On January 8, Ukraine’s Army hit a command post of Russia’s 8th Guards Combined Arms Army, located in the town of Khartsyzk, occupied part of Donetsk region.
Drone operators from the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine destroyed Russian vehicles and electronic warfare equipment in the Donetsk sector.
Border guards from the RUBPAK Phoenix unit of the Pomsta (Revenge) brigade successfully repelled a Russian assault near the village of Kurdiumivka in Donetsk region.
As a result of shelling of the city of Pokrovsk and the village of Udachne in the Pokrovsk district of Donetsk region, a 25-year-old man was killed and a 66-year-old woman was wounded.
Soldiers of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine set up a metal “Christmas tree” near the Donetsk stele and decorated it with patriotic ribbons.
Over the past day, Russian troops fired ten times on settlements in the Donetsk region, damaging dozens of residential buildings. No casualties were reported.
President Volodymyr Zelensky claims that front lines in Donetsk region require substantial reinforcement, particularly regarding arms supply to the Ukrainian Defense Forces from partners.
Ukrainian units operating in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove sectors of the Donetsk region will receive additional reserves, ammunition, weapons, and military equipment.
An operative of the Atesh partisan movement, comprising Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, has located a Russian military base near the front line in the Donetsk region.
Law enforcement officers have identified three Ukrainian defenders who were shot dead by the occupiers in the vicinity of Vyshneve village in the Donetsk region on November 1.