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[LB] Over the past day, the occupiers launched 31 missiles and 12 airstrikes, as well as striking UAVs.
by Iryna Lysohor
312 days of large-scale Russian invasion began. Over the past 24 hours, the enemy launched 31 missile and 12 air strikes and launched more than 70 salvo missile strikes.
The civil infrastructure of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhya, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions was affected. Information on civilian casualties is being clarified, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a statement .
In addition, the enemy launched 13 Iranian Shahed-136 attack UAVs. All of them were destroyed by the Defense Forces of Ukraine. The threat of enemy air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.
Over the past day, our soldiers repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Ploshanka and Bilogorivka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Ozaryanivka, Maryinka and Pobyeda in the Donetsk region.
The situation is stable in the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk and Slobozhansk directions, the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas, but no signs of the formation of offensive groups have been detected.
On the Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions , the areas of Buchka and Yasna Polyana settlements of Chernihiv region were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling; Novovasylivka, Vyntorivka, Ulanovka, Studenok, Khodine, Girky, Iskryskivshchyna, Krasnopillya in Sumy Oblast and Udy, Strelecha, Alisivka, Krasne, Staritsa, Gatyshche, Vovchansk, Ternova and Katerynivka in Kharkiv Oblast.
In the Kupyansk direction , Lozova Persha, Zapadne, Masyutivka, Tokarivka, Kupyansk and Orlyanske in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka and Andriivka in the Luhansk region were shelled.
In the Lymansky direction , Ploshanka, Makiivka, Nevske, and Dibrova in the Luhansk region and Chervonpopivka, Terny, and Torske in the Donetsk region came under fire. In the Bakhmutsky direction, the enemy fired tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery at the positions of our troops in the areas of more than 25 settlements . Among them are Spirne, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk and New York in Donetsk region.
Vesele, Avdiivka , Nevelske, Maryinka, Krasnohorivka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region were affected by fire in the Avdiiv region .
In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the enemy does not stop shelling Vremivka, Velika Novosilka, Prechistivka, Vugledar and Mykilske in Donetsk region.
In the Zaporozhye direction , the fire of the occupiers was recorded in more than 20 settlements. Among them are Olhivske, Gulyaipole, Stepove, Charivne and Dorozhnyanka of the Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Kherson area, the Russian occupiers continue to terrorize the civilian population. The civilian infrastructure of Antonivka, Tokarivka, Mykolaivka and Kherson was damaged by shelling.
The enemy continues to lose manpower. During the last week, only about 350 wounded servicemen of the invaders were delivered to the city hospital of Bilovodsk, Luhansk region.
On December 30 of last year, in the Zaporizhzhia region, enemy losses amounted to 160 wounded occupiers, 10 units of military equipment of various types were destroyed. Information about eliminated invaders is currently being clarified.
The enemy intensified counterintelligence measures in the area of Lyman Drujy settlement of Kharkiv region. Conducts search for pro-Ukrainian population. Aviation of the Defense Forces struck the area of the enemy's concentration, as well as the position of its anti-aircraft missile complex, and our rocket launchers and gunners hit the control post, four areas of concentration of manpower, as well as the control post of the occupying UAVs.
We will remind you that on New Year's Eve, the Russian army conducted another massive air attack. 32 aerial targets were shot down over Kyiv .
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[Korrespondent] 23:33 Ukrainian and Russian telegram channels report that on the night of January 1, a blow was struck on the building of a vocational school in Makeevka, where there were about 600 Russian soldiers.
22:12 Zelensky, in an evening video message, said that the Russians were afraid: "Russian terrorists, as miserable as they were, have entered this year. Our sense of unity, authenticity, life itself - this is all in such contrast with the fear that reigned in Russia. They are afraid. You can feel it. And they are right to be afraid. Because they are losing. Drones, missiles, everything else will not help them. Because we are together. And they are perhaps together with fear."
21:01 As a result of enemy rocket attacks on December 31, the buildings of the Exhibition Campus of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv were significantly damaged, the Kyiv National University reported.
19:33 The enemy continues to attempt offensive operations in the Bakhmut and is trying to improve the tactical position of his troops in the Kupyansky, Limansky and Avdeevsky directions. In the Novopavlovsk and Zaporozhye directions, the enemy is defending itself, and in the Kherson direction, it is regrouping troops, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in an evening summary .
In the Kherson region, in order to destabilize the humanitarian situation and force the local population to “voluntary evacuation,” Oleshki, Golyaya Pristan, Plavni, as well as summer cottages between these settlements, are shelled from mortars. Mobilization measures continue in Crimea. The military commissariats have begun checking the lists of people who have not yet participated in a large-scale invasion of Ukraine and are subject to conscription for mobilization in 2023.
17:14 In 2022, 1,596 people were returned from enemy captivity, the Ministry of Reintegration reported. In particular, 1,464 servicemen and 132 civilians were released from captivity. The exchanges of prisoners were carried out by the joint efforts of the Office of the President, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Reintegration.
16:58 The war in Ukraine will not end soon, and the West must be ready for long-term support for Kiev, Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC: "We must be ready for a long journey, because, as you noticed, Russia does not intend to give up its main goal - establishing control over Ukraine".
The NATO Secretary General also urged not to be deceived by the success of the Ukrainian counter-offensives, as Russian troops are preparing to continue the war and for a possible attempt at a new offensive. "We must provide Ukraine with support. Including military support, because this is the only way to convince Russia to sit down at the negotiating table and recognize Ukraine as a sovereign, independent state in Europe," Stoltenberg said.
16:36 More than 20,000 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have already been trained abroad, Oleksiy Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff, said in an interview with Ukrinform. The training of the Ukrainian military is carried out in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, as well as by US forces in Germany. In addition, with the help of partners, professional training of narrow specialists is carried out - sappers, combat medics, advanced aviation and artillery gunners, divers, reconnaissance officers, and sergeants. More than 10,000 people have undergone such training in European countries during the year.
15:11 At the beginning of 2023, Russia may change the tactics of operations at the front, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, said. According to him, the training of the mobilized is currently being completed, and soon the new forces will be ready for combat use.
"What do we expect? Firstly, this is the pulling up of the reserves of Russian troops to our borders. The introduction of new units into our territory and the introduction of part of the units of territorial troops. And we are already seeing this in the Kherson region. This is a continuation of offensive operations in certain areas and main targets "The goal of the enemy will still be the complete capture of the Donetsk region and the retention of the temporarily occupied territories, which are now under the control of the Russian Federation. And what we predict is a change in the tactics of Russia's actions on the battlefield," Skibitsky added.
14:47 The Armed Forces of Ukraine are actively advancing in the south and have already achieved certain results. There is positive news from the front, but so far they cannot be voiced, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. According to her, the work of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already forced the invaders to redeploy.
14:25 On December 31, for the first time since the start of a full-scale invasion, Russians used rocket carriers in the Caspian Sea to attack Ukraine, Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden, said. According to her, this indicates that it is increasingly difficult for the enemy to deliver their missiles to the Black Sea.
13:58 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that yesterday's shelling of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine allegedly thwarted "Kyiv's plans to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia in the near future." According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the strike was carried out "on the objects of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine involved in the manufacture of attack drones", and "storage sites and places for launching strike UAVs" were also allegedly hit.
13:15 DTEK reported that on December 31, a missile attack was carried out on one of the company's thermal power plants, the equipment of the enterprise was damaged.
12:07 In Kherson, as a result of night shelling, one person was killed, one was wounded. The buildings of the regional children's hospital were damaged, the President's Office reported.
11:39 Ukrainian air defense specialists perfectly mastered NASAMS air defense systems, which on the night of January 1 destroyed enemy drones, Air Force speaker Yuriy Ignat said: “Our military barely had time to reload NASAMS. , no one has: during the battle, reload the complex and destroy air targets. This suggests that we simply don’t have enough of them ... We have missiles, but we need more air defense systems themselves. "
11:31 Ukrenergo head Volodymyr Kudrytsky admits the possibility of a blackout in Ukraine as a result of Russian missile attacks, but assesses it as low: "I believe that we have already gone through the worst with these missile attacks, I really hope so. The dynamics of these attacks and the effect of attack shows that the Russians have less and less ability to damage our power grid."
11:28 In Khmelnitsky, one of the wounded during yesterday's rocket attack died, said the head of the OVA, Serhiy Gamaly.
11:13 On New Year's Eve, the energy system of Ukraine was already subjected to the 13th massive attack. Ukrenergo assured that power engineers are doing everything possible to ensure that the New Year holidays are with electricity without restrictions. Additional volumes of electricity for household consumers were provided due to the conscious behavior of Ukrainian business and restrictions on the work of the industry.
10:51 Russia's missile reserves are still left for two or three massive attacks on Ukraine, Budanov said: "They have already used fewer missiles than in previous waves. This means that they clearly understand that the numbers that I am now voicing to you are this is absolutely true. They need to reduce the number in order to maintain at least some imitation of the intensity of rocket attacks. "
According to Budanov, the invaders are constantly increasing the intervals between rocket attacks. Moreover, the enemy reduces the number of missiles in one volley. The head of the GUR also said that today the Russians have about 150 missiles left. "Under very favorable conditions, Russians can produce a total of up to 50 X-101 and Caliber missiles per month. That is, Russians need to work one and a half to two months for one missile attack on Ukraine," he added.
09:53 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) believes that limited ammunition will partially prevent Russian troops from maintaining a high pace of operations in the Bakhmut area and in other areas in the short term. And reports that the Russians have already run out of ammunition in Belarus is another indicator that a resumption of a large-scale Russian offensive from Belarus is unlikely in the coming months, analysts say.
09:49 Since January 1, Sweden has assumed the position of the country-chairman of the Council of the EU. Among the priorities for this year in Stockholm were security, sustainable development, the transition to green energy, democratic values, as well as support for Ukraine. Sweden has pledged to prioritize economic and military assistance to Kyiv, as well as to support Ukraine on its way to the EU.
09:36 On December 31, the Russians attacked the residential sector of Nikolaev with six Iskander-type missiles, the head of the OVA, Vitaly Kim, said.
09:27 The enemy attacked the Kiev region with Iranian drones at night, aiming at energy infrastructure facilities. About 30 drones were launched across the region. There were no casualties, but there was damage to the infrastructure facility, said OVA head Aleksey Kuleba.
09:23 Andrey Nebytov, the head of the police of the Kiev region, showed a photo of the downed drone with "congratulations" from the Russians:
09:15 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 1. The enemy suffered the greatest losses in the Liman and Bakhmut directions.
personnel - about 106,720 (+760) people liquidated,
tanks - 3031 (+2),
armored fighting vehicles - 6084 (+9),
artillery systems - 2021 (+5),
MLRS - 423 (+0),
air defense systems - 213 (+0),
aircraft - 283 (+0),
helicopters - 269 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1792 (+46),
cruise missiles - 723 (+12),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4720 (+13),
special equipment - 181 (+1).
08:48 At night, Russians attacked Ukraine with Shahed-131/136 Iranian kamikaze drones. The air defense forces destroyed 45 strike UAVs, the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
07:50 Over the past day, the enemy launched 31 missile and 12 air strikes and made more than 70 attacks from the MLRS. The civilian infrastructure of the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kiev, Khmelnytsky, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev and Kherson regions suffered, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the morning summary . In addition, the enemy launched 13 Shahed-136 Iranian strike UAVs, all of which were destroyed.
Over the past day, the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka, Ploshchanka and Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Bakhmut, Ozaryanovka, Maryinka and Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
06:29 According to analysts at the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Putin's New Year's address, which he recorded surrounded by the military, indicates that the Russian president is not confident in his ability to shape the Russian information space and is still focused on justifying war and its cost to its people.
The ISW drew attention to the fact that the head of the Kremlin said not only that Russia has historical rights to Ukraine, but also that the independence and sovereignty of Russia depend on the restoration of control over Ukraine. By doing so, Putin is trying to make victory in the war necessary for the continued existence of Russia as an independent state.
04:32 During the night attack on Kiev, according to preliminary information, 32 enemy air targets were shot down, the KGVA reported. In the Dnieper region, fragments of a rocket fell on the roadway, no one was injured.
01:37 Klitschko reported explosions in Goloseevsky and Shevchenkovsky districts of the capital. In Shevchenkovsky, a fragment of a rocket fell on a car, there were no victims or injured.
00:58 As a result of an enemy strike on a critical infrastructure facility in Kherson, the city center, the KhBK microdistrict, Belozerka, Kamyshany and other villages were left without power, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
00:06 Zelensky, in his New Year's greetings, wished victory to all Ukrainians: "And this is the main thing. One wish for all Ukrainians. Let this year be the year of return. Return of our people. Warriors to their families. Prisoners to their homes. IDPs to their "Ukraine. The return of our lands. And the temporarily occupied will become forever free. Return to ordinary life. To happy moments without a curfew. To earthly joys without air alarms. Return of what was stolen from us. The childhood of our children, the calm old age of our parents."
Prigozhin is shown inspecting the damage. Russians claim it is a hospital but video shows rooms empty of any medical equipment. Looks like ex-hospital cleared out to make way for Wagner barracks/HQ.
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Dale, it is no longer 2022. The initiative is no longer with Russian forces. The 500-600 Russian casualty estimates are from Russian sources, either local or bloggers. Photos of half dressed Russian dead spilled out from trucks onto Makiivka roads are on the net. I won't post it here.
To give you an idea of the size of the blast, this woman from Makiivka thinks the MLRS blasts are fireworks. Then the stored ammo explodes.
Every last one (600-700 reported) in that campus building is either dead or wounded. The Russian government has already admitted 63 dead. The Ukrainian government claims 400 dead, 300 wounded.
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Their morale was non existent to begin with. Every Russian soldier who sees another Russian soldier dead thinks "I want to go home." Every Ukrainian who sees his neighbors dead thinks "I am home. It's win or die."
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Girkin on Makiivka incident - hundreds of victims, many still under the rubble. The building where they were housed also contained an ammunition cache and vehicle storage, which is why the strike was so deadly.
In addition, was it a division headquarters? Would explain the initial reports of high ranking officers.
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Russian milbloggers say ~600 men mobiks were in the building. Rybar says a regiment HQ was there. All of them are casualties. The dead/wounded ratio is known to the Russians by now. Anyone not pulled out of the rubble by now is gone.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 18:30 In Ukraine, they reported that during the year 1,596 prisoners were returned by exchange (of which 132 were civilians). It is worth noting that as of May 2022, about 8-9 thousand people were in Russian captivity. 18:20 Gauleiter of the Khmelnytsky region: The Russian army hit a military facility yesterday.
Head of the Khmelnytsky OVA Sergey Gamalydeclaredthat during a missile strike a military facility in the city of Khmelnitsky was hit. Damaged equipment, there is a hit in the gas station.
17:40 An air alert has been declared in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
17:19 A trio of mobile heavy snipers from Yarny lead Fire a tandem of two ASVK and one Mannlicher.
17:10 Soldiers of the Western Military District and Pskov paratroopers cut several attacks by Kyiv on the eve of the New Year in the Kremensky direction in the Donbass. A RIA Novosti correspondent watched how Russian soldiers were preparing to defend this area.
16:15 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (01.01.2023)
15:45 An air raid alert has been announced in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk regions and in the districts of the Kherson region controlled by Kyiv.
15:19 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
On December 31, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a strike with high-precision weapons at the facilities of the Ukrainian defense industry, which manufacture attack drones;
During the strike on December 31, storage sites and launch sites for attack drones of Ukraine were hit;
The Russian Armed Forces, with a blow on December 31, thwarted Kyiv's plans to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia in the near future;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones in a day, including in the Crimea and the Belgorod region;
In the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Armed Forces repelled counterattack attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed over 110 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 150 people in the LPR and the Serebryansky forest area as a result of Russian artillery fire;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk sector;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a mobile radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar in the DPR;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a warehouse of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region;
In the DPR, two Polish Krab self-propelled howitzers were destroyed, from which Donetsk was shelled;
A Russian fighter jet shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR.
14:00 Another fallen in Kyiv debris from AIM-120 missiles fired from NASAMS air defense systems at Geran-2 kamikaze drones.
Ukrainian channels rushed to pass off this fragment as an Iranian ballistic missile, but forgot to hide the inscription “LIFT HERE” on it, which is typical for the Western AIM-120.
13:03 Spot work of tankers of the RF Armed Forces from closed firing positions at the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
12:10 The police of the Kyiv region showed frames with the remnants of the Geranium drone that attacked at night. On the tail - congratulations on the New Year.
10:58 I was in Khmelnitsky destroyed the point of permanent deployment of the 8th regiment of the MTR of Ukraine. Information on the wounded and killed is being specified.
10:05 The Ministry of Defense showed frames the work of the mobilized gunners of the Western Military District to destroy the enemy from 152mm guns "Hyacinth-B".
02:15 Explosions are heard in Kyiv, according to preliminary information, the air defense system (air defense) is working, said the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Oleksiy Kuleba in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, an air alert was announced throughout Ukraine.
01:39 An air raid alert has been announced throughout Ukraine.
01:07 Pilots of the Su-24 bomber PMC "Wagner" also work on New Year's Eve. All tasks will be completed.
0:58 An air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region, four MLRS shells were shot down - the authorities of the Belgorod region.
0:24 An air raid alert sounds in the Poltava, Cherkasy, Kharkiv and Kirovohrad regions of Ukraine. A little earlier, it sounded for the second time in a day in the south and east of Ukraine and in the parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions controlled by Kyiv.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 18:30 In the DPR, over the past 24 hours, a lot of civilian objects in different settlements have come under fire from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, acting head of the republic, said.
He also reported on the prevention on January 1, thanks to the air defense system, of many hits by rounds fired by Ukrainian troops at the DPR.
The increase in shelling of the republic during the New Year holidays was expected, this is standard practice for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, the acting head of the DPR, told us.
18:15 Evening summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on January 1, 2023.
17:54 Servicemen of the RF Armed Forces destroyed in the Lisichansk direction, the positions of Ukrainian nationalists.
17:40 Ukrainian troops fired on Gorlovka, Yasinovataya and Mayorsk, using 155mm NATO artillery, the Donetsk People's Republic representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
17:30 Drone operators of the 3rd Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade work on enemy infantry in the Gorlovsky direction.
17:14 Artillery of the RF Armed Forces in Artyomovs kdestroye dpositions of Ukrainian nationalists.
16:48 Terrible frames, taken by RT correspondent Kostya Prydybaylo 40 minutes after the shelling of the city hospital in Pervomaisk (LPR) by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
At the time of the shooting, most of the patients and staff had already been evacuated, but the bodies of the dead remained under the rubble. Six people became victims.
“Three strikes on the hospital means that you really wanted to kill as many as possible. We kill [the enemy] at the front, and they are here, in the rear,” said Yevgeny Prigozhin, who arrived at the medical facility almost immediately after the attack.
16:22 Consequences of rocket attack on Vasilyevka in Zaporozhye.
On New Year's Eve, at about 22:30, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck, presumably from HIMARS, on residential buildings. There are no military installations nearby. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but windows were shattered in several apartments by the blast.
16:20 The DPR JCCC recorded shelling from the AFU in the following directions:
- Donetsk (Kuibyshevsky district): six rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
– n.p. Gorlovka (TsGR and Nikitovsky districts): 12 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
- Donetsk (Kirovskiy district): 13 rounds of 152mm caliber were fired;
- Donetsk (Kyiv region): nine rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
– n.p. Makeevka (Chervonogvardeisky district): five rounds of 155mm caliber were fired.
16:12 Energodar is under fire from militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.
“Explosions of Ukrainian rounds are recorded near the industrial zone and the ZNPP. The strikes are carried out using heavy weapons, including NATO-style artillery," Rogov said.
15:42 Ukrainian militants are shelling the center of Gorlovka.
15:40 Shelling was recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine: - 12.40 a.m. Svatovo LPR with the use of MLRS HIMARS (five missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
15:19 Ukrainian troops at 14.55 fired 10 NATO-caliber rounds of 155mm at Makiivka, the DPR reported.
15:10 Under the aimed fire of the VFU, the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova and Mayorsk (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
14:54 A Ukrainian Mi-8 was shot down near Poltavka in the DPR - Russian Defense Ministry
14:50 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 1, 2023, additional information was received about damage as a result of shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Makeevka:
Chervonogvardeisky district: - st. Savchenko, 28 - a private residential building.
Kirovsky district:
- damage to the Cheremshina store was fixed;
- st. Fadeeva, 52 - a private residential building.
Central city area:
- Damage to the building of the Palace of Children's and Youth Creativity was recorded.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
14:30 Ukrainian troops at 13.55 fired eight rounds of "NATO" caliber of 155mm in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported.
14:15 APU inflicted missile strike from the MLRS M142 HIMARS on the hospital in Pervomaisk.
14:05 Ukrainian troops shelled four cities of the DPR, including Donetsk, in 20 minutes, firing a total of 37 rounds of the "NATO" caliber of 155mm, the representative office of the Donetsk People's Republic in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine (JCCC) reported .
“Ryby were recorded from the side of the armed formations of Ukraine in the following directions:
13.00 (coincides with Moscow time) - the settlement of Dachnoye - the settlement of Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district): eight rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
13.00 - settlement Tonenkoye - settlement Yasinovataya: 10 rounds of 155mm caliber were fired;
13.10 - Tonenkoye settlement - Makeevka settlement (Chervonogvardeisky district): four rounds of 155mm caliber were fired," the mission’s telegram channel says.
13:59 Ukrainian militants inflicted blow in Donetsk on New Year's Eve.
On New Year's Eve, Donetsk was subjected to massive shelling by Ukrainian militants. As a result of the strike with the use of MLRS, many residential buildings, shops, the library named after A. Krupskaya, Donetsk Polytechnic College and Industrial Automation College.
13:29 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yasinovataya, one person was killed, two more civilians were injured.
13:12 In Artemovsk:
Russian paratroopers are attacking with the task of destroying and defeating the enemy defenses at strongholds and blocking Artemovsk from all sides.
At night, the enemy's DRGs were liquidated to the west of the settlement. Bakhmut. PMC "Wagner" destroyed the counterattacking opponents in Andreevka.
13:02 Artillerymen of the 1st Slavic Brigade destroy enemy strongholds.
Artillery of the People's Militia of the DPR inflicts fire damage on the enemy, destroying the fortified areas of Ukrainian nationalists. The fire is carried out from null guns with a caliber of 152mm.
13:05 Consequences of shelling of the city of Pervomaisk (LPR) by armed formations of Ukraine
As a result of the shelling of N. p. Pervomaisk, using the American MLRS M142 HIMARS (the enemy fired six missiles of the M31 and M30A1 GMLRS types), six civilians were injured, and the building of the Central City Hospital was destroyed.
12:20 Ukrainian troops again fired at Donetsk and Makiivka, firing eight rounds in three minutes, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukraine's War Crimes reported.
12:43 Consequences of morning shelling of the Nazis in the center of Donetsk. The enemy at 04:00 in the morning fired 25 each 122mm rockets from the Czech-made MLRS into the city.
Every day in the capital of the DPR more and more destruction from the terrorist attacks of Ukraine. The once flourishing city is simply being destroyed by chaotic, senseless strikes on civilian infrastructure.
12:10 After the Ukrainian strike on Pervomaisk, hundreds of people had to be evacuated from the local hospital,toldreporters a representative of the hospital in neighboring Perevalsk.
12:05 Additional information on civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic was received on the operational lines of the DPR JCCC on January 1, 2023:
n.p. Yasinovataya:
- in the 55th quarter, 3 a man born in 1995 was killed, a woman born in 1972 was injured.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Petrovsky district: - st. Fighting, 47 - a private residential building.
Kyiv district: - st. Kotsiubinsky, 81 - a private residential building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
11:58 Over the past day, the DPR Representative Office in the JCCC reported 67 facts of firing by the AFU.
In the Donetsk direction, the enemy made 44 artillery strikes from 155.. and 152mm artillery.
On Yasinovatsky artillery attacks from artillery 155mm and 152mm. On Gorlovsky 18 shellings from artillery 155mm and 122mm. Having fired 378 units of various ammunition.
Areas of five settlements of the Republic were under enemy fire: the capital city of Donetsk (Voroshilovsky, Kyiv, Kuibyshevsky, Petrovsky and Kirovsky districts), Golmovsky, Gorlovka, Yasinovataya, Makeevka.
Over the past day, information was received about the wounding of five civilians in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk and the previously liberated Vladimirovka. Three housing constructions were damaged in Kievsky and Petrovsky districts of Donetsk.
In the previous day, 49 artillery attacks were recorded from the side of the VFU.
11:46 Ukrainian troops again fired at Donetsk and Makeevka, also hitting the village of Golmovsky near Gorlovka, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
11:45 Photographs- damaged as a result of night shelling of the village of the mine named after. N. A. Izotova (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka) from VFU.
11:20 The infrastructure of the Zuevskaya TPP was damaged by shelling from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Additional information has been received about damage as a result of the shelling of the cities of the Republic by the AFU,” the JCCC reported on the damage on January 1. “In the village of Zugres, the infrastructure of the Zuevskaya TPP was damaged.”
11:05 Afternoon summary of Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on January 1, 2022.
11:02 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in Yasinovataya, a man was killed, a woman was wounded.
10:25 Front-line summary for the morning of 01/01/2023:
On New Year's Eve, the opposing sides decided to take a relative tactical pause. In the Kherson direction, Russian troops traditionally launched an artillery strike on the regional center. And rocket - according to Nikolaev. The Armed Forces of Ukraine “kept silent”.
In the Zaporozhye direction, the Ukrainian army has already fired missiles at Tokmak. Russian troops on the ground tried to advance in the Dorozhnyanka area.
Street fighting continues in Maryinka. Also, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, with persistence, but without much success, are again trying to move towards Nevelskoye, Pervomaisky and from the side of Experienced. They also took another offensive action in the area of Kamenka. They want to bypass the fortified area of ??the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Avdievka from the north and establish control over a section of the H-20 highway.
To the south of Bakhmut, PMC "Wagner" is trying to break through the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Kurdyumovka and Ozaryanovka. It also attacks Kleshcheevka and tries to regain positions on the eastern outskirts of the city itself. To the south of Soledar PMC "Wagner" attacks Bakhmutskoe again. And to the north, it seeks to advance from Yakovlevka and the local Belogorovka.
In the northern direction, the Russian army attacks to the east of the city. To Rozdolovka and Controversial.
10:05 As a result of Ukrainian armed aggression, a fence and a gas pipe were damaged on the territory of the Michurinsky penal colony (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka).
09:53 According to the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for January 1, 2023, information was received about victims among civilians in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district):
- on the street. Gorky, 152 wounded guy born in 2002, girl born in 2003
- on the street. Gorky, 156, a woman born in 1975 was wounded.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the VFU cities of the Republic:
Donetsk:
Voroshilovsky district:
- the glazing of the Donetsk Republican Scientific Library named after I.I. N.K. Krupskaya;
- a direct hit on the building of the Donetsk Republican Regional Art Museum was recorded;
- a direct hit on the building of the Donetsk College of Industrial Automation was recorded;
- the glazing in the building of the Government House was damaged;
- st. Gorky, 152, 156, 159 - direct hits in apartment buildings;
- st. Gorky, 161 - apartment building;
- st. Artema, 90, 127 - direct hits in apartment buildings;
- st. Artema, 90 "in" - an apartment building; cars were also damaged;
- st. Chelyuskintsev, 139 - apartment building;
- blvd. Shevchenko, 4 - apartment building;
- blvd. Pushkina, 32 - administrative building;
- blvd. Pushkina, 31 - apartment building;
- on the street. Artem damaged the restaurant "Buffet".
Kuibyshevsky district: - damage to the warehouse of the LLC Liga Opt enterprise was recorded.
n.p. Gorlovka (Nikitovsky district):
- damage to the infrastructure of the Michurinsky penal colony was recorded;
- st. Yakub Kolas, 26, 32, 37, 39, 41, 47 - private residential buildings.
A total of 24 transformer substations are de-energized. A total of 3,127 subscribers are without power supply, 11 boiler houses are disconnected.
n.p. Zugres damaged the infrastructure of the Zuevskaya TPP.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
08:46 Result of shelling of VFU in Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, three people were injured.
08:07 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 01/01/2023
08:05 Over the past 24 hours, from 08.00 on December 31 to 08.00 on January 1, as a result of shelling of the VFU (armed formations of Ukraine - ed.) Eight civilians were injured on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.
07:42 On the fragments of rockets found on the roadway after shelling Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, - marking in Latin. Rescuers with lanterns examine the upper floors of residential buildings, according to preliminary data, the pipeline is broken.
07:34 Consequences of shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk.
06:38 Three people were injured as a result of the shelling of Donetsk by Ukrainian troops, the mayor of the city Oleksiy Kulemzin said in his Telegram channel.
"As a result of the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district, a three-month-old boy, a girl born in 2003 and a woman born in 1975 were injured," the mayor wrote.
06:32 Donetsk Mayor Oleksiy Kulemzin reported on his Telegram channel about a fire in the water canal area as a result of shelling of the city by Ukrainian troops.
"On the territory of the Kuibyshev region at 21.23 and 4.10 ... a total of seven rounds with a caliber of 155mm were sent. Eyewitnesses report a fire in the water utility area," he wrote.
06:15 There were five or seven explosions, on the third they realized what had hit the house.” Residents of Artem Street, Voroshilovsky District, Donetsk told how they came under Ukrainian shelling.
A residential building on neighboring Gorky Street was also damaged: balconies on one of the floors were destroyed, windows were broken. Video: RIA Novosti.
05:50 Consequences of night shelling of the center of Donetsk - residential buildings, the roadway, shops were damaged.
05:37 Ukrainian militants fired three HIMARS MLRS missiles at the village of Rubizhne in the Luhansk People's Republic, the LPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
05:23 Ukrainian troops fired two HIMARS missiles at the village of Chmyrovka in the Starobelsky district of the Luhansk People's Republic, the LPR office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reports.
04:11 Ukrainian troops fired 25 MLRS rockets at the Kyiv and Voroshilovsky regions of Donetsk and six more 155mm rounds at the Kirov region, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
03:27 More than 15 people were injured in Makiivka as a result of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
02:30 Ukrainian troops continued shelling of Donetsk and Makeyevka, the DPR representative office in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to Ukraine's War Crimes reported.
According to the representative office, during the attack on the Kyiv district of Donetsk at 01.42, Ukraine fired three rounds with a caliber of 155mm. In addition, at 01.00 she attacked Makeevka (five rounds of the same caliber).
01:29 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for December 31, additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic:
n.p. Makeevka: Central City District:
- blvd. Gorbachev, 32/131 - apartment building.
Gornyatsky district: - st. Likhachev, 69 - apartment building.
Information about the consequences of shelling continues to arrive.
01:20 11th Regiment of the DPR on New Year's Evebeatson the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction. Video 18+ contains obscene language.
0:35 Russian artillery in these minutes in the Donetsk direction is shelling positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from rockets.
0:30 The situation on the fronts for the past day:
Svatovo-Kremennoe direction. The Russian Aerospace Forces with precision strikes destroyed three points of temporary deployment in the areas of Krasny Liman and Chervonaya Dibrova of the DPR.
Ugledar direction. The Russian army liberated the village of Dorozhnyanka, Zaporozhye region.
The fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces chalked up two Ukrainian Mi-8s shot down in the areas of Novovasilyevka and the Novoenomichesky DPR.
0:25 Ukrainian troops fired at Makiivka from MLRS five minutes after the attack on Donetsk, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
0:20 After midnight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked Donetsk from the MLRS, firing eight rounds, the DPR representative office in the JCCC reported.
0:10 Exactly at 00:00 Moscow time, Russian artillery on the Donetsk front worked hard on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] Regarding the pretentious crap spread since yesterday about the fact that "PMC Wagner broke through the defense and entered Artemovsk."
1. PMC "Wagner" did not break through any defense. PMC "Wagner" pushes through the enemy's defenses in Opytnoye, on the outskirts of Kleshcheevka, near Podgorodny. There are no significant breakthroughs, taking into account the saturation of the enemy's reserves of the front line, there are no - there is a pushing and grinding. This is the essence of the battles going on there.
2. In Artemovsk "after breaking through the defense" PMC "Wagner" could not go in any way, because PMC "Wagner" has been sitting in Artemovsk since the end of summer, first in the industrial zone on Patrice Lumumba Street, and then in houses on the southeastern outskirts Artemovsk, where we went in December. So we entered Artemovsk a long time ago.
3. Our troops as a whole have the operational initiative in the Artyomovsky direction, but the time has not yet come to throw caps into the air.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin/74216
Video from the Artyomovsky direction (last night Prigozhin drove along the front there)
The Russian Ministry of Defense has introduced and has already begun to award a new medal - "Participant in a special military operation." The medal belongs to the departmental and assigns the status of the participant of the SVO to the awarded.
It can also be given to civilians.
The front side of the medal depicts the Order of the Red Star (existed since 1930) - a Soviet award that was highly respected. The Order of the Red Star was awarded for great merits in the defense of the country, for ensuring state security, both in wartime and in peacetime.
The medal clearly indicates the continuity of the award - and rightly so, the connection between generations must be maintained.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edted.
Most of the following commentary by Russian military correspondent Alexander Kharchenko.
[ColonelCassad] Military commissar Alexander Kharchenko tells how he and Sergei Shilov miraculously survived getting into a bind while on the front lines.
As you already understood, we got into a trouble ( https://t.me/bayraktar1070/630 ). Yes, they themselves, unwillingly, were at the forefront for almost 10 days.
Everything started normally. We went at night with a group of scouts to one of the hottest places on the front. There are no whole houses there, so the only shelters are basements. That is where the opposing sides are hiding. We got not the most comfortable "apartments." Mud sloshed underfoot, and water oozed from the ceiling.
The battle began in the morning. Our guys went ahead and were able to occupy several cellars. It looks something like this: assault groups covertly accumulate in the nearest shelters, and on command go on the attack. Then several hours of close range rifle fire at short distances, grenades flying into the chimneys of the cellars. By the end of the day, several points come under our control.
All actions of the parties are controlled by quadrocopters. The sky is crowded and collisions often occur. It is impossible to imagine modern conflict without drones.
By the end of the second day, the Ukrainians decided to avenge their losses and significantly increased the number of shelling. Our shelter was bombed five times a day. We spent about five shells per raid. It is an indescribable feeling when clods of dirt fall loudly on the roof of the basement from a close gap. We just had to be baptized. Our basement would not have survived a direct hit by 155mm shells.
Unfortunately for us, a new batch of copters was brought to the enemy, and now several “birds” were on duty in the air day and night. Any movement was detected and worked out on it. They attacked heavily. As soon as we ran into one of the buildings in order to discuss the evacuation, we were hit by a tank. Our guide was shell-shocked, but we escaped with a slight fright.
We did not want to look for death on the surface, so we decided to stay in the basement until the end and go out with the boys. Night fell and the command was given to move to the evacuation point. We gathered a small group and rushed out of this hell.
We did not know then that from the very beginning we were led by a quadcopter with a thermal imager. We reached the targeted intersection and were immediately surrounded by 120 mines. Three pieces exploded 30 meters from us. Each time they hit closer, so we decided to run in short dashes. A leap forward, then you hear an “exit” and fall into the greasy Donbass mud.
I preferred to find the deepest rut. On the one hand, it hides most of your body, on the other hand, it is always filled with water. Several times I literally swam in this December sludge. In total, we did this fitness for 1.5 hours. The enemy managed to change 3 birds. During the shift change, we managed to crawl to cover and the enemy lost sight of us. Not finding us, the Ukrainians began to bomb the basement from which we came out. One 120th mine hit the roof exactly, but by a lucky chance did not explode. This is such a divine act. The end of December can now rightfully be considered one of the days of our birth with Sergey.
I will write an analysis on the situation on this sector of the front later. Sergey will publish a story, where he will reveal in detail the characters of our escorts, and in general will describe our adventures artistically.
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