New Year Missile & Drone Strikes Continue Across Ukraine as NATO Recognizes Scale of Conflict January 3, 2023 Nicola Top Military News, Ukraine War </p> <h2>Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 2, 2023:</h2> <p> – Fighting continues around Bakhmut and across the wider Donbass region;<br /> – Russian missile and drone strikes continue for several days now;<br /> – Ukrainian sources claim “all” drones were downed but damage to infrastructure proves otherwise;<br /> – Ukraine claims to have hit Russian troops with a HIMARS rocket attack;<br /> – The attack is only in the news because it happens so infrequently;<br /> – Russia carries out similar attacks nearly daily with its much larger number of guided-rocket launchers and ballistic missile systems;<br /> – NATO admits Russia can fight on long-term and that Ukraine requires long-term support;<br /> – EU begins training 1,100 Ukrainians for 2 months and plans to train up to 15,000 over the next 2+ years;<br /> – 200-300 Ukrainian perish in fighting daily at a minimum with fighting around Bakhmut raising deaths and injuries to around 1,000 daily;<br /> – Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterates that the West is using Ukraine as a proxy to harm Russia, a fact stated in US policy documents like RAND’s 2019 “Extending Russia” paper;<br /> <br /> Credit to : The New Atlas</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors here :
