Key developments on Jan. 19:
- Ukraine hits 2 oil depots in Russia in a single day
- Zelensky slaps sanctions on Ukraine's prime pro-Russian politicians
- Lack of medical therapy, issues with unit transfers most typical causes of appeals, new navy ombudsman says
- Ukrainian troops withdraw from, launch assault on Chasiv Yar refractory plant
- SBU detains metro engineer who allegedly directed Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, Kharkiv
Ukrainian forces attacked oil depots in Russia's Tula and Kaluga oblasts in a single day on Jan. 18, in keeping with the Common Employees and the Kyiv Unbiased's supply in Ukraine's navy intelligence (HUR).
The assault got here amid an uptick in Ukraine's drone assaults on Russia, as Kyiv goals at damaging Russia's oil trade, essential for sustaining Moscow's conflict effort.
The drones operated by Ukraine's navy intelligence (HUR) hit the oil depot in Tula Oblast a minimum of 10 occasions on this assault, a HUR supply claimed.
Tula Oblast, situated south of Moscow, has usually come beneath assault by Ukrainian drones.
Tula Oblast Governor Dmitry Milyaev said {that a} gas storage tank caught fireplace at "one of many enterprises within the area." No casualties have been reported.
Videosposted on social media and shared by residents seem to indicate a big fireplace at an oil depot within the city of Uzlovaya within the area.
Ukrainian troopers additionally hit an oil depot within the Russian city of Lyudinovo in Kaluga Oblast in a single day, inflicting a hearth, Ukraine's Common Employees reported.
Lyudinovo lies round 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of the Ukrainian border.
The oil depot is owned by Kaluganefteprodukt, a subsidiary of Russia's state-controlled oil firm Rosneft, in keeping with the assertion.
"(That is) a logistics heart that provides items of the Russian armed forces straight concerned within the conflict in opposition to Ukraine," the navy stated.
The Kyiv Unbiased couldn’t confirm these claims.
The Kyiv IndependentOleg Sukhov
Zelensky slaps sanctions on Ukraine's prime pro-Russian politicians
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree imposing new sanctions on pro-Russian politicians and propagandists, he introduced on Jan. 19.
"We’re blocking propagandists working for Russia, individuals who have gone over to the enemy's facet, and people who assist Russia proceed the conflict," Zelensky stated in a video address posted on Facebook.
The decree places into impact a choice made earlier by Ukraine's Nationwide Safety and Protection Council.
Eighteen folks have been listed on the formal decree. Amongst them are outstanding pro-Russian politicians Yuriy Boyko, Nestor Shufrych, and Yevhen Muraiev.
Boyko beforehand led the previous pro-Russian political occasion Opposition Platform — For Life, which was banned by the Supreme Court following Russia's full-scale invasion.
Shufrych was arrested final yr on costs of subversive actions in opposition to Ukraine and financing Russia's Nationwide Guard in occupied Crimea. Based on the investigation, Shufrych paid Russia's Nationwide Guard to protect his elite actual property in Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.
Muraiev, former chief of the now-banned pro-Russian Nashi occasion, was charged with treason in 2023. The Safety Service famous that Muraiev used his media empire, together with the Nash TV channel, to disseminate pro-Russian narratives.
Shortly earlier than the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the U.Ok. Overseas Workplace warnedthat the Kremlin intends to put in Muraiev as the pinnacle of the Russian puppet regime in Kyiv. Media experiences have said that Muraiev left Ukraine in 2022.
Zelensky additionally famous that the nation is working to deprive pro-Russian figures of state awards, particularly mentioning the Hero of Ukraine title.
Final month, Ukraine's parliament voted to request that Zelensky strip the Hero of Ukraine award from Boyko. Boyko had days earlier repeated Russian propaganda speaking factors on social media about "radicals" controlling the streets in Ukraine.
He was awarded the title Hero of Ukraine in 2004 throughout his tenure as head of Ukraine's state-owned oil and gasoline firm Naftogaz.
The Kyiv IndependentDominic Culverwell
Lack of medical therapy, issues with unit transfers are most typical causes of appeals, new navy ombudsman says
Twenty days into her new put up as Ukraine's new navy rights commissioner, Olha Reshetylova stated that she had already obtained 3,876 appeals.
In what she described as a preliminary evaluation in a Facebook post about her first days on the job, Reshetylova stated that lack of therapy and referrals to navy medical commissions and issues shifting between navy items are the two leading causes for the appeals she obtained.
Greater than 3,500 of the appeals have been related to her put up and concern defending the rights of troopers. A portion of those regarding recommendation or clarification, which she referred to attorneys working "nearly across the clock."
"The remainder of the appeals are substantive. Though every of them has its personal particular person issues, on the whole, after all, you may already see traits and separate blocks of problematic points," Reshetylova wrote.
Whereas acknowledging that requests for medical therapy may be abused and that commanders face a "catastrophic" personnel scarcity, she famous circumstances the place commanders had denied referrals for therapy of accidents, pressing and deliberate operations, acute PTSD or panic assaults, and signs of extreme concussions.
Relating to navy unit transfers, servicemembers have been promised in November a extra environment friendly manner for transfering between items utilizing the Military+ app. Nonetheless, she wrote, "fairly often commanders don’t perform the switch order or particularly switch servicemen in opposition to their will to different positions, which complicates the execution of the order."
"Now we're additionally fixing these points manually, the place we have now time. But it surely's apparent that we have to search for a systemic answer," Reshetylova wrote.
Ukraine's Protection Ministry announced in April that it will create the brand new navy ombudsman place to make sure troopers had a solution to report violations of their rights.
The Kyiv IndependentSerhii Filimonov
Ukrainian troops withdraw from, launch assault on Chasiv Yar refractory plant
Ukrainian forces launched an aerial assault in opposition to a Russian-occupied refractory plant within the embattled metropolis of Chasiv Yar, Lieutenant Colonel Dmytro Zaporozhets, spokesperson for the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk, stated on Jan. 18.
The assault confirms earlier reports that Ukrainian troops had withdrawn from the plant.
"On the territory of the refractory plant, the enemy tried to realize a foothold, attacking in small and medium teams," Zaporozhets stated throughout a tv broadcast.
"Because of coordinated actions … (occupying Russian troops) have been found in one of many premises on the territory of the refractory plant and an air strike was carried out. The enemy suffered losses."
The Ukrainian information outlet Ukrainska Pravda posted a video, obtained from the Operational Tactical Group Luhansk, depicting the strike in opposition to the plant.
Prior to now week, Russian navy bloggers alleged that Russian forces had pushed Ukrainian troops out of the refractory plant in Chasiv Yar. The gang-sourced monitoring web site Deep State additionally reported on Jan. 12 that Russia had occupied the location.
The plant served as dependable fortification for Ukrainian forces, who should now shelter in residential buildings weakened by fixed shelling.
SBU detains metro engineer who allegedly directed Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, Kharkiv
A Kyiv Metro engineer allegedly let a community of brokers who helped direct Russian missile and drone assaults in opposition to the capital and Kharkiv Oblast, the Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) introduced on Jan. 18.
The announcement coincides with a number of experiences from Ukrainian legislation enforcement companies on Jan. 18 exposing alleged situations of treason and plots to help Russia's conflict in opposition to Ukraine.
The brokers tracked the motion and positions of Ukrainian troops to be able to coordinate Russian aerial assaults, the SBU said.
Russia's Federal Safety Service recruited the community chief, a Kyiv Metro engineer, throughout a gathering in Moscow in 2015, in keeping with the SBU. After the full-scale invasion in 2022, he was instructed to create a community of brokers who would monitor the activitiy of Ukrainian troops and cargo.
The chief additionally personally directed Russian missile strikes on Kyiv, in keeping with intercepted conversations.
SBU officers have detained the alleged chief in Kyiv and one other suspected agent in Kharkiv. Through the investigation, officers seized cell telephones that they stated comprise proof of collaboration with Russia, together with 4 firearms.
Each suspects have been charged with excessive treason along with the Prosecutor Common's Workplace. A 3rd suspect, at present in hiding overseas, can also be charged.
The Kyiv IndependentOleksiy Sorokin
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