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(Bloomberg) -- An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia had confirmed that it was holding much than 3,000 prisoners of war. She added that 15,000 radical were missing, galore of them civilians.

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Russia unleashed 1 of the astir aggravated rocket barrages of the war, targeting large Ukrainian cities including the capital, Kyiv, and Lviv successful the westbound adjacent Poland.

Of 69 cruise missiles launched by Kremlin forces from strategical bombers and ships successful the Black Sea, 54 were changeable down by air-defense systems, according to Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine’s service commander-in-chief. In a abstracted incident, Belarus said its aerial defence changeable down a Ukrainian anti-air rocket implicit its territory.

The US is considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine arsenic portion of a further bundle of subject support, according to radical acquainted with the matter.

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On the Ground

Overnight, Russian forces deed vigor infrastructure successful Kharkiv with Iranian-made Shahed drones, sidesplitting 1 person, Ukrainian officials said, adding that air-defense forces changeable down 11 Iranian-made drones. Several buildings, a state pipeline and a powerfulness enactment were damaged successful an onslaught connected the Zaporizhzhia suburbs, Oleksandr Starukh, the determination governor, said connected Telegram. Three Russian rocket carriers are present connected combat work successful the Black Sea, according to a connection from the Ukrainian confederate command.

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15,000 People Missing, Zelenskiy Adviser Says (12 a.m.)

Aliona Verbytska, an advisor to Zelenskiy, said Russia had confirmed that it was holding much than 3,000 prisoners of war. She said 15,000 radical were missing, galore of them civilians.

Verbytska, successful her capableness arsenic ombudsperson for the rights of Ukrainian soldiers, underscored the discrepancy betwixt the fig of confirmed POWs and the fig inactive missing.

“We bash not cognize what happened to them. Whether they are besides Russian prisoners of war, person been taken from Russian-occupied territories oregon perchance killed,” Verbytska said. She assailed what she called the “very poor” practice of Russian agencies, with regards to dealing with prisoners of war.

US Considers Sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles (7:54 p.m.)

The US authorities is considering sending Bradley Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine arsenic portion of a further bundle of subject support, according to radical acquainted with the matter.

A last determination hasn’t yet been made, 1 of the radical said. When the vehicles would beryllium operational is besides unclear, said the people, who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon the delicate issue.

“Bradleys would supply a large summation successful crushed combat capableness due to the fact that it is, successful effect, a airy tank,” said Mark Cancian, a erstwhile White House defence fund expert who’s present with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Ukraine Says Russia May Have Staged Provocation successful Belarus (6:47 p.m.)

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said that the reported shootdown of a rocket implicit Belarus whitethorn person been “a deliberate provocation made by Russia.”

“Ukraine is alert of the Kremlin’s hopeless and persistent efforts to impact Belarus successful its assertive warfare against Ukraine,” the ministry said successful the connection connected its website. It said Ukraine is “ready to behaviour an nonsubjective probe of the incident.”

Earlier, Belarus’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Kyzym to dependable a protestation against what the country’s authorities accidental was the motorboat of an aerial defence rocket toward Belarus.

Ukrainian Energy System Being Restored After Attack (5:42 p.m.)

Ukraine’s vigor network, which suffered caller harm aft a Russian rocket barrage connected Thursday, is being repaired arsenic planned, grid relation CEO Volodymyr Kudrytskyi said connected TV.

“A important portion of the generating capableness has already been restored, but determination is harm to the network,” Kudrytskyi said, adding that immoderate sites had been deed arsenic galore arsenic 8 times. “No substance however galore times Russia strikes, we are restoring facilities.”

Kudrytskyi besides said his company, Ukrenergo, would person a 70 million-euro assistance from the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development to reconstruct vigor infrastructure.

Belarus Summons Ukrainian Ambassador Over Missile Incident (4:20 p.m.)

Belarus’s Foreign Ministry summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Ihor Kyzym to dependable protestation against what the country’s authorities accidental was a motorboat of an aerial defence rocket toward Belarus.

Minsk called connected Ukraine to analyse Thursday’s rocket launch, punish those liable and use measures to regularisation retired specified incidents successful the aboriginal to debar “catastrophic consequences”, according to a connection connected Foreign Ministry website.

Kyiv has accused Belarus of allowing Russia to motorboat missiles from its territory. Russia has utilized Belarus arsenic a staging constituent for its invasion, but Belarusian troops person truthful acold stayed retired of the war.

Belarus Says it Downed Missile Fired From Ukraine (1:55 p.m.)

Belarus said its aerial defenses changeable down a Ukrainian S-300 rocket that flew into its territory Thursday — a uncommon lawsuit of the warfare spilling implicit the borderline into Russia’s ally, wherever an authoritative downplayed the incident.

Missile debris fell adjacent the colony of Gorbakha successful the Ivanovo portion of confederate Belarus adjacent the borderline with Ukraine, the Defense Ministry said Thursday connected Telegram.

“There is perfectly nary crushed for residents to worry,” the subject commissar of the Brest portion successful Belarus said aft the incident. “Such cases, unfortunately, happen.”

Italy’s Meloni to Visit Ukraine by End of February (2:05 p.m.)

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is readying to sojourn Kyiv earlier the extremity of February to people her enactment to Ukraine. A last day volition lone beryllium confirmed erstwhile information conditions volition let for the readying of the visit, she said.

“We request to bash each we tin to enactment Ukraine but besides to prosecute bid possibilities,” she said astatine a quality league successful Rome.

Putin, Xi to Hold Talks connected Friday (12:15 p.m.)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, volition sermon “the astir pressing determination problems” during a video telephone planned for Friday, according to Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov.

The 2 leaders are holding their end-of-year talks aft Xi told erstwhile Russian President Dmitry Medvedev past week that China would similar to spot negotiations connected Ukraine, adding that his medication was “actively promoting peace.” China has avoided criticizing Russia implicit the invasion, blaming the enlargement of NATO. While Beijing signed disconnected connected a communique astatine past month’s Group of 20 acme successful Indonesia that said “most members powerfully condemned the warfare successful Ukraine,” China continues to refrain from calling it a war.

Kazakhstan Seeks Druzhba Capacity (12 p.m.)

Russia’s oil-pipeline relation Transneft PJSC said it received a petition from its Kazakh counterpart to publication capableness connected the Druzhba pipeline for lipid supplies to Germany adjacent year.

That could beryllium a archetypal measurement toward Kazakh lipid flowing to German refineries arsenic the state tries to find alternatives to Russian crude. While pipeline supplies are exempted from European sanctions, Germany pledged to wean itself disconnected Russia by the extremity of this year.