WNU Editor: Another day. Another day with a lot of updates from the Military Summary Channel.  Update: Another report/analysis on the war from Alexander Mercouris (below). 

 Defense News: Pentagon awards $40M ‘Vampire’ contract for Ukraine’s drone defenses WASHINGTON ― The Pentagon has awarded L3Harris Technologies a $40 million order to send Ukraine “Vampire” counter-drone systems by mid-year, the company anno…

 WNU Editor: A lot of updates today. It looks like the Russian military has made significant progress in the battle for the Ukraine city of Bakhmut and elsewhere along the front-lines in the Donbas.

Challenger 2 battle tank, file image  Zero Hedge: ‘We Are Facing The Entire NATO In Ukraine’: Kremlin Says, As UK Mulls Battle Tanks Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev has issued ultra-provocative words claiming that it’s n…

Head of Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov © Elena Afonina/TASS Euronews: Ukraine war: Kyiv aid ‘money laundering scheme’, Christmas truce fails, Ukrainians honour war dead Western aid to Ukraine is a “scheme for laundering money”, the leader of…

Ukrainian soldiers on the Donbas front-line, as Russia prepares for a possible counter-offensive Credit: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu  The Telegraph: Russia faces defence dilemma as it braces for ‘major Ukrainian counter offensive’ Intelligence r…

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 9 January 2023

Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/MFEwqMMnI3

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

— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) January 9, 2023

ISW is publishing an abbreviated campaign update today, January 8.

This report discusses (1) the Russian Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) attempts to claim that Russian forces responded to the December 31 Ukrainian strike on Russian positions in Makiivka;https://t.co/deiRVzeNXP pic.twitter.com/qN1fZdxZJK

— ISW (@TheStudyofWar) January 8, 2023

#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday his troops were withstanding “new and even tougher assaults” on Soledar, near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the Donetsk region that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. pic.twitter.com/h6fCss0jWT

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 9, 2023

Ukrainian forces are repelling frequent offensives by invading Russian troops in the Donbas region, Kyiv officials say. https://t.co/uyQ2BLEDn6

— DW News (@dwnews) January 9, 2023

Officials at a vocational school in an eastern Ukraine city dismissed claims by Russia that hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed in a missile strike there, saying Monday that a rocket merely blew out windows and damaged classrooms. https://t.co/rTZZM2WneE

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2023

Iran’s sale of lethal drones to Russia for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine means the country may be “contributing to widespread war crimes,” the Biden administration said Monday. https://t.co/LVvZyPdvOI

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2023

“Ukraine losing the war (against Russia) is simply not an option.”@TimmermansEU speaks to DW about aid to Kyiv, and the possibility of Ukraine joining the EU in the future. pic.twitter.com/ypnwOeqA7z

— DW News (@dwnews) January 9, 2023