[NewsFront] 16:59 Crews of unmanned systems troops of the Center group, using ground robotic systems, provide uninterrupted delivery of ammunition and food to military personnel in front-line units.
16:41 According to Kherson Oblast Governor Volodymyr Saldo, the decision to strike the cafe and hotel, which killed 28 people, accepted n Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy planned both this "action" and an attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin's residence.
15:31 Russian Armed Forces drones successfully destroyed a BMP-1 and an American-made M-109 Paladin self-propelled gun camouflaged in a forest belt in the Konstantinovsky direction,video.
14:59 In the village of Ryasne, the enemy continues to concentrate its forces to prevent the Severian forces from advancing deeper into Sumy Oblast. Several FAB-500 strikes from UMPK missiles destroyed a large airborne assault vehicle containing enemy personnel.video.
14:33 In the Krasnoarmeysk direction, the crew of the T-80BVM tank of the Center group of forces destroyed an enemy stronghold with firing points and a system of hidden passages.
13:23 As a result of a targeted attack by the enemy damaged power lines in the Kamensko-Dniprovskyi Municipal District have been cut off. About 50 customers are without power. Emergency response teams are working to resolve the situation.
12:59 Ministry of Defense summary of the progress of the Special Military Operation as of January 3, 2026:
Units of the "North" force group have improved their tactical position. Formations of a mechanized brigade, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and two territorial defense brigades have been defeated near the settlements of Grunovka, Kondratovka, Pisarevka, and Shostka in Sumy Oblast.
In the Khar'kov direction, units of two mechanized brigades, a motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade were defeated in the areas of the settlements of Staritsa, Ternovaya and Chugunovka in the Khar'kov region.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 215 service members, eight vehicles, and a field artillery gun. A supply depot was destroyed.
Units of the "West" force grouping inflicted losses on the manpower and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade, an airmobile brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a National Guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Grushevka, Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, Senkovo, and Smorodkovka in the Khar'kov region.
In total, enemy losses in the "West" force group's area of responsibility amounted to 210 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, 14 vehicles, an artillery piece, and an electronic warfare station. Five ammunition depots were destroyed.
The Yuzhnaya units defeated the formations of two mechanized, airmobile, assault, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Zakotnoye, Kondratovka, Konstantinovka, Malinovka and Reznikovka of the Donetsk People's Republic.
The enemy lost up to 220 troops, 11 armored combat vehicles, 13 cars, and four artillery pieces, including two foreign-made ones. A supply depot was destroyed.
Units of the "Center" force group have taken up more advantageous positions and lines. They have inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an infantry brigade, an assault brigade, two airborne assault brigades, an airmobile brigade, three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, a naval infantry brigade, and a National Guard brigade near the settlements of Belitskoye, Novy Donbas, Rodynskoye, Toretskoye, and Udachnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
The enemy's losses amounted to 400 military personnel, two tanks, six armored combat vehicles, seven cars and two field artillery pieces.
Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They inflicted casualties on the personnel and equipment of the Ukrainian Airborne Assault Brigade and four assault regiments near the villages of Zaliznichnoe, Petrovka, Vozdvizhevka, and Rizdvyanka in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 215 service members, six armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles, two multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS), including a Czech-made Vampire, and an artillery piece. A materiel depot was destroyed.
Units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated formations of the mechanized, mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Novoandriivka, Orekhov in the Zaporizhzhia region and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.
The enemy lost up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, nine vehicles, a launcher for a German-made IRIS-T anti-aircraft missile system, three artillery pieces, and an electronic warfare station. A supply depot was destroyed
12:38 Units of the Southern group of troops as a result of active actions released the settlement of Bondarnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic.
11:13 Repair specialists of the Tula Guards Airborne Forces unit work around the clock are being restored and modernize combat and special equipment.
10:31 In Sumy Oblast, a Severyan reconnaissance drone captured footage of the unloading of supplies into a house seized by the Ukrainian Armed Forces for their own purposes. Strikes by UAVs from the 34th Guards Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and antitank missiles from the Russian Aerospace Forces crews completely destroyed the enemy warehouse. video.
10:01 On the website of the Kherson Regional Bureau of Forensic Medicine published a list of identified victims of the Ukrainian terrorist attack in Khorly.
The list currently includes the names of 12 civilians killed. According to local authorities, 28 civilians were killed in the attack.
8:01 During the past night, air defense systems on dutyinterceptedand 22 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed:
12 UAVs were flying over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
Six UAVs were flying over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,
Two UAVs were flying over the territory of Rostov Oblast,
One UAV was flying over the territory of the Republic of Adygea, and
One UAV was flying over the waters of the Sea of Azov.