Enemy losses in the Krasnolimansky direction of the special operation exceeded 150 people per day, said the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

According to the agency, in this direction, Russian troops launched artillery strikes on two assault detachments, accumulations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Five enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups were also destroyed.

In total, in this direction, the enemy lost, in addition to 150 servicemen killed and wounded, an armored personnel carrier, seven armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks in a day.

In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian military inflicted fire damage on the units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​several settlements of the Kharkov region.

During the day, the enemy lost 40 personnel and two vehicles.

In addition, the RF Armed Forces destroyed an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group.

In the Donetsk direction, Russian troops continued offensive operations.

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine here amounted to more than 100 servicemen, a tank, four armored combat vehicles and five vehicles, the Ministry of Defense stressed.

In the South-Donetsk direction, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine made unsuccessful attempts to counterattack the positions of Russian troops.

All counterattacks are repulsed, the enemy is driven back to their original positions.

Over 180 servicemen, five tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, three armored fighting vehicles and ten vehicles were destroyed during the day as a result of artillery strikes on concentrations of manpower and equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

  • The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation - about the course of the special operation in Ukraine

The missile troops and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces hit 83 artillery units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in 107 districts in a day.

On the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), two US-made AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery radars were destroyed.

In the DPR and the Zaporozhye region, five depots of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were also hit.

In addition, in the region of Kramatorsk (DPR), a warehouse of rocket and artillery weapons of a unit of foreign mercenaries was destroyed.

During the counter-battery fight in the Artyomovsk region (DPR), a position was opened and a launcher of the Uragan multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) was destroyed.

Three self-propelled howitzers 2S1 "Gvozdika" were destroyed at firing positions in Kharkiv and Zaporozhye regions.

In the DPR, the D-20 howitzer was destroyed along with the crew.

Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down MiG-29 and Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the region of Kramatorsk (DPR) and the settlement of Novopavlovka (Nikolaev region).

Air defense systems destroyed six Ukrainian drones in a day.

In total, during the special operation in Ukraine, 357 aircraft, 199 helicopters, more than 2.8 thousand drones, 399 anti-aircraft missile systems, over 7.4 thousand tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 968 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, more 3.7 thousand field artillery pieces and mortars, as well as over 7.9 thousand units of special military vehicles.

The work of air defense systems 

The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said on the morning of January 4 that two drones had been shot down near the Belbek airfield.

According to him, the UAVs were shot down over the sea, all services are operating normally.

In turn, the governor of the Rostov region, Vasily Golubev, said that on the evening of Tuesday, January 3, air defense systems shot down an object in the region in the form of a ball, which was at an altitude of 2.5 km.

Kadyrov - about the soldiers who returned from captivity

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that about 200 servicemen returned from Ukrainian captivity in December.

“With the active assistance of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, who oversees the work of the deputies in this direction, in December last year we managed to release about 200 Russian servicemen,” Kadyrov wrote on Telegram.

He added that the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, provided each of these soldiers with clothing, food and everything necessary.