One sharpshooting Ukrainian paratrooper from 79th Tavria Separate Airborne Assault Brigade single handedly took out four Russian armored vehicles to help halt a Russian advance on the Tavria front, the brigade reported on Facebook.
The liberation of Soledar, Artemovsk (Bakhmut), and Maryinka is significant both for security and for the complete liberation of the Donetsk People s Republic (DPR), Denis Pushilin, the DPR head, told Sputnik.
Serhiy Popko, the head of Kiev City Military Administration, said Sunday that some 63% of the city s energy infrastructure was damaged or destroyed in 2023.
One Russian tank, three armored personnel carriers, and 30 soldiers were eliminated in an attack on Synkivka, Kharkiv Oblast, according to Ukraine’s ground forces commander Lt. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi on Dec. 28.
Russia’s potential capture of Marinka in Donetsk Oblast represents a limited tactical gain and doesn’t allow for any operational significant advance unless Russian forces have considerably improved their ability to conduct rapid mechanized forward movement, “which they show no signs of having done,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.