Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,049
On Jan. 6, Russian forces introduced artillery, mortars and drones into the lands of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, killing two civilians and wounding 11 others, the government said.
Russian troops executed 3 Ukrainian prisoners of war near the eastern line on January 3, the commissioner of the Ukrainian parliament announced. The soldiers, who had given up a battle, would have been united, led in front of the Russian positions in the small town of Neskuchne and shot in the back of the head. Lubinets, as well as human rights groups, condemned the law, accusing Russia of systematic abuse of Ukrainian prisoners of war.
Dnipropetrovsk region. On Jan. 5, Russian artillery struck the industrial city of Nikopol in the country’s southeast, killing a 43-year-old man.
Despite Ukraine halting the transit of Russian natural gas through its territory, Russia will likely be able to mitigate the negative impact on its economy by selling more to Asian markets and boosting its LNG (liquid natural gas) exports, with losses projected at just 0.2–0.3% of GDP, according to Bloomberg. Europe continues to buy record amounts of Russian LNG, while Russian pipeline exports to China hit a record 31 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2024 and are expected to rise to 38 bcm when the Power of Siberia pipeline reaches full capacity in 2025. Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom may also boost sales via the TurkStream pipeline and redirect gas to Central Asia. Russia aims to triple LNG exports to 100 million tons by 2035, though sanctions may jeopardize these plans.
More than 1,000 North Korean troops were killed or injured in the Kursk region in Russia, said the United States Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, on January 6, while Russia and Ukraine would accentuate offensives before the return of US president Donald Trump To the White House, fierce fighting. He continued in the Russia Kursk region at the moment, where the forces of Ukraine won and remained on the ground, positioning himself for the effect lever in the long -term peace conversations.
Meanwhile, the Kremlin has pointed out significant advances in East Ukraine, claiming the capture of Kurakhove, a small city with a population before the war of approximately 20,000, reinforcing the impulse of Moscow towards the strategic logistics center of Pokrovsk in the Oriental, or Donetsk the officials of the region. Kyiv declared the ongoing battles in Kurakhove, but stopped confirming their fall.
A recent vote through the International Institute of Sociology of Kyiv shows a change in public feeling, with 38% of Ukrainians who now contemplate appropriate territorial concessions to achieve peace with Russia, compared to 32% in October. While regional diversifications show slight increases in the territorial for territorial. Concessions, most Ukrainians still reject such commitments. Still, the percentage of other people strongly opposes any territorial commitment has fallen to 51%, below 58% in the fall.
Agricultural exports of Ukraine rose $ 24. 5 billion in 2024, which represents almost 60% of general exports in the country and marked the performance of the moment, after the 2021 record, 27. 7 billion dollars. The country has exported 78. 3 million metric tons of agricultural products, directed through sunflower oil, corn and wheat. In general, Ukraine exports higher to 15% in the annual sliding to $ 41. 6 billion, the maritime industry of 87. 2 opposes 54. 8 million tons in 2023, which reinforces the position of ‘Ukraine as an agricultural export power global.
Russia has abolished single banknotes for criminals recruited to fight Ukraine, signaling a buildup of currency pressures amid the ongoing war, according to Ukraine’s foreign intelligence service. 1, leaving imprisoned recruits and their families without the monetary benefits that other combatants enjoy. By November 2024, Russia had mobilized 140,000 to 180,000 criminals in its war opposed to Ukraine, a significant portion of its reduced criminal population, which it has reduced since 2014 from 2014, most likely due to war conscription.
In a 3 -hour giant interview with Podcaster Lex Fridman on January 5, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed critical issues, adding the possible end of the war, the NATO club and security promises. Zelenskyy under the pressure that the initial peace discussions would be with the president elected American Donald Trump, followed through Russian discussions, hoping to obtain falsified security promises for Ukraine, prospectively through the NATO club. He proposed to use $ 3 hundred billion in frozen Russian assets to buy American weapons, emphasizing that Ukraine does not want documents, however, a monetary contrast in his defense. Zelenskyy also indicated that the elections in Ukraine can only be held after the end of the war or if legislative adjustments are made. He also declared that North Korea had lost 3,800 infantry soldiers fighting for Russia and reiterated the need for Ukraine to negotiate from a strength position of the army with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who described as deaf for diplomatic efforts.
By Danylo Nosov, Karina L. Tahiliani
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