Russia is trying to capture the Donetsk region, where it is conducting offensive operations. The Armed Forces of Ukraine hold back the aggressor and inflict significant losses on the Russians.

Channel 24 analyzed the data of the General Staff on the situation on the battlefield. Map of hostilities on January 7th.

The enemy does not leave attempts to capture Bakhmut

The main efforts of the enemy are focused on attempts to completely capture the Donetsk region within the administrative border. Conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction.

Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of settlements:

• Stelmakhovka, Makeevka, Dibrova and Belogorovka, Luhansk region.
• Ozaryanovka, Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Sol, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Pobeda in the Donetsk region.

Over the past day, the enemy launched 1 missile attack and made 20 attacks from multiple launch rocket systems.

Note! The danger of air and missile strikes remains throughout Ukraine.

What is the situation across the board?

In the Volyn and Polesye directions, the situation did not change significantly, and no signs of the formation of enemy offensive groupings were found.

On the Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the enemy fired at the areas of the settlements of Strelka, Bochkovo, Komissarovo, Krasnoe, Zelenoe, Ambarnoe, Bugrovatka, Gatishche and Otradnoe of the Kharkov region.

In the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, areas of more than 20 settlements were shelled. Among them are Dvuhletnaya, Kupyansk, Kislovka, Kotlyarovka and Starch in the Kharkiv region and Stelmakhovka, Makeevka, Ploshchadka and Dibrova in the Luhansk region.

In the Bakhmut direction, more than 20 settlements suffered fire damage. In particular, these are Yakovlevka, Spirnoye, Berestovo, Belogorovka, Soledar, Bakhmut and New York of the Donetsk region.

In the Avdeevka direction, Avdeevka, Veseloe, Nevelskoye, Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Georgievka, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region fell under fire influence.

In the Novopavlovsk direction, the enemy fired at Vremovka, Velyka Novoselka, Ugledar and Paraskoveevka in the Donetsk region.

In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the areas of 23 settlements suffered from the fire of the invaders. Among them are Zelenoe Pole and Novopol, Donetsk region; Gulyaipole, Zheleznodorozhnoe, Volshebnoe, Shcherbaki and Stepnoe in Zaporozhye and Nikopol in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

In the Kherson direction, the enemy does not stop shelling settlements along the right bank of the Dnieper River. In particular, the civilian infrastructure of Chernobaevka, Antonovka, Berislav, Zolotoy Balka and Kherson was hit, and there were casualties among civilians.

The situation at the front on January 7: see the map

Russians continue to terrorize the civilian population

Russian invaders continue psychological and physical pressure on the civilian population of the temporarily occupied and occupied territories. In particular, in the city of Energodar, Zaporizhzhia region, Russian occupation troops forced about 3,000 employees of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant to obtain so-called Russian passports.

Threatening entrepreneurs with fines and seizure of property in the city, the Ukrainian hryvnia was withdrawn from circulation. The number of residential premises seized by the invaders and abandoned by internally displaced persons has significantly increased.

Due to the failure to fulfill the plan for recruiting volunteers for the territorial defense forces in the Belgorod region, the local police were involved in the recruiting campaign. Employees go around apartments and houses, conduct a census of the male population of military age and talks to popularize the service.

Over the past 24 hours, Ukrainian aviation has dealt 1 blow to the occupiers' concentration area, and our rocket and artillery units fired 4 enemy manpower and military equipment concentration areas, as well as 2 of its fuel and lubricants.