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12 January 2026
On the Southern Slobozhanshchyna axis, aerial reconnaissance operators of the Sky Hawks unit of the 4th Border Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, operating as part of the Defense Forces, destroyed six vehicles, thirteen shelters, two communications antennas, and a Russian mortar.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in personnel from February 24, 2022, to January 12, 2026, have reached approximately 1,220,000, of which 1,060 were eliminated in the past 24 hours.
Drone operators of the 155th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Anna of Kyiv of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a column of Russian invaders south of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Region.
On the night of January 12, Russian forces attacked Odesa. As a result of the shelling, an infrastructure facility and residential buildings were damaged, electricity was cut off in part of the city, and two people are preliminarily reported injured.
Fighters of the mobile border detachment "Steel Border" used drones to destroy a communications antenna and six shelters of the Russian army on the Kursk axis of the front.
In the temporarily occupied towns of Vasylivka and Kamianske in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops are seizing civilians' phones during searches and unlawfully detaining people for having Ukrainian apps installed.
11 January 2026
Russian troops on Sunday, January 11, struck an ambulance in Semenivka, Chernihiv region, injuring two medical workers.
Since the beginning of the day, 200 combat engagements have taken place between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, including 43 assaults recorded in the Pokrovsk sector.
In Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, a boiler house serving the Kondytsioner neighborhood was damaged as a result of a Russian attack. Water is currently being drained from heating and water supply systems.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced a meeting that will focus on Ukraine's need for new air defense missiles.
Russian forces shelled communities in the north of the Rivne region throughout the day, causing damage to infrastructure.
In Ukraine, there are still communities where the situation with electricity and heating remains extremely difficult following Russian attacks.
Ukrainian defense forces are conducting search and strike operations in Myrnohrad, Donetsk region, to prevent the advance of Russian troops, who have increased their efforts to infiltrate the central part of the city.
Russian troops attacked communities in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region with drones and artillery throughout the day. No information about casualties has been received.
A Russian drone attacked a music school in Semenivka, Chernihiv region.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (SOF) have released footage of the destruction of three Lukoil drilling rigs in the Caspian Sea.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck three Lukoil drilling rigs in the Caspian Sea, a Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Oblast, and a Russian army warehouse in Kherson Oblast.
In Zaporizhzhia, the supports of anti-drone tunnels have been partially destroyed in some areas of frontline roads due to bad weather.
A train driver and assistant driver of a freight locomotive were injured in an attack by a Russian Shahed drone.
In the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector, the Russian Armed Forces are trying to create a bridgehead for further offensive actions in the direction of the village of Khotin, which poses a threat to the advance towards the city of Sumy.
In early 2026, during combined air strikes against Ukraine, the Russian army used the new Geran-5 combat drone for the first time.
A woman was killed, and another person was wounded in Zaporizhzhia as a result of a Russian attack on Vilniansk.
On Sunday, January 11, in the morning, Russian troops attacked the village of Zolochiv in the Kharkiv region.
Emergency rescue operations have been completed in the center of Kharkiv at the site of the explosions on January 2, where seven people, including a child, were killed.
Over the past day, 35 shellings were documented in the Chernihiv region, critical and civilian infrastructure and a house were damaged, and a man was wounded.
Russia used nearly 1,100 combat drones, more than 890 guided aerial bombs, and more than 50 missiles of various types against Ukraine this week.
Over the past day, Russian troops struck Kharkiv and nine settlements in the Kharkiv region, injuring eight people.
Units of the 25th Separate Airborne Sicheslav Brigade prevented an attempt by a group of enemy infantrymen to storm the northern part of Pokrovsk.
The Russian army killed four residents in the Donetsk region in the past 24 hours.
An administrative building in Lymany, Mykolaiv region, was damaged as a result of enemy shelling.