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only Section 1, The war in Ukraine 

Thursday 12th January 2023

Contents

0 News links from around the world … JPR Book Notes

1 The war in Ukraine

Forty-seven weeks in, Thursday 12th January 2023

The military situation

0 News links from around the world … JPR Book Notes

UN News: https://news.un.org/en/

UN Security Council: https://press.un.org/en/content/security-council

UN General Assembly: https://press.un.org/en/content/general-assembly/meetings-coverage

USA: https://www.washingtonpost.com/

China: https://www.globaltimes.cn/

Russia: https://tass.com/

UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

France: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/; https://www.lemonde.fr/ (in French)

India: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/

Japan: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/

Nigeria: https://guardian.ng/

Brazil: https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/; https://www.folha.uol.com.br/ (in Portuguese)

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1 The war in Ukraine

Forty-seven weeks in, Thursday 12th January 2023

Some of the items appearing below are from The Times … or, in the case of Sunday, from The Observer. “9, 1” indicates 9th January, 2023, page 1. Although not named, the work of the journalists is appreciated – indeed it is what I depend on. I buy the paper version but sometimes cite the online version (The Observer has open access but The Times does not.)

The military situation

BBC: War in Ukraine:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-60525350.

“Sergei Surovikin removed as commander of Ukraine force”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64235713

“Who controls Soledar and why it matters”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/64240404

The Map (two months ago: 14th November):

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60506682 .

https://www.understandingwar.org/ :

11th January:

“The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on January 11 that Chief of the General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov will take over as theater commander as part of a major reshuffle of the Russian command structure for the war in Ukraine. The Russian MoD officially announced Gerasimov as Commander of the Joint Grouping of Forces and named three deputies under Gerasimov’s command: previous theater commander in Ukraine from October 8 to January 11 Army General Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces; Army General Oleg Salyukov, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces; and Colonel General Alexei Kim, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff. Surovikin has served as commander of the Aerospace Forces since October 2017 and commanded the "Southern" group of forces in Ukraine from June to October 2022, before his appointment as overall theater commander. Salyukov has served as commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces since 2014, and Kim has served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff since September 2022 following several positions in Russian military higher education institutions.”

Johnson’s Russia List:

https://russialist.org/ ;

https://russialist.org/russialink-beijing-fears-russia-becoming-minor-power-under-crazy-putin-ft-moscow-times/ ;

https://russialist.org/transcript-senior-defense-official-holds-a-background-briefing-re-ukraine/ ;

https://russialist.org/nine-signs-russian-economy-in-deep-trouble/ ;

https://russialist.org/fighting-remains-tough-in-ukraine/ ;

Russia Matters:

https://www.russiamatters.org/ ;

https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-analytical-report/russia-analytical-report-dec-19-2022-jan-9-2023 ;

RUSI

https://rusi.org/ ;

https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/emerging-insights/could-russias-reliance-belarus-be-its-soft-underbelly

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