Give me the latest updates of the war in Ukraine as of the 31st of January.
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As a large language model, the information that I have is limited by the end date of my training. Thus my knowledge about ongoing events might be outdated. 
Let me provide you the information about the Russo-Ukranian war in the period from 12 November 2022 until the end of January 2023. The beginning of the period was marked by the end of Ukranian counteroffensive. And there have been only minor changes in the control of the territory in this timeframe, with the biggest one being the Russian capture of Soledar, which is a town of about 10000 inhabitants in the North of Donetsk Oblast. During this whole period Russia conducted large scale missile strikes against Ukraine, predominantly against Ukrainian critical energy infrastructure. A major development in the second half of January was that US as well as some other NATO countries committed to supply Ukraine with Western tanks (before Western allies supplied Ukraine only with old Soviet tanks).
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