Overview
- Ukraine says military and government representatives will meet partners in Paris on Monday, with European leaders on Tuesday, to advance draft security guarantees and peace documents, and President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed intelligence chief Kirill Budanov to head his Presidential Office.
- Local officials report a Ukrainian drone struck a car in Russia’s Belgorod region, killing one person and injuring two, while Kharkiv recorded three new drone-related injuries overnight and raised Friday’s missile-attack death toll to four.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry says air defenses downed 66 Ukrainian drones overnight, including seven headed toward Moscow.
- Moscow’s Investigative Committee reports 27 deaths from a strike in occupied Jorli in the Kherson region; Kyiv denies targeting civilians and says its forces strike only military objectives.
- The Kremlin’s claimed evidence of a 91-drone attack on a Putin residence remains disputed by Ukraine and questioned by the CIA, and Ukrainian intelligence warns of possible Russian false‑flag actions around January 7.