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ISW - Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 22, 2023

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Key inflections in ongoing military operations on January 22:

• Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin made uncredible threats of nuclear escalation as part of an ongoing information operation aimed at deterring the Western provision of further military aid to Ukraine.
• Russian milbloggers on January 22 continued to discuss the potential of a pending major Russian or Ukrainian offensive and speculated as to which areas present the highest priority targets.
• Russian forces continued limited counterattacks to regain lost positions along the Svatove-Kreminna line on January 22.
• Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces struck an industrial facility in Kadiivka, Luhansk Oblast with HIMARS rockets.
• Russian forces continued offensive operations in the Bakhmut and the Donetsk City-Avdiivka areas.
• Russian sources claimed on January 22 that Russian forces continued offensive operations in two directions in Zaporizhia Oblast, with their main efforts focusing on Hulyaipole and Orikhiv.
• Russian occupation authorities continued commandeering civilian infrastructure in occupied territories at the expense of civilian health and safety on January 22. (a war crime)





The Ukrainian defense forces eliminated about 121,480 Russian invaders from February 24, 2022, to January 23, 2023, including 720 soldiers over the past day.



In the spotlight.....





"Deaths of Russians during the war keep mounting at a rate higher than earlier in the war."


"The former dispensary of a machine-building plant was struck with high-precision weapons that killed mostly Chechen soldiers."


"The Netherlands on Thursday said it would consider supplying F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine if Kyiv made such a request."


"The incessant buzzing of drones, harbingers of death and destruction that are constantly watching from above."


"Putin’s continuity in power is only predicated on the support of a handful of trusted elites."


Putin's war of expansion in Ukraine has turned Russia into a failed state.



 
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