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MK broadcasts events in Ukraine online. Day 330 is approaching. Heavy fighting for Novoselovskoye was reported the day before. The New York Times reported that the United States is ready to help Ukraine focus on Crimea. The helicopter in which the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Denis Monastyrsky was flying crashed in the suburb of Kyiv Brovary near a kindergarten, and he died. In total, the crash claimed the lives of 14 people, including one child.
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12:25 Germany is not a party to the conflict in Ukraine, but will support Kyiv with military supplies, Boris Pistorius, the new head of Germany's defense ministry, said on Thursday.
12:04 "" they declare that the settlement of Kleshcheevka, which is one of the important suburbs of Bakhmut, has been completely taken under the control of Wagner PMC units, – Yevgeny Prigozhin said.
< p>12:01One of the commanders of the “Wagner group” told RIA "Novosti" on the progress in Bakhmut (Artemovsk): “There is a constant, non-stop battle going on in the city. The artillery is constantly firing, shooting battles are going on, we hear them, the war is going on continuously, we are constantly destroying them and advancing.”
11:39 Police officers in the Kherson region detained two Kyiv informers, gave the Ukrainian side information about the location of Russian military equipment and personnel, the regional main directorate of the Ministry of the Interior said.
< strong>11:38 Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov and Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on countries including Germany to provide Kiev with Leopard 2 tanks, despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz's condition.
< strong . >11:35 Vladimir Zelenskyy during a video message as part of the Ukrainian Breakfast criticized Western partners for indecisiveness in supplying tanks to Ukraine at the Davos Economic Forum.
"There are moments when there is no need to doubt, when you think, I will give tanks, when someone else will give tanks …. Just help. No dialogue,” Zelenskyy said. He also asked for air defense systems, grenades and long-range missiles.
11:17 An air alert was declared throughout Ukraine.
11: 04< /strong> UAF tried to break through the front near Svatov and Kremennaya.
10:55 Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin plans to pressure Germany's new defense minister, Boris Pistorius, on Thursday to allow the official to move German tanks to Ukraine, Reuters reports.
10:32 verdict to the mobilized Stanislav Rybin, who threatened to kill the commander. He received six years in a colony with a strict regime.
10:23 The head of the European Union, Charles Michel, will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today in Kyiv.
9:54 On the night of January 19, Ukrainian armed forces attempted to shell the Bryansk region. The missile attack was intended for the Unecha region, but the air defense system shot down all the missiles fired, said the governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Bogomaz.
9:28 . ;Russia controls most of the Kherson region, specifically – 75%, said Vladimir Saldo.
9:00 The US administration believes that the time has not yet come for the delivery of US Abrams tanks to Ukraine, said the US Deputy Secretary of Defense for political affairs Colin Kol.