Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from January 13 to January 19, 2024)
In the period from January 13 to January 19, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 17 group strikes with high-precision weapons, including hypersonic Kinzhal aircraft missile systems, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine were hit, carried out repairs of weapons and equipment, production of ammunition, gunpowder and reconnaissance and attack UAVs.
The locations of units of the Ukrainian armed forces, formations of foreign mercenaries and nationalists were also hit.
The targets of the strikes have been achieved. All designated targets are hit.
In the Kupyansk direction, units of the “Western” group of forces continued to improve the situation along the front line in certain sectors.
During the week, 25 attacks by assault groups of the 32nd, 115th Mechanized, 57th Motorized Infantry, 25th Airborne, 95th Airborne Assault Brigades and 103rd Terrestrial Defense Brigade were repelled in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Peschanoye and Tabaevka, Kharkov region.
Enemy losses for the week amounted to over 560 troops, 10 tanks, eight armored combat vehicles, 26 vehicles and eight field artillery pieces.
In addition, two field ammunition depots were destroyed.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the "Center" group of troops, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled 17 enemy attacks and defeated concentrations of manpower of the 24th, 66th mechanized brigades, 125th technical defense brigade and 5th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in populated areas points of Chervonaya Dibrova of the Lugansk People's Republic, Yampolovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, as well as Serebryansky forestry.
Enemy losses during this period amounted to up to 1,520 military personnel killed and wounded, a tank, 21 armored combat vehicles, 34 vehicles, and eight field artillery pieces.
In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, with the support of aviation and artillery fire, repelled 15 enemy attacks over the course of a week.
In addition, units of the 22nd, 28th and 93rd Mechanized, 5th and 92nd Assault Brigades, as well as the 112th Terrestrial Defense Brigade were hit by fire in the areas of the settlements of Kurdyumovka, Antonovka, Bogdanovka, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka Donetsk People's Republic.
Enemy losses amounted to more than 1,880 military personnel killed and wounded, 17 tanks, 27 armored combat vehicles, two launchers of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, 86 vehicles and 28 field artillery guns.
In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops repelled an attack by the 79th Air Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Novomikhailovka, Donetsk People's Republic.
In addition, air strikes and artillery fire inflicted fire damage on Ukrainian units in the areas of the settlements of Paraskovievka and Pavlovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 965 military personnel killed and wounded, two tanks, six armored combat vehicles, a launcher of the Strela-10 anti-aircraft missile system, 24 vehicles and 15 field artillery guns.
In the Zaporozhye direction, units of Russian troops inflicted fire on the personnel and equipment of the 65th, 118th mechanized, 128th mountain assault brigades, as well as the 15th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the areas of the settlements of Verbovoe, Malaya Tokmachka and Rabotino in the Zaporozhye region .
Enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 395 military personnel, a tank, nine armored combat vehicles, 16 vehicles and 10 field artillery guns.
In the Kherson direction, preemptive actions of Russian troops and complex fire defeat of the enemy defeated the manpower and equipment of the 35th and 38th Marine Brigades, as well as the 121st Terrestrial Defense Brigade in the areas of the settlements of Mikhailovka, Tyaginka and Ivanovka in the Kherson region.
As a result of the actions of Russian troops, the enemy lost up to 325 military personnel, three tanks, 29 vehicles and 25 field artillery pieces killed and wounded.
Within a week, 21 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered. Of these, 14 people are in the South Donetsk direction.
During the week, Aerospace Forces aviation and air defense systems shot down: six Tochka-U tactical missiles, a JDAM guided bomb, 11 Vilkha MLRS rockets, 62 HIMARS and Uragan multiple launch rocket systems, as well as 274 unmanned aerial vehicles .
In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 567 aircraft, 265 helicopters, 10,894 unmanned aerial vehicles, 450 anti-aircraft missile systems, 14,686 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,202 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 7,788 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 17,617 units of special military vehicles.