30 December 2023 in Russo-Ukrainian war
- The Russians announced the downing of a Ukrainian UAV over Bryansk and the shelling of Belgorod region
- Russians attacked Donetsk region, injured 5 civilians
- The UN Secretary General condemned Russia's missile attack on Ukraine "in the strongest possible terms".
- Positional battles continue around Robotyn
- 32 Ukrainian UAVs attacked Russia at night
- At night, Russia launched drones from Crimea, the main blow fell on the Kherson region
- Ukrainian air defense shot down 5 out of 10 Russian Shaheds
- The Biden administration once again bypassed Congress on the issue of munitions sales to Israel
- Russia destroyed an administrative building in Kherson with a drone
- The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced an attempt to attack Crimea with an unmanned boat
- In the yard of a high-rise building damaged by Russian shelling in Odesa, a garland was turned on a Christmas tree
- Air defense forces shot down a Russian missile near the Dnipro during the day
- The first flight of a drone with a Ukrainian engine took place in Turkey
- Explosions and fires occurred in the center of Belgorod due to the work of Russian air defense
- The vice-president of the European Commission considers Ukraine's membership in the EU to be a matter of years, not decades
- Russians shelled Semenivka in Chernihiv Oblast, a man was killed
- The Russian Federation began building a naval base in occupied Abkhazia
- The Russians unsuccessfully stormed the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the left bank of the Kherson region 11 times
- Washington Post: The Russian Federation is working on reducing support for Ukraine in France
- The Russians shelled Kherson, there are casualties
- Zelensky introduced sanctions against Russians who use Ukrainian documents
- Mass shelling of Kharkiv: 26 injured
- The Russians hit an enterprise in Odesa with a rocket
- ISW: Ukrainian drones hit many of their intended targets in Russia
- The Ukrainians hold positions on the left bank of the Dnieper, there are no changes on this front line
- In the Russian city of Belgorod, 22 people died
- The Armed Forces eliminated 960 invaders and 30 artillery systems in a day
- The Russians attacked in 8 directions, the most active being on Avdiivskyi