To succeed in office he will need to keep his supporters engaged with day-to-day governing, experts say.

In the Odesa region, a car crashed into a concrete pillar, killing three people.

On January 1, the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed a Russian 50N6E radar station of the S-350 Vityaz air defense missile system in the Donetsk region.

Servicemembers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have released photos showing Kupiansk in the Kharkiv region destroyed by Russian invaders.

The occupying army attacked the Nikopol district with FPV drones and artillery throughout the day.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, during a visit to Turkey, is seeking to resume prisoner exchanges between Ukraine and Russia in the new year.

President Volodymyr Zelensky informed Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides of new details regarding Ukraine’s contacts with American partners and briefed him on the overall diplomatic situation.

Russian forces attacked Semenivka in the Chernihiv region with drones throughout the day, damaging an apartment building.

In the Kherson region, one person was killed during the day as a result of shelling; there are also injured people in Kherson and Bilozerka, and criminal proceedings have been launched.

Among the countries of the Coalition of the Willing, there are those prepared for "certain forms of their presence" on the territory of Ukraine after a ceasefire is achieved.