Large prisoner swap, energy system holding up, more Patriot ammunition
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Your slice of the headlines in Ukraine. Daily. Thursday, January 4, 2024
● 230 Returned Home in Prisoners Exchange, Including Defenders of Azovstal and Snake Island
224 Ukrainian POWs and six civilians have returned home after a prisoner exchange with Russia, announced President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Jan 3.
● Berlin decries Russian strikes on Ukraine, but Scholz still opposes supplying Taurus missiles to Kyiv
Berlin is still not ready to provide Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv, German government spokesperson Steffen Hebestreit said, at the same time condemning Russia's recent attacks on Ukraine and calling them a war crime, German Tagesschau reported on Jan. 3.
● Poland maintains Ukraine grain import ban, proposes new trade rules to EU
The ban on imports of Ukrainian grain to Poland will remain in place until new rules are developed at the EU level, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Czeslaw Siekierski has said in an interview with TVP Info.
● Ukrainian energy system holding up to Russian assault
The Chairman of the Board of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytskyi announced on the air of the national telethon on Jan 3 that Russia’s winter attacks will not be able to destroy the Ukrainian energy system.
● Nearly same number of Ukrainians who left country in 2023 returned — Opendatabot
The first 11 months of 2023 saw over 32 million border crossings in Ukraine, with only a 1% difference between the number of departures and returns, the open data platform OpenDataBot reported on Jan. 3, citing data from the Ukrainian Border Guard.
● Booster from Russian air defense missile smashes through roof into child’s room in Belgorod
A video showing part of a Russian Pantsir surface-to-air missile lying a child's room after smashing through its roof in Belgorod on Jan. 2 underscores the danger city residents face not so much from Ukrainian missiles and drones, but from Russia’s own notoriously ramshackle air defense system.
● Blinken and Cameron discuss British-American efforts to aid Ukraine
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron held a telephone conversation to discuss support for Ukraine, the State Department reported on Jan. 2.
● NATO to supply more ammunition for Patriot air defense system
The NATO Procurement and Supply Agency reported on Jan 3 that four member countries — Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, and Spain — have signed an agreement to purchase about 1000 missiles for Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems
● Russia using internet registration to force passportization in occupied Ukraine
Russian authorities in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) continue to force passportization of locals by creating additional restrictions for those who refuse a Russian passport, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Jan. 2.
● Kyiv suburb Vyshneve bore brunt of Russian attack — 2 dead, 700+ in need, 184,000 lost power
Vyshneve, a suburb of Kyiv, suffered the highest number of damaged apartment buildings from the massive Russian missile attack on Tuesday, Jan. 2, announced the Kyiv Regional State Administration.
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