The battle for Soledar continues. The parties suffer heavy losses.

Dozens of people were killed when a Russian missile hit a residential building in Dnieper. The rubble is being cleared.

In Berdyansk, the car of the head of the Russian administration of the Berdyansk region, Alexei Kichigin, was blown up. The official was not injured.

Russian troops attacked a perinatal center in Kherson. A powerful blast wave knocked out the windows in the children's department and damaged one of the doctors' offices. There is a victim. The center worker received minor injuries, but her life is not in danger.

Fierce fighting is taking place in the area of Bakhmut and Soledar. According to the US authorities, Yevgeny Prigozhin seeks to take control of salt and gypsum deposits in the Donetsk region, this explains the activity of the Wagnerites near Bakhmut.

The Russian army continues to storm Soledar and shell Ukrainian cities. Kharkov, Ochakov and Kurakhovka were struck. Two people were killed and dozens were injured.

Russian forces shelled Kharkov, Zaporozhye region, Kherson and Kherson region. The suburb of Bakhmut was almost completely destroyed. Most of the population left the city.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that, despite the declared “truce,” the Russian army is advancing in the Bakhmut direction.

The UN dissolved the commission of inquiry into the deaths of Ukrainian prisoners in a colony in the Donetsk region in July 2022, because it could not obtain security guarantees for investigators from participants in the armed conflict in Ukraine.

On January 4, the founder of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said that the first group of Russian prisoners recruited by the company to participate in the war in Ukraine had completed a six-month contract. All criminal records were cleared from the mercenaries.