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LIVE UPDATES: Russian Forces Have Taken Advantageous Positions in Zaporozhye Region - MoD

06:01 GMT 21.01.2023 (Updated: 04:59 GMT 24.01.2023)

Russia started its special military operation in Ukraine in February 2022 after the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk asked for protection against increased attacks by Ukrainian forces.

Russia continues its military operation "to de-militarize and de-Nazify" Ukraine, after the West failed to agree on the delivery of heavy vehicles to Kiev during a Friday meeting of defense ministers at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.

The operation continues as the US announced that it will support Ukraine if it decides to target the Crimean Peninsula, which became part of Russia in 2014 after a referendum. Moscow has already warned that any attack on Russia wouldn't go unanswered.

Russian forces have been carrying out precision strikes against Ukrainian military and energy infrastructure since 10 October 2022, in response to a deadly terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge by Ukrainian intelligence services. Air raid alerts have been sounded in Ukraine every day over the past months.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said in December that, at that time, it was impossible to restore the country's energy infrastructure to 100 percent which is why there are still rolling blackouts in most cities and districts of Ukraine.

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14:12 GMT 21.01.2023

Man Killed by Ukrainian Shelling in Donetsk, Mayor Says

13:57 GMT 21.01.2023

Kiev Urgently Relocating Reserve Troops to Zaporozhye Region - Official

Kiev is urgently relocating its reserve troops to a front line near the Zaporozhye region to carry out strikes against Russian troops after they disrupted a supply line of Ukrainian forces, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Zaporozhye regional administration's main council, said on Saturday.

"Now the reserve forces are being urgently relocated from the Zaporozhye-Krivoi Rog front, that is from the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Krivoi Rog region and so on, to the Zaporozhye region closer to the line of contact to strike with heavy artillery and multiple launch rocket systems," Rogov said on the air of Russian broadcaster Komsomolskaya Pravda.

The official added that the Russian military had taken full control over the Kamianskoe-Orekhov highway, which served as a main channel for transfer of Ukrainian troops, weapons and munitions.

Rogov also said that the Ukrainian armed forces were facing a shortage of artillery munitions due to disrupted logistic chains and weapons depots eliminated by the Russian troops.

13:45 GMT 21.01.2023

Russia's MoD Briefing on Progress of Special Military Operation in Ukraine

12:52 GMT 21.01.2023

MoD: Russian Troops Liberate Dvurechye Village in DPR

"In the Donetsk area, volunteers of assault troops, with fire support from operational-tactical and army aviation, missile troops and artillery of the Southern Military District, liberated the village of Dvurechye in the Donetsk People's Republic," the statement read.

At least 50 military personnel of the Ukrainian troops were killed or injured, while two armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks, as well as two howitzers of 152 and 122 mm caliber were destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry added.

12:26 GMT 21.01.2023

Russian Forces Have Taken Advantageous Positions in Zaporozhye Region - MoD

12:05 GMT 21.01.2023

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08:40 GMT 21.01.2023

United Nations Fails to Act on Resuming Russia's Ammonia Exports - Moscow

The United Nations has not helped to normalize exports of Russian agricultural products and fertilizers, as the Black Sea Grain Initiative is hardly progressing and there are no results in the implementation of the Russia-UN memorandum, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

"If the implementation of this strictly humanitarian initiative meets with such difficulties, the UN cannot be said to have helped normalise our exports of agricultural products and fertilisers. Talk about the threats of hunger and global food security is just a cover for servicing the commercial contracts of Ukrainians and the economic interests of the Western beneficiaries," the ministry said in a statement.

The department added that the Memorandum of Understanding between Russia and the UN on promoting Russian food products and fertilizers to the world markets was mentioned only in one paragraph of the organization's bulletin.

"UN officials have nothing to say (as distinct from the Black Sea Initiative) about specific results of implementing the said agreement. Against the backdrop of numerous declarations by Washington, Brussels and London that unilateral sanctions do not apply to food and fertilisers, they are simply assuring the public of the continued efforts to ensure relevant withdrawals. If there are no restrictions, what is the need for withdrawals," the statement read.

In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry said the UN made no effort to resolve the issue with the resumption of ammonia transit via the Tolyatti-Odesa pipeline.

"The UN officials, who are vigorously calling for increasing grain export from Ukraine, are doing nothing to resolve this issue. They refer to some talks, although it is not clear who is taking part in these talks and what they concern, since no representatives from Russia are involved in any such thing," the statement read.

06:10 GMT 21.01.2023

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06:02 GMT 21.01.2023

Ukrainian Shelling Injures 5 Civilians in DPR Over Past 24 Hours - Authorities

At least five civilians sustained injuries as a result of Ukrainian troops’ shelling in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) over the past 24 hours, the DPR Territorial Defense Headquarters said on Saturday.

"Over the past day, from 08:00 local time [05:00 GMT] on January 20 to 08:00 on January 21, five civilians were injured as a result of Ukrainian armed formations’ shelling on the territory of DPR," the defense headquarters said on Telegram.