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Ukrainian General Staff assesses the situation at the front
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.[Korrespondent] Since the beginning of the day, 144 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Our soldiers eliminated 197 and wounded 205 Russians in the Pokrovsky direction; destroyed three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two cars, and also significantly damaged one armored fighting vehicle, a tank and three vehicles of the invaders.  The defense forces are directing their efforts to disrupt the Russian invaders' plans for their arrival and to exhaust their combat potential. Since the beginning of the day, 144 combat clashes have occurred. This was noted in the General Staff's report on Thursday, January 9. In the Kharkov direction, our troops repelled two enemy attacks in the Staritsa and Volchanskaya areas. The enemy attacked Volchanskye Khutors with NARs. The aggressor carried out eight attacks on our fortifications in the Kupyansk direction near Zapadnoye, Kucherovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka, Petropavlovka and Zagryzovoye. Our defenders successfully repelled five attacks, three more clashes are ongoing. In the Liman direction, Russian troops stormed the positions of Ukrainian defenders 17 times a day in the areas of the settlements of Zelenaya Roshcha, Borovskaya Andreyevka, Kopanki, Tverdokhlebovo, Makeyevka, Grekovka and Ivanovka. Two clashes are still ongoing. The enemy attacked Zelenaya Gai with NARs. In the Seversky direction, our troops repelled one enemy attack in the area of the settlement of Belogorovka. At the same time, the enemy dropped three KABs on Verkhnekamenskoye. In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked seven times near Chasovy Yar and Stupochki, all attacks have already been repelled. Mayskoye suffered an air strike with guided aerial bombs, the enemy attacked with unguided rockets near Kleshchyivka. In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers stormed our defenders' positions 11 times today in the areas of the settlements of Toretsk, Belaya Gora and Shcherbinovka. In addition, three KABs were dropped on Konstantinovka and Toretsk, Druzhba was attacked by NARs. In the Pokrovsk direction, the enemy carried out 37 assault and offensive actions during the day. The greatest activity of the Russian occupiers remains in the areas of the settlements of Baranovka, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Luch, Lisovka, Zelenoe, Zverevoye, Novy Trud, Pokrovsk, Kotlino, Uspenovka, Novovasilovka, Novoandreyevka and Novoelizavetovka. Seven combat contacts are still ongoing. According to preliminary estimates, today our soldiers eliminated 197 and wounded 205 invaders in this direction; destroyed three tanks, four infantry fighting vehicles, two cars, and also significantly damaged one armored fighting vehicle, a tank and three vehicles of the invaders. The enemy is also attacking intensively in the Kurakhovsky direction. By now, there have been 23 combat clashes. Our soldiers repelled attacks near Serebryanoye, Andreyevka, Petropavlovka, Kurakhovoye and Dachnoye. One combat clash is currently ongoing. In the Vremivsky direction, the enemy tried to break through 11 times near the settlements of Yantarnoye, Konstantinopol and Razliv, one combat contact continues to this day. Temirovka and Bolshaya Novosyolka received KAB air strikes. The enemy did not undertake any active actions in the Gulyai-Polye and Orekhov directions. In the Dnieper direction, the enemy twice unsuccessfully attempted to push back the Defense Forces in the area of the islands of Kazatsky and Zabych. The enemy dropped four KABs on Kherson. In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian defenders repelled 25 attacks by the invaders, one combat contact is still ongoing. In addition, the enemy carried out 19 air strikes, using 31 KAB, carried out 294 artillery shellings, including 11 from multiple launch rocket systems. While in other areas there were no significant changes in the situation. The General Staff recognized the Ukrainian soldiers of the 25th separate Sicheslav airborne brigade, the 3rd separate assault brigade, the 14th operational brigade named after Ivan Bogun of the NSU, the 31st separate mechanized brigade, the 406th separate artillery. General-ensign Alexey Almazov, who steadfastly held back the invasion of superior enemy forces. Let us recall that fighters from the 80th Galician Brigade of the Ukrainian Airborne Assault Troops used an armored personnel carrier to crush Russian soldiers in Kursk region after they ran out of ammunition. Posted by: badanov 2025-01-10 |
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