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- The Russian Wagner group claims control over the city of Soledar, 10 km from Bakhmut.
- The Kremlin believes that the supply of Western tanks “prolong the suffering” of the Ukrainians.
- The UK plans to supply Kyiv with Challenger 2 heavy armored vehicles.
- Kyiv turned to Berlin with a request to provide it with Leopard 2 tanks. So far, Germany has announced the delivery of 40 Marder infantry tanks.
- The EU and NATO will intensify their cooperation against Moscow. The coordination meeting will take place on January 20 at the American Ramstein base in Germany.
Wagner announces the fall of Soledar, despite the pocket of resistance in the city center.
“The divisions of the private military company Wagner took control of the entire territory of Soledar. The city center is surrounded and fighting continues in the city. The number of prisoners will be announced tomorrow,” Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, told the Russian news agency TASS via his company’s Telegram channel. The city of Soledar, 10 km from Bakhmut, has become the scene of fierce fighting in recent days.
Telegram also reported that a handful of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded in the city center were given an ultimatum to surrender before midnight.
None of this information has yet been independently verified.
Kharkiv was bombed after the visit of the German minister
Last night, Russian bombing raids hit Kharkiv, hours after a surprise visit to the city in northeastern Ukraine by head of German diplomacy Annalena Burbock. Recently, the city has been relatively spared from Russian attacks. “Stay in shelters. The occupiers are bombing again!” Oleg Sinegubov, the region’s governor, warned on Telegram.
Zelensky announced the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship of Putin’s assistant
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced last night in his daily address that he had stripped Ukrainian citizenship of wealthy businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, a close friend of Vladimir Putin whom Kyiv accuses of high treason in favor of Russia. “Based on the documents prepared by the special services and the State Migration Service, and in accordance with the Constitution of our state, I have decided to deprive four people of their citizenship,” including Viktor Medvedchuk and three other politicians, he said.
Medvedchuk was handed over to Russia as a result of a prisoner exchange between Kyiv and Moscow at the end of September 2022 after more than five months in Ukraine.
Ukrainian security forces trained in the United States on the Patriot anti-aircraft complex
The United States will train Ukrainian forces to operate and maintain the Patriot air defense system starting next week at Fort Sill in Oklahoma. “These exercises will prepare 90 to 100 Ukrainian soldiers to operate, maintain and maintain the defense system through training that is expected to last several months,” said Pentagon spokesman General Pat Ryder.
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