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14 April 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on Monday during which reports were heard regarding the formation of a corps-based military structure.
Russia has likely sustained approximately 138,000 casualties (killed and wounded) in the Russia-Ukraine war so far in 2025.
Chinese prisoner of war Wang Guangjun stated that while at one of the Russian army’s recruitment centers, he encountered about 20 people of other nationalities, including individuals from Kazakhstan, Ghana, Iraq, and others.
Chinese mercenaries Zhang Renbo and Wang Guangjun, who were captured by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk region, have declared their readiness for a prisoner exchange and are appealing to the Chinese government to bring them back home.
Russian forces are systematically using chemicals on the battlefield — specifically, munitions containing poisonous gases.
Zhang Renbo, a Chinese national captured in Donetsk region by Ukrainian Defense Forces, said that the bank card on which his payment from the Russian army contract was deposited was used exclusively by Russians.
Since the beginning of 2025, the Russian army has lost 11,583 units of automotive and special equipment.
The death toll from a Russian ballistic missile strike on Sumy has risen to 35 people.
By May 9, in order to create the impression of success at the front, Russia may try to advance southwest of Pokrovsk in the direction of the Dnipro region, which is only a few kilometers away from the administrative border of the Russian-occupied areas.
An enemy FPV drone hit a man who was working in a field near the village of Novoyakovlivka, Zaporizhzhia region.
Compared to 2023, Russian Shahed UAVs have significantly fewer non-Chinese components.
In Sumy, a Russian “Shahed” hit one of the parking lots, injuring one person.
Russian occupation forces have significantly increased their firepower on the southern front, with the heaviest activity observed in the Huliaipole sector.
Since the beginning of April, Russian forces have launched nearly 2,800 aerial bombs, over 1,400 attack drones, and about 60 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, against Ukraine.
Following a Russian missile strike on the city of Sumy, 11 people remain in critical condition, including three children.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has announced an additional EUR 10 million in aid from Lithuania to support the production of advanced Ukrainian long-range weaponry.
Russian forces targeted the settlement of Stepnohirsk and the city of Zaporizhzhia with FPV drones on April 14, causing fires in both locations.
On April 14, Russian forces attacked a passenger train in the town of Semenivka, Chernihiv region, using strike drones just 30 minutes before its scheduled departure.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces have killed 618 children in Ukraine.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 40 Russian drones overnight, while 11 other enemy UAVs were lost from radar tracking.
Over the past day, April 13, there were 158 combat clashes between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders on the frontline.
Since the beginning of the year, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have destroyed 2045 armored vehicles and 931 tanks of the Russian invaders.
In the morning, enemy drones attacked Zaporizhzhia. The attack resulted in a fire at a gas station.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to April 14, 2025, amount to about 933,980 people, including another 1,310 people over the past day.
On the night of April 14, Russian troops fired on two districts of the Dnipro region, injuring a man and causing fires.
Russians fired 105 times at Sumy region, 285 explosions were heard.
During an enemy drone attack in Odesa, a drone hit a hospital, damaged infrastructure, and injured five people.
Drone operators of the Ivan Franko Group unit in the Donetsk region destroyed two D-30 howitzers and a self-propelled artillery unit of the Russian invaders in one day, and hit several enemy Ural trucks.
Soldiers of the 141st Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine successfully destroyed a Russian tank using a Javelin anti-tank missile system, as the enemy attempted to breach Ukrainian defenses in the Pokrovsk sector.
A children's medical institution in Kherson sustained damage due to Russian shelling.