Popular Ukrainian military blog DeepState showed Novoielyzavetivka to be under Russian occupation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukrainian forces fighting around Velyka Novosilka claim its Russian takeover will amount to nothing more than a flag-raising exercise

Putin rejects talks with ‘illegitimate’ Zelensky as North Korean cannon deployed - Putin is ‘afraid of strong leaders’, says Zelensky

Its forces captured Solone village, about 7.4 miles southwest of Pokrovsk, key front in Moscow's offensive in eastern Donetsk region, says Russian Defense Ministry - Anadolu Ajansı

Moscow's forces have captured Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region and about to gain Toretsk, according to reports.

Reports that the embattled Ukrainian city of Chasiv Yar has fallen to Russian forces have been dismissed by experts and officials speaking to the Kyiv Independent, and the latest OSINT data suggests fighting is still ongoing.

The drone blew out a wall and surrounding windows in the building in Sumy, a major city, just after 1 a.m., the Sumy regional administration said.

The number of Russians signing contracts at Moscow recruitment centres to fight in the war against Ukraine has fallen five-fold since its peak in late summer of last year, the independent Russian outlet Verstka reported on Jan.

Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces took control of another settlement in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where Moscow continues to claim advances amid an ongoing regional offensive.

Putin's forces launch 81 drones in aerial assault as Sumy apartment strike kills 4 - Russia lost 1,670 troops in just the past 24 hours, Kyiv says

Kharkiv region. In Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv province, a Russian glide bomb struck a residential area two miles from the frontlines, near the city of Kupyansk, killing two women on Jan. 26.