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04 January 2026
Lithuania has updated its National Security Strategy for 2026, under which it will annually allocate 0.25% of GDP to support Ukraine in the security and defense sector, continue training Ukrainian servicemen, and provide comprehensive support to Kyiv.
The number of people killed in a Russian missile strike on Kharkiv on January 2 has risen to five.
Key decisions on peace in Ukraine are to be made during a meeting of leaders in Paris on January 6. Poland will not send its troops to Ukraine but, as a country bordering Ukraine, will provide logistical and infrastructure support.
Kyrylo Budanov has built a resilient system at the helm of the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense that will continue to function effectively.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding the line within the town of Rodynske, part of the Pokrovsk urban community, as well as on its approaches.
Imports of machinery, equipment and vehicles to Russia have fallen by 8.7%, directly indicating a contraction in investment activity and worsening prospects for industrial modernization.
Since the evening of January 3, Russia’s capital has come under attack by 19 drones. Against the backdrop of the attack, four airports in Moscow and beyond were temporarily closed.
On January 3, a total of 211 combat clashes took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops. The enemy carried out active assault operations in seven sectors, concentrating its main efforts on the Pokrovsk, Huliaipole, Lyman and Oleksandrivka sectors.
...And given what is happening in the world, this is extremely timely. Because force ultimately decides everything. The example of Venezuela and Iran is highly illustrative.
Over the past day, Russian troops carried out strikes on 31 settlements in the Kherson region. As a result of the enemy attacks, two people were killed and two others were injured.
Agents of the partisan movement ATESH conducted reconnaissance of the Bryansk Automobile Plant, where chassis are manufactured for the S-400 and S-350 surface-to-air missile systems, as well as the Iskander-M operational-tactical missile system and the Uragan multiple launch rocket system.
Under the rubble of a building in Kharkiv that was hit by Russian missiles, fragments of the body of another person were found, bringing the number of victims to four.
For a referendum to be considered legitimate under current legislation, more than half of eligible voters must participate — that is, 18 million citizens. Today, after the loss of territories and millions of Ukrainians abroad, this number is unattainable.
Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) has exposed and shut down a transnational cocaine trafficking channel supplying drugs from European Union countries.
03 January 2026
The number of fatalities from yesterday’s Russian missile strike on Kharkiv has risen to three, as fragments of another person’s body were found under the rubble.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has explained that his consent to holding elections despite the ongoing war is driven by a desire to demonstrate Ukraine’s readiness for compromise in peace negotiations, first and foremost to its partners, particularly the United States.
A military-political block of consultations with European partners has begun in Kyiv, during which approaches across the military, intelligence, and political dimensions will be discussed.
The Russian economy is rapidly moving toward a recession, a trend acknowledged by analytical bodies close to the Kremlin.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that the United States have carried out a “large-scale strike” against Venezuela and that President Nicolás Maduro and his wife have been “captured and flown out of the country.”
In the Kharkiv region, over the past day two people were killed and 27 others injured as a result of Russian attacks; children are among the victims.
The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv has risen after the body of a woman was found under the rubble of a destroyed building.
02 January 2026
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (HUR) is implementing a new defense project Tysha, aimed at strengthening security in the Black Sea region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has proposed that Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov head the Ministry of Defense.
As a result of a Russian strike on a residential building in Kharkiv, a child was killed, later the body was found under the rubble.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Kyrylo Budanov from the post of Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) and appointed him Head of the Presidential Office. Oleh Ivashchenko has officially become Chief of the HUR.
Polish volunteer Kacper "Frenchman" Bass has died in a hospital in Poland from wounds he sustained in late December on the front line in Ukraine.
In Kharkiv, Russian forces carried out a ballistic strike on a five-story residential building in the city center, injuring 19 people.
The Christian Social Union (CSU) is advocating for a tightening of migration policy, including with regard to forcibly displaced Ukrainians.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has instructed that proposals to update the State Bureau of Investigations (SBI) be prepared and promptly submitted for consideration by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Joint Ukrainian-Polish search operations will begin once weather conditions improve.