Positional fighting continues for the Avdiivka Coke Plant and near Novobakhmutivka, Berdychi, Stepove, Pervomaiske and Nevelske on the Avdiivka front. Source: Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: Russian forces recently made a confirmed advance northwest of Avdiivka as positional fighting near Avdiivka continued on 1 and 2 January.
Lieutenant General Serhii Naiev, Commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, has stated that intelligence data and combat efficiency of the Ukrainian artillery and aircraft against the Russians helped to thwart Russia's plans to seize the Black Sea coast in Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts at the onset of a full-scale war.
A year after the world discovered the gruesome killings of civilians in Bucha, Ukraine s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin revealed the extent of Russia s atrocities.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine liquidated a mobile command post along with the commanders of the 4th Battalion Tactical Group (operational subordination) of the 201st Military Base of Russia’s Central Military District. Ukrinform.