Mariupol
Mstyslav Chernov won the Sundance Film Festival's Director's Award for his film 2000 Meters to Andriivka. The film tells the story of the liberation of a Ukrainian village from Russian occupation.
ROA carries out repair work on the roads of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. The restored roads are used for military logistics, transportation of ammunition and equipment.
The Russian occupation authorities are introducing a scheme of forced confiscation of apartments of Ukrainians who have left the occupied territories. Pushilin announced the creation of a “maneuverable fund” of confiscated housing.
a Russian drone attacked a civilian enterprise in the Novobavarsky district of Kharkiv, causing a fire on 1500 square meters. Two people were injured - a woman born in 1955 and a child born in 2015, who suffered an acute stress reaction.
The Russian army attacked Kharkiv on the night of January 28. As a result of the shelling, a fire broke out in the Kholodnohirsky district of the city, details of the attack are being clarified.
The President of Ukraine noted that the war had made Ukrainians tougher and less emotional. According to him, the conflict took lives, time and positive emotions, leaving only negative ones.
According to the latest data, about 20,000 people died in Mariupol, and 19,500 children were taken from southern Ukraine. The President explained that the occupiers were rebuilding the city to hide the traces of crimes.
On January 27, the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day. During the Holocaust, the Nazis murdered more than 6 million Jews, including 1.5 million children.
The documentary Porcelain War about three Kharkiv artists was nominated for Best Feature Documentary. The film tells the story of artists who create porcelain products during the war.
Since the beginning of 2024, the occupiers have stolen more than 530,000 tons of agricultural products from Zaporizhzhia region. Russia also plans to expand the port of Mariupol to increase the export of Ukrainian resources.
The Russian occupation authorities have increased the cost of intercity transportation in Donetsk from January 1, 2025. The fare to Luhansk has risen from 585 to 955 rubles, while the condition of the railroad remains catastrophic.
Five Russian companies have received 65,000 square meters of land in Mariupol to build mortgage housing. The new apartments are to be sold to Russians, while local residents are left homeless.
The occupation court sentenced Ruslan Minagulov to 24 years in a strict regime colony. He was accused of ill-treatment of civilians and shelling of residential areas of Mariupol in March 2022.
The occupation authorities of Mariupol are trying to take away apartments from local residents by declaring them “ownerless”. Due to the lack of documents and delays in the process of inheritance, Mariupol residents risk losing their homes.
Two Russian soldiers in serious condition were hospitalized after visiting a bar in occupied Berdiansk. The Mariupol City Council reports that such cases of poisoning by the occupiers occur regularly.
The occupiers are encouraging migrants from Central Asia to move to the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk region. Russia is trying to change the demographic composition of the region by displacing the Ukrainian population.
The Russian occupation authorities have unveiled a plan to build recreational complexes in the destroyed Shyrokyne and Melekine. The project is to be financed by investors from the Kremlin.
The Kremlin intends to build 25 new hydraulic structures in the port of Mariupol by 2025. The occupiers plan to increase the port's capacity to 4.8 million tons for the export of grain and industrial equipment.
The occupiers have begun erecting a 50-meter monument to the “liberators of Donbas” in the shape of an anchor in Mariupol. The project is part of a campaign to spread pro-Russian narratives instead of rebuilding housing for the victims.
The occupation authorities have introduced a new condition for receiving compensation for destroyed housing in Mariupol - an inventory of houses. However, this is impossible, as more than 500 high-rise buildings have been completely demolished by the occupiers.
It was loud at night in the temporarily occupied Mariupol and temporarily occupied Berdiansk.
“Ukrposhta plans to issue new stamps dedicated to Mariupol and the Armed Forces, despite declining demand. The last successful one was a stamp in honor of Usyk's victory over Fury, issued in December.
In the Tokmak district, the occupiers have begun illegal ore mining, offering jobs for 100,000 rubles. Due to the refusal of local residents, they are recruiting migrants from Asian countries.
The Pechersk court extended the detention until January 31 for soldier Serhiy Hnezdilov, who publicly left his unit. He faces up to 12 years in prison for desertion.
After the military operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk region, Russia took the initiative to exchange prisoners for the first time. This helped to return the most difficult Ukrainians to exchange, including the defenders of Mariupol.
In the occupied territories of Ukraine, children are forced to watch Putin's three-minute address before the start of the festivities. The occupiers are developing a cult of the Russian dictator's personality among children.
Six Russian soldiers died in Mariupol due to poisoned alcohol during the New Year's holidays. Videos of interrogations of Ukrainian prisoners of war were found in the phones of the deceased.
The occupation authorities of the Russian Federation organized the transfer of 119 high school students from occupied Mariupol to St. Petersburg. The children will have propaganda meetings with Russian propagandists for “re-education” and assimilation.
Since January 1, Ukrainians without a Russian passport have not been able to receive preferential medicines and assistance on the TOT. Medicines are available only at their own expense, but they are difficult to find and the prices are 2-3 times higher than market prices.
More than half of the boiler houses in the occupied territories of Donetsk region are out of order due to the incompetence of the collaborators. Mariupol suffered the most, where most districts were left without heat on New Year's Eve.