Current War Situation in Ukraine (January 13 Update)

Current War Situation in Ukraine

Total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 14.01.2024

  • personnel ‒ about 370000 (+840) persons,
  • tanks ‒ 6075 (+10),
  • APV ‒ 11302 (+33),
  • artillery systems – 8747 (+19),
  • MLRS – 957 (+0),
  • Anti-aircraft warfare systems ‒ 648 (+2),
  • aircraft – 329 (+0),
  • helicopters – 324 (+0),
  • UAV operational-tactical level – 6861 (+13),
  • cruise missiles ‒ 1814 (+8),
  • warships / boats ‒ 23 (+0),
  • submarines – 1 (+0),
  • vehicles and fuel tanks – 11667 (+35),
  • special equipment ‒ 1353 (+8).

Massive missile strike against Ukraine

January 2, 2024

  • russia launched 99 missiles of various types (72 of which had been destroyed).
  • They fired from different directions, from different aircraft, including cruise and ballistic missiles.
  • Before the missiles, 35 Shaheds were launched. All were destroyed.

  • 5 civilians were killed and 129 injured.
  • Critical infrastructure facilities, industrial, civilian and military facilities were attacked.
  • The main direction of the attack was the capital of Ukraine!

russia spent $212.2 mln on the attack on January 2:

  • 35 Shahed kamikaze drones cost $1.24 million;
  • 10 Kinzhal missiles cost $100 million;
  • 3 Kalibr missiles cost $3 million;
  • Kh-101/555 cost $84 million.

!!!TO REMIND!!!

  • At night 28-29 December, russia launched the largest-scale air attack on Ukraine.
  • Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia and other cities were targeted.
  • Air defence managed to destroy 114 out of 158 aerial targets.
  • russia used almost every type of weaponry available at its disposal.
  • That attack cost russia at least $1.27 billion.

Third large-scale attack

January 12-13

  • russia launched 40 targets: cruise, aeroballistic, ballistic, air-launched and anti-aircraft guided missiles and attack UAVs.
  • 8 of the targets were destroyed by air defence assets and personnel: seven Kh-101/Kh-555/Kh-55 cruise missiles and one Kh-59 guided missile.
  • Most of the listed air attack means failed to reach their targets because of the work of Ukrainian electronic warfare systems.

 

Consequences:

  • A hit in Chernihiv oblast, north of the country, near the border with Russia and Belarus.
  • A rocket fell in the yard of a private house in Poltava oblast. There were no casualties.
  • In Khmelnytskyi oblast, in the west, air defence systems also downed a missile. No critical infrastructure or civilians were affected.

Air alerts cost for Kyiv

  • Kyiv’s economy lost approximately $250 mln due to air strikes.
  • From February 24, 2022 to January 9, 2024, 950 alarms sounded in Kyiv (“Kyiv Digital” app).
  • In December, alarms sounded 43 hours in the capital.
  • “Kyivpastrans” (a municipal company that operates public transport in Kyiv) reported that in 2022 it carried 144.3 mln passengers – 40.9% less than in 2021. Income decreased to UAH 1.37 billion. The income of “Kyiv Metro” in 2022 has decreased to UAH 1 billion.

           Kyiv underground during air alerts                                                                                                                                          Photo: https://www.unian.ua/

Demining of the fields

“Demining is a big problem that Ukraine will have to solve in the next 10 years”.

Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Yulia Svyridenko

  • In 2024, Ukraine will have more than 30 demining machines, 26 operators and 3,000 sappers. The Ministry of Economy hopes for further help and financial support in humanitarian demining.
  • In 2023, Ukraine had 6 mine action operators and about 1,000 sappers.
  • First of all, the issue of demining concerns Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.
  • In total, 208,000 ha of land have already been demined.
  • More than 512,000 ha of agricultural land are subject to demining.

Donetsk oblast— 12.8 thousand ha;

Chernihiv oblast— 2 thousand ha;

Sumy oblast— 85 ha;

Dnipropetrovsk oblast— 6.6 thousand ha;

Kyiv oblast— 9.4 thousand ha

Mykolaiv oblast— 44,000 ha;

Kharkiv oblast— 190,000 ha;

Kherson oblast— 248,000 ha.

           Photo: https://vechirniy.kyiv.ua/news/77154/     Oleksiy Samsonov

Export

As of January 12, more than 20.2 mln tons of grain and leguminous crops were exported from Ukraine in the 2023/24 MY. This is 4 mln tons, or 16% less than in the same period last season:

  • wheat – 8.1 mln tons (8% less than last year’s volume).
  • barley – 1.2 mln tons (- 31%).
  • rye – 1 thousand tons (-92%).
  • corn – 10.9 mln tons (-20%).
  • flour – 61 thousand tons (-16%).

For reference: in 2022/23 MY, the export of grain and leguminous crops amounted to 49 mln tons:

wheat — 16.8 mln tons;

barley — 2.7 mln tons;

rye – 18 thousand tons;

corn — 29.1 mln tons;

flour – 153.6 thousand tons.

January WASDE (wheat 23/24 MY):

  • production 23.4 mln tons (22/23: 21.5 mln tons)
  • export 14 mln tons (22/23: 17.12 mln tons)

January WASDE (corn 23/24 MY):

  • production 30.5 mln tons (22/23: 27 mln tons)
  • export 21 mln tons (22/23: 27.12 mln tons)
  • From the beginning of 2023/24, grain export is 17% lower than last year.
  • During the first half of 2023/24, Ukraine exported 31.0 mln tons of agricultural products.
  • However, during the first week of January, export rates increased by 20%.
  • In December 2023, the export of corn increased because of sea exports, which allows exports to countries such as China and Egypt.

 

  • December: Export of agricultural products by water transport reached a record level since the beginning of the full-scale war – 6.1 mln tons.
  • 78% were shipped by the ports of Great Odesa.
  • January 10: 15 mln tons of goods were shipped to foreign markets through the temporary sea corridor. 66% – agricultural products.
  • 465 vessels entered the ports of Great Odesa for loading.
  • Another 83 vessels confirmed their readiness to pass through the corridor.

    December 28, 2023

  • vessel was blown up on an enemy sea mine in the Black Sea.

  • Two sailors were injured.

Harvesting

  • As of December 29, Ukraine has harvested 79.2 mln tons of new crops

Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy

 

  • As of the end of December 2023, 86% of the corn area was harvested in Ukraine. This is the only crop that is still being harvested.
  • Grain harvest totalled 58.392 mln tonnes

Oilseeds – 20.764 mln tonnes.

Harvest – 2023:

  • corn – 28.148 mln tons
  • wheat – 22.478 mln tons
  • barley – 5.909 mln tons
  • buckwheat – 207.5 K tons
  • millet – 180.2 K tons
  • other grains and pulses – 1,070 K tons
  • sunflower – 11.980 mln tons
  • soybeans – 4.779 mln tons
  • rapeseed – 4.5 mln

 

Source: https://www.rada.gov.ua/en/news/News/245353.html