Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 21.38 In the military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in pursuance of the decision of the Commander-in-Chief, a comprehensive group of the General Staff has begun work; today it is working in the 156th separate mechanized brigade. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff on Sunday, January 19.
19:33 Ukrainian defenders have repelled an attempt by the Russian army to storm their positions in the Toretsk direction under cover of bad weather. The corresponding video was released by the 28th separate mechanized brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign on Sunday, January 19.
18.07 Since the beginning of the day, 125 combat clashes have occurred on the front. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines and destroying the plans of the Russians. This was noted in the General Staff report on Sunday, January 19.
14:39 Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky issued an order banning the transfer of highly qualified specialists from the Air Force to the infantry. At the same time, the current mobilization rates do not cover the army's needs. He said this in an interview with military journalist Andrey Tsaplienko.
13:02 Russian aggressors have used almost 1,300 air attack weapons against Ukraine this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky reported. The defense forces shot down 33 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and 311 attack drones. Another 136 drones failed to reach their targets.
12:41 Law enforcement officers conducted a special operation to expose illegal arms sales in four regions of Ukraine and detained 15 dealers. Among the items seized from the criminals were Russian Kalashnikov assault rifles with an Ognishche underbarrel grenade launcher, a batch of fragmentation grenades and explosives.
12:20 Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with Chief of the Canadian Defense Staff General Jenny Carignan. He outlined the areas in which our country needs increased supplies: air defense systems, heavy armored vehicles, and certain types of ammunition.
11:00 Law enforcement officers have exposed the activities of fraudsters from the Cherkasy region who implemented a scheme to appropriate donations for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the National Police. It has now been established that the perpetrators managed to appropriate more than UAH 2.5 million.
10:32 In Kiev, a lawyer recruited agents for the Russian military intelligence (better known as the GRU), and also defended already exposed enemy henchmen in court. He also passed on information to the Russians about SBU employees who were listed in criminal proceedings and exposed traitors. The perpetrator has been detained, the SBU reported .
9:51 On Sunday night, Russia attacked Ukraine with dozens of drones from
three directions. Most of them were destroyed by air defense. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the results of the combat operations.
9:35 In Dnipro, law enforcement officers exposed officials and doctors of the military medical commission of one of the RTCK and other medical institutions of the city, who falsified the results of blood tests for HIV. Such manipulations allowed "sick" men to be removed from military registration and leave Ukraine without hindrance.
9:10 Over the past 24 hours, 199 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. Almost half of them are in the Pokrovsk direction. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the details in the morning report.
8:50 A Kherson resident lost his leg at a bus stop. The 59-year-old man stepped on a "petal" anti-personnel mine. As a result of the detonation, he received an explosive injury and a traumatic amputation of the foot.
8:25 On Sunday night, Russian aggressors attacked the Nikopol district four times with artillery, Grad MLRS and kamikaze drones. An industrial enterprise and an administrative building were damaged in Nikopol. The inspection of the attacked areas continues. Fortunately, there were no casualties anywhere.
8:00 Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops in Ukraine have lost 1,580 people killed and wounded. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its morning report on Sunday. Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian troops have destroyed more than 150 units of Russian equipment, including eight tanks, 18 armored vehicles, and 15 artillery systems.
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.
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[Korrespondent] Almost half of the clashes took place in the Pokrovsky direction.
The enemy remains highly active in the Pokrovsky direction. There, Russian troops have already attacked the Ukrainian Armed Forces positions 62 times.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 125 combat clashes on the front. Our defenders are stopping the enemy, holding the lines and ruining the plans of the Russians. This was stated in the General Staff report on Sunday, January 19.
During these days, the enemy from the territory of the Russian Federation carried out artillery shelling of the areas of the settlements of Progress, Romanovka, Grabovskoye, Pokrovka in the Sumy region; Lemesheno in the Kharkov region; Leonovka, Medvedevka, Berilovka in the Chernihiv region. The settlements of Aleksandrivka in the Sumy region and Gremyach in the Chernihiv region were subjected to airstrikes with unguided air missiles.
In the Kharkov direction, with the support of attack aircraft, the enemy twice unsuccessfully attacked the positions of the Defense Forces near the settlement of Volchansk, and also carried out an airstrike in the area of the settlement of Volchanskie Khutor.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy attempted to advance towards our positions in the areas of Stroyevka, Peschanoye, Kolesnikovka, Zagryzovoye and Lozovaya seven times during the day; four attacks were successfully repelled, and three more clashes are ongoing.
In the Limansky direction, 14 armed clashes occurred near Novoegorovka, Nadezhda, Novosergeevka, Novosadovoye, Zarechny, Kolodtsy, Zelenaya Dolina, Terny and in Serebryanskoye forestry. Seven armed clashes are still ongoing.
In the Seversky direction, the enemy carried out offensive operations in the areas of Ivano-Daryevka and Verkhnekamenskoye; both attacks were successfully repelled by our defenders.
In the Kramatorsk direction, the enemy attacked seven times in the area of Chasovy Yar and Belaya Gora, and five combat clashes are currently ongoing.
In the Toretsk direction, the invaders attacked 17 times in the areas of Toretsk, Dilievka and Shcherbinovka. Eleven attacks were successfully repelled by our defenders, six combat clashes are still ongoing.
The enemy remains highly active in the Pokrovsk direction . Today, clashes of varying intensity have broken out 62 times near the settlements of Zelenoye Pole, Aleksandropol, Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Yelizavetovka, Mirolyubovka, Promin, Lisovka, Mirnograd, Pokrovsk, Zverevo, Shevchenko, Udachnoye, Uspenovka, Kotlino, Nadeyevka, Novotroetskoye, Novoandreyevka, Slavyanka, Petrovpavlovka, Andreyevka, Dachnoye, Ulakly and Yantarnoye, fifteen clashes are still ongoing.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the aggressor attacked 12 times in the areas of Constantinople and Velikaya Novosyolka, currently four combat clashes are ongoing. The enemy launched an air strike with unguided missiles on Novopolye.
The enemy did not conduct any active operations in the Gulyai-Polye, Orekhov and Dnieper directions .
In the Kursk direction, Ukrainian defenders are repelling one attack by the invaders; in total, four combat clashes have already been recorded. The enemy carried out two air strikes with two guided bombs on populated areas and positions of the Defense Forces. In addition, it carried out 196 artillery attacks, including five from multiple launch rocket systems.
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.
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[EngMilRu] The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the special military operation.
In Kharkov direction, the Sever Group of Forces inflicted fire damage on formations of the national guard brigade and foreign mercenaries close to Volchansk and Malye Prokhody (Kharkov region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 35 troops, three field artillery guns, and a depot of materiel.
The Zapad Group of Forces captured more advantageous lines and positions, inflicted losses on manpower and hardware of four mechanised brigades, a jaeger brigade, a mountain assault brigade, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defence brigade, and a national guard brigade close to Petropavlovka, Novoosinovo, Glushkovka, Borovskaya Andreyevka, Zapadnoye, Zelyony Gai, Zagryzovo (Kharkov region), Novoyegorovka, Kolodezi, and Terny (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to more than 430 troops, a tank, three infantry fighting vehicles including a U.S.-made Bradley IFV, two U.S.-made M-113 armoured personnel carriers, three pickup trucks, seven field artillery guns, three of them were NATO-made.
One Kvertus electronic warfare station and one artillery ammunition depot were neutralised.
The Yug Group of Forces units improved tactical situation and defeated units of two mechanised brigades and a motorised infantry brigade close to Minkovka, Markovo, Verolyubovka, Chervonoye, Chasov Yar, Podolskoye, and Alekseyevo-Druzhovka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 195 troops, a U.S.-made HMMWV armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.
One motorised infantry brigade command post, one electronic warfare station, and four ammunition depots were destroyed.
As a result of active offensive actions, the Tsentr Group liberated Vozdvizhenka (Donetsk People's Republic).
Russian units hit manpower and materiel of seven mechanised brigades, a motorised infantry brigade of the AFU, and an assault brigade of Ukrainian national police near Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Solenoye, Ukrainka, Novovasilyevka, Shevchenko, Novoyelizavetovka, Lysovka, Peschanoye, and Slavyanka (Donetsk People's Republic).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 535 troops, two US-made M-113 APCs, and a Finnish-made Pasi armoured personnel carrier, four armoured fighting vehicles, 10 motor vehicles, and five artillery guns.
The Vostok Group of Forces continued advancing to the depths of the enemy's defence, defeated units of four mechanised brigades of the AFU, a naval infantry brigade, three territorial defence brigades, and a national guard brigade near Dneproenergiya, Razliv, Velikaya Novoselka, Otradnoye, Novopol of the Donetsk People's Republic, and Temirovka (Zaporozhye region).
The AFU losses amounted to up to 135 troops, a tank, an armoured fighting vehicle, a motor vehicle, and a Polish-made 155mm Krab self-propelled artillery system.
The Dnepr Group of Forces engaged manpower and hardware of three coastal defence brigades, a mechanised brigade of the AFU, and a territorial defence brigade close to Stanislav, Zmeyevka, Yantarnoye, Tokarevka, Antonovka, Kazatskoye (Kherson region), and Kamenskoye (Zaporozhye region).
The enemy lost more than 75 troops, an armoured fighting vehicle, five motor vehicles, and two electronic warfare stations.
Two depots storing ammunition and materiel were neutralised.
Operational-Tactical Aviation, attack unmanned aerial vehicles, and Missile Troops and Artillery of the Russian Groups of Forces have engaged the infrastructure of military airfields, clusters of enemy manpower and hardware in 143 areas during the day.
Russian air defence systems shot down three U.S.-made HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 66 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 652 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 40,792 unmanned aerial vehicles, 590 anti-aircraft missile systems, 20,674 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,510 MLRS combat vehicles, 20,800 field artillery guns and mortars, and 30,481 units of support military vehicles have been neutralised.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue the operation to neutralise an enemy group, which broke into the territory of Kursk region.
The Sever Group of Forces engaged formations of a tank brigade, a heavy mechanised brigade, four mechanised brigades, two air assault brigades, a naval infantry brigade, and three territorial defence brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine close to Bondarevka, Guyevo, Lebedevka, Malaya Loknya, Makhnovka, Nikolayevo-Daryino, Nikolsky, Novaya Sorochina, Sverdlikovo, and Sudzha. Two enemy counter-attacks were repelled.
Operational-Tactical and Army aviation, and artillery strikes engaged AFU manpower and hardware near Viktorovka, Vladimirovka, Zaoleshenka, Kositsa, Kruglenkoye, Kubatkin, Kurilovka, Lebedevka, Loknya, Martynovka, Melovoy, Oleshnya, Cherkasskoye Porechnoye, Yuzhny as well as Basovka, Belovody, Veselovka, Zhuravka, and Yunakovka in Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, the AFU lost more than 210 troops, an infantry fighting vehicle, five armoured fighting vehicles, six motor vehicles, an artillery gun, and a mortar.
Since the beginning of hostilities in Kursk region, the AFU losses amounted to more than 52,870 troops, 304 tanks, 232 infantry fighting vehicles, 174 armoured personnel carriers, 1,572 armoured fighting vehicles, 1,508 motor vehicles, 377 artillery guns, 44 MLRS launchers, including 13 of HIMARS and six of MLRS made by the USA, 16 anti-aircraft missile launchers, eight transport-loading vehicles, 93 EW stations, 13 counter-battery warfare radars, four air defence radars, 30 units of engineering and other materiel, including 13 counterobstacle vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearing vehicle, eight armoured recovery vehicles, and one command post vehicle.
The operation to neutralise the AFU units is in progress.
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[NewsFront] 23:58 Official summary of the Office for Documentation of War Crimes of Ukraine from 00:00 01/19/2025 to 00:00 01/20/2025.
A total of 17 facts of armed attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
There were no reports of civilian injuries.
DAMAGED:
residential building.
A total of 17 armed attacks in the Gorlovka direction.
A total of 48 units of various ammunition were fired.
20:04 Drone drivers demonstrate the art of precision dropping.
In the Kurakhovsky direction, at one of the strongholds, a dugout with Ukrainian servicemen who were trying to hide from a Russian drone in their positions was discovered and destroyed.
In the Seversky direction, at night, a Ukrainian Armed Forces vehicle was successfully destroyed, delivering personnel for rotation at positions.
19:55 Russian Armed Forces advance near Velikaya Novoselka –MAP.
19:03 Around 17.20 Moscow time by air defense systems on duty destroyed Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle over the territory of Kursk region.
17:33 Successful ramming of enemy "Baba Yaga". Combat drone crews of the "North" group of forces around the clockon dutyin the sky over the Khar'kov region and detect enemy attack drones. Objective control means recorded the destruction of another unmanned aerial vehicle "Baba Yaga" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
16:54 "Lancet" worked right on target in Sumy region.
A crew of the Lancet loitering munition from the North force group destroyed a US-made 155mm Paladin self-propelled artillery unit.
16:19 Defeat of the deployment point of the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces using a heavy flamethrower system in the Kursk direction –MAP.
15:53 Bradley was shot down in Novoivanovka, Kursk region –MAP.
15:27 Russian Ministry of Defense:
From 12.40 to 13.10 Moscow time, air defense systems on duty destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: three over the territory of the Belgorod region and one over the territory of the Kursk region
. 15:09 In the Pokrovsk direction, there are approximately six kilometers left in a straight line to the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, if you move from the settlements of Udachnoye and Uspenovka. And to the M-30 highway, which connects Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk) with Dnipropetrovsk, there are approximately five kilometers -MAP.
14:33 Russian Ministry of Defense:
FPV drone calculations at Rubicon Center destroyed a vehicle with Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel in the border area of Kursk Oblast.
13:42 Russian troops released Vozdvizhenka
The settlement is located on the right flank of the Pokrovsk direction, and its liberation increased the chances of building a bridgehead to reach the Pokrovsk-Konstantinovka highway. When this section of the highway is cut off, the supply of the Ukrainian Armed Forces garrison in Chasovy Yar will be significantly complicated.
The main assault backbone in this direction previously established control over the strategically important T-0504 and Shakhovo-Timofeyevka road junction, which significantly worsened the enemy's logistics between Krasnoarmeysk and Konstantinovka. Fire contact is also recorded in the area of the infrastructure of the Ukrainian Bacon meat processing plant.
13:21 Another piece of bad news for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and good news for the Russian Armed Forces: Chasov Yar gradually is being squeezed. The 200th Motorized Rifle Brigade appears to be finishing cleaning up the western part of the city in the area of the private sector.
13:09 In the Kupyansk direction, in the area of the settlement of Novoosinovo, a 122mm self-propelled howitzer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces 2S1 Gvozdika was destroyed by a Lancet loitering munition –MAP.
12:11 Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the liberation of the settlement of Vozdvizhenka in the DPR as a result of active offensive actions by the Center group.
10:56 Several KABs arrived in Grishino, less than seven km remain to the Dnepropetrovsk region.
08:12 Russian Ministry of Defense:
During the past night, air defense systems on duty destroyed two Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of the Bryansk and Belgorod regions.
05:01 Tankers of the "Center" are dismantling Ukrainian Armed Forces strongholds in the Krasnoarmeysk direction Operators of unmanned aerial vehicles of the "Center" group of forces identified enemy firing points. The tankers, having received the target coordinates, went to the firing position and destroyed the Ukrainian Armed Forces stronghold. The fire was adjusted by the UAV operators of the group.
03:50 Minor advance of the Russian Armed Forces south of Novoandreyevka in the Pokrovsky direction –MAP.
03:11 The Russian Armed Forces have advanced in the Zelenovka-Yantarnoye area in the Kurakhovsky direction –MAP.
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