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Current information on the situation on the front line: January 26 (updated)
2024-01-27
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the DPR Representative Office with the JCCC from 00:00 01/26/2024 to 00:00 01/27/2024

A total of 15 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 a civilian being injured.

Damaged: one residential building.
Eight attacks in the Donetsk direction;
Seven artillery attacks in the Gorlovka direction;
A total of 42 units of various ammunition were fired.

22:00 Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forcesapplied13 group strikes with long-range precision weapons and UAVs on Ukrainian military-industrial complex facilities that produced unmanned boats, ammunition, missiles and components for them.

In addition, arsenals, military airfield infrastructure, fuel depots and temporary deployment points for foreign mercenaries were hit.

The target of the strikes has been achieved. All designated targets were hit.

Within a week, 35 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered, of which 16 were in the Krasnolimansk direction.

Aviation and air defense systems shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in a week, destroyed six Storm Shadow cruise missiles, four Tochka-U tactical missiles, 28 missiles from the HIMARS and Vampire multiple launch rocket systems, as well as 361 unmanned aerial vehicles. aircraft.

20:45 Kupyansk direction

Gradually, our army begins to intensify offensive operations in the Kupyansk direction.

Over the past 24 hours, the Russian army has finally managed to gain a foothold in Sin'kovka; the enemy is trying to counterattack unsuccessfully. Ours are moving forward. The enemy confirms the partial loss of the aftereffect.

To the south, after preparing the flanks, the Russian army began the assault Quotes the assault on the village is underway

20:00 Front bird broadcasts: Sumy region 26.01 20:00

There is information that tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is identifying enemy positions for high-precision strikes.
The sound of an explosion was reported.

19:30 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. 26.01 18:35

It is reported that once again the assault units of the Russian Armed Forces are flushing out the enemy from their positions using the entire range of weapons.

This afternoon we processed the identified enemy points using AGS and 82mm. mortar.

18:30 Gauleiterof Avdievka confirms that our army took all supply routes of the enemy group under fire control.

Supplying the enemy group is significantly more complicated. It is reported that supply routes are being attacked by fvp drones, including UFABs.

17:40 Front bird broadcasts: Avdeevskoe direction. District settlement Step 26.01 17:35

The work of our brave tactical aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces is reported.

Su-25 "Grach" attack aircraft struck with unguided missiles without entering the enemy's air defense coverage area.

16:55 Front bird broadcasts: Yuzhnodonetsk direction. n.p. Staromayorskoe 26.01 16:35

It is reported that our operators of the Fagot ATGM inflicted fire on the command and observation post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Keep it up!

Respect to our fighters from the mobile group of tank destroyers from the West group of forces.

15:55 Front bird broadcasts: Donetsk direction. Ugledar. 26.01 15:30

It is reported that in the area of the village of Ugledar, Donetsk People's Republic, our fighters from the 39th Motorized Rifle Brigade repelled an attack by an enemy drg.

15:15 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits: in the Lugansk direction, army aviation crews on Ka-52M helicopters carried out an attack with unguided aircraft missiles on enemy strongholds and manpower.

14:30 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits: “We are pressing the enemy”

We publish footage of the training and combat work of snipers of the “Southern” group of troops.

The sniper unit of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division demonstrates outstanding results in killing personnel of Ukrainian Armed Forces units. The military personnel took part in the battles to liberate several large settlements on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Currently, snipers of this unit have killed about 500 Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel. Targets are destroyed at a distance of 150 meters to 2 kilometers.

14:00 Front bird broadcasts: Donetsk direction. (Novomikhailovka settlement) 26.01 13:30

The effective work of our 300mm BM-30 Smerch MLRS in the Novomikhailovka region, DPR is reported.

Rocket artillery crews worked at a distance of more than 50 km.

The blow fell on Ukrainian Armed Forces units from the 79th Air Assault and the 128th.

13:00 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the Vostok group

Units of the Vostok group of troops continue to carry out combat missions in the South Donetsk direction.

Bomber aircraft strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems hit temporary deployment points, strongholds and places of accumulation of manpower of the 31st Mechanized and 79th Air Assault brigades in the areas of Konstantinovka and Novomikhailovka, destroyed four temporary deployment points, three unmanned control points aircraft and a truck with ammunition.

During the day, four attempts by the enemy to reinforce forward positions in the areas of Staromayorsky and Ravnopol were thwarted.

The group’s artillery, Lancet loitering ammunition and FPV drones destroyed a T-64 tank in the Ravnopol area, two infantry fighting vehicles in the Novoivanovka area, a 122mm 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount and a 152mm Giatsint-B howitzer in the Zolotaya Niva and Vremevka areas.

The enemy also lost the Strela-10 air defense system, an electronic warfare station, four Leleka-type unmanned aerial vehicles and up to 130 military personnel.

12:35 Telegram channel “Colonelcassad”: Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman: Captivity is the only opportunity to stay alive

Ukrainian serviceman Vladimir Lotnitsky, who surrendered, spoke about the low training of personnel in the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the lack of modern military equipment.

“Our small arms are at the level of the Soviet Union - that is, there is nothing new there. I consider those promised by Bradley to be my grandmother’s story,” the serviceman admitted.

Lotnitsky explained that he surrendered because he “wanted to live.” He spoke about the respectful attitude towards prisoners on the part of Russian soldiers.

“They made me some tea, let me change my shoes, change my clothes, fed me, washed me, cleaned me up, rewound it. Where were our commanders? We were the only ones here,” he added.

11:45 Russian Ministry of Defense transmits Statement by the head of the press center of the Center group

Units of the Center group of troops continue to carry out combat missions during a special military operation in the Krasnolimansk direction.

During the day, about 170 enemy targets were hit in the group’s area of responsibility, including three strong points, three areas where equipment was concentrated, field artillery positions, areas where manpower and firepower were concentrated.

Air defense systems shot down three unmanned aerial vehicles near the village of Kremennaya, Lugansk People's Republic.

In the areas of the Torsky and Chervonodibrovo sections, artillery fire and air strikes defeated the assault groups of the 117th Territorial Defense Regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Enemy losses amounted to 270 military personnel. Two tanks, two infantry fighting vehicles, eight armored combat vehicles and 20 vehicles were destroyed.

11:00 Front bird broadcasts: Khar'kov direction (n. Kupyansk area) 26.01 10:40

Since the morning, our cannon artillery has been actively working.
In particular, our 152mm 2S5 MSTA-S self-propelled guns worked on fortified enemy positions.

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

10:00 Army aviation crews on Ka-52M helicopters hit unguided aircraft missiles against enemy strongholds and manpower in the Donetsk direction.

08:39 Frontline report for the morning of 01/26/2024

In the Kherson-Crimean direction, the Russian Armed Forces, with the support of artillery and aviation, attacked Ukrainian units in Krynki and forced them to withdraw from a number of positions in the village.

Russian long-range weapons operated against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson, Sadovoy, Tyaginka, Lvov, Berislav, Novoberislav, Zmeevka, Krasny Mayak, Respublikanets and Kachkarovka.

The artillery attack zone on the right bank expanded significantly to the north.

We won’t speculate, but perhaps one of the warring parties will try to cross the Dnieper. And this is related to the intensification of the work of long-range weapons of the Russian Armed Forces. Ukrainian artillery fired at Russian positions in Aleshki, Poyma, Peschanivka and Kazachi Lagery.

In the Ugledarsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces, after artillery shelling, attacked at Staromayorsky and Zolotaya Niva. No success. Under attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Poltavka, Rovnopol, Prechistovka and Ugledar. RF Armed Forces - in Priyutny, Zavetny Zhelanie, Novodonetsk and Novomayorsky.

On the Donetsk front, Russian troops managed to advance at Novomikhailovka and Georgievka. The attacks at Nevelskoye and Pervomaiskoye were unsuccessful. But in Avdievka they made a breakthrough on the south-eastern outskirts of the city. There is a danger for Russian assault units, as we wrote about earlier. The breakthrough along the front is too narrow at a significant depth.

In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian Armed Forces carried out assault operations on the heights north-west of Kleshcheevka, from Khromovoy to Ivanovskoye and in the Bogdanovka area. LBS without significant changes.

03:00 Explosions in Kherson

02:52 Reports of ballistic missile launches from Crimea

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