AFU repel enemy attacks near 13 settlements in Ukraine’s east – General Staff

On January 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by Russian occupation forces near 13 towns and villages in the Luhansk and Donetsk Regions.

This follows from a statement by the General Staff of the AFU.

The command said that Russian troops are still trying to establish full control over the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk Regions. For this reason, the occupiers are concentrating their efforts on conducting offensive actions.

On Monday, January 2, the AFU repelled enemy attacks in the Luhansk Region (near Stelmakhivka, Makiyivka, Ploshanka, and Bilohorivka) and Donetsk Region (near Rozdolivka, Soledar, Chervona Hora, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Klishchiyivka, Kurdiumivka, Avdiyivka, and Mariyinka).

It is noted that the occupiers' troops are trying to improve their tactical position in the Lyman and Avdiyivka directions.

And in the direction of Novopavlovsk, the occupiers are strengthening the grouping of their troops with units that were withdrawn from the Kherson Region in November 2022.

In other parts of the front, Russian troops are defending previously occupied lines, trying to restrain the actions of the AFU.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, a day earlier the General Staff of the AFU announced that the Ukrainian military repelled Russian attacks in the areas of 11 settlements in the Luhansk and Donetsk Regions.

As earlier reported, several explosions were heard in occupied Sevastopol last night, the Russians announced alleged attacks by Ukrainian drones.