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04 February 2025
Following a meeting on the development of the Air Force, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said it is necessary to speed up the modernization of Ukraine's military aviation system. He instructed Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to “implement defined organizational changes.”
One of the women who died as a result of the Russian missile strike on Izium was pregnant.
On February 4, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have engaged in 54 combat clashes with the Russian troops, with ongoing battles in six sectors of the front. The Pokrovsk direction remains the most intense.
On February 3, Ukraine's Air Force launched a high-precision strike on a Russian command post near Novoivanivka, Kursk region.
The number of casualties from the missile strike on Izium, Kharkiv region, has risen to 55, with three of the five fatalities yet to be identified.
The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, has approved a resolution ratifying an agreement between the governments of Ukraine and the United Kingdom on official credit support for strengthening Ukraine's defense capabilities.
The Russian occupation forces are reinforcing their troop formations along the front line, particularly on key attack directions.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for increased pressure on Russia to end its attacks and protect civilian lives.
On February 4, the Russian forces shelled civilian infrastructure in Krasnopillia community, Sumy region, killing one man and injuring another.
The number of injured in Izium, Kharkiv region, has increased to 38, with seven people hospitalized, including a child in critical condition.
The Russian army hit the town of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region with guided aerial bombs. A woman sustained injuries.
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on Izium, Kharkiv region, has risen to five. Another body has been recovered from the rubble.
As a result of a Russian strike in Izium, administrative buildings were destroyed, a residential building was damaged. One person is currently trapped under the rubble.
Drone operators from the Ukrainian National Guard's 4th Ivan Bohun Operational Brigade “Chervona Kalyna” together with soldiers from the 38th Separate Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy stopped the Russian troops’ offensive in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian army launched a missile attack on the town of Izium in the Kharkiv region. At least four people were killed, according to preliminary data.
In the Kyiv region, sappers from the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have neutralized an unexploded part of a Russian drone.
Russian troops were forced to abandon their frontline positions near a settlement in the Kupiansk sector due to heavy fire from Ukrainian forces.
Brigadier General Hennadii Shapovalov has announced his departure from the position of commander of the Operational Command South.
In the Pecherskyi district of Kyiv, debris from a downed Russian drone was found on several floors of an unfinished 18-story building.
North Korean troops deployed to support Russia's war against Ukraine appear to have been absent from combat in the front-line Kursk region since mid-January, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Ukrainian forces have shot down 37 drones launched by Russian troops to attack Ukraine, with 28 additional UAVs veering off course and failing to reach their targets.
Russian forces continued to suffer high losses in January 2025 despite a slower rate of advance as compared with previous months in late 2024.
On February 3, Russian forces killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded two others, according to Vadym Filashkin, head of the regional state administration.
On February 3, a total of 110 combat engagements took place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders on the front lines.
In Cherkasy, fire broke out at three private enterprises as a result of Russian drone attacks.
The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 4, 2025, amount to approximately 842,930 personnel, including 1,270 in the last 24 hours.
Over the past week, the air defense units of the Ground Forces destroyed 212 enemy reconnaissance and attack aircraft.
On February 3, the Russian forces carried out 99 shelling attacks on border communities in Sumy region, with a total of 162 explosions recorded.
Since January 23, as many as 141 families with children have been evacuated from the most dangerous areas of Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region, but 126 more children still need to be relocated.
Irrecoverable and medical losses of the Russian troops in January reached 48,240 personnel, which is roughly equivalent to more than three motorized rifle divisions.