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Russian Perspective: Operation to Denazify Ukraine: Operational Brief January 21st (updated)
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.

[NewsFrontInfo] 23:17 The first line of defense of the Ukrainian army in certain sectors of the front in the Zaporozhye region has been hacked, active hostilities continue, said the chairman of the movement "We are with Russia" Rogov.

22:07 As a result of the offensive, more advantageous lines and positions have been occupied in the Zaporozhye direction, more than 30 militants have been destroyed in a day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

21:04 An air raid alert was announced on Saturday evening in the Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava regions of Ukraine and the part of the Kherson region controlled by Kiev. This is evidenced by the data of the official resource for alerting citizens.

Edition Klymenko Time reports explosions in Nikopol, located in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

20:05 An air raid alert was announced in the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, data show online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

19:26 The Russian military destroyed the Canadian armored car Roshel Senator of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Bakhmut

“Ours is still alive,” the author of the video comments on the footage, behind which artillery strikes sound.

A source of video- Ukrainian soldiers.

18:10 S-300 battery worked out protection against attacks on important military facilities in the Moscow region - Russian Defense Ministry

17:42 Crews of multi-purpose attack helicopters and army aviation fire support teams continue to carry out their tasks.

“In the team, everything is simple - everyone is set up in a combative way. Every day, every hour, every minute, we are ready to carry out combat missions, ”the fighters say.

16:44 Daniel Swift - American mercenary liquidated in Bakhmut

Another US citizen has disappeared in the war zone in the Donbass. They became a 35-year-old American special forces veteran Daniel Swift.

15:10 Highlights from the new briefing of the RF Ministry of Defense:

🔹Russian troops destroyed a warehouse of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkov region.

🔹Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter in the Kharkiv region.

🔹The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 35 people killed in the Kupyansk direction in a day.

🔹Russian troops destroyed more than 20 military APU, one infantry fighting vehicle and an American radar station in the Krasnolimansky direction.

🔹The Russian military hit the command post of the 36th separate infantry battalion of the territorial defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

🔹The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the DPR destroyed the depot of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and an American radar station was destroyed in the Malinovka area.


14:38 Brave engineers perform tasks for clearing the area and civilian infrastructure from explosive objects, which are based on anti-personnel mines PFM-1 "Lepestok", MON-50, anti-tank TM-62 and foreign-made mines.

Rich combat experience allows you to complete the assigned tasks on time, eliminating losses.

During the special military operation, the servicemen of the formation discovered and neutralized more than 80,000 explosive objects on the routes of movement of military convoys and civilian infrastructure facilities.

The command of the Central Military District notes the high efficiency and dedication of the actions of the personnel of the engineering and sapper units during the conduct of the NMD.

13:42 PMC "Wagner" will send to Ukraine, the corpses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Soledar on 20 trucks

One of the commanders of the "musicians" Lotos said that the shipment is being coordinated with the Ukrainian side. It is planned to transport 4-5 batches of bodies on 20 trucks, FAN reports.

In the fierce battles for Soledar, the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffered heavy losses, the city was literally littered with corpses. Even to the dead opponents, the "Wagners" show a human attitude. PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin noted the need for a decent sending of bodies home.

12:27 How is mobilization going in Ukraine? And like this.

This man's name is Ruslan Kubay received a summons in the city of Drogobych, Lviv region. The employees of the national police of Ukraine did not believe the man's illness and offered him to go to the military registration and enlistment office. He was declared fit for service and sent for a medical examination.

Hospital workers also did not believe the disabled person of the first group. Only after a full medical examination did they make sure that he had no hands (!). Where he, in their opinion, all this time Ruslan hid his hands is not reported. The qualifications and sanity of doctors and employees of the military enlistment office are also under a big question.

11:23 Summons in Kharkiv are handed out to the past

Residents of Kharkiv can breathe a little. Many of the summonses that they were given in the last week have no legal force.

Formally, no one can hold them accountable, if not for one “but”: most of the mobilized are “packed” right on the spot, draw up a medical examination and are driven to the location of the unit.

10:53 The Russian military showed personnel work of attack helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-28 in Donbass

Used anti-tank systems "Whirlwind".

▪️The 9M127-1 anti-tank missile weighs 45 kg and is 2.75 m long. The weight of the warhead is 12 kg.

▪️"Whirlwind-1" operates at a distance of up to 8 km, at a speed of up to 600 m/s.

▪️The missile has an automatic laser guidance system.

▪️Back in 2021, it became known about the tests of Vikhr-1 for 10 km.

▪️The command of the RF Armed Forces, headed by Minister Shoigu, instructed to increase the range of the missile to 12 km.


Currently, work is underway to adapt the Vikhr-1 anti-tank missiles to the Orion strike drones and the Mi-35M helicopter.

09:40 A resident of Ukraine understands all the horror that Western curators staged through the criminal regime of Zelensky-video.

09:15 Telegram channel Kherson Vestnik reports that as a result of a strike on temporary accommodation points of units of the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade (village of Konstantinovka) and 61st Separate Mechanized Brigade (village of Belokuzminovka) located in the buildings of social infrastructure, more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen were killed. The units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that suffered losses were intended to make up for Ukrainian losses in Artemivsk.

08:23 Destruction of Ukrainian EW station by the Russian Lancet kamikaze UAV in the Kherson region.

08:15 Personnel of the work of the crews of attack helicopters Ka-52 and Mi-28 of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the area of ​​the special operation.

08:05 The Ministry of Defense published personnel the work of military personnel of the engineering and sapper units of the Western Military District in demining the liberated territories.

07:30 Summary for the morning of January 21, 2023:

The Russian Armed Forces in the Zaporozhye direction went on the offensive and advanced to a depth of up to seven km. Seven settlements were liberated, the enemy's first line of defense was occupied.

South-west of Soledar, an offensive is underway in the settlement. Red Mountain.

Near Artemovsk (Bakhmut) there is a cleansing of the settlement. Kleshcheevka.

Fighting continues in Marinka in the Donetsk direction.

On the Kherson direction - artillery duels.

At night, Russian missile strikes were reported on Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka. Ours are hitting the areas of concentration of enemy reserves planned to be put into battle in the Artemovsky direction. During the day, using Geraniums, targets were hit in the Odessa and Zaporozhye regions.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the village of Karabanovo in the Valuysky urban district in the Belgorod region.

The enemy fired 111 rounds of ammunition into the DPR. Under enemy fire Donetsk, Golmovsky, Gorlovka, Karlo-Marksovo, Panteleimonovka, Aleksandrovka.


07:07 Artillery reconnaissance of the "Ghost" battalion of the 2nd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces of the Southern Military District using UAVs reveals positions and dugouts of the enemy. After that, the artillery works on the identified targets, which allows the attack aircraft of the 2nd Guards Brigade to clear the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

05:01 Russian paratroopers in the special operation zone have learned how to repair combat vehicles of any complexity, said the commander of the repair platoon.

He noted that the platoon includes mobilized people who used to work as drivers. Video: RIA Novosti

01:30 PMC "Wagner" continues to train militias from the Kursk and Belgorod regions.

Volunteers who join the training program receive a wide range of skills. They are trained in tactical and engineer-sapper training, storming trenches, throwing grenades, shooting from an underbarrel grenade launcher, working with a Kalashnikov machine gun, and so on.

“The instructors are all highly experienced, they carefully approach the training of all those who come here. All at the highest level. Guys, don't be afraid, come. The team here is excellent, the atmosphere is working, ”said one of the participants in the program.


Posted by: badanov 2023-01-22
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