The nightly air raids on Ukraine continued Thursday night. An air raid siren was activated in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. “An explosion in Kharkov. The occupiers are striking,” the head of the regional military administration, Oleh Synyehubov, wrote on Telegram. There was no information about damage or injuries. Russian combat drones also flew for several hours over Ukraine, threatening areas in the south and west.
Fighting continued on the front in the east and south, although less intensely due to an approaching cold front. The Ukrainian General Staff spoke of 47 Russian attack attempts in its evening report on Wednesday.
Hundreds of prisoners were exchanged
After days of numerous Russian airstrikes and Ukrainian counterattacks during the New Year, there was also a positive sign on Wednesday: both sides exchanged prisoners again after a break of several months. 230 Ukrainian men and women returned from Russian captivity. 248 Russian prisoners were released to their homeland.
According to the Ukrainian coordination staff, the prisoner exchange was the largest since the Russian invasion almost two years ago. Among those returned were defenders of the port city of Mariupol and Snake Island. The last time an exchange took place was last July.
General warns of lack of ammunition in air defense
Meanwhile, Ukrainian General Serhiy Nayev warned that the army was on the brink of an acute shortage of air defense ammunition. Ammunition for Ukraine’s mobile air defense systems is currently sufficient “to withstand the next violent attacks,” Najew told AFP news agency on Wednesday during a visit to troops near Kiev. In the medium and long term, Ukraine “naturally needs help from Western countries to replenish its missile stockpiles.”
“It’s mainly about more ammunition.” “Of course we would like to have more missiles for the Patriots and the systems themselves,” said the commander of the Joint Ukrainian Armed Forces in charge of the mobile air defense units in the capital Kiev and northern Ukraine, referring to the US Patriot defense systems . Because the Russian military “really wants to exhaust the air defense system.”
Source: Krone
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