Ministry of Defense: Russian Armed Forces destroyed several sabotage and reconnaissance groups

The Armed Forces (AF) of Russia destroyed several sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in the Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions, reported in his Telegram channel of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the daily summary.

Two sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed near Tabaevka and Pershotravnevo in the Kharkiv region, two more in the Novomikhailovka and Shevchenko regions in the Zaporozhye region, and one in the Shipilovka region of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR).

Operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery hit two ammunition depots near the settlements of Gornyak of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and Zeleny Gay, Zaporozhye region, the ministry said.

During the day, during the counter-battery fight, the American M777 artillery system, three D-20 howitzers, two 2S3 Akatsiya self-propelled howitzers, a D-30 howitzer and a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer, counter-battery combat stations AN / TPQ-36 and AN / were destroyed. TPQ-50.

Also, over the past 24 hours, four drones were shot down by means of air defense (air defense), and seven rockets of the HIMARS and Alder multiple launch rocket systems were intercepted.

On the night of January 11, the founder of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the entire territory of Soledar was under the control of the fighters. He noted that other units did not participate in the storming of the city. On the evening of the same day, Prigozhin once again stressed that Soledar had been completely liberated from the Ukrainian army. Now there is a cleaning of the city, in particular, salt mines, he specified.

January 13 at the Russian Ministry of Defense reportedthat Soledar was completely taken under the control of the Russian military, which is of great strategic importance for the further offensive. Also in the ministry clarifiedthat a heterogeneous group of Russian troops took part in the liberation of the city from the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, while the Wagner detachments carried out a direct assault on the city’s quarters.