In the temporarily occupied Crimea, fuel oil pollution caused by the December accident of Russian oil tankers was found on the beaches of Lyubymivka and Orlivka, located west of Sevastopol.
On the Donetsk--Horlivka highway, a freelance correspondent for the Russian propaganda publication Izvestia, Alexander Martemyanov, was killed by a drone strike.
President Volodymyr Zelensky says on January 3 and 4, in the area of the village of Makhnovka, Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion worth of North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers.
In the village of Svesa, Shostka district in Sumy region, the number of injured in a Russian bombing that targeted an apartment block Saturday afternoon has increased to 10.
In the suburb of Kherson, the village of Antonivka, a 45-year-old man was hit by a Russian drone, who became the sixth victim of such a strike as of January 4.
On Friday night, thousands tool to the streets of Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital, protesting the pro-Russian policy of Prime Minister Robert Fico and expressing support for Ukraine.