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Current information on the situation on the front line: January 29 (updated)
2024-01-30
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 21:15 The number of civilian deaths in Donetsk due to artillery attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces has increased to four people, said city mayor Alexey Kulemzin

19:55 Today, as a result of massive artillery attack from the AFU on the territory of the DPR, three civilians were killed and 16 people were injured. This was announced by the head of the region Denis Pushilin.

19:25 Six utility workers were blown up in Gorlovka DPR by Ukrainian Kolokolchik mines. The mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko, announced this.

“Six Gorlovka utility workers were blown up by Ukrainian Bell-type mines on Bakh Street,” the mayor wrote on the Telegram channel.

Prikhodko also reported that as a result of artillery attack by the Ukrainian army in the Gagarin mine village, a civilian was injured.

19:10 Over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have intensified artillery attack of the civilian infrastructure of Nova Kakhovka, Kherson region, with mortars and artillery, said the head of the region, Vladimir Saldo.

“Over the past 24 hours, in the Kherson direction, the enemy has intensified artillery attack of civilian infrastructure in Novaya Kakhovka using mortars and artillery. In Alyoshki, civilian vehicles were deliberately attacked by drones. There are civilian casualties. Over some sections of the left bank of the Dnieper, enemy UAVs are constantly hanging in the air, ready to attack,” wrote Saldo in the Telegram channel.

He did not specify the number of victims, but added that in order to suppress the aggressive actions of the Ukrainian troops, military personnel of the Dnepr group of troops inflicted complex fire on the enemy using artillery forces and drones.

19:03 Crew of the 152mm 2S5 Giatsint-S self-propelled gun of the army corps of the Vostok group of forces as part of counter-battery warfare destroyed two M-777 howitzers in the South Donetsk direction of the Northern Military District. Competent camouflage and professional skills of our crews leave no chance for enemy artillery.

18:47 In the Novomikhailovka area, on the south-eastern and southern outskirts, artillery fire stopped the rotation of enemy personnel four times in the area of the dairy farm.

Two concentrations of enemy manpower and military equipment were defeated on the eastern outskirts of Konstantinovka and in Antonovka. The enemy's air defense system was destroyed in Novomikhailovka. In the Novomikhailovka - Konstantinovka - Vladimirovka area, up to 15 enemy support forces were suppressed.

South-east of Ugledar, the rotation of Armed Forces personnel in the forest belt was disrupted.

In Ugledar itself, the air defense system of one of the units was partially destroyed, and three concentrations of manpower and military equipment were damaged southwest of Elizavetovka, northwest of Dobrovolye and south of Vodyanoye.

In the areas of Nikolsky and Ugledar, up to eight strong points were suppressed, a dugout was destroyed, and a trench was destroyed. The enemy lost up to 10 people.

The enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to strengthen positions in the forest belt east of Urozhainy. Artillery fire destroyed two concentrations of manpower and military equipment in Zolotaya Niva and Urozhainy. The TOS strike on a concentration of manpower west of Novodonetsk killed up to 10 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen.

North of Priyutny, the enemy made five attempts to strengthen forward positions in forest belts.

Artillery suppressed six strong points in forest belts west of Staromayorsky. A defeat was inflicted on the accumulation of the enemy's marvelous force and weapons and military equipment in Poltavka.

The total enemy losses for the day amounted to 95 people killed and wounded.

17:47 Khar kov region. The sound of an explosion was reported in the eastern part of the area. The air raid warning did not sound. Our rocket scientists did some preliminary work using ballistics.

16:50 Three people died in the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, said the Head of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

Three more civilians were injured of moderate severity - women born in 1963 and 1999, a man born in 1999, they are receiving medical assistance. Damage to private residential buildings and civil infrastructure was also recorded.

15:55 According to preliminary data, as a result of the artillery attack of the Kalinin region, there are 3 dead and 1 wounded.

15:47 The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired eight rockets from the MLRS at the Kalininsky district of Donetsk, the mayor of the city reported that there were casualties -video.

15:40 The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at a residential building in Novodruzhesk LPR, two minor girls, students of grades 5 and 7, were injured. One of the girls is being operated on at a local hospital, the second, after receiving assistance, was sent to the Republican Children's Clinical Hospital, said Health Minister Natalia Pashchenko.

14:51 Explosions occurred in the part of the Kherson region controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. This was reported by the publication “Zerkalo Nedeli”. An air raid alert is currently in effect in Kyiv-controlled areas of the Kherson region.

14:30 An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the windshield of a civilian car in Gorlovka in the DPR, said the mayor of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.

“An unmanned aerial vehicle crashed into the windshield of a civilian car and only miraculously did not explode,” the mayor wrote on the Telegram channel.

13:30 The Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the release of Tabaevka in the Kupyansky direction.

13:13 Artemovsk (Bakhmutskoye direction) area of the settlement. Kleshcheevka. Our artillerymen struck enemy positions using the TOS-1A Solntsepek systems. It is reported that three platoon strong points of the mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were hit.

12:57 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:

In the Donetsk direction, the active actions of units of the “Southern” group of troops in cooperation with artillery and heavy flamethrower systems repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 24th mechanized, 80th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Shumy, Kirovo and Georgievka. The manpower and equipment of the 22, 28, 42 Mechanized and 17 Tank brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the areas of Krasnoye, Andreevka, Kleshcheevka and Kurdyumovka.

Up to 330 Ukrainian military personnel were killed and wounded, a tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, an electronic warfare station, and a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery unit were destroyed.

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


11:52 Russian group of forces “Vostok” stopped attempts by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to strengthen their forward positions in the areas of Ugledar and Staromayorsky, said the head of the group’s press center, Alexander Gordeev.

He clarified that the group’s units repelled an attack by formations of the 128th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Priyutnoye area, the enemy suffered losses and retreated.

10:55 Personnel storming the village Krakhmal'noye (Khar'kov region)

10:36 Situation on the Rabotino-Verbovoye section at 10.30:

Our troops continue to attack enemy strongholds west of Rabotino. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are bringing up infantry reserves and periodically launching counterattacks. Encounter battles are underway.

Near Verbov, the Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive, knocking out the enemy from the forest plantations. The enemy is snarling, tanks and infantry fighting vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine periodically appear on the LBS, and Russian UAV operators are actively hunting for them.

Artillery is actively working along the entire section of the front. Despite statements by Western media about a shortage of rounds in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the enemy continues to fire high-explosive fragmentation and cluster munitions.


09:47 The criminal Kiev regime continues to shell the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired cannon artillery:

-- n.p. Kardashinka three rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha five rounds;

-- n.p. Podstepnoye two rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka four rounds;

-- n.p. Dnepryan three rounds;

-- n.p. Golaya Pristan three rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell the civilian infrastructure of the village. Kazachi Lagey, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Novaya Mayachka, n.p. Sagi, firing a total of 16 rounds from cannon artillery.

Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.

09:20 Military investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee recorded crimes committed by the UFU against the civilian population of the DPR.

As a result of the artillery attack of the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka using 155mm artillery, women born in 1975 were injured among the civilian population. and born in 1977, as well as in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man born in 1979 was injured from ammunition dropped from a UAV. and a woman born in 1964.

In addition, Ukrainian militants shelled the city of Yasinovataya, Petrovsky, Kirovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, using UAVs and 155mm caliber artillery throughout the day.

In total, one residential building was damaged from artillery attack of the DPR by the Ukrainian Federal Unity.

08:44 RF Armed Forces they press Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kremensky forest, despite the “swarms” of enemy kamikaze drones.

A fighter with the call sign Uzbek says that his “Tiger” was recently hunted by five “birds” at once. One of them hit the roof, after which the military man was shell-shocked: “It’s been two months [since] they [the Ukrainian Armed Forces] became more active, but in fact we are not inferior in any way, in some moments we are even superior in terms of kamikaze drones.”

08:24 Assault units of the Vostok group of troops from Primoryecapturedsix strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Zaporozhye section of the South Donetsk direction.

The Ministry of Defense said that in one of the battles for the next opornik, which lasted five days, 20 attack aircraft of the commander’s unit with the call sign “Saval” forced about 200 Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers to drop their weapons and flee.

08:01 Summary on the morning of January 29, 2024:

Russian Armed Forces are developing success south of Kupyansk near Tabakeevka, an offensive is underway in the direction of the settlement. Sandy and Berestovoe.In the Krasnolimansky direction, the Russian Armed Forces made several landings, advancing in the area of Yampolovka and Ternov

South of Kremennaya, the Russian Armed Forces, despite many kamikaze UAVs and fierce enemy resistance, are developing an offensive in the area of the mill on the southeastern outskirts of the village.

West of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), the Russian Armed Forces are conducting offensive operations in Bogdanovka, near Ivanovsky (Krasny), Kleshcheevka.

In the area of Avdievka, the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not stop trying to counterattack in the area of the Tsarskaya Okhota fortified area occupied by the Russian Armed Forces; enemy reserves of up to several infantry battalions were thrown into battle. The Russian Armed Forces are conducting an offensive east of the coke plant in the area of ??gardening partnerships.

On the Zaporozhye front, counter battles continue at Rabotino and Verbovoy, and on the Kherson front, the battle at Krynoki continues. From the field, frontline soldiers report numerous enemy drones and heavy artillery fire. Our aviation in both directions uses FAB with UMPC against clusters of Ukrainian Armed Forces behind the front line.

The enemy’s analytical channel writes: “The difficult situation remains near Tabaevka and south of Avdievka. The Russian Armed Forces have recently achieved a number of tactical successes. There is such chaos in the matchmaking segment - because the bands are held by a hodgepodge of different battalions of different brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the interaction between them often leaves much to be desired.”

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