A total of 192 combat clashes have occurred on the battlefield over the past day. The most intense fighting has occurred on the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts, where 80 battles took place in total. Combat clashes also persist at the Kursk bridgehead held by the Armed Forces of Ukraine,

Hodges noted it is “remarkable” that Ukrainian forces have held the Kursk bridgehead since August 2024 and managed to build new military capabilities and launch another offensive without Russian commanders detecting it.

This represents nearly half of the skirmishes over the past day, as the military reported 218 clashes across the front.

On Sunday, Russian and Ukrainian forces launched separate but simultaneous attacks along different axes around the 250-square-mile salient that Ukrainian troops carved out of western Russia’s Kursk Oblast in August.

Ukrainian and Russian forces have clashed 199 times in the war zone since the beginning of the day on 6 January, with most of the fighting taking place on the Kursk, Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook,

January 7, attacked a command post of Russian troops in the Kursk region. A precision strike was carried out, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. "On January 7, 2025, the Armed Forces of Ukraine carried out a precision strike on the command post of the 810th Separate Marine Brigade of the Armed