Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday that its troops had taken control of the village of Tabaivka in the Kharkiv region, but Ukraine denied this. Volodymyr Fityo, the head of communications of the ground forces of Ukraine, reported that fighting was taking place near the city. The Ukrainian military said on Monday that it is trying to “expand” the bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper, occupied by Russian troops in the south of the country, despite intense enemy attacks.

All information about the war in Ukraine – day 706 – LIVE on HotNews.ro:

07:45 Russian air defense systems have destroyed or intercepted 21 drones launched by Ukraine over the Crimean peninsula and several regions of Russia, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday, citing Moscow’s Defense Ministry, Reuters reported.

Russian systems shot down 11 drones over Crimea, the state news agency RIA Novosti reports. Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, denouncing Kyiv’s Western allies as an illegal land grab.

The Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol (Crimea) Mykhailo Razvozhaev said on the Telegram channel that the attack on Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea and a major Black Sea port, was not affected.

Ukrainian-made drones were also shot down over Belgorod. Bryansk, Kaluga and Tula regions, Russian agencies report.

A brief summary of recent events:

• US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Monday that it is extremely important for Congress to pass a new budget package for Ukraine, otherwise everything that has been achieved “will be in jeopardy”.
• New rumors about the dismissal of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Velery Zaluzhnyi / President Zelenskyi’s office denies
• Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó insisted on Monday, during his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, that the authorities in Kyiv must give more rights to the country’s Hungarian minority in order to improve relations with Budapest.
• Where is Kara-Musa, an important figure of the Russian opposition?! Russian journalist and dissident Volodymyr Kara-Murza was staged in an unknown place, his wife Evgeniya Kara-Murza reported, Kyiv Independent writes. In April 2023, Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison for condemning Russia’s total war in Ukraine.
• The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, acknowledges the brutality of some representatives of the Military Committees, who took men from the street to send them to the front, in the context of the scandalous bill on mobilization.
• A 72-year-old pensioner was sentenced to prison for allegedly spreading “false information” about the Russian army
• Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to visit Turkey in February and meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, where the two leaders will discuss Ukraine and other issues, TASS reported on January 29 with reference to Yury Ushakov, Putin’s adviser.
• The Ukrainian army said on Monday that it is trying to “expand” the bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper, occupied by the Russian army in the south of the country, despite intense enemy attacks, AFP reports.

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