The 309th day of the Russia-Ukraine War: official operational information by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on 29.12.2022.
The Russian army is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut and Zaporizhzhia directions and is trying to improve its tactical position in the Lyman and Avdiivka directions. On Kupyansk and Novopavlivka directions the Russian army conducts an active defense. In the Kherson direction, Russia is regrouping troops to other directions, is being reinforced by units of territorial troops, and is conducting positional defense.
In the morning, Russian troops launched a massive missile attack on the territory of Ukraine. Russian military launched air and sea-based cruise missiles, anti-aircraft guided missiles to the S-300 anti-aircraft missile defense system at energy and civil infrastructure facilities in the eastern, central, western and southern regions of Ukraine. According to confirmed data, 69 cruise missiles were used. Defense forces of Ukraine destroyed 54 of them.
Also, during the day, Russian soldiers launched 10 missile strikes, 23 air strikes, and fired 14 MLRS strikes at the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas along the contact line.
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- The situation is stable in the Volyn, Polissya, Siverskyi and Slobozhanskyi directions. The Russian army maintains a military presence in the border areas, no signs of his formation of offensive groups have been detected.
- On the Siversky and Slobozhanskyy directions, Russian military shelled the areas of the settlements of Lypivka and Hremyachka of the Chernihiv oblast; Budky, Iskryskivshchyna and Zapsillia – Sumy and Guriiv, Sotnytskyi Kozachok, Strilecha, Zelene, Ohirtseve, Hatyshche, Kolodyazne, Ridkodub, Novomlynsk and Dvorichna in Kharkiv oblast.
- Areas of 19 settlements were damaged by fire in the Kupyansk and Lyman directions. Among them are Kupyansk, Kotlyarivka, Tabaivka, Klishchivka and Lozova in the Kharkiv oblast and Novoyehorivka, Kovalivka, Ploshanka, Makiivka, Nevske and Dibrova in the Luhansk oblast.
- More than 15 settlements were shelled in the Bakhmut direction. In particular, Andriyivka, Spirne, Berestovka, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Bakhmutske, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Kurdyumivka and Stupochki of the Donetsk oblast.
- Orlivka, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Vesele, Nevelske, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka in Donetsk oblast were affected in the Avdiivka oblast.
- In the direction of Novopavlivsk, the Russian army shelled Vremivka, Novoukrainka, Prechystivka, and Vuhledar of the Donetsk oblast.
- In the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, Russian servicemen shelled the positions of Ukrainian troops with tanks, mortars and barrel artillery in the areas of more than 35 settlements. Among them are Malynivka, Bilohirya, Mala Tokmachka and Mali Shcherbaky in the Zaporizhzhia oblast and Zmiivka, Antonivka, Zelenivka, Dniprovske, Veletenske in the Kherson oblast.
The Russian army continues to use the network of civilian healthcare facilities in the temporarily occupied territory to treat wounded Russian servicemen and mercenaries of private military companies. Thus, in Bilovodsk, Starobilsk district, Luhansk oblast, more than 100 wounded representatives of the “Wagner” PMC continue to be treated. In addition, in the city of Tokmak, about 120 wounded Russian soldiers are being treated on the territory of the so-called “military hospital”.
In the city of Donetsk, Russian troops organized the removal of medical equipment and medical workers from the Kalinin Donetsk Oblast Clinical Hospital to Mariupol.
On December 28, more than 50 Russian servicemen were eliminated as a result of fire damage by units of the Defense Forces of Russian positions in the Berdyansk district of the Zaporizhzhia oblast.
The Ukrainian aviation made 12 strikes on the areas where Russian troops were concentrated and struck the position of Russian anti-aircraft missile system. Ukrainian rocket launchers and artillerymen during the current day hit 4 control points and 3 areas of concentration of Russian manpower.
Source: The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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