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18 January 2023
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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Soledar on 13 January while Ukraine said fighting continued, and later in the month Ukraine confirmed its forces had withdrawn; Russia put chief of the general staff Valery Gerasimov in direct command amid friction with the Wagner group.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]