that is probably The Kremlin intends to “take decisive action over the next six months” to regain control of the situation in Ukraine after a series of failures and successful Ukrainian counter-offensives: writes the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its latest update on the conflict, as reported by the Kyiv Independent. Russia has not achieved most of its main goals in Ukraine, experts from the American research center observe, reminding that in the first days of the invasion, the Moscow armed forces failed to capture Kyiv and the entire Lugansk and Donetsk regions.
At the same time, Ukrainian troops have liberated more than 50% of Russian-held territory since February, including Kherson, the only regional capital that Russia was able to capture. The institute also comments that the Russian campaign to target critical Ukrainian infrastructure over the winter in order to demoralize Ukrainians has also failed so far, leading in many ways to increased support for the Ukrainian cause.
It has since increased at least 35 dead in Saturday’s Russian attack on a residential building in Dnipro: The governor of the region announced this by telegram
from Dnepropetrovsk, Valentyn Reznichenko, reports Ukrinform. “Overnight, rescuers pulled several more bodies from the rubble of a multi-story building destroyed by a Russian missile. The enemy attack claimed the lives of 35 residents of the building. The fate of 35 other residents is unknown,” Reznichenko wrote. search people
Trapped under the rubble, they continue on. The rescue operation has been going on for almost 40 hours.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy vigorously intervened in and condemned the Dnipro massacre “cowardly silence” of the Russian people. “Your cowardly silence, your attempt to wait for the end of what is happening, will only end in the same terrorists coming to you one day,” he said in his evening speech. Zelenskyi added that he received many messages of sympathy from around the world. And addressing the Russians in their own language, he noted “that even now they have not been able to utter words condemning this terror.”
The rest of the country continues to be bombed by the Russians. three people were injured including two children, in a rocket attack on the city of Zaporizhia, in southeastern Ukraine, happened last night, City Council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtiev reported on Telegram. “Three people were taken to the hospital. Among them are two children, aged nine and fifteen,” Kurtiev wrote, adding that rescue teams from the state ambulance service, doctors and utility workers were working at the scene. Part of the infrastructure was destroyed in the attack.
Seven civilians were injured in yesterday’s shelling in the Donetsk region, in eastern Ukraine. The boss announced this by telegram
of the Regional Military Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko. “On January 15, the Russians wounded seven civilians in the Donetsk region: two each in Bakhmut and Avdiivka, one
to Velyka Novosilka, Lyman and Soledar, respectively,” Kyrylenko wrote.
Three people died and 14 others were injured in the city of Kherson yesterday and in the region of the same name in southern Ukraine. The Russian army has attacked the region’s territory 90 times with multiple rocket launchers, mortars and tanks, Yanushevich said. In particular, the city of Kherson was bombed 21 times and residential areas were also hit. Yesterday, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Tymoshenko denounced that Russian forces also bombed “the premises where Red Cross officials work” in Kherson.
Ukrainian forces “almost certainly” held positions at Soledar, north of Bakhmut, despite intense fighting over the weekend: writes the British Ministry of Defense in its Daily Intelligence Update on the situation in the country. Battles that have also affected the sector
Kreminna, in the Lugansk region, specifies the ministry in its report published on Twitter. “Overall, the Ukrainian army is advancing its front line further east, on the outskirts of the city of Kreminna,” he points out.
“Over the past six weeks, London experts conclude – both Russia and Ukraine have made hard-won but limited progress in several sectors. In these circumstances, a key operational challenge for both sides is establishing troop formations… using tactical successes to achieve operational breakthroughs.”