{"id":325378,"date":"2025-01-07T01:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T23:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/1048"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:49:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:49:33","slug":"1048","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/1048","title":{"rendered":"Day 1,048: Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukraine launches a new offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, advances 2.7 kilometers on the first day. Ukraine shoots down two Kh-59 missiles, 80 drones that Russia launches overnight. Zelenskyi says he would need to sit down with Trump before talking to Putin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine launches new offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, advances 2.7 kilometers on first day<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reports of Ukraine\u2019s new offensive in Russia\u2019s Kursk region emerged on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a short Telegram post Sunday, the head of the Ukrainian Presidential Office, Andriy Yermak, said: \u201cKursk region, good news, Russia is getting what it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andriy Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, an agency of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said on Telegram Sunday that Ukrainian troops had launched surprise attacks against Russian forces from several directions across the Kursk region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a report covering Sunday the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said Ukrainian forces resumed offensive operations in at least three areas within the Ukrainian salient in Kursk Oblast and made tactical advances on January 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An OSINT analyst who goes by the nickname \u201cDef Mon\u201d on X said: \u201cUkrainian forces likely went about 2.7km past the Russian zero line,\u201d referring to the Ukrainian advance into Russia\u2019s Kursk region on the first day of the renewed offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also cited geolocated footage released by Russian media. Some of the video clips they posted appeared to claim that Russian forces \u201crepelled Ukrainian troops\u2019 attacks in the Kursk region.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian sources claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted multiple roughly company-sized mechanized assaults in the Berdin-Novosotnitsky direction (northeast of Sudzha) in three waves of attack using roughly a battalion’s worth of armored vehicles, ISW said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine shoots down two Kh-59 missiles, 80 drones that Russia launches overnight\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Russia launched at Ukraine a total of 128 Shahed attack drones and various types of decoy drones overnight on Monday. It also sent into Ukraine two Kh-59 air-launched missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drones were launched from the area of Russia\u2019s Bryansk, Millerovo, Oryol, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. The missiles came from the south, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intercepts took place over the regions of Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Poltava, Sumy and Zhytomyr, Ukraine\u2019s Air Force said. No missiles or drones hit target. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forty-nine decoy drones disappeared off radar after likely being disabled by electronic warfare systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falling drone debris caused damage to industrial sites and private houses in the regions of Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Poltava, and Sumy, with no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyi says he would need to sit down with Trump before talking to Putin<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In an interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi said he needed to sit down with Trump to determine a course of action to halt Russia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo first of all, I think January 25th or some other day [\u2026], we sit down, first of all, with Trump. We agree with him on how we can stop the war, stop Putin,\u201d Zelenskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrump and I will come to an agreement. And then if, and I am sure that he can offer strong security guarantees together with Europe, and then we can talk to the Russians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zelenskyi said Europe\u2019s governments also needed to have a voice in that process before Kyiv could sit down for talks with the Russian side, he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the second thing. It won\u2019t be long because Europe will be looking at us and we\u2019ll be looking at Trump,\u201d Zelenskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI now see that when I talk about something with Donald Trump, whether we meet in person or we just have a call, all the European leaders always ask, \u2018How was it?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot just three of us sitting down at once,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the ceasefire happens without security guarantees, Trump will find himself in a difficult position, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDon\u2019t wait for Putin to want to stop the war. Pressure him so that he is forced to stop the war, that\u2019s important,\u201d Zelenskyi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump earlier said he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in one day and boasted good relations with Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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