Thread by @TheStudyofWar

🧵of key inflections/updates in ongoing military operations on January 15.

Full report: isw.pub/UkrWar011523
Interactive map: arcg.is/09O0OS

https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1614817849171709952

2/ Ukrainian officials specified that a Russian Kh-22 missile struck a residential building in #Dnipro City on January 14, killing at least 25–30 civilians.

3/ Wagner Group financier Yevgeny #Prigozhin awarded medals to Wagner forces for the capture of #Soledar, likely in an ongoing effort to frame its capture as a Wagner accomplishment rather than a joint effort with the Russian Armed Forces, as the Russian MoD previously claimed.

4/ The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces repelled Russian ground assaults near Makiivka and Bilohorivka, #Luhansk Oblast.

5/ A Russian milblogger claimed that Russian forces are transferring Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) off-road vehicles from Russia to Luhansk Oblast, possibly for use in combat.

6/ Russian sources claimed that Russian forces finished clearing #Soledar and attacked Ukrainian positions to the north, west, and southwest of the settlement. A Ukrainian source reported that Russian forces captured a mine west of Soledar near Dvorichchia on January 15.

7/ Russian forces continued to attack #Bakhmut and areas to the north, east, south, and southwest of the city. Russian forces made marginal territorial gains southwest of Bakhmut near #Andriivka.

8/ Ukrainian #Kherson Oblast Military Advisor Serhiy Khlan stated that Russian forces increased their presence in occupied Kherson Oblast and that some Wagner Group forces arrived in Kherson Oblast.

9/ Russian occupation head of Kherson Oblast Vladimir Saldo claimed that the restoration of the Henichesk-Arabat Spit bridge improved Russian logistics into occupied Kherson Oblast.

10/ A Russian servicemember reportedly detonated a grenade in a building where Russian soldiers were quartered in Belgorod Oblast, Russia, possibly in a fratricidal act of resistance against mobilization. Russian sources said the attack killed 3 & injured 10 mobilized personnel.