The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 15th January 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time).
Sloboda Front
includes the area of between Oskil and Aydar river
Svatove direction
- Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions in the area of Makiivka and Ploschanka. Neither attack was successful.
Siverskyi Donets
overview map of Slovyansk, Kramatorsk, Bakhmut and Lysychansk vicinity
- The enemy attempted to push Ukrainian forces away from Chervonopopivka and the recently gained positions near Kreminna. They didn’t succeed.
- Ukrainian defenders repelled Russian attack on both Bilohorivka settlement.
- Russian forces conducted a recon by force in the area of Verkhnokamyanske and Spirne. They retreated upon contact.
- Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions in the direction of Rozdolivka, without success.
Bakhmut Front
includes the vicinity of Bakhmut
- Wanger mercenaries managed to advance into the western outskirts of Soledar and captured Salt Mine no. 7.
- The capture of the salt mine marks the end of the battle of Soledar for now.
- Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian attack in Soledar and partially towards Krasna Hora. The enemy advanced and controls the area alongside railway between Krasna Hora and Soledar
- Russian forces attacked Ukrainian positions near Klishchiivka and Mayorks. Neither attack was successful.
Note: Sil is actually part of Soledar town, but given the fact that Ukrainian General Staff reports Sil and Soledar separately, I’ll keep it the same way.
Bakhmut City
the city of Bakhmut
- The enemy advanced into the Bakhmut outskirts east of Tavr Meet Plant.
- Russian troops also made gains in the south-eastern outskirts and reached the nearby pond.
- The advance visually confirms that Russians fully control Ivanhrad.
Avdiivka Front
includes the vicinity of Avdiivka
- Russians attempted to break through Ukrainian lines near Novobakhmutivka and Krasnohorivka. Both attacks were repulsed.
- The enemy attacked Ukrainian positions near Vodyane, without success.
Donetsk Front
includes the center and southern part of Donetsk Oblast
- Heavy fighting persist in Marinka.
- The enemy assaulted towards Pobieda and Velyka Novosilka, but Ukrainian defenders managed to repel both attacks.
Zaporizhzhia Front
includes the Zaporizhzhia Oblast
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
- No change on the ground during the past 48 hours.
Kalanchak Front
includes the left bank of Dnipro river south of Kherson and Kakhovka
- No change on the ground during the past 48 hours.
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Pls if this person will give in next summary other stupid comment dont respond only give symbol ♡
Funny, That’s a Wagner flag not a Russian flag. Just wondering whether Jerome should start using a different color for the Wagner group.
Ahaha guys do not feed this troll ….. John “cock” is really a “c**k” but if he is happy with the sole “victory” of his ruSSians masters since 8 monthslet it be happy…. It is funny to read such pathetic comments from him
I’d just ignore such actors and let them waste their time instead of wasting yours. Focus on refuting entities who infiltrate confusing narratives because they are more dangerous. After banning, they will be back under a new name, and no, their IP address will not help banning the ones who are backed by some stakeholders. Thanks to Jerome for his enduring and meticulous work.
Jerome, please ban this idiot, it’s ruzzian bot.
Did you come here just to provoke people or what is your point? Apart from the fact that I personally feel arrogance and condescension from your posts, I have the feeling that you have come here just to boost your ego. I have seen your other posts and the same thing was felt there. You take great pleasure in pointing out where Ukrainians have fallen or what has gone wrong for them. If you are… Read more »
If you are a man from the West and you are so happy about it, you are ashamed of yourself because if it wasn’t for those heroes who are standing firm and fighting there, there are holes in your house from Russian bullets and you are somewhere in the woods being tortured by those orcs and they are stealing your washing machine.
you realy believe that the west global elites wants anything good for the ukraine? they give a shit about you ukrainian ppl. you are just usefull idiots for them. ppl who let themself manipulate by west elites and die for the wallstreet. Imagine the ukraine will win, then maybe your country will be in 10 years the same lost fucked up country like germany … . Be wise, not trust the west elites
3rd time: Propaganda, obviously. Pure Kremlin narrative. Does not contribute whatsoever to what is intended by this website.
Busy people them “Eleonora” :-]
I don’t know what the USA is trying to achieve, but we in Central and Eastern Europe remember the domination of Russia and understandably do not want it (and we are also a Slavic country). That is why we are helping the defensive war in Ukraine. We are not about breaking up Russia, but only about it obeying international laws and behaving decently to its neighbors.
you should start to inform yourself, or just take a look to german cities and propaganda medias. its the hell on earth. that is what you will get when the west elites will win. a mixture of “breave new world” and “1984”. i will stop writing here, i just wanted to tell all you brave loungeWarriors, that the real brave ukrainian ppl and soldiers sadly die for the wrong side.
They don’t die for any party or side, but for their own country. They want their country to remain whole (as guaranteed by the powers including Russia) and they want to go their own way. It’s that simple.
just never stop to inform yourself by independend sources, doubt the mainstream and system medias. You all are able to think by yourself. So not let you fool by the west blink blink propaganda. Take care
Gave up (or said they would) after strongly backing set of Kremlin narratives. Check out today’s collection of their posts on this page to confirm.
c#nt
My fck, you have a wicked warped mindset. Exactly what Ukrainians are fighting against. Gloating in death and destruction, pathetic!
the problem is not Russia, the problem is the US and the green transhumanistic ideology of globalization which want this war and caused this war. The tragedy is that so many ukrainian and russian ppl die for that fatal and greedy powerplayers. The ukrainian ppl should help Putin to fight the west global elites. We all should help Putin by this.
Propaganda, obviously. Pure Kremlin narrative. Highly disputed opinion.
you bring no argument, you just just insult, that is what the groupies of the globalist agenda always do, because you have no arguments, meanwhile more and more ukrainian ppl die for the wallstreet
Ukrainian people are dying defending their homeland and due to shelling by the Russian army. If Russia had not provoked and militarily/financially supported the uprising in 2014, there would have been peace. So it provoked an uprising and thus subsequently justified an attack on a country that guaranteed the inviolability of its borders (including Crimea) in 1994 in Budapest.
the US and the EU will destroy the ukrainian homeland, as they did with all the homelands of the west. Take a look to germany, the medias are censored and full of green-left propaganda, the city are full of islamic migrants. germany is no homeland anymore its simply just done. That will happen also to the Czech and also to the Ukraine
If I had to choose, I would rather live in Germany (Switzerland, Norway, Croatia…) than in Russia. For example, there are more Muslims living in Russia than in any country in the EU, I don’t see a difference here.
And we in Central and Eastern Europe have no problem helping refugees from the same cultural and religious area (for example, Ukrainians), but we do not want to take Islamic refugees,
As I said, a waste of time – your time, too. I trust I didn’t offend anybody. Please point out to if otherwise.
well said, John, thank you for your true words of wisedom
We in the Czech Republic usually do not understand the struggle for Ukraine as a struggle of the West against Russia, but as Russian aggression against a country that wanted to go its own way.
Russia did to Ukraine what Hitler’s Germany did to Czechoslovakia. It used its minority to start a rebellion, and then they wanted to occupy the whole of Ukraine, or at least tear off some areas from.
For us, it is a moral duty to support the weaker defender against an aggressive attacker. Likewise, the USSR during II. World War received huge military aid from the USA and England to withstand the first years of the war, before the factories behind the Urals started churning out huge amounts of weapons.
its viceversa, the US want to occupy the ukraine. And the sad thing is, the ukraine ppl have no clue what they will expect, when the US will succeed. A life without roots and traditions, as workslaves for the big american money, full of green ideology, call it gender, transhumanism, migration of islam, digital money, total observation, social creditsystems … . ppl become isolated and depressed
Each country can decide which way it wants to go. And no one should defend it, especially not with military force. Every country has its problems and no political system is perfect, perhaps I don’t like the European Green Deal and consider it a mistake (that’s why we in the Czech Republic still have nuclear power plants and want to develop them), but Europe is still better and freer than Russia.
Please be aware of https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-326-summary/#comment-6634 and https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-326-summary/#comment-6648 above for quite different tone and content by Mr. “John Cock” and how “he” is tuning in to Kremlist narrative of globalization stressed by “Eleonora” today. Probably due to World Economic Forum taking place at Davos this week.
Ukraine gives Russia list of names of 800 seriously injured servicemembers held in Russian captivity, demanding their unconditional return in accordance with Geneva Convention: Local News Outlet via Suspilne
The number of POWs on both sides is another issue that’s wrapped in the fog of war…
And Russia has apparently provided a list of 200 servicemen held in Ukrainian captivity. Interesting 4 times less. That’s according to the Turkish Ombudsman who is trying to facilitate new POW exchanges.
UKR MOD morning report: Ukrainian military repelled Russian attacks near Bilohorivka of Luhansk region and Verkhnokamyanske, Krasnopolivka, Spirne, Sil, Bakhmut, Klischiyivka, Novobakhmutivka, Velyka Novosilka, Prechystivka, Krasnohorivka, Pobyeda, Novomykhaylivka, Vodyane, Mayorsk and Maryinka of Donetsk region
Prechystivka is intriguing. Potential new front?
700 000 Ukrainians mobilized, tons of NATO ammunitions and equipments but they still cannot advance or launch counter offensives to Zaporija ? Donetsk city ? Melitopol ? What are they waiting for ? Cold and frozen mud to move the vehicles or more ammunition from us ?
The warmer weather (which means mud is not frozen) explains a lot. Russian mobilization also helps them, even if they are throwing mobiks to the meat grinder just to slow down Ukrainian attacks (or advance a few km to claim symbolic victory).
But if the West (read, Germany) finally decides do give the heavy stuff Ukrainians need for counter-attacks (tanks and IFVs), that would be something.
Exact, I do not understand the slowness of Germany … I mean everyone else is giving or promising fast deliveries of heavy weapons but Germany is like a snail… what do they fear ? I mean all their equipement will be better in UKR hands than rusting in a obscure depot for thousand years in Germany…..
Because we don’t want the headline “German tanks roll against Russia” again? Germans do have a very (too?) sensitive antenna for these historical allegories. In addition, Chancellor Scholz seems to have some serious legal problems and one of the key witnesses sits high&dry in Moscow under the protection of the Kreml
But we (in Czechia) think that it is only the traditional alliance between Germany and Russia, which has always applied to the division of countries between them. German tanks against Russia did not occur to me, I see it more like Ribbentrop–Molotov…
The reality (about which nobody is talking about) is that G demilitarised itself so eagerly in the beginning of the century (but you know “evil militaristic NATO!”) that today Slovakia (working metaphor) would conquer it with no problem. Add decades of negligence, political messing around and RU substantial influence. Bundeswehr is a mess. The tragic story is: there is no tanks to give.
The problem is not so much that they don’t wan’t to give their tanks; the problem is that they are blocking other countries that are willing to give theirs !
I am pretty confident that we will let others send lepards within this week, at least. My guess is that we will send some too. Yes, concerning our military stocks we are actually stretching them hard to keep up. In total support measured in money we are second only to usa. Are we slow? Oh yes! But we have a ‘nie wieder’ to get over and we stand with ukraine. Yes, looking at you, france.
Wirklich? Das ist gut. Deutschlands Haltung ist diesmal wichtig. Darf ich fragen: warum glauben Sie, dass Deutschland der Ukraine Panzer geben wird?
Ja Deutschland MUSS so viel Waffen und Rüstung zu UKR geben ! Die Nachbarn ( Poland, Slovakei und Frankreich ) zeigen dass sie “Cojones” haben und dass sie UKR unterstützen …. DE scheint absolut schwach aus….
Putin is not the problem, the US and the german green party is the problem. They want a new global dictatorship, Putin fight for the freedom, the ukrainian should switch the sides and fighte against the US and the green-left germany. We all should support the fight for freedom against the US and the green totalitaristic ideas.
Interessant dass Frankreich es in die Aufzählung mit Polen schafft. Dazwischen liegen Welten und mit Sicherheit auch Deutschland.
Wir werden Panzer schicken, weil es nach den Lieferungen der Britten unmöglich ist Polen die Lieferung zu verbieten. Wenn damit deutsche Panzer sowieso in die Ukraine gehen, ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann auch wir es tun.
Es macht dann aber politisch wenig Sinn
noch zu warten. Den Gruenen und der FDP kann das scholz dann kaum erklären und den europäischen Partnern im Osten sowieso nicht.
again german tanks shall kill ppl in easteurope in the name of a totalitaristic ideology … What is wrong with this country germany?
2nd time: Propaganda, obviously. Pure Kremlin narrative. Does not contribute whatsoever to what is intended by this website.
Their history.
Well, this is a war of attrition. A soldier can only die once, so the Ukrainians are wise to stick to their tactics. In addition, I believe that NATO countries won’t give away all this stuff without having a say how/where/when it is used (as in: there is a lot of military advisory from western countries)
Please write to Zaluzny about your masterful plan.
If you really look at the numbers (not prole mises) the help until now is kind of homeopatic. Enough to keep going, even muster an assault on unprepared and stupidly arrogant and incompetently led forces (Kharkiv) but not enough to get even real parity in hardware.
So – yes. They need more. Really *more*. –>
and there are serious logistical issues to master, too.
real IFVs (‘boxes on tracks’ were better than nothing and they are useful, still – they are not up to the job needed), tanks and aviation (about we “the concerned West”) are still shy about. There is some progress – every time when RU “eliminates” another 3-y old “nazi” something is pushed on the rails. How many of these “nazis” must die?
Something I do not understand : Ukrainian forces succeed to push in Izium / Lyman and Kherson region very fast and with tremendous results, regaining lost territories ten times faster than the russians did…. But now I see that Ukrainian forces are not are stuck and cannot go through russian lines anymore ? Is this an issue with logistic and winter conditions ? Mud and rain preventing offensives
More pro ruzzian troops.
Several factors: (1) Ukraine’s successes were more Russia’s mistakes; (2) more Russian troops on the ground now; (3) better coordination between Russian units (although problems persist); (4) “Stupid” Russians can actually learn
more meat in the fry. To make even very weak unit to r
–> missclick, sorry –>
to rout you need to inflict some damage. You also have less opportunity to manouver if the troop saturation is higher. Weather impaires both sides. Ukr is slowly going into Kreminna but slowly.
(if they would throw few thousands convicts into the grinder, you’d see “better progress”)
I don’t think Russia’s recent gains are surprising. After they successfully retreated from Kherson, the mobilization, and months of bloody battle in Donbas, Russians managed to advance, just like what they have done after retreating from Kyiv. The question is, can they take the advantage of this and force the Ukrainians to abandon fortified cities (Bakhmut and Avdiivka) by enveloping?
Remember – Routs are not retreats.
You just believe what you want to believe
And volunteers are not mercenaries.
Ukrainian retreat tactically … Soledar and Bakhmut are only small cities without any strategical importance…. Russians will face the harsh reality of Ukrainian warriors when trying to push to Kramatorsk and Sloviansk…no need to stay in Soledar, just winning time with fixing Wagner groups together and bomb them afterwards
If Bakhmut and Soledar are “ only small cities without any strategical importance“, why do thousand of Ukranian soldiers die for it?
Please provide source for “*thousands* [for Bakhmut and Soledar]”
Well it’s clearly not 200 or 300… The level and intensity of fighting is such that thousands is not an exaggeration. You don’t really need hard evidence. There are plenty of articles in the western press.
I am really not impressed by ‘Western Press’, the bar for journalism is quite low nowadays even in supposedly prestigeous papers. Also the Western Gaze is very strong in these – not always in such ridiculoius ways as in case of Mearsheimer (or completely clownish/clinical like Petersen) in which case the most intelligent in competent parts are spaces between the words – still the quality —>
—> leaves a lot to be desired.
A lot of this is a part of degradation of audience problem and intentional quality downgrade but the matter of particularity of Western (in numerous forms, ‘The West’ is not a singular object) imaginations should not be underestimated.
Hundreds.. yes it is believeable. If you say ‘thousands’ (in these last weeks) there would not be a many left. –>
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and there is a question how much of the loses are irreversible, question about late loses (RU has horrific records there) etc.
I agree with your diagnostic of the press. Standards are falling in line with the quality and level of education of the public at large. As for losses, I tend to believe in the meatgrinder allegory, which suggests exceptionally high rates of irretrievable losses, but that’s a subjective view obviously.
250 ukr casualties per day is estimated on the eastern front. Say 200 WIA and 50 KIA per day. It all mounts up.
Thousands ? Send me sources and reports … yes they suffer heavy casualties but there are only ten UKR bataillons deployed around Bakhmut / Soledar, about 10 000 men…. It means that this area has very minor importance and the defense against Russians cannon fodder wave is done to concentrate Wagner and mobiks in these area when other more important occuped places will be liberated in the spring
What kind of Russian gains are we talking about? The non-complete conquest of a completely destroyed settlement of only 10,000 people (almost all of them left before the Russian advancement) and a bunch of small one-story houses after almost one year? Anyone would be embarrassed to put that down in a resume of military achievements. FYI Kharkiv oblast more than 2.5 million, Kherson city 300,000
Ruzzia has no gains and victories to speak of in ukraine, bring death povery and destruction. Whatever Ruzzia manages to occupy they’ve turned into poverty, depopulated wastelands and rubble they won’t bother restoring. That is the sad disgusting legacy and doctrine of a pety Ruzzian KGB bureaucrat leader stuck in the cold war era, with schooling in subversion, blackmail and cohersion.
Right, they lost much more than what they have got, but at least the Russians can threaten Bakhmut and Sieversk this time. I am not saying that Russians are going to win this war, however, well, they may successfully break through the Ukrainian line of defense this time.
I have to disagree. Storming and taking a well-defended city of 12.31 km² in 2 weeks is no small achievement in military terms. The number of civilians is irrelevant to measure success
wm… you should check your calendar. They were attacking the Soledar *much* longer than ‘2 weeks’.
I meant from the moment they reached the outskirts and the onslaught started. I know they started bombing months ago.
they were ‘on the outskirts of Soledar’ since September, give or take a few days. And I understand the emotions of the last weeks but that was another – this time successful – of such operations. Soledar, just like Bakhmut were stormed with various (until now) effects literaly for months in the ‘throw enough shit and smth will break eventually’ fashion.
Thers has been solid fighting at bakmutski àmd soledar for months.
I believe it wad the TOS-1A thermobaric rockets destroye ukr defence lines.
Horrific and devastating weapon.
Allways falsifying the reality… are you an iSW analyst ?