JANUARY 8, 2024–Ukraine News
Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Russia.
Photo by Nati: https://www.pexels.com/photo/ukrainian-flag-waving-in-wind-with-clear-sky-in-background-11332250/
▪️ Petro Poroshenko’s party has introduced a bill to the Verkhovna Rada to completely ban the transit of oil and gas from Russia.
▪️ Joe Biden’s administration plans to announce a new military aid package for Ukraine on January. The Pentagon has confirmed that the Biden administration will not have time to allocate more than $2 billion in military aid to Ukraine.
▪️ The West called for a reconsideration of the attitude towards Ukraine.
▪️ Hackers claimed to have breached the Rosreestr database – but official Russian pro-government
media denied the hack.
▪️ Former Georgian President Zurabishvili left Georgia for the United States.
▪️ Responsible Statecraft sees Trump’s claims to the Panama Canal and Greenland as common sense.
▪️ Aliyev is looking for reasons for conflict with Russia and Armenia. Ilon Musk took a provocative poll at X and talked about his British grandmother. Europe revolts against Musk’s comments in X, and the businessman and now politician openly harrumphs in response to a post by almost-former Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
JANUARY 8, 2025–Update on the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict
Source: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and Russia, and Military Reports
Summary of overnight strikes, news from the front, video summary and news from the Kursk
border area.
▪️ In the Kherson section, the Ukrainian army started using heavy drones more often and intensified shelling of Russian-controlled towns, 36 munitions were dropped over the day. A strike on a gas station in the town of Novaya Kakhovka killed two people and wounded four others, including a pregnant woman. A civilian in Aleshki was wounded. The territory of the hospital was attacked from drones, an ambulance was damaged.
▪️ No significant changes in the Zaporizhzhya direction. Positional fighting, mutual shelling.
▪️On the Ugledarsk front, the Russian army liberated about 4 km² more, taking control of the road section from Velyka Novosyolka to Novosyolka. There is fierce fighting in the Ulakly-
Konstantinopol-Razliv area. The Ukrainian army is holding back the attacks. Intense fighting has resumed for Yantarnoye, west of which the Russian army has recaptured several positions from the Ukrainian army. The situation of the Ukrainian army garrison near Dachne is rapidly deteriorating. The Russian army occupied a stronghold on the northern bank of the Volchya River and established fire control over a section of the Kurakhovo-Zaporizhzhya highway.
▪️In the Pokrovskoye direction, the Russian army has cleared Elizavetovka and Vozdvizhenka,
and fighting is going on for Baranivka. On the western flank, fighting is going on for access to
Kotlino. It is reported from the field that the Ukrainian army has transferred additional forces
here. The heat of battles on the line Solyonoye-Novovovasilievka-Uspenovka is not subsiding.
To the south, control over Slovyanka has been established. The Ukrainian army has rolled back
to the Andreevka-Yasenovoye line. The number of attacks of the Russian army does not
decrease, but with the onset of winter the pace of the offensive has fallen. The Ukrainian army is
not starved of ammunition. There is approximate parity in drones, the Russian army has an
advantage in troop numbers.
▪️In Toretsk, the Russian army has captured all areas of high-rise buildings, knocking out the Ukrainian army in the suburbs. The main battles unfolded in the north for a group of slag heaps with heights near three mines: “No. 12”, “Fomikha”, “Toretskaya”. Almost the entire Zabalka neighborhood is under the control of Russian troops. In addition, west of Toretsk, the Ukrainian army is developing success on Novospasskoye, moving along the railroad line.
▪️In Chasov Yar, the Russian army breakthrough in the northern neighborhoods worsened the situation of the Ukrainian army in the city center. Russian troops are reported to have reoccupied part of the refractory plant and the high-rise development to the west. Rather unexpectedly came news of success to the north, where Russian troops took Ukrainian army positions near the village of Orekhovo-Vasilievka.
▪️From the Seversk direction it is reported that Russian troops have recaptured Ukrainian army
positions south of Verkhnekamenskoye, and Russian attack aircraft have advanced another 1 km.
▪️In the Krasnolimanskiy section, fighting is taking place for heights near Ivanivka and Makeyevka. Russian troops have taken strongholds to the west, advancing up to 500 meters. From Ivanovka they advanced 2 km towards the village of Kolodezi.
▪️In the Kupyansk direction, the Russian army pushed back the Ukrainian army behind the river Nizhnyaya Dvurechna and controls most of the village of the same name. Near Kupyansk, the second crossing has already been destroyed – the Russians hit the embankment crossing. To the south, the Ukrainian army attacked the Russian positions in Kolesnikovka – they cut 700 meters into the residential area in the north of the village. Fierce fighting continues there. The Russian army, in turn, has successes in the Lozova area – the Russians have occupied two more forest belts and cleared a large pocket between Zagryzovo and Lozova.
▪️There are no changeson the Kharkiv section.
▪️According to the Ministry of Defense, during the day the air defense shot down 6 HIMARS shells and 105 UAVs; the Ukrainian army attacked 11 settlements in Belgorod region. the Ukrainian army hit the port of Berdyansk in Zaporozhye region with a missile, as well as the highway between Makeyevka and Khartsyzsk – the busy highway connects Donbass with Rostov region. Preliminarily, they hit with HIMARS. There are injured and dead.
▪️At the burning oil depot in Engels, Saratov region, presumably, another tank exploded. The city
is introducing an emergency regime. The fire after an overnight drone attack does not subside,
two rescuers were killed.
▪️According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian army hit the military airfields of Ukraine , the
place of assembly and storage of drones, warehouses.