Nearly 360 shells fired by Ukrainian troops at DPR cities during past day

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Nearly 360 shells of various calibers were fired by Ukrainian troops at settlements in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) during the past day, the DPR’s mission to the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC) for issues related to Ukraine’s war crimes said on Thursday.

"Fifty-one shelling attacks were staged by the enemy from 155mm and 152mm artillery systems in the Donetsk direction. Ten shelling attacks from 155mm, 152mm and 122mm artillery systems were staged in the Yasinovatay direction. Fourteen shelling attacks from 155mm and 122mm artillery systems and 120mm mortars were stages in the Gorlovka direction. As many as 359 shells were fired," it wrote on its Telegram channel.

Coming under shelling were the cities of Donetsk, Gorlovka, Mineralnoye, Yakovlevka, Kashtanovoye, Yasinivataya, Makeyevka, Alexandrovka, and Yelenovka.

One civilian was killed, four more, including a child, were wounded.

Special operation, January 3rd. The main thing:

The Russian Armed Forces destroyed up to 90 Ukrainian servicemen and 14 pieces of equipment in the Donetsk direction, the Ministry of Defense reported.

On the Kupyansky and Krasno-Limansky directions, Kyiv lost more than 160 people killed and wounded in a day.

The Russian Armed Forces in the South-Donetsk direction destroyed more than 130 foreign mercenaries with high-precision strikes near Maslyakovka and Kramatorsk in the DPR.

Prigozhin told RIA Novosti that the Ukrainian military has created "five hundred lines of defense" in Artemovsk (Bakhmut), so the advance is going with great difficulty.

Putin signed a decree on additional social guarantees for military personnel. The families of the dead military and Russian guardsmen during the special operation will be paid 5 million rubles, the wounded - 3 million rubles.

In addition, one day of service for military personnel and members of the National Guard performing the tasks of a special operation of the Russian Federation will be counted as two.

Putin instructed the Russian Ministry of Defense to report by February 1 on providing the participants in the special military operation with weapons, equipment, materiel and equipment.

The Governor of the Samara Region held a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation after the death of military personnel in Makeyevka.

The authorities of the Saratov region denied the reports of some media about the alleged deaths in Makeevka mobilized from the region.

Erdogan said he intends to hold telephone conversations with Putin and Zelensky on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports:

• Over 40 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the Kupyansk direction in a day, an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group was destroyed in the Kharkiv region;



• In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes were made on two assault detachments, accumulations of manpower and equipment, five enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed; in this direction, enemy losses exceeded 150 military killed and wounded;



• In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops continue offensive operations, the enemy lost more than 100 soldiers in a day;








• In the South-Donetsk direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to counterattack positions in the Dorozhnyanka area of ​​the DPR, all counterattacks were repelled;



• Over 180 Ukrainian soldiers were killed by strikes in the DPR and Zaporozhye region;



• five enemy artillery ammunition depots were destroyed in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR, and a missile and artillery depot of a foreign mercenary unit was destroyed near the city;



• Ukrainian MiG-29s and Su-25s were shot down near Kramatorsk and Novopavlovka.

Special operation, January 4th. The main thing:

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed in the Kupyansk direction, a DRG was destroyed in the Kharkiv region;

In the Krasno-Limansky direction, strikes were made on two assault detachments, accumulations of manpower and equipment, five DRGs were destroyed; in this direction, enemy losses per day exceeded 150 military killed and wounded;

In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops continue offensive operations, the enemy lost more than 100 soldiers in a day;

In the South-Donetsk direction, the enemy made unsuccessful attempts to counterattack positions in the Dorozhnyanka area of ​​the DPR;

Over 180 Ukrainian soldiers, five enemy artillery ammunition depots, and a foreign mercenary unit’s missile and artillery depot were destroyed in the DPR and Zaporozhye region;

Ukrainian MiG-29s and Su-25s were shot down near Kramatorsk and Novopavlovka;

Two drones were shot down by air defense over the sea in the Belbek area, the governor of Sevastopol said;

Air alert was announced throughout Ukraine;

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba said that preparations for the transfer of Patriot systems to Kyiv have already begun, expecting deployment "as soon as possible";

As a result of the Ukrainian shelling of Vasilyevka, five people were killed, 15 were injured, Balitsky, Acting Governor of the Zaporozhye region, said;

Drunken foreign mercenaries provoked a conflict with security forces controlled by Kyiv, killing three Ukrainian soldiers at a checkpoint in the Nikolaev region, a source told RIA Novosti. He notes that foreign mercenaries are not even under the control of the SBU;

The death toll of the Russian military in Makiivka has risen to 89, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Among the dead was the deputy commander of the regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Bachurin. The Russian military responded by destroying the HIMARS launcher from which the Ukrainian troops had fired, as well as four HIMARS launchers in Druzhkovka;

Wounded in Donbass, Rogozin sent the extracted fragment from the Caesar howitzer used by Kyiv to the French Ambassador to the Russian Federation with a request to transfer the country to President Macron;

Erdogan, in a telephone conversation with Putin, intends to again offer Turkey's mediation in Ukraine, also expects to discuss the topic of the "gas hub", a source told RIA Novosti;

The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Italy cannot be an intermediary between Moscow and Kyiv, as it helps the bloody Kyiv regime and takes an aggressive anti-Russian position.

The first group of former prisoners who participated in the special operation as volunteers in the Wagner group completed their six-month contract, all criminal records were cleared from them, said the head of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

"The commanders use us as cannon fodder” Ukrainian troops complain to their government about the conditions of military service.