On the night of January 13, Russia launched an attack with more than a hundred drones. Trump’s future national security adviser said Ukraine should lower the mobilization age to stabilize the front. In the war against Ukraine, 300 North Korean soldiers were killed and another 2,700 wounded, according to South Korea.
On the night of January 13, Russia attacked with more than a hundred drones
On Monday night, Russia attacked with 110 assault drones, 78 of which were shot down by air defense. Damage was reported from falling debris, but 31 enemy drones did not hit their target.
The Air Force said on social media that during the night of January 13 (from 7:00 p.m. on January 12), the enemy launched 110 Shahed-type attack drones as well as other drones imitating different types, coming from the directions of Millerovo, Orel, Bryansk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk, in Russia.
As of 09:00, it was confirmed that 78 Shahed and other attack drones were shot down in Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Donetsk regions.
Due to the fall of enemy drones shot down in the Sumy, Kyiv, Zhytomyr and Zaporizhia regions, corporate buildings, public and private establishments, homes and vehicles were damaged. Fortunately, no casualties or injuries were reported.
31 enemy drones imitating different targets were lost without causing negative consequences.
In the Kyiv region, the alert lasted almost 5 hours. Air defense forces shot down several targets in the region. According to the Kyiv regional administration, reported Monday morning, January 13, debris falling in a locality in the region caused damage to 4 private houses, a dormitory and a medical institution. The damage is minor: broken windows and damaged facades.
Three cars and an ambulance were also damaged. Fortunately, there were no casualties among the population. Additionally, no strikes reached residential or critical infrastructure.
In the Zhytomyr region, emergency power cuts were introduced due to the drone attack.
In war against Ukraine, 300 North Korean soldiers killed, 2,700 others injured, South Korea says
At least 300 North Korean soldiers have been killed and 2,700 others injured in the war against Ukraine, South Korean intelligence reported.
This was announced by the South Korean news agency Yonhap. According to the source, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) shared the information with lawmakers during a closed session of the parliamentary intelligence committee, Party Representative Lee Song Kwen said. from popular power to power.
Intelligence analyzed recent combat video and noted that “massive casualties” among North Korean soldiers sent to support Moscow’s war in Ukraine are due to their “unfamiliarity with modern warfare,” including their “firing ineffective” on drones.
The NIS also reported that North Korea is forcing its soldiers to commit suicide to avoid being taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces.
Commenting on a video released by Ukraine showing two captured North Korean soldiers, Lee stressed that “the prisoner of war did not express a wish to return to South Korea.”
-According to the NIS, the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region belonged to the General Reconnaissance Bureau, a key North Korean military intelligence agency.
Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a video showing the interrogation of captured North Korean soldiers. Zelensky said Ukraine was ready to return captured North Korean soldiers to their country in an exchange for Ukrainian prisoners held in Russia. However, one of the soldiers, when asked about his wish to return to North Korea, said he wanted to stay in Ukraine.
On January 11, it was confirmed that Ukrainian soldiers had captured two North Korean servicemen in the Kursk region. On this occasion, Ukrainian special forces released a video showing the capture and extraction of a North Korean soldier from Russia. A second North Korean soldier was presented by the Ukrainian Airborne Forces.
Russian media, analyzing a fake military booklet found on one of the North Korean soldiers captured in the Kursk region, discovered that it was issued in the name of a real inhabitant of the Russian Republic of Tuva.
On January 9, during the 25th meeting of the Ukrainian Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, President Zelensky said that the losses of North Korean servicemen fighting against Ukraine were increasing. amounted to 4,000 dead and injured.
Trump’s future national security adviser says Ukraine should lower mobilization age to stabilize front
Donald Trump’s future national security adviser, Mike Waltz, believes that to stabilize the front in Ukraine, it is necessary to lower the age of mobilization. This would make it possible to recruit hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.
He made the statement in an interview with ABC News, as cited by Ukrainska Pravda on January 12.
“Another thing we need to see is real stabilization on the battlefield. And one of the questions we’re going to ask the Ukrainians is about human strength. Currently, they recruit from 26 years old (in reality, from 25 years old – Editor’s note), and not from 18 years old. I think a lot of people don’t realize that they could mobilize hundreds of thousands of new troops. We hear about morale problems and difficulties on the front. Look, if the Ukrainians are asking everyone to risk everything for democracy, they have to risk everything for democracy too,” Waltz said.
According to him, lowering the age of mobilization is essential to stabilize the front line and allow a possible agreement to be reached.
On December 19, commenting on the discussion on a possible lowering of the mobilization age, President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that the current priority is to provide the armed forces with weapons and training through Western support.
The head of state also said that he considered Western demands for lowering the age of mobilization “not very fair”, citing problems with the training of Ukrainian brigades abroad.
Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military analyst with the Information Resistance group, also shares his skepticism about the new proposal.
“According to Mike Waltz, this would make it possible to recruit hundreds of thousands of fighters for the Ukrainian defense forces. But the question is: even if that is the case, what should we equip them with? Any combat group can only effectively accomplish its offensive and defensive tasks with standard equipment.
Suppose 100,000 people are mobilized. This represents approximately 125 battalions, which should be equipped with 1,375 tanks, 4,125 armored vehicles, 1,500 artillery pieces, etc. Where would this equipment come from, knowing that Ukraine only received 31 M1A1 tanks from the United States? Will Mr. Trump provide the 1,375 M1A1 Abrams needed to equip 125 battalions, when there are more than 5,500 in stock and more than 2,500 on active duty? “, wrote Kovalenko.
