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

Urban battles between Russian forces and Ukraine's Armed Forces are ongoing in Kurakhove. The city is in a semi-destroyed state, states the spokesperson for the Khortytsia Operational-Strategic Group of Troops,

The Ukrainian command finally admitted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not have time to clean up the bodies of those killed from the battlefield. This is reported on his page in the social network X by Irish journalist Chay Bose.

Russia's Ministry of Defence announced on the morning of 6 January that the town of Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast had been captured, but Ukrainian defenders have reported that Russian assaults continue in the city's urban areas.