MOSCOW, Jan 14 in the direction of the village of Sol in the DPR, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
Four civilians were killed, five more were seriously injured as a result of Ukrainian shelling of the city of Pologi, reported in the Zaporozhye region.
The course of the operationIn the Kupyansky and Krasnolimansky directions, Ukrainian troops lost more than 80 people in a day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
In the Krasnolimansky direction, artillery fire from the formations of the Central Military District and the Airborne Forces defeated the units of the 80th Airborne Assault and 71st Jaeger Brigades of the Ukrainian troops in the areas of the settlements of Grigorovka and Serebryanka of the Donetsk People's Republic. In addition, a sabotage and reconnaissance group of the Ukrainian military, which was operating in the direction of the settlement of Shipilovka, was destroyed.
In the South-Donetsk direction, Ukrainian positions were hit in the areas of Vodiane, Dobrovolye and Prechistovka in the DPR, and two Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups were destroyed in the Novomikhailovka area and north of Shevchenko, more than 30 Ukrainian military were destroyed in total.
In addition, assault detachments and units of the Airborne Forces in the Donetsk direction developed success in the direction of the settlement of Sol in the DPR and destroyed more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers, the military department said.
Russian aviation, missile troops and artillery hit two Ukrainian ammunition depots in the DPR and the Zaporozhye region, manpower and military equipment in 123 districts, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
Also, according to the ministry, over the past day, Russian air defense systems shot down 4 Ukrainian drones in the areas of the settlements of Berestovoe, Krasnorechenskoe, Zaliman in the LPR and Pavlovka in the DPR and 7 HIMARS and Vilkha MLRS shells.
The Ukrainian M777 artillery system of American production in the Kharkiv region and three D-20 howitzers were also destroyed. It is noted that two 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers, a D-30 howitzer and a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer were also destroyed in the DPR and Zaporozhye region.
Also, counter-battery combat stations made in the USA AN/TPQ-36 and AN/TPQ-50 were destroyed in the DPR.
The shelling of the city of PologiVladimir Rogov, chairman of the movement «We are with Russia», a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, reported on the Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporozhye town of Pologi.
According to him, four civilians were killed during the shelling, five more were seriously injured.
Explosions and air raid alert in Ukraine On Saturday, an air raid alert was announced in a number of regions of Ukraine: in Sumy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Cherkassy, Kyiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv. Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Nikolaev, parts of the Odessa region.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said that explosions were heard in the Dnipro district of the city, specialized services were sent to the scene, urging residents to stay in shelters.
As the head of the Kyiv regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba later said, after the explosions in the region, «a fire broke out at one of the critical infrastructure facilities, the relevant services are working on the spot.»
Explosions were also reported in Kharkov, the movement of the subway in the city was stopped.
Ukrainian Minister of Energy Herman Galushchenko said that energy infrastructure facilities were hit in five regions of Ukraine and in the Kyiv-controlled part of the Zaporozhye region, emergency shutdowns are being introduced in most regions.
The head of the Ivano-Frankivsk regional administration, Svetlana Onishchuk, said that after the shelling, a fire broke out at the energy facility, and there were no casualties.
Ukrainian mass media also reported on a series of «arrivals» at infrastructure facilities in Kharkiv and Lviv region, power and water cuts are possible in the region. In addition, a critical infrastructure facility was hit in the Odessa region.
In the evening, the Ukrainian energy holding DTEK announced a blow to two thermal power plants (TPP), one of them was stopped. There were no casualties, according to them.
Strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure of the RF Armed Forces began on October 10 — two days after the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, behind which, according to the Russian authorities, the Ukrainian special services stand. The strikes are carried out on energy, defense industry, military command and communications facilities throughout the country. After the strikes on November 15, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that almost half of the country's energy system was disabled. In December, Volodymyr Zelensky said that it was now impossible to completely restore the energy system of Ukraine.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass.