by Marta Serafini, sent to Kyiv, and Redazione Online
The War News Wednesday 4 January live.
• The war in Ukraine reached the 314th day.
• The management of the battle: the trident of Kyiv and the contrasts of Moscow.
• Kyiv accuses two Russian generals of attacking civilians.
• Moscow anger after attack on Makiivka, General Staff prepares response. A hotel for journalists in the Donbass has since been hit, but there are no casualties.
07:57 – The hypothesis of a drone attack
The first reconstructions of the explosions that happened last night not far from Sevastopol’s Belbek airport are arriving: the city’s governor Mikhail Razvozhaev reported on Telegram that it would be an attack with Ukrainian drones that triggered Russian air defenses. Two of the drones are said to have been shot down. Now, Razvozhaev added, all services are working in normal mode.
06:28 am – Explosions in Crimea in Sevastopol and Belbek airport
In the early hours of the morning, powerful explosions were heard in Crimea near Sevastopol and at the Russian military airport in Belbek. Local residents report it on social media, but there is no official confirmation. The hypothesis of a new Ukrainian attack with drones.
05:17 – Another Russian citizen is dead in India, new riddle
A third Russian citizen died two weeks after MP Pavel Antov and his friend Vladimir Bydanov went missing in India. According to The Independent, the body of a naval engineer from Murmansk – Sergey Milyakov – was found yesterday on board the ship MB Aldnah in the port of Paradip in the Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha state. The cause of death is not yet known. Milyakov, 51, was the chief engineer of the ship that sailed from Chittagong port in Bangladesh to Mumbai via Odisha. His death follows that of Vladimir on December 22 due to cardiac arrest and that of Antov on December 24, who fell from the third floor of a hotel in Rayagada, also in Odisha state.
05:12 – Russian bombs on Zaporizhia, air raid warning in different areas of Ukraine
One person was injured in a Russian attack on the outskirts of Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine last night, the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh, said on Telegram, as reported by Ukrainska Pravda. Again the enemy hit the outskirts of Zaporizhia with rockets. As a result of the attack, a fire broke out in civilian infrastructure, Starukh wrote. Also last night, just before midnight, air alerts were sounded in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Poltava and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
05:10 – Moscow admits 89 dead in Ukrainian attack on Makiivka
According to Moscow, 89 Russian soldiers died in the Ukrainian attack on the Russian training center Makiivka in occupied Donetsk. After an initial silence, the Russian Defense Ministry admitted the loss of 65 soldiers. However, according to Kiev sources, there are 300, maybe even 400 victims. Moscow has confirmed that the attack was carried out by Kiev forces after locating the target using traces of Russian soldiers’ mobile phones.
05:05 – USA: Our support for Ukraine will be bipartisan
We have every confidence that our approach to Ukraine will find bipartisan support in the US Congress. This was said by US State Department spokesman Ned Price in a press conference, stressing that the United States will stand by Kiev for as long as necessary. We have received word from members of the 118th Congress of both parties that support for Ukraine continues, the spokesman added.
05:00 – Kyiv, 500 Russian soldiers killed or wounded in Kherson
Ukrainian forces were killed or wounded in an artillery attack in the Kherson region. This is what the General Staff of Kyiv claims, presenting the not independently verified record of the December 31 attack near the village of Chulakivka. The General Staff also reported an attack on Russian units on January 1 in the village of Fedorivka, without specifying the number of casualties. Fedorivka and Chulakivka both lie on the south-eastern side of the Dnipro River. Yesterday, Ukrainian forces claimed responsibility for the killing of 400 Russian soldiers on New Year’s Eve in a Himar missile attack on Makiivka in Donetsk, while Moscow confirmed the deaths of just 63 soldiers.
18:41 – The management of the battle: the trident of Kyiv and the contrasts of Moscow
Preparation, target search, implementation. the trident that Kyiv uses to manage this phase of the conflict and hold its own against the enemy. In Moscow, on the other hand, they are arguing about the latest setbacks and Vladimir Putin is ordering reparations to the relatives of the dead (here the military leaders of Marinelli and Olimpio).
January 4, 2023 (change January 4, 2023 | 08:01)
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