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[Regnum] Roscosmos has released a photo of a snow cyclone that will hit Moscow in the coming days. Satellites have captured the cyclone's appearance.
"A snow cyclone approached Moscow on January 26. The Russian Hydrometeorological Center issued an orange weather alert, which will remain in effect until January 29," Roscosmos reported on its Telegram channel.
Experts explained that a photo of a snow cyclone approaching Moscow was obtained using satellite imagery from the Elektro-L and Arktika-M series.
Due to the impending snowfall, Moscow's emergency services are operating on high alert, constantly monitoring the condition of Moscow's road network.
On January 24, Mikhail Leus, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported that the previous night in Moscow was the coldest since the beginning of winter, with the air temperature at the VDNKh weather station dropping to minus 17.3 degrees Celsius.
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[Korrespondent] 21.32 The Russian authorities are using fictitious recruitment agencies and shadow migration networks to lure foreigners into the war against Ukraine. This is reported by The Telegraph. It is noted that many of these recruits die in the first 72 hours after being sent to the front due to a lack of preparation and understanding of where they are going. According to the publication, by the end of 2025, Russia had recruited about 18 thousand citizens from 128 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, at least 3.3 thousand of them were killed in combat.
21.10 On the evening of January 26, Russian troops struck a high-rise building in Kryvyi Rih. This was reported by the head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council, Oleksandr Vilkul, and the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha. It is noted that a fire broke out as a result of the shelling. The rescue operation is ongoing.
20.41 The Russians launched a missile strike on Kharkiv and attacked the city with drones, there are casualties. This was reported by the mayor of Kharkiv, Igor Terekhov, on January 26. According to the head of the Kharkiv OVA, Oleg Synegubov, according to preliminary data, one person was injured as a result of the enemy strike in Kharkiv. There is information about damage to residential high-rise buildings and a school in the Industrial district. Russian drones have been recorded hitting high-rise buildings in the Saltiv and Kyiv districts.
19.23 Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, specialists from the Cybersecurity Department of the Security Service of Ukraine (SCSU) have neutralized more than 14,000 large-scale cyberattacks and cyberincidents on the resources of central government bodies and critical infrastructure of Ukraine. The SBU reported this on January 26.
18.59 Group of Forces East denied information about the alleged full control of Russian troops over the settlement of Orikhovo-Vasylivka in the Donetsk region. It is noted that the data disseminated by some information resources do not correspond to reality. Ukrainian units continue to be in the area of the settlement and hold the occupied positions. Servicemen of the 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade repel enemy attacks and inflict losses on them in manpower, despite significant pressure from the occupation forces.
18.41 On Tuesday, power outage schedules will be in effect again in the regions of Ukraine. This was reported by Ukrenergo. Improving power outage schedules and canceling emergency outages is possible only in the absence of new massive shelling from Russia.
17.47 Over the past week, the Russian occupation army captured 26.58 sq km of Ukrainian territory . This is two and a half times less than the indicators of the week before last, when the enemy occupied 66.72 sq. km, Interfax-Ukraine reports based on the results of an analysis of maps by the DeepState analytical project.
16.58 The European Union is working on the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, which will target the aggressor's energy revenues, its shadow fleet, and sanctions evasion networks. German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful stressed that such measures are necessary to counter hybrid threats and potential environmental risks from accidents involving Russian ships in the Baltic Sea, Ukrinform reports.
16.55 On Sunday, January 25, Russian troops targeted the Kherson CHPP with drones and artillery. The shelling almost did not cease during the day. This was reported by Serhiy Koretsky, Chairman of the Board of Naftogaz. According to him, the Russians are trying to deprive the plant of the opportunity to restore its equipment.
"The Kherson CHP was the only source of heat supply for tens of thousands of city residents. Together with the local authorities, we are doing everything possible to provide Kherson residents with alternative sources of heat," Koretsky noted.
16.42 Since the beginning of the day and as of 16:00, 48 clashes have occurred on the front between the Ukrainian army and the Russian invaders, which is significantly less than the figures of the previous day. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational summary.
The enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations in the North-Slobozhansky, Kursk, Slavyansky and Dnieper directions.
16.10 The next round of trilateral talks involving Ukraine, the United States, and Russia may take place this week . President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced this on Telegram.
According to him, the other day in Abu Dhabi, they discussed complex political issues that have not yet been resolved, the head of state noted.
15.57 The Defense Forces have expelled Russian military personnel from Aleksiyivskyi Island in the Kherson region. This was reported by the spokesman for the Southern Defense Forces Vladyslav Voloshyn in a comment to Ukrinform.
"On Oleksiyivskyi Island, our intelligence records the abandonment of positions. This (happened - ed.) as a result of the active actions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the low moral and psychological state of those servicemen who were at these positions," the spokesman explained.
15.46 The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine denied information about the "arrival of 16 ballistic missiles" over Kyiv on January 13. This was stated by the statement of the head of the communications department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yuriy Ignat, on the air of the United News.
15.31 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a conference call on energy issues, at which he recognized the timing of the restoration of heat supply in Kyiv as unsatisfactory . He wrote about this in Telegram.
Extremely difficult circumstances have developed in the capital: more than 1,200 apartment buildings are still without heating.
15.36 Russian military intelligence agents were sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property for preparing a bomb in the center of Kyiv. The SBU press service reports this.
"Based on the evidence of counterintelligence and investigators of the Security Service, two agents of the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), whom the SBU detained in September 2024 in Zaporizhia, received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property," the report says.
As the investigation established, the attackers were preparing an explosion in a crowded place in Kyiv to provoke panic in the capital of Ukraine.
To do this, they, on the instructions of a curator from the Russian Federation, purchased the necessary components to make a detonating mechanism for a homemade bomb, and then had to combine it with explosives hidden in the cache.
15.05 Russian invaders are increasing pressure and bringing up reserves on the Pokrovsky and Ocheretinsky directions of the front. This was reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, General Oleksandr Syrsky, in Telegram following the results of the work in the Donetsk region.
The key task of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to inflict maximum losses on the enemy, destroy its reserves, and consistently reduce its offensive potential, the commander-in-chief noted.
14.58 Two women were killed and four more people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of the Donetsk region on January 25.
The police recorded 1,560 enemy strikes on the front line and residential areas of the region. Five settlements were under fire: the cities of Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, Mykolaivka, Sloviansk, and the village of Oleksievo-Druzhkivka. 66 civilian objects were destroyed, including 51 residential buildings.
The Russians hit Druzhkivka with Smerch MLRS - killing a 78-year-old woman and wounding three more civilians aged 47 to 66. In addition, the occupiers hit the city with KAB-250 bombs and FPV drones. Four apartment buildings, an administrative building, an enterprise, two boiler rooms, and a non-residential building were damaged.
Russian troops dropped a KAB-250 bomb on Alekseevo-Druzhkivka - a 63-year-old woman was killed, her husband, 69, was severely injured. A private house was damaged.
14.22 On the night of January 24, as a result of an attack by Russian invaders in the capital of Ukraine, the objects of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra National Reserve , which are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, were damaged. This was stated by the reserve's general director Maksym Ostapenko in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
14.16 Ukraine intends to produce over 7 million unmanned aerial vehicles in 2026, which will allow it to increase the strike zone to 100 km and strengthen the country's asymmetric defense. Deputy Defense Minister Serhiy Boev stated this during a speech at the OFDEF conference dedicated to the coordination of defense support to Ukraine from partner states.
"Together with our partners, we have formed a military strategy that involves protecting Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure, stabilizing the front, defeating Russian logistics in operational depth, and striking strategic enemy targets," he emphasized.
To implement this strategy in 2026, Ukraine needs $120 billion. Half of the amount – $60 billion – the country plans to provide from its own budget and loans from the European Union. Ukraine expects another $60 billion from partners in the form of security assistance. Serhiy Boev named air defense and missile defense systems, missiles for them, Ukrainian-made UAVs, and extended-range artillery ammunition as key priorities for 2026.
Ukraine calls on partners to direct about 80% of security assistance to these three areas. In the field of unmanned systems, Kyiv plans to produce more than 7 million drones by 2026. Unmanned technologies have become the basis of asymmetric defense and have allowed the creation of a strike zone up to 20 kilometers deep.
14.01 On Monday night, Russian invaders struck energy facilities in two regions of Ukraine. Ukrenergo reported this. Emergency power outages have been in effect in Kyiv and the Kyiv region since this morning, as well as "in several other regions."
13.54 In Sumy region, Russians are remotely mining territories by dropping explosives from drones. Russian troops are dropping explosive devices from drones in small, light-colored bags that can be triggered by pressure or proximity.
Residents of the region are urged to be especially careful when traveling on the roads, particularly near border settlements.
13.28 36-year-old firefighter and rescuer Oleksandr Zibrov, who came under a repeated Russian strike on January 9, died in Kyiv.
"Another difficult day for the family of the State Emergency Service. Unfortunately, after 18 days of fighting for life, our colleague, firefighter and rescuer of the 24th state fire and rescue unit, 36-year-old Oleksandr Zibrov, who, together with other comrades, came under a repeated Russian strike on January 9 in the Darnytskyi district of Kyiv, has passed away," said the head of the State Emergency Service, Andriy Danyk.
13.15 As of Monday morning, the restoration of heat is underway in 1,331 houses in Kyiv . This was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister for Reconstruction - Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine Oleksiy Kuleba on Telegram.
To restore heat to the homes of Kyiv residents, 166 emergency repair teams are working. This is 847 specialists who work every day and every night.
12.40 On Monday night, Ukrainian military personnel struck the infrastructure of the Slavyansk Eco oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk-na-Kuban, Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, as well as a number of other Russian facilities. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this.
12.25 A foreign mercenary from the Philippines, John Patrick, was eliminated in the Donetsk region. He served in the 9th assault company of the 3rd battalion of the 283rd regiment of the 144th motorized rifle division of the 20th combined arms army of the Russian Armed Forces.
"Like many other foreign mercenaries, Patrick died during a "meat assault" near the settlement of Novoselivka, Kramatorsk district, Donetsk region. The invader had only weapons, ammunition and a piece of paper with the unit number, telephone number and name of the commander. He did not know Russian," the GUR said.
According to data from the Filipino's seized electronic devices, his basic training lasted only a week, after which the foreigner was sent to the front line. "He was wounded and slowly dying in the forest - no evacuation was planned," military intelligence added.
12.06 Temporarily occupied Luhansk came under attack by Ukrainian strike drones. This was reported by the Russian Gauleiter of the occupied territory of Luhansk, Leonid Pasichnyk, in Telegram. At least 10 drones "cynically" attacked the energy facilities of the "republic".
11.45 A new round of talks between delegations from Ukraine, the US and Russia is to take place next week in Abu Dhabi. This was stated by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a comment to Russian propagandists. For Russia, the "territorial issue", which is supposedly part of the "Anchorage formula", is of fundamental importance, he noted.
11.03 The Czech company SPARK, in cooperation with volunteers, supplies Ukraine with fiber-optic FPV drones , manufactured using technologies from intercepted Russian drones.
The new FPV drone called Jan Žižka uses fiber-optic communication, making it immune to electronic warfare, and its cost is three times lower than its counterparts.
The SPARK company took Russian technology as a basis. The Ukrainian military handed over to volunteers a captured drone, the Prince Vandal Novgorodsky, which operated on fiber optics. The company's engineers studied the device in detail and created a new model based on it.
10.39 In the Mykolaiv region, a 21-year-old serviceman from one of the air defense units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked for the Russian occupiers. The SBU reported this . The serviceman "leaked" data to the enemy about the air defense system near the operational airfields of the Ukrainian troops.
10.17 The case of the head of a Russian aviation corporation that produces aircraft for the war against Ukraine has been referred to court.
Since 2022, the head of PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (a structure of the Rostec state corporation) has ensured the stable operation of defense aircraft production. Under his leadership, the enterprise carried out the production, repair, and modernization of military and special aviation equipment, which the Russian Armed Forces systematically use during the full-scale aggression against Ukraine.
These are combat and strategic aircraft Su, MiG, Tu, Il, as well as other military aircraft.
10.00 A new Upyr-18 kamikaze drone has appeared in service with the Russian troops. The occupiers have allegedly already begun using this strike drone in the war against Ukraine, Russian media report.
According to the Russian side, Upyr-18 drones are used in the Kupyansk and Kramatorsk directions. The drones are capable of carrying ammunition weighing up to 10 kg and operating at a distance of several dozen kilometers.
Drones can be used not only for strikes, but also to deliver cargo to Russian units on the front line.
The Upir belongs to the class of FPV quadcopters. It can carry RKG-3M, RPG-7 grenades, as well as homemade high-explosive fragmentation bombs, which are made using epoxy glue and gunpowder.
09.43 In Odessa, the building of the astronomical observatory in Shevchenko Park has been damaged due to Russian attacks. Many windows and doors are damaged, there is other damage. Despite the damage, the planetarium continues its work.
08.54 On the night of January 26, Russian troops attacked Ukraine with 138 Shahed, Gerber and other types of drones, about 90 of them Shaheds.
Air defenses shot down and suppressed 110 enemy Shahed, Gerbera and other types of drones in the north and east of the country. 21 strike UAVs were recorded hitting 11 locations, as well as the fall of downed ones (fragments) at one location.
08.21 Over the past 24 hours, 138 combat clashes were recorded on the front, with the largest number of battles in the Pokrovsky and Hulyaypil directions. Aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces struck four areas of concentration of personnel and four other important objects of the Russian invaders.
07.30 The Russian military attacked Zaporizhia again, delivering four strikes on the city. Private houses were damaged. A fire broke out in one of the houses. Rescuers have already extinguished the fire. No people were injured, it was previously reported.
07.15 From February 24, 2022 to January 26, 2026, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine amounted to approximately 1,235,060 people (+1,020 per day).
04.10 Slavyansk-on-Kuban, in the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation, was attacked by UAVs. Locals heard 5-7 explosions. Monitoring sites write that an attack is underway on the Slavyansk Refinery.
02.02 Ossetians attacked Zaporizhzhia and the city of Vilniansk with Shaheda. A fire broke out in Vilniansk. High-rise buildings there were damaged - windows were broken, facades were damaged. Also, a fire broke out in Zaporizhzhia at the site of the attack.
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[Korrespondent] The enemy's advance in the Zaporizhia and Lyman directions completely stopped last week.
Over the past week, the Russian occupation army has captured 26.58 sq km of Ukrainian territory. This is two and a half times less than the indicators of the week before last, when the enemy occupied 66.72 sq km, Interfax-Ukraine reported on Monday, January 26, based on the results of an analysis of maps by the DeepState analytical project.
"Last week, the enemy maintained the pace of advance in the Pokrovsky and Dobropol directions in the northwestern Donetsk region, capturing 6.42 sq km there (the week before last it was 6.92 sq km) and capturing 2.49 sq km in the Volchansky direction in the Kharkiv region, where there was no advance the week before last," the report says.
It is claimed that the enemy's advance in the Hulyaipil direction in Zaporizhia region and in the Chasovoyarsk, Kostyantynivka and Siversk directions in the east and north of Donetsk region has slowed significantly - to 6.97 sq km and 10.71 sq km per week, respectively.
At the same time, the enemy's advance in the Zaporizhia and Lyman directions completely stopped last week. It has not resumed in other directions either.
At the same time, the area of the "gray zone" has increased by 52.89 sq km in the past week, while the week before last it has increased by 4.67 sq km.
Thus, last week the occupiers increased the area of control by an average of 3.8 sq. km per day, and the "gray zone" increased by an average of 7.6 sq. km per day.
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[Korrespondent] Ground robotic complex based on a specially designed ZSU
In the Pivnichno-Slobozhansky, Kursk, Slovyansky and Prydniprovsky directions, the enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations.
As of 16:00, there were 48 fights between the Ukrainian army and the Russian soldiers, which is significantly less than the previous ones. The ZSU General Staff was informed about this in an operational briefing on Monday, 26 September.
Thus, on the Pivdenno-Slobozhansky direct line, the enemy attacked three times near the settlements of Prilipka, Vovchansk and near Liman.
On Kupyansky, the enemy is about to attack directly at the bank of Petropavlovka. There were two fears.
On the Limansky direct our soldiers repelled three attacks on the Drobishevy and Liman directs. Two fears are trivial.
On the Kramatorsk direct there was one feared conflict in the area of Chasov Yar.
On the Kostyantynivskyi direct, the firemen carried out 10 assaults near the settlements of Kostyantynivka, Ivanopillya, Shcherbinivka, Pleshchivka, Sofiivka and near Stepanivka.
On Pokrovsky, the enemy directly attacked 19 times in the areas of the settlements of Rodinsk, Pokrovsk, Kotlin, Molodetsk and near the settlements of Bilitsk and Grishin. One beats three.
On Oleksandrivskoe straight the aggressor once tried to move forward at the bank of New Zaporizhzhya.
On the Gulyai-Pol direct, our defencists repelled these attacks near Gulyai-Polye and near Varvarivka and Dobropil.
On Orikhivsky, the enemy attacked directly near Stepnogirsk.
In the Pivnichno-Slobozhansky, Kursk, Slovyansky and Prydniprovsky directions, the enemy has not yet carried out offensive operations.
Guess what, in just 25 days, 138 battles took place on the front . On Pokrovsky, the ZSU launched over 40 assaults near 10 settlements.
It was also reported that Russia lost over 1,000 soldiers killed and wounded in the last battle. Since the beginning of the Great War, Russian spending is approaching 1.3 million
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[NewsFront] 21:32 Slavyansk direction. Russian Armed Forces are advancing in Reznikovka, MAP. 20:43 In the period from 15:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on dutydestroyed10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
Seven UAVs – over the territory of the Belgorod region,
Three UAVs – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea.
19:30 UAV crews from the Center group destroyed equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
Attack UAV operators from the Vostok group thwarted an enemy counterattack in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Drone operators of the Sever groupdestroyedMortar crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at camouflaged firing positions in the Khar'kov region.
FPV drone crews from the Zapad group destroyed enemy equipment and personnel in the Kupyansk district of the Khar'kov region.
UAV operators from the Dnepr group of forces struck Ukrainian infantry positions in buildings in populated areas in the Orekhov area and destroyed dugouts housing enemy fighters on the outskirts.
Drone operators of the Southern Group of Forces destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in their area of responsibility.
Drone operators from the Sever group discovered and destroyed two Baba Yaga-type UAVs, as well as a shelter containing enemy personnel.
FPV drone crews struck repeaters and cargo vehicles transporting ammunition and personnel to the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Sumy Oblast.
16:57 Dnipropetrovsk region. Advance of the 90th Tank Division in the Ivanovka area, MAP.
16:42 Special forces of the North destroy the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region, video.
15:19 In the period from 11:00 to 15:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 16 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type over the territory of the Belgorod region.
14:01 Crews of the 152mm towed guns "Giatsint-B" of the 6th Guards Combined Arms Army of the North group of forces destroyed UAV control centers and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower in the Khar'kov region.
Servicemen from the Vostok group of forces launched a series of attacks on enemy strongholds using the 152mm 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled artillery unit.
13:19 Zaporizhia Oblast. Assault units of the Russian Armed Forces have taken up new positions west of Dorozhnyanka. MAP.
13:06 Specialists of the unmanned systems troops, using the Geranium UAV, struck Mi-24 and Mi-8 helicopters of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the helipad.
12:24 Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of January 26, 2026. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct the special military operation:
Units of the "North" force group have occupied more advantageous positions and lines. Units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' mechanized and airmobile brigades and two territorial defense brigades have been defeated near the settlements of Stetskovka, Sosnovka, Korchakovka, and Kucherovka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Vovchanskie Khutora and Zakharovka in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost up to 150 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and 20 vehicles.
Units of the "West" force grouping have improved their position along the forward edge. Formations of an assault brigade, two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a National Guard brigade were defeated near the settlements of Petrovka, Berezovka, and Nechvolodovka in the Khar'kov region and Sosnove in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost over 200 troops, two armored combat vehicles, 23 vehicles, and two Western-made artillery pieces. Four ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces have occupied more advantageous positions and lines. The personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' assault brigades, three mechanized brigades, and a naval infantry brigade have been defeated near the settlements of Alekseyevo-Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, and Reznikovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 150 servicemen, three armored combat vehicles, 15 vehicles, and two field artillery pieces. Two electronic warfare stations were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" force group have improved their position along the forward edge. Formations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' airmobile, Jaeger, four mechanized brigades, an assault regiment, and two National Guard brigades have been defeated near the settlements of Grishino and Dobropillia in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novopidgorodne and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Ukrainian armed forces lost up to 415 servicemen, a US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier, 12 armored combat vehicles, and five cars.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of an assault brigade, two mechanized brigades, and three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Zelenoye, Lyubitske, Gorke, Vozdvizhevka, and Zaliznichnoye in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Oleksandrivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The enemy lost up to 350 servicemen, a tank, two armored combat vehicles, 19 cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized and mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Magdalinovka and Preobrazhenka in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Up to 50 military personnel, three vehicles and two warehouses of supplies were destroyed.
11:13 The crew of the Su-35S multi-role super-maneuverable fighter of the Russian Aerospace Forces completed combat duty in the interests of the "Center" group of forces.
10:35 Ukrainian 152mm Msta-B destroyed by Northern special forces,video.
09:50 Force Group "North"continuesto advance in the Burluk direction in the vicinity of Volchansk.
09:28 Published data on changes in the line of combat contact over the past 24 hours.
08:40 Three positions of mortar crews of the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed Severyan drones.
07:39 During the past night from 23:00 Moscow time on January 25 to 07:00 Moscow time on January 26, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 40 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
34 – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,
Four – over the waters of the Sea of Azov,
One – over the territory of Bryansk Oblast,
One – over the territory of Kaluga Oblast.
08:02 Posted footage of objective control of the missile strike on a Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV depot near the village of Kurochkino in the Khar'kov region.
06:25 Military engineers of the 39th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Center group of forces continue to clear mines from liberated territories in the Krasnoarmeysk direction, video.
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[REGNUM] In 2025, the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Language Ombudsman received more than 3,100 appeals, 2,800 of which were complaints about the use of the Russian language.
Only 300 times did people ask for clarification; the rest were complaints about "incorrect" customer service, signs and advertising, websites and social media pages, teachers and university professors, taxi and minibus drivers.
The leaders in terms of the number of complaints are, naturally, the historically Russian-speaking regions: Kyiv is in first place, followed by the Odessa region, then Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia.
But the most astonishing phenomenon is the denunciation of their commanders by Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel. Having virtually no power to influence matters related to their disenfranchised status, soldiers and officers found a way to at least snitch to the "Sprechenführer."
"We're talking about cases where commanders communicate exclusively in Russian. Individual service members have filed such complaints, and we've conducted state oversight activities for certain brigades, and some have even been held accountable. In particular, one high-ranking military officer. So, the complaints are coming from service members, not from people who weren't at the front," says Igor Spiridonov, a representative of the state language protection commissioner with the curious name, in a recent interview with the controversial publication "Tyzhden" ("Weekly").
He is positioned as a model patriot: a former Russian man from Dnepropetrovsk voluntarily underwent a "trans transition," worked as a lawyer for Sprechenführer Taras Kremen, was mobilized into the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a reserve officer, was seriously wounded in Novogrodovka, became disabled, and now speaks "on behalf of the army."
In which, according to Spiridonov, there are bilinguals, but there are no ones who would say: “I joined the army to defend my right to speak Russian.”
However, this is clearly an outright lie, as a wave of protests against the infringement of both the Russian language and Orthodoxy has been rolling out from the Ukrainian Armed Forces for quite some time—though it remained confined to social media and select news feeds that could afford such news while operating from abroad.
Nevertheless, TikTok was literally overflowing with videos from military personnel who argued that the Russian language and Russian music should not be banned, that Ukraine is a democratic country with freedom of choice, and that soldiers and officers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are "simply defending their land and families."
In 2022, this flow was cut off for various reasons, especially since, on the wave of jingoistic patriotism, many demonstratively switched to the Ukrainian language. Anti-Russian hysteria began to mount in Ukraine, and as early as February, Ukrainian radicals launched a campaign against the Russian language: "If you are a patriot of Ukraine, speak Ukrainian," "Russian is the language of the enemy," "There are no Russian-speaking Ukrainians."
However, after a while, everything returned to normal. And periodically, revelations from various individuals appear online, claiming that forced Ukrainization, the atmosphere of harassment and denunciations, are only making things worse.
For example, last fall, a Ukrainian soldier with the call sign Anarchist stated in an interview that, in his personal opinion, there are “about 70% Russian-speaking soldiers” on the front lines.
"A country simply can't survive for long on patriotism. I never use all these slogans, honestly. Because we have so many Ukrainian-speaking people wearing embroidered shirts, but they're doing such a disservice to the country," he said.
In unison with him, the officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrei Dmitrenko, in a conversation with the famous journalist and blogger Yuriy Romanenko (the author of the term "language Taliban"), expressed the opinion that in critical conditions the language issue is not a problem for anyone at all.
"In three years of war, I've never encountered any kind of 'language issue' in the army. That is, people speak Russian—okay, speak Ukrainian—okay, speak Surzhyk—okay. Everyone understands each other, communicates normally, and it doesn't cause any problems at all... I'll tell you something that's frightening for some ardent advocates of rapid, total Ukrainization: even combat orders are given in Russian, which would seem illegal, but in combat, all of this simply vanishes," notes Dmitrenko.
Essentially, all military personnel who have commented on the matter in one way or another note that the actions of the "Sprechenführer's office," as well as certain prominent activists and officials, are only harmful, as they reduce the already extremely low motivation in the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
And this is perfectly logical, since people cannot help but understand that they are defending their right to be humiliated and have their rights infringed. They are regularly reminded of this.
Last April, when the idea of creating a "language police" to replace the official ombudsman for the protection of the state language was actively circulating, Ukrainian serviceman Fyodor Frunze publicly spoke out against it. He was immediately attacked by the ardent activist and language advocate Veronika Olshanskaya, the author of a litany of denunciations, including the most recent, filed with the SBU in January of this year against the well-known Ukrainian businessman and eccentric Garik Korogodsky, who admitted to speaking Russian at home with his children.
She and her henchmen literally hounded poor Frunze; he was forced to justify himself online, arguing that he didn't mean it that way, that he was misunderstood, that he simply feared the split in society and the army that hasty Ukrainization would bring.
Naturally, for every such smart guy there is a counter-agitator.
According to Anton Petrovsky, a neo-Nazi, former football ultra, Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier, and one of the most vocal lobbyists for the destruction of the military cemetery on the Hill of Glory in Lviv, it should be ensured that only Russians in zoo cages communicate in Russian—that is, essentially, putting their "brothers" from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in a cage.
Pavel Vyshebaba, a serviceman from the 68th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a native of Kramatorsk, is strongly against the use of the Russian language on the front lines: “People who say that the language is not important are playing along with the enemy.”
National Guard officer Andrei Krivushchenko went even further than Vyshebaba, believing that the use of Russian at the front leads to increased casualties:
"The enemy arrives at a position, they enter. 'Who's there?' The guys say, 'Friends, we're from the neighboring brigade and lost here. Can I join you?' The enemy enters, takes us prisoner, or fires on the position, and that's it. And this is simply due to the hostile language being allowed to be spoken on the front lines."
At the same time, no one ever objected to the fact that foreign mercenaries who came to fight in Ukraine continued to communicate in their native languages, without any intention of learning the language. "Over these four years, I already know a little Spanish, Portuguese, and Georgian. The main thing is, I don't speak Russian," comments Marian Berezdetsky, a soldier in the Nazi battalion "Karpatska Sich," on the language issue in the army.
That is, the army, inseparable from society, also lives in a state of constant conflict, which also comes to the surface in the form of denunciations, as the representative of the Sprechenführer admitted.
However, he is deeply convinced that "the language issue in the Ukrainian military is being exacerbated from the outside. Because who benefits from military squabbles? Our enemy. Or the fifth column, which, unfortunately, is still numerous in Ukraine."
Ukrainian citizens, native Russian speakers, are accused of being victims of Russification during the "Soviet occupation" and subsequent cultural subjugation. They are subject to attempts to force them to speak their "native language," punished, restricted in their rights, and publicly humiliated. However, external forces and the fifth column are to blame for their discomfort and their reluctance to fight for such "democracy and freedom."
A logical conclusion of surprising strength.
And all this verbal hysteria is taking place against the backdrop of a dire situation on the front. Recently, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrsky, stated that in 2026, the Ukrainian army will not only wage defensive battles but also attack, since victory cannot be achieved through defense alone.
Following these statements, mobilization intensified again—the brave murderers from the TCC began a mass "voluntary mobilization" of drug addicts, the elderly, the disabled, and autistic people. Veteran officers still alive in the field immediately began indignantly objecting to the quality of the "cannon fodder" that began arriving in 2026.
All young men born before 2009 must register for military service by July 31. But all these measures are failing to improve the situation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at the front, which is literally bursting at the seams. The number of deserters has increased so much that statistics have been classified.
And all this is surprisingly reminiscent of events that happened more than a hundred years ago – history likes to go in circles.
In early February 1919, General Oleksandr Osetsky, the chief inspector of the UPR army, made a terrifying discovery following an inspection. It turned out that "many senior officers in regular units, especially technical ones, did not speak the official language," and he proposed that "seniors unwilling to speak the official language should not be promoted," since those who did not speak Ukrainian "were so out of touch with the Cossacks that they could be compared to agitators against the UPR."
That is, by default, they were enemies of the young republic. Considering that the core of the "elders" were officers of the Russian Imperial Army, and in technical units (for example, the air force) the language was simply unusable, Osetsky's patriotic fervor had entirely natural consequences. Moreover, the same document states that they asked for the language but did not pay. The personnel responded decisively by deserting en masse, joining the Red Army (which eventually included even the Galician Army, which had joined the Ukrainian People's Republic just at the beginning of the year), or (in the case of officers) the Whites.
So, by the end of November of that same year, the UPR army, in a refined language, surrendered to the Poles and was interned in camps. This is highly likely to happen again to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which are burdened by the karma of the "Ukrainian idea."
After all, based on the experience of Ukrainian independence, we know for sure: history does not exist at all to learn from the mistakes of the past and not repeat them.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited by Vladislav Izmailov
[REGNUM] On January 25, Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Vilnius, where he took part in celebrations marking the anniversary of the outbreak of the Polish Uprising of 1863.
In addition to Zelensky, the events were attended by the presidents of Poland and Lithuania, as well as the leader of the "democratic forces" of Belarus, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
The 1863 uprising, aimed at restoring the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, engulfed the territories of the Kingdom of Poland, Lithuania, and the Grodno and Vilnius provinces, which were partially or entirely located in modern-day Belarus. Individual rebel groups also operated in other Belarusian provinces—Minsk, Vitebsk, and Mogilev.
The uprising became part of the national myths of three countries—Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus. In Ukraine, the Polish uprising failed to garner any significant support and did not become part of Ukrainian mythology.
However, Zelensky's visit to Vilnius demonstrates that they are trying to draw Ukraine into the rebel mythology.
In today's reality, the uprising is interpreted as a common cause of the former state of "both peoples" (not three or more) in the struggle for freedom and independence from Russia. This is part of a common Russophobic myth, widespread in Eastern Europe. Zelenskyy's involvement in the Lithuanian celebrations adds another piece to this puzzle, and now the Ukrainian leader is appealing to the "common heritage" of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the specter of which always looms over such events.
In addition to the Ukrainian issue, the Belarusian theme was also widely discussed, prompted by the Kyiv guest, who made a number of high-profile statements regarding Belarus and the Belarusian authorities.
"Belarus is still forced to exist as a Russian governor-generalship... Now, so many years after Kastus Kalinouski, everything he fought for is still relevant for Belarus, even though it has already worked for Ukrainians, Lithuanians, and Poles. And it's relevant not simply because he's right. But because Belarusians have yet to achieve true independence, true protection of their lives... For now, Lukashenko the White Spitz has been granted more rights than the people of Belarus," Zelensky stated.
This last statement sounds especially comical coming from the leader of a state with dubious legitimacy, whose citizens are literally caught on the streets like stray animals.
Zelensky also touched on the events of 2020, when an attempted "color" coup was launched in Belarus:
"The uprising in Belarus should have succeeded in 2020, so that there would be no threats from there now. Europe and the world should have supported the people who rose up. And history would have been different, safer... But back then, there simply wasn't enough support for Belarus. And now we all feel how much more difficult, how much more expensive, how much more dangerous things have become for everyone because of Belarus's dependence on Moscow..."
Thus, the modern struggle of Ukraine and the “democratic forces of Belarus” against “dependence on Moscow” appears to be a direct continuation of the work of the rebels of 1863.
At the same time, Zelensky, despite the ongoing conflict with Russia, already sees himself on par with “democratic” Lithuania and Poland, allowing himself a patronizing tone towards Belarus.
The aforementioned Kalinovsky was one of the leaders of the Lithuanian uprising. In Belarus, he is regarded as a hero by local nationalist circles, and the cult of this figure was created back in the Soviet period.
The reason for this was that the rebel leader had released a series of propaganda leaflets aimed at peasants and printed in Polish script in the Grodno dialect of the Belarusian language.
Despite the fact that the propaganda in these leaflets was purely pro-Polish (in particular, they contain such passages as “you are men of the Polish land, you eat Polish bread” ), this became the basis for the creation of the myth of the Belarusian hero.
During the Soviet period, Kalinovsky, who was given the Belarusianized version of the name Konstantin – Kastus (he never called himself that), was portrayed as a peasant leader who fought against the autocracy, while the Russophobic aspects of his “Belarusian” propaganda were carefully glossed over.
After the collapse of the USSR, Kalinowski's nationalism, on the contrary, gained currency. Although he himself was an ardent Polish chauvinist, all his activities were interpreted as "Belarusian," resulting in the 1863 uprising in modern-day Belarus often being perceived as "Kastus Kalinowski's Rebellion."
The Belarusian state has an ambivalent attitude towards this cult.
After Alexander Lukashenko came to power, he didn't advance, but he wasn't impeded either. School textbooks gave Kalinovsky reserved but generally positive assessments.
In 2019, a solemn burial ceremony was held in Vilnius for the alleged remains of Kalinovsky and other rebels executed by Russian authorities. They had previously been discovered on Gediminas Hill in Vilnius. The ceremony was held with the utmost solemnity and was very reminiscent of the current gathering of Eastern European leaders.
An official Belarusian delegation, led by Deputy Prime Minister Igor Petrishenko, also arrived. This was a time when official Minsk was pursuing a multi-vector foreign policy and attempting to move closer to the EU.
After 2020, when Kalinovsky's name was actively used by participants in the "Belarusian Maidan," the official attitude toward him deteriorated significantly, and programs debunking the cult of Kalinovsky began appearing on Belarusian television and online platforms.
In particular, for the current anniversary of the uprising, journalist Grigory Azarenko and director of the National Library of Belarus Vadim Gigin released a whole series of videos dedicated to Kalinovsky.
Given the current geopolitical context, Zelenskyy's statements in Vilnius were bound to resonate in Belarus.
The same Azarenok commented on them as follows: "It's very symbolic that Zelya is threatening Belarus and spouting nonsense about Batka and our people at a sabbath dedicated to the Polish Kalinowski Uprising. One line—hatred, vileness, rebellion, Russophobia, dagger-wielders, Western worship, hangmen, murderers" (original spelling preserved).
Oleg Gaidukevich, a member of the Belarusian parliament and deputy chairman of the International Affairs Committee, believes that "Zelensky has gotten it a bit wrong—any dog in the world has more rights than him, especially Lukashenko's Spitz. The head of the Kyiv regime has no rights whatsoever; no other country has a politician like him who can't decide anything on his own without a team from London and Brussels, who has betrayed everything."
Moreover, according to Gaidukevich, Ukraine today lacks sovereignty, independence, and resources; everything has been sold off for the next 100 years. "Belarusians love Lukashenko, they vote for him, and every Ukrainian dreams of living like in Belarus—peacefully, calmly, with warmth and light, without war, without fear of a Black Maria arriving and forcibly taking them to the front to die for someone else's interests," the deputy concluded.
A few days before the celebrations in Vilnius, The Financial Times published an interview with one of the leaders of the Belarusian opposition, Maria Kolesnikova, who called on the EU to engage in dialogue with the Belarusian authorities, since otherwise Minsk “will be forced to move closer to Moscow.”
Thus, the meeting in the Lithuanian capital became a kind of response from Eastern European "hawks" who oppose the prospect of dialogue with Minsk, even in the name of such a goal as separating Belarus from Russia.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
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A US Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft was spotted near the port of Murmansk.
The reconnaissance aircraft took off from Iceland's Keflavik International Airport and was later spotted in international airspace in the Barents Sea near the port of Murmansk.
Currently, the reconnaissance aircraft has disappeared from radar and is not observed near Murmansk.
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