Military actions in Donetsk region, 99 combat clashes, enemy shelling. How will the 1068th day of the full-scale war be remembered?
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The head of state announced this in an evening video address on January 26. The President specified that Drapatiy will retain the powers of the commander of the Ground Forces.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 16:00 on January 26, the total number of combat clashes along the entire front line has grown to 99.
Near Vremenny Yar, on Kramatorskdirection, the enemy advanced on the positions of our units 13 times, and also attacked in the direction of Belaya Gora.
In the Pokrovsky direction in the areas of Vodyanoye Vtoroy, Mirolyubovka, Elizavetovka, Luch, Zeleny, Udachny, Kotliny, Nadeyevka, Uspenovka, Andreyevka, Shevchenko, Dachny and Yantarny, fierce battles are underway. The enemy has now made 38 attempts to push our defenders from their positions.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of January 26 – in the news. The headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine also reported on the shelling of warehouses for the storage of attack UAVs of the Russian occupiers in the Oryol region of the Russian Federation.
According to the command, the targets were worked on by units of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in cooperation with other components of the Defense Forces.
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“Concrete buildings where thermobaric warheads, which drones are equipped with, were stored were damaged. There is information about a strong secondary detonation. The results and extent of the damage are being clarified, but it is known in advance that more than 200 “shahids” will not be used against our country,” the General Staff said.
There is no threat to the encirclement of Ukrainian units in the area of the village of Bolshaya Novosilka in the Donetsk regionthere is. Our defenders, taking advantage of the weather conditions, left the areas where there was a threat of encirclement. .
At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not completely withdrawn from the settlement and the fighting in Velyka Novosilka continues. All actions are aimed at minimizing their own losses and maximizing the defeat of the enemy.
As for the settlement itself, there are no intact buildings left in it.
Earlier, the press secretary of the OSUV “Khortytsya” Viktor Tregubov, that the Russian army is trying to bypass Pokrovsk in Donetsk region from the west in order to cut off important routes and force Ukrainian troops to retreat.
On Sunday, January 26, the Russian army carried out airstrikes on KupyanskKharkiv region.
“The enemy used KABs, at least four private houses and power lines were damaged,” reports the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov. At first there was no information about victims, but later it became known that the SES rescuers found an 86-year-old woman after extinguishing the fire. She received an explosion wound and a fracture.
The bodies of a man and his mother were found in a border community in Sumy Oblast. According to preliminary data, they were killed by Russian shelling, the Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported.
“On January 26, 2025, in the village of Ponomarenko, Velykopisarevskaya community, Akhtyrsky district, law enforcement officers found the bodies of a 62-year-old man and his 86-year-old mother, who were preparing to evacuate on December 9, 2024. They have not been in touch since then,” the prosecutor's office noted.
On January 26, a man's body was found under rubble in Zaporizhia.
“On January 26, rescuers found and released the body of a 27-year-old man who became a victim of Russian terror. Search and rescue operations lasted 9 days,” the State Emergency Service of Zaporizhia Oblast reported.
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As a result of the shelling of Zaporizhia on January 18, 2 people were killed and 12 more were injured. A canine unit of the Interregional Rapid Response Center of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (Romny) was involved in the work. In total, 178 rescuers and 40 units of equipment were involved from the State Emergency Service over nine days.
The European Union considers the so-called “elections” of the president in Belarus fictitious. Brussels does not recognize the legitimacy of Alexander Lukashenko, the head of European diplomacy Kallas reported on the X network.
“Lukashenko has been in power for 30 years. Tomorrow he will appoint himself again in another fictitious election. This is an outright mockery of democracy,” Kallas writes. The European diplomat stressed that Lukashenko has no legitimacy as the President of Belarus.
On Sunday, January 26, presidential elections are taking place in Belarus. The Central Election Commission stated that international observers “are monitoring the election process in all regions” in the country, and “representatives and heads of the Central Election Commissions of the CIS and far abroad” are also allegedly present.
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