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[Korrespondent] 20:50 Security Service officers dismantled a large-scale mobilization evasion scheme in Kyiv. The first deputy head of one of the capital's district state administrations was detained.
By forging documents, the official fictitiously "enrolled" clients into military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and later organized their deregistration from military records based on fictitious medical diagnoses.
The cost of such a "service" was from 15,000 to 20,000 dollars per client. To organize the transaction, the person involved used his own connections in the district CCC, and to prepare the forgeries, he involved an accomplice.
19.26 Ukraine and Russia are "moderately close" to concluding a peace agreement. US President Donald Trump stated this during his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The American leader noted that "there is enormous hatred" between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
"Regarding Ukraine and Russia, there is tremendous hatred between President Zelensky and President Putin. This is not good. This is not good for a settlement. We know from the experience of negotiations that there is an abnormal hatred," he said.
At the same time, Trump believes that the parties are "reasonably close" to concluding a peace agreement. The US President added that Russia wants to conclude a deal, and that Ukraine wants to conclude a deal. However, it is a very difficult balance, and it is important to stop the bloodshed.
"So I think they're at a point now - I'm going to meet with President Zelensky later today - they (Ukraine and Russia - ed.) are at a point now where they can come together and make a deal. And if they don't do it, they're stupid. That goes for both of them (Putin and Zelensky - ed.). I know they're not stupid, but if they don't do it, they're stupid," Trump said.
18.46 An air defense system has been located on the territory of the Mozyr Oil Refinery in Belarus since the summer of 2025, which, according to satellite images, is likely a Russian Tor anti-aircraft missile system.
According to journalists from the Schema project, the arrangement of positions for the air defense system on the territory of the enterprise began back in January 2025, and in August the anti-aircraft missile complex itself appeared there.
In terms of dimensions and shadow of the object, it corresponds to the Russian Tor system. Most likely, this is a modern Tor-M2, which is manufactured, in particular, on the chassis of the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant.
18.42 Propagandists are spreading a fake about the alleged recall of F-16s transferred to Ukraine by Denmark to Greenland, publishing an edited video with a replaced audio track. The Center for Countering Disinformation reports this .
Russian propagandists are distributing a video purportedly from the Danish TV channel TV2 Nord, where TV presenter Pia Beltoft allegedly reports that "Denmark plans to take back the F-16 fighters transferred to Ukraine and transfer them to Greenland because of Trump's statements.
While in reality this information is not true.
"Propagandists took the original TV2 Nord broadcast and replaced the audio track with a fabricated one. There is no news about the F-16 recall on the channel's official website or on its social networks. The Danish Ministry of Defense has also not made any similar statements," the CPD noted.
17:44 On Wednesday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Kyiv , not in Davos, as announced by US President Donald Trump. This was stated by the head of state's communications adviser Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukrinform reports.
At the same time, the meeting between Zelensky and Trump in Davos is still scheduled to take place, but not on Wednesday, according to media reports.
17.33 Law enforcement officers have identified a Russian military man who committed violence against residents of the Kyiv region in the spring of 2022.
In particular, it was established that at the end of March 2022, during the occupation of the Buchansky district of the Kyiv region, a 36-year-old local resident of one of the villages of the community was raped in one of the houses. Threatening the woman with execution, the Russian man abused her.
As a result of the work, law enforcement officers identified the rapist. He turned out to be the commander of the platoon of the 64th separate motorized rifle brigade of the 35th combined arms army of the Eastern Military District of the Russian Federation, a captain, a native of a village in the Ulyanovsk region, born in 1989.
17.01 US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the World Economic Forum in Davos. The American leader announced this during a speech in Davos.
16.53 Russian troops shelled the Kramatorsk community in the Donetsk region this morning. A civilian resident died as a result of the strike. This was reported by the Kramatorsk City Council.
Later, the city council clarified that using three FAB-250s, Russian troops struck the private sector and one of the neighborhoods of the Kramatorsk community.
"A woman born in 1978 died as a result of the shelling. A woman born in 1944 was also injured - medical assistance is being provided at a local hospital."
The impact also damaged at least three dozen private residential buildings, a high-rise building, and a store.
16.35 A Russian military intelligence (GRU) agent, who was detained in November 2024 in the Donetsk region, received 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
The attacker "leaked" the coordinates of fortified areas and artillery positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kramatorsk direction to the Russians. Among the sources of information that the enemy used to plan offensive operations at Chasiv Yar were her intelligence data.
16.29 Since the beginning of the current day, 74 combat clashes have occurred on the front in eight directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an operational summary . More than half of the Russian assaults were carried out in the Pokrovsk and Gulyaipol areas.
16.11 The State Bureau of Investigation exposed the director of a company who, during the war, continued to conduct business in cooperation with representatives of the aggressor state. The suspicion was reported to the director of the company, who did not stop cooperating with the Russian business and actually continued its work on the territory of Ukraine.
16.01 Oleksiy Brecht, a member of the board of NPC Ukrenergo, tragically died . The Ministry of Energy reported this. The cause of death was an electric shock at a Ukrenergo substation, according to People's Deputy Oleksiy Honcharenko.
15.14 The Poltava District Court sentenced an officer of the psychological support and recovery group who, during martial law, left his place of duty three times without permission.
The man left the unit for the first time without permission from his command in December 2024. In February 2025, he took advantage of the legislative opportunity to return to service without criminal liability, but in the fall of the same year he again reported to the SZCH. A similar case was recorded in October 2025.
Given the repetition of offenses during martial law, the court found him guilty of conspiracy to commit war crimes during martial law and sentenced him to five years in prison.
14.29 Frosts have worsened the water supply situation in the occupied areas of Donetsk region, leaving entire neighborhoods without access to drinking water. This was reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. It is noted that currently in many settlements there is no water in the taps, and the barrels for delivery have frozen or are empty. At the same time, entire neighborhoods of large cities have been left without access to drinking water. Due to the cold weather, large-scale emergency power outages and problems with heating have been added to the water crisis.
14.16 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stressed that the key problem for the Alliance now is the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, not the situation around Greenland. The Guardian reports .
"The risk is that, of course, we focus on Greenland, because we have to make sure that this issue is resolved peacefully. But the main issue is not Greenland. The main issue now is Ukraine," Rutte said.
14.11 In Kyiv, about 4,000 houses are still without heat, almost 60% of the capital is without electricity . This was reported by President Volodymyr Zelensky in Telegram after the energy selector. The capital needs additional measures and additional attraction of resources, the head of state noted.
13.55 US President's Special Representative Steve Witkoff plans to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday, he said in a comment to CNBC. The Russian side has requested talks, and discussions on the US peace plan for Ukraine are "progressing," he said.
13.30 Fighters of the Airborne Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recently shot down two Russian anti-aircraft missile systems - Buk-M2 and Buk-M3 - in the northern Slobozhansk direction in a matter of minutes. The press service of the 8th Corps of the Airborne Assault Forces reported this, publishing a video .
12.49 The government has allocated 2.56 billion hryvnias from the state budget reserve fund for the purchase of mobile distributed generation equipment. This was announced by Prime Minister Yulia Svirydenko on Telegram. We are talking about powerful generators that will go to the regions where they are needed most now.
12.15 Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleg Ivashchenko, made a working trip to the Zaporizhia Front. This was reported by the special service.
12.11 On the evening of January 20, a Russian drone attacked a private sector in Chuguev in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the strike, three people suffered an acute stress reaction. This was reported by the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor's Office.
"According to the investigation, on January 20, at about 10:00 p.m., an enemy strike drone hit the territory of a private residential sector in the city of Chuguev. According to preliminary data, the Russian Armed Forces used a Geran-2 type UAV ," the report said.
11.50 The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine published an interactive 3D model and data of the enterprises of the cooperation for the production of 9M727 cruise missiles from the Iskander-K operational-tactical missile complex in the Means of Destruction section of the War&Sanctions portal. It is noted that the main enterprise in the production cycle is the Novator Research and Design Bureau of the Almaz-Antey concern. In addition to it, the Ministry of Defense publishes 39 more Russian and one Belarusian enterprise that manufactures the warhead, turbojet engine and its components, satellite and inertial navigation systems, other electronic units and the component base of the Iskander cruise missiles.
11.21 During the night and morning, Russian aggressors attacked energy facilities in four regions of Ukraine. This was reported by Ukrenergo. Emergency restoration work is ongoing wherever the security situation currently allows.
11.10 On January 20, a Russian "shahed" exploded on the territory of a lyceum in the village of Dobryanska community in the Chernihiv region. There were no children in the lyceum, there were no casualties. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration Vyacheslav Chaus. According to the OVA, in the village of Semenivska community, a building of a cultural center caught fire due to a UAV strike. Over the past day, the Russian Federation has fired 37 shells at communities in the Chernihiv region, and 50 explosions have been recorded.
11.01 Water supply in Kyiv has been fully restored after the Russian attack on January 20. This was reported by Kyivvodokanal. Only the top floors of high-rise buildings may be without water supply when there is no electricity.
10.33 Law enforcement officers, following a hot pursuit, detained an FSB agent-killer in Zaporizhia who tried to stab an officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The SBU reported this . The victim was hospitalized in intensive care, where he is currently in serious condition.
9.39 Russian invaders attacked Ukraine with one Iskander-M ballistic missile and 97 drones of various types. Of these, 84 drones were neutralized, but there are hits; the enemy attack continues. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Telegram.
9.28 On the front of the past day, 110 combat clashes between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded, with the largest number of attacks occurring in the Pokrov direction. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 21. Aviation, missile troops, and artillery of the Defense Forces struck six areas of concentration of personnel and one control point of Russian drones.
8.59 Two people were killed and one was injured in Russian strikes on the Dnipropetrovsk region on the night of January 21. This was reported by the head of the OVA, Oleksandr Ganzha, on Telegram.
8.24 Russian war criminals attacked Zaporizhia. Enemy shelling caused damage to the city. This was reported by the head of the Zaporizhia OVA Ivan Fedorov in Telegram.
7.42 The Ukrainian Defense Forces killed and wounded 1,170 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on its Facebook page.
03.25 In the village of Novaya Adygeya, Republic of Adygea in the south of the Russian Federation, a large-scale fire broke out in a high-rise building during a UAV attack. Local authorities and Russian media claim that the building was hit by a UAV, eyewitnesses and "osinters" claim that it was a Russian air defense missile. There is also information that the S-300/400 complex was also destroyed during the attack.
00.31 Ukraine and the US will not sign the so-called "prosperity plan" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, as the parties have not yet agreed on it, Axios reports. Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka said that the US and Ukraine have reached an agreement at the working level on a political document for Ukraine's $800 billion "prosperity plan", but there is one "challenge". It is that this document will oblige Ukraine to work together between the EU and the US, and this will concern dozens of legal instruments.
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[Korrespondent] More than half of the Russian assaults were carried out in the Pokrovsk and Gulyaipol areas, operational data shows.
Since the beginning of the current day, 74 combat clashes have occurred on the front in eight directions. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this in an operational summary on Wednesday, January 21.
Thus, in the South Slobozhansky direction, there were six attacks by Russian occupiers near Dvorichansky and towards Izbitsky, Grafsky, and Kruhly. One battle is still ongoing.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy tried to break through the defenses seven times towards the settlements of Petropavlivka, Pishchane, Krylivka, and Boguslavka. Three clashes are ongoing.
In the Lyman direction, the invaders carried out six attacks in the areas of the settlements of Novomykhailivka, Drobysheve, Yampil and towards Lyman and Novosergiivka.
In the Kramatorsk direction, an assault was repelled in the Stupochok area.
In the Kostyantynivka direction, the enemy carried out five assaults in the Pleshchiivka area and towards Kostyantynivka and Ivano-Frankivsk.
In the Pokrovsk direction, Russian invaders carried out 26 assaults near the settlements of Rodynske, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetske, Filiya and towards Sergiyevka and Novopidhorodne. Two clashes are still ongoing.
In the Oleksandrivka direction, the enemy tried to break through in the areas of the settlements of Zlagoda, Yehorivka and towards Novy Zaporizhzhia. The defense forces repelled three assaults.
In the Hulyaipil direction, our defenders repelled 19 attacks by the occupiers in the Hulyaipil area and towards Dobropil and Varvarivka.
No clashes have been recorded in the North-Slobozhansky, Kursk, Slavyansky, Orikhivsky and Prydniprovsky directions yet.
Recall that in the 24 hours of January 20, Russia lost almost 1,200 soldiers killed and wounded. The total number of losses of the aggressor country is approaching 1.3 million people.
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[NewsFront] 21:51 Northerners are destroying the logistics of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region, video. 21:35 Crew of the 122mm D-30 gun of the Kostroma paratroopers of the Dnepr group of forcesdestroyedA temporary deployment point for the Ukrainian Armed Forces with personnel and a vehicle on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
20:45 In the period from 18:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 52 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type:
36 – over the waters of the Sea of Azov,
Eight – over the waters of the Black Sea,
Four – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Four – over the territory of the Krasnodar Territory
20:40 FPV drone operators using fiber-optic control of the Sever grouptorn offrotation of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
19:30 To military engineers of the West and Center troop groups on the occasion of the 325th anniversary of the formation of the engineering troops handed overstate and departmental awards.
19:18 Northern assault units entered Grafskoye, MAP.
18:50 In the period from 9.00 to 18.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
21 – over the waters of the Sea of Azov,
Four – over the Black Sea,
Two – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two – over the territory of the Kursk region,
One – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
One – over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,
One – over the territory of the Republic of Tatarstan.
18:29 FPV drone crews as part of the special forces unit of the Center group worked out on heavy copters, manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces formations in the Krasnoarmeysk direction.
Attack drone operators and Lancet loitering munition crews from the Vostok group burned an enemy tank in the Zaporizhzhia region. The enemy attempted to evacuate the equipment, but the arriving militant group was promptly detected and destroyed.
Drone operators from the 18th Combined Arms Army, part of the Dnipro group of forces, destroyed a UAV control center, a vehicle, and Ukrainian Armed Forces infantry on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
FPV drone crews from the Northern Forces Group struck an ammunition depot, personnel shelters, and enemy repeater stations.
16:41 122mm D-30 howitzer of Kostroma paratroopers destroyed a group of Ukrainian infantry on the right bank of the Dnieper
Intelligence discovered that the enemy had begun rotating into a village on the right bank of the Kherson River, bringing up vehicles and personnel. The coordinates were relayed to the artillery, and a D-30 gun crew accurately targeted the target. A few shots, and the enemy's temporary deployment point was destroyed.
16:10 According to operational information in Primorskoye in the Zaporizhzhia direction ends up clearing the northeastern outskirts of the village.
Thus, our troops are gradually approaching the enemy’s key logistics hub – the Grigorovka-Veselyanka line.
16:04 In the Krasnopolsky district, in a forest belt near the village of Ryasnoye, a stronghold of the 119th Separate TRO Brigade was identified and destroyed by a strike from a FAB with an UMPK, –video.
15:50 Tu-95MS strategic missile carriers of long-range aviation completed a scheduled flight in the airspace over the neutral waters of the Sea of Japan.
The flight duration was more than 11 hours.
Fighter escort was provided by crews of Su-35S and Su-30SM aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces.
14:50 Ten Baba Yaga-type attack drones were destroyed by Severyan crews, video.
14:08 Calculation of the Tor-MU complex of the Vostok grouptore off attack by enemy UAVs in the Zaporizhzhia region
Enemy drone activity was recorded in the area where the missions were being carried out, using them for attacks and reconnaissance of approach routes.
The drones were destroyed as they approached their positions, which thwarted the enemy's plan and prevented them from striking the front line.
12:20 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the Special Military Operation as of January 21, 2026:
>Units of the "North" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated the personnel and equipment of a mechanized brigade and assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the towns of Belopolye and Khoten in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of two mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and two territorial defense brigades were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Zybino, Zakharovka and Vovchanskie Khutora in the Khar'kov region.
The enemy lost up to 160 troops, a tank, an armored combat vehicle, 10 vehicles, a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple launch rocket system launcher, four field artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station. Three supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the "West" force grouping improved their tactical position. They defeated formations of an assault brigade, four mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and three National Guard brigades near the settlements of Osinovo, Kutkovka, Nechvolodovka, and Grushevka in the Khar'kov region, and Krasny Liman, Nikolaevka, Aleksandrovka, and Korovy Yar in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 200 troops, two armored combat vehicles, 15 vehicles, and two artillery pieces. An electronic warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
Units of the Southern Group of Forces improved their position along the forward edge. They defeated the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' airmobile and six mechanized brigades near the settlements of Ilyinovka, Druzhkovka, Berestok, Zakotne, Novoselivka, and Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 185 service members, two armored personnel carriers, including a US-made M-113 armored personnel carrier, nine armored fighting vehicles, nine motor vehicles, and three field artillery pieces, including a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery unit. Two electronic warfare stations and two supply depots were destroyed.
Units of the "Center" force group occupied more advantageous positions and lines. They defeated formations of a Jaeger, an airmobile, two mechanized, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, a territorial defense brigade, three National Guard brigades, and the Azov* special forces brigade near the settlements of Belitske, Artemivka, Toretskoye, Novopavlivka, Grishino, and Udachne in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Fedorivske and Novopidgorodne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The Ukrainian armed forces lost over 395 servicemen, six armored combat vehicles, 20 vehicles, seven artillery pieces, including two US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery units and two Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They defeated the personnel and equipment of the assault and artillery brigades, the unmanned systems brigade, three mechanized regiments, and five assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlements of Dolinka, Komsomolske, Tersyanka, Blagovatnoye, Charivne, Gorke, Zalivnoye, Verkhnyaya Tersa, and Vozdvizhevka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast and Skotovatoe in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The enemy lost up to 260 servicemen, two tanks, an armored personnel carrier, 13 vehicles, a field artillery gun, and a Grad multiple launch rocket system.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mountain assault brigade and the coastal defense brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Novoyakovlivka, Magdalynivka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
More than 60 Ukrainian servicemen, nine vehicles, a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery unit, four electronic warfare stations, a P-18 radar station, and a supply depot were destroyed.
11:34 According to operational data, our fighters lead active assault on the Central District Hospital of Krasny Liman.
Three more are being developed in the southern part of Slobozhanskaya Street.
08:34 Russian Army completes the mop up of Novoye Shakhovo, attacks Toretskoye and Pavlovka, breaking the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
In the Druzhkovka direction, Russian troops are completing the rout of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Novoye Shakhovo, expanding the red zone in and around the village.
Russian troops had previously reversed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counteroffensive and, after liberating Vladimirovka and Shakhovo, took control of Sofiyivka and Novopavlovka, attacking in the direction of Toretskoye and Pavlovka.
Prior to this, the forces of the Center group regained control over the Nikanorovka and Dorozhny districts, and began an assault on Ivanovka.
07:32 Changes on map over the past 24 hours:
Advance in the Dorozhnyanka area
Adjustment of the control zone in the Stepnogorsk area in favor of our
Advance west of Rodinsky
07:28 During the past night from 23:00 Moscow time on January 20 to 07:00 Moscow time on January 21, air defense systems on duty destroyed 75 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
45 – over the territory of the Krasnodar region,
Nine – over the territory of the Oryol region,
Seven – over the Black Sea,
Three – over the territory of the Rostov region,
Three – over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Two – over the territory of the Astrakhan region,
Two – over the territory of the Bryansk region,
Two – over the territory of the Kursk region,
One – over the territory of the Voronezh region,
One – over the waters of the Sea of Azov.
06:32 TOS-1A "Solntsepek" crew of the 35th Army of the "East" group of forces destroyed a fortified Ukrainian Armed Forces post with recessed shelters and an extensive system of firing positions in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Important to note: It's not a "war crime" if you win the war
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[Regnum] Maxim Grigoriev, Chairman of the International Public Tribunal for Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, participant in the special operation, and member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation,presented a report on January 21 titled "Atrocities and War Crimes of the Kyiv Regime in the City of Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk)." The event was held at the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
The document includes witness testimony detailing the Kyiv regime's targeted war crimes against women and children. Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) soldiers shot at civilians, abused Russians, and deliberately targeted civilian targets. Their atrocities constitute grave violations of the Geneva Conventions.
"As in many other populated areas, the data we collected clearly shows that the Kiev regime is committing genocide against Russians in the territories under its temporary control," Grigoriev said.
He also added with regret that similar actions are currently continuing in areas controlled by Kyiv. These territories are being subjected to total terror, and the people there are awaiting liberation.
Maria Zakharova, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noted that the tribunal is carrying out work that so-called international human rights structures shirk. She thanked everyone involved in this challenging endeavor.
"We consistently support this work. It requires professionalism, integrity, and human courage. The truth about what's happening in Donbas must be conveyed to the international community, no matter how they try to suppress, distort, or airbrush it out," the diplomat stated.
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova thanked Grigoriev for the enormous and vital work he and his colleagues are carrying out. She stated that no fact should remain undocumented.
"This work is of colossal importance—both for the protection of victims and for the future legal assessment of what is happening by the international community," the ombudsman emphasized.
Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rodion Miroshnik stated that reports based on the testimony of people who had just escaped fire in Krasnoarmeysk negate any attempts to hide behind international humanitarian law. This evidence proves that the Kyiv regime deliberately and consistently ignores the Geneva Conventions.
"I thank Maxim Grigoriev and the International Public Tribunal for their fundamental and crucial work in documenting these crimes—it is precisely this kind of material that allows us to call what happened by its proper name and form the evidence base for future legal assessments," Miroshnik added.
The International Public Tribunal, having examined the atrocities committed by Ukrainian Armed Forces (Ukrainian: Pokrovsk) servicemen in Krasnoarmeysk (Ukrainian: Pokrovsk) of the Donetsk People's Republic, has deemed them genocide against the Russian population. This was announced on January 21 by the tribunal's chairman, Maksym Grigoriev.
"As in many other populated areas, the data we have collected clearly shows that the Kiev regime is committing genocide against Russians in the territory under its temporary control," he said during a press conference at the Rossiya Segodnya news agency.
Grigoryev clarified that witnesses to the tragic events described how and where civilians were killed and tortured. Furthermore, the Ukrainian Armed Forces constantly shelled the city, and Ukrainian soldiers made no secret of their hatred of Russians and their desire to destroy them.
The tribunal's chairman also noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to commit genocide in the territories they control, and that residents who remain there are awaiting the arrival of Russian troops.
On January 12, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik reported evidence that Ukrainian troops had shot at civilians in the Krasnoarmeysko-Dimitrovskoye agglomeration during the evacuation to Russian-controlled territory. Local residents also reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had deliberately destroyed civilian structures.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonialCassad] Interesting details about the operation near Shevchenkove with organizational consequences within the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Mid-December was remembered for the Ukrainian Armed Forces command in the Kharkiv sector not only for the failed attempts to regain control of Kupyansk but also for one of the largest loitering munitions raids on the rear area near Shevchenkove. We have written repeatedly about how this settlement became a stronghold for the Ukrainian Armed Forces group participating in combat operations in the Kupyansk, Borova, and even the Velykyi Burluk sector.
Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment in this area had previously come under drone attack, but as a result of a planned operation by special forces UAV units of the Russian Armed Forces, enemy losses that day amounted to eleven visually confirmed units, including one BMP-1, three trucks, three armored vehicles, and four pickup trucks.
On this occasion, the SBU leadership even sent a task force to the urban-type settlement to search for and identify "waiters," saboteurs, and spotters; however, no suspicious individuals were identified as a result of the investigation.
Nevertheless, a few days later, the deputy head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces air defense group, responsible, among other things, for combating UAVs, and several officials responsible for equipment camouflage were dismissed.
They did a good job of taking advantage of the enemy's laxness. Positional street fighting continues in Kupyansk itself. Syrskoye's offensive finally got bogged down in the city's ruins, and the enemy failed to achieve its intended objectives. Group "West" managed to overcome the operational crisis, hold key positions in the city, and gradually stabilize the situation. However, serious supply problems remain for our infantry fighting within the city itself.
The enemy, however, is facing the same problem. Drones on both sides are cutting off ground logistics, so the infantry is being resupplied by drones. The trickle of supplies prevents both sides from amassing forces in the ruins to quickly achieve a critical advantage.
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[Regnum] Production of the PPK-20 submachine gun, modernized based on the experience of the SVO, has begun in Russia. This was reported by the Kalashnikov Concern press service on January 21.
The manufacturer announced that it has begun fulfilling contractual obligations for 2026 for the production of the PPK-20 (9 mm), improved based on the experience of effective combat use, including in the SVO zone.
Some tactical, technical and ergonomic characteristics of the product have been improved, and its technological effectiveness has been increased.
The changes expand the range of cartridges used by this weapon. The PPK-20's primary ammunition is the high-impulse 7N21 armor-piercing round, but the submachine gun can also fire most other 9×19 cartridges, both Russian and foreign-made.
Kalashnikov CEO Alan Lushnikov called the PPK-20 one of the best submachine guns in its class in the world for the next 20 years.
"Kalashnikov is making every effort to provide customers with products that have proven their high effectiveness in the SVO zone in a timely and complete manner," he added.
Development and state testing of the PPK-20 were completed in 2020, and deliveries to the army began in 2021. The weapon is primarily intended for special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service, and the Federal Protective Service of Russia.
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