Ukraine war live updates: Zelenskyy demands more sanctions as Ukraine reels from Russian bombardment; explosions heard near nuclear power plant - CNBC

The British authorities said it has truthful acold committed £2.3 cardinal to Ukraine's information assistance successful 2022.

"Our committedness to Ukraine remains steadfast and we volition lucifer oregon transcend past year's subject enactment successful 2023," the UK's Ministry of Defense wrote successful a tweet.

"This subject assistance helps Ukraine support against aerial attacks, combat connected land, support their shores, and beryllium equipped for winter."

— Amanda Macias

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked his Polish counterpart for his determination to supply Kyiv with 60 tanks.

"As 160 years ago, we are together, but this clip the force has nary chance. Together we volition win," Zelenskyy added.

Poland's determination follows abstracted announcements that Germany and the U.S. will supply Kyiv with Leopard 2 and M1A1 Abrams tanks.

— Amanda Macias

A caller barrage of Russian shelling killed astatine slightest 10 Ukrainian civilians and wounded 20 others successful a day, the bureau of Ukraine's president said Friday arsenic the state worked to retrieve from an earlier question of Russian rocket strikes and drone attacks.

Regional officials said towns and villages successful the eastbound and successful the southbound that are wrong scope of the Russian artillery suffered most. Six radical died successful the Donetsk region, 2 successful Kherson, and 2 successful the Kharkiv region. A time earlier, missiles and self-propelled drones that Russian forces fired had deed deeper into Ukrainian territory, sidesplitting astatine slightest 11 people.

The bombardments followed announcements by the United States and Germany of plans to vessel almighty tanks to assistance Ukraine support itself. Other Western countries said they besides would stock modern tanks from their stockpiles.

Moscow has bristled astatine the move, and accused Western nations of entering a caller level of confrontation with Russia.

— Associated Press

Ukraine is acceptable to person 60 much tanks signifier Poland, successful summation to the 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks Warsaw pledged to nonstop earlier this week.

"Poland sent 250 tanks arsenic the archetypal state fractional a twelvemonth agone oregon adjacent much than that," Polish Foreign Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told CTV News.

"Right now, we are acceptable to nonstop 60 of our modernized tanks, 30 of them PT-91. And connected apical of those tanks, 14 tanks, Leopard 2 tanks, from successful our possession."

Poland has been 1 of Ukraine's staunchest allies from the commencement of Russia's full-scale penetration of its neighbour successful February 2022. It has agelong pressed Berlin to let it to nonstop Ukraine its German-made Leopard 2 tanks, and aft months of refusal, Germany relented this week.

— Natasha Turak

Hungary made wide its volition to veto immoderate EU sanctions that people Russian atomic vigor during an interrogation of its premier minister Viktor Orban connected Hungarian authorities radio.

Ukraine has asked the 27-member bloc to enactment sanctions connected Russian authorities atomic vigor institution Rosatom, but Orban, successful an interrogation quoted by Reuters, said immoderate specified determination by the EU "must evidently beryllium vetoed."

"We volition not let the program to see atomic vigor into the sanctions beryllium implemented," the Hungarian person said. "This is retired of the question."

Hungary is location to a Russian-built atomic powerfulness works that it aims to grow jointly with Rosatom. Orban is besides connected affable presumption with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and has antecedently stood successful the mode of EU sanctions connected different Russian vigor commodities.

— Natasha Turak

The caput of Ukraine's statesmanlike bureau Andriy Yermak posted what appeared to beryllium a informing to chap officials successful his country's government, soon aft respective were removed from their positions implicit corruption and graft charges.

"Every authoritative should recognize they are liable to the authorities and nation. Especially successful the wartime," Yermak wrote connected Twitter.

"Whoever forgets it gets a speedy response. Regardless of their names and positions. Period."

Ukraine is regularly ranked arsenic 1 of the astir corrupt countries successful Europe and the world, and that estimation has raised concerns among immoderate Western officials arsenic to the transparency implicit wherever overseas subject and fiscal assistance goes.

Tuesday saw much than a twelve Ukrainian officials fired, successful an announcement by Ukraine's furniture ministry. While the ministry did not outline reasons for the firings, they came soon aft publicized reports and accusations of corruption by members of the government.

— Natasha Turak

The UK's Defence Ministry expressed uncertainty implicit Russian claims of gaining important territory successful Ukraine's eastbound Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.

"Russian units person astir apt conducted local, probing attacks adjacent Orikiv and Vuhledar [in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk, respectively], but it is highly improbable that Russia has really achieved immoderate substantive advances," the ministry wrote successful its regular quality update connected Twitter.

"There is simply a realistic anticipation that Russian subject sources are deliberately spreading misinformation successful an effort to connote that the Russian cognition is sustaining momentum," it added.

— Natasha Turak

Monitors from the U.N.'s atomic watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, reported proceeding explosions adjacent Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works arsenic Russia deed the state with a caller question of attacks.

Rafael Grossi, IAEA chief, made a repeated telephone for a information portion to beryllium established astir the plant, which is Europe's largest of its benignant and presently occupied by Russian forces.

A typical for Russian authorities atomic vigor institution Rosenergoatom, Renat Karchaa, called the comments baseless and a "provocation."

— Natasha Turak

Several of Ukraine's regions person to instrumentality exigency powerfulness cuts due to the fact that of outages caused by Russia's question of attacks connected Thursday, Ukrainian authorities quality transmission Suspilne reported.

"Currently, 10 regions of Ukraine are already utilizing exigency powerfulness outages owed to a powerfulness shortage successful the web aft yesterday's Russian shelling, and the restoration of damaged facilities is ongoing," it wrote connected its authoritative Telegram channel.

Millions of Ukrainians are enduring regular powerfulness outages, enduring freezing wintertime temperatures arsenic Russia targets captious infrastructure and vigor facilities.

— Natasha Turak

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for much sanctions connected Russia aft a question of rocket and drone attacks connected Thursday near astatine slightest 11 radical successful Ukraine dead.

"This Russian aggression tin and should beryllium stopped lone with capable weapons. The violent authorities volition not recognize thing else. Weapons connected the battlefield. Weapons that support our skies," Zelenskyy said successful his nightly code Thursday.

"New sanctions against Russia, i.e. governmental and economical weapons. And ineligible weapons - we request to enactment adjacent harder to found a tribunal for the transgression of Russian aggression against Ukraine."

The Russian attacks connected civilians came a time aft Western allies pledged to nonstop conflict tanks to Ukraine, thing European allies similar Germany had until past been reluctant to bash for fearfulness of provoking Moscow.

— Natasha Turak

Japan connected Friday announced further sanctions successful effect to Moscow's latest actions successful Ukraine, banning exports to Russia of cardinal strategical goods and freezing assets of twelve individuals.

Japan volition prohibit Russia-bound shipments of goods that tin beryllium utilized to heighten subject capability, including semiconductor instrumentality and components, robots, powerfulness generators, explosives and vaccines, according to the commercialized ministry.

The caller export prohibition volition instrumentality effect connected Feb. 3, it said.

Japan besides froze assets of an further 3 entities and 22 individuals successful Russia and 14 pro-Moscow individuals related to the "annexation" of the southeastern Ukraine region.

— Reuters

For months, Wagner has been locked successful a bloody conflict of attrition to instrumentality the towns of Bakhmut and Soledar successful Ukraine's eastbound Donetsk region. Western and Ukrainian officials person said it is utilizing convicts arsenic cannon fodder to overwhelm Ukraine's defenses. 

Videos and photographs of the graves archetypal appeared connected societal media channels successful the Krasnodar portion successful December. Reuters geolocated these images to the Bakinskaya cemetery and reviewed outer imagery of the tract from Maxar Technologies and Capella Space.

Satellite pictures amusement that the Wagner crippled was bare successful the summer, had 3 rows of graves by the extremity of November and was three-quarters afloat by aboriginal January. Virtually the full crippled was utilized by Jan. 24.

Read the full communicative from Reuters here.

— Reuters