Cover photo: Workers clear debris January 3, 2023, days after the Ukrainian strike that killed dozens of Russian soldiers in Makiivka in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine. PA
- Moscow has revised up the number of its soldiers killed in the Ukrainian attack on Makiivka in an occupied area of eastern Ukraine. “The number of our dead comrades has reached 89,” General Sergey Sevryukov said Tuesday night in a video statement released by the Russian Defense Ministry. “A commission is investigating the circumstances” of the attack, but according to him “the main cause”. [est] Ignition and massive use of cell phones by personnel within range of enemy weapons”.
- Rallies were held in Russia on Tuesday to commemorate the dozens of soldiers killed in that strike, a shock that unleashed a wave of criticism of the army. The excitement was compounded by the fact that the soldiers killed were mobilized reservists.
- The fiercest fighting is taking place around the town of Bakhmout in eastern Ukraineof no real strategic importance, but Russian forces, led by the Wagner mercenary group, have been trying to take for months.
- According to Yuri Ihnat, spokesman for the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukraine has shot down nearly 500 Russian drones since September 2022. 84 drones shot down by Russia in the last massive attack over the New Year holidays were thus destroyed.
- Emmanuel Macron and Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson reiterated their support for Ukraine on Tuesday. The Swedish Prime Minister traveled to Paris for the first time since Sweden took over the rotating presidency of the European Union for six months on January 1st.
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