Russia claims to have shot down at least 121 Ukrainian drones in a primary airstrike
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Russian air defenses repelled a massive Ukrainian drone attack overnight, intercepting and destroying 121 drones targeting thirteen regions, in addition to Moscow.
The Ukrainian military said its drones had hit oil facilities in Ryazan in Russia and a microelectronics production plant in Bryansk. He said the facilities attacked were used by the Russian military.
The mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, said on Friday that the aerial defenses had intercepted attacks by Ukrainian drones in 4 places around the Russian capital. Sobyanin, writing in Telegram, said the air defenses southeast of the capital in Kolomna and Ramenskoye had repelled “enemies” drones, specifying how many.
The attack came here when the South Korean army said that North Korea was preparing to send more troops to register in the fight of Russia opposed to Ukraine, although Pyongyang suffers a higher victims rate between its existing deployment of 11,000 and seeing some of their children captured.
Russian President Vladimir Putin obviously said he wanted to resume negotiations on the relief of nuclear weapons as soon as possible, said the Kremlin in reaction to the comments of the US President, Donald Trump.
Trump said Thursday that he wants to work to reduce nuclear weapons, adding that he believes Russia and China could simply reduce their own military capabilities.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the ball was in Washington’s court.
The Russian troops have taken the Tymofiivka agreement in the East Region of Donetsk of Ukraine, said the official news firm of RIA, mentioned by the Ministry of Defense.
The Independent could not verify the battlefield report.
Hungary wants the European Union to persuade Ukraine to resume gas transit from Russia to Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, signalling a tough debate as the EU seeks to extend its sanctions against Russia over the coming week.
Hungary has not yet decided if he will cancel the sanctions at the end of this month. The EU renews the sanctions every six months and asks for unanimity among its 27 member countries to do so.
Orban, whose government has maintained closer economic and political relations with Moscow than other EU countries, reiterated his criticism of the sanctions on Friday, saying they caused 19 billion euros ($19.9 billion) of financial damage to Hungary. He did not say how this number was calculated.
“Now, the question of the reversal of the sanctions is on the table and I have thrown the brake and I have asked EU leaders to perceive that this continues,” Orban told the state radio.
“It is intelligent that we pay the value of Ukraine . . . and that causes problems to the United States,” he said, referring to a recent resolution through Ukraine to prevent Russian fuel flows to Europe through the Druzhba pipeline.
“We ask them to convince Ukraine to resume the gas transit,” Orban said, adding Budapest also wanted guarantees that Ukraine would not halt Russian crude imports.
EU foreign ministers will meet on Monday to discuss reversing sanctions and the foreign minister kicked off a major debate, saying Hungary would also consult with its U. S. partners in the coming days.
Russian security official Sergei Shoigu warned in an interview published on Friday that the risk of an armed clash between nuclear powers was rising.
Shoigu, the secretary of President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council, told TASS news agency: “Against the backdrop of increasing conflict and aggravation of geopolitical rivalry in the world, the risks of a violent clash between major states, including with the participation of nuclear powers, are growing.”
The former defence minister said that NATO was increasing activities on its eastern flank, close to Russia and Belarus, and rehearsing offensive as well as defensive scenarios there.
NATO says it is Russia that is raising tensions, including by announcing in 2023 that it was deploying tactical nuclear weapons in its ally Belarus, which borders three NATO countries.
Shoigu said that Russia, who sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, and Belarus was taking opposite preventive measures to Western to “destabilize the situation . . . from the inside. “
He reiterated that Belarus was now under the protection of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, as a consequence of changes that Putin announced last year to Russia’s doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons.
“The Russian ‘nuclear umbrella’ now guarantees the coverage of our closest best friend in the same framework in which Russia authorizes a nuclear reaction for its own defense,” he said.
“That is, by repelling a weapon of attack of mass destruction or aggression of traditional weapons that create a critical risk to sovereignty or territorial integrity. “
South Korea’s military said it suspected North Korea was preparing to send more troops to Russia to combat Ukrainian forces, even after suffering losses and seeing some of its infantrymen captured.
“As 4 months have passed for the dispatch of troops for the Russia-Ukraine War, and multiple patients and captives (North Korea) are suspected of accelerating follow-up measures and the preparation of ‘an additional shipment of troops,’ the “Joint Chiefs Staff (JCS) said in a press release.
The JCS investigation did not specify what other follow-up steps Pyongyang takes.
North Korea is also preparing to release a spy satellite and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), there are no signs of rapid action, the JCS said.
This month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said two North Korean soldiers had been captured in Russia’s Kursk region, marking the first time Ukraine had taken North Korean soldiers alive since their entry into the war last autumn.
Pyongyang has deployed about 11,000 soldiers to Moscow’s forces in the Russian Western region of Kursk, according to Ukrainian and Western evaluations, which Ukraine took in a miraculous attack last year.
According to Kyiv, more than 3,000 people died or were injured.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianine said air defense had intercepted three separate attacks by Ukrainian drones heading towards the Russian capital.
Sobyanin, writing on the messaging app Telegram, said that air defense is established southeast of the capital, in the districts of Kolomna and Ramenskoye, repelled an organization of “enemy” drones, specifying how many were concerned about the star
“At the site where fragments fell, no damage or casualties have occurred,” Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying how many drones were involved. “Specialist emergency crews are at the site.”
The mayor published two other announcements in succession.
Sothroughanin said two drones also heading for Moscow were shot down through air defenses in the Podolsk district, south of the capital. He then reported that only one drone was shot down in the Troitsky district, southwest of the capital.
Specialized emergency services were sent to all places, Sobyanin said.
Russia reprimanded the head of the UN children’s agency Unicef for not providing a “weighty argument for her refusal” to brief the Security Council on children in Gaza – a meeting requested by Russia.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell, an American, briefed the 15-member council on young people in Ukraine “in the blink of an eye” in December, during the U. S. presidency of the council.
“Therefore, it would seem that for UNICEF youth in Gaza are less than young people in Ukraine,” said Nebenzia.
“UNICEF’s refusal to inform the Security Council about the horrific tragedy of the deaths of tens of thousands of young people in Gaza is a blatant step, which deserves our most serious censure,” Nebenzia told the council.
Russell is present in the Davos World Economic Forum, in Switzerland, with the aim of responding to humanitarian crises and has not had to adjust his agenda to inform the Security Council, said a UNICEF spokesman.
“Ms. Russell had offered the Director of Emergencies to deliver her statement on her behalf,” the Unicef spokesperson said. “The Unicef Executive Director has briefed the Security Council several times on the situation of children in Gaza and appreciates the council’s focus on children impacted by war.”
The Security Council has met dozens of times to discuss the war in Gaza. Israel’s armed and security forces, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, and Russia’s armed forces are all on the UN global list of offenders for killing and maiming children.
Trump claims Ukraine’s leader made a decision that he “wanted to fight” when it was Russia that started hostilities between the two countries.
Russian forces recently executed at least six unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Donetsk, a US-based think tank said citing Ukrainian sources.
“The Ukrainian resources circulated photographs on January 23, Russia dragging Ukrainian prisoners of war unarmed to an un specified domain of Ukraine,” the Institute for the Study of War said.
The Ukrainian government is investigating images posted on social media showing Russian forces executing six captured and unarmed Ukrainian servicemen in an unspecified region of Donetsk, the country’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lyubinets said.
He noted that the footage shows a seventh Ukrainian POW in this group but that it is unclear what happened to the seventh POW based on the footage.
“ISW has reported that Russian forces use executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war on the front lines and continues to assess that Russian army commanders are complicit or allowing their subordinates to highlight those executions,” it said. the expert group said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin obviously said he wanted to resume negotiations on the relief of nuclear weapons as soon as possible, said the Kremlin in reaction to the comments of the US President, Donald Trump.
Trump said Thursday that he sought paints to cut nuclear weapons, adding that the idea that Russia and China can only relieve their own weapons capabilities.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the ball is on Washington’s roof.
Russian troops have taken the Tymofiivka colony in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, the official news firm Ria reported, presenting the Ministry of Defense.
The independent can simply check the report on the battlefield.
A Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer Dita of Azov brigade fires towards Russian positions at frontline in Donetsk region
Hungary the European Union will convince Ukraine to resume fuel transit from Russia to Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, heralding an uphill debate as the EU seeks to increase its sanctions against Russia in the coming week.
Hungary has not yet decided if he will cancel the sanctions at the end of this month. The EU renews the sanctions every six months and asks for unanimity among its 27 member countries to do so.
Orban, whose government has maintained closer economic and political relations with Moscow than other EU countries, reiterated his criticism of the sanctions on Friday, saying they caused 19 billion euros ($19.9 billion) of financial damage to Hungary. He did not say how this number was calculated.
“Now the issue of the rollover of the sanctions is on the agenda and I have pulled the brakes and asked EU leaders to understand this cannot continue,” Orban told state radio.
“It’s smart that we pay the value of Ukraine. . . and that causes problems for the United States,” he said, referring to a recent resolution through Ukraine to prevent Russian fuel flows to Europe through the Druzhba pipeline.
“We ask them to convince Ukraine to resume fuel traffic,” said Orban, adding that Budapest also sought promises that Ukraine would not prevent imports of Russian crude oil.
The EU Foreign Ministers will meet Monday to renew the sanctions and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs spoke of a great debate, saying that Hungary would also consult with his US partners in the coming days.
Russian Security Manager Sergei Shouigo warned in an interview published on Friday that increased the threat of an assembly between nuclear powers.
Shoigu, the secretary of President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council, told TASS news agency: “Against the backdrop of increasing conflict and aggravation of geopolitical rivalry in the world, the risks of a violent clash between major states, including with the participation of nuclear powers, are growing.”
The former defence minister said that NATO was increasing activities on its eastern flank, close to Russia and Belarus, and rehearsing offensive as well as defensive scenarios there.
NATO claims that it is Russia that is raising tensions, particularly by announcing in 2023 that it will deploy tactical nuclear weapons in its best friend Belarus, which borders three NATO countries.
Shoigu said that Russia, who sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine in February 2022, and Belarus was taking preventive measures opposed to Western attempts to “destabilize Thearray . . . from the inside. “
He reiterated that Belarus is now under the cover of Russia’s nuclear arsenal, as a result of adjustments Putin announced last year to Russia’s doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons.
“The Russian ‘nuclear umbrella’ now ensures the protection of our closest ally in the same framework scenarios in which Russia allows a nuclear response for its own defence,” he said.
“Namely, when repelling an attack using weapons of mass destruction or aggression using conventional weapons that creates a critical threat to sovereignty or territorial integrity.”
South Korea’s military said it suspects North Korea will send more troops to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, even after suffering casualties and seeing some of its infantrymen captured.
“Although 4 months have elapsed since the sending of troops for the Russian-Ukrainian war and many injured and prisoners have taken positions (North Korea), it is suspected that it is accelerating monitoring measures and preparation of a new shipment of troops,” , said the chiefs of the Joint General Staff (JCS). In a press release.
The JCS analysis did not specify what other follow-up measures Pyongyang might take.
North Korea is also preparing to release a spy satellite and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), there are no fast action symptoms, said the JCS.
This month, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that two North Koreans had been captured in the Kursk region in Russia, marking the first time that Ukraine had brought North Korea since his access to war the past fall.
Pyongyang has deployed about 11,000 soldiers to support Moscow’s forces in Russia’s western Kursk region, according to Ukrainian and Western assessments, which Ukraine seized in a surprise attack last year.
According to Kyiv, more than 3,000 people have died or have been injured.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said air defense intercepted 3 separate Ukrainian drone strikes heading toward the Russian capital.
Sobyanin, writing on the messaging app Telegram, said airstrikes southeast of the capital, in the Kolomna and Ramenskoye districts, repelled an organization of “enemy” drones, specifying how many were affected.
“At the site where fragments fell, no damage or casualties have occurred,” Sobyanin wrote on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying how many drones were involved. “Specialist emergency crews are at the site.”
The mayor successively published two other advertisements.
Sothroughanin said two drones that were aimed at Moscow had been shot down through air defenses in the Podolsk district, south of the capital. He then pointed to a single drone killed in the Troitsky district in the southwest of the capital.
Specialized emergencies have been dispatched to all sites, Sobyanin said.
Russia has rebuked the head of the UN youth firm, UNICEF, for failing to provide a “strong argument to justify its refusal” to report to the Youth Security Council in Gaza, an assembly requested through Russia.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell had briefed the 15-member council on young people in Ukraine “in the blink of an eye” in December, during the U. S. presidency of the council.
“So it would appear that for Unicef children in Gaza are less important than children in Ukraine,” Nebenzia said.
“The refusal of Unicef head to brief the Security Council about the horrific tragedy linked to the death of tens of thousands of children in Gaza is a flagrant step, which deserves our most serious censure,” Nebenzia told the council.
Russell is in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, focusing on addressing humanitarian crises and not being able to adjust his schedule to inform the Security Council, a UNICEF spokesman said
“Ms. Russell had come forward to have the emergency director do his thing on her behalf,” the UNICEF spokesperson said. “The Executive Director of UNICEF has briefed the Security Council on several developments on the situation of youth in Gaza and appreciates the Council’s focus on youth affected by the war. “
The Security Council has met dozens of times to discuss the war in Gaza. The Israeli armed and security forces, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants, as well as the Russian armed forces are on the UN’s global list of perpetrators of children killing and maiming.
Russian forces recently executed at least six unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) in Donetsk, an organization for a mirror image in the United States, Ukrainian sources said.
“Ukrainian resources have disseminated Russian photographs on January 23, Ukrainian prisoners unarmed in an unrecognized domain in Ukraine,” said the Institute for the Study of War.
The Ukrainian officials are investigating the images of the social networks of the Russian forces that execute six Ukrainian military captured and unarmed in a Donetsk Oblast, the country’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lyubinets, said
He edited that the footage shows a 7th Ukrainian war prisoner in this group, but from the footage it is transparent precisely what happened to the 7th Pow.
“The ISW has reported that Russian forces are carrying out frontline executions of Ukrainian prisoners of war and continues to assess that Russian army commanders are complicit in or allow their subordinates to carry out such executions,” the think tank said.
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