Over the last day, the enemy conducted 51 air strikes, involving 44 Shahed-136 UAVs. All of them were shot down by units of the Ukrainian Defence Forces, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Facebook on the morning of the 313th day of the Russian large-scale invasion.
The enemy also fired 55 MLRS attacks, including at the children's hospital in the city of Kherson.
The threat of enemy air and missile strikes on critical infrastructure remains throughout Ukraine.
The enemy continues to focus its efforts on conducting offensive actions in the Bakhmut area. It is trying to improve the tactical position of the units of his troops in the Kupyansk, Lyman and Avdiyivka areas. In the Novopavlivsk and Zaporizhzhya areas, it is defending previously occupied borders. In Kherson, it is regrouping the troops, conducting defence, shelling our troops's positions and civilian objects along the contact line.
Over the past day, units of the Defence Forces have repelled attacks by occupiers in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhivka and Bilohorivka in Luhansk Region and Rozdolivka, Bilohorivka, Soledar, Krasna Hora, Bakhmut, Klishchiyivka, Ozeryanivka, Opytne and Krasnohorivka in Donetsk Region.
No signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy were detected in the Volyn, Polissya, Siversk and Slobozhansk areas.
In the Siversk and Slobozhansk areas, the vicinities of Leonivka settlements of Chernihiv Region were subjected to mortar and artillery shelling; Vilna Sloboda, Esman, Katerynivka and Shalyhine - Sumy Region and Ohirtseve, Vovchansk and Novomlynsk in Kharkiv Region.
In the Kupyansk area, the enemy shelled the vicinities of more than 15 settlements. Among them are Andriyivka, Kupyansk, Kucherivka, Lyman Pershiy, Vilshana, Orlyanske, Kislivka and Kotlyarivka in Kharkiv Region, and Novoselivka and Myasozharivka in Luhansk Region.
In the Lyman area, enemy fire was recorded near Novoyehorivka, Ploshchanka, Nevske, Chervonopopivka of Luhansk Region, and Terny and Dibrova of Donetsk Region.
More than 15 settlements were shelled in the Bakhmut area. In particular, these are Berestove, Bilohorivka, Bakhmut, Klishchiyivka, Kurdyumivka, Stupochky, Bila Hora, Kostyantynivka and Diliyivka in Donetsk Region. The enemy also carried out an airstrike near Bilohorivka.
Vodyane, Heorhiyivka, Maryinka and Novomykhaylivka of Donetsk Region came under the influence of fire in the Avdiyivka region.
Neskuchne, Vremivka, Velyka Novosilka and Vuhledar in Donetsk Region were damaged by fire in the Novopavlivka area.
In the Zaporizhzhya area, shelling from tanks, mortars and barrel artillery was recorded in the vicinities of Novosilka and Novopil settlements of Donetsk Region and Olhivske, Zaliznychne, Orikhiv, Novoandriyivka, Shcherbaki, Stepove and Musiyivka in Zaporizhzhya.
In Kherson area, the civilian infrastructure of Tyahynka, Novotyahinka, Ponyativka, Daryivka, Sadove, Stanislav and Kherson suffered from enemy shelling.
On 31 December, it was confirmed that the areas of manpower and equipment concentration of the occupiers in the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhya Region were damaged by fire. In the areas of Tarasivka, Basan, Polohy, Berdyansk, and Tokmak, the enemy lost more than 175 wounded servicemen, 12 units of weapons and military equipment of various types and the enemy's ammunition depot were destroyed. Information on liquidated occupiers is being clarified.
Aviation of the Defence Forces carried out 13 strikes on areas where the invaders were concentrated. Units of missile troops and artillery, in turn, hit 5 areas of enemy manpower and military equipment concentration in a day.