1411 days of heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people to the Russian full-scale military invasion have come to an end.

ESTIMATED LOSSES OF THE ENEMY

MAIN NEWS

In Kharkiv, the number of people killed as a result of the attack by the Russian Federation on the city on January 2 increased to six people. The search and rescue operation is ongoing.

In the morning, a car exploded on Obolon in Kyiv. According to the prosecutor’s office, this happened while opening the trunk. As a result of the explosion, a serviceman received shrapnel wounds. The case is being investigated as a terrorist act.

Valery Vavrynyuk will become the temporary head of the State Security Service, according to a decree on the president’s website. Before that, he served as the first deputy head of the State Border Service.

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INFORMATION FROM THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY REGARDING THE SITUATION AT THE FRONT (22:00)

Since the beginning of this day, 154 combat clashes have taken place. Today, the occupiers carried out 23 airstrikes, used one missile and dropped 75 guided aerial bombs. In addition, the Russians involved 4,663 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,057 attacks on the positions of our troops and populated areas.

In the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, the enemy launched 93 attacks, in particular one — from rocket salvo systems.

In the South-Slobozhansk direction, our troops stopped seven enemy attacks in the areas of Vovchansk, Staritsa, Prylipka, Figolivka, and in the direction of Izbytsk and Kutkivka.

On the Kupyansk direction, since the beginning of the day, the enemy tried to advance three times in the areas of Stepova Novoselivka, Pershotravnevo and towards Petropavlivka.

In the Lymansky direction, during the day, Russian invaders attacked Ukrainian positions near the settlements of Novoselyvka, Kolodyazne, and Torske nine times. One combat encounter is ongoing.

In the Slavyansk direction, the Defense Forces repulsed six enemy attacks near Dronivka, Siversk, and Sviato-Pokrovsky. In the Kramatorsk direction, one skirmish took place in the Stupochky area.

The Russians attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 17 times in the Konstantinov direction. The occupiers concentrated their main offensive efforts in the areas of Pleshchiivka, Aleksandro-Shultyny, Rusyny Yar, Yablunivka and towards Sofiivka.

In the Pokrovsky direction, the invading units tried 47 times to break through our defenses in the areas of Shakhove, Nikanorivka, Rodynske, Myrnograd, Pokrovsk, Kotlyna, Udachne, Molodetske and in the direction of Novopavlivka. In some locations, fighting continues to this day.

Today, Ukrainian soldiers neutralized 121 occupiers in this direction, 95 of them irreversibly. Also destroyed were 29 unmanned aerial vehicles, ten units of automotive equipment, a satellite communication terminal, three ground robotic complexes and three ammunition warehouses.

In addition, Ukrainian soldiers hit a tank and three vehicles.

In the Oleksandrivsk direction, the enemy attacked 22 times in the areas of the settlements of Zeleniy Gai, Oleksandrograd, Sosnivka, Vorone, Oleksiivka, Vyshneve, Solodke, and Yehorivka. Two clashes are still ongoing.

In the direction of Gulyaipil, the Defense Forces repulsed and stopped 53 attacks by Russians in the areas of Zeleny, Gulyaipol, Varvarivka, Dorozhnianka, and in the direction of Sviatpetrivka. The defense forces repelled six enemy offensive attempts in the Orihiv direction in the areas of Mala Tokmachka, Shcherbaki and Stepove settlements.

No offensive actions of the enemy were noted in the Dnieper direction. In other areas, the situation has not undergone significant changes.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY

I wish you good health, dear Ukrainians, dear Ukrainian women! Today, we are continuing internal changes in Ukraine, each of which should strengthen our state, our Ukrainian stability. Five regional administrations – today I conducted interviews with candidates. Vinnytsia Oblast, Dnipro Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Ternopil Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast.

We need strong leaders to support communities and be able to help other regions of ours that really need it. Leadership at the local level is just as important as at the central government level.

I am grateful to those who worked really responsibly in the regions. The names of the new leaders will be announced when the formal appointment procedures begin. In the next week, there should already be appropriate managers in the administrations.

I spoke today with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Svyridenko – a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is being prepared for tomorrow. It is important that the changes continue. Today, they worked in detail on the security side.

The State Border Service of Ukraine will change, and we discussed the relevant directions of changes with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko. We will continue tomorrow. We are already preparing for the next diplomatic week – there will be meetings in Europe, which should become for Ukraine another contribution to our defense and the approaching end of the war.

Ukraine will prepare for both options of the further development of events: diplomacy, which we provide, or further active defense, if the pressure of partners on Russia turns out to be insufficient. Ukraine seeks peace. But Ukraine will not give its strength to anyone. I thank everyone who works for our state and who protects Ukraine as himself. Glory to Ukraine!

We believe in the Armed Forces and help them! Together we are a force! Glory to Ukraine!