For today, links to reports from the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, the Kyiv Post, the Kyiv Independent, Reuters, and the Grayzone; others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA entry for this date, so far, is HERE.) — MCM
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At least 25 dead in a shelling of a market in Russian-occupied Ukraine, officials report. From AP. KYIV — At least 25 people were killed today by shelling at a market on the outskirts of the city of Donetsk in Russian-occupied Ukraine, local officials reported. A further 20 people were injured in the strike on the suburb of Tekstilshchik, including two children, said . . . READ MORE . . .
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Ukrainian strike on Donetsk kills 13: Russian authority. From AFP. A Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine left 13 people dead and 10 more wounded today, said the head of the region, which is under Russian control. The Moscow-installed head of the Donetsk region, Denis Pushilin, said “at least 13 people were killed and ten injured following a terrible bombing on a market.” In a preliminary . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Ukraine’s SBU claims drone attack on Russian gas terminal near St. Petersburg, by Kateryna Zakharchenko and Alisa Orlova | Kyiv Post Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) conducted a successful overnight drone attack on the Ust-Luga gas terminal in the Leningrad region of Russia, according to a source. The source said the operation saw direct hits . . . READ MORE . . .
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NEWER Explosions, fires reported overnight deep in Russian rear in alleged long-range Ukrainian strikes. From the Kyiv Independent. Explosions and large fires were reported in several Russian cities overnight today, in an possible coordinated effort by Ukraine to strike key targets deep inside Russian territory. The terminal of Russia’s Novatek natural gas company caught fire in the port of Ust-Luga in Leningrad Oblast . . . READ MORE . . .
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Fire erupts at Russia’s Novatek Baltic Sea terminal after suspected Ukrainian drone attack. From Reuters. A fire broke out at a Baltic Sea terminal belonging to Novatek, Russia’s largest liquefied natural gas producer, after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack, forcing the company to suspend some operations there. The Ust-Luga complex, on the Gulf of Finland about 170 km west of St. Petersburg, processes . . . READ MORE . . .
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FROM JAN. 12 American citizen Gonzalo Lira dies from neglect in Ukrainian prison, by Alexander Rubinstein | The Grayzone Chilean-American war commentator Gonzalo Lira died shortly before noon on Jan. 11 at a hospital in Kharkiv, where he had been imprisoned for eight months after being accused of justifying Russian war efforts in Ukraine. Lira had come to prominence in 2022 and was arrested in May 2023. A note written by him . . . READ MORE . . .