​Ukraine’s mobile air defenses only have the ammunition to deal with “several” new waves of large-scale Russian attacks and can only be replenished with the help of the West, a Ukrainian general has warned. According to experts consulted by AFP, the recent massive Russian attacks are aimed at exhausting the population and Ukrainian air defense. Russia launched about 300 missiles and more than 200 Shahed drones in two waves of strikes, on December 29 and on the night of January 1-2, Volodymyr Zelenskyi reported.

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07:32Russia launched a total of 35 attack drones in the early hours of Monday, the Ukrainian military said, all the drones were destroyed by air defense systems, but Ukraine now faced a new Russian missile threat. (Reuters)

A brief summary of recent events:

• Russia and Ukraine carried out a mass exchange of prisoners of war through the mediation of the Arab Emirates. Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced on Wednesday that it had accepted 248 Russian prisoners of war. Zelenskyi also announced that more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners were returned from Russia: “Ours are at home.”
• NATO announced Wednesday that its military procurement agency will support a group of member states including Germany, the Netherlands, Romania and Spain with a contract to buy 1,000 GEM-T missiles used by Patriot air defense systems.
• Russia may attack Europe in a few years, if the EU countries do not learn lessons from the restructuring of the Russian economy according to the military principle and do not dramatically strengthen their potential of the defense industry, warned the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk.
• What Viktor Orbán wants in 2024: Donald Trump wins. “2024 will be a year full of hope if we bring order to Brussels and Trump wins, bringing us peace in the war in Ukraine,” Hungary’s prime minister said on Wednesday.
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• IAEA experts were not allowed into the premises of some Zaporizhia nuclear reactors. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that it does not have access to the premises of several reactors at the nuclear power plant.
• Pressure on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to provide Ukraine with Taurus cruise missiles is mounting from both the Christian Democratic opposition and his own ruling coalition following the latest massive Russian airstrikes on Ukrainian territory.
• Russian energy concern Gazprom announced on Wednesday that it has set a new record for daily gas deliveries to China through the Power of Siberia pipeline.
• The governor of a Russian region says he has ordered the rebuilding of 9 homes that were destroyed after a Moscow Air Force plane mistakenly bombed a village in Russia.
• From Thursday, Polish farmers will resume blocking the Medica crossing at the border with Ukraine, because, according to them, they did not receive a signed promise from the Prime Minister to fulfill their demands.
• Ukrainian commander Petro Horbatenko declares that the Russian army has restored the lack it had compared to the Ukrainian army in the first year of the war, which is equipment.
• How Vladimir Putin is trying to convince the West to betray Ukraine and conduct direct negotiations with Russia. The fact that Putin presents his war in Ukraine as Russia’s fight against the West, not Ukraine, shows that he has no intention of negotiating in good faith with Ukraine and is setting information conditions to convince the West to betray Ukraine. and negotiate with Moscow, the Institute for the Study of War claims.

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