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In the Huliaipole sector, in the city of Huliaipole itself, heavy or light armored equipment is rarely used for attacks. The assaults are carried out by infantry trying to quickly hide in the city and avoid Ukrainian drones.

For 24-year-old border guard Maksym, call sign “Aramis”, summer will forever taste like Melitopol cherries — they are tied to his warmest memories of his hometown: the Cherry Festival, the laughter of friends, carefree childhood years, and Melitopol confidently moving toward a European future.

As part of reducing the offensive potential of the Russian aggressor, Defense Forces units detected and successfully struck an Osa air-defense missile system near the settlement of Semenivka in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region. A direct hit was recorded.

The anti-aircraft missile battalion of the 67th Mechanized Brigade continues effectively destroying enemy drones, turning occupiers’ equipment into scrap right in Ukrainian skies.

In the Lyman sector, the enemy bombards defenders’ positions with glide bombs (KABs) and attacks with UAVs of various types. No major changes are observed in their infantry assault tactics.

Operators of unmanned systems from the Signum Battalion of the 53rd Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh showed footage of the destruction of Russian assault troops, a gun, and an MLRS system.

Throughout the day, units of the Drone Systems Group struck and destroyed 902 enemy targets.

In the Oleksandrivka sector, within the responsibility zone of the 31st Brigade, the enemy primarily focuses on infiltration. There are no assaults involving large infantry groups or equipment.

Operators of the 73rd Center of the Special Operations Forces, while performing combat missions in one of the settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region, rescued a Ukrainian infantryman who had spent a long time in the “grey zone” after becoming separated from his unit.

Commissions have arrived to several units of the Russian occupation forces in the Vovchansk sector to determine the reasons for the disruption of the pace of the offensive.

During the night of January 30 (from 18:00 January 29), the enemy attacked with an Iskander-M ballistic missile from Russia’s Voronezh region, and with 111 strike UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera, Italmas, and other types from the directions of Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, Millerovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk (Russia), and Donetsk (temporarily occupied territory). About 70 of them were Shaheds.

Over the past day, the enemy lost 1,310 soldiers and an air-defense system.

Instead of the theater stage and motorcycle trips, Oleksandra chose service in the ranks of the 2nd Galician Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine to do everything possible for peace in her country.

The Unmanned Systems Forces conduct systematic detection, identification, and destruction of enemy reconnaissance and strike UAVs.

Air assault troops intercepted a conversation of Russian occupiers in which they ordered their own wounded soldiers to be eliminated.

In January 2026, in less than a month, the Phoenix border UAV unit eliminated more occupiers than during all of 2024. This is also almost double the unit’s average monthly indicators throughout 2025.

Unmanned aerial vehicles react differently to low temperatures they must operate in during winter. Bomber drones usually work more stably, while FPV kamikaze drones are somewhat more demanding.

Fighters of the 1st Battalion of Unmanned Systems “Height Predators” of the 59th Assault Brigade of Unmanned Systems named after Yakiv Handziuk struck a Russian heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A, also known as “Solntsepyok”.

Russians have begun using drones equipped with Starlink communication systems to strike Ukrainian cities. The team of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine contacted SpaceX and proposed ways to solve this problem.

On the Sloviansk axis, in the area of responsibility of the 54th Brigade, the intensity of combat operations has not decreased and is not decreasing. The enemy uses the tactic of small infantry groups. They seep through, infiltrate the battle formations of Defense Forces units.

Slovenian State Secretary of Defense Boštjan Pavlin announced that a new aid package is being prepared.

Today, under repatriation procedures, 1,000 bodies (remains) were returned to Ukraine — claimed by the Russian side to be Ukrainian defenders.