Live Update : Russian's Special Operation in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin arrived at the Christmas service at the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin

The Christmas service was postponed from night to morning due to the danger to the parishioners, Archpriest Alexei Ustimenko, rector of St. Michael's Cathedral in Mariupol, told RIA Novosti.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill began the Christmas Liturgy at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

The Russian military in the Svatov direction in the Donbass adhere to the Christmas truce, unlike Kyiv, a fighter from the western group of troops of the Russian Armed Forces told RIA Novosti.

Special operation, January 6th. The main thing:

▪️The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that from 12.00 Moscow time on January 6, a ceasefire was declared on the entire front in the zone of special military operation for 36 hours;

▪️The department stated that the Kyiv regime continued shelling, despite the ceasefire imposed by the Russian Federation, the artillery of Ukraine was precisely suppressed by return fire;

▪️Medvedev, commenting on Ukraine's refusal to offer a Christmas truce, said that Kyiv had rejected the hand of Christian mercy extended to him by Moscow, but in this case there would be even fewer problems and slyness;

▪️In the Kupyansky and Krasno-Limansky directions, Kyiv lost about 100 people killed and wounded a day before the introduction of the ceasefire, in Donetsk - up to 80, in the South-Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions - more than 60, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported;

▪️The United States announced a new $3.75 billion military aid package to Ukraine. According to Secretary of State Blinken, $225 million of them will be sent to modernize the Ukrainian army, and $682 million to European countries to replenish military supplies.;

The new package of military assistance to Ukraine will amount to $3.75 billion, said Secretary of State Blinken. According to him, $225 million of them will be sent to modernize the Ukrainian army, and $682 million to European countries to replenish military supplies.

▪️Representative of the German Cabinet Steffen Hebeshtreit said that Berlin intends to supply Kyiv with about 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles.

Russian MoD briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

▪️Russian troops eliminated up to 80 Ukrainian servicemen in the Donetsk direction;

▪️Russian forces eliminated more than 50 Ukrainian servicemen in the South Donetsk direction;

▪️The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen and a tank in the Kupyansk direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed three Ukrainian warehouses with artillery ammunition in the DPR and the Kherson region;

▪️Russian troops destroyed a Ukrainian S-300 launcher and radar station in the DPR;

▪️The Russian Air Force shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 jet;

▪️The Russian Army suppressed Ukrainian troops in the Zaporozhye region after they fired eight missiles;

▪️Russian troops eliminated three Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the Krasny Liman direction;

▪️Russian forces destroyed a D-20 howitzer in the DPR and a US-made M-777 howitzer in the Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian air defense systems destroyed five UAVs.