Over the past day , the

of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka and Ploshanka in the Luhansk region and Belogorivka, Soledar, Krasna Gora, Vyimka, Pidhorodne, Bakhmut, Kurdyumivka, Mayorsk, Severnye, Vodyane, Krasnohorivka, Vesele, Maryinka, and Pobieda in Donetsk region.

The occupiers continue to focus their efforts on conducting an offensive in the Bakhmut direction.

The enemy had no success in the Avdiyiv and Kupyan areas after the offensive.

In the Novopavlovsk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson directions, it continues to conduct active defense, shelling the positions of our troops and civilian objects along the contact line.

More details about the situation at the front - in the morning summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 5.

During the past day, the Russian occupiers launched 3 rockets, 13 airstrikes and 68 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular, on the civil infrastructure of the cities of Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka and Kurakhove of the Donetsk region;

Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk region and Kherson.

There are victims, seriously wounded and dead among the civilian population.

The danger of enemy air and missile strikes remains on the entire territory of Ukraine.

The situation in the directions:

No signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy were detected

in the

On the

, the districts of Kamianska Sloboda, Chernihiv region, were hit by tank, mortar and artillery shelling;

Kustyne, Maiske and Pavlivka in Sumy Oblast and Krasne, Staritsa, Ohirtseve, Gatishche, Vovchansk, Ustinivka and Figolivka in Kharkiv Oblast.

Areas of 20 settlements were hit by fire

in the

Among them are Ivanivka, Kupyansk, Dvorichna, Vilshana, Kislivka, Kotlyarivka and Krokhmalne in Kharkiv Oblast and Makiivka, Ploshanka and Dibrova in Luhansk Oblast.

Areas of more than 40 settlements were shelled

in the

In particular, these are Verkhnokamianske, Bilogorivka, Bakhmut, Bila Gora, Diliivka, Avdiivka, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka, Maryinka and Novomykhailivka of the Donetsk region.

Enemy fire was recorded in the

near the settlements of Zolota Niva, Vugledar, Mykilski Dachi and Prechistivka in Donetsk region.

In the

, the areas of more than 45 settlements were affected by the fire.

The civil infrastructure of Poltavka, Gulyaipilske, Mala Tokmachka and Stepove settlements of the Zaporizhia region and Kherson, Novosilka, Tyaginka and Sadove were damaged by tank, mortar and artillery shelling.

Forced integration of temporarily occupied and occupied territories into the legal field of the Russian Federation continues.

Thus, in the city of Horlivka, Donetsk region, the period for issuing Russian-style passports has been shortened from 30 to 10 days.

In addition, license plates and driver's licenses of the Russian Federation are issued in the region.

During the past day, the Air Force of the Defense Forces made 20 strikes on enemy concentration areas, as well as 5 strikes on the positions of its anti-aircraft missile systems.

In the previous day, in the eastern direction, units of anti-aircraft missile troops of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-25 attack aircraft, a Ka-52 attack helicopter and an Orlan-10 operational-tactical UAV.

Soldiers of missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out fire damage to 3 control points, 4 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, and 2 enemy ammunition depots.

Let's recall, the head of the GUR

.

Fighting on the front line in March will be the "hottest".

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