War in Ukraine. Latest information on January 3rd

Live text broadcast – short and concise about the most important things of the January 3 Ukrainian war. For ten months now, Ukraine has been heroically defending its land from the invasion of the aggressor.

21:55. The 17 billion (Ukrainian hryvnia) confiscated from Russian banks will be used for the reconstruction of Ukraine, the first priority is the destruction of housing, said Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmyhals at the government meeting, writes pravda.com.ua.

21:05. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tweeted on Tuesday that in the first phone conversation of the new year with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, they spoke of “concrete solutions” for Ukraine’s victory this year. As Zelensky tweeted, he agreed with Sunak to “activate our efforts to bring victory closer this year.” “We have specific solutions for this,” the Ukrainian president added, without however specifying exactly what solutions we are talking about.

7.50pm. The Turkish newspaper “Hurriyet” published the details of the exchange between Viktor Medvedchuk, aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the commanders of five “Azov” battalions, which took place in Ankara in September. The initiator of the exchange was the Russian side, but negotiations on the exchange were held in Turkey, with the participation of the Turkish secret services, the newspaper reports. On the appointed day, two planes landed at Ankara airport: one from Russia with the captured “Azovians”, and the other from Ukraine with the arrested Medvedchuk. The parties’ representatives then went to the other party’s plane to confirm the identity of the persons to be exchanged and to check their health. +After performing this procedure, the exchange went smoothly, reports “Hurriyet”.

6.50pm. In the Bosphorus, 94 “grain corridor” vessels are currently awaiting inspection, Ukraine’s infrastructure ministry said on Tuesday. 69 ships are empty and on their way to cargo, while 25 are already loaded with agricultural products. “The Russian side in the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) is systematically slowing down the inspection,” the ministry said in a statement. The ships wait in line for an average of a month, but, for example, the “T-Med” vessel has been waiting for the inspection of the grain cargo since the beginning of November.

5.35pm On January 3, a Ukrainian satellite was launched into Earth orbit with Falcon 9. The Ukrainian PolyITAN-HP-30 satellite was developed by a scientist from the Kiev Polytechnic InstituteI.

4:47 pm Ukraine will carry out attacks on the positions of the Russian invaders throughout the occupied territory, Andriys Cherniaks, a representative of the Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, assured in an interview with the “Ukrinform” news agency.

According to the official, Russia is currently making great efforts to preserve the land corridor to Crimea.

“He has an idea to capture the Donetsk region, the Azov coast, there were also plans to separate Ukraine from the Black Sea. But the occupying state has not been able to implement any plans in Ukraine. Whereas the our foreign partners provide us with the latest models of armaments, the so-called land corridor to the Crimea, it is understandable, it is not safe, Ukraine will strike the Russians throughout the occupied territory,” Cherniak stressed.

Russia is now deploying fresh units of troops to northern Crimea, the official said.

The occupiers continue to build defense structures in both Crimea and the Kherson region, he added.

“They are losing, so they are building defense structures where they can, understanding that battles will have to take place on these borders,” Cherniak said.

4.15pm Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte held the first telephone conversation of the new year, the main topic of which was further support for Ukraine

4:01 pm Russian military technicians often launch Iranian kamikaze drones in the dark above the bed of the Dnieper River, as it is more difficult to detect them with radar there

3:26pm In the afternoon of January 3, the Russian invaders shelled the city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region, one person was injured.

2.55pm US and other Western countries press Switzerland for frozen Russian assets that could be used to rebuild Ukraine

2:04 pm On the morning of January 3, Russian troops shelled a residential block in the city of Kurakhova, Donetsk region, hitting a high-rise building, damaging a water supply plant, killing one person and wounding two others.

1:43 pm On Tuesday, January 3, President Volodymyr Zelensky held another meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s staff.

12.48. Ukraine announced on Tuesday that about 500 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in an artillery attack in the Kherson region. In the attack near the village of Chulakivka, “enemy losses reach 500 killed and wounded,” reports the Ukrainian General Staff. The attack took place on New Year’s Eve.

12.44. French journalists covering events in Ukraine from Krematorsk suffered a rocket attack during a live broadcast. A Russian missile exploded less than a kilometer away, reports pravda.com.ua.

11.03. So far, 38,449 Ukrainian refugees have obtained residence permits with the right to work in Latvia, according to the latest information from the Interior Ministry. 11,322 people needed housing assistance.

10.10. According to information from the military intelligence service of the British Ministry of Defense, the period of the most intense attacks by Russian troops near Bakhmut has ended, and further Russian successes in this direction are unlikely in the near future.

09.31. Commemorative events of the 106th anniversary of the Christmas Battles will take place on Saturday, January 7, during which funds will be raised for the Ukrainian army, informs Dagnis Dedumietis, head of the department of the Christmas Battles Museum.

08.53. The loss of Russian troops in Ukraine reached 108,190 soldiers on Tuesday morning, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian army. According to the data of the General Staff, 750 invaders were destroyed during the day.

Since the beginning of the re-invasion on February 24, the Russians have lost 3,036 tanks, 6,100 armored vehicles, 2,033 guns, 424 multi-charge rocket launchers, 214 anti-aircraft artillery installations, 283 airplanes, 270 helicopters, 1,839 drones, 723 cruise missiles, 4,735 cars and 6 and 1 tankers, as well as 181 units of specialized equipment.

08.04. It is immoral to speculate about possible peace talks to end the war started by Russia in Ukraine, while Ukraine itself does not invite such peace talks, Saeima Foreign Affairs Commission head Rihards Kols (NA) said in a Latvian radio interview.

07.09. On Monday evening it became known that the Ukrainian army had liberated Great Potemkin Island, which is located between the right and left banks of the Dnieper near Kherson. The web edition of “Ukrainska Pravda” was informed of this by an army source. The video recording released by Verkhovna Rada member Oleksiy Goncharenko also confirms the liberation of the island.

05.44. Ukraine and the European Union will hold a summit on Feb. 3 in Kiev to discuss financial and military support, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office announced on Monday.

04.32. Ukrainian police said on Monday they had found 25 torture camps in the area since the Kharkiv region was liberated from Russian occupation. Russian troops held civilians in these camps in inhumane conditions and tortured them, Kharkiv district police chief Volodymyr Tymoshko announced on Facebook on Monday.

03.58. In Russia, where, according to data from the Ukrainian intelligence services, a new wave of mobilization will soon begin, it is planned to issue mobilization summons even in banks, the InformNapalm volunteer project announced in the Telegram app.

“InformNapalm” reported that such a “brilliant New Year’s program” was proposed for this year by the Central Bank of Russia.

00:30. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz continues to be in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine, German government deputy representative Christiane Hoffmann told Deutsche Welle. You said that other European politicians also maintain diplomatic contacts with Russia.

00.10 BILD reporter Bjorn Stritzel, covering Russia’s war in Ukraine, was wounded by shrapnel