Cover image: Rescuers are busy around the rubble of the apartment building damaged by a Russian missile. January 15, 2023. CLODOGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS
- Attacks have been reported in several regions of Ukraine. The bombardment of a building in Dnipro caused at least fourteen deaths and sixty injuries, announced the governor of the oblast. Several explosions sounded Saturday morning at Kiev. Shelling was also reported in the oblasts of Kharkiv, Zaporijia et Mykolaïv. In the South, in Kryvyi Rih, one person was killed and another injured in the destruction of apartment buildings by a strike.
- A Dnipro, 72 apartments were destroyed in the residential complex hit by the Russian bombardment. Between 100 and 200 people lost their homes. In total, counting the peripheral damage, it is nearly 1,700 inhabitants who needed a roof under which to sleep last night according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian presidency, relayed by Kyiv Independent.
- Russian attacks have also affected other cities but also energy infrastructure in Kharkiv and Lviv, according to the Ukrainian authorities. Electricity cuts were decided in most of the oblasts after the last bombardments, specified the Minister of Energy. In total, “the enemy carried out three airstrikes and about fifty missile launches during the day”said the staff of the Ukrainian army. “In addition, the occupiers launched 50 attacks with multiple rocket launchers”.
- Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that the “terror” Russian could only be stopped by arms. In his daily update, the Ukrainian president blasted the Russian attacks, arguing that the only way to end them was to fight “on the battlefield”. “What do you need for that? The weapons that are in the warehouses of our partners and that our warriors are waiting for »he launched in an appeal formulated for the attention of Western allies of Ukraine.
- Soledar is ” under control “ of Ukraine, according to a Ukrainian official. The small town of Soledar, in the east of the country, at the center of a fierce battle with Russian forces and which Moscow claims to have taken, is still ” under control “ Ukrainian, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Saturday, adding that this locality and the nearby town of Bakhmout were the “hottest” you front.
- UK promises to supply Challenger 2s to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement on Saturday that he had pledged to supply Challenger 2 tanks. ” in the next weeks “ 14 heavy tanks to Ukraine. The announcement caused the Russian diplomacy to react, which considered that this shipment of arms was not going to “in no way to accelerate the end of military hostilities, but only to intensify them, causing new victims”.
- The United Nations (UN) Security Council met to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Friday. “Ukraine, Russia, the world cannot afford this war to continue”insisted UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. But “it is the military logic that dominates, with very little room for dialogue at the moment, if there is even the slightest”she added, not seeing “no sign of an end to the fighting”.
- NATO announced on Friday the deployment of Awacs surveillance aircraft in Romania from Tuesday, to support its reinforced presence in the region and “monitor Russian military activity”.
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