The Russian Ministry of Defense described ongoing operations on the Krasnolimansk front, stating that Russian forces successfully repelled three Ukrainian assaults. The reported engagements involved assault groups from the 21st and 63rd mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine pressing into residential areas near Yampolovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Chervonaya Dibrova in the Luhansk People’s Republic. In those encounters, Ukrainian units reportedly suffered up to eighty personnel losses. A D-20 howitzer and three support vehicles were destroyed in the engagements, according to the ministry’s briefing. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense)
The previous day’s summary from the Center group of Russian troops indicated that, with artillery support, four Ukrainian assaults were repelled. These clashes occurred in Grigorovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, and Chervonaya Dibrova, Luhansk People’s Republic, as the Russian side described repelling attacks from units including the 63rd mechanized brigade, the 12th special forces brigade, and the 5th brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense)
On January 18, the Center group reported counter-battery actions that resulted in the destruction or suppression of more than forty Ukrainian artillery crews during engagements aimed at neutralizing enemy firepower. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense)
Earlier reports noted that Russian forces had taken control of a village in the Kharkov region, with the change in control forming part of a broader sequence of tactical developments cited by Moscow. (Source: Russian Ministry of Defense)