Nato defence leaders meeting with counterparts from other countries to discuss boosting Ukraine’s ability to confront Russian forces with modern battle tanks
Russia-Ukraine war at a glance
The UK’s Ministry of Defence has produced its latest intelligence briefing on what it sees as the situation in Ukraine. Today it is focused on the Wagner mercenary group. It says, among other things, that it “almost certainly now commands up to 50,000 fighters in Ukraine and has become a key component of the Ukraine campaign”.
The ministry describes Wagner as having experienced a “remarkably rapid development” in its public profile, stating that Yevgeny Prigozhin “only admitted to founding Wagner in September 2022; in October 2022, it opened a glossy HQ in St Petersburg.”
On 19 January, the Russians killed four civilians of Donetsk region: three more people in the region were injured. Currently, it is impossible to establish the exact number of victims in [the regions of] Mariupol and Volnovakha. Every war criminal will be punished!