According to preliminary estimates, in 2023, Ukraine exported 67.5 million tons of various types of agricultural products, which is 15% higher than the same period last year.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv are launching joint monitoring of weapons provided by the United States, and a new accounting system for international military aid is being introduced.
On December 31, 2023, Ukrainian forces reportedly advanced southeast of Kupiansk and continued positional engagements with Russian occupiers along the Kupiansk-Svatove-Kreminna line.
Putin's army failed to take a single large city in 2023, whereas Ukraine managed to break through Russia's blockade of the Black Sea and is now shipping millions of tonnes of grain using a new route, which is "a huge result."
The Norwegian government has decided to permit direct sales of weapons and defense-related products from the Norwegian defense industry to the defense authorities in Ukraine.
Four detached houses and four light motor vehicles have been damaged in some settlements across the Kyiv region following Russia’s latest drone attack.
On January 1, 2024, Russian troops targeted the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district with seven suicide drones and shelled the Kryvyi Rih district with artillery.
In the Sumy region’s Esman community, a male body was pulled from the rubble at the site of a 2-storey residential building, which had been struck by a Russian combat drone. Hence, the number of fatal casualties rose to two.