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Current information on the situation on the front line: January 15 (updated)
2024-01-16
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:57 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC from 00:00 01/15/2024 to 00:00 01/16/2024

The DPR Representative Office in the JCCC recorded 28 armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the past 24 hours.

Information was received about a civilian being injured.

DAMAGED:
1 residential building
4 civil infrastructure facilities
7 attacks in the Donetsk direction;
19 artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction;
2 artillery attacks in the Yasinovat direction;

A total of 90 units of various ammunition were fired.

23:42 According to the operational lines of the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC for January 15, as of 23:30, additional information was received about damage as a result of artillery attack by the Air Forces of the cities of the Republic:

n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
transformer No. 2 4000 kVA at the filter station is damaged, the pumping station is de-energized.

Information about the consequences of the artillery attack continues to arrive.

22:10 Front bird reports: Yuzhnodonetsk direction. 15.01 22:00

It is reported that our units of the Vostok group of troops successfully hit several enemy armored personnel carriers.
In addition, the field ammunition depot of the 115th mechanized brigade was destroyed.

21:49 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits: about 20.30 Moscow time. An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using aircraft-type UAVs on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped.

On duty air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of the Belgorod region.

20:50 Front bird broadcasts: LPR (area of ??Svatovo, Kremennaya) 15.01 20:00

Our MI-28N night hunter helicopters are attacking enemy positions.
In addition to 30mm guns, high-precision missiles are also used.

Using Izdeliye-305 guided missiles, they systematically knock out the enemy and provide assistance to our assault infantry.

19:50 Maryinsky direction.

The enemy reports a critical situation in the village. Novomikhalovka. It is reported that our army is carrying out assaults from three directions.

It is assumed that the enemy will soon prepare to leave the settlement.

19:10 Front birdie broadcasts: Donetsk direction. Ugledar. 15.01 18:35

It is reported that in the area of the village of Ugledar, Donetsk People's Republic, our guys from the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade took out an enemy opornik and a mortar crew.

The FPV drone operators worked efficiently.

17:30 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 15.01 17:00

Local publics report that our attack drone has worked in the border areas of the Sumy region.

Explosions have also been reported.

16:22 Front bird broadcasts: Zaporozhye direction. Verbovoe. 15.01 16:05

The advance of our troops intensified again.

The assault groups of the Russian Armed Forces are gradually advancing under the cover of our artillery and mortars.

Once again, the work of attack aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces is also noticeable, in particular, Su-25 attack aircraft are hitting enemy rear positions with NURs.

15:00 Front bird broadcasts: Kharkov direction (n. Kupyansk area) 15.01 14:00

Since the morning, our cannon artillery has been actively working.

In particular, our 152mm MSTA-S self-propelled guns hit fortified enemy positions.

In addition, aerial reconnaissance is currently identifying affected targets and potential targets for future strikes.

14:10 Telegram channel “Colonelcassad": The enemy reports that at night the Russian Armed Forces seriously damaged a certain thermal power plant in eastern Ukraine with an artillery strike.

The main arrivals at night were in Kherson and in the occupied Ukrainian Armed Forces of the western part of Donbass.

13:30 Front bird broadcasts: Yuzhnodonetsk direction 14.01 12:15

It is reported that our artillerymen, together with aerial reconnaissance, covered several enemy strongholds.

The front-line attack aircraft Su-25 of the Russian Aerospace Forces is also actively helping.

The enemy tried to snap back and immediately received a portion of mortar rounds from the sky.

Several military personnel were destroyed and there are 300s.

12:10 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits: Stormtroopers improve their close combat skills in the air defense zone at unique training grounds

Military personnel of the assault units, under the guidance of experienced instructors, master the techniques of conducting tactical combat on the offensive, which showed the highest effectiveness when taking positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the battles in Mar'inka.

As part of the training conducted at unique training grounds that completely replicate the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, attack aircraft hone the skills of proper movement, covering and conducting continuous suppressive fire.

11:25 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. district settlement Krasnogorovka 15.01 11:25

The advancement of our units continues every day. Only the weather makes its own adjustments. Rain and frost hinder the movements of infantry and armored vehicles.

The guys from the spot report the destruction of the enemy's opornik (underground hole).

10:35 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the "South" group

Units of the “Southern” group of forces, supported by air strikes and artillery fire, defeated the manpower and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the areas of Andreevka, Bogdanovka, Vasilyevka, Kurdyumovka and Kleshcheevka.

In the Donetsk direction, the enemy lost over 300 troops.

Artillery, anti-tank missile systems and FPV drones hit an armored combat vehicle, two pickup trucks, an enemy stronghold and 12 dugouts.

09:55 Telegram channel «WarGonzo":

Frontline report for the morning 01/15/2024

In the Zaporozhye direction, the Russian Armed Forces continue to attack west of the village of Rabotino. The Ukrainian Armed Forces did not conduct active offensive operations.

In the Ugledarsky sector, Russian troops, after shelling, attacked west of Staromayorsky and in the direction of Prechistovka. The last of the listed settlements has new activity of the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainian positions in Ugledar are under attack. Russian ones - in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie, Novomayorsky and Pavlovka.

On the Donetsk Front, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of long-range weapons, carried out assault operations southwest of Novomikhailovka and on the approaches to the city of Krasnogorovka. Nevelskoye was also attacked. After the shelling, they launched an attack on Pervomaiskoe. An attempt to advance to Severny (a settlement west of Avdeevka).

The city itself, after artillery and air strikes, was attacked from the northeast. Russian troops, with the support of artillery, carried out offensive operations near Novobakhmutovka, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (a settlement of the same name to the east behind the Russian Armed Forces).

LBS has not changed significantly. Ukrainian positions in Pobeda, Georgievka, Stepnoe (not to be confused with the settlements of the same name in the Zaporozhye and Ugledar directions) and Ocheretina are under attack. Russian ones - in Donetsk and the village of Krasnogorovka.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with artillery support, stormed the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Andreevka, Ivanovsky, Bogdanovka and Seversk. RF Armed Forces - in Bakhmut and Yagodnoye.

09:25 Criminal Kyiv 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. Krynki 19 rounds;

-- n.p. Sagi seven rounds;

-- n.p. Alyosha seven rounds;

-- n.p. Kardashinka four rounds;

-- n.p. Novaya Mayachka three rounds;

-- n.p. Kazachi Lagery six rounds;

-- n.p. Obryvka of three rounds.

During the night, the Kiev regime continued to shell civilian infrastructure in the village. Krynki, n.p. Dnepryany, n.p. Peschanivka, n.p. Gornostaevka, n.p. Aleshki, firing a total of 24 rounds from cannon artillery.
Civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure are being clarified.

08:45 Telegram channel “Fisherman":

Chronicle of a special military operation
for January 14, 2024

Today, the Russian Armed Forces did not carry out massive strikes on targets in the so-called territory. Ukraine, limiting itself only to the defeat of enemy positions in the front-line regions.

In the Seversky direction, Russian troops made a breakthrough near the village of Veseloye. If local heights are captured, the Russian Armed Forces will have the opportunity to improve their position at Razdolvka. In the Artemovsky (Bakhmutsky) direction, fighting continued near Bogdanovka with the aim of creating a corridor to Chasov Yar.

Despite the general decline in the pace of offensive operations in the Avdeevsky direction, Russian troops are fighting on the northern flank of the fortified area in the direction of Ocheretino, as well as near Stepovoy. At the same time, in the southwestern sector everything is limited to local clashes near Pervomaisky and along the entire line of contact.

08:10 Most resonant cases of armed attacks by the UFU for the period from January 8 to January 15:

January 11 - Kuibyshevsky district of Donetsk - artillery attack with JROF HEF 122mm missiles (damaging elements - 9100 balls) made in Slovakia - 6 civilians were injured, damage to 22 addresses;

January 12 - Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka - double attack by UAVs - first on power workers, and then on doctors who came to help the wounded - two dead women (a medic and a power engineer), 8 wounded (three power workers, three ambulance workers and two local residents );

January 13 - Kirovsky district of Donetsk - again a paramedic was dropped from a UAV onto an ambulance that came to the aid of a woman wounded as a result of artillery attack - the ambulance driver was injured.

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