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Day 315 · The Russia-Ukraine war

4 January 2023

1 event recorded (0 confirmed), and 1 statement counted apart.

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January 2023 in brief

A Russian missile destroyed part of an apartment block in Dnipro, killing 46 people and injuring 80 according to the regional military administration, and a missile and drone wave after the Western tank pledges killed 11 people, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said. [1][2] WHO recorded attacks on health care including health transport in Nova Kakhovka and a health facility in Ochakiv. [1][2] A Ukrainian strike hit Russian troop quarters in occupied Makiivka on New Year's Day; Russia's defence ministry put its dead at 89 and blamed soldiers' mobile phone use, while Ukraine's claim of about 400 killed was not independently verified. [1] Russia's defence ministry claimed Soledar on 13 January while Ukraine said fighting continued, and later in the month Ukraine confirmed its forces had withdrawn; Russia put chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov in direct command amid friction with the Wagner group. [1][2][3] Putin ordered a 36-hour Orthodox Christmas ceasefire, which Ukraine did not agree to, and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said a truce was possible only if Russia left the occupied territories. [1] Germany said it would send 14 Leopard 2 tanks and allow other countries to re-export them, and the US said it would send 31 Abrams tanks. [1] The Leiden dataset records a plot to sabotage arms deliveries to Ukraine through Poland in early 2023, which the Washington Post reported Poland foiled. [1]

Written from the records it cites; every figure appears in a cited record.

Places in this day's records

Places in this day's records: Chasiv Yar; 0 events not on the map. Chasiv Yar: 1 record

1 place · 0 events not on the map

Chasiv Yar

Said

Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov said the Makiivka toll had risen to 89 and that soldiers' unauthorised mobile phone use let Ukraine track and target them.

Ministry of Defence of Russia
4 Jan · to a domestic audience
Reported by Al Jazeera

Unresolvable

Said: 1 statement, not counted as events

Said

Ministry of Defence of Russia: Lieutenant General Sergey Sevryukov said the Makiivka toll had risen to 89 and that soldiers' unauthorised mobile phone use let Ukraine track and target them.

Domestic audience · ru