SOF
Operators of Ukrainian SOF 8th regiment have stormed and cleaned up enemy’s positions on Donetsk direction. Two occupiers were captured, others were not as lucky.
Armed Forces destroyed a training camp of Russian drone operators in occupied Ilovaysk, Donetsk region with a HIMARS strike.
The Russian media confirmed the death of 24 drone operators in this strike. Part of them was very experienced.
Missile attack
Early this morning, Russia launched a series of missile strikes on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Pavlohrad, killing at least 5 people and injuring more than 40, including children.
Russians launched several attacks using Kh-22 missiles on the two districts of Kharkiv and S-300 missiles.
The strikes in Kharkiv killed two women and injured at least 28 people. Apartment buildings, an educational institution, fire depot and other exclusively civilian infrastructure were destroyed.
One of the russian cruise missiles launched this night was hit by M2 Browning .50 HMG and a SAM finished the job.
Footage from another engle when Bradley IFV of the 47th Brigade engages in a battle with Russian T-90M. As a result, 2 crew members of the T-90M KIA and 1 was wounded and captured.
Bradley M2A2 vs T-90M
Bradley IFV of the 47th Brigade of Ukraine engages in a battle with Russian T-90M in Stepove, Donetsk region. T-90M received significant damage as the crew cannot control the turret rotation and tank retreated.
Kupyansk direction
The Russian convoy comes under fire with cluster munitions, Kupyansk direction.
Work of the German supplied IRIS-T system during the Russian attack in the early 2023.
Work of the German supplied IRIS-T system during the Russian attack in the early 2023.
Another TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS completely destroyed near Avdiivka.
Footage from the enemy side, launching a MANPADS «Verba» missile at a Ukrainian combat helicopter. The helicopter performed a successful maneuver with the firing of infrared countermeasures and the missile did not hit the target.
Ukrainian special forces again visited Belgorod Region, Russia.
The operation was carried out by special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry. They mined a road that the occupiers used for military logistics, and they also attacked a Russian military checkpoint.
It is reported that the enemy suffered significant losses.
A Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber aircraft burned down at the Russian Shagol airport near Chelyabinsk on January 4, 2024 - Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine.
The aircraft belonged to the aviation regiment of the 21st Mixed Air Force Division of the Russian Armed Forces.
Source: Main Directorate of Intelligence
12th brigade “Azov”
Soldiers of the 12th brigade “Azov” of the National Guard of Ukraine successfully stormed the entrenched positions of the enemy in the Kremina forest of the Luhansk Region.
Newest Russian 1K148 “Yastreb-AV” artillery reconnaissance complex demilitarised by HIMARS in the occupied part of the Kherson region.
7:57 am, 2nd January 2024 Russian media posted:
“It became known about the use of Yastreb-AV artillery reconnaissance complexes in the zone of Special Military Operation”.
6:10 pm, 2nd January 2024:
Video of demilitarised “Yastreb-AV”.
The Security Service of Ukraine showed the footage of the Ukrainian naval drone “Sea Baby” equipped with MLRS for launching unguided missiles fired at Russian naval vessels in Sevastopol Bay. Date of the video unknown.
Heavy explosions reported in Belgorod, Russia.
In Belgorod there are many military objects from which Kharkiv is regularly shelled.
At 03:47 am Kyiv time on December 26 Lt-Gen Mykola Oleshchuk, Ukraine’s Air Force commander shared footage from Feodosia, Crimean peninsula and reported that Ukrainian pilots destroyed the Russian Navy’s “Novocherkassk” large landing ship:
“And Russia’s fleet is getting smaller and smaller!
“This time, the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the cruiser Moskva (destroyed in 2022), is followed by the large landing ship ‘Novocherkassk.’ I thank the pilots of the Air Force and everyone involved for their filigree work!” Oleshchuk wrote.
The ship was carrying Shaheed drones, and even as massive explosions rocked the city, Russian authorities tried to calm the people by saying that the gigantic detonations were ‘the air defenses working’.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are now at the frontlines defending Ukraine and Europe.
They will celebrate Christmas and the New Year in the trenches, far from their families.
Let’s send them greetings and words of support.
We wish that 2024 will be marked by only good news. May he be victorious and full of joy. May every Ukrainian child be loving and happy.
Merry Christmas everyone - and don’t forget that the Carol of Bells came from Ukraine.
