Russian Army Claims Capture of 2 More Villages in Eastern Ukraine

Russian forces are taking the same high level of losses despite achieving fewer territorial advances in the near term."

The ISW said on Monday

Russian forces continued to suffer high losses in January 2025 despite a slower rate of advance as compared with previous months in late 2024,

the U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank, which tracks daily changes to the front lines, said on Monday

It remains unclear whether the Russian military command will be willing to sustain such casualties if Russian forces' rate of advance continues to decline as Russian forces are advancing on more heavily defended settlements such as Pokrovsk,

the think tank said

We report that this statement and all the news about the capture of the village is another fake of Russian propaganda."

Ukraine's 3rd Separate Assault Brigade said in a statement on January 29

In fact, it has not been captured yet,

despite claims from Russian state media, ... Podolyaka said

Units of the "West" group of forces, as a result of active combat operations, liberated the settlement of Novoyehorivka in the Luhansk People's Republic."

Russia's Defense Ministry said in a statement on January 20

The war is won by logistics. If there is no logistics, there is no infantry, because there is no way to supply it,

said the deputy commander of the Da Vinci Wolves battalion, known by the call sign Afer