Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled enemy attacks in areas of 14 settlements in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, - General Staff
14.01.23 06:42
https://censor.net/en/news/3393235/armed_forces_of_ukraine_repelled_enemy_attacks_in_areas_of_14_settlements_in_donetsk_and_luhansk_regions
Yesterday, the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of 11 settlements in the Donetsk region and 3 - in the Luhansk region.
This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06:00 a.m. on January 14 regarding the Russian invasion.
Over the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Ploshanka, Bilohorivka, and Chervonpopivka in the Luhansk region; Rozdolivka, Sil, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Vodiane, Kreminna, Pobeda, Mayorsk, Mariinka, and Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region.
No enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn, Poliske, Siversk, and Slobozhansk directions. At the same time, the areas of Mykhailivka and Yanzhulivka settlements of the Chernihiv region were subjected to enemy shelling; Popivka, Yastrubshchyna, Studenok, and Pavlivka of the Sumy region; Ohirtseve, Vovchansk, Budarky, Mali Prohody, Zelene, Neskuchne, Strilecha, Ternova, Bily Kolodiaz, Bolohivka, Dvorichna and Hryhorivka in Kharkiv region.
In the Kupiansk direction, the enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Vilshana, Kupiansk, Orlianka, Kyslivka, Petropavlivka, Krokhmalne, Tabaiivka, and Berestove in the Kharkiv region and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region.
Makiivka, Nevske, and Chervonpopivka of the Luhansk region were shelled in the Lymansky direction.
In the Bakhmut direction, Spirne, Bilohorivka, Rozdolivka, Yakovlivka, Soledar, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Bila Hora, Verkhnokamianske, Vesele, Kurdiumivka, Druzhba, and North of Donetsk region were damaged by fire.
In the Avdiivka direction, enemy fire was detected in Krasnohorivka, Avdiivka, Heorgiivka, Mariinka, Berdychy, Vodyane, and Novomykhailivka in the Donetsk region.
Vuhledar, Vremivka, and Zolota Nyva in the Donetsk region were affected by fire in the Novopavlivka direction.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the enemy fired tanks, mortars, barrels, and rocket artillery in the areas of Vilne Pole settlements of the Donetsk region; Huliaypilske, Dorozhnianka, Zaliznychne, Huliaypole, Shevchenko, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanilivka, Orihiv, Kamianske, Zeleny Hai, and Malynivka of the Zaporizhzhia region.
In the Kherson direction, Zolota Balka, Havrylivka, Lviv, Sadove, and Kherson were shelled, in particular.
The enemy continues to focus its main efforts on attempts to seize the Donetsk region within the administrative border. Continues to advance in the direction of Bakhmut.
He also conducts unsuccessful offensive actions in the Avdiiv direction. In Kupyansk and Lyman - he does not stop trying to improve the tactical position. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3393235
Russian Battalion Only Has 10 Tanks and 30 Soldiers Left: Ukraine
By Ellie Cook
1/15/23 at 10:30 AM EST
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-battalion-tanks-ukraine-kharkiv-oblast-general-staff-1773875
One of the battalions making up an “elite” Russian tank regiment waging war in Ukraine has just 10 tanks left, operated by 30 soldiers, according to Ukraine’s armed forces.
The battalion of Russia’s 26th Tank Regiment, which is fighting around the city of Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine, had 10 T-80BV main battle tanks still in “serviceable condition” as of Thursday, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted on Facebook on Sunday.
The rest are “destroyed or disabled,” according to the General Staff, with those still in operation manned by around 30 Russian personnel.
A Russian tank battalion typically consists of approximately 40 main battle tanks, according to current affairs magazine The Diplomat. Each of the Russian tank regiments has around 93 tanks in three battalions, according to Insider.
In its latest combat losses report on Sunday, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry claimed its forces had destroyed 3,106 Russian tanks and killed more than 115,000 Russian personnel since the invasion began last February, although Russia has not released casualty numbers recently.
The Russian Defense Ministry has been contacted for comment.
In the early days of the war, the Ukraine military claimed there were morale problems in this Russian tank unit, with Ukraine’s General Staff posting on Facebook in March last year that soldiers in the 26th Tank Regiment of the 47th Tank Division were asking to end their contracts to fight in Ukraine.
Defense and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke told Newsweek on Sunday that the Ukrainian claim in Sunday’s Facebook post was “plausible,” given the “significant casualties” that the 26th Tank Regiment is thought to have suffered early in the war in March.
The 26th Tank Regiment is part of the 47th Guards Tank Division, which is a crucial point, according to Clarke, given the “elite” status conferred by the title of “Guards.” It is typically awarded by the Kremlin for distinguished service, while the fact that the regiment is equipped with T-80 tanks rather than standard T-72s shows the unit’s importance, Clarke stressed.
However, he suggested the idea that Russian personnel in the battalion has been cut to 30 “is probably a red herring.” The T-80 tank is operated by a three-man crew, he explained, “so if they are down to 10 serviceable tanks and therefore 10 crews, that is right.”
The bigger question was how many personnel remain tasked with repairing and maintaining the tanks, since if there aren’t enough people doing these jobs, then “operational tanks just become steadily more unserviceable, whether or not they get hit by enemy fire,” he added.