview with ABC News, Voice of America reports.
According to Walz, the current age of mobilization in Ukraine is 26, not 18. “They can get hundreds of thousands of new troops,” he added.
“If Ukrainians ask the whole world to fully protect democracy, they themselves need to fully protect democracy,” the future national security adviser in Trump’s team noted.
A group of deputies of the National Council of Slovakia arrived in Moscow today on a visit, Deutsche Welle reports, citing Russian media.
As part of the visit, which will end on January 15, events are planned at the level of heads of committees of the Slovak parliament, the State Duma of the Russian Federation, and the Federation Council.
It is known that the agenda of the talks should include, among other things, the supply of natural gas to Slovakia and the war in Ukraine.
The death toll from wildfires in Los Angeles County, USA, has risen to 16, Radio Liberty reports.
11 people died in the Eaton Fire in the foothills of the Angeles National Forest in the city of Pasadena and the Altadena area, and the remaining five people died in the Palisades Fire in the Pacific Palisades area.
“Critical fire weather conditions will, unfortunately, intensify again today in southern California and will last at least until early next week. This could cause the current fires to spread and new ones to start,” the National Weather Service said in a statement.
The causes of the outbreaks are still unknown, but an investigation is underway.
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