Kyiv time on January 5, there have been 177 combat clashes on the frontlines. More than half of them occurred in the Pokrovsk and Kursk directions, according to the evening report from the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff.

Dozens of partner countries will participate in the meeting of the Ramstein group at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Ukraine's president says, and he will press for aid.

Ukrainian forces started a surprising ground offense against Russia in August in the Kursk region but then began to lose ground after Russia deployed up to 12,000 North Korean troops in the region in its nearly three-year-long war in Ukraine.