Russia claimed on Tuesday to have neutralized several Ukrainian drones over its border regions with Ukraine overnight, injuring a little girl, according to local authorities. “Attempts by the Kiev regime to use aerial drones to carry out terrorist attacks against locations on Russian territory were prevented overnight,” the Russian Defense Ministry said. Follow the latest information on the conflict.
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Kyiv evacuates around twenty villages
Ukraine on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of 26 villages in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of the country, as there have been repeated attacks by the Russian army in the region. “In view of the situation, we are carrying out a compulsory evacuation of the population of the municipalities of Kindrachivska and Kourylivska in the Kupyansk District,” regional governor Oleg Synegoubov announced on social networks, giving the names of the 26 affected places, where 3043 people live, including 279 children.
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THREE WOUNDED AND FIVE MISSING IN NEW YORK
At least three people were injured in Russian bombing raids on Monday evening in New York, a small town in eastern Ukraine near the front lines, but five more people still lie under the rubble of the affected buildings, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “Interior.” On Monday evening, the Russian army attacked this city in the Donetsk region with guided bombs, the ministry said. “We know of three people injured. There are probably five more people under the rubble,” he added. According to authorities, six three-story buildings and five houses were damaged.
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MOSCOW SAYS IT HAS NEUTRALIZED UKRAINIAN DRONES
Russia claimed on Tuesday to have neutralized several Ukrainian drones over its border regions with Ukraine overnight, with a little girl injured in the attack, according to local authorities. “Attempts by the Kiev regime to carry out terrorist attacks using aerial drones against locations on Russian territory were prevented overnight,” the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“Five Ukrainian drones were destroyed and three more were intercepted over the Voronezh region and four more drones over the Belgorod region,” both on the border with Ukraine, the same source said. A little girl born in 2013 was injured by debris from a downed drone that fell on her building, Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev said.
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UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
The UN demands that Kiev not be abandoned. The United Nations said Monday it needs $4.2 billion in 2024 for humanitarian aid to Ukraine and to support the millions of refugees who have fled the country since Russia's invasion nearly two years ago. “Hundreds of thousands of children live in frontline communities, frightened, traumatized and deprived of essentials,” Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths said in a statement.
Moscow says it has sentenced more than 200 prisoners of war. Russia said on Monday it had sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war to long prison terms. Several thousand soldiers were captured from both camps, although the exact number is not public. In recent months, Moscow has also increased the number of trials of certain prisoners accused of war crimes. These prosecutions were denounced by Kiev and human rights organizations.
Kiev claims to have shot down two Russian commando planes. The Ukrainian Air Force said Monday it had destroyed two Russian airborne commando planes over the Sea of Azov. The Kremlin spokesman could not answer a question about this during a press conference. “We have no information about it,” said Vladimir Putin’s right-hand man, Dmitry Peskov, referring to the Russian Defense Ministry, which has generally remained silent about its losses since the start of the Russian invasion. “I thank the Air Force for this perfectly planned and executed operation in the Sea of Azov region!”, reacted Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army Valery Zalouzhny.
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WELCOME
Hello everyone. Welcome to TF1info to follow the latest news surrounding the war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, after the Russian invasion ordered by Vladimir Putin.
Don't forget Ukraine. This is the message from the United Nations on Monday, January 15th. The world body said it feared a decline in funding for humanitarian assistance to the warring country's population and refugees in 2024, while the conflict has been ongoing since February 2022. “Remember Ukraine? (…) A year.” “Before we would only have talked about Ukraine, and now, for several weeks, we have heard very little about it,” exclaimed UN Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Griffiths at the opening of the event humanitarian appeal in Geneva to the media for $4.2 billion in support of the state this year.
In an interview with AFP in Geneva, UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown said that “according to the information she has received from member states, (funding) will decrease this year.” And “if we don’t have the level of humanitarian funding we need based on data and priorities, our assistance will decline,” she warned.
Specifically, the fundraising appeal to support the Ukrainian population living in the country amounts to $3.1 billion in 2024, compared to $3.9 billion last year – of which 67% has been funded. It is arguably the best-funded appeal in the world, said Martin Griffiths, but the UN has scaled back this year and instead focused on the most urgent needs. In addition to that $3.1 billion, there will be $1.1 billion in aid funds to be raised for Ukrainian refugees and their host communities – to help 2.3 million people. Around 6.3 million people have fled Ukraine, mostly seeking refuge across Europe.
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