Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 98 combat engagements on January 1, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk, Kostyantynivka, Lyman, Oleksandrivsk and Hulyaipole axes.
- Grid operator Ukrenergo reported widespread outages in Volyn and Odesa with new blackouts in Chernihiv after mass drone attacks targeting energy facilities.
- Ukraine confirmed overnight strikes on Russia’s Ilsky oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai and on multiple military targets in occupied Donetsk, citing fires and damaged assets.
- Russia claimed at least 27 deaths in an attack in occupied Kherson region’s village of Khorly, a claim Ukraine’s General Staff rejected; a Ukrainian security source told media the site hosted Russian personnel, a report not independently verified.
- A Russian strike collapsed a residential building in Kharkiv, injuring at least 13, as local authorities also detailed drone damage to homes and a shopping center in Zaporizhzhia.