Because the conflict enters its 678th day, these are the principle developments.
Right here is the state of affairs on Tuesday, January 2, 2024.
Preventing
- Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to accentuate strikes on Ukraine after the demise toll rose to 25 in Saturday’s unprecedented raid on the Russian metropolis of Belgorod, not removed from the border. Moscow has blamed Kyiv for the Belgorod assault, which got here a day after Russia launched some 158 missiles and drones on Ukrainian cities killing 30 individuals in Kyiv and elsewhere.
- Ukraine held a day of mourning for Friday’s assault, the deadliest on the capital since Russia started its full-scale invasion in February 2022, as 5 extra our bodies have been recovered from the rubble in Kyiv.
- Ukraine’s air defence programs destroyed 87 of 90 drones launched on the nation by Russia, a few of which focused port infrastructure in Odesa. Oleh Kiper, the top of the area’s army administration, stated a 15-year-old boy was killed and 7 individuals injured after falling particles from one of many drones hit a residential constructing within the southern metropolis.
- Drone strikes and artillery hearth additionally killed three individuals in Ukraine’s Kherson, Kharkiv and Sumy areas, based on officers.
- 4 individuals have been killed by artillery hearth within the Russian-occupied jap metropolis of Donetsk, based on Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed head of the broader Donetsk area, including that 14 individuals had been injured.
- One particular person was additionally killed and one other wounded in shelling on the Russian border city of Shebekino, regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov stated.