announced on Tuesday that it launched its largest attack against military and industrial infrastructure located in since the beginning of the war, on February 24, 2022. While Moscow denounced that the Ukrainians bombed targets in the Russian border region of Bryansk with six American long-range ATACMS missiles, another six British Storm Shadow missiles and 31 drones.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, all Western missiles launched by Ukraine They were shot down by their anti-aircraft systems without causing casualties.

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kyiv said that in addition to Bryanskalso targeted the Russian regions of Saratov, Tula and the Republic of Tatarstanlocated between 200 and 1,100 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.

At least nine airports in central and western Russia They temporarily disrupted traffic. The attacks led to the closure of schools in the southwestern region of Saratovaccording to BBC Mundo.

Members of the special unit Rifle Battalion of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine fire a 122 mm D-30 howitzer at an undisclosed position near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region. (EFE/EPA/OLEG MOVCHANIUK).

Members of the special unit Rifle Battalion of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine fire a 122 mm D-30 howitzer at an undisclosed position near the front line in the Zaporizhzhia region. (EFE/EPA/OLEG MOVCHANIUK).

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The Ukrainian General Staff reported that the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces and the Main Directorate of Military Intelligence (GUR) attacked the state oil storage facility Kombinat Kristallocated in Saratov. From this place fuel is provided to the strategic bombers that are stationed at the Engels-2 Air Base. from Russia.

Another target of attack was oil refinery from Saratov.

While Ukrainian drones attacked tanks with fuel for Tu-160 bomber planes located at the Kristal oil facility, at the Engels-2 air base.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), SBU sources told the Ukrainian media Suspilne that kyiv forces attacked warehouses of gliding bombs and cruise missiles in the Engels-2 Air Base.

The ISW said geolocated images released on January 14 show a fire at the oil refinery in Saratov.

Ukrainian forces also attacked the Bryansk Chemical Plantwhich produces components for Kh-59 cruise missiles, artillery ammunition for multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and for TOS thermobaric artillery systems.

Ukraine He said drones were used to overwhelm Russian air defense systems, allowing the missiles to reach their targets.

The secondary explosions in the Bryansk Chemical Plant They destroyed a Tor and a Buk air defense system.

A gunner from the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces prepares to fire a French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP).

A gunner from the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces prepares to fire a French-made Caesar self-propelled howitzer toward Russian positions. (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP).

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The director of the Ukrainian Center for Combating Disinformation, Andriy Kovalenko, noted that Ukrainian forces also attacked the Kremniy El microelectronics plant, located in Bryansk. Microelectronics are produced here for Pantsir air defense systems and Iskander missiles, for radars, electronic warfare systems and for drones.

For his part, the governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomazstated that Russian air defense systems destroyed all Ukrainian projectiles.

Ukraine reported that in Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, his forces attacked the Kazanorgsintez chemical plantcausing a fire.

The attack damaged the plant, where materials for military use such as polyamides, synthetic rubber and chemical compounds for armored vehicles are manufactured. Also tracks for tanks and tires for armored personnel carriers.

The Russian opposition media Astra reported that geolocated images indicate that the attack did not hit the Kazanorgsintez plant but rather a liquefied gas depot. Gazprom located two kilometers from the plant and that three fuel tanks burned.

Astra also reported that Ukrainian forces attacked the company Transneft, in Almetyevsk, Republic of Tatarstan.

Ukrainian army and SBU sources told Ukrainian media that their forces carried out a drone attack in the region of Tulawhich caused a fire at the chemical plant Alexinsky.

Astra stated that the remains of a Ukrainian drone fell on said chemical plant, which produces polymers and composite materials.

Tula Governor Dmitry Milyaev stated that Russian forces shot down 16 drones on January 13 and one drone on January 14.

Yaroslava Sukach, 77, a local resident whose house was destroyed, stands next to a crater after a missile attack in the village of Sknyliv, about 60 kilometers from Lviv, on January 15, 202. (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP).

Yaroslava Sukach, 77, a local resident whose house was destroyed, stands next to a crater after a missile attack in the village of Sknyliv, about 60 kilometers from Lviv, on January 15, 202. (Photo by YURIY DYACHYSHYN / AFP).

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On the war front, the ISW reported that Russian forces advanced in northern Toretsk and Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

According to the kyiv General Staff, Russia launched a total of 77 attacks in the axis of Pokrovskwhich before the war had more than 60,000 inhabitants and which Russian forces are trying to approach from the east, south and southwest.

The report from the Ukrainian General Staff no longer refers to the Kurákhov axis, another important town in the Donetsk region that Russia has conquered in its entirety this month, the EFE agency reported.

According to the map of the course of the war from the Ukrainian analysis platform DeepState, which reports new Russian advances in several areas of Donetsk, Russian troops still have not achieved their objective of surrounding the Ukrainian units on which they are trying to close the encirclement. southwest of Kurakhove and in the area of ​​Velika Novosilka, also in Donetsk and close to the neighboring region of Zaporizhzhia.



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