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Situation Summary
Russian forces continued to make incremental advances in the Donetsk region, occupying a village northeast of Bakhmut. Fighting also continued in the areas of Orikhiv and Huliaipole in the Zaporizhia region, along the Kreminna-Svatove-Kupiansk line in the Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and in the area of Krynky on the left bank of the Dnipro river in the Kherson region. Ukrainian forces fired missiles at two Russian military aircraft over the Sea of Azov, destroying an A-50 surveillance plane and damaging an Il-22 control center plane.
Russian shelling, missiles, and airstrikes killed at least seven civilians in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Kherson regions. As a result of the daily shelling of Kherson city, three civilians were killed and at least six civilians and two police officers were wounded. On 16 January, Russian missiles hit a hospital and residential buildings in Kharkiv, wounding 17 civilians. Local authorities ordered the evacuation of families with children from settlements near Kupiansk-Vuzlovyi, in addition to similar orders to evacuate from the Kupiansk area in August and October 2023.1Tetiana Lozovenko, Mandatory evacuation zone expanded in Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainska Pravda, 16 January 2024 Debris from intercepted Russian missiles also caused damage to civilian infrastructure further from the frontline, in the central Poltava and Kirovograd regions.
