Russia claims repelling Ukrainian offensive, Ukraine reports over a hundred battles on the front line

On January 6th, Jinshi Data reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on the 5th that in the past day, the Russian military repelled multiple attacks from the Ukrainian military and launched offensives in multiple directions such as Kharkov, Avdeyevka, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported on the same day that there were 106 battles in the front-line area by the afternoon, concentrated in the direction of Pokrovsk, Krasnokutsk, and Kursk. In addition, according to multiple Ukrainian media reports on the 5th, the Ukrainian military launched a large-scale attack in the direction of Russian Kursk, and the Russian military has entered the Ukrainian Sumy Oblast, attempting to encircle the Ukrainian military inside Russian territory from the south. The Russian Ministry of Defense stated on the 5th that in order to prevent the Ukrainian military from advancing in the direction of Kursk, the Russian military is counterattacking the Ukrainian military in the Kursk border area.