Donetsk

In 2024, the project “I Want to Find” received 52,000 requests from the families of missing Russian servicemen. Most of the invaders disappeared in Donetsk region - 19,025 people, mostly in Pokrovsk and Bakhmut districts.

The Ukrainian military attacked the command post of the 3rd Army Corps of the Russian Federation in the occupied Svitlodarsk, Donetsk region. During the week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces conducted a series of attacks on occupiers' facilities in the region.

Russian troops have approached the outskirts of Pokrovsk to within a few kilometers. There are 7,000 people left in the city without critical infrastructure, and they are being urged to evacuate.

The Verkhovna Rada passed a law on changes to organ transplantation. The document prohibits the harvesting of organs from fallen soldiers and establishes the National Transplantation Committee.

In the occupied Donetsk region, children were forced to make trench candles for the Russian military. Each high school student has to make 50 hot water bottles, and a junior high school student has to make 25.

Three guards of the Russian prison in Horlivka have been notified of suspicion for torturing Ukrainian prisoners of war. They used beatings, mock executions, and other torture to exert psychological pressure on the prisoners.

russian troops have begun using fiber-optic drones to counter Ukrainian electronic warfare systems. Such drones are slower and less maneuverable, but they effectively bypass electronic warfare systems.

DeepState reports on the advance of Russian troops in Toretsk, Pishchane, Vozdvyzhenka and other settlements of Donetsk region. Enemy activity was also recorded in the area of Makhnovka.

Over the past day, the occupants fired 3,200 times at the Donetsk region, wounding three civilians. About 40 thousand people are still living along the front line in dangerous localities.

Ukrainian troops conducted a precision strike on the headquarters of the 8th Guards Army of the Russian Federation in Khartsyzsk. The enemy used the facility to coordinate attacks on Kurakhove.

In Pokrovsk, shelling has intensified, the city has been left without electricity, gas and water. Of the 7,200 residents remaining, evacuation to the Ivano-Frankivsk region is ongoing.

Russian troops shelled the town of Konstantinovka in Donetsk region. The attack damaged a Ukrzaliznytsia facility, with no casualties.

Russian troops have advanced into Toretsk and may attempt an offensive on Kostyantynivka. ISW analysts believe that without reinforcements from other parts of the frontline, the threat to the city will be insignificant.

In the town of Sudzha, Kursk region, 36 civilians were killed and about 100 wounded by shelling. The enemy is actively using S-300 and massively using FPV drones, Lancets and Mavic.

More than 30,000 Ukrainians were evacuated by Ukrzaliznytsia from the frontline regions in 2024. The evacuees include people with disabilities, the elderly, and families with children.

Two young brothers and a 17-year-old boy were evacuated from the temporarily occupied territories. The boy was persecuted because of his pro-Ukrainian position, and the brothers were reunited with their mother, who could not take them on her own.

A large part of Kurakhove in Donetsk region has been destroyed. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hold the western outskirts of the city and the power plant, while the occupiers continue to storm the city's buildings.

Warm weather is expected in Ukraine with temperatures ranging from 4 to 13 degrees Celsius. The warmest weather will be in Crimea, with no precipitation throughout the country and partly cloudy skies.

An energy crisis has emerged in the temporarily occupied territories of southern Ukraine due to the ineffective management of the occupiers. Local specialists refuse to cooperate, forcing the invaders to engage personnel from a terrorist country.

A missile threat has been announced in Dnipropetrovs'k, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhya regions. The Ukrainian Air Force urges people to take shelter.

Russian troops intensify their assaults in Toretsk, Donetsk region. The enemy is using scorched earth tactics.

According to Zelenskyy, Russia has lost more than 38,000 troops in the Kursk sector, 15,000 of them irretrievably. The enemy has deployed significant forces in this area, including North Korean soldiers.

The Pokrovsk direction has remained the hottest for the last 4 weeks. Russian troops are trying to infiltrate in small groups around the town, but cannot pose a real threat to Pokrovsk.

Urban fighting continues in Kurakhovo, with Ukrainian units holding positions in the western part of the city. Russia's claims of full control over the town are not true.

In Donetsk region, the occupiers shot two captured Ukrainian soldiers near the village of Vremivka. Donetsk prosecutor's office has launched a war crime investigation.

A power bank exploded in the locker room of the gymnasium of School-Lyceum No. 16 in Bila Tserkva, causing a fire. Rescuers promptly extinguished the fire, and there were no injuries.

In Dobropillya, Donetsk region, two 11-year-old boys sustained leg injuries as a result of an explosion on an unknown explosive device. The victims were hospitalized, the circumstances of the incident are being established.

Russian military forces likely executed three Ukrainian prisoners of war near the village of Neskuchne in Donetsk Oblast on January 3. According to DeepState, the prisoners had their hands bound and were shot in the back of the head.

The cyclone will bring cloudy weather with precipitation to Ukraine, with temperatures ranging from -1°C to +8°C depending on the region. Rains in the west, snow and rain in the east, and light precipitation in the center and south.

Russian troops shelled localities in Donetsk region, wounding 7 civilians. A shop, administrative building and residential buildings were damaged in Pokrovsk, Nadiyivka and Zarichne.