Ukrainian forces repel 13 enemy attacks in past day

31.01.2023 09:14

Ukrinform

Ukraine's defense forces have repelled attacks by Russian invaders outside 13 settlements in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions over the past 24 hours. They hit three enemy command posts, eight Russian positions and two ammunition depots.

According to Ukrinform, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said this on its Facebook page.

"In the past 24 hours, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by occupiers outside the settlements of Novoselivske, Bilohorivka in the Luhansk region and Yampolivka, Spirne, Krasna Hora, Paraskoviivka, Bakhmut, Klishchiivka, Ivanivske, Avdiivka, Vodiane, Pervomaiske and Vuhledar in the Donetsk region," the report said.

The General Staff noted that in the past day, the aircraft of the Ukrainian defense forces struck four enemy concentration areas, with Ukrainian rocket and artillery units hitting three command posts, four military personnel and equipment concentration areas and two ammunition depots of the invaders.

According to the General Staff, the enemy does not stop destroying Ukraine's critical infrastructure, launching missile strikes and shelling civilian objects and homes of the civilian population with artillery.

In the last day, the enemy launched three air and four missile strikes. Russian forces also used MLRS more than 60 times to attack residential buildings in Kherson and Ochakiv. Civilian casualties were recorded.

"The threat of air and missile strikes throughout Ukraine remains high," the General Staff said.

On January 30, Russian troops shelled the border areas of the Chernihiv and Sumy regions with mortars, with more than 30 hits recorded.