On Friday, January 20, Russian troops advanced 7 km in the Zaporozhye direction.

This was stated by the chairman of the movement "We are together with Russia" Vladimir Rogov.

“The results of the day on the Zaporozhye Front: in a day our troops advanced to a depth of about 7 km.

In the process of the final liberation of at least seven settlements, ”he wrote in his Telegram channel.

The day before, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that in the Zaporozhye region, units of the Eastern Military District had liberated the settlement of Lobkove.

In total, during the day, the enemy lost up to 90 servicemen killed and wounded in this direction, four armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, an Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, as well as D-20 and D-30 howitzers.

Representatives of the Kyiv regime are increasingly trying to recruit employees of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

This was stated by adviser to the general director of Rosenergoatom Renat Karchaa in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“We know that recruitment of people from among the employees has been intensified.

There was a period when the special services of Ukraine calmed down relatively, and now a period of activation has begun.

Recruitment is carried out by various methods, including by phone,” Karchaa said.

According to him, this creates difficulties in working with personnel, but people still sign contracts: “There are already more than 3,000 such contracts.”

Earlier, Rosenergoatom reported that almost all of the most significant damage to the critical infrastructure of the Zaporozhye NPP, which appeared due to Ukrainian shelling, had been eliminated.

At the same time, the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, said that the safety of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is still under threat.

Question of Crimea

The readiness of the United States to support the Kyiv regime in its attempts to attack Crimea is an extremely risky step, dangerous both for Ukraine and for the whole world.

This opinion was expressed by Elon Musk.

“I fully support Ukraine, but a ruthless escalation is extremely dangerous for Ukraine and the whole world,” he wrote on Twitter.

Thus, Musk commented on an article by The New York Times, which cites the position of the White House that Ukraine may need additional forces to strike at the territory of Crimea.

The columnist for The American Conservative, Rod Dreher, also stated that the idea of ​​Washington about the possibility of the “capture” of Crimea by Ukrainian troops is insane.

In his opinion, the expansion of hostilities to the Crimean peninsula with American help would be a crushing provocation against Russia.

Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said that Washington is pushing Kyiv to commit terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation.

So the diplomat commented on the statements of the press secretary of the State Department about the possibility of Ukrainians to strike at Crimea using weapons supplied from the United States.

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The Kremlin has repeatedly noted that Crimea is an integral part of the Russian Federation and claims to Russian territory will receive a proper response. 

Mercenaries on the side of the Armed Forces

Mercenaries from the United States and Great Britain, who were ordered to shoot at civilians, are abandoned on Bolshoi Potemkin Island on the Dnieper in the Kherson region.

It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to an employee of law enforcement agencies.

“According to information received from sources in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, an American-British group of mercenaries, mostly snipers, drove to Bolshoi Potemkin Island in the Kherson region in order to terrorize the Russian-speaking population.

The victims of the murders of mercenaries are supposed to be passed off as those killed by the Russian army, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

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Artyomovsk

Washington recommended that the Kyiv regime withdraw troops from Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) in the Donetsk People's Republic in preparation for the spring offensive.

It is reported by AFP, citing a senior US official.

“The United States is advising Ukraine to withdraw these forces in order to re-equip and join US-led programs,” RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.

The source stressed that the retention of Artemovsk prevents Kyiv from “preparing for an offensive” in the spring.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation indicated that after the liberation of Soledar, Russian troops developed success in the direction of the northern outskirts of Artyomovsk (Bakhmut).