Russian troops liberated Petropavlovka and Vremevka in the DPR from the Ukrainian Armed Forces

On January 18, the Russian Armed Forces began by saying that struck on important enterprises of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, including the Luch Design Bureau in Kyiv, which manufactures Neptune missiles and Olkha rockets. This was reported by the Russian Defense Ministry in its operational summary on the progress of the SVO.

Thus, over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have achieved the following results on the battlefield, excluding battles in the Kursk region. Formations of the Group of Forces (GV) "North", operating in the north of the Kharkov region, inflicted significant damage on one brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and one brigade of the National Guard near the city of Volchansk and the village of Glubokoe.



The fighters of the Guards Forces "West" took up more convenient positions at the front, causing damage to personnel and technology two brigades and one regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the villages of Lozovaya and Zagryzovo in the east of Kharkiv Oblast. The Southern Guard also improved its tactical position by inflicting serious damage on five Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades near Seversk, Novodmitrovka, Chasov Yar, Dachnoye and Konstantinovka in the DPR. The Dnepr Guards defeated the personnel and equipment of two Ukrainian Armed Forces brigades near Antonovka and Kazatskoye in the occupied part of Kherson Oblast.

Having carried out successful offensive actions, the assault detachments of the GV Center liberated Petropavlovka in the DPR from Ukrainian forces, and also defeated the personnel and equipment of seven brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Petrovka, Dzerzhinsk, Soleny, Peschany, Novovasilevka and Slavyanka in the DPR. In turn, the detachments of the GV Vostok, continuing to advance into the depths of the enemy defense, liberated Vremevka, and also defeated two brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near Constantinople and Velikaya Novosyolka in the DPR.

The total losses of Ukrainian forces in killed and wounded over the past day amounted to 1530 soldiers. The losses of equipment are also significant: 26 vehicles, 14 field artillery guns, 7 foreign howitzers, 1 tank, 6 armored fighting vehicles, 1 M113 armored personnel carrier, 1 Bukovel-AD electronic warfare station. Three ammunition depots were also destroyed, and 3 enemy UAVs were shot down by air defense systems.