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🔹 Kyiv reports damage to critical infrastructure in 5 regions after large-scale precision strike; 🔹 Reports: Kyiv plans to send mobilized rookies to defend Bakhmut; 🔹 Debris of ZSU missile fell in Moldova, prime minister Natalia Gavrilita cites it as disrespect to countries independence; 🔹 Turkey will promote "local ceasefires" in Ukraine; 🔹 Kyiv FM: Zelensky to visit United Nations General Assembly in September 2023; 🔹 Blackouts in some regions in Ukraine after missile strikes; 🔹 PM Sunak informs Zelensky that UK will give Kyiv British Challenger 2 main battle tanks.
🔹 Turkey MOD called for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine; 🔹 Zelensky says he expects more from NATO than talk about "open doors"; 🔹 IAEA Director to visit Ukraine next week; 🔹 14 Russian prisoners return from Ukraine; 🔹 IAEA Director: Nuclear incident on Zaporizha NPP would be disaster both for Moscow and Kyiv; 🔹 Lithuania to give Kyiv SAM systems and AAA; 🔹 SBU accused head of Stanitsa Luhanskaya administration and his two deputies of treason; 🔹 Poland promised to give Kyiv a squadron of Leopard battle tanks; 🔹 Wagner PMC took control of Opytnoye village in south of Bakhmut.
🔹 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.
🔹 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.
🔹 Russian Air Defense activated Belgorod Oblast, civilians killed and wounded by debris; 🔹 Zelensky proposed to hold winter global summit on peace in Ukraine; 🔹 Israel ambassador to Kyiv: Coordination with Russia on our security is more important than Ukraine; 🔹 Podolyak: No new compromises and "Minsk agreements" that favor Russia; 🔹 Europa Press: Spain intercepts suspicious letter to Ukraine consulate; 🔹 Bild am Sonntag: Germany FM presses against ceasefire on Russian conditions; 🔹 Donetsk under heavy bombardment from ZSU.