Current War Situation in Ukraine (January 27 Update)

Current War Situation in Ukraine

Total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.2022 to 27.01.2024

  • approximately 381,370 (+770) military personnel;
  • 6,271 (+6) tanks;
  • 11,652 (+15) armoured combat vehicles;
  • 9,085 (+3) artillery systems;
  • 972 (+0) multiple-launch rocket systems;
  • 660 (+0) air defence systems;
  • 331 (+0) fixed-wing aircraft;
  • 324 (+0) helicopters;
  • 7,037 (+4) UAVs;
  • 1,845 (+0) cruise missiles;
  • 23 (+0) ships and boats;
  • 1 (+0) submarines;
  • 12,072 (+8) vehicles and tankers;
  • 1,433 (+8) special vehicles and other equipment.

Massive missile strike against Ukraine

 January 23, 2024

  • During the night on January 22-23, russian conducted a series of missile strikes against Ukraine.
  • russia launched 44 aerial attack assets, including four S-300/S-400 guided anti-aircraft missiles, 15 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles, eight X-22 missiles, 12 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and five X-59/X-31 guided aviation missiles.
  • They meant to penetrate Ukrainian air defenses.
  • Кesidential buildings in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Pavlograd suffered the greatest damage.
  • The strikes killed 18 people and injured more than 130.

 

Kharkiv under attack

 January 23, 2024

  • Three missile strikes on Kharkiv in one day.
  • Enemy hit a five-story building in Kyivsky district of Kharkiv.
  • 10 people died.

 

Attack on Odesa

  • russia constantly attacks the city of Odessa. They mostly use Shahed-136/131 kamikaze drones.
  • During the attack on January 25, the apartment building was damaged people were injured.
  • They also hit the grain warehouse.

The amount of pigs decreased by almost 60% (Kharkiv oblast)

  • As of December 1, 2023, agricultural enterprises of the Kharkiv oblast kept 23.1 thousand cattle, 67.8 thousand pigs, 25 thousand sheep and goats, as well as 4,612.5 thousand poultry.
  • The number of cattle decreased by 38%, pigs – by 56%, sheep and goats – by 43.3%, poultry – by 19.1%.
  • Before the full-scale invasion, there were 158 agricultural enterprises engaged in animal husbandry in Kharkiv oblast: 107 farms kept cattle, 50 pigs, 29 sheep. 13 agricultural enterprises engaged in poultry farming.
  • The majority of modern high-tech enterprises of dairy cattle breeding, pig breeding and meat poultry farming are located in the de-occupied territories.
  • 43 livestock farms were occupied and de-occupied, which is 27% of the total number.
  • These agricultural enterprises kept more than 40% of cattle, 61% of pigs, 46% of sheep and 48% of poultry in the region.

Export

Decreased numbers

January 12, 2023

  • Agricultural export decreased by $1.5 billion in 2023. Thus, it amounted to $21.9 billion, while in 2022 it brought Ukraine $23.4 billion
  • Reasons for the decrease: decrease in export prices, and russia’s military aggression, which significantly complicated the export routes.
  • In December, agricultural export reached the highest level since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

 

  • 20 mln tons of grain and 5.3 mln tons of bulk cargo were shipped through the Danube ports in 2023.
  • From the beginning of the 2023/24 MR, grain export amounted to 21.4 mln tons, which is 14% less than last year.
  • 12.7 mln tons of agricultural products have already been exported to the ports of Great Odesa since the beginning of the operation of the temporary sea corridor (in August 2023).
  • Rate of export by water transport has been increasing -2.3 mln tons have already been shipped since the beginning of January.
  • January 19: Yemen’s Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea became one of the reasons for the slowdown in export of Ukrainian agricultural products.
  • In the first half of January, supplies of wheat through the Suez Canal fell by almost 40%.