The united group of Russian troops in the area of ​​the special military operation from 12:00 Moscow time on January 6 began to observe the ceasefire along the entire line of contact between the parties in Ukraine.

It will be valid until January 8th.

This was announced during a briefing by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov.

“Despite the observance today, January 6, from 12 o’clock Moscow time by the Russian group of troops of the ceasefire regime, the Kyiv regime continued shelling settlements and positions of Russian troops,” he said.

According to him, four mortar shelling of Russian positions was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasnolimansky direction, three more artillery shelling was recorded in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Belogorovka (LPR), while eight artillery shots were fired from the settlement of Novopavlovka (Zaporozhye region).

“The positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from which the shelling was carried out, were suppressed by the return fire of the Russian troops,” the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry said.

According to the DPR representative office in the JCCC, Ukrainian armed formations fired at Donetsk three times starting from 12:00 Moscow time on January 6, firing a total of ten shells of 155 mm caliber in the direction of the settlement of Kurakhovo - Petrovsky district of Donetsk and three more in the direction of the settlement of Tonenkoye - Kyiv Donetsk region.

Recall that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on behalf of Vladimir Putin, introduced a ceasefire from 12:00 on January 6 to 24:00 on January 7 along the entire line of contact in Ukraine.

This decision was made so that Orthodox people could attend church services.

Representatives of the Kyiv regime refused to observe the Christmas truce.

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Summary of NWO

The Ministry of Defense also spoke about the situation on the line of clashes.

So, in the Kupyansk direction over the past day, more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, two armored combat vehicles and two cars were destroyed.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, air strikes and artillery fire hit two assault groups and destroyed three sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The total losses of the enemy amounted to more than 60 Ukrainian fighters, three armored combat vehicles and four pickup trucks.

In the Donetsk direction, during the offensive and continuous fire damage, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 80 Ukrainian servicemen killed and wounded, two tanks, three infantry fighting vehicles and five vehicles.

In the South Donetsk direction, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, one tank, three armored combat vehicles and three pickup trucks were destroyed by air strikes, artillery fire and heavy flamethrower systems.

In addition, aviation, missile troops and artillery hit 65 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 102 districts, the command post of the 95th Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Krasny Liman (DPR) region.

Also destroyed were three depots of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR and the Kherson region, a launcher and a radar of the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system in the DPR.

Konashenkov said that during the counter-battery fight, a D-20 howitzer (DPR), an M-777 artillery system made in the USA (Zaporozhye region), counter-battery fighting radars made in the USA AN / TPQ-36 and AN / TPQ-50 (Kharkiv region) were destroyed and DNR).

In turn, Russian Aerospace Forces fighter aircraft shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, while air defense systems destroyed five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles and intercepted eight American HIMARS multiple rocket launchers.