A total of 138 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day, with the Russians conducting 89 assaults on the Pokrovsk, Kurakhove and Vremivka fronts. Ten battles have taken place in Russia's Kursk Oblast.

On January 2, a strike was launched against the Russian troops in the Kursk region. Russian troops suffered significant losses, according to Andrii Kovalenko, head of the Center for Countering Disinformation.

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk.

Ukrainian forces launched a new attack on Lgov in Russia's Kursk region, causing significant damage to a residential building and injuring one person. Power lines were also downed in the area. The assault follows previous attacks that resulted in fatalities and damages.

Overall, the Russian forces have suffered over 775,000 personnel killed or wounded in over 1,000 days of fighting.

Six people, including one child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region, the acting governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said.

On January 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a precision strike on the command post of the Russian army in the settlement of Mariino, located in the Kursk region, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

He emphasized that Ukraine’s military actions forced Russia to maintain a significant grouping of troops on its territory and to redeploy reserves from other directions. Additionally, Ukrainian forces significantly boosted the exchange fund by capturing over 700 enemy soldiers in Kursk Oblast,