The number of people injured as a result of the Russian airstrike on Zaporozhye has increased to 122 people, said the head of the regional administration, Ivan Fedorov. “Unfortunately, even after 24 hours, the number of victims due to the Russian attack on Zaporozhye is growing. At the moment, 122 people have turned to doctors for help,” Fedorov wrote. This morning 113 casualties were reported .

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk promised that Benjamin Netanyahu, whose arrest warrant was issued by the International Criminal Court, will not be detained if he comes to the country for the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, writes the Polish Press Agency.

On January 9, Vladimir Putin held a meeting with members of the government.

The Russian army carried out airstrikes on Kherson on the morning of January 9, injuring nine people, said the head of the city, Roman Mrochko . Four women aged from 44 to 82 years and five men aged from 38 to 67 years were injured. As the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine clarified , a kindergarten, the territory of a plant, a service station, 39 residential buildings and a building of a higher educational institution were damaged.

A 19-year-old conscript from the Irkutsk region, Yuri Ubonov, died of pneumonia in a hospital in Podolsk near Moscow the day before the oath of office. This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow” with reference to the family of the serviceman. According to relatives, Ubonov was called up for military service in November. At the beginning of December, he ended up at the location of the 27th Motorized Rifle Brigade, which is based in the Moscow village of Mosrentgen.

Acting head of the Kursk region Alexander Khinshtein reported a fire at the Chicken Kingdom poultry farm in the Gorshechensky district. According to the official, a 40-year-old employee of the company was injured and suffered burns to his hands. Telegram channels Mash and Military Informant, without citing sources, claim that the fire started after the fall of debris from downed Ukrainian drones.

The Pskov City Court fined local resident Dmitry Fedoseev one thousand rubles because of the white-blue-white flag on his car’s license plate. The Pskov province drew attention to the court's decision . The protocol on the article on the demonstration of extremist symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) against Fedoseev was drawn up in July 2024.

In Tatarstan, 69-year-old local historian and journalist Fazil Valiakhmetov was placed in the Bugulma pre-trial detention center. This was reported by political scientist Ruslan Aisin and representatives of the Tatar national movement in exile. What exactly Valiakhmetov is charged with is not specified. According to Aisin, security forces came to the local historian with a search, and since December 5 he has been kept in a pre-trial detention center.

The United States will send Ukraine additional military aid worth $500 million. This was announced by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at a meeting of the contact group on Ukraine at the American base Ramstein in Germany. According to him, the package will include air defense missiles, air-to-ground projectiles and ammunition, as well as equipment for F-16 fighter jets.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary fined Anatoly Popov 30 thousand rubles under the protocol on “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) for an anti-war single picket. Mediazona drew attention to the decision of November 24. According to police materials, Popov came out with a sign “No to war!!! Not War " to the "House of Fashion" shopping center. The date of the action is not specified in the court decision.

The Central District Court of Tula upheld the claim of the local department of Rospotrebnadzor to restrict access to the website of the online clothing store Shein due to “products with LGBT symbols.” The court’s decision of December 9 drew attention to “Layout”.

In the city of Argun in Chechnya, 19-year-old Viskhan Tazurkayev, who was in the police department before his death, died. This was reported by Kavkaz.Realii and the opposition Chechen telegram channel Niyso , citing sources . According to their information, Tazurkayev died after being kidnapped and tortured in the Argun department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kavkaz.Realii claims that before his death, the young man was brought home.

In Buryatia, the Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on causing grievous bodily harm by a group of persons (Part 3 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code) and hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code) due to attacks on a man and a teenager in Ulan-Ude on the night of January 1. Three teenagers aged 17-18 years were detained on suspicion of attacks, who, according to investigators, drank alcohol on New Year's Eve.

The Government of Armenia has approved a bill to begin the process of the republic's accession to the European Union. Armenia News agency reports this. According to Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan, “quite intense and dynamic” relations have developed between the republic and the European Union. “On various occasions, the European Union has expressed emphasized political support for democracy in Armenia, <…> expressed its readiness to help strengthen the economic stability of Armenia.

Illustration: D.D. / Mediazone For more than two and a half years, SIZO-2 in Taganrog, where teenagers and women with children were under arrest before the war, remains a place of detention for captured Ukrainians. Prisoners who were there talk about inhumane conditions of detention: from the very first days, guards beat and tortured them, after hanging them upside down.