The enemy continues offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions.

Yesterday, Ukrainian defenders repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of 16 settlements in Luhansk region and Donetsk region.

“The adversary is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut and Avdiiv directions and is suffering significant losses in manpower. Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces have repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Bilogorov of the Luhansk region and Verkhnyokamianske, Krasnopolivka, Spirne, Sil, Bakhmut, Klesche Novosilka, Prechistivka, Krasnohorivka, Peremoha, Novomykhailivka, Vodyane, Mayorsk, and Maryinka in Donetsk region,” says the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

It is also emphasized that no enemy offensive groups were detected in the Volyn, Polis, and Siver directions. At the same time, the areas of Seredyna-Buda, Pavlivka, Kondratyivka, and Popivka of the Sumy region and Staritsa, Guryev Kozachok, Kozacha Lopan, Budarki, Vovchansk, Strelechtya, Chervone Pershe, Ogurtsevoe, and Ternova of the Kharkiv region were hit by mortar and artillery shelling.

“In the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions, the enemy shelled the areas of 23 settlements. Among them are Dvorichna, Kotlyarivka, Krokhmalne, Berestov and Kislivka in the Kharkiv region and Novoselivske, Stelmakhivka, Nevske, Kuzmine and Chervonpopivka in the Luhansk region. In the Bakhmutsk direction, 5 points were fired, in particular this Spirne, Ozaryanivka, Klishcheivka, Ivano-Dariivka, Soledar, Bakhmut, Druzhba, New York, and the North of the Donetsk region. In the Avdiiv region, tanks and the entire range of artillery fired at Georgiivka, Vesele, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Pershe, Vodiane, Orlivka, and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk region. “, the General Staff informed.

In addition, it is said that Vugledar, Prechistivka and Mikilski dachas of the Donetsk region came under enemy fire in the Novopavlivsk direction.

“In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy fired tanks, mortars, barrel and rocket artillery at the positions of our troops in the areas of more than 24 settlements, including: Milove, Gulyaipoli, Dorozhnianka, Zaliznychne, Charivne, Mala Tokmachka, Stepne. In the Kherson region, the enemy continues shelling settlements along the right bank of the Dnipro River.

Battles on the Bakhmut direction

In the Donetsk direction, Ukrainian defenders continue to give a decent rebuff to the enemy. On the evening of January 13, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that the enemy had concentrated large forces here.

The enemy, in particular, does not leave in vain attempts to break through the defense of Ukrainian soldiers and capture the fortress city of Bakhmut, but suffers huge losses,

Battles are also ongoing in Soledar. Earlier, the representative of the eastern group of troops, Serhiy Cherevaty, said that here the occupiers are “actually attacking their bodies.”