Over the past day, our defenders repelled enemy attacks in the area of \u200b\u200b13 settlements, the General Staff reported.. In particular, attempts by the Russians to attack ended unsuccessfully in the areas of Belogorovka, Chervonopopovka, Kuzminy, Luhansk region and Soledar, Belogorovka, Podgorodny, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Vodyanoye, Kurdyumovka, Mayorsk, Marinka and Pobeda, Donetsk region.

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In addition, our soldiers shot down two enemy reconnaissance UAVs of the Orlan type..

In turn, units of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the command post, five areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment of the enemy, as well as two positions of anti-aircraft missile systems of the invaders.

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Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian military leadership had decided to strengthen the defense of Bakhmut and Soledar, including the movement of additional units to this sector of the front and increasing the intensity of enemy fire.

On the evening of January 9, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar announced that the Russian occupation troops had launched a powerful assault on Soledar in the Donetsk region. According to her, the invaders attacked the corpses of their own soldiers and massively used artillery, multiple launch rocket systems and mortars, covering even their own fighters with fire..