On January 6th, Jinshi Data reported that the Russian Ministry of Defense announced on the 5th that in the past day, the Russian military had repelled the Ukrainian military's multiple attacks and launched offensives in many directions including Kharkov, Avdiivka, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson. The Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff also reported on the same day that 106 battles occurred in the front-line area, concentrated in the directions of Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Kursk as of that afternoon. 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 Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, attempting to surround the Ukrainian military inside Russia from the south. The Russian Ministry of Defense on the 5th stated that in order to prevent the Ukrainian military's advancement in the direction of Kursk, the Russian military is intercepting the Ukrainian military in the Kursk border area.