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Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi and Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Serhiy Shaptala have visited the positions of Ukrainian forces in the Kupiansk sector.

In the Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region, Russian shelling killed one civilian and injured another two, including a minor.

In recent days, Russian troops have focused efforts on attacks in the Kupiansk direction.

Ukrainian defenders repelled seven enemy attacks in the Kupiansk direction, and another six – in the Bakhmut area, killing 234 Russian invaders in action and destroying 78 units of military equipment.

On December 31, 2023, Ukrainian forces reportedly advanced southeast of Kupiansk and continued positional engagements with Russian occupiers along the Kupiansk-Svatove-Kreminna line.

Ukrainian border guards of the “Steel Border” brigade have destroyed a Russian observation post in the Kupiansk sector.

The enemy is conducting active assaults to capture Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region - an important logistics center that can serve as a foothold for an offensive westward, toward unoccupied Ukraine.

Two women aged 57 and 71 were killed and a 30-year-old man was injured in a Russian shelling of Kupiansk city, Kharkiv region.

On December 7-8, Russian troops struck villages in the Kupiansk district of the Kharkiv region with FAB-250 bombs.

In the Kupiansk direction, border guards used an anti-drone gun to land an enemy drone with explosives.

At the Kupiansk direction, Russian troops are forced to rotate units in order to keep up the assault operations due to the loss of manpower and equipment.

The area of mandatory evacuation for families with children may be expanded in the Kharkiv region, affecting the town of Kupiansk and other settlements.

A total of 283 children have been evacuated from the dangerous areas of the Kharkiv region’s Kupiansk district.

In Kharkiv region, mandatory evacuation of families with children has been announced in three communities of Kupiansk district that are under constant enemy fire.

Adverse weather conditions have not affected the active assault operations of Russian troops in the Kupiansk direction, but they are not successful, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces are holding their positions.

In the Kupiansk sector, Ukraine’s Steel Border [Stalevyi Kordon] assault brigade, consisting of border guard officers, used a suicide drone to destroy an obsolete Russian gun, which was designed in the mid-1940s.

Russian troops have dropped a guided bomb on the Kharkiv region’s town of Kupiansk, causing damage to residential houses and civilian cars.

Russian troops are forming a striking fist in the Kupiansk direction, not abandoning assault operations, but the Ukrainian Armed Forces are repelling them.

Ukrainian border guards have destroyed an enemy ammunition depot with mortars in the Kupiansk direction.

In the Kupiansk sector, the enemy continues to form assault units, not abandoning plans to capture Kupiansk.