Russian troops are developing an offensive in the Donetsk direction.

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

“In the Donetsk direction, units of the Southern Military District, in cooperation with units of the airborne troops, continue offensive operations.

During the day, more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored personnel carrier and eight vehicles were destroyed in this direction, ”Konashenkov said.

At the same time, 30 Ukrainian servicemen, an armored combat vehicle and two pickup trucks of the 65th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 108th territorial defense brigade were liquidated in the South Donetsk direction.

In the Kupyansk direction, more than 30 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles and three vehicles of the 92nd Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 103rd Territorial Defense Brigade were destroyed by army aviation and artillery of the Western Military District.

In the Krasnolimansky direction, the enemy lost more than 75 servicemen, three tanks, five armored combat vehicles and a pickup truck of the 95th Air Assault Brigade and the 125th Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to a representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, operational-tactical aviation, missile troops and artillery of groups of the RF Armed Forces hit a warehouse of weapons, military and special equipment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​​​n.

Krasny Liman village (DPR), a hangar with military equipment of the 9th Special Purpose Regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine near the village

the village of Malokaterinovka (Zaporozhye region), as well as 79 artillery units in firing positions, manpower and military equipment in the 101st district.

During the counter-battery fight, the Ukrainian MLRS Grad combat vehicle and the 2A36 Giatsint-B howitzer in the Avdiivka area (DPR), the D-30 howitzer near Antonovka (DPR), the 2A65 Msta-B howitzer and the 2S3 self-propelled howitzer were destroyed "Acacia" in the areas of n.

settlements of Zaliznichnoe and Orekhovo (Zaporozhye region), self-propelled howitzer 2C1 "Gvozdika" near the village

settlement Engineering (Kherson region).

Air defense assets destroyed three Ukrainian drones and intercepted seven HIMARS and Uragan multiple rocket launchers.

Attacks on Sevastopol

The Governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that the air defense forces and the Black Sea Fleet repelled the attack of ten drones over the Black Sea on their way to the city.

“The air defense and the Black Sea Fleet shot down ten out of ten Ukro-pilots over the sea.

No objects either in the city or in the water area were affected.

Everything is calm in the city,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

Razvozhaev reported about the downing of the first Ukrainian UAV at 01:58 Moscow time on January 16.

Subsequent attacks took place from 11:00.

According to Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, the Kyiv regime thus denotes its military capabilities.

“Such attacks are addressed more to Western countries and to their internal audience: “Look, we don’t succeed on the line of contact, but we can do something else.”

They will still tell that this is much more important than what is happening on the line of contact, ”said the RT interlocutor.

Shelling of Donbass

The People's Militia of the DPR stated that the increase in the number of attacks on Donetsk by the Armed Forces of Ukraine was due to the receipt by the Ukrainian security forces of a new batch of missiles.

“They are not new in type, but simply from a new batch, but they need to try them out.

In Donetsk today, low cloud cover and fog, from the point of view of conducting aimed fire, the weather conditions are completely unsuitable, - said the representative of the department in a conversation with TASS.

“Of course, we will do everything to dispel their misconceptions about the safety of blind shelling of the city.”

On the morning of January 16, a number of settlements on the territory of the DPR were shelled using MLRS and NATO-caliber artillery.

So, in Donetsk, at least two people were killed, four more were injured.