[NewsFront] 20:45 Russian Ministry of Defense:
Russian Aerospace Forcesthey cutenemy supply routes by striking the bridge in Constantinople
The Russian Aerospace Forces' aviation destroyed a reinforced concrete bridge near the settlement of Konstantinopol (west of the city of Kurakhovo) with strikes from three FAB-500 aerial bombs, making it difficult to deliver ammunition and rotate personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces units.
19:40 Operators of combat drones with a system for dropping ammunition from the North group of troops hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Khar'kov region, –video.
18:42 Soldiers of the 150th Motorized Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Russian Armed Forces successfully blew up a dugout with Ukrainian soldiers, –video.
17:49 Servicemen of the Sever group destroyed a Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle and its landing force with a Lancet loitering munition in the border area of the Kursk region, –video.
16:55 Krasnoarmeyskoye direction: fighters of the "Center" are destroying enemy positions, –video.
During combat operations, FPV drone crews of the Atlant battalion of the 35th Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Center group of forces destroyed a Leopard tank made in Germany, as well as a stronghold of Ukrainian militants. After that, the assault units cleared the dugouts and continued their advance.
15:25 Airborne unmanned aircraft units have identified a concentration of Ukrainian infantry in a forest. Having received the target coordinates, a 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS crew fired a precise salvo at the designated square, destroying the enemy infantry, –video.
15:03 An FPV drone crew destroyed a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle, –video.
11:55 Russian Army begins storming the last defensive nodes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Toretsk – the mines on the outskirts.
10:49 Crews of 152mm 2S5 self-propelled guns "Giatsint-S" of the Guards combined arms army of the "West" group destroyed camouflaged positions, artillery guns, automatic grenade launcher crews and Ukrainian Armed Forces manpower.
9:26 Telegram channel «WarGonzo»:
Frontline report for the morning of 16.01.2025:
Zaporizhzhya Front. No significant changes in LBS. Long-range weapons are actively working on both sides.
Donetsk Front. In the area of Velyka Novosilka, Russian troops will continue to expand their zone of control in several areas. Fighting continues in the area of Novy Komar and Neskuchnoye. West of Kurakhovo, the Russian Armed Forces continue to improve their positions and seek to inflict fire damage on the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison, which has found itself in a "pocket".
Also, the Russian Armed Forces are putting pressure on the defense of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of Dachnoye. Fierce fighting continues in the Pokrovsk direction. Russian troops are advancing on a broad front, getting closer and closer to the city, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are actively defending themselves.
Particularly many problems are caused by the drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, on which a large part of the Ukrainian defense is built. In Dzerzhinsk, the Russian Armed Forces continue to push the Ukrainian garrison to the outskirts of the city, but it is too early to talk about its imminent liberation, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have enough forces and means for further defense.
Chasovoyarsk direction. It is reported that the Severny microdistrict has come under the control of Russian troops, but there have been no confirmations from the ground yet. Fighting continues on the territory of the refractory plant, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are putting up serious resistance and trying to carry out counterattacks.
8:17 During the past night, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed. 27 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.
A total of 15 UAVs were destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region, seven over the territory of the Voronezh region, three over the territory of the Tambov region and two over the territory of the Kursk region.
8:05 Mi-28NM crew as part of a mixed tactical group hit Ukrainian troops, preventing the rotation of Ukrainian Armed Forces units in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
During the combat sortie, the pilots destroyed armored vehicles and concentrations of enemy manpower.
0:28 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
In response to strikes from Ukrainian territory deep into Russian territory by US-made ATACMS long-range missiles and British-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles, as well as an attempt to attack the Russkaya compressor station in the settlement of Gai-Kodzor (Krasnodar Krai) with the aim of disrupting the supply of gas through the Turkish Stream pipeline, on the morning of January 15 of this year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision weapons against critically important gas and energy infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.One of the successfully hit targets was the ground infrastructure of the largest underground gas storage facility in the city of Stryi in the Lviv region.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to constantly monitor the situation and any provocations by the Kyiv regime will not go unanswered.