Everything is going according to plan in Ukraine, Putin says; Dnipro strike death toll rises to 35
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Ukrainian soldiers work in their artillery unit in the direction of Marinka in Donetsk on Jan. 15, 2023.Ukraine has not conceded defeat in Soledar, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying Sunday evening that "the battle for Soledar, for Bakhmut, for the whole Donetsk region, for the Luhansk region continues without any respite, without any stop."
"As of 15 January 2023, Ukrainian Armed Forces almost certainly maintained positions in Soledar, north of Bakhmut, in the face of continued Wagner Group [private military company] assaults," the ministry said in an intelligence update on Twitter. "In these circumstances, a key operational challenge for both sides is to generate formations of uncommitted, capable troops which can exploit the tactical successes to create operational breakthroughs."Ukraine reels from Dnipro attack in which 35 people are known to have died
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday evening that a rescue operation continued as debris was cleared at the site of the strike, an attack that the president characterized as a terrorist act by Russia. Zelenskyy called on Russians to condemn the attack, stating, "I want to say to all those in Russia - and from Russia - who even now could not utter even a few words of condemnation of this terror... Your cowardly silence, your attempt to "wait out" what is happening will only end with those same terrorists coming after you one day."
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