Another exchange of prisoners of war took place. Ukraine reported the return of 140 people, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the return of 82 people.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian air defense shot down 45 Iranian-made Russian drones and 12 missiles.

In the Kyiv region, air defense forces repelled another drone raid.

On December 29, a group of two dozen refugees from Chechnya and Ingushetia were expelled from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Turkey. As Kavkaz.Realii reported, they arrived in Sarajevo on December 28 and planned to seek political asylum in Croatia. Among them were men who fled Russian mobilization and members of their families.

On December 12, several hundred Azerbaijani citizens calling themselves environmental activists blocked traffic along the Lachin corridor, a highway connecting the Armenian city of Goris and the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Stepanakert. A humanitarian catastrophe is brewing in Artsakh (the Armenian name for Karabakh).

On December 27, the Moscow City Court read out the verdict of former member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov and his father, ex-adviser of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Raul Arashukov. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment for organizing two murders, creating a criminal community and stealing gas.

On December 27, human rights activists from the North Caucasus branch of the Team Against Torture (CAT) spoke about the reaction their report “The Arithmetic of Torture,” which analyzed cases of violence by security forces, caused among the regional authorities. The parliament of Chechnya distinguished itself most of all - an anonymous answer with insults came from there.

The Russians shelled the maternity ward of a hospital in Kherson, no one was injured.
A Russian armored personnel carrier was blown up by a mine in the Kursk region.

Cities and towns in the Kharkov region were shelled. In the village Due to the shelling, one person was injured in Peschanoe. The main target of Russian shelling remains Kyiv.

Russia carried out 1 air strike and 5 missile strikes, and carried out more than 40 shellings from MLRS.
A Ukrainian drone again attacked the airfield in Engels. Three Russian soldiers were killed.

In Kherson, 10 people were killed and 55 were wounded as a result of shelling by Russian troops. The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Igor Klimenko, said that during the ten months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, his department opened more than 51 thousand criminal cases regarding crimes committed by the Russian military and their accomplices.