It’s been 315 days since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the conflict has become more extreme. Putin and the military leadership continue to be criticized for failing to adequately protect the buildings that store military equipment and its forces. The Kremlin blamed the soldiers’ calls to their relatives to congratulate them on the New Year as a catalyst for what happened, when Ukrainian forces spotted them, at a time when discontent was growing among the population. Kyiv confirms that in an attack on Kherson on Saturday there were 500 dead and wounded: For its part, Moscow continues its attacks with drones that reached the vicinity of Sevastopol airport.
Russian forces repulse a counter-attack by the Ukrainian army in Donetsk
On Wednesday, Russian forces reported that they had managed to repel a counter-attack by the Ukrainian army in the vicinity of Dorozhnyanka in the Donetsk region, as clashes continue between the two sides.
Thus, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, noted that although the Ukrainian forces insisted on trying, “they did not succeed” in their counter-offensive.
He confirmed, according to information from the Interfax news agency, that “units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts to seize the positions of Russian troops in the south.”
The Kremlin now raises the death toll in the Ukrainian attack on a Donetsk warehouse to 290, and the region’s general says there are 89.
Moscow offers different figures for the number of Russian soldiers killed in the new general Ukrainian assault on the Makeyevka (Donetsk) armory, bringing the number to 89. Although they initially reported 63 dead, according to General Sergei Severyukov, they have discovered more bodies in the rubble. in the last few hours. This is what the army indicated this morning. For his part, the Secretary of the Security Council acknowledged, yesterday, the death of 290 people in the deadly attack with Himar missiles, and the opponents of Krelem and bloggers on Telegram had confirmed these days about the death of hundreds. For its part, Kyiv yesterday raised the number to 500 dead and wounded. His early estimates spoke of 400 deaths.
Calls from Russian soldiers at the end of the year revealed their whereabouts
The Ukrainian army destroyed the Russian headquarters in the Donetsk region, guided by the activity of the mobile phones of the soldiers deployed there, who were housed in a compound containing ammunition and were not prevented from using these devices. And Putin was not informed of the deaths of hundreds of soldiers, so as not to upset him on New Year’s Eve.Tells Raphael m. Manueko
A Kremlin spokesman said Putin and Erdogan would speak on Wednesday
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to the Interfax news agency that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to speak with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Wednesday. The Islamist leader, who tried to mediate between Moscow and Kiev to end the war in Ukraine, is one of the leaders who have met with the Russian president more than once since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine in February of last year.
Air raid alerts go off in Nikolaev and Kiev
Vitaly Kim The governor of the Nikolaev region posted on Telegram a report that there was an air alert in the region. At the same time, Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reported that an air alert was in effect andNo Kyiv
Ukraine claims to have shot down nearly 500 Iranian-made Russian drones since September
On Tuesday, the Ukrainian authorities confirmed that they had shot down about 500 drones launched by the Russian army and manufactured in Iran since last September, during the invasion of the territory.
Yuriy Ignat, spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force Command, stated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine “will be ready”. “We shot down the drones,” he stressed, before detailing that 84 drones were “intercepted and shot down within two days.” He emphasized that “Ukrainian forces destroyed 100%.”
“This type of result has not been achieved before. The number of drones intercepted is about 500 since mid-September,” he said, according to information from the “Ukrinform” news agency.
Thus, he asserted, “if they continue to bomb at this rate, the information gathered by our intelligence services shows that at least half of the 250 drones that make up a new battery have been used.”
