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National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said Washington had “issued the last drawdown package that we had funding to support.”

National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said Washington had “issued the last drawdown package that we had funding to support.”

National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said Washington had “issued the last drawdown package that we had funding to support.”

Russian forces launched 73 strikes against Kherson Oblast over the past 24 hours, killing one person and wounding another three, Oleksandr Prokudin, the regional governor, reported early on Jan. 12.

Ukraine’s SBU security service has exposed Vasyl Povorozniuk, the sanctioned Metropolitan of the Luhansk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine, as a collaborator, the agency’s press service reported on Telegram on Jan. 12.

New defensive lines visited by Reuters near the northeastern city of Kupiansk on Dec. 28 show how Ukraine has stepped up construction of fortifications in recent months as it shifts its military operations against Russia to a more defensive footing. The defences, which bear some similarities to those rolled out in the Russian-occupied south and east, aim to help Ukraine weather assaults while regenerating its forces as Moscow takes the battlefield initiative, military analysts said.

Russia targeted a total of nine Ukrainian oblasts — Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson. Casualties were reported in the latter four regions.

The attacks targeted the communities of Bilopillia, Esman, Svesa, Krasnopillia, Seredyna-Buda, Yunakivka, Znob-Novhorodske, Shalyhyne, Nova Sloboda, and Khotin.

Russian forces continued to attack on seven fronts in Ukraine's east and south, most actively on the Avdiivka, Marinka and Kherson fronts, where they have been unsuccessful. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook, information as of 06:00 on 11 January Quote: "Seventy-three combat clashes took place over the past day.