On January 3, Ukrainian rocket and artillery forces attacked two Russian command posts, five military and equipment concentration areas, an ammunition depot, and a UAV control point.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces Chief of Staff said this in a Facebook post, Ukrinform reports.
“In the last 24 hours, the enemy launched 7 missile attacks, 18 airstrikes and 85 using multiple rocket launch systems against civilian infrastructure, especially in the cities of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Zaporizhia and Kherson. It has carried out more than one attack, with civilian casualties, and the threat of enemy air and missile strikes across Ukraine remains,” the report said.
According to the Chief of the General Staff, the aggressors are concentrating their forces on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut region and trying to improve the tactical position of their troops in the Kupiansk, Raiman and Avdiuk regions. The enemy defends in his Novopavlivka, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson directions.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian Armed Forces units have repelled enemy attacks from outside the settlements of Stelmakhivka and Bilokhoryvka in the Luhansk region, and Soledar, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Maiorsk, Marinka, Novomikhailyvka, Pobieda and Krasnokhoryvka in the Donetsk region. Did.
In the direction of Volyn, Polissia, Sivershchyna and Slobozhanshchyna, the situation has not changed much as the enemy maintains a military presence in the border areas. No signs of attack group formation have been recorded. Russian troops shelled the settlements of Karpovich, Leonivka, and Flemyach in the Chernihiv region, Romashkove, Rozhković in the Sumy region, Strilecha, Krasne, Zelene, Ternova, Staritsia, Okhiltseve, Vovchansk and Ambarne in the Kharkiv region.
More than 15 settlements in the Kupiansk and Rayman regions were affected by the fire, including Novomlinsk, Dvorichna, Kupiansk, Kotrialyvka, Tabaiuka in the Kharkiv region, Makyivka, Ploshchanka and Dybrowa in the Luhansk region.
In the Bakhmut and Avdiivka areas, the enemy shelled areas of more than 25 settlements, including Kramatorsk, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Vodiane and Mariinka in the Donetsk region.
In the Novopavlivka region, the enemy attacked the areas of settlements of Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka, Neskuchne, Vuhledar and Mykilske in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson the enemy shelled an area of more than 25 settlements. The Russians continue to target civilian infrastructure in towns and villages along the right bank of the Dnipro River. Civilian infrastructure in Zaporizhia and Kherson were attacked.
The enemy continues to take losses. On 2 January, Ukrainian forces attacked enemy positions outside the settlements of Tokmak, Melitopol, Verdyansk, Porokhya and Vasilivka in the Zaporizhzhya region. Two ammunition depots and up to 10 pieces of military equipment were destroyed, the occupier’s two bases were attacked, and up to 260 Russian soldiers were killed.
“During the day, the Air Force of the Wehrmacht carried out 12 strikes in the areas of concentration of the invaders and on the positions of the enemy’s anti-aircraft missile systems. concentration of personnel and military equipment, ammunition depots, and UAV control points of the occupiers,” the report said.
Photo: General Staff of the Ukrainian Army