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23 January 2023
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry expects that the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation, Valery Gerasimov, who was recently appointed Commander of the Russian forces in Ukraine, will more actively employ airborne assault troops.
Active hostilities are expected to last in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions within the next two months.
On the night and in the morning of January 23, 2023, Russian troops were shelling the Donetsk region with artillery and the Grad multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), using cluster munitions. Casualties among civilians and destructions were reported.
On January 22, 2023, one civilian was killed and nine injured in Russian attacks on the territory of Ukraine.
The Kyiv Defense Forces’ units continue to improve the engineering equipment of defense lines in the capital city and the region.
The ninth meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (Ramstein-9) has been scheduled for February 2023.
Eleven Russian warships are remaining on combat duty in the Black Sea, including three missile carriers equipped with 24 Kalibr-type cruise missiles.
Four civilians have been injured in Russia’s shelling of the Donetsk region over the past day.
The Ukrainian defense forces eliminated about 121,480 Russian invaders from February 24, 2022, to January 23, 2023, including 720 soldiers over the past day.
Italy, together with France, will supply Ukraine with a Samp-T missile defense system, which can hit aircraft at a distance of up to 100 kilometers and missiles at a distance of up to 25 kilometers.
The Moroccan army has supplied Ukraine with about 20 T-72B tanks that were modernized at the Excalibur Army workshops in the Czech Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have repelled enemy attacks near 11 settlements in two regions and launched seven strikes on the positions of the Russian occupying forces.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has praised the German-made IRIS-T air defense system that was transferred to Ukraine and called for more such systems to be provided to the country.
The new chair of the U.S. House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Michael McCaul, has called on the administration to announce the provision of tanks to Ukraine in order to get Germany and other nations to do so.
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said that a decision will soon be made on whether to send German-made tanks to Ukraine.
Despite the large number of losses, the Russian command continues to constantly set various tasks before its military.
22 January 2023
France does not rule out providing Ukraine with Leclerc tanks in the future but will coordinate this issue with the allies.
Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has called on everyone to unite and provide Ukraine with necessary resources to maintain global security.
The enemy focuses their main efforts on the Bakhmut direction, and conducts unsuccessful offensive operations in the Zaporizhzhia, Avdiivka and Lyman directions.
Russian troops shelled the town of Oleshky, which is located on the left-bank part of Kherson region, hitting a school and a residential area.
Russian troops have again used mortars to open fire on the Sumy region. The enemy fired eight mortar shells at the village of Boiaro-Lezhychi.
One civilian has been killed and one injured in Russia’s shelling of the Kharkiv region.
Russia is preparing to launch the new offensive, and active information measures intended to intimidate civilians are its first signs.
The troops of the Russian Federation do not conduct large-scale offensive operations in Zaporizhzhia section.
New military units are being created in the Armed Forces of Ukraine to be equipped with new Western equipment.
Over the past day, January 21, Russian troops shelled Kherson region 49 times with artillery, MLRS, mortars, and tanks. Three people were injured.
At night and in the morning, Russian troops launched missile attacks on two villages in Zaporizhzhia region. Houses were destroyed.
Members of the 71st Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Air Assault Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated Russian invaders near Bakhmut in Donetsk region.
As a result of the Russian armed aggression, 10 civilians were injured in Ukraine on January 21.
The defense of Bakhmut is likely a strategically sound effort of the Ukrainian troops, despite the focus on this relatively insignificant operational direction of significant forces and means to deter the aggressor.