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[NewsFrontInfo] 18:30 In Ukraine, they reported that during the year 1,596 prisoners were returned by exchange (of which 132 were civilians). It is worth noting that as of May 2022, about 8-9 thousand people were in Russian captivity.
18:20 Gauleiter of the Khmelnytsky region: The Russian army hit a military facility yesterday.
Head of the Khmelnytsky OVA Sergey Gamalydeclaredthat during a missile strike a military facility in the city of Khmelnitsky was hit. Damaged equipment, there is a hit in the gas station.
17:40 An air alert has been declared in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
17:19 A trio of mobile heavy snipers from Yarny lead Fire a tandem of two ASVK and one Mannlicher.
17:10 Soldiers of the Western Military District and Pskov paratroopers cut several attacks by Kyiv on the eve of the New Year in the Kremensky direction in the Donbass. A RIA Novosti correspondent watched how Russian soldiers were preparing to defend this area.
16:15 Summary of Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation on the territory of Ukraine (01.01.2023)
15:45 An air raid alert has been announced in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk regions and in the districts of the Kherson region controlled by Kyiv.
15:19 The main thing from the new briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defense:
On December 31, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation delivered a strike with high-precision weapons at the facilities of the Ukrainian defense industry, which manufacture attack drones;
During the strike on December 31, storage sites and launch sites for attack drones of Ukraine were hit;
The Russian Armed Forces, with a blow on December 31, thwarted Kyiv's plans to carry out terrorist attacks against Russia in the near future;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones in a day, including in the Crimea and the Belgorod region;
In the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Armed Forces repelled counterattack attempts by the Armed Forces of Ukraine;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed six Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Zaporozhye region and the DPR;
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed over 110 military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the offensive in the Donetsk direction in a day;
The Armed Forces of Ukraine lost more than 150 people in the LPR and the Serebryansky forest area as a result of Russian artillery fire;
The RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers in the Kupyansk sector;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a mobile radar of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and an AN / TPQ-50 counter-battery radar in the DPR;
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed a warehouse of artillery ammunition of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye region;
In the DPR, two Polish Krab self-propelled howitzers were destroyed, from which Donetsk was shelled;
A Russian fighter jet shot down a Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force in the DPR.
14:00 Another fallen in Kyiv debris from AIM-120 missiles fired from NASAMS air defense systems at Geran-2 kamikaze drones.
Ukrainian channels rushed to pass off this fragment as an Iranian ballistic missile, but forgot to hide the inscription “LIFT HERE” on it, which is typical for the Western AIM-120.
13:03 Spot work of tankers of the RF Armed Forces from closed firing positions at the stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Zaporozhye direction.
12:10 The police of the Kyiv region showed frames with the remnants of the Geranium drone that attacked at night. On the tail - congratulations on the New Year.
10:58 I was in Khmelnitsky destroyed the point of permanent deployment of the 8th regiment of the MTR of Ukraine. Information on the wounded and killed is being specified.
10:05 The Ministry of Defense showed frames the work of the mobilized gunners of the Western Military District to destroy the enemy from 152mm guns "Hyacinth-B".
02:15 Explosions are heard in Kyiv, according to preliminary information, the air defense system (air defense) is working, said the head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Oleksiy Kuleba in his Telegram channel.
Earlier, an air alert was announced throughout Ukraine.
01:39 An air raid alert has been announced throughout Ukraine.
01:07 Pilots of the Su-24 bomber PMC "Wagner" also work on New Year's Eve. All tasks will be completed.
0:58 An air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region, four MLRS shells were shot down - the authorities of the Belgorod region.
0:24 An air raid alert sounds in the Poltava, Cherkasy, Kharkiv and Kirovohrad regions of Ukraine. A little earlier, it sounded for the second time in a day in the south and east of Ukraine and in the parts of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions controlled by Kyiv.