russian invasion of Ukraine. Chronicle for January 22-24

25 January 2024

In the early morning of February 24, 2022, Russia launched missile attacks on Ukrainian territory and launched a direct, full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian Armed Forces repel the enemy

- Do you still buy iPhones?

- They are unscrewing the nuts, checking at what point the Russians will not stand. In the meantime, the bill will deprive you of property if you express a position against the war.

- An FPV drone operator's dream

- We quarreled, it happens

- Slovak Prime Minister Fico: Ukraine must give up territory to end Russian invasion

Fico says the only way to end Russia's war against Ukraine is for Kyiv to cede some of its territory to Russia.

"There must be some kind of compromise. What do they expect, that the Russians will leave Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk? This is unrealistic," he said.

- Explosions were heard in Donetsk and Makeevka, smoke was visible

There was a partial power failure in the cities, which, according to the occupiers, was caused by a drone attack.

- Zelensky introduced to the Rada a bill on the institution of multiple citizenship

This will allow all ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants from different countries of the world to have Ukrainian citizenship. Except for citizens of the aggressor country.

Zelensky’s decree regarding the territories of the Russian Federation historically populated by Ukrainians appeared on the website of the Office of the President

It was decided to develop a plan of measures to preserve the national identity of Ukrainians in the Russian Federation in the following areas:

▪️In Kuban, Starodubshchina, Northern and Eastern Slobozhanshchina within the modern Krasnodar region;

▪️Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk, Rostov regions.

- The Czech Republic will not return Ukrainians liable for military service to their homeland for mobilization, - Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky.

Such mechanisms do not exist and they will certainly not be in accordance with international law and the obligations that the Czech Republic has in the international sphere.

- Poland has joined the G7 declaration on guarantees for Ukraine - Tusk.

- Ukraine will ban any transport links from Russia for 50 years (!)

The Cabinet of Ministers submitted such a proposal to the National Security and Defense Council for consideration.

- If Kyiv stops receiving assistance from the US and the EU, Ukraine will begin to delay salaries and print money, writes The Wall Street Journal.

This year, Ukraine faces a financial deficit of over $40 billion. In the absence of immediate assistance, the government will be forced to limit spending on military needs, resorting to measures such as delaying salary payments and attracting additional funds from its own banks and domestic investors. Eventually Kyiv may be forced to print money.

- Countries must stop supporting Ukrainian refugees so that they return to Ukraine, - Advisor to VP Leshchenko.

The returnees will not have to fight in the trenches. They can buy Ukrainian products in a supermarket and pay rent for an apartment in Kyiv, use the services of clinics and pharmacies, and pay taxes.

- The Russians again launched a massive missile strike on Ukraine

So far known:

▪️Kiev: there is a hit and fire in different areas. Nine victims are known, including a child.

▪️Kharkov: destructionSecured entrance to an apartment building, people under the rubble. There are already 2 dead, 11 injured in the city, there is no electricity and water. In the suburbs - 4 hits.

▪️Pavlograd: one death is known, there are injuries.

The photo shows the consequences of an attack from different cities; there are no military installations here.

Russia – manure.

- Photo of the consequences of a missile strike in the Solomensky district of the capital

- Five dead and at least 40 injured due to a missile attack in Ukraine, - Ministry of Internal Affairs.

- 21 missiles out of 41 were destroyed over Ukraine at night, - Zaluzhny

Destroyed:

▪️15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles;

▪️5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles

▪️1 X-59 guided aircraft missile.

- In Pavlograd in the Dnepropetrovsk region, civilian infrastructure, 2 schools and 8 high-rise buildings were damaged by rocket debris, - OVA.

There is information about 1 dead woman.

- 4 dead and 42 wounded in Kharkov

There are four children among them, their condition is moderate.

- “Ramstein-18” has begun. Austin calls on allies to provide Ukraine with more air defense systems, - RBC.

"Putin continues to waste huge numbers of his own troops in his ill-considered and senseless war, which he himself chose. He hopes that the use of missiles and drones will crush the spirit of the Ukrainian people and undermine the morale of the Ukrainian military," it is reported in his statement.

In addition, the head of the Pentagon emphasized that allied countries must show determination in supporting Ukraine.

- The Daily Mail newspaper presented a forecast of a possible military clash between Russia and NATO countries, which, in their opinion, could occur in twenty years

Experts identify several key stages of a possible military conflict:

▪️The beginning of the invasion involves large-scale cyber attacks that can cause failures in infrastructure and satellite systems.

▪️Russia will then launch a massive missile attack on infrastructure in various regions of Europe.

▪️A ground operation will begin, the priority will be an attempt to capture the Suwalki corridor, and then an attack on the Baltic countries or Poland

▪️The Russian fleet will seek to establish control over the Arctic.

▪️Russia's allies, such as Iran, may join the conflict.

▪️Moscow may then suspend actions to assess NATO's readiness to defend its eastern members.

- “In 2024, Ukraine expects to receive new weapons that have no analogues, capable of effectively striking the military forces of the Russian Federation and their logistics centers,” - a representative of the Ministry of Defense following the results of today’s Ramstein meeting ".

- Trump calls the leaders of the Russian Federation and China “smart and influential people” who “love their countries” and want them to prosper, in contrast to the “incompetent” Biden, “who cannot put two words together and leave the stage.” »

- A Russian military transport aircraft Il-76 crashed in the Belgorod region.

Apparently, a Russian Il-76 plane was shot down.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on board the fallen Il-76 there were 65 captured military personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces transported to the Belgorod region for exchange, 6 crew members and 3 accompanying persons.

"Ukrainian Pravda", which reported with reference to a source that the Russian Il-76 plane was shot down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, edited the news, removing from it all references to the downing of the plane and that it was "the work of Ukrainian security forces." Armed forces."

Then the Russian Ministry of Murder published lists of prisoners, of which 17 prisoners had already been exchanged previously.

The Ukrainian army indirectly confirms responsibility for the downing of the Russian Il-76 aircraft, signaling that it was carrying ammunition.

The statement does not say anything about whether there were Ukrainian prisoners of war on board.

The estimated cost of the crashed plane is $27 million

The plane was flying north or northwest, not towards the border with Ukraine - there is also such information about the flight of the Il-76

That is, the fact that prisoners of war were on board is also excluded here.

As a result of the accident, the Il-76 threw out several large objects, - rosSMI.

A large number of documents were found near the forest line and debris. The area was immediately fenced off and residents were prohibited from approaching the scene or touching the papers.

The Main Intelligence Directorate confirmed that an exchange of prisoners between the Russian Federation and Ukraine was being prepared today - Radio Liberty.

"But I can state that the exchange planned for today is not taking place yet," Yusov said.

Information that prisoners of war could have been on the Il-76 plane, which crashed in the Belgorod region, is currently being verified.

Simonyan published a list of prisoners of war who were allegedly on the Il-76 plane

There’s just a nuance: some names match the list of the exchange that took place on January 3

Rashists in their repertoire

The Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to take measures to destroy delivery vehicles and control airspace to destroy the terrorist threat, including in the Belgorod-Kharkov direction, - General Staff about the downed Il-76.

Currently we have no information about who was on board the plane and in what quantity, - GUR.

The Russian side claims that an Il-76 transporting prisoners was shot down, while Ukraine believes that it has fulfilled all the conditions for the exchange, and ensuring the safety of the defenders was Russia's responsibility according to the agreements.

There is little information, it is different everywhere, so we are waiting for official statements.

- Hungarian Prime Minister Orban calls on parliament to ratify Sweden's membership in NATO "at the earliest opportunity."

- British Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Harris: (Transfer of modernized Sandown class mine hunters to Ukraine)

Turkey does not allow them due to the Montreux Convention, which prohibits the passage of warships through the Bosporus and Dardanelles during the Black Sea War.

The United Kingdom is a party to the Convention and we support this position [Türkiye].

This is actually beneficial for Ukraine, since thanks to the Convention, Russia cannot restore its destroyed fleet.

- The occupiers have advanced slightly in the areas of Avdiivka and Novomikhailovka, but our defensive forces have successfully repelled their attacks, ISW reports.

▪️Russia is trying to get out of a positional war, but it is unable to concentrate sufficient forces for a breakthrough, since the Ukrainian Armed Forces are striking at all their concentrations, even in the rear.

▪️In the Donetsk region near Yampolovka, the enemy went on the offensive. Fixed himself in the gray zone, but was unable to advance - the Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed the positions of the Russian armed forces with tanks.

- Trump and Biden won their party primaries in New Hampshire

Trump received 54% of the vote, while his main rival Nikki Haley received 44.5%. Haley expressed her intention to continue fighting in the presidential race.

Voting results in New Hampshire are critical as the winner gains media attention, donor support, and a reputation as a leader.

Biden won the Democratic primary without campaigning in the state or putting his name on the ballot due to a conflict with the authorities. About 70% of the 63,000 voters put his name on the ballot themselves.

- Ukrainian electronic warfare helped repel yesterday's Russian attack, - BBC

Yesterday the Russians fired 41 missiles (21 were shot down), but about 20 more missiles did not reach their targets as a result of electronic warfare. For the first time, Ukraine announced such a successful method of countering missiles not with air defense means, but with electronic warfare (previously, electronic warfare capabilities were used only to disable UAVs).

Western analysts are talking about a “turning point” in the issue of protecting the skies of Ukraine.

- GUR informs about a cyber attack on the Russian center of space hydrometeorology "Planet"

▪️280 servers were destroyed, about 2 petabytes of data (200 million gigabytes) were lost.

▪️The loss of Russian information is estimated to be at least $10 million.

▪️Meteorological and satellite data used by the Russian military and other departments were destroyed.

▪️Dozens of strategic companies of the Russian Federation aimed at the military sector are left without critical information and services.

- Ukraine is deploying an extensive three-level system of defense lines in all directions, - Shmigal.

Significant funds in the amount of several tens of billions of hryvnia have already been allocated for this initiative.

- Consequences of hitting a high-rise building in Odessa

- What do borders look like when the neighbors are not a fascist regime headed by a maddened dictator who is obsessed with gender-neutral toilets?

- You can use rubles

- The people got caught with rotten foul. Putin is dragging them to a bright future, but they are not going anywhere

As they say: “There was no order to die!”

- Everything is fine. Russian adaptation.

- Medvedev drank too much again

- Interesting comparison from Twitter

- And what is he wrong about?

- In Russia, prices for coffins have risen to a record level in 13 years

In 2022-23, making a coffin became more expensive by 22.2%. Digging graves has risen in price by 20.6%.

- Good news

- The Kyrgyz court reviewed the decision and released its citizen, who became a mercenary of the Russian army in the war in Ukraine. He was given a suspended sentence instead of 10 years in prison

A mercenary was released from the courtroom, the Pervomaisky District Court of Bishkek reconsidereddecided on the case of Askar Kubanychbek and gave him a suspended sentence. “He was sentenced to imprisonment for seven years with probationary supervision for a period of three years. The defendant has been released from the courtroom,” Askar’s lawyer said.

The man was detained in January last year when he came home to visit his father. In May, Kubanychbek was sentenced to 10 years in prison for participating in the war against Ukraine on the side of Russia as a volunteer. The defense appealed the court's decision.

- 4.24

- What do you know about traditional values?

- Biological laboratories at work

- The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on confiscation of property and deprivation of honorary titles for crimes against the regime, including the truth about the war and desertion

The authors of the corresponding initiative were 395 deputies of parliament, led by Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. Three spoke out against it; it was not specified who it was.

How many of the 100% will remain for Nadezhdin if 146% vote for Putin?

- In Kamchatka, a doctor told her colleagues how her grandchildren were suffering in Ukraine during Russian shelling. Colleagues recorded her story on a tape recorder, took her to the authorities and wrote a denunciation. A woman was fined for “discrediting” the Russian army.

Otorhinolaryngologist Natalya Yatsenko from the Vilyuchinsk City Hospital was fined 30 thousand rubles for “discrediting” the Russian army. The denunciation of Yatsenko was written by colleagues. Natalya discussed personal issues with them in one of the offices. One of the doctors recorded the doctor’s story about his grandchildren in Ukraine and provided it to the police.

“In the presence of strangers, she said that Russia is an aggressor against Ukraine, its Armed Forces attacked Ukraine, crossing the border with weapons, in order to seize territories, Russia seized lands previously belonging to Ukrainians, that its grandchildren they sleep in the corridor almost every night, an antisocial part of the Russian population has come to Ukraine, because of whose actions Ukrainian children are dying,” the court decision says.

- There is no limit to cynicism

- Babiy Oleg Ivanovich - Hero of Ukraine, who in his last battle with the unit neutralized three enemy TU-22 aircraft that bombed Ukraine

- “Let the creature who unleashed the bloodbath die,” deputy Sergei Medvedev, who spoke out against Putin and the war, was deprived of his mandate, and previously expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. Yesterday he signed a letter to the Central Election Commission calling on Putin to be denied registration

Deputies of the Perm City Duma deprived their colleague of his position unanimously: according to the chairman of the Duma, Dmitry Malyutin, “a person who does not support the ideology of the state cannot be a deputy.”

The persecution of Sergei Medvedev began after he posted a post on December 31, where he stated that he would not celebrate the New Year because of the war in Ukraine, and called for “an end to the SVO.” “Let the creature who started the bloody war die,” quotes (t.me/astrapress/45917) the ASTRA deputy. On January 14, Medvedev was expelled from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and the very next day he was put on the international wanted list.

Sergei Medvedev is also one of the signatories of the letter to the Central Election Commission calling on Putin to be denied registration

- Russophobia and fascism on the Maidan 2014

- Fight Nemtsov and Boris Nadezhdin, 90s

- One at the same time

- Ukrainian film about Mariupol destroyed by Russia was nominated for an Oscar

The documentary “20 days in Mariupol” by Ukrainian journalist and photographer Mstislav Chernov was nominated for an Oscar in the “Best Documentary Film” category.

Together with Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and producer Vasilisa Stepanenko worked on the film.

As part of a team from the Associated Press news agency, they arrived in Mariupol an hour before the full-scale Russian invasion and spent almost a month there under siege conditions, documenting what was happening.

Thanks to Chernov and the team, the world saw for the first time many photos of Mariupol, including the consequences of the bombing of maternity hospital No. 3 by Russian troops.

Chernov and Maloletka sent their photos and videos, hiding under the stairs near a broken grocery store.

In one episode of the film, Mstislav Chernov says in voiceover: “This film is painful to watch, but you need to watch it.”

“20 Days in Mariupol” has already received many awards, including Sundance and two British BAFTA Award nominations.