Russia has intensified shelling of regions in eastern Ukraine outside the main front line in the industrial Donbass region, officials in the Zaporizhia and Sumy regions said on Saturday.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak on Saturday asked Kyiv’s allies to “think faster” about increasing military support.
• The Baltic countries asked Germany to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine “immediately”.
• Germany said it was taking inventory of the current number of Leopard tanks ahead of a possible decision a day after a military summit at Germany’s Ramstein Air Base aimed at continuing and encouraging support for the Ukrainian military effort.
• On Saturday, Volodymyr Zelenskyi attended the funeral of seven employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who died as a result of a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
• The Russian military announced that their troops had launched an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia region.
• The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain declares that the war in Ukraine has stopped. In daily intelligence, he said there was a possibility of a Russian advance around the Bakhmut stronghold in Donbas, but otherwise little movement.
• The Ukrainian military confirms that Russian troops are trying to advance in the Zaporizhzhia region, and are also trying to advance into the regions of Donetsk.
• On January 21, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine detained Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Vasyl Lozinskyi for bribery, Kyiv Independent and Ukrainian Pravda write. The deputy minister allegedly received a $400,000 bribe for the purchase of power generators.
• Kyiv fears that soon Russia will attack Ukraine simultaneously on three fronts, where it can gather an impressive number of troops, a confidant of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told The Daily Beast.

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