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Kupyansk sector. The Russians from the 6th Army of the Western Military District recorded progress for about 4/500 meters in the forest south of Lyman Pershyi, capturing some Ukrainian positions. This has somewhat complicated things for Synkivka. Right now the houses at the northern end of the village are gray area, to my understanding. But in any case, the situation is stable and the Ukrainians are firmly maintaining control of the village.
From here to Kyslivka there is no progress to report. Problems arose in the area of Tabaivka and Krokhmalne, when around mid-January the 47th Tank Division (1st Tank Army, WMD) broke through Ukrainian positions along the Kupyansk-Svatove railway, held by the 103rd TDF Brigade. On the second day since the breakthrough, the village of Krokhmalne was taken, after which the Russians headed towards the Pischana River and Tabaivka. In the latter direction, the Russians have advanced more than 4 kms in the last three weeks. At the moment they should have reached the course of the river inside this village. The Russians have thus succeeded in sweeping into the Pischana valley. In itself, the situation is not extremely serious, as the valley is surrounded by heights (which are the watershed between the Pischana and the Oskil) both to the north and to the west.
Now the Russians are concentrating on advancing along the P07 Road in the direction of Stepova Novoselivka. Here the plan is to conquer the heights north of Tabaivka (where the Pischana River, a small tributary of the Oskil, has its source) and outflank the solid Ukrainian positions around Kotlyarivka and Kyslivka. There has been some little progress, but these heights as well have Ukrainian trenches and fortifications. For this purpose, the 1st Tank Regiment and the 15th Motorized Regiment of the 2nd Motorized Division (1st Tank Army) have arrived in the area. This division has been reinforced by about 5k men during the last month, according to Mashovets, largely flowing in from the 346th Regiment of the Mobilization Reserve.
In the Telegram channel "Poisk_in_UA" I’ve read that the mother of a soldier in the 1st Tank Regiment who signed a contract in October 2023 and was declared missing a month later, stated that since October there are 350 MIAs in this unit. This seems an unreasonably high number as I am not aware that this unit has been overwhelmingly involved compared to others, but I’m reporting that anyway.
The 12th Tank Regiment of the 4th Tank Division (1st Tank Army) attempted to attack towards Ivanivka from the east, as part of this plan, but without success.
When it comes to Ukrainian reinforcements, the Russians (specifically, Multi_XAM, a fairly credible channel for these things, I think he has contacts with their military intelligence) report elements of the 44th Mech Brigade and of the 4th Tank Brigade being deployed to contain the breakthrough in this area, which could be plausible, since they are formations already largely deployed between Kupyansk and Svatove anyway.
Just to the south the Russians are trying to move towards Berestove. In the second half of January they had managed to advance about 1,5 km towards this village from Krokhmalne. However, it seems that their successes have been stopped - the area is defended by the 25th Airborne Brigade.

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