On January 1 and New Year's Eve, Russian troops launched attacks on Ukraine. There are victims in Orekhovo and Khmelnitsky. In Kyiv, the campus of the Kyiv National University was damaged.

Another exchange of prisoners of war took place. Ukraine reported the return of 140 people, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the return of 82 people.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian air defense shot down 45 Iranian-made Russian drones and 12 missiles.

In the Kyiv region, air defense forces repelled another drone raid.

The Russians shelled the maternity ward of a hospital in Kherson, no one was injured.
A Russian armored personnel carrier was blown up by a mine in the Kursk region.

Cities and towns in the Kharkov region were shelled. In the village Due to the shelling, one person was injured in Peschanoe. The main target of Russian shelling remains Kyiv.

Russia carried out 1 air strike and 5 missile strikes, and carried out more than 40 shellings from MLRS.
A Ukrainian drone again attacked the airfield in Engels. Three Russian soldiers were killed.

In Kherson, 10 people were killed and 55 were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian troops. The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Igor Klimenko, said that during the ten months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his department opened more than 51 thousand criminal cases regarding crimes committed by the Russian military and their accomplices.

The Russian army continues to attempt an offensive in the Liman, Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions. As a result of shelling in the Kherson region, 5 people were killed and 17 were injured. In the Donetsk region, the Kurakhovskaya thermal power plant was shelled. One person died. Power outages began in Donetsk.

Due to Russian shelling of the Donetsk region, 4 people were killed and 7 were injured.
In Crimea, Russian troops began the engineering arrangement of defensive positions along the Krasnoperekopsk-Dzhankoy highway.

During the day, Russian occupiers shelled the Kherson region more than 70 times.
In Donetsk, Dmitry Rogozin was wounded as a result of shelling at a cafe. Two people nearby died.