The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that on December 30, the Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 10 Iranian drones and repulsed enemy attacks in areas of 15 settlements.
“Over the past day, the enemy launched 5 missile and 29 air strikes. 26 enemy air strikes hit civilian infrastructure. In particular, the invaders used 10 Shahed-136 UAVs, but they were all shot down. In addition, the enemy made 80 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems, and civilian settlements were also affected.
Over the past day, our soldiers repulsed the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka, Nevskoye, Chervonopopovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Belogorovka, Bakhmutskoe, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Klescheevka, New York, Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Avdeevka and Maryinka in the Donetsk region.
The situation remains stable in the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the formation of enemy offensive groupings has not been detected.
In the Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the areas of the settlements of Orlikovka, Semyonovka, Zhelezny Most, Buda-Vorobievskaya of the Chernihiv region were subjected to artillery and mortar shelling; Khodino, Atinskoye, Zapselye, Bolshaya Rybitsa, Pokrovka, Ryasnoe, Popovka in the Sumy region, as well as Glubokoe, Morokhovets, Green, Ternovaya, Staritsa, Gatishche, Volchansk, Bochkovo, Nesternoye, Olkhovatka, Chugunovka and Zarubinka of the Kharkiv region.
In the Kupyansk direction, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Kamenka, Novomlinsk, Dvurechnaya, Olshana, Kupyansk, Orlyanka, Kurilovka, Kotlyarovka and Tabaevka of the Kharkov region and Novoselovskoye and Stelmahovka – Luhansk.
In the Limansky direction, Ploschanka, Nevskoe and Dibrova in the Luhansk region, as well as Chervonopopovka, Yampolovka and Torskoe in the Donetsk region came under fire from the invaders.
In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy fired from tanks, mortars, cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Spirnoye, Berestovoye, Belogorovka, Soledar, Bakhmutskoye, Podgorodnoye, Yagodnoye, Bakhmut, Konstantinovka, Kleshcheevka, Andreevka, Belaya Gora, Kurdyumovka, Dilievka, Druzhba, Zheleznoye, Mayorsk and New York, Donetsk region.
Veseloye, Avdeevka, Nevelskoye, Krasnogorovka, Georgievka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka were hit by fire in the Avdiivka direction.
In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy fired at Ugledar, Prechistovka, Zolotaya Niva, Velyka Novoselka and Vremka in the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporozhye direction, enemy fire was recorded in the areas of the settlements of Temirovka, Poltavka, Gulyaipole, Dorozhnyanka, Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Novoandreevka, Maly Shcherbaki, Stepnoye, Kamenskoye and Stepnogorsk in Zaporozhye and Nikopol and Prigorodnoye of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
In the Kherson direction, the enemy continues mortar and artillery shelling of settlements along the right bank of the Dnieper River. In particular, the civilian infrastructure of Kachkarovka, Naddnepryansky, Antonovka and Kherson suffered.
According to the General Staff, lists of persons subject to conscription for mobilization in January 2023 have been formed in the military commissariats in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
Aviation of the Defense Forces inflicted 10 strikes on enemy concentration areas, as well as 3 on the positions of anti-aircraft missile systems. Ukrainian defenders shot down an enemy reconnaissance UAV of the Orlan-10 type.
Missile troops and artillery units hit the command post, 7 enemy manpower and military equipment concentration areas, 5 ammunition depots, and 2 invader radar stations.