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12 January 2023
President Volodymyr Zelensky has thanked all Ukrainian defenders and praised the paratroopers and soldiers who are holding their positions in Soledar and inflicting significant losses on the enemy.
The total amount of charitable contributions raised through the fundraising platform United24 reached more than UAH 10 billion.
More than 2.4 million Ukrainians live in homes damaged or ruined as a result of the Russian aggression.
Defense Minister of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov had a phone call with Sébastien Lecornu, Minister for the Armed Forces of France, and thanked him for supporting Ukraine.
Ukrainian air forces have launched 20 strikes on enemy targets in the past 24 hours, including five strikes on Russian air defense missile system positions.
On January 12, 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a regular meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief regarding the situation on the battlefield, namely in the Donetsk region’s Bakhmut and Soledar.
As of January 12, 2023, fierce battles are raging in the Donetsk region’s city of Soledar. Ukraine’s artillery units destroyed over 100 Russian occupiers. Forty-two clashes have taken place in the past 24 hours.
Russian troops have shelled the village of Yantarne near Kherson, killing a 27-year-old man and injuring a 47-year-old woman.
Although the recent missile attacks on Ukraine were carried out mainly from Russia or temporarily occupied territories, the threat of attacks from Belarus remains in place.
In Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region, a woman was killed in nighttime rocket shelling, and another person was pulled out from under the rubble of a building.
Belarus currently does not pose a direct threat to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian Defense Forces are gradually increasing their defensive capabilities on the border.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine are holding their positions outside Bilohorivka, Luhansk region, although it no longer exists as a settlement.
Under the guise of holding joint military exercises, the Russian armed forces will soon deploy a Russian grouping of troops in Belarus, which can be used for aggressive actions against Ukraine. In addition, Russia is building up its aviation grouping in Belarus.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit more than 300 enemy targets over the past week.
The Kremlin is planning to create 20 new divisions and expand the Russian armed forces to 1.5 million troops in order to continue its aggression against Ukraine.
The Russian army shelled the border areas of Chernihiv region with mortars on January 11.
In Zaporizhzhia, about 39 private residential houses were damaged as a result of a Russian missile attack.
Reports have been received from the temporarily occupied city of Mariupol about many helicopters heading to Zaporizhzhia and the village of Urzuf, as well as a series of explosions in the city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region.
The command of the Russian armed forces is strengthening the grouping of troops on the territory of Ukraine by relocating those mobilized from the training grounds of Belarus and Russia to the areas bordering Ukraine.
Two Russian warships are remaining on combat duty in the Black Sea, but none of them is a missile carrier.
This morning Ukrainian anti-aircraft gunners have destroyed Russia’s Su-25 assault aircraft in the eastern direction and Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in southern Ukraine.
On January 11, 2023, two civilians were killed and eight injured in Russian attacks on the territory of Ukraine.
Ukraine will receive enough advanced weapons from international partners to ensure effective defense and launch a counteroffensive.
On January 11, 2023, Russian invaders continued to attack the Kharkiv region’s border areas.
Last night Russian troops again shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district. The Marhanets community came under enemy fire.
On January 11, 2023, Russian troops opened fire on the Kherson region 90 times. One civilian was reported killed and five injured.
One civilian has been killed in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
Ukrainian forces have already killed about 113,990 Russian troops in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and January 12, 2023, including 430 in the past day alone.
The Russian defense industry is not able to replenish ammunition stocks in time, which will make it difficult for the invaders to carry out an offensive in Ukraine.
Ukrainian defenders have eliminated more than 100 Russian invaders near the town of Soledar, Donetsk region.