Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 18.40 At least one resident of Chernigov has been killed in a Russian missile strike on the city. Four others have been injured.
18.38 Ukraine received 3.3 million euros in aid as part of the IT coalition . Partners from Estonia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg donated a batch of equipment to Ukraine, which is part of a large-scale IT coalition program.
18.10 Russian invaders shelled the city of Slavyansk in the Donetsk region and wounded four people. Among the victims is a 2-year-old boy. He was hospitalized along with his mother, who is in serious condition.
17.22 Chernigov was hit by ballistics. Preliminary, two private houses were destroyed in the city. One civilian was injured.
16.57 Athlete, trainer, multiple world champion in style karate Alexander Semenyuk died in the Russian-Ukrainian war. This was reported by the Ukrainian Karate Federation (UKF).
16.44 Since the beginning of the current day, 92 combat clashes have occurred. The "hottest" areas remain the Pokrovskaya and Kursk regions of the Russian Federation. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported the details in a report as of 16:00.
15.55 A court in Russia has ordered Yandex to hide access to maps and photos of one of the largest oil refineries (OR) amid periodic drone attacks. In particular, it has already been hit four times.
15.32 An FSB informant who corrected Russian missile strikes on Kharkov has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. We are talking about Katerina Kushnareva , who was detained along with two accomplices back in 2023. Two other agents have also already received prison sentences.
14.16 Russian troops shelled the villages of Monastyrske and Belozerka in the Kherson region. Three people were wounded : a 39-year-old man, a 64-year-old woman, and a 52-year-old woman. This was reported by the Kherson OVA.
11:34 In the Zhytomyr region, a 19-year-old guy stole money from the mother of a missing soldier. In total, about 20 cases of withdrawals from the woman's card totaling almost 100 thousand UAH have been established.
10:52 In Kiev, the rubble is being cleared away in a residential building in the Pechersk district, damaged as a result of a Russian drone strike on January 1. 50 rescuers, heavy emergency rescue equipment, utility services and volunteers are involved in the work in difficult conditions.
10:17 The SBU has stopped the anti-Ukrainian activities of five more pro-Kremlin Internet agitators operating in different regions of Ukraine. Three defendants have been detained , and two more have already received real prison terms.
9:55 On the night of January 3, the occupiers launched 93 drones at Ukraine. Air defense forces shot down 60 enemy UAVs. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Air defense operated in the Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Donetsk, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
8:53 Over the past 24 hours, 138 combat clashes between units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have been recorded at the front, the hottest ones being in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Five areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, two command posts and three other important Russian facilities were hit.
8:12 Russian troops carried out an air strike on the private sector of Sumy, there are casualties. This was reported by the Sumy Regional Military Administration. According to preliminary data, there are no casualties. Emergency rescue operations are underway.
7:45 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed 1,080 Russian occupiers in 24 hours. The enemy's total combat losses from 24.02.22 to 03.01.25 were approximately 793,250 people. This was reported on January 3 by the General Staff.
7:23 As a result of the fall of UAV debris in the Kyiv region, four people were injured, one person was killed. This was reported by KOVA. According to the acting head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Mykola Kalashnik, in one of the districts of the region, a truck driver was killed by debris from a downed UAV. He died at the scene. In another district, debris from a downed UAV fell on a private house, causing a roof fire. Three people were injured. A woman born in 1957 has an acute stress reaction. A 16-year-old boy has a cut. He will be hospitalized in a children's hospital. His father has cut wounds to his legs. In another populated area, a woman was wounded on the street. She was hospitalized.
02:03 Novovasilovka in Donetsk Oblast is currently experiencing "real hell," the Deep State monitoring project reported. It is noted that every day, two platoons to a company of occupiers' infantry storm the village in Donbas. Fighting continues for every house.
01:00 The Russian military has begun using cluster munitions to strike Ukraine's energy system in order to cause maximum damage. But today the system is balanced, said Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko
January 2
22:34 Ukrainian defenders continue to resolutely rebuff the enemy's attempts to advance deep into our territory, inflicting effective fire damage on them, exhausting them along the entire front line. Since the beginning of this day, 118 combat clashes have occurred. This was noted in the General Staff's report on Thursday, January 2.
19.39 As a result of shelling on January 2, at least ten civilian objects were damaged in the Kherson region, seven people are known to have been injured. This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor's Office on Thursday, January 2.
16.57 Russian invaders continue to storm the positions of Ukrainian defenders. In total, 72 combat clashes have occurred since the beginning of the day. This is stated in the General Staff report on Thursday, January 2.
16.29 On January 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a high-precision strike on the command post of the Russian occupation army in the village of Maryino, Kursk region. This was reported by the press service of the General Staff on Thursday, January 2.
12:44 The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine clarified that as a result of the operation off the coast of Crimea on December 31, missiles from Magura V5 drones destroyed not one, but two Russian Mi-8 helicopters, and damaged another.
12:25 Russia suffered record losses in 2024 - 430,790 soldiers. This is the number of almost 36 motorized rifle divisions, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reported.
Last year, Russian troops suffered more losses in total than in 2022 and 2023. The greatest losses for the year and during the full-scale war were recorded in December - 48,670 Russian troops. The previous record for losses in manpower in the Russian army was in November 2024 - 45,720 soldiers.
10:54 North Korean soldiers fighting as part of the Russian army continue to suffer significant losses. On New Year's Eve, cases of alcohol abuse among North Korean soldiers were recorded. This was reported by the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
10:35 Russian troops have not reached the city limits of Pokrovsk, but are trying to encircle it through neighboring settlements.
"The enemy is not counting on fighting in Pokrovsk now, but is trying to bypass the city and break the infrastructure chains," said the spokesman for the OSGV Khortitsa Viktor Tregubov on the air of the telethon.
9:02 Air defense forces shot down 47 Russian drones, another 24 drones were lost. One UAV remains in the air.
8:44 Over the past 24 hours, 140 combat clashes have been recorded at the front. In the Pokrovsk direction, the defenders stopped 38 assault and offensive actions by the Russian invaders.
8:21 Russian military attacked Stepnogorsk in the Zaporizhia region with UABs, as a result of which a five-story building was destroyed and a man was killed.
7:45 In the Kharkiv region, fortifications are being built and a circular defense of the cities of Izyum and Balakleya is being prepared. This was reported by the head of the OVA Oleg Sinegubov.
7:20 As of January 2, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian troops on the territory of Ukraine were approximately 792,170 people (+1,370 per day).
03:01 Russian troops, according to the DeepState project, have advanced in Kurakhovo in the Donetsk region and in the southern outskirts of the city. Advancement has also been recorded near Volkovoe, Neskuchnoye, Novoye Lizavetovka, Solenoye, Vozdvizhenka.
01:23 The identities of those killed in the morning strike on Kiev have become known. They are the famous Ukrainian neurobiologist Igor Zima and his wife, biologist Olesya Sokur.