The enemy does not abandon plans to reach the administrative border of the Donetsk region, on which the day before it launched a missile strike - the Kramatorsk region was under fire.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, over the past day, the Russians launched 6 missile and 52 air strikes, carried out 77 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems. The enemy inflicted all 6 missile and 30 air strikes on civilian infrastructure. All 27 Shahed-136 UAVs used by the enemy were shot down by the Ukrainian Defense Forces. Our defenders also shot down an enemy Ka-52 helicopter and 3 reconnaissance UAVs of the Orlan-10 type.
“The enemy, trying to take full control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, is concentrating his efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction. It is making attempts to improve the tactical situation in the Limansky and Avdeevsky directions, strengthens the groupings in the Novopavlovsky direction due to the deployed units from the Kherson direction “, - noted in the General Staff and added that the units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of settlements: Stelmakhovka, Makeevka, Ploshchadka, Belogorovka, Luhansk region; Razdolevka, Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoe, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Kurdyumovka, Avdeevka, Marinka, Donetsk region.
Aviation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces over the past 24 hours delivered 13 strikes on areas where enemy personnel, weapons and military equipment are concentrated, as well as 5 strikes on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. And the units of the missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine fired at the area where the enemy’s manpower and military equipment were concentrated, as well as the enemy’s radar station.
Also, the General Staff confirmed the effective actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine the other day. Thus, in Chulalovka, in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region, the losses of the enemy as a result of the strike of the Defense Forces on December 31 amounted to about 500 servicemen, wounded and killed.
And on January 1, 2023, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out a fiery defeat of the personnel of the Russian invaders in the area of the settlement of Fedorovka, Kherson region, the number of enemy losses is being specified.
According to official figures, the total losses of the enemy by the morning of December 4 exceeded 108,000 soldiers killed.
It is noted that the Russians are focusing their main efforts on maintaining the offensive potential and replenishing losses, in particular, at the expense of mobilized ones.
It is worth recalling that on the night of January 1, the Armed Forces of Ukraine dealt a powerful blow to the temporarily occupied Makeevka, where Russian mobilized from Saratov were in the premises of the local vocational school. The Russian Defense Ministry said that only about 60 soldiers died there. However, losses can be ten times greater. Indeed, in this room, in the basement, there was a warehouse of BC, and tons of diesel fuel were stored nearby. Debris clearing continues.
Photo of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Source: Fakty
