Daily Report from the Ukraine Field for 2023-01-25
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Tactical Operational Report from Vladislav Ugolny on 24 January 2023, Part I
1–The Belarusian border: Belarus says it has started to reactivate military equipment, Lukashenko laughed at the non-aggression pact allegedly proposed by Zelensky.
2–The Slobozhansk direction: the border area near the Kursk region is still in focus. Military incidents continue on both sides of the border.
3–The Oskol front: points of tension are Novoselovskoye and the Ploshchanka area. Thanks to the war correspondents there was a clarification of our control zone: The Russian Army controls the Prylesnoye hotel complex just opposite Belogorovka (LNR).
4–The Artyomovsk direction: fighting continues along the entire length of the front line from Belogorovka to the Nikolaevka north of Soledar, with a gradual advance by the Russian Army. Confirmations have emerged that the Bakhmutka river is being crossed in two places: north of Blagodatnoye, where the strongholds of the Ukrainian forces are being stormed, as well as near the E-40 motorway,
Fighting is claimed to have begun in the south-east of Paraskovievka. Fighting for Krasnaya Gora continues.
In Artyomovsk, the front is reported to be advancing in the Myasokombinat (Meat packing plant) area and fighting is noted along the 2nd Alebastrovy Lane.
To the south, fighting continues behind Kleshcheyevka, with the Ukrainians trying to slow down the Russian advance towards Krasny and the corresponding route to Chasov Yar. In fact, the only safe road to Artyomovsk is the road through Artyomovskoye.
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Tactical Operational Report from Vladislav Ugolny on 24 January 2023, Part II
5–The Donetsk direction: the front line is as stable as ever. There are reports of advances in Vodyanoye to the west, along the Gagarina Street, but there is no visual confirmation at this time.
6–The Zaporozhye direction: Kamenskoye is still in the grey zone. The Orekhov and Gulyai Pole sections of the front are unchanged. In the Velikaya Novoselovka area the situation is unknown, with reports of active artillery work.
A third attempt to capture Ugledar has been launched, and the Russian troops have tentatively occupied the cottage sector of Nikolsky and Pavlovka, and have also advanced to Prechistovka.
7–The front line along the Dnieper River remains unchanged.
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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Chronicle of a special military operation
for January 24, 2023
🔻 Border territories of the Russian Federation:
◾️ The Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped an explosive device from a UAV on the village of Gornal, Sudzhansky district. Two people received injuries of varying severity as a result of the impact.
🔻Starobelsk direction:
Positional battles continue on the Kupyansko-Svatovsky sector of the front. Both sides are engaged in artillery duels and reconnaissance in force. In the area of Novoselovsky, Russian fighters hit the accumulation of enemy manpower with an accurate artillery strike.
🔻Soledar direction:
▪️In the Soledar sector, paratroopers of the Russian Armed Forces are fighting on the outskirts of Krasnaya Gora. In an attempt to slow down the offensive, Ukrainian formations blew up one of the spans of the bridge near Paraskoviivka.
▪️In Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC, with the support of aviation, is slowly pushing through the defensive lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine along Sovkhoznaya Street in the north-east of the city.
🔻Luhansk People's Republic:
▪️Ukrainian formations fired at Rubizhne with 155-mm guns in the evening. The building of the cafe was damaged, there were no casualties.
🔻Donetsk People's Republic:
▪️Ukrainian units fired rockets from the HIMARS MLRS at the railway station in Ilovaisk. The railway network and a warehouse in the depot area were damaged, two people were injured.
➖Several houses were destroyed in the Kievsky and Kuibyshevsky districts of Donetsk, as well as in Oleksandrivka. One person died and two were injured.
🔻Donetsk direction (map):
▪️Soldiers of the "Somalia" detachment ousted the enemy from superior heights north of Vodyany, forcing the Armed Forces of Ukraine to retreat from the village. Ukrainian units of the 11th battalion of the 59th brigade lost a large number of personnel and retreated to the second line of defense
➖To prevent the collapse of the defense, the command of the Ukrainian forces is urgently transferring marines from the 501st battalion of the 36th infantry regiment. A pair of Mi-8 helicopters provides them with fire support in the Vodiane area. The enemy is expecting a further offensive by Russian troops in the area of Pervomaisky, Maryinka, Krasnogorovka and Nevelskoye.
🔻Donetsk-Zaporozhye direction (map):
▪️At the Orekhovsky sector, the Russian Armed Forces are probing the enemy’s defenses at the Novoandreevka-Novodanilovka line. The Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to draw up special forces reserves and additional anti-tank crews to the site.
▪️In the Pologovsky sector, Russian troops are advancing towards Gulyai-Polye, having driven the enemy out of several strongholds near Malinovka. To counter the advancing orders, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are saturating the front with anti-aircraft missiles for MANPADS.
▪️In the Ugledar sector, the Marine Corps units and 7 OBTF broke through the defensive lines of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the dacha area west of Nikolsky.
➖Russian troops are advancing on Ugledar itself from the west and south, which came as a complete surprise to the enemy. Part of the garrison holding the defense was withdrawn to the area of the Yuzhno-Donbass mine No. 1 to make up for losses.
🔻 Southern Front. Kherson direction: (map)
▪️Early this morning, Ukrainian units made an attempt to land in the Korsunka area on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region. APU on five boats landed on the shore. Three boats were sunk while still in the water, the landing enemy units were destroyed in the village of Korsunki. On the right bank of the Dnieper, the RF Armed Forces destroyed 5 enemy armored vehicles and up to 30 personnel.
➖This is probably not the last attempt, and in the future there will only be more of them. The next landing should be expected on the Kinburn Peninsula and in the area of New Kakhovka.
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🇺🇦 About mass layoffs among top Ukrainian officials
In Ukraine, there has been a series of high-profile resignations in key government bodies, among law enforcement agencies and regional administrations On the eve of personnel changes in the state apparatus, Vladimir Zelensky announced.
The highest-ranking figure who lost his post was the deputy head of the President's Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko. He lost his position by writing a statement "of his own free will."
🔻 What caused the reshuffle of this magnitude?
▪️Many attribute the incident to increased pressure from the collective West (primarily the United States, Great Britain and Canada) on the Ukrainian authorities due to the worsening situation with corruption.
According to the Ukrainian media, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) prepared several criminal cases against Tymoshenko on bribery and embezzlement.
▪️NABU is a specialized body created by directive in Ukraine at the direction of the West, the formal purpose of which is to identify corruption crimes among the highest officials of the country.
▪️But in Ukrainian conditions, NABU is just a cog in a big corruption machine. Regardless of who occupies the post of head of the bureau, he will also be a participant in corruption schemes and an informed person. The department performs a decorative function, creating the appearance of fighting bribery.
🔻Then what's the matter?
From a political technology point of view, the louder the resignation, the more “soft bedding” you can provide for your person. Dismissals, suspensions and dismissals in the conditions of Ukrainian reality are dictated by various reasons:
▪️Remove in the shadow of persons who took part in corruption schemes.
The Ukrainian authorities have incomparably less access to the main volumes of allocated funds, "kickbacks" for military contracts, direct "cuts" on various projects than those who formally provide these funds.
Most of the money laundered in the Ukrainian conflict ends up, first of all, in the pockets of the main donors - the persons responsible for distributing the money tranches, representatives of the military departments of the collective West.
But Ukrainian functionaries know who from the western side and in what capacity participated in such schemes. And now it is an attempt, including to clean up the ends.
▪️The need to pick up the "golden parachute".
Regardless of how long the Ukrainian conflict lasts, whether it is nearing completion or not, the golden rule applies: if you steal yourself, let others steal. Through corruption schemes, it is necessary to lead as many “own” people as possible, and a kind of “rotation” is realized, among other things, through such high-profile resignations.
🔻What's next?
Now they will try to remove most of the actors in one way or another from the public space, and what will happen to them next is unknown. Someone will be able to go abroad, someone will simply be forgotten, someone may even be able to get a third-rate sinecure.
For some, the fate may turn out to be more unenviable: in the context of discussions about corruption, the version of the premeditated murder of Denis Monastyrsky only seems conspiracy theories. After all, he headed the Ministry of the Interior and was aware of most of the situation in the country.
And regardless of the situation on the battlefield, now is the perfect time to clean up and renew the political field and a kind of “rotation”. Dashing trouble began, as they say.
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Combat Operational Report for January 25, 2023, from Vladislav Ugolny
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Briefly: fighting on the flanks of Artyomovsk, the Russian offensive on Ugledar.
1—Belarusian border - no changes.
2—Slobozhansk direction: incidents continue on both sides of the state border. The densest cluster is between the Kursk and Sumy regions.
3—Oskol frontline: the front line is unchanged, the main points of tension are still the same: Novoselovskoye, Ploshchanka - Chervonopopovka, Chervonaya Dubrova and the forested areas surrounding it.
4—Artyomovsk direction: there have been no changes around Seversk. Between Soledar and Artyomovsk the cracking of the Ukrainian defense along the Blagodatnoye - Paraskoviyivka - Krasnaya Gora - the "Stupka station” district of Artyomovsk continues.
Earlier the Russian Army’s traversing of the Bakhmutka river was confirmed. In Artyomovsk itself, there has been an advance along the Patrice Lumumba Street, with the Russians advancing west of the Trubny Stavok (lake in Artyomovsk). South of Artyomovsk, the AFU is trying to slow down the Russian advance to Krasny with counter-attacks.
5—Donetsk direction: front line unchanged, still waiting for visual confirmation of our advance at Vodyanoye.
6—Zaporozhye direction: the third attempt to capture Ugledar is progressing more successfully than in the past. After capturing the Nikolskoye cottage/dacha sector today, the Russians occupied the Uglegorsk dachas, which are on the road between Ugledar itself and its two mines. This is a key road for supplies.
From Pavlovka the Russians advanced northward, traversing the river and occupying the cowsheds and grain elevator, with a further advance on the southwestern edge of Ugledar.
To the west, near Velikaya Novoselka, Gulyai Pole and Orekhov, artillery pressure on the enemy continues. Kamenskoye is still in the gray zone.
7—The front along the Dnieper River: the front line is unchanged, the AFU has intensified attempts to send DRGs across the Dnieper to the Novaya Kakhovka area.
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