Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 149 engagements in the past 24 hours, with 35 attacks on the Pokrovsk sector and 24 on the Huliaipole axis, and no offensive actions reported on the Kramatorsk or Orikhiv fronts.
- Ukrainian forces say drones and dedicated units control approaches to Pokrovsk, and the military reported about 118 enemy personnel neutralized on that sector during the previous day’s actions.
- Overnight strikes on Odesa injured six people, including three children, damaged several apartment buildings and cars, and triggered localized power and utility outages, according to regional authorities.
- Regional and national officials reported repeated Dec. 30 attacks on Odesa’s port infrastructure that ignited oil storage tanks and damaged a Panama‑flagged grain vessel, with a later strike causing a fire but no casualties.
- Analysts at ISW and Ukrainian officials say the Kremlin has provided no evidence for its claim of a Ukrainian drone attack on Putin’s Valdai residence, and Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems command claimed strikes on occupied and Russian targets that could not be independently verified.