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Current information on the situation on the front line: January 12 (updated)

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[NewsFront] 23:56 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC for January 12, as of 23:00, additionalinformation about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic: n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): - on the street. Vesenneya, 29, a man born in 1978 was wounded; - on the street Sukhumskaya, 26, a woman born in 1946 was wounded.

Thus, as of 23:00, the total number of civilian casualties from UFU attacks on the territory of the Republic was 11 people (two killed and nine injured).

Additional information has been received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic: Donetsk (Petrovsky district): - direct hit in the boiler room on the street. Petrovsky, the gas pipeline was also damaged. n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): – st. Vesennyaya, 30, 36, 40 – private residential buildings; – at the intersection of Pereyaslavskaya and Sukhumskaya streets, the gas pipeline was damaged. Information about the consequences of the artillery attack continues to arrive.

21:08 Ukrainian TG channels report the takeoff of the strategic missile carrier Tu-22M3 of the Russian Aerospace Forces

21:07 Ukrainian TG channels report missiles in the direction of Volchansk (Khar'kov region)

21:06 Air raid alert declared in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkassy, Poltava, Sumy, Khar'kov, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd regions of Ukraine, data shows online maps Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation.

19:50 RF Armed Forces today advanced in the Georgievka area and near Verbovoy.

The enemy also confirmed the retreat of his troops in the area of the Avdeevsky coke plant near the treatment facilities.

19:26 There are reports that a warehouse with ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was hit in Konstantinovka. Secondary detonation is underway.

19:06 Ukrainian Telegram channels report explosions in Konstantinovka (DPR, occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces)

18:49 Crews of the Buk-M1 air defense systemreflectenemy missile attacks in the South Donetsk direction.

Anti-aircraft missile units of the Vostok group of forces reliably cover army units and key industrial and administrative facilities in Donbass.

“We have a huge responsibility. We work on MLRS rounds, including HIMARS. On New Year’s Eve we were working on Alder system missiles,” said the head of the air defense missile system crew with the call sign “Kazbek.” “We completed our task.”

17:37 News from Avdeevsky direction:

It is reported that tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces struck enemy positions and concentration points.

And this morning, a strike was struck on the stronghold and command post of one of the brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The front-line bird notes that tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out strikes without entering the air defense coverage area.

16:46 Those killed by a Ukrainian UAV strike in Gorlovka could not be picked up for a long time, since another drone was circling in the sky and there was a danger of a second attack -video.

16:35 The main thing from the Russian Ministry of Defense report for the week:

During the week from January 6 to January 12, 23 strikes were carried out with long-range precision weapons on targets in Ukraine, including Kinzhal missiles. The targets were enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex and deployment points; all designated objects were hit;

In the Kupyansk direction, 27 Ukrainian attacks and counterattacks were repelled, and the position along the front line in certain areas was improved. Ukrainian Armed Forces losses – more than 585 people, three tanks;

In the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy lost up to 995 people killed and wounded;

In the Donetsk direction, six Ukrainian attacks were repelled, the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to more than 1,785 people, five tanks;

In Yuzhno-Donetsk - seven attacks were repelled, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 850 military personnel and three tanks;

In the Zaporozhye direction, more advantageous lines and positions were occupied, an attack in the Rabotino area was repelled, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 230 people, three tanks. In the Kherson direction - up to 275 people and a tank;

Within a week, Ukrainian Su-27 and Su-25, as well as a Mi-8 helicopter, were shot down.

16:05 Our troops are bypassing Novomikhailovka from the north. The Donetsk stringer writes that there is progress along the Ukrainian Armed Forces position “Zverinets”. In this way, we will force the Ukrainian Armed Forces to either leave this fortification, or they will take the battle from the flanks, which is less profitable for them.

16:00 Consequences of artillery attack of the Chervonogvardeisky district of Makeyevka by Ukrainian militants, as a result of which a woman was wounded

15:37 In the village. Borovaya (Khar'kov region) 44th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces ripped off timing of preparation of the defensive line. The work was planned to be completed by December 31. In conversations with local residents, Ukrainian Armed Forces militants say that the district administration has not allocated the requested amount of construction equipment.

14:40 Khar'kov region. Our missilemen worked against the enemy using lionfish, writes Frontline Bird. There is no air defense in the area. There is an arrival at the military enterprise of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

14:31 A civilian was injured as a result of a Ukrainian missile attack on Makeyevka, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.

“Makeevka settlement (Chervonogvardeisky district): – on Tsimlyansky Lane, 15, a woman born in 1973 was injured,” says a message published on the representative’s Telegram channel.

13:53 Consequences of artillery attack of Makeevka DPR. A direct hit on a residential building, the explosion destroyed an entire floor.

13:15 Dnipropetrovsk region. The front bird reports the sound of an explosion in the southern part of the area. Local channels report several loud bangs. The enemy's air defense was inactive. There was no air raid alert.

12:49 The number of wounded in Gorlovka has increased to six people.

11:45 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:

Units of the “Southern” group of forces, supported by strikes from operational-tactical, army aviation and artillery fire, defeated the manpower and equipment of 22, 42 and 93 Mechanized brigades in the Andreevka and Kleshcheevka areas.

The enemy lost up to 260 military personnel, two armored personnel carriers, and 15 vehicles in the Donetsk direction, wounded and killed. During the counter-battery fight, the 152mm D-20 howitzer and the 152mm Msta-B howitzer were destroyed.

Air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down 10 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Mar'inka and Spornoye, Donetsk People's Republic.

11:05 Morning report from Warrior DV:

In the area of Novomikhailovka and Elizavetovka, artillery hit three concentrations of enemy military equipment and manpower. On the southwestern outskirts of Novomikhailovka and northeast of Konstantinovka, work is underway on the forward positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At least two AGS crews were destroyed.

In the northwest of Dobrovolye and Vodyanoye, two concentrations of manpower were destroyed. A long-term firing point in a forest belt was destroyed north-west of Sladkoye, and up to five strong points were suppressed north of Nikolskoye.

In Prechistovka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces' police forces were torn apart, and to the west of Novodonetsk, two oporniks in the forest belts were suppressed.

To the west of Staromayorsky, three oporniks in the forest belts were suppressed, the enemy lost the UAV control center.

South-east of Ravnopol, the enemy made three unsuccessful attempts to carry out rotation on the defensive positions. As a result of the artillery work, the UAV control center was destroyed.

10:47 Fresh report from the Donetsk stringer on the advance of our troops in the morning:

– Pervomayskoe (Donetsk direction) – occupied 2 blocks in the eastern part of the village;

– Pervomayskoe (Kupyanskoe direction) – our troops and the Ukrainian Armed Forces condensed the front, “eating” the gray zone, reaching shooting range;

– South from Artyomovsk – advance about 500 meters to the west with a good piece of the front;

Therns - carried out several good attacks, advanced from 100 to 500 meters in several places. But it will be more difficult. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are building a large line of defense from Makeyevka to Zarechny using the heights along a large ravine, stakes and the Zherebets River.

10:39 Mayor of Gorlovka Ivan Prikhodko reported that during the evacuation of injured power workers, a UAV flew into the ambulance.

As a result of the UAV attack, a paramedic and an employee of an energy supply company were killed, and the driver of the ambulance and a doctor were injured.

10:15 As a result of the artillery attack of Gorlovka, three employees of the technical unit “Central Electric Networks” of the DPR State Unitary Enterprise “Regional Energy Supply Company” were wounded.

09:40 Around 3:40 Moscow time, two strikes were carried out on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in the Chuguevsky district of the Kharkov region - between Volchansk and Vilcha.

09:20 From the Verbovoye area in the Zaporozhye direction, the Front Bird reports:

“This morning began with aerial reconnaissance and the work of our cannon artillery.

The fighters also found several Ukrainian Armed Forces pickup trucks near the forest belt. We worked on them with mortars and AGS.”

09:05 Statement of senior officer of the press center of the Center group:

In the Krasnolimansk direction, the enemy did not show active action. The group's aviation strikes and artillery fire hit two control points, an ammunition depot, and an American-made counter-battery counter-battery station in the areas of Torskoye, Chervonaya Dibrova and Yampolovka. The Tor-M1 crew destroyed the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle Leleka-100.

Enemy losses per day amounted to up to 160 military personnel, a Kozak armored fighting vehicle, and three 120mm mortars.

08:45 The latest news from the Svatovsko-Kremensky sector of the front was reported by a military expert, Lieutenant Colonel of the LPR NM Andrey Marochko:

According to his information, Ukrainian militants are trying to increase their strength. In the area of Makeevka (LPR), Nevsky and Ternov, there is a strengthening of the positions of Ukrainian militants due to armored vehicles and additional artillery crews. The number of mobile groups with roaming firepower has also increased. At this stage, the growth of forces is insignificant, but this fact has already influenced the course of hostilities. Our units began to more intensively strike the militants in this area. Objective control by intelligence agencies has also been strengthened.

08:25 Frontline summary on the morning of 01/12/2024:

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces counterattacked from Verbovoy. Ukrainian positions in Kamensky, Pyatikhatki, Gulyai-Polye and Malinovka are under attack. The artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine worked according to the Russian ones in Zherebyanki, Kopany, Ilchenkovo, Novoprokopovka, Verbovoy and Novofedorovka.

On the Donetsk front, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to regain the initiative from Novomikhailovka. They attack from the southeast. Similar actions are taking place in the Georgievka area and near Nevelskoye. With the support of long-range weapons, Russian troops are trying to advance near Pervomaisky, on the southeastern approaches to Avdeevka from the industrial zone, from the east of Krutaya Balka and from the northeast in the area of the coke plant.

They also continued assault operations in Stepnoe (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions) and near Novobakhmutovka, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (the settlement of the same name to the east behind the Russian Armed Forces). Ukrainian positions in Berdychi, Novokalinov, New York and Zhelezny are under fire. Russian ones are in Mar'inka, Donetsk, Vodyanoy and Gorlovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, continued the assault on the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka. Long-range weapons operated on Ukrainian positions in Andreevka, Ivanovsky, Bogdanovka, Vasyukovka, Razdolovka, Sporny and Verkhnekamensky. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the Russian Armed Forces in Bakhmut, Yagodny and Berkhovka.

In the Lugansk direction, Russian troops attacked at Yampolevka and Makeevka. No success. After the artillery attack they tried to advance at Sin'kovka. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Belogorovka, Serebryanka, Torskoye, Nevsky, Berestovka and Petropavlovka.

08:15 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk.

The Nazis fired 20 rockets from the Vampire MLRS into residential streets. As a result of the terrorist attack, six civilians were injured.

08:04 Destroyed Russian loitering ammunition "Lancet" Ukrainian armored vehicle Iveco LMV (Lince), equipped with a remote-controlled combat module Leonardo (Oto Melara) HITROLE Light with a 12.7mm M2 machine gun.

08:00 Summary on the morning of January 12, 2024

In the Kherson direction there are battles on the same lines. The Russian Armed Forces destroy enemy personnel in Krynki, on the shore and on the water when moving boats. At night, they reported on the work of “Geraniums” in enemy concentration areas in Kherson. The problem remains the action of enemy FPV drones, reconnaissance UAVs and drone bombers, the range of which is increased due to repeaters. Enemy personnel in Krynki are covered by enemy artillery from its shore.The Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporozhye Front launched attacks on our rear areas from the HIMARS MLRS launched a series of attacks on Tokmak and Molochansk. Near Rabotino, the Russian Armed Forces are gradually displacing the enemy from their occupied strongholds, artillery is working on both sides. The next offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by small infantry groups was repulsed at Verbovoy. A new element of the situation was reports of our troops going on the offensive near Nesteryanka (seven km west of the “Rabotinsky sack”), one of the roads to Orekhov passes through the settlement.

On the Vremevsky ledge, the artillery of the 394th motorized rifle regiment of the 127th Motorized Rifle Division does not stop striking enemy positions in the Staromayorsky area, but the battles have been positional in nature for a long time.

In the area of the recently liberated Mar'inka, the main directions of advance of our troops are the western (to Kurakhovo through Georgievka) and the southern (to the villages of Pobeda and Novomikhalovka). There are heavy battles, the enemy is constantly counterattacking in the south.

The Avdeevsky direction is characterized by battles at Stepovoy, Ocheretino and the coke plant. On the southern sector of the front, our troops attack Pervomaiskoe. The enemy reinforced his troops near the village with personnel. Berdychi and coke plant.

The offensive of the Russian Armed Forces continues in the direction of Chasov Yar. Battles near Bogdanovka and Kleshcheevka, west of the village. Khromovo. Places where Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel gather in the rear, in Konstantinovka, are constantly covered by our means of destruction.

In the area of the Tor ledge, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attempted a counterattack, but were unable to achieve success.

Posted by: badanov 2024-01-13

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