In the Verbovoy area, our troops advanced, forcing the enemy to abandon some positions, reported the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published operational information about the Russian invasion on Wednesday morning, January 3.
“In the past 24 hours, 57 military clashes took place. In total, the enemy launched 89 missiles and 72 air strikes, including drones of the Shahed-136/131 type, and carried out 48 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems at positions. of our troops and populated areas. As a result of the attack by Russian terrorists, unfortunately, there were dead and more than 130 wounded civilians, including children. Lugansk , Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Kherson, Nikolaev, Odessa regions,” the General Staff said in a statement.
Air strikes were carried out in Belogorovka and Serebryansky forestry in the Lugansk region; Avdeevka, Novomikhailovka, Georgievka, Donetsk region; Novodanilovka and Orekhov, Zaporozhye region.
About 120 settlements of Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye Kherson and Nikolaev regions came under artillery fire.
In the direction of Kupyansk, Ukrainian defenders repelled 7 attacks near Sinkovka and east of Petropavlovka, Kharkov region, where the enemy tried unsuccessfully to break the defenses of our troops.
At the direction of Liman, the conquerors did not take offensive actions (attacks).
In the direction of Bakhmut, our soldiers repelled 6 enemy attacks in the areas of Bogdanovka, Klishchievka and Andreevka in the Donetsk region.
In the direction of Avdeevka, the Ukrainian defenders continued to hold back the enemy, not abandoning attempts to surround Avdeevka.
“Our soldiers continue to hold the defense, inflicting heavy losses on the invaders. Thus, in the last 24 hours, the Defense Forces repelled 8 enemy attacks near Novobakhmutovka, Berdichev, Avdeevka and another 16 attacks in the Pervomaiskoye and Nevelskoye areas of the Donetsk Region,” the General Staff reported.
The enemy did not conduct offensive (assault) operations in the direction of Maryinsky and Shakhtarsky.
In the direction of Zaporozhye, the Defense Forces repelled an enemy attack near Rabotino, Zaporozhye region. In the Verbovoye area, our troops advanced, forcing the enemy to abandon some positions.
In the Kherson direction, the Defense Forces are continuing steps to expand the bridgehead. Despite heavy losses, the invaders did not abandon their attempts to dislodge our units from their positions. In the past 24 hours, the enemy has conducted 9 unsuccessful attack operations.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to actively inflict losses on the occupying forces in manpower and equipment, depleting the enemy along the entire front line.
Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian aviation has carried out strikes on 12 areas where enemy personnel are concentrated.
Missile force units hit 2 areas where personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated, 3 anti-aircraft missile systems, 2 control points, an artillery system, a radar system and a warehouse of fuels and lubricants of the enemy.
It was previously reported that the operational situation in the east and south of Ukraine remains difficult, despite the fact that the Russians have reduced the number of frontal attacks.
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Source: korrespondent
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