On a cold winter’s day in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, a group of soldiers loaded their weapons, firing during drills designed to prepare them for real combat against Russian forces.

Ukraine's Luhansk Group of Forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Dmytro Zaporozhets said on Saturday that Kyiv's forces had repelled Russian small and medium-sized assaults on the grounds of the Refractory Plant.

According to him, the Russians wounded three residents of Donetsk region: in Lyman, Kostiantynivka and Druzhkivka. According to Filashkin, the total number of victims of the Russian invaders in Donetsk region (2,931 killed and 6,597 wounded) is given without taking into account Mariupol and Volnovakha.

In the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region, pyrotechnics discovered and destroyed the remains of the Russian Smerch multiple rocket launcher system. — Ukrinform.

Russia has had battlefield momentum but its recent territorial gains have been at the expense of high personnel losses.

A solitary Russian tank rolling toward Ukrainian lines in what one Ukrainian drone group called “a very unfortunate suicide” belies the perilous state of the Russian army as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year.

Russian forces continued attacks on the so-called "Ukrainian bridgehead" in Kursk Oblast, but failed to advance. While some Russian military bloggers claimed attacks in the Nikolske and Viktorivka areas,

Russia launched a widespread drone and missile attack on Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people in the capitol of Kyiv.

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

With just a week before Donald Trump re-enters the White House, Ukraine is bracing for some tough choices in the coming months.

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