On the evening of January 1, Russian occupiers attacked an emergency medical team that had responded to a call to treat the wounded in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson with a drone. The strike damaged the ambulance, injured the driver, and killed one person and injured six others in the community.

Ukraine’s Defense Forces fully control the northern and central parts of Myrnohrad in the Donetsk region.

Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) commander Denis Kapustin is alive, and the half a million dollars received for his elimination will strengthen DIU special units.

The assessment of the American special services refuted the Kremlin's claim about Ukraine's alleged attack on the residence of Russian dictator Putin.

On New Year's Eve , the enemy carried out several waves of drone strikes on civilian infrastructure in the Odesa region. Energy facilities and residential infrastructure were targeted by the enemy attack.

Throughout the night, the Volyn region was under massive attack from "Shahed"-type UAVs. In total, several dozen enemy targets once again attacked critical infrastructure facilities in Volyn.

Throughout 2025, Russia almost continuously struck Ukraine, using missiles, strike drones, or combined attacks. Only four days in the entire year passed without air strikes on Ukrainian cities.

Russian occupation forces are advancing in the Zaporizhzhia region and in Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region.

Yurii Butusov, Unmanned Systems Platoon Commander of the Khartiia brigade, spoke about operations in Kupiansk.

UAVs operated by the Special Operations Center "A" of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck the "Temp" oil depot in the city of Rybinsk, Russia’s Yaroslavl region.