Category: World

Ukraine's Particular Operations Forces (SOF) struck three Russian oil rigs within the Caspian Sea on Saturday night time.

Supply: SOF press service

Particulars: Particular Operations Forces have reported that deep strike items carried out the assault on drilling platforms belonging to Russia's Lukoil within the Caspian Sea on the night time of 10-11 January.

The targets hit included ice-resistant mounted platforms named after V. Filanovsky, Yuri Korchagin and Valery Grayfer, that are used to produce gas to the Russian armed forces.

Quote: "Particular Operations Forces proceed to hold out uneven actions with the purpose of strategically exhausting the enemy's skill to wage conflict towards Ukraine."

Background: Ukraine's Normal Workers reported earlier that Russian targets within the Caspian Sea had been hit.

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The town of Kyiv is experiencing numerous localised energy failures attributable to a current Russian assault in addition to freezing chilly climate and grid overloads, resulting in extended energy cuts.

Supply: DTEK, Ukraine's largest personal vitality firm

Quote: "Because of the assault, freezing climate and grid overloads, we’re seeing numerous localised faults that result in extended energy outages.

As of 17:00, we have now over 200 stories about this."

Particulars: DTEK mentioned 57 restore crews are working around the clock to revive electrical energy to Kyiv residents.

DTEK requested Kyiv residents to be understanding.

It mentioned in an announcement: "Help vitality staff and the vitality system: when energy returns, swap on home equipment one after the other to forestall additional outages occurring attributable to grid overload."

Background:

• As of 11 January, greater than 1,000 residential buildings in Kyiv stay with out heating.
• Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has mentioned the electrical energy provide state of affairs in Kyiv ought to enhance by Thursday 15 January.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has famous that Russia's struggle towards Ukraine has now lasted so long as Nazi Germany's struggle towards the Soviet Union (referred to as the Nice Patriotic Warfare within the Soviet Union), and that in all that point, Russia has achieved no important outcomes and a minimum of 1,000 of its troops are killed day by day.

Supply: Zelenskyy's night handle

Quote: "We aren’t dragging out time – in contrast to Russia. They’ve already dragged issues out sufficient, to be sincere. Russia's full-scale struggle towards Ukraine has now lasted so long as Nazi Germany's struggle towards the Soviet Union.

Immediately is the 1,418th day of Russia's struggle towards Ukraine. They needed to repeat it ["We can do it again" is a Russian anti-Nazi slogan equivalent to "Never again" – ed.] – and repeat it they did: they've repeated the abuse of individuals, repeated fascism, repeated nearly all of the worst issues that occurred within the twentieth century. They even moreover invented warfare with Shaheds and ballistic missiles towards energy vegetation and boiler homes.

However nonetheless, the Russians try to grab the identical Donbas as nearly 4 years in the past. They need to lie as soon as once more that they 'took' Kupiansk. They maintain dying endlessly within the fields of Zaporizhzhia area. And they’re nonetheless preventing towards Ukraine solely – with all the assistance from our companions, it’s only our people who find themselves holding the entrance."

Particulars: Zelenskyy stated that since December, Russia has misplaced a minimum of 1,000 troops (killed) per day.

"That is how Russia is actually paying simply to maintain the struggle from ending. That is insanity. And this Russian insanity can solely be stopped by mixed forces – the forces of Europe and the USA, the forces of all our companions. Every single day of this struggle is a reminder that the world can not defend itself from madmen. We should defend it. Russia should be stopped," he stated.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that air defence missiles in accomplice international locations' stockpiles must be despatched to Ukraine.

Supply: Zelenskyy's night deal with

Particulars: The president stated he had spoken with Oleksandr Syrskyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, primarily about air defence and provides from companions: "what’s on the best way, what is required, which requests have nonetheless not been fulfilled, and what must be accelerated".

"The primary precedence is air defence missiles. Specifically, tomorrow we’ve got a gathering the place we shall be discussing this. New contributions from companions to the PURL initiative are wanted, in addition to deliveries from stockpiles in Europe: the missiles are there within the depots, and we all know that, we all know all of it – and they need to be in service with our air defenders," the president stated.

Zelenskyy additionally stated he had been briefed by Nationwide Safety and Defence Council Secretary Rustem Umierov concerning contact with the US.

"We’re planning the schedule of conferences and additional negotiations, and Ukraine is being as constructive as doable and as quick as doable on this course of," he stated.

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A Russian assault on the northern a part of Rivne Oblast went on for nearly 24 hours and prompted harm to infrastructure.

Supply: Oleksandr Koval, Head of Rivne Oblast Army Administration, on Telegram; Ukraine's Air Power

Quote: "As we speak was a tough day for Rivne Oblast. The enemy attacked our northern districts for nearly 24 hours. Thankfully, nobody was injured.

Nonetheless, infrastructure has been broken. The related companies are working to take care of the aftermath."

Particulars: The Ukrainian Air Power had beforehand reported sightings of Russian UAVs in Rivne Oblast.

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Russian forces have superior in Vovchansk in Kharkiv Oblast and in Pokrovsk in Donetsk Oblast.

Supply: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of navy analysts

Quote: "The enemy superior in Vovchansk, Pokrovsk and close to Vilcha."

Particulars: DeepState additionally revealed a map displaying the Russian forces' advance.

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Ukrainian specialists have concluded that Russia's "newest" growth relies on outdated know-how, primarily based on fragments of the Russian Oreshnik missile that attacked Dnipro in 2024.

Supply: CNN; United24 Media, a Ukrainian digital media platform

Particulars: Andrii Kulchytskyi, an professional on the Kyiv Scientific Analysis Institute of Forensic Experience, instructed CNN that an Oreshnik missile wreckage means that there was "nothing so horrible about its use".

"Here’s a gyroscope from Oreshnik – Yuri Gagarin flew with one in all these", he commented.

One other professional stated Soviet-era vacuum tubes have been discovered among the many fragments.

As United24 Media writes, the missile makes use of an inertial navigation system managed by an analogue gyroscope. Management boards recovered from the fragments point out the presence of glass-enclosed electron tubes – possible krytrons or high-frequency resonators – suggesting the missile's structure just isn’t absolutely digital.

Some elements bear manufacturing markings from 2018, indicating they have been possible meant for earlier initiatives.

Background:

• Again in November 2024, after the primary use of the Oreshnik towards the town of Dnipro, Kyrylo Budanov, then head of Defence Intelligence of Ukraine stated that Oreshnik was "only a cipher" and the system itself is named Kedr.
• Vadym Skibitskyi, Deputy Head of DIU, stated Russia started new R&D work in 2018-2019 referred to as Kedr RV. This work was geared toward creating a missile complicated to exchange the RS-24 Yars – a missile that was in service again within the Soviet Union and is now on fight responsibility in Russia.
• The Kedr missile complicated was developed on the premise of the Rubezh missile complicated, however, in line with Skibitskyi, "one thing went mistaken" for the Russians and from 2017 they stopped this growth. As an alternative, Russia launched a brand new R&D venture which it referred to as Oreshnik.

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Ukraine's defence forces have struck three drilling platforms belonging to Russian firm Lukoil within the waters of the Caspian Sea.

Supply: Normal Workers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Particulars: It’s specified that the drilling platforms in query are the V. Filanovsky, Yuriy Korchagin and Valeriy Grayfer platforms, that are concerned in supporting the Russian Armed Forces.

The Normal Workers reported on the strikes, however the extent of the harm was not revealed.

As well as, Ukrainian defenders hit a Buk-M3 system close to the settlement of Baranycheve in Luhansk Oblast and a logistics unit depot belonging to Russia's forty ninth Military close to the settlement of Novotroitske in Kherson Oblast.

Background: Partisans from the Atesh resistance motion mentioned they carried out a sabotage operation in Russia's Moscow Oblast, hanging a component of the air defence system.

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Greater than 60 trains are operating not on time, together with worldwide and long-distance routes, because of Russian assaults on the night time of 10-11 January.

Supply: press service for Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways)

Particulars: The corporate offered an inventory of trains working with delays, together with:

• No. 743/744 Darnytsia – Slavske – Darnytsia;
• No. 119/120 Dnipro – Chełm – Dnipro;
• No. 63/64–112/111 Kharkiv, Izium – Przemyśl – Kharkiv, Izium;
• No. 745/746 Darnytsia – Lviv – Darnytsia;
• No. 9/10 Kyiv – Budapest – Kyiv;
• No. 749/750 Kyiv – Uzhhorod – Kyiv;
• No. 107/108 Kyiv – Solotvyno – Kyiv;
• No. 178 Ivano-Frankivsk – Kyiv;
• No. 292/291 Kyiv – Lviv – Kyiv;
• No. 52/30 Przemyśl – Kyiv – Przemyśl;
• No. 20–67/19 Warsaw, Chełm – Kyiv – Warsaw, Chełm;
• No. 742/741 Lviv – Kyiv;
• No. 15/16 Kharkiv – Vorokhta – Kharkiv;
• No. 98/97 Kovel – Kyiv – Kovel;
• No. 44/43–50/49 Truskavets, Ivano-Frankivsk – Cherkasy – Truskavets, Ivano-Frankivsk;
• No. 92/91 Lviv – Kyiv – Lviv;
• No. 29/27 Uzhhorod, Chop – Kyiv – Uzhhorod, Chop;
• No. 207/7–208/8 Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi – Kyiv – Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi;
• No. 114 Uzhhorod – Kharkiv.

"Railway staff are at present repairing harm brought on by the assaults and growing essentially the most optimum routes potential in order that trains can return to their schedules as rapidly as potential," Ukrzaliznytsia stated.

Passengers can observe delays to their trains on uz-vezemo web site.

Background: Power staff have managed to revive electrical energy to most residents of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast following an accident.

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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the state of affairs in "many areas" as tough following Russian strikes on crucial infrastructure over the previous week.

Supply: Zelenskyy on Fb

Particulars: The president stated that Russia has launched almost 1,100 assault drones at Ukraine, greater than 890 guided aerial bombs and over 50 missiles of varied sorts, together with the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile, over the previous seven days.

Zelenskyy harassed that Russia's assaults don’t have any navy objective and described them as terrorism towards civilians.

Quote: "And they’re hitting targets which have completely no navy significance: power services and residential buildings.

They intentionally waited for freezing climate to make issues worse for our folks. That is intentional, cynical Russian terror directed exactly towards civilians."

Background: DTEK, Ukraine's largest non-public power firm, has stated that the present state of affairs when it comes to electrical energy provide is essentially the most tough to date this winter.

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