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Current information on the situation on the front line on January 21 (updated)
2025-01-22
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 18:25 RF Armed Forces in full released n.p. Nikolaevo-Daryino in the Kursk region.

The footage shows Ussuri paratroopers with the Airborne Forces flag on the street in Nikolayevo-Daryino. At the end of last year, they managed to break through to the other bank of the Snagost River, cutting off the supply line of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The village itself is a long line of houses along the road leading to the border with Ukraine. The stormtroopers of the 83rd Airborne Forces Brigade cleared all the buildings of the enemy the day before and are now advancing along the state border towards Sudzha.

The liberation of Nikolayevo-Daryino allows for reconnaissance and attacks in the rear of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sumy region.

18:08 Fighters of the special forces group "AKHMAT" knocked out Ukrainian militants from positions in the area of the bunker in the forest south of Chasov Yar.
Akhmat is a Chechen unit.
18:07 Russian military assault troops took a powerful fortification of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the children's camp building in the southeast of Chasov Yar.

18:04 RF Armed Forces occupied heights beyond Makeyevka.

18:02 Servicemen of the separate engineering and sapper battalion of the "South" group of forces demining area near liberated settlements of the DPR.

Sappers are making passages in minefields left by the enemy in the liberated territories and clearing areas of explosive objects. The work is currently being carried out on the outskirts of the settlement of Ukrainsk.

17:51 In the Khar'kov region liquidated two high-ranking representatives of Ukrainian military intelligence.

17:28 Air defense systems over Belgorod region knocked down several enemy drones.

According to preliminary information, there were no casualties, the governor said.

16:17 Military engineers of the "North" group meet this professional holiday at a combat post in the Kursk border region.

Engineering and sapper units conducted reconnaissance of field roads. Visual control was carried out by a UAV operator, who discovered an anti-tank mine of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The mine was destroyed by a charge placed remotely using a drone. Then the road was surveyed by an engineering and reconnaissance patrol.

Also, during humanitarian demining, engineers removed and destroyed a 120mm mortar shell that had hit a civilian home at the training ground.

15:55 In the period from 13:05 to 14:15 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Belgorod region.

15:38 Servicemen of the assault units of the combined arms army of the "West" group conduct engineering training sessions at a training ground in the rear area of the special operation zone.

Trainees, under the guidance of engineering training instructors, find and destroy enemy "surprises" and overcome various types of obstacles. The main objective is to gain skills and overcome fear of explosives.

15:31 Fighters transmit greetings from the liberated settlement of Volkovo, Donetsk People's Republic.

Servicemen of the "Center" group of forces continue to destroy units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, liberating the lands of the Donetsk People's Republic.

15:18 Destruction of multifunctional radar "RADA ieMHR" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine using the UAV "Lancet" in the area of the settlement of Vyvodovo in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

14:45 Servicemen of the engineering units of the "West" group of forces conducted training on the deployment of a heavy mechanized bridge TMM 3M2 in one of the rear areas of the special operation.

14:45 In the Kursk region, fighters from the 810th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade began advancing towards Guevo from the north, reports Anatoly Radov.

14:24 Calculation of FPV drones of the Rubicon center destroyed temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kupyansk direction.

14:31 Velikaya (Bolshaya) Novosyolka is being stormed from three sides

They report about the breakthrough of the enemy's defense on the eastern outskirts of the settlement. Now the Russian Armed Forces are pressing the enemy from three sides.

13:41 Between 11:00 and 11:50 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty intercepted and destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: eight UAVs over the Black Sea and over the territory of the Republic of Crimea and three UAVs over the territory of the Belgorod region.

12:45 In the area of the settlement Dneproenergiya Russian operators of FPV drones burned a T-72 tank of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

12:32 Advance near the village of Dvurechnoye from 20.01 to 21.01. Kupyansk direction.

With a swift dash they took the houses where the enemy's first line of defense was located and after that, on his shoulders, they advanced deeper, taking the entire western sector.

11:35 Russian Ministry of Defense:

In the period from 10.45 to 11.00 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed three Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the Black Sea off the coast of the Republic of Crimea.

10:37 Paratroopers of the Dnepr group of forces destroyed an enemy weapon on the right bank of the Dnieper

During aerial reconnaissance, the UAV operator identified a Ukrainian Armed Forces weapon, which the enemy was using to fire at Russian military positions. After confirming the target, the coordinates were immediately transmitted to the crew of the 152mm 2A36 Giatsint-B gun.

“During the counterbattery battle, the gun’s personnel destroyed the gun and the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ manpower on the right bank of the Dnieper with a precise hit,” reported in the Russian Ministry of Defense.

10:10 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine killed a woman in the Kursk direction because she spoke Russian

The captured militants of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confessed to carrying out a criminal order. They killed an elderly woman.

"We had an order to "zero" all Russian speakers. There was an order to kill that woman, we didn't do it ourselves. Commander "Luke" ordered it," the prisoners said.

9:15 The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces bunker, –video.

8:20 Zaporizhzhya Front. They continue positional battles. Long-range weapons are actively used on both sides. No significant changes in LBS.

Donetsk Front. Here, the offensive of Russian troops continues to develop in several directions. The Russian Armed Forces are storming Velyka Novosilka, the holding of which, apparently, has ceased to be an important task for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Ukrainian garrison is trying to leave the settlement, leaving through the "fields", since all the main escape routes are under the control of the Russian Armed Forces. To the west of Kurakhovo, Russian troops continue to put pressure on the enemy's defense, gradually cutting off the formed "pocket".

Chasovoyarsk direction. Russian troops continue to advance with battles in the urban development. There are tactical successes of the RF Armed Forces.

Kursk region. Here, Russian troops continue to put pressure on the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defense in several areas, but there is no serious progress. The Ukrainians are putting up fierce resistance, conducting counterattacks. The Ukrainian Armed Forces continue to try to bring up more reserves to the Sudzha area.

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