Areas of western Russia's Kursk region, which are under the control of Ukrainian forces, were again the scene of heavy fighting today, officials said.

According to the evening situation report from headquarters in Kiev, there were a total of 35 Russian attacks during the day.

The attacks were accompanied by artillery attacks. There was no information on the exact location of the battlefields. The Ukrainian military took these parts of Russia in a raid this summer. The Russian army has been trying to conquer the region for weeks.

North Korean soldiers allegedly suffered heavy losses. Of the approximately 50 troops deployed by Moscow, approximately 10 are from North Korea. According to the Ukrainian armed forces and Western observers, the army sent by Kim Jong-un has recently suffered heavy casualties.

Fierce fighting continued in eastern Ukraine. The Pokrovsk region near Donbas was the target of attacks by Russian soldiers, who tried to breach Ukraine's defenses 26 times with the help of artillery and fighter jets during the day. The attacks were repulsed, according to the general in Kiev.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has addressed Russian attacks over the past week, citing hundreds of drones, bombs and missiles, mostly targeting energy infrastructure.

"In total, Russia has struck 370 times with drones, with about 280 guided bombs and 80 types of missiles against Ukraine this week. Even on Christmas, terrorists carry out massive airstrikes," Zelensky wrote on Facebook.

Russian military strikes mainly targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure, Zelensky said, adding that residential buildings were also attacked and damaged, allegedly at random, and several people were killed.

According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russia is using modified tactics in its missile and drone attacks in Ukraine.

Russia probably wants as much time as possible to pass between these attacks to replenish supplies, the ministry wrote in X, and hopes that the rarer but more powerful waves of attacks can do more damage than the attacks. more frequent and smaller.

With these massive combined strikes, the Russian military seeks to overwhelm Ukraine's air defenses. In addition to actual combat drones, Russia also uses decoy drones, which are loaded with little or no explosives, forcing Ukraine's air defenses to use live ammunition.