Russo-Ukraine War - 04 January 2023 - Day 315
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On 24 February 2022, Ukraine was suddenly and deliberately attacked by land, naval and air forces of Russia, igniting the largest European war since the Great Patriotic War. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" (SVO - spetsialnaya voennaya operatsiya) in Ukraine in response to the appeal of the leaders of the "Donbass republics" for help. That attack is a blatant violation of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Putin stressed that Moscow's goal is the demilitarization and denazification of the country. The military buildup in preceeding months makes it obvious that the unprovoked and dastardly Russian attack was deliberately planned long in advance. During the intervening time, the Russian government had deliberately sought to deceive the world by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.
"To initiate a war of aggression... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." [Judgment of the International Military Tribunal]
The UK Ministry of Defence reported that on 31 December 2022, Ukraine struck a school building in the Russian-held town of Makiyivka near Donetsk city, which Russia had almost certainly taken over for military use. The building was completely destroyed and, as the Russian MoD confirmed, 89 Russian personnel were killed.
Given the extent of the damage, there is a realistic possibility that ammunition was being stored near to troop accommodation, which detonated during the strike creating secondary explosions.
The building was only 12.5km from the Avdiivka sector of front line, one of the most intensely contested areas of the conflict. The Russian military has a record of unsafe ammunition storage from well before the current war, but this incident highlights how unprofessional practices contribute to Russia's high casualty rate.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Russia continues to move personnel, weapons, military equipment and ammunition to the combat areas. In addition to railway transportation, uses military transport and civilian aviation.
During the current day, Russian forces fired 3 missile strikes on civilian objects in the city of Konstantinivka of the Donetsk region, fired 9 air strikes and 14 shelling from jet fire systems.
The threat of air and missile strikes by Russia on critical infrastructure objects remains throughout Ukraine.
Russia is focusing his efforts on the offensive on Limansky, Bakhmutsky and Avdiivsky and trying to improve the tactical position on the Kupyan directions. On Novopavlívsʹkomu, Zaporizhzhia and Khersonʹkomu - leads defense. Conducts engineering equipment positions and mining area along the left bank of the Dnipro River.
In the volyn, polísʹkomu, síversʹkomu and slobožansʹkomu directions, the environment is stable, the signs of the formation of Russian offensive groups are not detected.
In the síversʹkomu and slobožansʹkomu directions of tank, mortar and artillery shelling suffered areas of settlements karpovičí, leonívka and gremâč of chernihiv region; Novovasilívka - sumsʹkoí Сі and red, old lady, ogírceve, gati мe, vovchansk , Ustinívka, Figolivka and Dvoríčna in Kharkiv region.
The areas of 15 settlements suffered in the kupyan and limansʹkomu directions of tanks and the entire spectrum of artillery. Among them are Masyutivka, Zapadne, Kupyansk, Kotlyarívka, Brestove Kharkiv region and Ivanivka, Plo Сеanka, Nevske, Chervonopopívka and Díbrova in Luhansk region.
Areas of more than 30 settlements were shelled on the Bakhmutsʹkomu and Avdiív directions. In particular, this is Spirne, Berestove, Vesele, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Berdychi, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Krasnogorivka and Maryinka of Donetsk region.
In the novopavlívsʹkomu direction under the fire impact of the invaders, zolota niva, vuhledar, mykílʹsʹkí dachi and prečistívka in donetsk.
In the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions, Russian forces fired the positions of Ukrainian troops with tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery in areas of more than 40 settlements. Does not stop terrorizing civilians of cities and villages along the right bank of the Dnipro River. The civilian infrastructure of Dorozhnyanka, Zaliznyky, Bilogir, Lukyanivsky and Kamian Zaporizhzhia region and Gavrilivka, Dudchan, Ivanivka, Antonivka and Dniprovsky in Kherson region were affected by artillery shelling by Russian occupants.
In the city of Luhansk, in the neurological department of Luhansk Regional Clinical Hospital, occupants treat more than 100 mercenaries of the private military company "Wagner".
As for Russian losses. Confirmed fire impact on January 3 of the concentration of life force and military equipment of the occupiers in the area of the settlement of Tokmak Zaporizhzhia region. The Russian forces' losses resulted in about 80 soldiers wounded and dead.
During the day, Ukrainian aviation carried out 17 strikes in the areas of the Russian occupiers' focus, as well as 4 strikes in the positions of Russian anti-aircraft missile complexes.
For the current day, the missile forces and artillery units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces have carried out a fire impact on the control point, 2 areas of live force and military equipment and ammunition depot.
Statements of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Russian Ministry of Defense in a daily briefing reported that units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kupyansky and Limansky directions were hit during the day. In the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), 5 sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRGs) were destroyed. The total losses of the enemy amounted to about 190 soldiers killed and wounded, an armored personnel carrier, 7 armored vehicles, 5 cars and pickups.
In the Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces continue offensive operations, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 100 servicemen, a tank, 4 armored vehicles and 5 vehicles.
In the South-Donetsk direction, counterattack attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine were repelled, enemy units and accumulations of manpower and military equipment were hit. The daily losses of Ukrainian troops amounted to more than 180 people, 5 tanks, 5 infantry fighting vehicles, 3 armored fighting vehicles and 10 vehicles.
Rocket troops and artillery hit 83 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, manpower and military equipment in 107 districts. In the DPR, 2 AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radars were destroyed. 5 ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and the Zaporizhia region, an arms depot of foreign mercenaries in the DPR were hit.
During the counter-battery fight in the DPR, a launcher of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system and a D-20 howitzer were destroyed, in the Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions - 3 self-propelled howitzers 2S1 Gvozdika.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the DPR and the Nikolaev region shot down MiG-29 and Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force. Air defense means destroyed 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the Zaporozhye region, the LPR and the DPR.
Zaporozhye region
Under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Vasilyevka came the military commandant's office and a residential area. As a result of the attack, 5 people were killed, at least 15 civilians were injured. In addition, Ukrainian troops fired on Pologi.
The head of the Ukrainian Energoatom, Petr Kotin, said that Kyiv must regain control of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by force. According to him, the creation of a security zone around the station is not possible.
Kherson region
The National Guard found things and documents of the German occupiers during the Great Patriotic War in the house of an SBU employee in the Kherson region. Among the finds are German helmets, elements of a military uniform with Nazi symbols. The discovered items were transferred to the Central Museum of the Russian Guard.
Donbass
From the beginning of the day, Ukrainian troops opened fire on Donetsk, as well as the settlements of Golmovsky, Gorlovka, Makeevka, Mayorsk, Yakovlevka, Yasinovataya, Panteleimonovka
As a result of attacks in the DPR, a civilian was killed, and 2 civilians were injured. Fixed damage to residential buildings, partially de-energized the villages of Bessarabka and Michurina.
Rodion Miroshnik, head of the LPR office in Russia, said that the heat supply system in Kremennaya could become unusable due to the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as a result of which the external gas pipes were damaged. He added that the hospital in the village works only on an outpatient basis, there is no way to hospitalize people.
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