JANUARY 7, 2025–UKRAINE DAILY NEWS
Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Russia,
Photo: Independence Monument in Kharkov, Ukraine by Kostiantyn Klymovets
▪️ Trump’s representative for Ukraine Keith Kellogg postponed his trip to Kiev. The cancelation of Keith Kellogg’s trip can be interpreted as a signal to Zelensky about Trump’s displeasure. Zelensky openly accused Democrats of corruption. Belarusian President Lukashenko said that it is better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like in Ukraine.
▪️ Trump published a video of a Greenlander wearing a cap that says “MAGA” and asking Trump to buy the island. The King of Denmark has changed the royal coat of arms to make Greenland and the Faroe Islands more prominent on it.
▪️ Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it’s time for the U.S. to recognize Taiwan’s independence. Meanwhile, Trump himself said on air that he and his team had already spoken to representatives of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
▪️ Zuckerberg ingratiates himself with Trump and eases censorship on his social media accounts. Mark Zuckerberg promises to end fact-checking, introduce public notes and return to free speech. He also pledged that he’s moving content moderation to Texas and working with Trump: “We will work with Trump to fight back against governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing for stricter censorship. The only way we can counter this global trend (of censorship) is by supporting the U.S. government. And that’s why it’s been so difficult over the last 4 years, when even the US government has been pushing for censorship, harassing us and other US companies…”
JANUARY 7, 2025–Update on the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict
Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Russia, and Military Reports
▪️ Counter-battery fighting does not subside on the Kherson direction. The UKRAINIAN ARMY lost six vehicles and a 122-mm howitzer, an REB stationand an amm unition depot over the past 24 hours. Over the past 24 hours theUKRAINIAN ARMY fired 49 shells at our villages. A person was killed in Aleshki as a result of shelling.
▪️ There are no changes in the Zaporizhzhya section – position battles and powerful work of the Russian artillery. In Temirovka there were strikes in the area of Pyatikhatok, where the UKRAINIAN ARMY’s anpower and equipment were hit.
▪️ The siege of Velikaya Novosyolka continues on the Ugledarsk front. RUSSIAN ARMY advanced about two kilometers west of the steppe mound ofAlchi Oba, which is southeast of Razliv. The UKRAINIAN ARMY fiercely counterattacked in an attempt to prevent the Russian advance toward Bogatyr. After the liberation of Kurakhovo and entering operational space,the R USSIAN ARMY forces are advancing westward to the enemy’s defensive bridgehead in the Konstantinople-Andreevka-Ulakly triangle. Tense fighting istaking place in the area of Dachnoye and Yantarnoye.
▪️ In the Pokrovsky direction, the Russian Army is expanding its zone of control on the eastern flank. The RUSSIAN ARMY has liberated another 4.9 km² between Vozdvizhenka and Elizavetovka. On the southern coverage of Pokrovsk, the Russian Army is trying to eliminate two pockets on the flanks of the liberated Dachenskoye: on the right they are pressing on Lysovka, where fierce fighting is going on, on the left they are pushing the UKRAINIAN ARMY to the outskirts of Zelenoye. And also they break through the fortified
areas of the UKRAINIAN ARMY to the north along the line Peschanoye-Volkovo and press on the south-western boundaries of Zverevo. On the western outskirts of Pokrovsk, the Russian ARMY reached the highway near Kotlino and broke another logistical supply route for the UKRAINIAN ARMY garrison in Pokrovsk. Now the UKRAINIAN ARMY has only one supply route left. Northwest of Solyonoye, the RUSSIAN ARMY is knocking out the enemy, who are entrenched in the quarry, in order to gain access to Udachnoye. Behind these two villages an operational space opens up, which allows to cover Pokrovsk from the west. South along the front, the RUSSIAN ARMY has taken control of Shevchenko and has begun to fire on positions near Andreevka, which is about 2.5 kilometers away. All these moves are part of a larger offensive by the RUSSIAN ARMY troops in the western direction from the Kurakhovo area.
▪️ In Toretsk, the RUSSIAN ARMY expanded its zone of control in the northwestern part as well as in the so-called 12th microdistrict. In the south, in the Zabalka neighborhood, the RUSSIAN ARMY knocked out the UKRAINIAN ARMY from the Kulatsky Hutor area. Now there are battles for the slag heaps in the north. The UKRAINIAN ARMY retains control over the Toretskaya mine with a slag heap. On the left flank, attacks by Russian groups continue in thecentral part of Shcherbinovka, as well as on the outskirts of Novospasskoye. On the right flank of this section there is fighting for Dachnoye.
▪️ In Chasov Yar, the territory of the Ogneuporny plant is being shelled by artillery RUSSIAN ARMY. The UKRAINIAN ARMY are suffering heavy losses.
▪️ In the Krasnolimansk direction, the Russian Army has extended its zone of control to 500 meters along the front on the southern outskirts of Ivanovka, having repulsed a large stronghold from the UKRAINIAN ARMY. The advance of the Russian Army troops in this area is complicated by a system of
fortified enemy positions located on heights.
▪️ On the Kupyansk direction, the RUSSIAN ARMY attacked the positions of the UKRAINIAN ARMY at the Zagryzovo-Lozovaya line with a large number of armored vehicles and motorized rifle units. The powerful attack brought results – the RUSSIAN ARMY advanced about 3 kilometers west of Lozovaya towards Novaya Kruglyakovka.
▪️ No changes in the Kharkiv direction, heavy positional fighting in Volchansk and Liptsy.
▪️ According to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, over the past 24 hours the Russian army struck the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields, weapons depots, as well as accumulations of manpower and equipment of the UKRAINIAN ARMY and foreign mercenaries in 164 districts of Ukraine.
▪️ Air defense means shot down 6 HIMARS rockets and 50 drones. The UKRAINIAN ARMY attacked 6 districts of Belgorod region during the day, using 30 drones and firing 95 munitions. As a result of massive shelling ofthe city of Gorlovka by the Ukrainian military 7 civilians, including a child,
were wounded.On the situation in the Kursk region as of January 7, the 154th day of the invasion.
▪️ Fierce fighting continues on the front line in the Kursk border area, the UKRAINIAN ARMY has stopped the offensive and is trying to recapture the positions lost yesterday, the RUSSIAN ARMY is also attacking.
▪️ RUSSIAN ARMY regained control of the village of Kruglenkoe and, after fighting their way from there, took Starya Sorochyna and pushed the UKRAINIAN ARMY west of Novaya Sorochyna.
▪️ After the liberation of Leonidovo and the village of Alexandria by the troops of the RUSSIAN ARMY, the UKRAINIAN ARMY pulled their groups back into the forest area, where small arms battles are taking place. The RUSSIAN ARMY continue to advance with fighting towards Viktorovka.
▪️ Russian units have also entered the outskirts of Malaya Loknya and are trying to dislodge the UKRAINIAN ARMY from the village. The UKRAINIAN ARMY is fiercely resisting – if the Russian Army succeeds, the garrison of the UKRAINIAN ARMY north of Lokni will be encircled.
▪️ After the offensive on Berdin, the remnants of Ukrainian infantry have partially entrenched themselves in the gray zone in the forest belts near Berdin, ours continue to mop them up.
▪️ Another point of tension is south of Suja, where the RUSSIAN ARMY is reported to have taken control of Makhnovka and have begun the assault on Zamość.