Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 30 January 2023

Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/vyFi04elmi

🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/YuoAMeW7LQ

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) January 30, 2023

Here are today’s control-of-terrain maps for #Russia‘s invasion of #Ukraine from @TheStudyofWar and @criticalthreats

Click here to see our interactive map, updated daily: https://t.co/tXBburiWEN pic.twitter.com/oUc4M9fOLo

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) January 30, 2023

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told Volodymyr Zelenskyy Denmark would help rebuild Mykolaiv.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin dismissed Boris Johnson’s claim Vladimir Putin threatened to kill him. https://t.co/0MkR0KPnmu

— DW News (@dwnews) January 30, 2023

#UPDATE When asked about the possibility of France sending jets to Ukraine, French President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that “nothing is excluded in principle,” but warned against the risk of escalation of the conflict.

📷 Macron with Dutch PM Mark Rutte (R) on Monday pic.twitter.com/IhNnGVxlp1

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 30, 2023

France and Australia announced Monday plans to jointly produce and send several thousand 155-millimeter artillery shells to Ukraine, starting in the coming weeks. https://t.co/2cIELkTJSx

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2023

“We didn’t put any request to Germany about fighter jets. Yet.”

Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany says his country is focused on the delivery of other German-made systems after Chancellor Olaf Scholz refused to send fighter planes to Kyiv. pic.twitter.com/ZPKevlmgMm

— DW News (@dwnews) January 30, 2023

NATO-member Croatia’s president on Monday criticized Western nations for supplying Ukraine with heavy tanks and other weapons in its campaign against invading Russian forces, saying those arms deliveries will only prolong the war. https://t.co/CsoMhXs9lg

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 30, 2023

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy compared the possibility of Russia athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics with Germany hosting the 1936 games and again called for Russia to be banned from competition https://t.co/7J4st7Tk1U pic.twitter.com/wO1CdJd03t

— Reuters (@Reuters) January 30, 2023

#UPDATE Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhaylo Podolyak on Monday called the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a “promoter of war” after the sports body said it was considering ways for Russian athletes to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics ▶️ https://t.co/7HbUXpS4Q4 #AFPSports pic.twitter.com/XDB5mXAmBa

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 30, 2023