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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ Media: Large explosion reported at military plant in Iran. A loud explosion was heard at the ammunition manufacturing center of the Iranian Defence Ministry in Isfahan as a result of the “unsuccessful” drone attack, Iranian state media reported.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ Prosecutor General’s Office records over 66,500 Russian war crimes, crimes of aggression in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office reported on Jan. 28 that the Russian military has committed 66,743 war crimes and crimes of aggression in Ukraine since Feb. 24.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ Media: Czech, Slovak leaders to visit Kyiv. Czech President-elect Petr Pavel plans to visit Ukraine together with Slovak President Zuzana Caputova, reported Czech TV channel CT24 on Jan. 28.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ Ukraine’s military repels 16 Russian attacks in Donetsk, Luhansk oblasts. In a morning update on Jan. 29, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said that Ukrainian forces had repelled 16 Russian assaults in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ Russian attacks kill 4, injure 17 in Donetsk Oblast over past day. Russian attacks in Donetsk Oblast killed four civilians and wounded 17 others over the past 24 hours, Donetsk Oblast Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko reported on Jan. 29.
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KyivIndependent: It is still impossible to determine the exact number of casualties in Russian-occupied Mariupol and Volnovaha, Kyrylenko added.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️ISW: Russian army likely replacing exhausted Wagner forces in Bakhmut. Russian regular army forces are likely replacing units of the exhausted mercenary group Wagner Group in order to maintain the offensive in Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, the Institute for the Study of War said.
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KyivIndependent: Combat footage posted on Jan. 20 indicates that Russian Airborne Forces are operating around Bakhmut, which had previously been almost exclusively the purview of Wagner.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Tagesspiegel: Scholz wants to continue to talk to Putin. “I will also be on the phone with Putin again - because it is necessary to talk to each other,” the Chancellor said, adding it was up to Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and end this “terrible, nonsensical war.”
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Ban on leaving Ukraine extends to officials unfit for service.
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KyivIndependent: The recently passed ban on the exit from the country of Ukrainian civil servants, in addition to business trips, will apply to those, both men and women, who are unfit for military service, Andriy Demchenko, spokesperson of the State Border Service, said on Jan. 29.
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KyivIndependent: These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Jan. 29, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. https://t.co/SWTkEGI7wN
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️NOS investigation: Dutch-made microchips found in Russian weapons.
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KyivIndependent: Millions of microchips made by Dutch companies reportedly ended in Russia since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, despite heavy sanctions on technological goods, an investigation by Dutch newspaper Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) showed.
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DefenceU: "We have the words to express our anger. We have the words to express our grief. We have the words to express our contempt. We have curse words, words for prayer, we have all the necessary words to talk about ourselves during the war." @serhiy_zhadan Enemy losses, Feb 24-Jan 29 https://t.co/OHfL43APbJ
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Wagner forces claim Russian capture of Blahodatne near Bakhmut, Ukraine denies. Photos circulated on social media on Jan. 29 showing Wagner mercenaries in front of a sign reading Blahodatne.
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KyivIndependent: A small village on the highway between the front-line cities of Bakhmut and Siversk, Blahodatne is located just across the Bakhmutka River from the salt-mining town of Soledar, which Russia completed the capture of in mid-January.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Defense Ministry to allocate over $500 million to buy drones in 2023.
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KyivIndependent: The mass use of drones will make it possible to advance more quickly during offensive actions, significantly reduce Russia’s combat potential and stop the enemy from conducting its own offensives, Commander of the Joint Forces of Ukraine Serhii Naev said.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Estonian Prime Minister calls to strengthen Russia’s isolation over Olympics. Kaja Kallas criticized the Olympic Committee’s suggestion to lift the ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes for the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, calling it “politically and morally wrong.”
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Intelligence: Prigozhin doesn’t command Wagner Group’s military operations. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the Russian state-backed mercenary Wagner Group, rather has a political and media role, according to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Intelligence.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Health Ministry: Russian forces shell hospital in Kherson, nurse injured. According to Kherson Oblast Military Administration, Russian troops also heavily shelled residential areas in Kherson, “killing and injuring many civilians,” on Jan. 29. Yuriy Sobolevskyi/Telegram https://t.co/8UkRbZsf9v
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️UK Defense Ministry: Ukrainian tank crews arrive to begin training on Challengers. "Ukrainian tank crews have arrived in the U.K. to begin training for their continued fight against Russia," the U.K. Defense Ministry wrote on Jan. 29. UK Defense Ministry/Twitter https://t.co/vzKFQv7vxy
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Russian governor claims Ukraine shelled Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Kursk Oblast Governor Roman Starovoit said on Jan. 29 that Ukrainian forces had shelled the bordering region with mortars, damaging power lines and leaving 2 villages without electricity. Ukraine hasn't commented.
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ZelenskyyUa: Особисто привітав Петра Павела @general_pavel із перемогою на виборах Президента Чехії. Подякував йому та чеському народу за неослабну підтримку. Запросив із візитом до України.
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KyivIndependent: Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told CBC that having secured supplies of modern tanks from the West, Ukraine now hopes to receive military aircraft that could be a “game changer” in its fight against Russia. https://t.co/ocPPnf6IFL
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️3 killed, 5 injured in Russian shelling of Kherson. According to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, the Jan. 29 attack damaged a hospital, school, bus station, post office, bank, and multiple residential buildings. All injured have been hospitalized.
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KyivIndependent: Interested in investigations? Top level corruption? Oligarch assets? Russia’s war crimes? The Kyiv Independent selects top investigative stories from Ukraine and beyond, tracks their impact and delivers the digest right to your mailbox every Monday! https://t.co/YXzFxsA9OY
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Jerusalem Post: Attack on Iranian military plant was 'phenomenal success.’ The Jan. 29 attack on Iran’s Isfahan military plant was “a tremendous success” despite Iranian claims of a failure, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing unnamed Western intelligence and other sources.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️WSJ: Military aid to Ukraine accelerates as Western allies worry ‘time might be on Russia’s side.’ Some Western officials now fear Russia can dominate any lengthy war of attrition, keeping deploying men and means into the war, the WSJ reported citing unnamed Western officials.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️US officials meet with deputy PM, check aid spending. Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov, head of Ukraine's infrastructure projects, said on Jan. 29 that Ukraine proposed creating an aid audit mechanism to "ensure transparency in the use of partners' aid." 1/2
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KyivIndependent: The funds that Ukraine receives for infrastructure repairs and post-war reconstruction should be monitored jointly with the U.S. Government Accountability Office, according to Kubrakov. 2/2
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DefenceU: The village of Yahidne. More than 350 people lived, suffered and died here in a tiny school basement during russian occupation. The story of Victoria, one of the prisoners of this concentration camp, is in the second part of the series "Kids of Bomb Shelters” by @ulybinyulian 1/3 https://t.co/bYDvANp1Qw
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DefenceU: Pain from the loss of loved ones, injuries, inhumane conditions of captivity. How to survive in a manmade Hell? The story of a brave woman under occupation. A movie you won't be able to forget. Just one of hundreds of thousands of tragic stories of Ukrainians in this war. 2/3 https://t.co/uBnmmOtyo6
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DefenceU: Her husband and older daughter were killed by russian invaders. Her younger daughter took her firsts step just a few months later. Because in this basement full of people, where the russians kept them, even a 13-month-old child had no place to learn to walk. 3/3 https://t.co/BZaWG62w49
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Satellite images show no damage to kamikaze drone plant in Iran after alleged strike. The alleged Shahed combat drone plant in the city of Isfahan, Iran, wasn't damaged after an alleged attack on Jan. 29, shows a SkySat satellite image released by Planet Labs.
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️General Staff: Russia conducts offensive in Donetsk Oblast. The General Staff reported on Jan.29 that the Russian military conducted an offensive in Donetsk Oblast toward the settlements of Lyman, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and Novopavlivka.
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KyivIndependent: Ukraine denied on Jan. 29 that Russian forces made gains near Bakhmut, dismissing Moscow’s earlier claim that it captured a village that could serve as a crucial step for the city's encirclement. https://t.co/u4M9crUdVq
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Zelensky: Russia ‘hopes to drag out war,’ exhaust Ukrainian forces. "Speed of (military assistance) supply was and will be one of the key factors in this war," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
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ZelenskyyUa: Шість місяців тому Росія здійснила жахливий теракт в Оленівці. Ми не дозволимо забути про цей злочин. Памʼятаємо кожного загиблого воїна та боремося за покарання всіх винних у їхній загибелі. Винні будуть знайдені й притягнуті до відповід
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ZelenskyyUa: 6 months ago, Russia carried out a horrific terrorist attack in Olenivka. We won't allow this crime to be forgotten, we remember every killed warrior. And we're working to punish all those responsible for their deaths. The perpetrators will be found and brought to justice. 1/2
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ZelenskyyUa: The insidious mass murder in Olenivka will be one of the charges at the international tribunal against Russian aggressor. Russia will lose this war. Evil and meanness always lose. We must bring all Ukrainians home from Russian captivity. We are working for this. 2/2
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KyivIndependent: ⚡️Dmytro Pavlychko, famous Ukrainian poet, co-author of country's sovereignty declaration, dies at 93. President Zelensky wrote that Pavlychko will be remembered as the co-author of the Declaration of State Sovereignty and one of the founders of the People's Movement of Ukraine. https://t.co/Vu443c6IQk
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DefenceU: Every once in a while there is a man. A man who stands up and doesn’t run. A man who doesn’t hesitate to take a stand. Sometimes there are thousands of them, millions of them. Just one man. That is all it takes. @Liberov https://t.co/dmzQ2o7Rn7