Overview
- The General Staff recorded 120 engagements on December 31 as of the 22:00 operational update.
- Russian forces carried out 46 airstrikes and dropped 94 guided bombs, with 4,659 kamikaze drones and 2,635 instances of shelling reported.
- The heaviest fighting was in Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia sectors: 16 attacks on the Kostyantynivskyi direction, 27 breakthrough attempts near Pokrovsk, 14 on the Oleksandrivskyi axis, and 14 on the Huliaipilskyi axis.
- Ukrainian units report they repelled or halted many assaults on those axes, with several engagements still ongoing at the time of the update.
- Pokrovsk remains a key road and rail hub with an estimated 1,250 residents and has faced a prolonged threat of encirclement, according to local authorities.