Bob Homans January 17
20230117
Ukraine – 1/17 Sitrep
Compiled by: Robert Homans
January 17, 2023
Democracy’s Weakness
Democratic countries have a weakness. They tend to procrastinate, especially in the face of threats to their national security. The response by Democratic countries to Russian aggression in Ukraine has been no different. Finally, the democracies seem to be shedding their feet of clay.
Over the past 2 weeks the West has begun supplying Ukraine with weapons systems designed to both defend Ukraine against attacks by ballistic missiles, including providing Ukraine with Patriot missiles, and providing Ukraine with weapons systems that will provide Ukraine with improved ability to go on the offensive, including main battle tanks self-propelled howitzers from Great Britain and advanced armored personnel carriers that include anti-tank munitions and large guns, from the United States, France, Germany and Great Britain.
We will know more after the next Ramstein Meeting this Friday. According to my colleague, there are discussions going on between the United States and Ukraine on how to improve Ukraine’s ability to strike military targets inside Russian territory, possibly including Grey Eagle drones, the ATACMS missile that can be fired from a HIMARS launcher, or both. The West may not have crossed the Rubicon as yet, in terms of providing Ukraine with the equipment it needs to drive Russia out of Ukraine, but they’re getting very close to its bank.
Whither Belarus
I am by no means an expert on Belarus, but there seems to be significance in the timing of the Show Trial of Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya, the duly elected President of Belarus and 4 others, that started today, and the start of joint Belarus and Russian military exercises and the potential of a new Russian invasion of Ukraine launched from Belarusian territory.
A few years ago, Nadia Savchenko the Ukrainian helicopter pilot and Member of the Ukrainian Parliament, was put on trial in Russia, after she was captured by collaborators in Luhansk Oblast and turned over to Russia. From viewing Savchenko’s trial, some observers said that Russia had forgotten how to conduct a proper Show Trial.
In the former Soviet Union, show trials were conducted in high-ceilinged grand halls lit with immense chandeliers of cut glass, and walls of inlaid wood, with judges sitting on elevated benches, in front of a packed house. The prosecutor reads out a long litany of offenses perpetrated by the defendant. The defendant, placed in a cage off to the side and having been duly interrogated and possibly tortured, admitted his or her quilt, after which the judges rendered their verdict and the sentence, most often execution. In Stalin’s time, most executions took place shortly after the sentence was handed down, often the next day and administered by a bullet to the back of the head.
In Savchenko’s case, the trial took place in a tawdry courtroom in an oblast city with several security people, all clad in fatigues and balaclavas. In the video coverage, one never saw the judge. Savchenko herself admitted nothing, and in fact used the trial to proclaim her innocence. But, unlike Tsikhanovskaya’s show trial, in Savchenko’s case at least they had a defendant to parade before the masses. According to reports, Tsikhanovskaya hasn’t even been able to communicate with her erstwhile defense attorney chosen by the Court. In a proper show trial this would be unheard of.
The timing of Tsikhanovskaya’s trial seems to be directed at Belarusian troops. As BGEN Peter Zwack (ret) said in a recent interview with Times Radio, the Belarus Army is likely made up mostly of conscripts, many of whom were likely protesting on the streets of Minsk during the Summer of 2020 after the election of Tsikhanovskaya was stolen. In his interview Gen. Zwack said that he predicts that if the Belarus Army were to participate alongside Russia in a future invasion of Ukraine that they would “melt away.” Perhaps the timing of Tsikhanovskaya’s trial was designed to put fear into the Belarusian Army.
Interview With BGEN Peter Zwack (Link is Above)
From 2012 until 2014 Gen. Zwack was the United States’ Defense Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. Gen. Zwack likely knows most of the currently serving members of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, including Gen. Gerasimov who was recently appointed Head of Russian operations in Ukraine. In a previous interview on CNN Gen. Zwack said that he has visited the Russian military installations in and around the city of Belgorod, not far from border of Ukraine and, as Defense Attache, he observed Russian Army maneuvers.
The interviewer seemed to be unaware of Gen. Zwack’s experience in Russia, as she never asked him about either his impressions of members of the Russian General Staff, most of whom he knew, or his impressions of the Russian Armed Forces from his 2 years of observations. It was only toward the end of the interview that Gen. Zwack himself mentioned his extensive experience in Russia.
In addition to his comments about Belarus, Gen. Zwack said that he believes that the decision of Great Britain to provide Ukraine with 14 Challenger tanks is extremely significant, not necessarily in the number of tanks but the fact that the delivery of the Challengers starts the process of further deliveries by Ukraine’s Western supporters. Main battle tanks require a substantial supply chain, of spare parts, fuel, other consumables like motor oil, and ammunition. A small number of Challenger tanks can only be justified if there is the certainty of the delivery of substantially more tanks in the near future.
News From the Battlefield
“Reporting From Ukraine” has diverted his attention from Soledar, and instead described recent Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian bases in Crimea. These, along with HIMARS strikes in temporarily occupied areas of Southern Ukraine, along the coasts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, are designed to both weaken Russian defenses and prevent Russia from building up an offensive capability to launch an attack to the north, toward Zaporizhia City.
The Latest Denys discusses the comparative virtues of the British Challenger II and German Leopard II tanks. His conclusion seems to be – slight advantage to the British.
1/17 Sitrep
Russian Invasion of Ukraine 12:00 noon January 16 to 12:00 noon January 17, 2022
Abbreviations:
RMA = Regional Military Administration SBU = Security Service of Ukraine
RASHISTS = russian Facists/all russian invaders
INTERNATIONAL
January 17
11:32 Spiegel: Boris Pistorius will be Germany's new defence minister.
· Boris Pistorius has been a member of the German Bundesrat since 2017 from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He will succeed Christine Lambrecht, who resigned yesterday, January 16.
11:20 British Defence Minister: During this year, 20 thousand Ukrainian servicemen will be trained in the UK, the Australian military will join the training.
08:03: U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl says the U.S. is continuing discussions with Ukrainian authorities on the type of long-range missiles, but at this stage of the war it already recognizes Ukraine's need for them. This was stated by an American official at a briefing in Kiev.
08:02 The UN Security Council will meet at the request of Russia to consider the alleged oppression of the Russian church in Ukraine. The Secretariat of the Republic of Belarus confirmed that the application from Russia has been received, and the meeting of the Security Council will be held on Tuesday afternoon (at 22:00 Kyiv time).
00:33: Ukraine resumes passenger railway communication with Romania, according to the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine.
· The first passenger trains on the section Rakhiv – Dilove – Valea Vișeului, which connect Ukraine with Romania, will be launched on Wednesday, January 18.
00:01 The Independent: Volodymyr Zelenskyy has survived more than 12 assassination attempts since the beginning of the war.
· This is stated with reference to Ukrainian officials in the book "The Struggle for His Life: Inside the White House of Joe Biden", which is just preparing for publication.
· The publication also discusses how U.S. intelligence helped Zelenskiy's security forces prevent two separate Russian attempts on his life.
January 16
22:31: World media about the Ukraine on January 16.
· The New York Times: The American edition in the article "What 70 years of war can tell us about the Russian-Ukrainian conflict" analyzes (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/world/europe/what-70-years-of-war-can-tell-us-about-the-russia-ukraine-conflict.html) the methods of warfare in Ukraine, comparing it with other wars that took place in the period from the Second World War.
· The Washington Post: One of the main events of the day is the dismissal of German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht, which the American publication also reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/01/16/germany-defense-minister-christine-lambrecht/). The official resigned after a series of mistakes that questioned her ability to lead her country's response to the war against Ukraine.
· CNN: The publication offers (https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/15/europe/dnipro-ukraine-war-russian-missile-strike-intl/index.html) a report from Dnipro, where journalists talked to people and showed the situation after a deadly Russian strike on a residential high-rise building in a city where at least 40 people died, another 46 are considered missing.
22:10: The U.S. understands Ukraine's need to hit targets deep into the front line, deputy defense secretary for political affairs Colin Kohl said.
· "We are aware of this need for the current status, and we are discussing how Ukraine can cope with this challenge.
· I will not specify which systems can be discussed, but we will continue the relevant dialogue with Ukrainian colleagues," Kohl said.
21:55 German Foreign Minister Baerbock called for the creation of a special tribunal to investigate the crimes of the Russian leadership in Ukraine.
· According to Baerbock, she discussed with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba the possibility of creating a special tribunal that would launch an investigation into the Russian leadership and bring him to court.
21:26: Ukraine and Russia are negotiating a major exchange that could get a thousand people under.
· This was reported by CNN Turk with reference to the statement of the Turkish Ombudsman Sheref Malkoc.
· "At the meeting at which I attended, Ukrainian ombudsman handed over to the Russian side a list of 800 people. the Russian ombudsman handed over a list of 200 people to the Ukrainian one," Malkoch said.
21:11 Institute for the Study of War: Russia is likely to deploy additional forces in Belarus as part of a major exercise in the second half of the year.
· According to analysts, now the Russian offensive on Ukraine from the north remains unlikely.
21:01 Prime Minister of Ukraine: U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman has arrived in Ukraine.
· "Our focus is on supporting people who have suffered from the war, restoring energy after shelling, financial support," Shmyhal wrote.
20:52 CBS News: Cypriot authorities have confiscated Russian deposits worth 105 million euros, the country's Finance Minister Konstantinos Petridis said.
· According to him, in total in Cyprus there are about 5.6 billion euros, which lie on the deposits of Russians.
14:12 Digi24: A rocket fragment was found on the beach in Romania.
· Specialists of the Romanian services identified the object as a rocket sustainer engine.
13:54 Bloomberg: Today, at 5 p.m. Kyiv time, the World Economic Forum will begin in Davos.
· The main difference from previous years will be the absence of representatives of Russia.
13:34 Spiegel: Germany has begun transferring Patriot air defense systems to Poland.
· They will cover the logistics center where they collect military assistance to Ukraine.
19:10 President's Office: The UK has provided Ukraine with an assistance package.
· It includes:
o 14 "Challenger 2" tanks;
o 30 AS90 guns;
o 100 armored vehicles, including armored personnel carriers "Bulldog;”
o dozens of UAVs;
o 100,000 artillery shells;
o 100 "advanced missiles";
o spare parts to support Ukrainian tanks and armored vehicles.
15:28: The EU sees the missile strike on a residential high-rise building in Dnipro as a sign of escalation and is discussing its possible response to this, EU spokesman Peter Stano said.
· "We are now talking about an increase in targeting civilians in their homes after Russia decided to hit critical infrastructure important so that people can survive the winter. This is another sign that the regime wants escalation and does not want de-escalation," Stano said.
12:37: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine suggested that Germany transfer Tornado fighters to Ukraine.
· Deputy Foreign Minister Andrii Melnyk (ex-Ambassador of Ukraine to Germany) addressed Olaf Scholz on Twitter.
· "The Bundeswehr has 93 Tornado multipurpose combat aircraft that will soon be decommissioned and replaced by the F-35. Although it is an old jet fighter, it is still very powerful. Why not put these Tornadoes in Ukraine?" wrote Melnyk.
12:18: Ukraine and the EU have signed a memorandum on the provision of 18 billion euros in macro finance, said the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
· According to him, the first tranche of 3 billion euros is expected this week.
NATIONAL
January 17
11:41: Civilian casualties as a result of Russian armed aggression for 16.01.2023 according to regional military administrations.
· Dnipro – 5 killed and 4 wounded
· Donetsk 2 killed and 1 wounded
· Mykolaiv – 1 killed
· Kharkiv – 2 wounded
· Kherson – 1 killed and 3 wounded
10:57 Ukrenergo: As of 10:30 a.m. on January 17, there remains a significant power shortage in the power system, especially in the morning and evening peaks of consumption.
· All distribution system operators have proven consumption limits for the whole day. Currently, due to their excess, emergency outages have already been applied in six regions of Ukraine.
10:32: The SBU has identified another representative of the Russian special services who is actively involved in the war against Ukraine.
· Sergey Sinitsyn, an employee of the 3rd department of the 9th department of the Department of Operational Information of the 5th FSB service, with the call sign "Sabir", personally coordinated the appointment of the leaders and "opera" of the occupation body, and then coordinated their punitive raids against citizens. The facts of kidnapping and torture of people were recorded.
08:15 Operational Command South: There are 6 Russian rocket carriers in the Black Sea. The total volley can be up to 44 "Calibers".
· "All of this may indicate continued missile attacks," she said.
07:09. Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. :
· "Over the past day, the enemy has inflicted 2 missile and 7 air strikes and carried out more than 70 shellings from the MLRS. In terms of civilian infrastructure, there are wounded and dead among the civilian population.
· The enemy does not abandon his intentions to completely seize the Donetsk region. Conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiivka directions".
· Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repulsed Russian attacks in areas of more than 20 settlements, including: Bilohorivka, Luhansk region; Verkhnekamenskoye, Dispute, Krasnopolivka, Sil, Soledar, Bilohorivka, Bakhmut, Severnoye, Kamyanka, Vodiane, Nevelske, Marinka, Pobeda, Donetsk region..
· In the Kupyansk, Liman and Novopavlovsk directions, Russian troops are trying to improve their tactical position, and in the Zaporozhye and Kherson directions they continue to defend themselves.
· In the temporarily occupied territories, in the settlements of Zavodivka, Gornostayivka and Cairo, Kherson region, the Russians stopped the broadcast of all Ukrainian TV channels, only Russian television is broadcast, - the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
· Units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine for the day hit a command/control point, 11 areas of concentration of Russians, fuel and lubricant stores and an ammunition dump.
January 16
22:54 Yasno: The situation with light in Ukraine remains difficult and "restrictions now are the only way not to make it even worse."
· According to him, the light gray areas of the power outage schedules now "most likely mean blackouts."
23:24: Russian President Putin has ordered Valery Gerasimov, the new commander of a group of Russian troops in Ukraine, to seize Donbas by March.
· This was stated by a representative of the press service of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Yusov.
· According to Yusov, the Russian president does not pay attention to what is really happening at the front. Its main goal remains the destruction of Ukrainians as a separate people and nation, the destruction of Ukraine as an independent state.
20:36: Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with OSCE Chairman-in-Office, North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani.
19:41: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: "In Moscow, pressure is being exerted on commercial structures in order to financially support the enemy armed forces through the transfer of funds in the amount of 10 million rubles.
· On the territory of Russia, foreign citizens who are in line for Russian citizenship are invited to voluntarily be drafted into the ranks of the enemy army and automatically obtain Russian citizenship."
· "At the training ground of the Kadamovsky Rostov region, in order to prepare and further equip units and units of the occupying forces, units with mobilized are expected to arrive.
· First, the staffing will concern the private military company "Wagner" and the "Bars" detachments, which are constantly losing personnel in Ukraine."
· "According to available information, in Novopskov, Starobilsk district, Luhansk region, on January 15, during the enemy's use of the S-300 complex, one rocket fell on a residential building. Two civilians were killed."
· "In the settlements of the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, Russian invaders are intensifying counterintelligence and regime measures.
· Conduct intensive inspections of the local population. Special attention is paid to mobile phones."
· "Units of the missile forces and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine in a day hit the control point, 8 areas of concentration of the occupiers, a warehouse of fuel and lubricants and an enemy ammunition depot."
21:41 Head of the State Border Guard Service: Russia holds about 11 thousand troops in Belarus, but there is no increase in groups in the border areas.
· "However, this figure is changing every day due to the fact that right now there is a rotation of Russian units. We keep it under constant control," Deineko said.
14:42: North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani, who recently assumed the post of OSCE chief, has arrived in Ukraine.
· "As soon as I visited the destroyed areas in Borodyanka, the destruction is stealing the heart. The Russian attacks have caused great suffering to the Ukrainian people, and there is no justification for these actions. My thoughts are with those whose lives have been greatly damaged," the OSCE chief wrote on Twitter.
14:32 Bloomberg: Since February 24, Ukraine has received more than 4 thousand armored vehicles, artillery installations and other weapons systems to fight Russia. Today, NATO is sending more and more lethal weapons.
· Ukraine received from its partners more than 400 Soviet-era tanks, 300 towed howitzers and 400 units of self-propelled artillery, 38 HIMARS and almost 60 air defense systems, the publication writes.
14:53: Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a meeting of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.
· "We discussed the events on the front line, separately analyzed the situation in the Donetsk and Southern regions. We heard information about the alleged actions of the aggressor in the near future. We do not lose sight of the fact that the enemy will prepare new missile strikes, so we are developing the most effective countermeasures. Finally, we stopped at providing the Armed Forces with ammunition and training tactical commanders," the president wrote.
13:13: In the Black Sea, 17 Russian ships are on alert, of which 6 are carriers of cruise missiles "Kalibr", the total volley of which is 30 missiles.
· According to the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Russians also deployed 2 ships in the Sea of Azov, and 9 in the Mediterranean, of which 5 are carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, the total volley of which is 72 missiles.
13:03 Spokesman of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine: A repeat of Russia's amphibious operation on the outskirts of Kyiv is now impossible.
· "The situation is now different from February 24, then we did not expect such a daring move from Russia. Then it was not possible to capture, it will not succeed now. Now it will not be possible to fly just like that to the capital and land troops from the IL-76 in any way, and it will not be possible to reach the border. You can sleep peacefully here," he added.
12:54: Civilian casualties as a result of Russia's armed aggression on 15.01.2023 according to regional military administrations.
· Dnipro – 15 killed and 2 wounded
· Donetsk – 7 wounded
· Zaporizhia – 9 wounded
· Kharkiv – 2 wounded
· Kherson – 3 killed and 14 wounded
12:27 Operational Command South: On the probable equipment of 30 "Calibers" of rocket carriers in the Black Sea.
· "Now in the Black Sea there are 17 units of the ship grouping of the Russian Federation, including 6 rocket carriers, where there is 1 underwater. This may indicate equipment with 44 "calibers", but given that after the massive attack on January 14, they did not return to the base, they used some of the missiles and now their capability is estimated at more than 30 missiles."
MORDOR (russia)
January 17
10:52 Five servicemen are killed in the shelling of Shebekino in the Belgorod region, - RosSMI.
· Two more soldiers were also injured, they were taken to the Belgorod hospital with shrapnel wounds.
09:59 British intelligence: Russia hit a house in Dnipro with an inaccurate Kh-22 missile and falsely accused Ukrainian air defense -
· "A large anti-ship missile AS-4 KITCHEN (NATO classification, we have it known as the X-22), launched from a Tu-22M3 BACKFIRE bomber, is likely to have entered a residential building in Dnipro, which led to the death of at least 40 people," the report says.
09:37 Institute for the Study of War: The founder of pmc "Wagner" Evgeniy Prigozhin tried to assign himself the admiration of Soledar and thereby undermined the confidence of the Russian population in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, but in the Kremlin he was "put in place".
07:15: The UOC-MP re-sang the famous song about Bandera, rewriting the words "to the glory" of its leader Onufriy.
· "Our father Onufriy, UOC is our mother. We will fight for our church", begins the song, sung in the Mukachevo diocese of the UOC-MP.
07:00: Russia today convenes the UN Security Council to discuss the alleged "oppression" of the UOC-MP in Ukraine.
· The Secretariat of the Security Council confirmed that the application from Russia has been received, and the meeting will be held on Tuesday afternoon (at 22:00 Kyiv time).
04:22 Loud explosions are heard in Belgorod.
· The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced the work of air defense.
January 16
14:02: The so-called "governor" of Sevastopol, Rozvozhaev, claims that 10 drones were shot down in the Sevastopol area.
17:40 espreso: Russians have taken at least 6 thousand children to Crimea. children from the temporarily occupied territories - human rights activist Rashevska.
· She stressed that the parents of these children, especially in the temporarily occupied Kherson region, were threatened: either they voluntarily send their children to the detachments of the so-called "Unarmia", or they are taken to a "camp" in Crimea.
13:24: General Director of Rosenergoatom Renat Karchaa claims that no shelling has been recorded at the Zaporizhzhia NPP since the beginning of the year.
· "For the most part, arrivals are carried out in the industrial zone, on infrastructure facilities, on coastline facilities. There were no strikes directly on the nuclear power plant for the entire period after the New Year," he said.
KHARKIV
January 17
09:46 Kharkiv RMA: In Kupyansk, Russian shelling damaged 2 five-storey apartment buildings, 7 private households. A 41-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman were injured.
· In Vovchansk, the building of the Central District Hospital, 7 private houses was damaged. In the village of Bilyi Well, 3 private houses and a civil industry facility were damaged.
DONETSK
January 17
10:42 Mayor: The Russians launched two missile strikes on the industrial zone of Kramatorsk at night. No casualties.
09:17 Donetsk RMA: On January 16, Russians killed 2 civilians in the Donetsk region: in Bakhmut and Severny.
· Another 1 person in the area was injured.
00:11 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
January 16
14:23: "In Soledar today, 3 local warehouses and mobile russian munitions vehicles were covered by Ukrainian artillery," a Ukrainian enlisted soldier, call sign "Magyar", said.
13:44: In the Avdievsky direction, one of the units of the 36th separate marine brigade named after Rear Admiral Mikhail Bilinsky destroyed a group of Russians.
· The video was published by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
ZAPORIZHIA
January 16
13:25 Social Networks: Explosions are heard in the temporarily occupied Tokmak, Zaporizhia region.
DNIPRO
January 17
11:03 Dnipro Mayor: The death toll in Dnipro has increased to 44 people.
· The Russians shelled Kherson itself 36 times. 1 person died, 2 residents were injured of varying severity.
09:25 Dnipro RMA: The Russians hit the Nikopol district three times with heavy artillery.
· Three communities came under fire - Pokrovska, Nikopolska and Chervonohryhorivska. The Russians sent more than 20 shells there. People were not injured.
08:51 Dnipro RMA: The rescue operation in Dnipro continues for more than 63 hours. The wreckage of the house destroyed by a Russian rocket was 90% dismantled.
· 39 people were saved, 40 died. 79 wounded, including 16 children. There are now 28 victims in hospitals, 10 are severe. 25 residents of the house are wanted.
January 16
23:41: A journalist reached one of the soldiers involved in the shelling of a residential building in Dnipro.
· The video shows a dialogue with Dmitry Golenkov, chief of staff of one of the units of the 52nd Heavy Bomber Regiment of the Russian Army, which struck a high-rise building in Dnipro.
· The officer complained that the journalist was asking him questions because journalists in Russia don’t ask questions.
· He said that he was doing his duty to Russia by destroying Ukrainian Nazis.
22:20: Volodymyr Zelenskyy: "The analysis of the rubble of the house, which was destroyed by a Russian rocket, continues in Dnipro. As of now, 39 people have been rescued from under the rubble, including six children.
· A total of 47 reports were received about those who may have been in the house at the time of the strike and whose fate was unknown. We managed to find out information about 22 people. There are 40 known dead, including three children."
22:16: Explosions are heard in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, .
20:39: Explosions were heard in Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region.
15:03 mayor of Dnipro: In a high-rise building damaged by a Russian rocket, 236 apartments were completely destroyed.
12:44: 40 people died as a result of a missile strike on a high-rise building in Dnipro, the regional administration said.
12:12: In Dnipro, there are already 37 dead due to a Russian missile strike on a high-rise building, the RMA said.
KHERSON
January 17
11:02. Social Networks: Another explosion in Kherson is reported.
10:24 Social Networks: Explosions are heard again in Kherson.
10:22 Kherson RMA: The Russians attacked the Kherson region 102 times.
09:48 Social Networks: Explosions in Kherson are reported.
January 16
22:42: Explosions are heard again in Kherson.
14:22: Explosions are heard in Kherson.
MYKOLAIV
January 17
09:07: An IAEA mission, the head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, has arrived at the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant in the Mykolaiv region.
· "The IAEA flag is now flying over the South Ukrainian nuclear power plant. We are here to stay to help ensure nuclear security during the ongoing conflict. Soon the IAEA will be constantly present at all Ukrainian nuclear power plants"
08:35 Mykolaiv RMA: Yesterday at 22:53, the Russians launched artillery strikes on the settlement of the Ochakov community.
· As a result, one person died. The social infrastructure object and residential buildings were damaged.
ODESA
January 16
21:55 Odesa RMA: In the Odessa region, "points of indestructibility" will be created for all residents of the region.
SUMY
January 16
23:09 Sumy RMA: Russian troops inflicted 16 strikes on the border of the Sumy region.
· In particular, the Russians opened fire on:
· Shalygin community of small arms. Seven queues were recorded.
· Druzhbivka community from mortars. Nine arrivals were made.
Comparing Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to Russian invasion of Ukraine using Wikipedia and Ukraine Ministry of Defense Daily Bulletins. Soviet and Russian military losses not including captured equipment.
SOURCES
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/
https://euromaidanpress.com/
https://cutt.ly/Blyskavka