Five people were killed, and 15 received injuries of varying severity, following an attack on the city of Vasylivka, in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia, says acting governor of the occupied territories, Yevgeny Balitsky. “Injuries include for emergency responders, and one rescue worker is in critical condition,” Balitsky posted on Telegram.

French President Emmanuel Macron told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky that France would supply the Ukrainian army with AMX-10 RC armored vehicles (also called light or wheeled tanks). This was reported to the AFP agency in the Elysee Palace, reports the French radio station Europe 1. “The President has decided to expand [military assistance to Kyiv] by agreeing to the supply of AMX-10 RC light tanks.

"Medusa" tells its story Ruslan Khasbulatov in the building of the Supreme Council on September 22, 1993 - the day after Boris Yeltsin announced the dissolution of the parliament. Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Vida Press On January 3, 2023, at the age of 80, the second and last chairman of the Russian Supreme Council Ruslan Khasbulatov died .

In trying to predict the effects of sanctions, economists in Russia and abroad failed to realize that 2022 had no economic precedents Peter Kovalev / TASS Shortly after launching the invasion of Ukraine, Russia topped the global list of sanctioned countries, incurring three times more cumulative sanctions than Iran. As Russia lost half of its foreign assets, the U.S. dollar exchange rate spiked to 130 rubles.

War correspondent for the pro-Kremlin news outlet RIA FAN (Federal News Agency) has died, reports his friend and RIA FAN author Abbas Juma, on his personal Telegram channel. He also posted a video featuring Evgeny Prigozhin, the head of RIA FAN and PMC Wagner, speaking about Romanovsky’s death. “I just met with Abbas Juma, who told me that we lost Kirill Romanovsky today,” said the oligarch.

Five people were killed and 15 were injured to varying degrees in a strike on the town of Vasilyevka in the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhia Oblast, acting governor of the occupied territory Yevgeny Balitsky said . “Including four employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, one of the rescuers is in extremely serious condition,” Balitsky wrote on his Telegram channel.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. During the war, it is impossible to talk about music and cinema as before. How then? And in general - is cultural journalism needed now? The war in Ukraine, the international isolation of Russia, new repressive laws , pressure on artists with an anti -war position - all this (and not only) was directly reflected in Russian culture in 2022. Changes affected cultural journalism. Immediately after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she almost froze.

RIA FAN war correspondent Kirill Romanovsky died. in his telegram channel This was announced by his friend, the author of RIA FAN Abbas Juma. He also published a video in which the owner of RIA FAN and Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin speaks about the death of Romanovsky. “I just met with Abbas Juma, who told me that Kirill Romanovsky passed away today,” the businessman said in the video.

There is a possibility of further strikes against targets in Russia, said in an interview with the American ABC television channel. Kirill Budanov, head of the main intelligence department of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, Budanov said the attacks would go "deeper and deeper" inside Russia. However, he declined to clarify whether Ukraine was behind them, saying that he would be able to comment on his country's responsibility for these attacks only after the end of the war.

A group of Belarusian hackers claiming to have gained access to a database belonging to their country's presidential medical center have released what they say are the results of PCR tests taken by President Alexander Lukashenko and his son Nikolai. The hackers, who call themselves the United Resistance Center, posted more than 70 electronic copies of PCR test certificates with the names Alexander and Nikolai Lukashenko on Telegram.

Amber McLaughlin, 49, a transgender woman convicted of murder in 2003, was executed in Missouri. According to the Associated Press, this is the first execution of a transgender person in the United States. The prisoner was lethally injected at the Potosi Correctional Center on the evening of January 3, after state authorities rejected her request for clemency. It stated that McLaughlin suffered from childhood abuse and severe depression, which led to several failed suicide attempts.

The number of Russian soldiers killed by the Ukrainian military’s New Year’s Day strike on Makiivka has risen to 89 , according to the Russian Defense Ministry. On January 2, the ministry reported that 63 soldiers had died from the attack. “Unfortunately, during the course of sorting through the ruins of the reinforced concrete construction, the number of our comrades who [are confirmed to have been] killed rose to 89.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part remotely in the launch of Admiral Gorshkov, a frigate armed with hypersonic Zircon missiles. The frigate is headed on a voyage across the Atlantic and Indian oceans, as well as the Mediterranean, said Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who also took part in the ceremony. Admiral Gorshkov is capable of carrying out pinpoint strikes against land and sea targets.

Russian President Vladimir Putin took part in the ceremony of entry into combat service of the Admiral Gorshkov frigate, armed with the Zirkon hypersonic missile system, via video link. According to Putin, this complex "has no analogues." “I am sure that such powerful weapons will reliably protect Russia from potential external threats and will help ensure the national interests of our country,” he added.

Medusa sums up last year-and predicts what will happen at the front in 2023 Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / Leta APU artillery is responding to Russian positions in the Kharkov region. December 24, 2022 At the end of 2022, the war came to a new turning point. Russia carried out the “first wave” of mobilization and partially eliminated the shortage of personnel, which in the fall became one of the main reasons for the numerous defeats of the RF Armed Forces at the front.