What has happened in the last few hours
On the 341st day of the war against Ukraine started by Russia, these are the key data at 8:00 p.m. this Monday, January 30th:
Kyiv denies Russian advances in Vugledar in the east. Kyiv this Monday denied the advances announced by the Kremlin in Vugledar in eastern Ukraine, where fighting has increased in recent weeks. A spokesman for the Ukrainian army, Yefgen Yerin, said Russian attacks in the region had been unsuccessful. “The enemy has retreated. We didn’t lose our positions,” he said.
Russia is increasing its military presence in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine. Moscow has increased the troop presence in the Kursk region bordering Ukraine, local governor Roman Starovoit announced on Monday and was quoted by the Interfax news agency. Russian authorities have accused Kyiv of constant bombing in the region since the war began on February 24. Ukraine, for its part, has repeatedly warned that Russia could make a new attempt to seize parts of the north-east of the country.
According to Kyiv, at least three people have died in Kherson after the latest Russian attacks. Ukrainian authorities reported on Monday that three people were killed and ten others seriously injured in the latest air strikes by Russian forces on Kherson in the south. The Kherson City Council has detailed that the bombings also damaged several residential buildings and the region’s power grid.
Zelenskyy and the Danish Prime Minister inspect bombed buildings in Mikolajiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his visit to Mikolayiv in the south of the country to visit areas bombed by Russian troops. The Ukrainian President, accompanied by Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, inspected the building of the regional military administration in Mikolayiv, which was partially destroyed after a Russian missile attack, Zelensky explained on his Telegram account. “We talked about the need to restore the city’s infrastructure. We are grateful for everything Denmark does for our country,” said the President. They also showed individual heaters that allow water distribution and purification, obtained thanks to Danish help.
Ukraine bans its top officials and elected officials from vacationing abroad. Ukraine’s government announced this Monday that it would ban its senior officials and elected officials from traveling abroad during the Russian invasion, in response to the deputy attorney general’s sacking after the press reported he had recently vacationed in Marbella (Spain). Immediately after the start of the Russian invasion 11 months ago, Ukraine banned men of military age (between 18 and 60). Travel abroad.
The Kremlin denies that Putin threatened a missile attack on Johnson. The Kremlin on Monday denied former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s comments that he had accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of threatening him with a missile attack during a phone call ahead of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. “It’s a lie. There was no threat of a missile attack,” Russian Presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in his usual daily press briefing.
In the photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba for AFP, a destroyed apartment building in the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk province. The city becomes the target of one of the fiercest Russian offensives since the beginning of the war.