Ukrainian servicemen on the frontline in Donetsk region, January 7, 2023 (Photo: REUTERS / Anna Kudriavtseva)
The Russian Federation has deployed units of the Russian Guard in the Zaporozhye direction to maintain military discipline and prevent panic among the occupiers. Those who want to surrender are shot.
This was stated in the evening summary of the General Staff on Sunday 8 January.
So, on January 5, near Chistopolye, the Russians shot six people who expressed their position on the surrender to the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
In addition, the General Staff said that, in order to discredit the Ukrainian military leadership, the Russian Federation is spreading disinformation about the soldiers’ alleged preparation of fire damage from medical institutions in the Lugansk region, where wounded occupants are treated.
The Russian army is conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Liman directions, trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky. The Russians are focusing on capturing the Donetsk region within the administrative border, but to no avail.
The situation in the Volyn, Polessky, Seversky, Slobozhansky directions is without significant changes. The General Staff did not record any signs of the formation of enemy offensive groups on the territory of Belarus. In the last two, as well as in the Kupyansky, Limansky, Bakhmutsky, Avdeevsky, Zaporozhye, Kherson directions, the invaders fired on the areas of numerous settlements with different types of weapons.
During the day, Russian troops launched one missile and 19 air strikes, opened fire from MLRS more than ten times, including on civilian infrastructure.
On January 8, Ukrainian aviation attacked areas of enemy concentration ten times, and also twice hit the positions of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems. The fighters also destroyed three enemy drones, probably of the Orlan type, and three helicopters: one Mi-24 and one Ka-52 each, of which the type of another is being specified.
