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Friday, 13 February 2026, 22:10
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has stated that the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), Denys Kapustin, is alive and that the Russian special services' operation to kill him has failed.
In Russia, local authorities in the Almetyevsk district of Tatarstan reported the “falling debris” of Ukrainian drones and a fire at the Tatneft PJSC tank farm.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that with Russian strikes continuing even during the New Year holidays, air defense supplies cannot be delayed.
On the night of January 1, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Ilsky Oil Refinery (in Krasnodar region, Russia) and several other critical Russian targets.
The Russian army has struck the suburbs of Kharkiv with guided bombs, and there are currently reports of one person injured.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have struck the Donetsk region 1,593 times, damaging seven civilian objects.
On New Year's Eve, the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck 10 Russian military and infrastructure targets.
Despite enemy claims of capturing Pokrovsk, Defense Forces control the northern part of the city, while Ukrainian soldiers block the enemy's advance in central Pokrovsk.
In Kherson, a man was killed as a result of Russian shelling in the Dniprovskyi district, and an older woman was wounded in her home in the Central district due to a drone attack.
Any political or diplomatic decision aimed at ending Russia's war against Ukraine without de-occupying Crimea will inevitably undermine the principles of international law and reinforce the dangerous practice of legitimizing border changes through the use of force, which poses a serious threat to other states.
On New Year's Eve, Russian troops struck a residential area of the city of Novhorod-Siverskyi in Chernihiv region with a drone, and during the day, the territory of an energy facility in Koriukivka district.
Rescuers extinguished fires that broke out at critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn region as a result of Russian drone attacks.
As of the morning of January 1, a significant number of consumers in the Odesa and Volyn regions are without power due to another massive Russian attack; there are also new power outages in the Chernihiv region.
Russian army losses in the war against Ukraine in 2025 amount to 418,170 soldiers.
On the front line yesterday, December 31, there were 131 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders.
A man and a woman were injured in Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region over the past day, December 31.
Russian troops carried out 75 strikes on 37 settlements in 17 territorial communities of the Sumy region in 24 hours, from the morning of December 31 to the morning of January 1, injuring one person.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in the Kaluga region and an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 176 of the 205 drones used by Russians to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 31.
Russian forces continued attacks on Nikopol district in the evening and overnight.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to January 1, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,206,910 people, including 1,060 people in the previous day.
In the Kherson region, over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks resulted in the death of one person and injuries to four others.
During the night of January 1, Odesa was attacked by Russian strike drones, causing several fires.
Over the past day, Russian occupying forces carried out 612 attacks on 24 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of enemy strikes on Zaporizhzhia city, as well as Zaporizhzhia and Polohy districts, nine people were injured.
On the night of January 1, Russian UAVs targeted critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn region.
As of December 31, the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have neutralized more than 50,000 Russian military personnel, over 28,500 of whom were eliminated irreversibly.
The engineering troops of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized and destroyed 960,767 explosive ordnance items during 2025.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine above all seeks peace, but not at the cost of its statehood.
Lutsk was attacked by enemy strike UAVs, and a fire erupted in the city.