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🔹 Kyiv FM: Kyiv grateful for military help from the West, but no ally has done enough; 🔹 Kyiv Border Guard reported that Ukrainian colonel was killed near Soledar (DPR); 🔹 Kyiv ambassador to UK say ZSU received armaments with due expiry date; 🔹 Hungary FM praised Russian Christmas ceasefire as a right step; 🔹 Kyiv Minister of Culture called for temporary ban on Russian music, poetry and literature in leading Ukrainian theaters; 🔹 Rada MP Bilozir: Talks on accession to EU move from Autumn 2022 to Spring 2023; 🔹 UK considers sending Kyiv British Challenger 2 main battle tanks.
🔹 Ukrainian UAV shot down near Sevastopol; 🔹 US to give Kyiv 18 self-propelled howitzers in the new military aid package; 🔹 Explosion in Melitopol on evening January 6; 🔹 UN staff in Ukraine does not observe large-scale combat during Christmas ceasefire declared by Russia; 🔹 US do not anticipate ceasefire in Ukraine in coming month, and stresses importance of providing Kyiv with military aid; 🔹 Night Christmas vigils cancelled in Zaporizha Oblast and Mariupol.
🔹 Russia declares ceasefire active from 12:00 6.01 to 24:00 7.01; Kyiv forces continued shelling Russian positions and settlements; 🔹 On Kupyansk and Lyman fronts ZSU lost over 100 troops, tank, 5 armored vehicles and 6 technicals; 🔹 On Donetsk and South Donetsk fronts ZSU lost around 130 troops, 3 tanks, 6 armored vehicles and 8 technicals; 🔹 Russian forces landed strikes on 65 ZSU artillery positions, 102 personnel and armor groupings, operations room, 3 munitions depots, S-300 complex radar and missile launcher, D-20 and M777 howitzers; 🔹 Russia destroyed US-supplied radar systems АN/TPQ-36 and АN/TPQ-50; 🔹 RuAF attack aircraft and Air Defense forces shot down UAF Su-25, 5 UAVs and 8 rocket projectiles.
🔹 Unconfirmed reports about liberation of Bakhmutskoye village near Soledar by Russian forces, no official information; 🔹 Kyiv MOD attributes disciplinary violations in ZSU to "Russian-paid instigators"; 🔹 Politico: US can give Kyiv "Hawk" SAM systems from 1960s; 🔹 Biden: Warfare in Ukraine is in key stage; 🔹 During the night, air raid alert sounded in Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Dniepropetrovsk Oblasts, and in Kyiv-controlled parts of Zaporizha Oblast and DPR; 🔹 Zelensky declared that Kyiv refuses Christmas ceasefire; 🔹 Germany to give Kyiv additional battery of Patriot SAM systems.
🔹 RuMOD: On command of president Putin, Russian forces in Ukraine shall observe unilateral ceasefire of January 6 (Orthodox Christmas) for 36 hours; 🔹 Zelensky's aid Podolyak says Kyiv refuses Christmas ceasefire; 🔹 India FM: Kyiv was not invited to G20 summit in New Delhi; 🔹 Putin: West plays a destructive role in Ukraine, supporting Kyiv with weapons and equipment; 🔹 NATO Secretary General: Peace in Ukraine shall be achieved by supplying weapons to Kyiv; 🔹 WP: US will not give Kyiv Abrams battle tanks "due to technical reasons"; 🔹 Ukraine GDP fell by 30,4% in 2022.