Military actions in Donetsk region, 114 combat clashes, air attack, enemy shelling, NATO budget-2025. How will the 1047th day of the full-scale war be remembered?
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President Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a more than three-hour interview with American podcaster Lex Friedman.
The presidential press service reported this and published a video.
“A conversation with Lex Friedman. For the first time, a nearly three-hour interview for a well-known American podcast. Informative answers to difficult questions. The Ukrainian vision of a just world that is important for everyone in partner countries to know,” the statement said.
According to Zelensky, he spoke “about the strength of our people, the origins of criminal Russian aggression, and our readiness to work together with President Trump and all partners to establish a reliable and lasting peace.”
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Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that as of 16:00 on January 5, 114 combat clashes have occurred.
42 of them occurred in Kurshchina.
The situation at the front remains tense. troops.
More details about the operational situation as of the evening of January 5 are in the news.
Russian troops continue assault operations in the Pokrovsk direction, accompanying them with chaotic strikes on populated areas with artillery and aviation, said Vitaliy Litvin, an officer of the intelligence department of the Rubezh National Guard brigade and Hero of Ukraine, on the air of the telethon.
“The enemy is constantly carrying out assault operations, attracting significant resources. Enemy artillery strikes not only at the front line, but also chaotically shells civilian objects. Pokrovsk and Mirnograd are under constant terror. There may not be any military facilities in these cities, but the enemy still strikes, residential buildings and infrastructure are the main targets of Russian attacks,” Litvin noted.
The Russian army attacked Kharkov with a Molniya drone, on the border of the Saltovsky and Kievsky districts.
According to updated information from the head of the Kharkov OVA Oleg Sinegubov, a private house was damaged as a result of the UAV hit.
On the night of January 5, in the village of Krasnokutsk, Bogodukhov district, Kharkiv region, Russians attacked civilians with a drone. As a result of the UAV crash, three people were injured and houses were damaged.
During a missile strike on a command post on December 30, 2024 in Lgov, Kursk region, the Defense Forces eliminated 8 Russian servicemen, including two lieutenant colonels, “Military” reports with reference to Russian media.
At the time of the strike, all the military personnel were in the city of Lgov, where their permanent deployment and command post was probably located, from where the organization and coordination of actions was carried out. It is noted that during the strike, Lieutenant Colonel of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division Valery Tereshchenko, who had been directly involved in the war against Ukraine since October 2022, was eliminated.
In addition to him, Lieutenant Colonel Pavel Maletsky was also eliminated during the missile strike on the permanent deployment post in Lvov. He was the commander of the 656th Engineering Battalion of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division.
According to the DeepState project, the city is approximately 30 km from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kursk region, which expands the possibilities for striking Russian troops stationed in the city.
The civilian budget of the NATO military bloc for 2025 is 483.3 million euros, and the military budget is 2.37 billion euros, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.
This is 10% and 9% more than in 2024. These jointly financed budgets differ from defense spending, which is often discussed in the context of NATO and together account for less than 0.02% of the Alliance's defense spending. The joint financing of NATO budgets for 2025 was agreed by the Alliance members at the North Atlantic Council meeting on 17 December 2024.
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