RU Attacks On 5 Fronts to No Avail; Explosions in Sevastopol, Yevpatoriia: UKR’s Air Command Sends Greetings to RU Invaders, Command Post Hit; UKR Repels 23 Attacks on Avdiivka Axis, Repels 7 RU Assaults on Kupiansk Axis; UKR Makes Marginal Advances in W Zaporizhzhia Region, LIVE UPDATES and MORE

Russian forces attack on 5 fronts, most actively on Avdiivka front, but to no avail – General Staff report:

Russian forces are continuing their efforts to drive Ukrainian units from their positions on the left (east) bank of the River Dnipro in Kherson Oblast and have also attempted to break through the Ukrainian defences in the vicinity of Avdiivka (Donetsk Oblast).

Source : General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook , information as of 06:00 on 4 January

Details : Within the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia Operational Strategic Group of Forces on the Kupiansk front , Ukrainian forces repelled 3 Russian assaults near Synkivka and to the east of Petropavlivka (Kharkiv Oblast).

On the Bakhmut front , Ukrainian forces repelled 4 Russian assaults in the vicinity of Bohdanivka and Andriivka (Donetsk Oblast).

Within the area of responsibility of the Tavriia Operational Strategic Group of Forces on the Avdiivka front , Ukrainian forces are continuing to repel Russian attempts to surround Avdiivka. Ukrainian forces are holding the line and inflicting significant losses on the Russians. Over the course of the past day, Ukraine’s Defence Forces repelled 13 Russian assaults in the vicinity of Novobakhmutivka, Stepove, and Avdiivka, and another 19 assaults in the vicinity of Sieverne, Pervomaiske and Nevelske (Donetsk Oblast).

On the Marinka front , Ukraine’s Defence Forces are continuing to hold the Russians back near Heorhiivka and Novomykhailivka (Donetsk Oblast), where they repelled 14 Russian assaults. —>READ MORE HERE

Explosions in Sevastopol and Yevpatoriia: Ukraine’s Air Command sends greetings to Russian invaders, command post hit:

Explosions in the temporarily occupied areas of Yevpatoriia and Sevastopol were part of a special operation carried out by Ukraine’s Air Force.

Source: Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Air Force Commander, on Telegram; Directorate of Strategic Communications of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine ( StratCom )

Quote: “On 2 January, the Ministry of Lies of the Russian Federation [the Defence Ministry – ed.] reported that Russian missiles had struck ‘a bunker containing Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s deputy and another nine generals of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’.

Hello to the invaders in Crimea!

I expect enemy propaganda to conjure up a similarly epic report from Sevastopol and Yevpatoriia on 4 January, and once again, I would like to thank the pilots of the Air Force and everyone who planned the operation for their impeccable combat work!”

Details: Most likely, this message refers to the successful hits on military facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea: part of the Russian air defence and a command post.

Update: The Strategic Communications Directorate of the Office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed that at around 15:00 on 4 January, the Defence Forces hit a command post of the Russian occupation forces near Sevastopol. —>READ MORE HERE

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