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Combat Operations

• At Least Five Killed, Dozens Wounded In Russian Air Attacks On Kyiv, Kharkiv RFE/RL 02 Jan 2024 -- At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in Russian drone and missiles strikes in and around Kyiv as well as Kharkiv on January 2 that Ukraine's military said were similar in scale to a massive Russian attack just days earlier.
• Russia Strikes Ukrainian Cities After Putin Vows to Intensify Attacks VOA 02 Jan 2024 -- Russia carried out extensive missile attacks that killed at least five people and wounded as many as 130 in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.

Ukraine

• Unexpected Problem: Ukraine Unable to Produce Gunpowder Sputnik 02 Jan 2024 -- Earlier, an anonymous senior Ukrainian Armed Forces officer told British media that Russian strikes had "paralyzed" Ukraine's defense industry and prevented it from producing anything on its own.
• Andriy Yermak had a phone call with Jake Sullivan President of Ukraine 02 Jan 2024
• It is in Ukraine that we must prove that democracies are capable of protecting life from all forms of terror - address by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy President of Ukraine 02 Jan 2024
• President of Ukraine discussed defense cooperation with the UK Prime Minister, particularly further bolstering of Ukraine's air defense President of Ukraine 02 Jan 2024
• Each air defense system has already saved a minimum of hundreds of lives, Russia will be held accountable for every life taken - address by the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine 02 Jan 2024

Russia

• Russian Forces Strike Ukrainian Military Enterprises Producing Missiles, UAVs and Repairing Weapons Sputnik 02 Jan 2024 -- Ukraine shelled the central part of the Russian city of Belgorod on Saturday afternoon. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine's missile attack on the Russian city of Belgorod is a terrorist act.

United States

NATO

United Nations

• Ukraine: 2024 starts with 'loss, pain, and anguish' amid intense Russian strikes UN News 02 Jan 2024 -- Major aerial attacks causing widespread death and destruction of homes and civilian infrastructure have rained down on Ukraine in the first days of 2024 due to an intense new Russian offensive.
• For the people of Ukraine, the new year started with loss, pain, and anguish - Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine Denise Brown condemns repeated wave of attacks on Ukraine's capital and populated cities UNOCHA 02 Jan 2024

Foreign Reactions

• OSCE Statement on war against Ukraine deplores civilian deaths, calls for end to misery and suffering OSCE 02 Jan 2024 -- The Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and Trade of Malta Ian Borg and OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid made the following statement on the continuing and intensifying aerial attacks by Russia in its war against Ukraine:
• PM call with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine: 2 January 2024 Gov.UK 02 Jan 2024

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