Strike on Zaporizhzhia and Russia's military plans: last night's highlights
On the night of January 16, the invaders launched a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia, three people were taken to hospital, and the Institute for the Study of War claims that Russia will try to intercept the strategic initiative within six months and is changing its approaches to the war. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Attack on Zaporizhzhia
On the night of January 16, Russian occupation forces launched a missile attack on Zaporizhzhia and its suburbs.
As a result of the attack, civilian, residential and industrial infrastructure facilities were destroyed. Several people were slightly injured.
Three people were taken to hospitals, including two children aged 9 and 15.
Military plans of the Russians
The Institute for the Study of War believes that the Kremlin will try to seize the strategic initiative from Ukraine over the next six months and is already changing fundamental aspects of its approach to war.
According to analysts, Russia is probably preparing for decisive strategic actions.
In addition, the Russian occupation forces may try to conduct a new major offensive in Luhansk Oblast.
Strike on Dnipro
As of the evening of January 15, 30 people were killed as a result of the attack of the Russian occupation troops on a high-rise building in Dnipro. Among the dead is one child, a 15-year-old girl.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the rubble is still being cleared at the site. This will continue until there is at least the slightest chance to save lives.
In addition, Zelenskyy appealed to the Russians who, even after such an attack, “could not utter even a few words of condemnation”, although “they see and know everything perfectly”.
“Evil is very sensitive to cowardice... And when it comes for you, there will be no one to protect you,” he stressed.
It also became known that during the terrorist attack of the Russian occupation troops on a high-rise building in Dnipro, the Honored Boxing Coach of Ukraine and senior coach of the national team of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Mykhailo Kurenovskyi was killed.
Explosion in Sevastopol
On the evening of January 15, residents of the city of Sevastopol temporarily occupied by Russia heard the sounds of an explosion.
The so-called “governor” of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhayev said that a drone was shot down over the bay.
Leopard tanks for Ukraine
The German concern Rheinmetall, which has Leopard tanks in stock, says it will be able to repair and send them to Ukraine no earlier than 2024. But first, the federal government must approve and finance the decision to transfer the tanks.
Other important news for the night::
- Russian troops conducted 44 strikes on the border areas of Sumy Oblast on January 15.
- The ingenuity of the Ukrainian military has impressed American officials and analysts. They call Ukraine “a combat laboratory for finding cheap but effective innovative solutions”.
- In Belarus, at least eight fighter jets and four cargo planes have arrived from Russia at the Baranovichi military airfield in the west of the country.
- At least 10 people were killed and more than 30 injured in an attack on a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- A representative of the Iranian parliament said that Iran will receive Russian Su-35 fighters in spring, which will become the most modern aircraft in the country's army.
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