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| Ukrainian General Staff reports 88 enemy attacks in the Pokrovsky direction |
| 2025-01-20 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Korrespondent] Since the beginning of the day, 180 combat clashes have occurred on the front. In this direction, 150 invaders were eliminated, seven units of equipment, an armored fighting vehicle, five communications equipment were destroyed, an armored fighting vehicle, a mortar, two electronic warfare stations and equipment were damaged. The defense forces are focusing their efforts on disrupting the Russian invaders' offensive plans and exhausting their combat potential. Since the beginning of the day, 180 combat clashes have occurred. This was stated in the General Staff's report on Sunday, January 19. The enemy carried out 24 air strikes, dropping 34 KABs, used 961 kamikaze drones, and carried out more than four thousand shellings of populated areas and positions of our troops. In the Kharkov direction, Russian terrorists carried out airstrikes in the areas of the settlements of Volchansk and Volchanskie Khutor, in addition, the enemy tried three times to break through the defensive lines of our defenders near Volchansk. Thirteen times the enemy attacked our fortifications in the Kupyansk direction in the areas of Stroyevka, Peschanoye, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoy, Kutkovka, Novaya Kruglyakovka and Lozovaya. One combat clash is still ongoing. Eighteen attacks were repelled by Ukrainian soldiers near Novogorovka, Nadezhda, Novosergeevka, Pervomayskoye, Zeleny Roshcha, Makeyevka, Novosadovye, Zarechny, Kolodtsy, Zelenaya Dolina, Terny and in the Serebryanskoye forestry in the Liman direction. In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out offensive operations in the areas of Ivano-Daryevka and Verkhnekamenskoye; in total, two attacks by the invaders were repelled. In the Kramatorsk direction, our defenders repelled seven attempts by the invaders to advance forward near Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora. In the Toretsk direction, the occupiers stormed the positions of our defenders in the areas of Toretskaya, Dilievka and Shcherbinovka 19 times today. The defense forces are steadfastly holding off the pressure. The enemy is intensively attacking Ukrainian defenders in the Pokrovsk direction. During the day, the enemy has made 88 attacks. The greatest activity of Russian occupiers continues in the areas of the settlements of Zelenoye Pole, Aleksandropol, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Yelizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Zverevoye, Shevchenko, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Kotlino, Nadeyevka, Novotroitskoye, Novotroitskoye, Novotroitskoye, Andreyevka, Dachnoye, Ulakly and Yantarnoye. Our defenders are courageously holding the lines; five combat contacts are still ongoing. According to preliminary estimates, today in this direction our soldiers eliminated 150 and wounded 144 occupiers. Seven units of automobile equipment, one combat armored vehicle, 5 satellite communication facilities were destroyed, and an armored vehicle, a mortar, two portable electronic warfare stations and a unit of automobile equipment were also significantly damaged. In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks in the direction of Constantinople and Velyka Novosyolka during the day. Two combat clashes are still ongoing. The enemy carried out air strikes with KABs in the area of ​​the settlement of Novopol, dropping five guided bombs. The enemy did not carry out any active operations in the Gulyai-Polye direction. In the Orekhov direction, the Russian invaders once stormed the positions of our defenders in the direction of Novoandreyevka. They had no luck. In the Dnieper direction, two enemy assaults failed. In Kursk region, Ukrainian defenders repelled 14 attacks by the invaders. According to updated information, the enemy carried out 12 air strikes during the day, dropping 16 guided bombs, and carried out 416 artillery attacks, including six from multiple launch rocket systems. While in other areas there have been no significant changes in the situation. The General Staff recognized the Ukrainian soldiers of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel, the 79th Separate Airborne Assault Tavricheskaya Brigade, and the 37th Separate Naval Infantry Brigade, who steadfastly held back the invasion of superior enemy forces. Let us recall that on January 18, the losses of Russian troops in Ukraine amounted to 1,580 people killed and wounded. Russia's total losses since the beginning of the war have approached 820 thousand people. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Yea, but 11 is funny. |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-20 12:09 |
| #2 Well, you can't have a directionless war. That would just be two mobs chasing each other around the country. In various directions. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2025-01-20 10:06 |
| #1 88 = 8*11. The 11 directions ARE BACK! |
| Posted by: Grom the Affective 2025-01-20 02:16 |