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Live text broadcast – short and succinct about the most important thing in the Ukraine war on January 23, 2024. Ukraine has been heroically defending its country against the invasion of the aggressor for almost two years.
22:32. Canada will hand over naval boats to Ukraine and join Ukrainian training with F-16s, reports pravda.com.ua.
10:00 p.m. The public prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday that three people were arrested in the Netherlands as part of an investigation into evading sanctions imposed against Russia. The investigation is aimed at an international network that evaded European Union (EU) sanctions against Russia for its repeated invasion of Ukraine.
9:00 p.m. The Russian Federation today carried out 81 airstrikes, attempting to attack the left bank of the Dnieper, citing the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, reports pravda.com.ua.
8:00 p.m. On January 23, Russian aircraft hit a residential building in the village of Sablukovka in the Kherson region, killing two people, pravda.com.ua reports.
7:00 p.m. The number of people killed in the Russian missile attack on Kharkiv has risen to eight, including an eight-year-old girl, pravda.com.ua reports.
5:12 p.m. If Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, things can continue, and then the Baltic countries will be next, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielus Landsbergis told journalists in Brussels on Monday.
Ahead of the ministerial meeting, which included a video conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleb, Landsbergis warned that immediate preparations must be made for a possible conflict with Russia.
16:28. NATO signed a $1.2 billion (1.1 billion euros) deal on Tuesday to produce hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to replenish dwindling ammunition stocks of member states supplying weapons to Ukraine.
According to the NATO Support and Procurement Office, the contract enables the purchase of 220,000 155-millimeter projectiles.
14:26. On Tuesday, the government decided to hand over 14 more vehicles seized from drunk drivers to Ukraine free of charge.
Nine cars are intended for the army units of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the municipal non-commercial enterprise “Primary medical and sanitary care center” of the Donetsk village council of the Izyum district of the Kharkiv region and the Arbuzinsk village council of the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine, the military unit of the National Guard, the Kamianets district council Podilsky of the Khmelnytsky region and Kitaigorod of the Khmelnytsky region to the village council.
1:15 p.m. The government decided today that 15.6 million euros would be earmarked for supporting Ukrainian refugees.
The said funds are intended to cover the expenses incurred by local governments in December 2023 and 2024 and support the citizens of Ukraine.
Among other things, the funds are intended for the provision of accommodation and meals, the provision of social support, the provision of education, assistance in the provision of administrative services and ensuring the operation of unified coordination bodies for support by state and local governments.
12:48. Russian authorities have begun installing S-300 air defense systems near St. Petersburg. This happened after the Ukrainian army successfully attacked military targets in the St. Petersburg area with drones, reports pravda.com.ua.
11:40. According to the latest information, the number of deaths in the Russian attack on Kharkiv has increased. Oleh Sinehubov, the head of the regional military administration, reported that four people died, reports pravda.com.ua.
We have already reported that the Russian army launched a large-scale missile attack on Ukraine this morning.
10:16. On January 22, Foreign Minister Krišjānis Kariņš took part in the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of the European Union (EU) in Brussels, where the foreign ministers of the member states discussed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
“Ukraine needs the full support of like-minded democracies to defend itself. This is in our own interest! The European Union should decide as soon as possible on the Ukraine Support Instrument and the Ukraine Support Fund within the framework of the European Peace Mechanism to ensure further assistance to Ukraine,” Kariņš emphasized at the meeting. The foreign minister also called on Ukraine to purchase the necessary ammunition from countries outside the European Union to deliver the promised 1 million rounds to Ukraine.
09:34. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army, the loss of Russian troops in Ukraine as of Tuesday morning amounted to 377,820 soldiers. According to the General Staff, 960 intruders were destroyed during the day.
Since the start of the repeated invasion on February 24, 2022, Russia has lost 6,214 tanks, 11,548 infantry fighting vehicles, 8,947 guns, 970 multi-charge rocket launchers, 657 anti-aircraft artillery installations, 331 aircraft, 324 helicopters, 6,961 drones. 1,820 cruise missiles, 23 ships and speedboats, a submarine, 11,956 cars and tank cars and 1,409 units of special equipment.
09:00. According to the latest information, around ten people were injured and one woman was killed in a Russian missile attack in Kiev on Tuesday morning.
Russian forces attacked Kiev with a combination of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles, said Mikola Shamanov, the military administration’s press secretary. “It is known that the capital was attacked with a combined attack. First, cruise missiles H-101, H-555 were launched from the Caspian Sea area, and then, most likely, ballistic missiles. Most likely it was “Iskander”. said Shamanov.
08:13. On Tuesday morning, Russia fired rockets into Ukraine, and parked cars caught fire in the Svyatoschina district of Kiev as a result of the rocket impact. The Kiev City War Administration has called on the people of Kiev to stay in emergency shelters until the air alert is lifted.
07:08. European Union (EU) leaders are prepared to take a tough stance against Hungary if the country’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, continues to block a €50 billion aid package for Ukraine at next week’s EU summit, reports Bloomberg, citing sources familiar with the crisis, preparing for the meeting.
Hungary on Monday rejected the bloc’s proposal to set up a new fund to ensure a safer way to deliver vital military aid to Ukraine. Such a step was taken after Orbán blocked a decision on granting financial aid to Kiev in mid-December.
04:10. On Tuesday, archaeological finds stolen in the east and south of Ukraine and confiscated at the border crossing in Luhama, Estonia, will be ceremoniously returned to Ukraine in the Great Guild Hall of the Estonian History Museum.
01:54. Ukrainian forces are being bombarded by heavy Russian attacks around the destroyed city of Bakhmut in the north of the country, the Ukrainian army leadership said on Monday evening.
“’The situation is very tense and characterized by intense shelling with artillery, mortars and combat drones, as well as enemy offensive operations,’” Oleksandr Sirskyi, commander in chief of the Ukrainian army, said on his Telegram channel.
00:10 For the first time, Ukrainians are receiving fake messages on their cell phones from the state emergency service about the population’s evacuation plan, and the messages contain suspicious links.
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