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09 January 2026
The seventh group of Ukrainian Legion volunteers consisting of Ukrainian citizens living abroad will sign contracts with the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Polish city of Lublin on January 23.
Losses from economic crimes in Russia in January–November 2025 amounted to about $4 billion, breaking previous "records" and reducing Russia's investment attractiveness even for so-called "friendly" countries.
08 January 2026
There are currently no signs of improvement, and the scale of the "red zone" in Kherson depends on the intensity of shelling from the left bank of the region.
The Russian army attacked Kryvyi Rih with missiles and UAVs, with 17 people injured after a strike on a residential area.
There is an understanding among parliamentary factions that preparing for and holding a presidential election will take about six months.
The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has warned of a possible air attack on Ukraine in the coming days.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making maximum efforts to halt enemy advances and currently control the northern part of Pokrovsk, while in Myrnohrad Ukrainian troops are conducting active defense operations.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that another massive Russian strike could occur overnight and urged citizens to stay alert to air raid warnings.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, nearly 250,000 residents remain without heating and around 20,000 without water following a Russian attack on the region’s energy infrastructure in the evening of January 7.
Only sustained political and economic pressure by the United States on Russia can help establish a just and lasting peace in Ukraine.
The transfer of St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church in Kyiv to the Roman Catholic community is “good news” for Ukrainian-Polish relations and “a step in the right direction.”
The State Service for Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQU) has begun inspections of two schools – a private lyceum in the Kyiv region and a school run by the Kostiantynivka Town Council in the Donetsk region – over the formal enrollment of children who were in fact studying at a school operating at a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, UOC-MP) monastery.
Our fundamental task is to identify the Russians implicated in shelling attacks on civilian areas
Following a massive drone attack, the Zaporizhstal steel plant lost external power supply and suspended production processes.
Intelligence officers intercepted a conversation in which a Russian commander threatens a subordinate soldier with reprisals after the latter asks to postpone the time of moving to a position due to the risk to his life.
Russian attacks have left the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions almost completely without power. The situation in Dnipro is one of the most difficult. According to Mayor Borys Filatov, this is a national-level emergency.
The situation with restoring power supply in Kryvyi Rih remains difficult, with nearly 39,000 customers in the city still without electricity.
The settlement of Andriivka in the Sumy region remains under the control of Ukrainian forces, and reports of its capture by Russian troops are false.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained another agent of Russian military intelligence (GRU) in Odesa, who was directing enemy attacks on the city and supporting the invaders on social media.
Snowfall is being recorded in the Zakarpattia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. If the intensity of precipitation does not decrease in the coming hours, there is a risk that traffic on public roads may be halted.
Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railway) has restored train services in Zaporizhzhia to standard operation, while backup diesel locomotives are being used at full capacity in Dnipro.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has approved the new Ukrainian-made Zmiy Droid 12.7 strike-reconnaissance ground robotic system for use by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Russian propaganda is spreading disinformation aimed at disrupting mobilization processes in Ukraine, falsely claiming that "mass raids" by recruitment centers and "drone hunts for people" are taking place.
07 January 2026
In Myrnohrad, the Donetsk region, Ukrainian units are holding defensive lines in the north and containing the enemy in the central part of the town, while preventing Russian invaders from bringing in equipment from the southern direction.
A Polish contingent should be present as part of a military mission in Ukraine, and the Polish government’s declaration that it will limit its role to organizational and logistical support for an international mission in Ukraine is a misguided step.
Russian troops shelled the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Kherson, with one of the shells hitting the main dome of the temple.
Turkey is ready to take the lead in the naval dimension of security guarantees for Ukraine and may also join the air dimension.
Following the Coalition of the Willing summit, concrete wording of future security guarantees laid down in the joint declaration are seen as a positive shift but Russia will remain the obstacle hampering the peaceful resolution.
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin believes that the decisions taken by the participants of the Paris summit did not make a strong impression on Russia, and therefore Moscow will try to impose its own logic of actions on the United States.