Russian occupiers have seized three settlements in Donetsk Oblast and have territorial gains in Sumy Oblast and Myrnohrad.

Russian dictator's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia's negotiating position on Ukraine will become tougher.

The chair of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Anti-Corruption Policy, "Servant of the People" MP Anastasia Radina, asked her colleagues in the faction who had been suspected by the NABU how much their vote for the bill that deprived NABU and SAPO of their independence (No. 12414 - Ed.) had cost them.

In Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, about 9,000 families have been without electricity for four days following a massive Russian attack on 27 December.

China expects a peaceful agreement to eliminate the "root causes of the conflict" in Ukraine.

In the Sumy region, Ukrainian air defence forces carried out a successful special operation, repelling a massive attack by Russian drones. This was reported by the military of the 47th separate mechanised brigade "Magura".

Ukraine cannot agree to cede its own territories in the process of peace negotiations with Russia, as such a move would contradict national legislation, public sentiment, and the actual situation in the temporarily occupied territories.

NABU and SAPO have served suspicion notices on members of an organised criminal group that operated in Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada and ensured that MPs systematically received bribes for "needed" votes on draft laws.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has refuted Russian minister Sergei Lavrov’s claim about an alleged Ukrainian drone attack on dictator Putin’s residence in Russia’s Novgorod region.

The Kremlin claimed that on the night of December 29, Ukraine allegedly attacked Kremlin dictator Putin’s residence in Russia’s Novgorod region using 91 attack UAVs.