[Korrespondent] 21:44 Several defense lines with a length of about 1,000 km were built around the capital, said the commander of the Kiev Defense Forces Oleksandr Pavlyuk: “At the moment we have enough forces and means. everything is controlled. People are constantly training. Our advantage is the knowledge of the area, its preparation." According to him, the Russians are now preparing another powerful attack from the mobilized military, and the enemy should not be underestimated.
21:37 In the Taurida direction, the Russians no longer have such a thing as a "deep rear", said Brigadier General Alexander Tarnavsky, commander of the Tavria operational-strategic grouping of troops: "We successfully carried out counter-offensive operations in the Kharkov and Kherson directions thanks to a successful combination of fire and maneuver. In the same way, now we control all attempts by the occupying forces to organize an effective defense and create conditions for active operations.Ukrainian defenders are doing everything to destroy the maximum number of forces and means of the invaders, even during the relative stability of our positions.The more we destroy them now, the less will be work in the course of the final liberation of Ukraine from the invaders".
20:36 The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on Ukraine next Friday, January 13, the press service of the UN Security Council reports. This will be a meeting within the framework of the "Maintaining peace and security in Ukraine" program. What topics are planned to be discussed at the meeting of the Security Council is still unknown.
20:19 Zelensky called today "historic for Ukraine, for the spiritual independence of our people": "Today I was glad to see how many people, how many of our soldiers came to worship at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Church - in that holy place, which is one from the origins of the Ukrainian cultural tradition. It is very important that a sincere prayer for Ukraine has been and will continue to be heard in the Lavra today and that no one else will make Ukrainian a stranger in the Lavra. Ukrainian independence must be strong in all its elements and will be so. Always."
20:15 Zelensky said in an evening video message that a regular meeting of the National Security and Defense Council was held today, at which, in particular, the Council's general work plan for the current year was approved: "It will definitely be no less powerful than in previous years, and the main priority is the security of our independence, the strengthening of our ability to defend ourselves - by all necessary steps, by all means that will work.
According to the president, today's sanctions list against many Russian citizens and persons associated with it is an "intermediate result", and in the future there will be further decisions on sanctions against such persons. "Everyone whose voice sounds in unison with the roar of Russian artillery will be isolated from the civilized world," Zelensky stressed.
"Today the world was once again able to see how false any words sounding from Moscow at any level are. They said something about an alleged ceasefire ... But the reality is Russian shells that again hit Bakhmut and other Ukrainian positions," - noted the head of state.
18:29 Despite the announced "ceasefire", the Russians continue to fire at the positions of Ukrainian units from tanks, mortars and cannon artillery. During the day, the enemy launched an air strike and made seven attacks from multiple launch rocket systems. The enemy is concentrating its efforts on conducting offensive operations in the Bakhmut, Avdeevsky and Liman directions and is trying to improve the tactical situation in the Kupyansky direction. On Novopavlovsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson - continues to conduct active defense at previously occupied lines, the General Staff said in an evening summary .
In Melitopol and Pryazovsky, Zaporozhye region, the invaders stopped the broadcasting of all Ukrainian TV channels, only Russian television is broadcast.
17:58 On the evening of January 6, near Happiness in the Lugansk region, partisans destroyed the railway track of the Luhansk-Lantratovka message using an improvised explosive device, said the head of the OVA Serhiy Gaidai. It has been preliminary established that this railway connection is used by the Russians for the transportation of military equipment, personnel and ammunition. In addition, they export Ukrainian grain back to the territory of the Russian Federation. Russian media wrote that more than 1,000 tons of grain were taken out of the Starobelsky elevator alone.
17:36 Zelensky put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on sanctions against Russian and some Ukrainian cultural figures. The list includes 119 people, including TV presenter Zhanna Badoeva, football player Anatoly Timoshchuk, rapper Basta, Irina Allegrova, Dima Bilan, Mikhail Galustyan, Larisa Dolina, Philip Kirkorov, Sergey Lazarev, Dmitry Kiselev, Evgeny Petrosyan, Margarita Simonyan and others.
16:39 Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw would not transfer Leopard tanks to Ukraine without a corresponding decision from the allies: "We ourselves do not intend to transfer our tanks yet. We ourselves, like Poland, without a broad coalition, we are not going to transfer."
15:35 Soledar and Bakhmut remain under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said the speaker of the Eastern Group of Forces Sergei Cherevaty. According to him, there are fierce battles for the cities. Russian statements about the capture of Soledar are fake.
14:57 In Russia, on January 15, additional mobilization may be announced, Andriy Chernyak, a spokesman for the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said in a comment to t-online. According to him, up to 500 thousand people will be mobilized in the RF Armed Forces. This time the mobilization will also take place in major cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
14:24 In the Zaporozhye region, the son of Kadyrov's representative has been eliminated. According to the speaker of the Odessa OVA Serhiy Bratchuk, 34-year-old Dzhambulat Zauraev fought in Ukraine as a volunteer in the Kadyrov's troops. The father confirmed the death of his son "during a special operation."
13:48 According to the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office, on January 6, as a result of Russian shelling of Bakhmut and the Bakhmut district, two people were killed, another 13 received mine-explosive injuries and shrapnel wounds.
13:12 The State Emergency Service has created an interactive map of explosive areas, which allows you to make sure that the route is safe. Rescuers urge to use it first, and not navigators or their own intuition.
12:16 The next meeting of the contact group on Ukraine's defense in the Ramstein format will take place on January 20, the German Defense Ministry said.
11:39 In Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region, air defense forces destroyed a Russian drone, Mayor Andrey Belousov said. According to him, there were no casualties, but there was minor damage.
11:34 Despite a unilateral "ceasefire" announced by Russia, allegedly in connection with Christmas, the Russian military continued to fight, said Laura Cooper, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian Affairs. According to her, Russian troops need a respite and rearmament, but the "truce" declared by Russia is not long enough to bring this to life.
"Again, this is Putin's statement, which we should take with a certain amount of skepticism. This is the same person who said he would not invade Ukraine," Cooper added.
11:27 As of January 7, due to the day off and at the same time a holiday in the morning, electricity consumption in Ukraine is lower than the day before, even with a significant drop in temperature. But during the day, due to increased cooling, an increase in consumption is predicted, Ukrenergo reported. Therefore, to ensure a balance in the energy system, limits have been brought to the regions, which are in effect from 10:00 to 23:00.
10:35 British intelligence writes that the area around the Kremennaya Luhansk region has been one of the places of the most fierce hostilities for several weeks now. In the past three weeks, the fighting has been mainly in the wooded area to the west of the city. Since the coniferous forest provides some cover from aerial observation even in winter, both sides are likely to struggle to accurately control their artillery fire. As is typical for operations in the forest, the fighting is mostly infantry combat, often at short distances, analysts say.
According to intelligence, the Russian command most likely regards the pressure around Kremennaya as a threat to the right flank of its Bakhmut direction. It is this, in their opinion, that is the key to ensuring any future offensive to occupy the rest of the Donetsk region.
09:53 Metropolitan Epiphany's Christmas service is taking place in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra . This is the first service held by the OCU on the territory of the Lavra. Previously, only the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate conducted worship in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.
09:47 300 children from the Luhansk and Donetsk regions were delivered to Moscow "for treatment". According to the Luhansk OVA, mobile teams of Russian doctors conducted medical examinations of children in almost every city in the occupied region in the autumn. In places, even teachers in schools collected money from children for the opportunity to be examined. As a result, 300 children were sent to Moscow hospitals for "treatment and rehabilitation." Before the arrival of the occupiers, the children and parents were not even aware of their "serious condition," the OVA notes.
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09:06 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, two civilians were killed - in Bakhmut and Krasnaya Gora. Seven more people were injured in the region, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
08:43 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy as of the morning of January 7.
- personnel - about 110,740 (+490) people liquidated,
- tanks - 3066 (+2),
- armored combat vehicles - 6125 (+1),
- artillery systems - 2062 (+3),
- MLRS - 431 (+0),
- air defense systems - 217 (+2),
- aircraft - 285 (+0),
- helicopters - 272 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 1844 (+0),
- cruise missiles - 723 (+0),
- ships/boats - 16 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 4798 (+1),
- special equipment - 182 (+0).
08:18 The main efforts of the enemy are focusing on attempts to completely capture the Donetsk region within the administrative border. Conducts offensive operations in the Bakhmut direction, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka, Makeevka, Dibrova and Belogorivka of the Lugansk region and Ozaryanovka, Soledar, Krasnaya Gora, Podgorodnoye, Bakhmut, Kleschievka, Sol, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
In the occupied Energodar, Zaporozhye region, the Russians forced about 3,000 ZNPP workers to obtain Russian passports. Threatening entrepreneurs with fines and seizure of property, the Ukrainian hryvnia was withdrawn from circulation in the city. The number of residential premises seized by the occupiers and abandoned by internally displaced persons has significantly increased.
Due to the failure to fulfill the plan for recruiting volunteers for the territorial defense forces in the Belgorod region, the local police were involved in the recruiting campaign. Employees go around apartments and houses, conduct a census of the male population of military age and talk about popularizing the service.
07:22 Finland can provide Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, subject to the adoption of an appropriate decision in Europe, said the chairman of the Defense Committee Antti Hakkyanen: "If Europe starts to give tanks to Ukraine even an inch more, Finland should be involved. Of course, with our small contribution, because our own defense capability is always a priority for us as a border country with Russia."
06:10 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Putin's idea of ​​a "Christmas truce" has increased dissatisfaction with the Russian leader and caused a flurry of criticism. In particular, Igor Girkin called Putin's decision "a bold and decisive step towards the defeat and surrender" of the Russian troops. Other well-known military bloggers have also used Putin's words about the "truce" to further criticize the Kremlin for waging the war.
02:38 "Governor" of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that air defense forces shot down a UAV over the Northern Pier.
00:29 Future Russian conscripts are likely to lead an offensive in the Donetsk, Kharkiv and, possibly, Zaporozhye regions, Vadim Skibitsky, a spokesman for the GUR, told The Guardian. At the same time, he added that they would have to defend themselves in the Crimea and Kherson region. Skibitsky believes that the next 6-8 months is the last push: "If Russia loses this time, then Putin will collapse."