(Bloomberg) — An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned Russia had confirmed that it was holding greater than 3,000 prisoners of struggle. She added that 15,000 individuals had been lacking, a lot of them civilians.
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Russia unleashed one of the crucial intense missile barrages of the struggle, focusing on main Ukrainian cities together with the capital, Kyiv, and Lviv within the west close to Poland.
Of 69 cruise missiles launched by Kremlin forces from strategic bombers and ships within the Black Sea, 54 had been shot down by air-defense methods, in response to Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s military commander-in-chief. In a separate incident, Belarus mentioned its air protection shot down a Ukrainian anti-air rocket over its territory.
The US is contemplating sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine as a part of an extra bundle of navy help, in response to individuals accustomed to the matter.
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On the Ground
Overnight, Russian forces hit power infrastructure in Kharkiv with Iranian-made Shahed drones, killing one particular person, Ukrainian officers mentioned, including that air-defense forces shot down 11 Iranian-made drones. Several buildings, a gasoline pipeline and an influence line had been broken in an assault on the Zaporizhzhia suburbs, Oleksandr Starukh, the regional governor, mentioned on Telegram. Three Russian missile carriers are actually on fight obligation within the Black Sea, in response to an announcement from the Ukrainian southern command.
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15,000 People Missing, Zelenskiy Adviser Says (12 a.m.)
Aliona Verbytska, an adviser to Zelenskiy, mentioned Russia had confirmed that it was holding greater than 3,000 prisoners of struggle. She mentioned 15,000 individuals had been lacking, a lot of them civilians.
Verbytska, in her capability as ombudsperson for the rights of Ukrainian troopers, underscored the discrepancy between the variety of confirmed POWs and the quantity nonetheless lacking.
“We do not know what happened to them. Whether they are also Russian prisoners of war, have been taken from Russian-occupied territories or possibly killed,” Verbytska mentioned. She assailed what she known as the “very poor” cooperation of Russian businesses, on the subject of coping with prisoners of struggle.
US Considers Sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles (7:54 p.m.)
The US authorities is contemplating sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine as a part of an extra bundle of navy help, in response to individuals accustomed to the matter.
A closing determination hasn’t but been made, one of many individuals mentioned. When the automobiles could be operational can be unclear, mentioned the individuals, who spoke on situation of anonymity to debate the delicate subject.
“Bradleys would provide a major increase in ground combat capability because it is, in effect, a light tank,” mentioned Mark Cancian, a former White House protection finances analyst who’s now with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Ukraine Says Russia May Have Staged Provocation in Belarus (6:47 p.m.)
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry mentioned that the reported shootdown of a rocket over Belarus could have been “a deliberate provocation made by Russia.”
“Ukraine is aware of the Kremlin’s desperate and persistent efforts to involve Belarus in its aggressive war against Ukraine,” the ministry mentioned within the assertion on its web site. It mentioned Ukraine is “ready to conduct an objective investigation of the incident.”
Earlier, Belarus’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Kyzym to voice a protest in opposition to what the nation’s authorities say was the launch of an air protection missile towards Belarus.
Ukrainian Energy System Being Restored After Attack (5:42 p.m.)
Ukraine’s power community, which suffered new injury after a Russian missile barrage on Thursday, is being repaired as deliberate, grid operator CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi mentioned on TV.
“A significant part of the generating capacity has already been restored, but there is damage to the network,” Kudrytskyi mentioned, including that some websites had been hit as many as eight instances. “No matter how many times Russia strikes, we are restoring facilities.”
Kudrytskyi additionally mentioned his firm, Ukrenergo, would obtain a 70 million-euro grant from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development to revive power infrastructure.
Belarus Summons Ukrainian Ambassador Over Missile Incident (4:20 p.m.)
Belarus’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Kyzym to voice protest in opposition to what the nation’s authorities say was a launch of an air protection missile towards Belarus.
Minsk known as on Ukraine to research Thursday’s missile launch, punish these accountable and apply measures to rule out such incidents sooner or later to keep away from “catastrophic consequences”, in response to an announcement on Foreign Ministry web site.
Kyiv has accused Belarus of permitting Russia to launch missiles from its territory. Russia has used Belarus as a staging level for its invasion, however Belarusian troops have to this point stayed out of the struggle.
Belarus Says it Downed Missile Fired From Ukraine (1:55 p.m.)
Belarus mentioned its air defenses shot down a Ukrainian S-300 missile that flew into its territory Thursday — a uncommon occasion of the struggle spilling over the border into Russia’s ally, the place an official downplayed the incident.
Missile particles fell close to the village of Gorbakha within the Ivanovo area of southern Belarus close to the border with Ukraine, the Defense Ministry mentioned Thursday on Telegram.
“There is absolutely no reason for residents to worry,” the navy commissar of the Brest area in Belarus mentioned after the incident. “Such cases, unfortunately, happen.”
Italy’s Meloni to Visit Ukraine by End of February (2:05 p.m.)
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is planning to go to Kyiv earlier than the top of February to mark her help to Ukraine. A closing date will solely be confirmed when safety situations will enable for the planning of the go to, she mentioned.
“We need to do all we can to support Ukraine but also to pursue peace possibilities,” she mentioned at a information convention in Rome.
Putin, Xi to Hold Talks on Friday (12:15 p.m.)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will talk about “the most pressing regional problems” throughout a video name deliberate for Friday, in response to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
The two leaders are holding their end-of-year talks after Xi informed former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev final week that China wish to see negotiations on Ukraine, including that his administration was “actively promoting peace.” China has averted criticizing Russia over the invasion, blaming the enlargement of NATO. While Beijing signed off on a communique eventually month’s Group of 20 summit in Indonesia that mentioned “most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine,” China continues to chorus from calling it a struggle.
Kazakhstan Seeks Druzhba Capacity (12 p.m.)
Russia’s oil-pipeline operator Transneft PJSC mentioned it acquired a request from its Kazakh counterpart to guide capability on the Druzhba pipeline for oil provides to Germany subsequent yr.
That might be a primary step towards Kazakh oil flowing to German refineries because the nation tries to search out options to Russian crude. While pipeline provides are exempted from European sanctions, Germany pledged to wean itself off Russia by the top of this yr.
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