Cover picture: Rescue workers work around the rubble of the house damaged by a Russian missile. January 15, 2023. CLODAGH KILCOYNE/ Portal
- Attacks were reported from several regions of Ukraine. The bombing of a building in Dnipro left at least fourteen dead and sixty wounded, the region’s governor said. Several explosions sounded on Saturday morning Kyiv. Shelling was also reported in the oblasts Kharkov, Zaporizhia and Mykolayiv. In the south, in Kryvyi Rih, one person was killed and another injured when a strike destroyed houses.
- At Dnipro, 72 apartments were destroyed in the condominium hit by the Russians. Between 100 and 200 people lost their homes. In all, counting peripheral damage, nearly 1,700 residents needed a roof to sleep last night, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy chief of staff to the Ukrainian presidency, reported Kyiv independent.
- Russian attacks have also hit other cities, but also the energy infrastructure in Kharkiv and Lviv, according to the Ukrainian authorities. After the last bombing, power cuts were decided in most areas, the energy minister specified. In total, “during the day the enemy carried out three airstrikes and about fifty rocket attacks,” the Ukrainian army staff specified. “In addition, the occupiers launched 50 attacks with multiple rocket launchers.”
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russian “terror” could only be stopped with weapons. In his daily update, the Ukrainian president criticized the Russian attacks, arguing that the only way to end them is to fight “on the battlefield”. “What do you need for that? The weapons that are in our partners’ warehouses and that our warriors are waiting for,” he said in an appeal to Ukraine’s western allies.
- According to a Ukrainian official, Soledar is “under the control” of Ukraine. The small eastern town of Soledar, which is at the center of a bitter battle with Russian forces and which Moscow is said to have captured, is still “under Ukrainian control,” Donetsk Oblast governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said on Saturday, adding that this place and the nearby town of Bakhmout was the “hottest” point on the front lines.
- Britain promises to deliver Challenger 2 to Ukraine. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in a statement on Saturday that he had committed to supplying Challenger 2 assault tanks, prompting the UK to deliver 14 heavy tanks to Ukraine “in the coming weeks”. The announcement prompted a reaction from Russian diplomacy, which believed that this arms shipment would “in no way hasten the end of military hostilities, only exacerbate them and cause new casualties.”
- The United Nations (UN) Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine. “Ukraine, Russia, the world cannot afford this war to continue,” said United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. But “it’s the military logic that dominates, with very little room for dialogue, if there is one,” she added, seeing “no signs of an end to the fighting.”
- On Friday, NATO announced the deployment of Awacs surveillance aircraft in Romania from Tuesday to support its increased presence in the region and to “monitor Russian military activities”.
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