Night drone attack, 103 military clashes, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, mining of the Zaporizhia NPP.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding back the enemy in the Avdiivka direction
On the night of January 20, the Russian army attacked Ukraine with seven Shahed-type attack UAVs -136/131. The drones were launched from the Primorsko-Akhtarsk region – Russian Federation, and there was also an attack by three S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles from the TOT Luhansk region in the Donbass.
The Air Force reported that mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces destroyed 4 enemy UAVs, the remaining three did not reach their targets.
Air defense worked within the Odessa, Nikolaev, Cherkasy and Khmelnytsky regions.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 103 military clashes occurred during the day.
In total, the enemy carried out 1 missile and 23 air strikes, carried out 59 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. Russian terrorist attacks have unfortunately resulted in civilian deaths and injuries. Residential buildings and other civilian infrastructure were destroyed and damaged.
In the Kupyansky direction, our defenders repelled 12 enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Sinkovka, Petropavlovka, Tabaevka and Berestovo, Kharkov region.
In Limansky direction – 10 attacks near Ternov, Yampolevka, Verkhnekamensky, Donetsk region and another 15 attacks in the areas of Serebryansky forestry, Belogorivka, Lugansk region.
In the Avdeevka direction, Ukrainian defenders continue to hold back the enemy, who is not abandoning attempts to encircle Avdeevka. Our soldiers steadfastly hold the defense, inflicting significant losses on the invaders. Over the past 24 hours, defense forces have repelled 14 attacks by invaders in the Avdeevka area and another 19 attacks south of Tonenkoye, Pervomaisky and Nevelskoye.
More details about the operational situation as of the morning of January 20 are in our news.
< p>The General Staff also informs that Ukrainian defenders destroyed another 750 Russian invaders per day. In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has lost almost 375,270 people in Ukraine.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, occupied by the Russians, IAEA experts again discovered mines.
The IAEA press service reported this. “The deposits along the perimeter of the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, in the buffer zone between the internal and external fences of the facility, which were previously identified by the IAEA team and were seized in November 2023, are now back in place. This is a restricted area, inaccessible to plant workers. Director General Grossi reiterated that the presence of mines does not comply with IAEA safety standards,” the report said.
IAEA experts also reported that the Zaporizhzhya NPP again lost its backup power source for reactor units for eight hours this week.
>IAEA experts gained access to the Unit 6 reactor hall earlier this week, but are still seeking access to other reactor halls, as well as parts of all six turbine halls they have not yet been able to visit.
The self-proclaimed president Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that the Republic of Belarus received tactical nuclear missiles for the Iskander complexes from Russia for free. That is, Belarus paid the Russian Federation for nuclear missiles at the expense of other financial resources that the republic provides to its aggressor partner. “ZN.ua” writes about this with reference to Russian media.
“We must say thank you to the Russians: they are very very helpful to us. I'm not even talking here about nuclear weapons, which put everyone in their place… The Russians have us for their money, although we pay them on other accounts, we received systems such as Iskander,” Lukashenko emphasized.
According to Lukashenko, the use of such tactical systems and nuclear missiles presupposes compliance with the protocol In order to activate them, you need to obtain resolutions from several high-ranking officials.
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