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🔹 Russian Consumer Health Authority (Rospotrebnadzor) did not find contamination of Crime shoreline waters; 🔹 Ukrainian media reports several explosions in Kherson; 🔹 RuMOD says over 4000 artillery pieces sent to Special military operation area from storage base in Russian Omsk Oblast; 🔹 ZSU opened fire on DPR territory 31 times in 24 hours; 🔹 Russian sappers get a 50 000 rubles (600 dollar) bounties for Western-supplied vehicles tripped over mines; 🔹 Russian forces eliminated ZSU base camp using a "kamikaze APC" with explosives; 🔹 Russian Army Group "South" ("Yug") landed strikes on ZSU facilities on 3 axes.
🔹 Russian TOS-1 heavy flamethrower eliminated up to a platoon of ZSU troops and a tank in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Forces of Russian Army Group "West" repelled two ZSU attacks in Kupyansk front; 🔹 ZSU fired 10 MRLS missiles at Gol'movsky village; 🔹 RuMOD reported servicemen of Army Group "West" were decorated with state military decorations; 🔹 Explosions heard in Kyiv and around Cherkasy; 🔹 Russian teams clear mines in rear support area in Kupyansk front; 🔹 Russian "Privet-82" loitering munitions are getting ready for use in special military operation; 🔹 Russian Air Defense shot down several ZSU UAVs near Kursk.
🔹 Medvedev: Since 2023, over 117 000 men signed a contract with Russian Army as volunteers; 🔹 ZSU shelling hits village of Staryi Khutor in Russian Belgorod Oblast; 🔹 ZSU launched MFOM missile on Donetsk, it is used to discard Germany-supplied anti-tank mines; 🔹 Ukrainian power operator DTEK reports one on thermal power plants in Ukraine was shut down due to sustained damage; 🔹 During summit of League of Arab States Zelensky criticized Arab leaders for neutral stance on Russian special military operation; 🔹 Three villages in Russian Kursk Oblast without power after ZSU shelling; 🔹 New prisoner exchange returned home 35 Russian prisoners of war.
🔹 Kyiv FM Kuleba: Zelensky tours Europe to gather weapons for ZSU counteroffensive; 🔹 Kyiv states that destroyed munitions depots in Ternopil did not contain depleted uranium munitions; 🔹 Romania wants to extend ban on imports of Ukrainian grain; 🔹 Deputy UN SG Griffith says negotiations on Ukraine grain deal to continue in coming days; 🔹 Germany to send Kyiv 4 more IRIS-T SAM systems; 🔹 John Kirby: US do not intend to give Kyiv ATACMS long-range missiles for HIMARS; 🔹 Over 90 000 consumers in Donetsk without power after ZSU shelling; 🔹 69 miners rescued in DPR from two mines without power.
🔹 Poland PM Mateusz Morawiecky announced transfer of another batch of MiG-29 fighter jets for ZSU; 🔹 Slovakia Agriculture Ministry discouraged import of Ukrainian grain after identification of pesticides; 🔹 EU Council: Peace Fund funded 4,6 bln dollar worth military aid for Kyiv; 🔹 Three members of ZSU infiltration and sabotage group caught in Melitopol; 🔹 Moldova willing to help Kyiv with mine clearing on controlled territories; 🔹 Die Welt: EU will have to give back frozen Russian assets; 🔹 Evgeniy Prigozhin says that Wagner Group eliminated at least 38 000 Ukrainian troops.
🔹 President of European Parliament Roberta Metsola visits Kyiv; 🔹 Kyiv transfers confiscated assets of ex-president Victor Yanukovich to State Property Fund control; 🔹 RuMOD Shoigu visits Russian group of forces "Vostok" in the area of special military operation; 🔹 Ukrainian tennis player Oleh Prykhodko voices against discrimination of Russian sportsmen; 🔹 Financial Times: Kyiv requested EU to supply with 250 000 artillery rounds per month; 🔹 Russian Airborne Troops sappers under cover of scout teams continue to lay mines protecting flanks of positions in LPR.
🔹 Rosgvardia in LPR disarmed Ukrainian UAV with explosives; 🔹 ZSU prisoner says officers throw infantry to the front as cannon fodder, themselves staying far from battle; 🔹 DPR Emercom sappers cleared more than 40 Lepestok anti-personnel mines in Petrovsky district of Donetsk; 🔹 Russian forces uncovered a hidden cache of weapons and ammo in Vergulevka village (LPR); 🔹 Russian governor of Kherson Oblast says more and more people in city of Kherson hope for Russians to return; 🔹 Kyiv viceMOD Hanna Malyar says ZSU to bring reinforcements to hold Bakhmut; 🔹 Russian forces prevented UAV attack in Crimea; 🔹 Around 70 ZSU prisoners in DPR decided to apply for Russian citizenship and join volunteer battalion; 🔹 Zaporizha authorities reports ZSU forces gather closer to line of contact.
🔹 ZSU shelled Donetsk with "Lepestok" anti-personnel mines; 🔹 Hidden cache with 100 shells destroyed in Zaporizha Oblast; 🔹 Russian vice-PM Marat Khusnullin announced reconstruction and extension of land road to Crimea; 🔹 Switzerland to join tenth package of EU sanctions against Russia; 🔹 Press officer of ZSU "Pivden" forces group confirmed allocation of forces by border of Transnistria (Pridnestrovan Moldovan Republic).
🔹 Kyiv Rada approves planting 2 km wide minefields along borders of Russia and Belarus; 🔹 ZSU used UAVs to attack Dneprorudnoye; 🔹 2 hidden caches with weapons and munitions found in Kherson Oblast; 🔹 ZSU blew up water dam in Bakhmut; 🔹 Wagner Group forces capture Yagodnoye village on north borders of Bakhmut; 🔹 Kyiv forces attempted missile strike on Svatovo; 🔹 NATO's Stoltenberg says conflict in Ukraine to end by negotiations.
🔹 RuMOD accused Kyiv of staging a provocation with bodies from graves, unearthed in Kharkiv Oblast; Kyiv plans to present people who died of natural causes as "victims of Russian torture and executions"; 🔹 Reuters: Germany economy minister anticipates Germany "possibly" could give Kyiv Leopard tanks "in the future"; 🔹 Kyiv PM Shmyhal: Ukraine turned into a largest mine field in the world; 🔹 Russian Patriarch Kirill: Power in Ukraine will change before long; 🔹 SBU warned that "counter sabotage operation" will proceed in one district in Kharkiv on January 9 and 10; 🔹 50 prisoners of war returned to Russia.