Night air attack, 184 combat encounters, battles in the Pokrovsk and Kursk directions, losses of occupiers, enemy shelling, Zelensky's interview with Lex Fridman.
Consequences of the shelling of Donetsk region
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 184 battles were recorded over the past 24 hours, most of all – in Kurshchina (47) and in the Pokrovsk direction (51).
The Defense Forces carried out 26 strikes on areas of enemy personnel concentration.
More details about the operational situation are in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,550 invaders, 14 enemy tanks, 45 armored combat vehicles, 62 artillery systems, and 2 air defense systems. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Defense Forces have eliminated about 798,040 invaders.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
On the night of January 6, the Air Defense Forces shot down 2 Russian Kh-59 guided air missiles and 79 enemy drones.Another 49 drones were lost.
According to the Air Force, the enemy attacked with two Kh-59 guided air missiles from the southern direction and 128 Shahed-type strike UAVs and various types of simulator drones in the areas of Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel, Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, which are in Russia.
As of 09:00, the downing of two Kh-59 guided air missiles and 79 Shahed-type attack UAVs and other types of drones has been confirmed in the Nikolaev, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zhytomyr, Kirovohrad and Vinnytsia regions. No hits were recorded.
49 enemy drone imitators were lost (without negative consequences).
Due to the fall of the downed enemy drones, buildings of enterprises, institutions and private houses were damaged in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Cherkasy, Poltava and Kyiv regions. Preliminary, no casualties or victims.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has recorded loud explosions near Ukraine's Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant. They coincided with reports of a drone attack on the plant's training center, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said.
The IAEA Support and Assistance Mission in Zaporizhia (ISAMZ) team reported hearing two loud explosions at approximately 12:45 and 15:45 on January 5, and also repeatedly hearing machine gun fire.
The reports note that there were no casualties and no damage to the NPP equipment.
The IAEA says that the intensity of military actions near Europe's largest NPP has increased over the past 24 hours.
Before any negotiations and agreements with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hopes to first reach an agreement with US President Donald Trump. Zelensky is ready to meet with Trump on January 25, that is, shortly after his inauguration, and discuss how they can stop the war and Putin.
After that, it is important to reach an agreement with European countries, Zelensky told podcaster Lex Friedman. He stressed the importance of Europe “also having a voice.”
“Because Europe will look at us and will look at Trump. By the way, I see now that when we talk about something with Trump, or we meet, or just have a phone call, everyone always asks: “So how is it?” All the leaders of Europe. This speaks of Donald Trump's influence, which has never happened before with the American president,” he said.
This gives Zelensky faith that Trump can stop this war.
What else was discussed in this interview is in our news.
In particular in this one: North Korea sent 12,000 of its troops to Russia, of which over 3,000 have already been killed or wounded
The SBU claims to have exposed Russian agents who planned to blow up a unit of the Defense Forces in the Kiev region.
Four enemy agents were detained. One of them was a 16-year-old student from the Kirovohrad region.
More details in the news.
North Korea has launched a medium-range ballistic missile towards the East Sea for the first time in 2025, Yonhap writes, citing reports from the South Korean military.
The launch took place during US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Seoul. The American politician arrived there for talks with his South Korean counterpart on efforts to contain North Korean threats amid the situation in South Korea following President Yun Suk-yul's unsuccessful declaration of martial law.
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