Night air attack, 152 combat encounters, battles in the Pokrovsky and Toretsky directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, detention of the deputy chairman of the Central VLK, fire at the aircraft plant in Smolensk.
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The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 152 combat encounters occurred at the front in the past 24 hours.
In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 73 enemy assaults. >
In the Toretsk direction, the enemy carried out 17 attacks near Toretskaya, Krymskoye, Dilievka, Shcherbinovka and Ozaryanovka.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Russian army has lost another 1,600 Russian occupiers, 12 tanks, and 60 artillery systems. In total, Russia has already lost about 822,030 troops in Ukraine.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the night of January 21, Russia attacked Ukraine with 131 Shahed-type strike drones and drone imitators of various typesin the directions of Millerovo, Orel, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and also launched four Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Voronezh region.
As of 09:00, the destruction of 72 “shahids” and other types of drones has been confirmed in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytsky, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Odessa, Zaporizhia and Rivne regions. /p>
59 enemy drones-simulators were lost (without negative consequences).
Institutions, outbuildings, and private houses were damaged in Poltava and Cherkasy regions. Special services are eliminating the consequences, but there were no casualties or victims.
Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine, with the assistance of the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, detained the chief psychiatrist of the Armed Forces, who is the Deputy Chairman of the Central Military Commission and decides on the suitability of military personnel for service, the SBU press service reports. According to RBC-Ukraine, this is Oleg Druz.
According to the case materials, this official acquired unjustified assets worth more than $1 million during the full-scale invasion. At the same time, the defendant did not reflect the relevant property in his declaration and registered it in the name of his wife, daughter, sons and other third parties. What property, according to the investigation, the suspect acquired during 2022-2024 is in the news.
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense has no requests from the General Staff or the Ministry of Defense regarding lowering the mobilization age. Deputy Chairman of this committee Yegor Chernev said this in an interview on the “Adult View” program on LB live.
Speaking about the proposal of Donald Trump's then-nominee for the post of National Security Advisor Mike Waltz to mobilize 18-year-old Ukrainians, Chernev recalled the delays in deliveries of promised weapons and the delays in issuing permits for long-range strikes on enemy targets.
This, according to him, cost Ukraine human lives and health. Therefore, shifting the blame for the fact that “there are not enough” to eighteen-year-olds is wrong.
Chernev acknowledged the shortage of personnel, but emphasized that, first of all, there is a shortage of weapons.
Details are in the news and in the interview itself, where there is still a lot of interesting information.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a special address at the World Economic Forum in Davos today at 15:30 in Kyiv, Interfax-Ukraine reports. According to the program, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will deliver a special address to Zelensky, and a special address by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Vice Premier of the State Council of China Ding Xuexiang is planned even earlier.
The agenda of the Davos Forum is in the news.
The White House website has published President Donald Trump's official submission of nominees for government positions, which must be confirmed by the US Senate.
The key officials in the new administration should be Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Interior Secretary Douglas Burgum, Pentagon chief Peter Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and US Ambassador to the UN Elise Stefanik.
The Senate has already confirmed Marco Rubio as US Secretary of State.
Donald Trump took his first official actions as President of the United States during the celebration of his inauguration at the stadium – he signed a number of decrees in front of his supporters.
As the BBC writes, the Republican immediately canceled 78 executive actions issued by his predecessor Joe Biden. In particular, the United States again withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.
More information is in our news.
And during the signing of decrees by Donald Trump in the Oval Office, the White House allowed selected journalists to communicate with the US President and ask him questions. One of them concerned the war in Ukraine.
According to the BBC, Trump was reminded of his promise to end the fighting within 24 hours. The Republican responded that only half a day had passed since his inauguration, and “we'll see what happens next.” Trump also shared his belief that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “wants to end the war with an agreement.”
Regarding Putin, Trump said that he is “destroying Russia without making an agreement.” “I think Russia is in big trouble. Just look at the inflation in Russia… I would hope that he wants to make an agreement,” the Voice of America quotes the US President as saying.
Videos and photographs of an attack by attack drones on the Russian city of Smolensk, located near the border of the aggressor country with Belarus, were circulated online.
Local residents wrote about explosions, after which a fire broke out. The fire probably occurred at the aircraft factory, which was the target of the shelling. There are also reports of a fire in a multi-story building.
The most complete picture of today will definitely be on our website.
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