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According to Russian information, an oil storage facility in the Russian oblast of Bryansk near the border was again attacked with drones. Ukraine reports more than 100 attempted Russian frontline attacks. All developments in the live blog.
Ukraine has called on the West to do more to curb Russian arms production and close loopholes in the supply of individual components. “According to some data, 95 percent of the critical foreign components found in the Russian weapons destroyed in Ukraine came from Western countries,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on the short message service X (formerly Twitter).
He referred to the export of so-called dual-use goods by private companies, some of whose components can also be used for weapons. Kuleba did not provide any evidence for his statements – however, Ukraine regularly dismantles downed Russian missiles and drones in order to analyze the origin of the individual parts.
According to Russian statements, there will be no new agreement with Ukraine on grain exports. The presidential office in Moscow said alternative routes for shipping are fraught with great risk. Russia refused to extend the deal brokered by the UN and Turkey last year. This allowed safe passage of grain freighters from Ukraine across the Black Sea.
After protests in support of an opposition figure, nine participants in a demonstration in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan were sentenced to several days in prison. The local court said the defendants took part in “an unauthorized public event” in the small town of Baimak. The judges therefore imposed prison sentences of between eight and 15 days.
Those now convicted were arrested on January 17 during a demonstration in front of a courthouse in Baimak. With their protest they wanted to support local activist Fail Alsynov, who had sharply criticized Russia’s attack on Ukraine and was sentenced to four years in prison for “incitement to hatred”.
The draft federal budget for this year is also being criticized by the opposition with regard to aid to Ukraine. The Union doubts whether the budget is on a secure constitutional basis. A sticking point: the planned expenditure to replace armaments that Germany had supplied to Ukraine.
The AfD criticized the lack of savings in the new budget. The party’s budget spokesman, Peter Boehringer, therefore called for no more arms supplies to be delivered to Ukraine.
Last March, Russia announced that it wanted to station tactical nuclear weapons in its ally Belarus. According to the Reuters news agency, this move is described in a military doctrine published in Belarus as “an imposed measure of strategic deterrence.” The Tass news agency quotes the Belarusian Defense Ministry in a report: According to this, the government in Minsk is ready to resume dialogue with the NATO countries. However, the prerequisite is that they “stop their aggressive rhetoric towards Belarus”.
Out of concern for Germany’s defense capability, SPD politician Johannes Arlt has spoken out against delivering Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. “I’m also talking about the fact that once we’ve handed them over, these Taurus are gone, these cruise missiles and at the moment we have no way of producing them again in a foreseeable period of time and of replenishing those in our stocks or of supplying more,” he told the Deutschlandfunk. The German arms industry is not yet in a position to reproduce quickly enough, so that if a delivery is made, Germany runs the risk of “the warehouses really being empty,” warned Arlt.
Ukraine has been pushing for the delivery of cruise missiles for a long time. However, the Bundestag recently rejected a corresponding request from the Union.
According to the Ukrainian military, Russian troops attempted to advance on the fronts in the north and south of the country a total of 114 times yesterday. All attacks were repelled.
The Russian side, however, said that its own army had managed to recapture a village in the Donetsk region.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by official bodies of the Russian and Ukrainian parties to the conflict cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
In Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, an oil storage facility caught fire after a Ukrainian drone attack, according to local governor Alexander Bogomas. The Russian military shot down the drone, Bogomas said on the Telegram short message service. The drone was aimed at targets in the city. According to preliminary information, there are no injuries. The fire department quickly extinguished the fire.
Bryansk borders the northeast of Ukraine. Just yesterday, Ukraine attacked an oil terminal in St. Petersburg, around 800 kilometers behind the front, with a drone.
Hatched: territories occupied by Russia