“even more violent assaults” around Bakhmout, according to Volodymyr Zelensky

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09:21 : The military authorities of the Samara region (Russia) refuse to publish the list of soldiers killed during the Ukrainian strike in Makiivka on New Year’s Eve. Commissioner Alexei Vdovine invokes respect for personal data. These could be used by foreign intelligence agencies to launch “provocations against the relatives of the soldiers”, he told local media 63.ru. A second plane of wounded arrived Sunday in Samara, and funerals were still organized this morning.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced yesterday that his troops were resisting “new assaults, even more violent” in Soledar, near Bakhmout, a city in eastern Ukraine which Moscow has been trying to seize for months. Follow our live.

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08:30 : Latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 10 January 2023 Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/aFDNytdSEu?? #StandWithUkraine ?? https://t.co/5Bg8NCKRNt

08:30 : Soledar is 10 km north of Bakhmut, “the capture of which probably remains Russia’s main immediate operational objective”, recalls British military intelligence. Still, Russia is unlikely to take control of the city any time soon. “because Ukrainian forces maintain stable defensive lines in depth and control supply routes”he believes.

08:30 : In a statement posted on Twitter, the British Ministry of Defense relays a military intelligence analysis of the situation in the town of Soledar, in Donbass, where Russian and Wagnerian forces have made tactical advances” and “probably control most of the locality”.

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