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Latest news from Ukraine-War

Live feed between Russia and Ukraine: "truce" is being violated by shelling from Kiev

Russian President Vladimir Putin has started a 36-hour ceasefire in honour of Orthodox Christmas.

Ukraine opposes the move and claims that Russia is using Christmas as a pretext, a claim that is shared by Washington.

Moscow claimed that despite Russian troops abiding by the ceasefire, Ukraine continued to shell military positions shortly after it started. In the hours before the truce, there were also reports of fighting on both sides.

While Belarus' president, Alexander Lukashenko, was touring a military base, Belarus confirmed the arrival of Russian troops and equipment.

Due to the war in Ukraine, Germany is seeing a rise in conscientious objectors.

Conscientious objectors significantly increased in Germany in 2022, the year the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

We received 201 requests for conscientious objection in 2021.

According to a Federal Office for Family Affairs and Civil Society Functions spokesperson, Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland is a German news organisation (RDN).

That number had increased to 951 as of 2022, he said.

The number includes soldiers who are already serving in the Bundeswehr, reservists, and a group referred to as "non-servists" even though Germany abolished mandatory military service in 2011.

A Defence Ministry spokesman later reported: "We had 223 applications from servicewomen and men, 266 from reservists, and 593 from non-servists."

Germany has been providing Ukraine with weapons despite not actively participating in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine; most recently, Berlin announced it would send armoured personnel carriers.

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Ukraine launches a major assault on Russian troops to mark the new year.

A Ukrainian offensive and defensive victory at the start of 2023 sparked a new round of criticisms of the way the war was being handled in the Russian information sphere.

In addition to a major attack that left many Russian soldiers dead in their barracks, Ukraine's air force claimed it was able to shoot down every Iranian drone that Russia had used to attack Ukrainian infrastructure so far this year.

Using its HIMARS system, which the US provided to Ukraine, Ukraine fired six artillery rockets at a barracks in Makiivka, in the Donetsk region, a few minutes into the new year.

The Russian defence ministry acknowledged that four of the rockets made it past the air defences and successfully hit their target.

Two days after the strike, Russia declared 63 deaths, later increasing that number to 89.

However, footage of the debris revealed that the temporary barracks, a former vocational school, had been nearly completely flattened, indicating that there may have been many more casualties and that it might take some time to remove bodies.

According to Ukraine, the soldiers were living next to a sizable ammunition storage facility that exploded, killing at least 400 Russian soldiers and injuring 300 more.

Although Denis Pushilin is not technically a member of the Russian military hierarchy, the strike outraged Russian military reporters and lawmakers, who demanded his resignation.

Law enforcement in Donetsk made an effort to divert attention by implying that the soldiers were at fault for using their mobile phones, which made it possible for Ukrainian electronic surveillance to track them.

"Initially, the active usage of mobile phones by the [newly] arrived military troops was the cause of the HIMARS attack. According to a source, the enemy divulged the location of subscribers and the activity of cellular communications using the ECHELON reconnaissance complex.

Ukraine claimed to have had some success there as well.

In the final week of 2022, according to Brigadier-General Oleksiy Gromov, Ukrainian ground forces made 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) of advances toward the captured town of Kreminna in the Luhansk area.

According to military analysts, if Ukraine were to retake Kreminna and Svatove—both of which are only a few kilometres from the line of contact in Luhansk—they could roll over a 40 km (25 mi) section of land before reaching the next natural Russian defensive position in a counteroffensive akin to the one that retook much of the Kharkiv region last September.

In the event of a breach... of the Russian occupying forces' defensive lines on the Svatove-Kreminna line and, as a result, the transfer of hostilities closer to the city of Luhansk, a sizable portion of the servicemen of the units of the 2nd Army Corps, particularly among those mobilised for temporarily occupied territories, plan to surrender, according to Gromov.

Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Luhansk, claimed that Ukraine may seize Kreminna as early as 2023.

According to Kyrylo Budanov, head of military intelligence for Ukraine, the two sides are currently effectively at a standstill and hardware will make the difference.

Budanov declared, "The issue is just stuck." "We are unable to completely beat them from every angle. They cannot, either. We are eagerly anticipating the delivery of new armament supply and more sophisticated weapons.

Russia keeps up its aerial offensive

On the final day of 2022, Russia remained active, bombarding Ukraine with drone and missile fire, but at a slightly down intensity.

All 13 Russian drones launched, as well as 12 out of 20 cruise missiles, according to Ukraine. When one of the missiles struck a residential building, eight people were hurt. Overnight, further drones were despatched, and on January 1, Ukraine announced that it had shot down all 45 Shahed-136 drones that Russia had sent.

A further 39 drones that were fired on New Year's Day were reportedly shot down by Ukraine.

According to air force spokesman Yuri Ignat, Ukraine claimed to have achieved a kill rate of 100% against enemy drones by January 2.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, stated in his nightly video message on January 2 that there had been more than 80 Iranian drones shot down over Ukraine in the two days since the new year had begun.

We have knowledge that Russia intends to use Shahed drones to launch a protracted attack," he said. Her wager might be fatigue. On our people's, our air defense's, and our energy fatigue. However, we must and will make sure that, like all the others, this terrorist purpose is unsuccessful.

At least two NASAMS air defence systems and one IRIS-T air defence system have been added to Ukraine's air defences in recent weeks. However, even without them, the Ukrainian air force had started to create ground-breaking defences against drones and cruise missiles, the latter of which were notoriously difficult to intercept.

For instance, on December 29, Ukrainian officials said that their forces had shot down 11 out of 23 drones and 54 out of 69 cruise missiles launched by Russian forces.

Reminding Russia that it is not immune to long-range air assaults is another top aim for Ukraine.

Three days after carrying out a similar attack there that left three people dead, Ukraine carried out a drone attack on the Engels airbase in Russian territory on December 29. Some of Russia's fleet of long-range strategic bombers are housed in Engels. On December 5, Ukraine assassinated three more service members at the bases in Engels and Dyagilevo.

According to the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), air defence systems like the Pantsir are required to defend forward field headquarters in or close to Ukraine since Moscow "is struggling to repel air attacks deep inside Russia."

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