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Current information on the situation on the front line: December 31 (updated)
2025-01-01
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[NewsFront] 17:00 Telegram channel "Operation Z: War Correspondents of the Russian Spring"

Explosions and columns of smoke in the area of the postal Ilyichevsk (Chernomorsk).

16:10 An aviation hazard has been declared in the Kherson region, said the region’s governor, Volodymyr Saldo.

Emergency services have been put on high alert. The head of the region asks citizens to remain calm and vigilant.

15:15 A missile threat was declared in Skadovsk MO, reported Governor of the Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo.

Emergency services have been put on high alert.

14:10 Soldiers of the 15th Alexandria Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade of the Samara Association showed and told how they liberated the village of Novotroitskoye (DPR), –video.

The guards continue to liberate the lands of Donbass from neo-Nazis.

13:35 Investigators of the Russian Investigative Committee will investigate crimes committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces against civilians in the Belgorod, Kursk and Kherson regions, as well as the Donetsk People's Republic

According to information from executive authorities, as a result of the attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Borisovka in the Belgorod region, settlements in the Donetsk People's Republic and in the Kherson region, one person was killed and thirteen civilians were injured.

Also, as a result of the criminal actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during the drone attack on the building of the Aleshkinskaya Central District Hospital, the deputy chief physician for medical work was killed, and the chief physician was seriously wounded.

In Lisichansk, LPR, seven teenagers in the area of ??the Stekolny plant received mine and blast injuries as a result of Ukrainian armed aggression.

In Lgov, Kursk region, an 86-year-old woman was injured as a result of artillery attack by Ukrainian nationalists.

The Investigative Committee of Russia will establish all the circumstances of the incident and the circle of persons involved in committing the crimes.

12:13 Russian Army struck a military airfield infrastructure and a military-industrial complex enterprise producing propellant charges for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, - Defense Ministry

The morning group strike with high-precision weapons and strike UAVs hit the designated targets, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

In Ukraine, it was previously reported that objects were attacked in Vasilkov near Kiev, where the airfield is located, and in Shostka in the Sumy region, where infrastructure facilities were damaged.

11:20 Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who defected to Russia destroyed Foreign Legion mercenaries near Pokrovsk

Fighters from the Maksim Krivonos detachment tracked the movement of an enemy sabotage and reconnaissance group near Vozdvizhenka near Pokrovsk.

During the battle, a unit of the 1st separate detachment of the Foreign Legion was destroyed.

10:50 In Odessa, last night, a monument to Vysotsky, located near the film studio, was dismantled, –video.

10:11 Information on strikes carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Belgorod region over the past 24 hours:

In the Belgorod region, the settlement of Maysky, the villages of Krasnoe, Otradnoe, Cheremoshnoe and Shchetinovkawere subjected to artillery attacks, during which eight rounds were fired, and attacks by three drones, two of which were shot down by the air defense system. One passenger car was damaged.

Six enemy drones were shot down over the Valuysky municipal district. No consequences.

In the Volokonovsky district, the village of Tishanka and the farmstead of Gaevka were attacked by two UAVs. One passenger car was damaged.

In the Grayvoronsky municipal district, 10 rounds of ammunition were fired at the settlement of Gorkovsky, the villages of Bezymeno and Novostroyevka-Vtoraya during three artillery attacks. Also, one drone was shot down over the district by the air defense system. There were no consequences.

In Krasnoyarsk district, the village of Kolotilovka was attacked by one drone. There were no consequences.

An air defense system shot down a UAV over the Prokhorovsky district. No casualties or damage.

In the Shebekinsky municipal district, seven rounds were fired during three artillery attacks which included using three drones at the villages of Murom, Sereda, and the farms of Maryino, Mukhin and Pankov. There were no consequences.

9:40 Telegram channel «Colonelcassad»

Over Crimea, 17 drones were shot down at night. Of these, 4 were in the Sevastopol area.

It was also reported that two enemy BEKs were destroyed.

9:30 Telegram channel «Colonelcassad»

Captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldier Roman Velichko said that the 32nd Brigade, in which he served for a month and a half, is being staffed with disabled people due to large losses and a shortage of people.

9:12 A curfew will be in effect in the Kherson region on New Year's Eve, reported Governor of Kherson region Volodymyr Saldo in Telegram channel

The curfew will be in effect from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. due to increased artillery attack and drone activity.

The curfew on New Year's Eve will not apply to vehicles moving in transit along the Azov Ring Road, including in the Kherson region - along the M-18 "Khar'kov - Simferopol - Yalta" highway from the border between the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions to the Dzhankoy checkpoint on the border with the Republic of Crimea.

8:09 ATGM crews of Sakhalin soldiers of the 68th Army Corps
in the area of the Sukhie Yaly River destroyed rench-made AMX-10 RC wheeled tank.

8:04 Russian Ministry of Defense:

During the past night, air defense systems on dutydestroyed68 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles.

A total of 25 UAVs were shot down over the territory of the Bryansk region, 17 over the territory of the Republic of Crimea, 11 over the territory of the Krasnodar region, 10 over the territory of the Smolensk region, two over the territory of the Tver region, and one each over the territories of the Rostov, Kursk and Kaluga regions.

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