Rob Lee (Twitter)

RT @UAControlMap: Daily Ukraine map thread for Friday 2nd January 2026

Highlights: In internal shuffling, Kyrylo Budanov accepts position as Head of the Office of the President - Yermak's old role.

Russian Iskander strike on building in Kharkiv causes over 25 injuries

Heavy snow hampers activities on the front, no significant changes noted as yet

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Dan (Twitter)

@Danspiun @vmanulik: 24. SE Novopavlivka, 16th Dec.
A last film from🇺🇦42nd Mech Bde shows strikes on🇷🇺troops and two quads at the agricultural machinery depot, as well as the BMP and the MT-LB on fire outside.
At 0:14 a strike on the tank to the south, a T-72B3 Obr 2025, not a T-80 which I miss-ID'd.

imi (m) (Twitter)

@auto_glam: i think there are several commanders who have shown their ability to manage better than sirskyj

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

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Rob Lee (Twitter)

RT @KaterynaLis: ‼️🙏All the new appointments announced by Zelenskyy today:

1.Kyrylo Budanov has been appointed Head of the Office of the President.

2.Pavlo Palisa will become Deputy Head of the Office of the President. He previously commanded combat units.

3.Oleh Ivashchenko has been appointed Chief of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR).

4.The person who will replace Ivashchenko as Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service will be announced soon.

5.A new head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine will also be appointed soon. Zelenskyy is awaiting a nomination from the Minister of Internal Affairs.

6.Mykhailo Fedorov will become the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine, replacing Denys Shmyhal, who will take on a different government role yet to be announced. It is also unclear who will replace Fedorov as Minister of Digital Transformation at this point.

Zelenskyy also announced that additional changes to internal government positions will be made tomorrow.

Rob Lee (Twitter)

The Ministry of Digital Transformation has played a unique role in the war. It has taken on responsibility for developing and procuring new high-tech weapon systems and equipment, such as uncrewed systems, electronic warfare, and command and control software, for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and it organized the Brave 1 defense cluster to promote defense innovation and new defense startups. Fedorov will arrive with a very good understanding of the Ministry of Defense's challenges. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/2007180526873153908#m

Rob Lee (Twitter)

@SevaUT: Yeah, I didn’t agree with all of it but I thought much of it made sense.

imi (m) (Twitter)

@klinger66 @auto_glam: Between the lines, yes

Rob Lee (Twitter)

RT @M0nstas: Territorial changes by half-year slices.

Status-6 (Twitter)

RT @WarintheFuture: “Cognitive Warfare seeks “to exploit facets of cognition to disrupt, undermine, influence, or modify human decision-making by altering human behaviour and cognition through any means and technological advances”. A new Cognitive Warfare report from NATO’s chief scientist. https://www.sto.nato.int/wp-content/uploads/chief-scientist-report-cognitive-warfare-4.pdf

Rob Lee (Twitter)

RT @emilkastehelmi: 2025 can reasonably be seen as an operational and strategic failure for Russia, but all scenarios remain on the table. Any optimism is premature, as Ukraine also faces serious challenges.

In this thread: An assessment of the past year and its broader implications. 1/

Rob Lee (Twitter)

“Finnish police said on Friday they had made progress in a criminal investigation into damage caused to an undersea telecommunications cable owned by operator Elisa.

Police seized the cargo vessel "Fitburg" on Wednesday while it was en route from Russia to Israel on suspicion that it had sabotaged the telecoms cable running across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki to Estonia.

Investigators said on Thursday they had arrested two of the 14 crew members, imposed a travel ban on two others and had begun questioning them. The 14 crew members were nationals of Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.”
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/finland-makes-progress-cable-breach-investigation-police-say-2026-01-02/