“During the past day, 109 combat clashes were recorded on the front”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
“In the operating area in Kurshchyna, the units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled 27 attacks of Russian invaders. In addition, the enemy caused 35 aviation strikes with the use of 46 managed bombs, and also made 380 artillery shelling of positions of our troops and settlements, in particular ten – from rocket launchers, ”the command says.
According to the headquarters, in the Toretsky direction the Russian army carried out 21 attacks near the Toretsk, Dachny, Crimean and Diliyivka.
“In the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 18 offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of Elizabeth, Ray, Sand, Kotlino, Kotlyarivka, Sergiyivka, Bogdanivka and Andriyivka,” – said in the message.
Yesterday, the enemy struck the positions of Ukrainian units and settlements of three missile strokes with the use of four missiles, as well as 85 aircraft, in particular, dropped 121 cabins. In addition, he made more than four thousand shelling, 144 of them-from rocket launchers, and attracted 2547 drones-Kamikadze to defeat.
The Russian Federation also advanced on Kharkiv, Kupyansk, Lyman, Kramatorsk, Novopavlovsky, Gulyaypil and Orikhiv directions.
Over the course of several months, the largest number of attacks of Russian troops has been recorded in the Pokrovsky direction, but in recent days the Russian army has increased the offensive in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine launched an operation in the Kursk region on August 6 last year, occupying more than 1 thousand square kilometers. Then, with the help of the DPRK troops, the Russian army was able to repel part of the territory.
In November, Reuters, citing a high -ranking Ukrainian military source, which operates at the General Staff of Ukraine, reported that Ukraine lost more than 40% of the territory in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation through Russian counterattacks, which it seized during the fighting in August. According to the source, Russia has launched about 59 thousand soldiers in the Kursk region.
But, as reported by analysts of the American Institute of War, Ukrainian troops reported in early January, Ukrainian troops resumed offensive operations at least three directions within the Ukrainian speech in the Kursk region of Russia and achieved tactical advancement on January 5.