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[LB] The Sumy, Chernihiv, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Donetsk regions were also attacked.
Yesterday evening, the enemy attacked the Poltava region with rockets. There is a hit to an industrial facility in the territory of Kremenchug district, which caused a fire. There are no victims or injured. All relevant services are involved in the liquidation of the consequences. The data on the consequences are being clarified, according to the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Dnipropetrovsk, 12 kamikaze drones were directed by the aggressor to the Nikopol region yesterday, and in the evening they struck with artillery. He targeted the district center and villages of the Marganets community. A 61-year-old man was injured. He will be treated at home. Six private houses, five commercial buildings, cars, and a power line were damaged. Late in the evening, air defense forces shot down an enemy Shahed over Novomoskovskiy district. Also in the evening, the invaders shelled the Nikopol district three times. More than a dozen shells were fired at the district center and the Marganets community. It passed without casualties.
On the night of Sumy, the Russians carried out six shellings of border territories and settlements. 24 explosions from mortars, artillery, cannons and small arms were recorded. Bilopolska, Shalyginska, Esmanska, Druzhbivska communities came under fire. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Rashists carried out 15 shellings of border areas and settlements. 91 explosions were recorded. Khotinsk, Yunakivsk, Bilopolsk, Krasnopilsk, Velikopysarovsk, Esmansk, Seredino-Budsk, Druzhbivsk, Znob-Nogorodsk, Svesk communities came under fire. Khotyn community: an enemy reconnaissance and sabotage group shot two residents of the community (a brother and a sister). Their house was located in the village of Andriivka, which is located in the 5-kilometer border zone. Seredyno-Budsk community: a farm building and a private residential building (roof, windows, facade) were damaged by mortar shelling. There was no information about the victims. The data is being verified.
In Mykolayivska yesterday during the day, enemy shelling was recorded in the water area of Ochakivska community. There are no casualties. Ochakiv was also under enemy artillery fire yesterday. Enemy shells damaged an apartment building and a garage on the territory of a private household. In addition, electrical switchboards and an administrative building were damaged on the territory of one of the enterprises. There were no casualties.
In Luhansk, the occupiers tried to press near Stelmakhivka and Belogorivka, but did not succeed. Over the past day, Karmazynivka, Nevske, and Bilogorivka were hit by enemy artillery and mortar attacks. During the day, the enemy fired 122 rounds (526 shells).
In Kharkiv, about 20 settlements were hit by enemy artillery and mortar fire, including: Udy, Kozacha Lopan, Ogirtseve, Vovchansk, Budarky, Kolodyazne, Dvorichna, Synkivka, Petropavlivka, Ivanivka, Berestovka. Yesterday afternoon, the occupiers attacked Vovchansk. A 77-year-old woman was injured. The victim was hospitalized. A private house was damaged. Also yesterday, the enemy shelled Kozacha Lopan. A 61-year-old man was injured. The victim was taken to the hospital. A residential building was damaged. 42- and 50-year-old men were injured as a result of the attack in Podolay, Kupian district. The victims were hospitalized. As a result of the attack on Kupiansk, the cemetery was damaged.
In Zaporizhzhia last day, the occupiers made 130 strikes on 24 settlements of the region. The Rashists carried out 33 UAV attacks on Zaporizhzhia, Gulyaipol, Novoandriyivka, Novodanilivka, Novodarivka, Biloghiry, Malynyvka, Charivnoy, Poltavaka, Robotyn and Pyatikhatky, and also shelled Mala Tokmachka and Kamianske with salvo rocket systems. 95 artillerymen arrived on the territory of Orikhov, Zaliznychny, Gulyaipilsky, Malaya Tokmachka, Levadny, Shcherbaki, Lugivskyi, Stepnohirsk, Kamianskyi, Stepovy, Lobkovy and other front-line towns and villages. Four reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities. No casualties.
There were six shellings (42 explosions) in the Chernihiv region during the day. The enemy shelled the Koryukiv and Novgorod-Siversky districts with mortars and artillery. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified.
In Donetsk, the last days were under fire: Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Slovyansk, Ocheretine, Sokil, Myrnograd. 18 multi-apartment residential buildings, a ceramic workshop building, a gas pipeline, a kindergarten, a school, nine civilian cars, and a boiler house building were damaged. In Donetsk region in a day: three wounded.
In the Kherson region, the enemy fired 102 shells (451 shells) during the day, including eight artillery shells (38 shells) on Kherson. The rioters targeted the areas of 28 settlements of the region, a mobile phone tower and a radio tower in the Berislav district. Yesterday morning, the enemy army dropped explosives from drones on Berislav. A 60-year-old man died as a result of this blow. Another person was hospitalized. The enemy also hit Tyaginka. A 66-year-old man was injured as a result of the shelling. He was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds. In a day in the region: one person died, two were injured.
During the past 24 hours, 79 combat clashes took place. In total, the enemy launched three missile and eight air strikes, used attack drones of the "Shahed-136/131" type, and fired 82 rocket salvo fire strikes at the positions of our troops and populated areas.
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[Korrespondent] 22:35 NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg considers it appropriate to invite Ukraine to the Alliance “at a certain stage.” According to him, every sovereign nation has the right to choose its own path. The Secretary General also believes that Putin’s victory in Ukraine will be an encouragement for other authoritarian regimes: “Today it is Ukraine, tomorrow it could be Taiwan... Therefore, it is a good thing for us, for the United States, to support Ukraine, and also at a certain stage to invite them to become a full member of the Alliance."
21:19 The Russians are attacking the Poltava region for the second day in a row - according to preliminary information, an industrial facility in the Kremenchug region is again hit, said the head of the OVA, Philip Pronin.
20:11 The leader of the Romanian party of the far-right Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), Claudiu Tarziu, wants Romania to annex part of Ukraine: “We, as always, are at a fork in the road, and we must deal with these great empires in order to gain our sovereignty and make it whole. We will not be truly sovereign until we reintegrate the Romanian state within its natural borders... Northern Bukovina cannot be forgotten. Southern Bessarabia cannot be forgotten. The land of Hertz, Transylvania, everything that was and is the Romanian nation must return within the borders of one state."
Tarziu also stated that he was “ready to sacrifice Romania’s membership in NATO by annexing the territories of Ukraine.”
20:07 Trump called on Republicans to disrupt the agreement on border security and assistance to Ukraine, CNN reports. According to the publication, he wants to campaign precisely on these slogans in November and does not want Biden to win in this area instead of him. Senators from both parties are still trying to advance the proposal, but its fate remains uncertain.
19:26 France will provide Ukraine with 3,000 155-mm caliber shells every month, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Ivan Gavrilyuk said in an interview with NV. He clarified that these are shells for French artillery systems - self-propelled guns Caesar, TRF1. France will also transfer 40 long-range SCALP missiles to Ukraine.
16:03 The Russians fired at Mikhailovka, Berislavsky district, Kherson region - one person was wounded, the OVA reported. Another person was injured in Berislav as a result of an enemy drone strike. Over the previous 24 hours, one person was killed and two were injured as a result of Russian shelling.
14:32 The Ukrainian Armed Forces took fourth place in the list of the strongest armies in Europe, according to the Global Firepower rating. Great Britain took first place, Italy second, France third. The German army closes the top five.
13:38 An X-59 guided aircraft missile was destroyed in the Dneprovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Air Command reported.
11:09 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on a residential area in the city of Mirnograd, Donetsk region - three people were wounded, including a 15-year-old teenager, the prosecutor's office reported.
10:21 In the Kharkov region over the past 24 hours, four people were wounded as a result of Russian shelling, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the OBA. One person was wounded in Volchansk, Chuguevsky district, another in the village. Cossack Lopan, Kharkov district, two - in the village. Podol Kupyansky district.
09:16 The leader of the Hungarian far-right party Mi Hazank, Laszlo Torockai, said that “if Ukraine falls, we will demand Transcarpathia.” According to him, pressure from “international financiers” led to the war in Ukraine, and “Ukraine was bought by BlackRock,” the world’s largest investment fund. Torotskai stressed that his party stands for an end to the conflict in Ukraine - an immediate ceasefire, peace and a negotiated settlement.
09:08 The Ukrainian fleet “would happily accept” two British warships that the Royal Navy will have to decommission ahead of schedule, said Navy commander Alexey Neizhpapa in an interview with Sky News. Britain is forced to decommission warships due to a shortage of sailors to man them. The frigates HMS Argyll and the recently refurbished HMS Westminster will be decommissioned this year.
“Of course, the Navy needs warships, because we understand that without ships there is no fleet. Therefore, if such a decision is made regarding the possibility of transferring two frigates to the Ukrainian Navy, we will be happy about it,” Neizhpapa noted.
08:36 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of January 28:
personnel - about 382,110 (+740) people,
tanks - 6280 (+9),
armored combat vehicles - 11,671 (+19),
artillery systems - 9097 (+12),
MLRS - 972 (+0),
air defense systems - 660 (+0),
aircraft - 331 (+0),
helicopters - 324 (+0),
UAV of operational-tactical level - 7041 (+4),
cruise missiles - 1845 (+0),
ships/boats - 23 (+0),
submarines - 1 (+0),
automotive equipment and tank trucks - 12,103 (+31),
special equipment - 1436 (+3).
07:47 Over the past 24 hours, 79 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report. In the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 11 enemy attacks near Stepnoy, Avdeevka and another 17 attacks near Tonenky, Pervomaisky, Nevelsky, Donetsk region. In the Maryinsky direction, 14 attacks were repelled near Georgievka and Novomikhailovka, Donetsk region.
In the Kupyansk direction, seven enemy attacks were repelled near Sinkovka, Tabaevka in the Kharkov region and Stelmakhovka in the Lugansk region; on Limansky - 11 attacks near Ternov, Yampolevka, Torskoye, Donetsk region and Belogorivka, Lugansk region; in Bakhmutsky - seven attacks in the Ivanovsky and Kleshcheevka districts of the Donetsk region; on Shakhtarsky - three attacks south of Zolotaya Niva and west of Staromayorsky, Donetsk region; on Zaporozhye - one attack west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region. The expansion of the bridgehead continues in the Kherson direction; over the past 24 hours, the enemy twice unsuccessfully tried to storm the positions of the Defense Forces.
06:38 At night, air defense destroyed four of the eight Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs that Russia attacked from the south-eastern direction (Primorsko-Akhtarsk), the Air Force command reported. The enemy attacked the front-line zone with drones.
In addition, the Russian Army fired two Iskander-M missiles at the Poltava region from the Voronezh region and three S-300 missiles at the Donetsk region from the temporarily occupied territory of the region. Civilian targets and critical infrastructure facilities were attacked in the Poltava, Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
02:22 Greece agreed to the US State Department’s proposal to transfer or sell weapons to Ukraine in exchange for Washington’s assistance in the amount of $200 million, writes the Greek publication Kathimerini. According to him, Prime Minister Kyriakis Mitsotakis ordered the transfer to Ukraine of systems and equipment that are not used by the Greek army. In particular, Athens can transfer to Kyiv the Soviet air defense systems Tor, Osa, S-300, as well as Soviet-style ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft guns and shells for them.
00:49 In Russia, an engineer at the Almaz-Antey plant shot himself after the rocket he was working on killed his grandmother in Kharkov, Russian social networks write and publish a photo of a suicide note. In it, the man wrote that he could not live with the fact that the rocket to which he “had a hand” killed his grandmother in Kharkov.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kupyansk direction, units of the Zapad Group of Forces, supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, have improved the situation along the front line.
Six attacks by assault groups of 25th air assault, 32nd, 60th Mechanised, and 95th Air Assault brigades of the AFU have been repelled close to Sin'kovka (Khar'kov region), Novosyolovskoye (Lugansk People's Republic), and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 150 troops, three motor vehicles, and one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system.
In Krasny Liman direction, units of the Tsentr Group of Forces, supported by artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, have repelled three attacks by assault groups of the 13th Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard and the 44th Separate Battalion of the AFU near Chervonaya Dibrova (Lugansk People's Republic) and Yampolovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 120 troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, three motor vehicles, as well as one 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery system, and one 152mm D-20 howitzer.
In Donetsk direction, as a result of active actions by units of the Yug Group of Forces, in cooperation with artillery and heavy flamethrower systems, three attacks by assault groups of the 24th Mechanised Brigade and the 80th Air Assault Brigade of the AFU have been repelled near Shumy, Kirovo, and Georgievka (Donetsk People's Republic).
In addition, AFU 22nd, 28th, 42nd Mechanised, and 17th Tank brigades have been hit close to Krasnoye, Andreevka, Kleshcheevka, and Kurdyumovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 330 servicemen killed and wounded, one tank, two infantry fighting vehicles, four pickup trucks, one 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system, as well as one electronic warfare station.
In South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok Group of Forces, supported by artillery, have repelled one attack by an assault group of the 128th Territorial Defence Brigade near Priyutnoye (Zaporozhye region), and defeated the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade near Novomikhailovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The enemy losses were up to 80 soldiers, two armoured fighting vehicles, two motor vehicles, and one Grad MLRS combat vehicle.
In Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian Group of Forces, supported by artillery, have hit manpower of 65th, 118th Mechanised, 128th Mountain Assault, 82nd Air Assault brigades of the AFU and the 3rd Brigade of the Ukrainian National Guard close to Rabotino, Verbovoye, Nesteryanka, and Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy losses were up to 70 troops, two infantry fighting vehicles, four motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer.
In Kherson direction, as a result of fire attacks by units of the 35th Marine Brigade and the 121st Territorial Defence Brigade, the enemy losses were up to 55 Ukrainian servicemen, four motor vehicles, and one 122mm D-30 howitzer near Zolotaya Balka and Lvovo (Kherson region).
Missile Troops and Artillery, and unmanned aerial vehicles of the Russian Groups of Forces hit ammunition and fuel depots for AFU military hardware close to Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions, as well as neutralised 118 AFU artillery units at firing positions, as well as engaged manpower and hardware in 137 areas during the day.
Air defence facilities have shot down three HIMARS and Uragan multiple-launch rocket system projectiles.
In addition, 28 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles have been destroyed close to Vodyanoye, Belogorovka, Maryinka, Yampolovka, Spornoye, Peski (Donetsk People's Republic), Privolye, Novoznamenka, Shipilovka (Lugansk People's Republic), Novaya Mayachka (Kherson region), Olshana, and Gorobyevka (Kharkov region).
In total, 568 airplanes and 265 helicopters, 11,311 unmanned aerial vehicles, 456 air defence missile systems, 14,814 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 1,211 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 7,887 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 17,990 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
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[NewsFront] 23:59 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office with the JCCC from 00:00 01/28/2024 to 00:00 01/29/2024:
A total of 26 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces were recorded by the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC over the past 24 hours.
Information was received about the injury of four civilians.
DAMAGED:
One residential building.
11 artillery attacks in the Donetsk direction;
14 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction;
One artillery attack in the Yasinovat direction.
A total of 81 units of various ammunition were fired.
23:07 Front bird reports: Khar'kov region 28.01 23:00
A second explosion was reported in the eastern part of the region.
The air raid warning did not sound.
Our rocket scientists first worked out using ballistics.
21:50 Footage of the assault on the now liberated settlement Krakhmal'noye Khar'kov region -video.
21:25 In the capital of Ukraine and in 11 regions announced air raid warning, according to data from the official resource for warning the population
In the Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions, the alarm lasts for more than an hour. Now sirens have sounded in Kyiv, as well as in Vinnitsa, Zhitomir, Kyiv, Kirovograd, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Khar'kov and Cherkassy regions.
20:30 Yulia Chicherina spoke for military personnel of the Central Military District in the Northern Military District zone
Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Yulia Chicherina, together with artists from the front-line brigade of the Central Military District song and dance ensemble, performed a concert program for military personnel of assault units in the rear area of the special operation zone.
The front brigade of the Central Military District ensemble began the concert program with the song “Russian Army”. Yulia Chicherina performed compositions from the old repertoire, which became national hits, as well as new compositions written during the SVO period.
The concert program also included songs popular among military personnel, performed by Chicherina together with artists from the Central Military District.
19:49 Update of information on Tabaevka.
According to the Telegram channel “Military Chronicle”, the Russian Armed Forces are making progress in the Tabaevka area of the Khar'kov region. The situation changed at the very last moment. It is known that the advanced forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are “rolling back” approximately one km west of their lost positions.
Complete clarity on the issue of further control over Tabaevka should come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.
For Kislovka and Kotlyarovka, the information is still the same.
18:50 A civilian was wounded after a shell was dropped from a UAV on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk. This was announced by the mayor of the city, Alexey Kulemzin.
“As a result of the dropping of ammunition from an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Kirov region in the village of the Abakumov mine, a woman born in 1964 was injured,” Kulemzin wrote on the Telegram channel.
18:35 Repeated sound of explosion in Dnepropetrovsk. The sound of an explosion was reported in the southern part of the region near the industrial zone. Second time in 24 hours in this area. Local channels write about a possible ballistic missile hitting a military facility.
18:27 For the second day in a row, Novaya Kakhovka, Kherson region, is subject to a massive terrorist attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This was announced by the head of the region, Vladimir Saldo.
“Mortar artillery fire was fired throughout the city from the Right Bank. Civilians suffered in different parts of New Kakhovka. Unfortunately, today there were no casualties. One man was injured and is currently receiving medical attention. Another civilian died,” Saldo wrote on the Telegram channel.
18:18 Lancet operators in the Kurakhovsky direction continue to hit enemy tanks with surgical precision -video.
17:47 Consequences of artillery attack of the Kirovsky district of Donetsk by Ukrainian militants -photo.
16:50 Soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces repelled another counterattack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at Tsarskaya Okhota, near Avdievka.
Our assault groups are advancing, but the enemy is trying to counterattack the lost positions. The situation is dynamic. Onvideo– work of FPV drones of the “French group” with other units of the Russian Armed Forces. After practicing using FPV, the enemy has four confirmed KIAs.
16:35 Kirovograd (Kropyvnytskyi) Explosion 28.01 16:30. A powerful explosion occurred in the western part of the Kirovograd region. In all likelihood, the arrival of ballistics.
16:02 Consequences of dropping an explosive object from an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Ukrainian Armed Forces onto one of the districts of Gorlovka
15:53 They report the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the south of Avdievka. Control was established over “Skotovataya” and the control zone at “Royal Hunt” was expanded.
15:04 Explosive objects were dropped from a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone on the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, a man was wounded - DPR representative office in the JCCC.
14:47 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
The Russian Armed Forces hit ammunition and fuel warehouses for military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Dnepropetrovsk and Zaporozhye regions;
The Russian Armed Forces have improved the position along the front line in the Kupyansk direction;
The Russian Armed Forces repelled 3 attacks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Krasnolimansky direction near Yampolovka and Chervona Dibrova, the enemy lost up to 120 military personnel;
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have defeated units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Rabotino and Verbovoy, as well as Nesteryanka and Kamensky in the Zaporozhye direction;
Over the past 24 hours, the Russian Armed Forces have shot down three HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems using air defense systems, and also destroyed 28 unmanned aerial vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
14:05 Artemovsk (Bakhmutskoe direction), area of ??the settlement. Kleshcheevka. Two explosions in a row at Ukrainian Armed Forces positions. They report that our guys worked from self-propelled guns and tanks. It looks like we hit an enemy booking office.
13:59 Statement of Head of the press center of the "South" group:
Units of the “Southern” group of forces, supported by artillery fire, successfully repelled two attacks by Ukrainian Armed Forces assault groups in the areas of the settlements of Shumy and Bogdanovka, and defeated enemy personnel and equipment in the areas of Krasnoye, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Georgievka, Novomikhailovka. The enemy lost up to 250 troops wounded and killed.
Anti-tank missile systems, loitering ammunition and attack unmanned aerial vehicles hit two armored combat vehicles and three cars.
During the counter-battery fight, a 152mm self-propelled artillery mount 2S3 "Akatsiya" was destroyed.
Air defense and electronic warfare systems shot down 14 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of Sporny, Belogorivka, Kleshcheevka, Nikolaevka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as seven HIMARS and Vampire MLRS missiles.
12:50 “Front Bird” reports from the Donetsk direction:
It is reported that our artillerymen once again struck with a 152mm “barrel” at the deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlements of Druzhkovka (temporarily occupied by the Ukrainian Armed Forces) and Ivanovka.
In addition, our heavy self-propelled mortars were previously sent to the enemy as “gifts”.
12:20 From the Kupyansk area in the Khar'kov direction they report the advance of our troops:
In the area of Kislovka and Kotlyarka, the offensive continues. At night, the Ukrainian Armed Forces tried to counterattack.
Tabaevka - The Russian Armed Forces liberated this settlement, but did not enter the village itself, since it is located in a lowland. The Ukrainian Armed Forces rolled back with losses. Our guys walked around this village. Now the area around is under fire control of the Russian Armed Forces.
Soon the Russian Armed Forces may liberate another heritage point - Peschanoye. At the moment, the offensive is developing.
Berestovoe – fighting is going on.
11:44 Ukrainian mediareportthat the Russian Armed Forces managed to occupy the village of Tabaevka not far from Krakhmalnoye, taken last week, and plans to develop their success towards Peschanoye in the Kupyansky direction, the data is confirmed by ISW.
10:57 Statement of Head of the press center of the Center group:
Troops of the Center group continue to carry out combat missions during a special military operation in the Krasnolimansk direction.
The coordinated actions of motorized rifle units, supported by artillery fire and air strikes, repelled two attacks by assault groups of the 44th Infantry Battalion and the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the Torsky and Chervonodibrovo sectors.
The artillery crews of the group defeated about 140 enemy targets, including five areas of concentration of manpower, four strong points on the line of combat contact in the areas of Kirovsk and Serebryansky forestry.
During the counterbattery fight, about 80 artillery units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were exposed and suppressed.
Enemy losses per day amounted to up to 100 military personnel, two vehicles and a 152mm D-20 gun.
10:37 Frontline summary on the morning of 01/28/2024:
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to regain a number of positions west of the village of Rabotino. From Novoprokopovka and Verbovoy they are attacked by the Russian Armed Forces. Russian long-range weapons worked powerfully. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Plavny, Lobkovo, Pyatikhatki (this area may soon become active), Malye Shcherbaki and Charovny.
In the Ugledarar sector, the Russian Armed Forces attacked from Priyutnoye and with artillery support from Zolotaya Niva. No success. Russian troops shelled Ukrainian positions in Blagodatny, Urozhainy, Prechistovka and Ugledar. The Ukrainian Armed Forces fired at the Russian Armed Forces in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie and Novodonetsk.
On the Donetsk front, Russian troops, supported by artillery, stormed Novomikhailovka from the south, east and north. Georgievka - along the highway on both sides of the cascade of ponds, Pervomaiskoye - head on. Attempts to advance to Tonenkoe and Severnoye (a settlement west of Avdievka).
Russian Armed Forces are trying to take the city itself from the southeast, where they managed to break through the defenses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russian long-range weapons are working powerfully against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the fortified area behind the LBS.
Russian Armed Forces are also attacking Stepnoe (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions). After the artillery strikes, an attempt was made to advance near Novobakhmutovka, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (a settlement of the same name to the east behind the Russian Armed Forces). Ukrainian positions in Pobeda, the city of Krasnohorivka and Ocheretin are under attack. Russian ones - in Donetsk and the village of Krasnogorovka.
In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, attacked Andreevka, the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka, Ivanovskoye and Bogdanovka. There is progress in the last two sections.
09:42 The criminal Kiev regime continues to fire at the civilian infrastructure of settlements on the left bank of the Kherson region, yesterday during the day the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired from cannon artillery:
-- n.p. Novaya Kakhovka five rounds;
-- n.p. Podstepnoye four rounds;
-- n.p. Alyosha six rounds;
-- n.p. Staraya Zburevka three rounds;
-- n.p. Golaya Pristan two rounds.
During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Kazachi Lagery, n.p. Golaya Pristan, n.p. Sagi, n.p. Korsunka, firing a total of 18 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being determined.
09:35 Latest news from the Kupyansky direction (Khar'kov region):
After yesterday's serious advance, the Russian army is consolidating its positions in Krakhmalny and Tabaevka.
The enemy is trying to counterattack with serious forces along the Berestovo-Tabaevka, Kotoyarovka-Kislovka line. All counterattacks are repulsed. Our troops are regrouping and preparing to continue to build on their success.
09:27 From the Verbovoye area in the Zaporozhye direction, the “Front Bird” reports.
Early in the morning, aerial reconnaissance revealed several enemy armored vehicles heading towards forest belts - a favorite landing site for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Our guys combed the forest belt using a tree trunk.
08:58 The Russian Armed Forces launched strikes at enemy deployment points in Khar'kov, from where they were supposed to be transferred to the left bank of Oskol
“Diary of a Paratrooper” reports that in Kharkov our troops attacked enemy locations, where foreign mercenaries were also located, who were going to be transferred to the left bank of the Oskol River south of Kupyansk. The enemy is trying to strengthen the southern flank of his defense near Kupyansk in order to prevent our troops from throwing them back across the Oskol River and approaching the indicated city even closer.
08:17 At night, the Russian Armed Forces launched a series of combined attacks on enemy targets in the rear regions of Ukraine.
Drones attacked an infrastructure facility in Zaporozhye. And in the Dnepropetrovsk region, local residents reported a fire in the Novomoskovsky district.
In the Poltava region, the Kremenchug oil refinery was hit: a large fire broke out at the facility.
08:05 Statement of Head of the press center of the Vostok group:
Units of the Vostok group of troops in the South Donetsk direction repelled four attacks by assault groups of the 127th Territorial Defense Brigade in the Priyutnoye area and inflicted fire damage on the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Makarovka area.The Ukrainian Armed Forces' losses amounted to up to 115 military personnel, three vehicles, and two 152mm 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled artillery mounts.
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[Regnum] A meeting of the Supreme State Council (SSC) of the Union State of Russia and Belarus will be held in St. Petersburg with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian head Alexander Lukashenko.
The Russian leader's press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters that in addition to Putin, deputy prime ministers and government ministers from Russia would be present at the event. He clarified that at the meeting it is planned to approve the document “Main directions for the implementation of the provisions of the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State”, valid until 2026.
In addition, the meeting should sum up the implementation of a similar document, which covered the period from 2021 to 2023. On the same day, the Russian and Belarusian delegations will communicate in the format of a working lunch.
Some important decisions are also expected to be made on the further integration process in certain sectors.
As Regnum reported, in April 2023, Vladimir Putin said that the Union State (US) is the locomotive of integration processes in the Eurasian space. He also noted that the Union State of Russia and Belarus is strengthening their defense potential.
The President also announced the preparation of the SG Security Concept. Putin said that in this document both countries will focus on the development of the security system.
On January 28, Vladimir Putin called the development of relations between Russia and Belarus energetic. He added that trade turnover between the countries amounted to $42 billion and continues to grow.
Commentary by Russian military bogger Andrey Chervonets
[Chernovec] “The combined Allied forces liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945,” said European Commission President von der Leyen in a statement.
In the Western press, allies are always called the USA, Britain, Canada, etc. They refer to our Fatherland as the USSR as the USSR.
Obviously. that poor Ursulka clearly shakes at any mention of the Union.
Her moderately aristocratic family call her Röschen, but none of us are so intimate as to presume to do so.
For her, the mention of the Red Army is like a stake in the heart for a vampire.
This is not surprising. if you remember who her grandfather is. Karl Albrecht, a prominent Nazi, was responsible for increasing “the volume of production in the territories and factories under the Ministry,” namely the forced forced labor of the inhabitants of occupied Ukraine into slave labor. Therefore, for people like Ursula, the Soviet victory in World War II is a tragedy.
The most interesting thing is that these “internal organ workers” like Ursura - they know the truth very well. But their goal is to rewrite History. And this crazy Lie is crazy only for us. For their population, smoked by Goebels propaganda, this is unfortunately acceptable.
The EU is rewriting history, claiming in its appeals that the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz) concentration camp was liberated by Allied troops, wrote Glenn Diesen, a lecturer at the University of South-Eastern Norway, on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
This is how he commented on the corresponding statement of the European Commission (EC) by Ursula von der Leyen. The expert called her words bold historical revisionism.
Diesen recalled that Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army.
Earlier, the EC released a statement by Ursula von der Leyen on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Auschwitz is located in Poland, 60 km west of Krakow.
It was opened on May 20, 1940. On January 27, 1945, the camp territory was occupied by Soviet troops. Some historians believe that between 1.4 and 1.8 million people were killed at Auschwitz, most of whom were Jews.
[Yahoo] Ever since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many politicians and commentators have rued the day, back in January 1994, when Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin pressured Ukraine to dismantle its nuclear weapons. The missiles had once been controlled by the Soviet Union but were still on the soil of the newly independent Ukrainian nation. If Ukraine had held on to those nukes, some argue, Vladimir Putin might have been deterred from annexing Crimea in 2014 or invading the whole country in 2022.
In moments of pique, even Ukraine’s current president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and some of his top aides have argued that their predecessors shouldn’t have given up the nukes for that reason.
However, recently declassified documents—published Thursday by the National Security Archive, a private research group, which obtained them through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act—reveal that the argument is nonsense.
The documents—transcripts of conversations involving Clinton, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, at a historic summit on broad post–Cold War relations, held in Moscow and Kyiv exactly 30 years ago—clearly reveal these facts:
• Ukraine lacked the resources to maintain the nearly 1,700 Soviet nuclear weapons on its soil, many of them on intercontinental ballistic missiles that were nearing the end of their service lives. (My own reporting from several years ago, not reflected in these documents, indicates that Moscow retained command and control over the ICBMs, though Ukrainian officers could have fired the shorter-range nuclear missiles on their soil.)
• Kravchuk and almost all Ukrainian politicians were eager to dispose of the weapons, fearing that their nuclear cores might melt down in a manner reminiscent of the Chernobyl power-plant disaster, which had occurred in Ukraine just eight years earlier. Everyone involved—the presidents, the diplomats who spent months negotiating the precise terms, and British officials, who later signed the deal as well—viewed it as mainly a measure to promote nuclear safety and nonproliferation. The U.S. Senate had recently passed a bill—named for its sponsors, Democrat Sam Nunn and Republican Richard Lugar—to pay for the cleanup and dismantlement of nuclear weapons throughout the former Soviet Union. (The deal signed in January 1994 provided “a minimum” of $175 million to Ukraine for this purpose.) Also, the U.S. and Russia were negotiating the SALT II arms-control treaty, which would require the elimination of the SS-19 and SS-24 ICBMs inside Ukraine.
• Finally, Yeltsin forgave Ukraine mountains of debt for oil and gas that Russia had supplied, and Clinton promised to persuade the International Monetary Fund and the G7 nations to pay Ukraine’s energy imports into the future. At a meeting with Clinton, according to a memorandum of their conversation, Kravchuk said, “When we have stabilization of our currency and private investment for Ukraine, then everyone will understand that the agreement signed by the three presidents [to remove nuclear weapons from Ukraine] was the only possible step.” At a meeting with both Clinton and Yeltsin two days later, Kravchuk said, “There is no alternative to nuclear disarmament.”
The U.S.-Russia-Ukraine accord—which one of Clinton’s top aides called “the crowning achievement of the summit”—can be looked back at as a betrayal of Kyiv in one sense. Clinton and Yeltsin did promise Ukraine “full guarantees of security, as a sign of friendship and good neighborliness.” The two leaders also reaffirmed “the obligation to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state,” including Ukraine.
Later that year, at a conference in Budapest, the U.S., Russia, and Britain formalized those security assurances to Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan (the latter two former Soviet republics had also given up the nuclear weapons on their territory), in exchange for their signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Putin clearly violated this pledge when he annexed Crimea 20 years later, in 2014, and then invaded all of Ukraine eight years hence. The U.S. and Britain, while not legally obligated to come to Ukraine’s aid (other than to seek immediate assistance from the U.N. Security Council, as the Budapest Memorandum required), didn’t raise a huge stink about the incursions either. A case could be made that the relative passivity encouraged Putin to mount his all-out invasion, believing—incorrectly, it turned out—that the West would do little to stop him.
Still, it is false to contend that Ukraine would not have given up the nuclear weapons on its soil had Kravchuk or any other leader at the time known that Russia would violate its guarantee of Ukrainian borders. That pledge, though important, was more a bonus than an essential element of the accord. The nukes in Ukraine (and Belarus and Kazakhstan) were going to be removed, with the host leaders’ permission and blessing, regardless of what else was said or done.
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Poor old drunken Yeltsin never imagined that Clinton's successors would attempt to expand NATO onto the Crimean Peninsula thereby threatening Russia's security. Putin was not so naive.
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[Yahoo] Germany plans to transfer IRIS-T air defense systems and over 80 Leopard 1 A5 main battle tanks to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on the German MoDwebsite.
Germany plans to transfer to Ukraine in 2024:
● IRIS-T SLM Infrared Imaging System Tail Surface Launched Medium Range air defense systems
● Gepard anti-aircraft tanks
● 80+ Leopard 1 A5 main battle tanks
● Additional artillery systems with over 230,000 rounds
● Armored transporters
● Engineering tanks
● Bridge-laying tanks
● 450 armored vehicles
● Demining systems
● Drones
● Radar systems
● Reconnaissance systems
The German military will also train 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers at its training grounds this year.
Germany had previously announced the delivery of six multipurpose Sea King Mk41 helicopters, with spare parts, starting in the second quarter of 2024, as well as the training of pilots by that time.
Air defense is a top priority for German aid to Ukraine, Pistorius said that he is "shocked by the severity of Russia's air strikes on Ukraine since the beginning of the year."
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Now, when they were in Afganistan, I was told that the German troops were not allowed to leave the FOB's because they might get hurt.
I was seriously told that.
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