Over the past day , the

Armed Forces 

of the Russian Federation repelled attacks by the Russian army in the areas of Novoselivske, Ploshanka and Chervonopivka settlements in the Luhansk region and Belogorivka, Rozdolivka, Vasyukivka, Krasna Gora, Yagidne, Bakhmut, Predtechine, Vodyane and Maryinka in the Donetsk region.

More details about the situation at the front - in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 21.

During the day, the Russians launched 7 missile strikes (3 of which hit the cities of Kramatorsk and Gulyaipole) and 15 airstrikes.

Also, the enemy fired 68 rocket salvo fire systems, in particular, at the civilian infrastructure of Nikopol.

The threat of Russian air and missile strikes remains throughout Ukraine, the Gestabad emphasizes.

The situation in the directions:

Certain units of the enemy are being held in the

Volyn, Poliske, Siversk, and Slobozhansk directions

in the border areas with Ukraine, but no offensive enemy groups have been detected.

The forces and means of the armed forces of the Russian Federation, transferred to the Republic of Belarus, are actively conducting reconnaissance of objects in neighboring states, including Ukraine.

The enemy's artillery and mortar fire affected areas of Volfine settlements of Sumy region, as well as Guryiv Kozachok, Veterinarne, Strelecha, Zelene, Ternova, Staritsa, Ogirtseve, Vovchansk, Vilcha, Budarky, Krasne Pershe, Kamianka, Figolivka and Dvorichna na Kharkiv region.

In

the Kupyansk direction

, the areas of Tavilzhanka, Vilshanka, Orlyanka, Kupyansk, Krokhmalne, Pishchane, Berestov and Vyshneve in the Kharkiv region, as well as Novoselivske and Stelmakhivka in the Luhansk region, were shelled by tanks, mortars, barrel and jet artillery.

On

the Lymanskyi direction, the

enemy shelled the areas of the settlements of Novoyehorivka, Makiivka, Nevske, Ploshanka, Holikove, Chervonpopivka, Kreminna and Dibrova of the Luhansk region with all available firepower.

In

the Bakhmut direction

, Verkhnokamyanske, Vyimka, Spirne, Bilogorivka, Rozdolivka, Soledar, Krasna Gora, Bakhmut, Chasiv Yar, Klishchiivka, Bila Gora, Severnye, Zalizne, Kurdyumivka and Mayorsk of the Donetsk region were damaged by fire.

Kamianka, Avdiivka

, Vesele, Vodiane, Pervomaiske, Krasnohorivka, Georgiivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region came under enemy fire in the Avdiiv region

.

In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the enemy fired at Vugledar, Bogoyavlenka and Velika Novosilka of the Donetsk region.

In

the Zaporizhzhia direction

, Vremivka and Novopil in Donetsk region and Olgivske, Malynivka, Gulyaipole, Charivne, Biloghirya, Novodanilivka, Orihiv, Mali Shcherbaki, Kamianske and Plavna in Zaporizhzhia were affected by tank, mortar and artillery fire.

In

the Kherson direction, the

occupiers alternately shelled Marganets and Nikopol of the Dnipropetrovsk region and Antonivka and Kherson with barrel and rocket artillery.

There are victims among the civilian population.

The enemy suffers daily losses in the war he has waged.

According to the available information, more than 300 wounded occupiers are being treated only in the surgical department of the Starobilsk city hospital of the Luhansk region.

To provide medical care, the Russian occupiers use not only the medical facilities of the temporarily occupied settlements of the Kherson region, which are already overcrowded, but also equip kindergartens as field hospitals.

Also, all doctors have been replaced in the central hospital of the village of Nizhny Sirogozy, and now only the personnel of the Russian occupation forces are being treated there.

A similar situation developed in Kalanchak, where local doctors were dismissed, and medical personnel from Crimea were brought in their place.

Local residents are not allowed to come to the hospital.

During the past day, the aviation of the Defense Forces of Ukraine carried out 18 strikes on enemy concentration areas and 4 strikes on the positions of its anti-aircraft missile systems.

Also, our defenders shot down 2 reconnaissance UAVs "Orlan-10" and "Merlin-VR".

Units of rocket troops and artillery hit the command post and 2 areas of concentration and the ammunition depot of the occupiers.

It will be recalled that Ukrainian People's Deputy, SBU colonel Roman Kostenko said that the Zaporozhye direction is key for both the Armed Forces and the occupiers, so the enemy is accumulating forces there. 

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