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[Korrespondent] 21:47 The US Treasury announced sanctions against a key network of suppliers of materials and technologies for Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs, including the Shahed series. US sanctions target four entities from Iran and Hong Kong that engaged in covert supply to sanctioned Iranian entities.
21:10 Two more air defense systems have arrived in Ukraine , Zelensky said in an evening video message: “All the details, of course, should not be said publicly. But the systems are those that shoot down everything. We will protect the regions. For now, the systems are not yet enough to fully protect Ukraine, but We work for this every day."
19:51 Zelensky said that he held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters, at which five issues were considered: Ukrainian production of drones, production and import of shells, the situation at the front, the build-up of fortifications, as well as the restoration of energy after Russian attacks and its physical protection.
The President emphasized that this year an additional budget has already been formed specifically for drones. In general, he said, “as of this year, more than 90% of the drones at the front are domestic production.” As for the situation at the front, the situation in Avdiivka is especially difficult, Zelensky noted.
19:32 The Russians shelled Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region - two people were wounded, said the head of the OVA Sergei Lysak.
19:26 Since the beginning of this year, military personnel in various interviews began to shock with statements about a repeated attack on the Ukrainian capital. They name different options for an offensive - from the Sumy, Chernigov regions or from the territory of Belarus. Even the generals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not exclude the worst scenario. For more details, see the article The military started talking about a new attack on Kiev .
18:58 Lithuania transferred a new batch of military aid to Ukraine. The package included, in particular, RISE-1 remote detonation systems and more than a thousand shells for the Swedish Carl Gustaf anti-tank grenade launcher.
18:25 A Russian spy was exposed again in Germany. This time - of Ukrainian origin. It turned out to be Vladimir Sergienko, an assistant to a Bundestag deputy from the Alternative for Germany party. Sergienko reported to the Moscow curator about his actions, coordinated further steps, and also received funding. Read more in the material Unmasking a Spy .
17:53 The Russians once again struck Kherson during the day, one person was wounded, the OVA reported.
17:16 Kuleba called “stupid” those who do not believe in Russia’s attack on NATO countries: “Anyone who today thinks that Putin will not dare to send his army to a NATO country is short-sighted. I would even say, if we put aside political correctness, that they are stupid."
17:04 The International Court of Justice has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear Ukraine's 2022 lawsuit against Russia over its military invasion. The court also rejected six of Russia's objections to the claim, declaring it admissible.
Ukraine filed a lawsuit with the UN court on February 26, 2022, complaining that the Russian Federation is abusing the International Convention on the Prevention of Genocide to justify a full-scale invasion: by announcing the so-called “special military operation,” Putin stated that he intended to prevent genocide.
16:42 UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said the West must ensure Russia's defeat in Ukraine or risk being attacked by dictatorial regimes such as China.
16:05 The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry made an official demarche to Nicaragua due to the arrival of a delegation from Crimea; an official note of protest was transmitted on January 31, said the department’s speaker Oleg Nikolenko. Representatives of the Russian occupation administration in Crimea visited Nicaragua on January 23. Among other things, they discussed the establishment of sister city ties between Yalta and Granada.
15:33 The Russian army fired at residential areas in the center of Kherson. A three-story house was partially destroyed and neighboring houses were damaged. Currently, two casualties are known, the OVA reported. In addition, the Russians again dropped explosives from a drone on a resident of Berislav - he was wounded.
15:24 Zelensky said that he held a meeting in Kiev with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly - they discussed further support for Ukraine, the joint implementation of the Peace Formula, the development of a system of security guarantees, as well as the work of the International Coalition for the return of Ukrainian children.
14:56 At the Belbek airfield near Sevastopol, at least three Russian aircraft, as well as personnel, were hit, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat: “The best confirmation is satellite images, where you can see something. But even better confirmation is this obituaries in Russian public pages. This is what they themselves admit and publish information about the defeats. At least there were three planes, certain personnel were destroyed."
14:52 The Russian army attacked Inhulets, Kherson region, two people were wounded, the OVA reported. Over the previous 24 hours, two people were killed and six were injured as a result of Russian shelling in the region.
14:43 The German Bundestag adopted a state budget with military assistance for Ukraine in the amount of about 7.6 billion euros.
14:40 Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said that he was going to the United States to convince Washington to provide further assistance to Ukraine. “It turns out that it’s worth talking to the unconvinced, so I’m flying to Washington to convince the unconvinced there,” he said.
14:37 Four more children from the occupied territories were returned to Ukraine, the Save Ukraine organization reported. In total, the team has already taken 235 children from the occupation and Russia.
14:31 Armin Kerper, a journalist with the German public broadcaster ZDF, who heads the Moscow bureau of the TV channel, shot a report with a distorted picture of life in occupied Mariupol. In it, he talks about how the city is supposedly being “rebuilt,” and the majority of its residents are pro-Russian, and there is no resistance there.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko said that such a distortion of reality cannot be considered journalistic work, and the head of the ZDF Moscow bureau did not receive consent from Kyiv to travel to Mariupol, which is a violation of Ukrainian law. “We urge ZDF to provide official explanations. Violations of Ukrainian legislation may affect the further activities of this TV channel in Ukraine,” Nikolenko added.
13:47 Macron confirmed the death of two French volunteers in Ukraine: “Two French humanitarian workers were killed in Ukraine as a result of a Russian strike. A cowardly and outrageous act. I express my solidarity to all volunteers who strive to help people.”
13:24 Ukraine and Canada have created a coalition to return Ukrainian children, said Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly. According to her, Ottawa will discuss this issue with other countries to unite and facilitate the return of children.
13:19 Kuleba is confident that the decision on the use of Russian assets will be made in 2024: “Ukraine, together with its partners, will make a decision on the use of Russian frozen assets in 2024. This decision will be made in 2024, I have no doubt, knowing the dynamics of these discussions ". According to the minister, the question is that this decision has its own difficulties and, perhaps, will be made in parts - first on the income tax on the frozen asset, on the profit itself and, ultimately, on the asset itself.
13:01 The court, based on materials from the SBU, arrested the property of ex-people's deputy Oleg Tsarev, involved in financing the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, with a total value of 460.6 million hryvnia. We are talking about an apartment in the center of the Dnieper, a plot of land in the Kyiv region, as well as two property complexes in Crimea.
12:45 Ukraine and Canada have reached the home stretch on the issue of an agreement on security guarantees, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said at a joint briefing with Kuleba: “At the NATO summit, it was decided that each G7 country would discuss separate security agreements with Ukraine, but they would be consistent "We hope that our agreement has reached the finish line."
12:43 Peskov said that the issue of returning to Ukraine the bodies of those killed in the Il-76 crash is in the hands of the investigative authorities. At the same time, he claims that the administration of the President of the Russian Federation has not received any requests from Kyiv asking for the transfer of the bodies of prisoners killed in the Il-76 crash. He also said that he is not aware that “anyone in the world has responded to Putin’s call to conduct an international investigation” into the disaster.
12:38 The production volume of artillery ammunition in the European Union should reach 1.4 million in 2024, and next year it should grow to 2 million, said Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. The EU admitted that they will not supply Ukraine with a million artillery shells until March of this year - by this time only 524 thousand will be delivered. At the same time, they promise to deliver 1.1 million shells by the end of the year.
12:32 Ukraine attacked the Russian boat Ivanovets with maritime drones MAGURA V5, Budanov said. According to him, the drones were controlled by the drone unit of the 13th GUR group. There were a total of six direct hits by naval drones on the ship's hull.
12:26 Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly arrived in Kiev. She has already met with her Ukrainian colleague Dmitry Kuleba.
11:59 There are now more than 70 thousand Russian military personnel on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. According to her, the enemy group, which is trying to push back the Defense Forces from the left bank, is constantly changing in quantitative and qualitative composition: “Because as a result of unsuccessful assault operations, they lose up to 70% of the personnel in each assault group. And the units are forced to constantly maneuver and be transferred to different directions. The total enemy grouping on the left bank is estimated at more than 70 thousand personnel and hundreds of weapons and equipment."
At the same time, Gumenyuk clarified that not all of these troops are concentrated directly along the front line - they are located in deeper rear areas, from where they are pulled up as an additional resource.
11:27 Russian troops began to attack Ukraine more often with ballistics, because they understand the capabilities of Ukrainian air defense to destroy kamikaze drones and cruise missiles, said Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat. Ballistics, he said, can only be shot down by special means, of which Ukraine does not have many. Therefore, the enemy more often uses missiles flying along a ballistic trajectory - Iskander-M, Kinzhal, Kh-22 and S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles.
11:02 Putin announced plans to integrate the occupied territories of Ukraine into the Russian Federation over the next six years, until 2030, which indicates the long-term nature of his intentions, analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) note. In their opinion, this position of Moscow does not imply any territorial concessions.
In addition, Putin called on Russian banks not to be afraid of Western sanctions and to step up work in the occupied territories. He also claims that the constituent entities of the Russian Federation have established patronage networks with the occupied regions of Ukraine.
10:35 A Russian plane dropped another bomb, reports the opposition Russian publication Astra. According to journalists, on February 1, in the occupied Zimogorye of the Luhansk region, ammunition, presumably FAB-500, was found on Parkhomenko Street. Residents of the street were evacuated; inspection and removal of ammunition will take place today, February 2.
10:29 Critical infrastructure remains a priority for Russian attacks, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of the Southern Defense Forces. “The night attack was again in the traditions that the enemy lays down for us according to his scheme. The work of the air defense was very powerful and long. This is the depletion of our systems. The drones maneuvered for almost six hours. A characteristic feature was that the enemy sends its long-range loitering shells and to the front-line territories," she added.
09:58 During the attack on the Belbek airfield in Sevastopol on January 31, a Russian general could have been eliminated. Russian public pages write that ten Russian servicemen were killed as a result of the attack, among them the commander of the aviation squadron, Lieutenant General Alexander Tatarenko.
09:20 The head of the General Staff of the Romanian Armed Forces, Georgica Vlad, said that the Romanian population, like all residents of Europe, should prepare for the possible expansion of Russian aggression beyond the borders of Ukraine. He called on NATO countries to replenish their weapons stockpiles and prepare their populations, including by introducing voluntary military service. In Romania, he called for legal reforms to give the country the ability to defend against Russian drones. According to him, the Romanian side failed to shoot down at least one Russian drone because the law does not allow this.
09:09 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of February 2:
- personnel - about 387,060 (+830) people,
- tanks - 6331 (+9),
- armored combat vehicles - 11,792 (+19),
- artillery systems - 9274 (+46),
- MLRS - 978 (+2),
- air defense systems - 663 (+0),
- aircraft - 332 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 7146 (+5),
- cruise missiles - 1847 (+0),
- ships/boats - 24 (+1),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,316 (+49),
- special equipment - 1470 (+8).
08:50 Over the past 24 hours, 63 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In the Avdeevka direction, the Defense Forces repelled 16 enemy attacks in the Avdeevka area and six more attacks near Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 11 attacks were repelled near Krasnohorivka, Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, five enemy attacks were repelled near Ivanovka, Kharkov region; on Limansky - one attack in the Ternov area of the Donetsk region; on Bakhmutskoye - one attack near Kleshcheevka, Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - one attack south of Zolotaya Niva, Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - one attack in the Rabotino area of the Zaporozhye region. In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces hold their positions and repelled 14 assaults by Russian troops.
08:36 In the Zaporozhye region, two people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling - in Malaya Tokmachka and Preobrazhenka, said the head of the OVA Yuriy Malashko.
08:09 Air defense at night destroyed 11 of 24 attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type, which Russia attacked from Primorsko-Akhtarsk and from the Crimean Cape Chauda. In particular, the strike was aimed at critical infrastructure facilities in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Force command reported. Air defense operated within the Dnepropetrovsk, Kherson, Kirovograd and Kharkov regions. At the same time, at least seven drones did not reach their targets and were lost in location.
07:38 In the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, as a result of being hit by an enemy UAV, more than 40 thousand subscribers were cut off, including two mines. More than 100 workers remained underground, some of them have already been brought to the surface, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak. In addition, according to updated information, one person was injured during yesterday’s attack on the Pokrovsk rural community.
06:42 At night, Russia massively attacked the southern and central regions of Ukraine with drones. One of Ukrenergo’s substations was damaged, and household and industrial consumers in the city of Krivoy Rog were de-energized, the company reported.