Overview
- The Defense Ministry said air defenses shot down nine Ukrainian UAVs between 16:00 and 20:00 Moscow time on January 15, with seven over Crimea and two over the Azov Sea.
- The ministry reported an M-46 gun crew from the Center grouping destroyed a camouflaged strongpoint on the Krasnoarmeysk axis using reconnaissance drones to correct fire from more than 17 km.
- FPV-drone crews of the Dnepr grouping were said to have eliminated a Ukrainian infantry squad inside a house in Primorskoye in the Zaporizhia region.
- According to the Defense Ministry, a rocket artillery battery led by Captain Aleksey Fatkin struck a temporary deployment point, causing heavy losses and preventing a Ukrainian advance.
- RIA Novosti, citing unnamed Russian security sources, reported the Achilles UAV regiment has been expanded into the 429th brigade of unmanned systems, a claim not confirmed by Ukraine.