Cover photo: The Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (Ukraine), November 24, 2022. ALEXANDER ERMOCHENKO/ Portal
- Heavy fighting is taking place in Soledar in eastern Ukraine. where Russia is trying at all costs to reverse the course of the war. “Everything that happens today towards Bakhmout or Soledar is the bloodiest scenario of this war,” explained Mykhaïlo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Wednesday 11 January.
- While the Russian mercenary group Wagner announced the capture of Soledar, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy assured that the fighting “continue”. “We are doing everything to strengthen Ukraine’s defense without a break, even for a day,” he pounded in the eastern Donetsk region.
- Determined to win the war, Russia has appointed Chief of General Staff General Valeri Guerassimov as Ukraine’s new military leader. Valéri Guerassimov’s predecessor, General Sergei Surovikin – demoted to deputy – managed the operations for just under three months.
- In the Luhansk region, which borders Donetsk, the Russians “conscripted” about 30,000 soldiers pointed to the Ukrainian governor Serhi Haïdaï.
- Ukraine again called on its Western partners to provide them with heavy and long-range armament. “We still want to get 250-350 heavy tanks,” recalled Mykhaïlo Podoliak.
- Poland has agreed to supply a company of German heavy tanks Leopard 2, that is, 14 units. This delivery will “take place as part of a coalition that is being built,” said Polish President Andrzej Duda in Lviv in western Ukraine.
- On the diplomatic front, a rare meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials took place in Turkey on Tuesday between the human rights officers of the two belligerents, Dmytro Lubinets and Tatiana Moskalkova.
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