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28 January 2025
In 2024, more than 10,000 men were “mobilized” to the Russian army from the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and partially from Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Since the beginning of the day, 130 combat engagements have been recorded along the front lines, with fighting still ongoing in seven sectors, most of them in the Pokrovsk and Siversk sectors.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two adults and an 11-year-old child were injured in Russian shelling.
Three people were injured by enemy drones in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson: 35-year-old and 57-year-old men and an 80-year-old woman.
The halt in Russian strikes with guided aerial bombs in the Kharkiv region can be attributed to the operations of the Defence Forces, including in the Kursk region, while the enemy uses alternative means.
Russia’s undeclared war against the West is intensifying, leveraging fear, destabilization and covert operations to undermine NATO unity and Western resilience.
At this point, 588 residents of Kherson region are in Russian captivity, as per confirmed data. However, this figure may be significantly higher, since many abductions have not been documented.
Russian occupants have reduced the number of attacks in the area of responsibility of the Siversk operational and tactical group of troops, but continue to use all available weapons.
In the Pokrovsk sector, tankers of the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade repelled a Russian assault and destroyed at least five enemy armored vehicles.
There are no grounds to claim that the Russian forces have captured the village of Dvorichna in Kupiansk district, as active fighting continues in the settlement.
The Russian forces persist in their assaults to establish a foothold on the right bank of Kherson region, but Ukraine's Defense Forces continue to eliminate the enemy.
Soldiers of the Skala assault regiment entered Russian positions in the Pokrovsk sector and eliminated six occupiers.
Russians attacked the village of Antonivka in the suburbs of Kherson with a UAV, killing a 49-year-old man and wounding a 57-year-old woman.
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Defense Forces successfully repelled Russian attacks in Vovchansk, preventing loss of positions in Kharkiv region. The fiercest battles continue in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces have successfully repelled an attempt by the Russian army to conduct a motorcycle assault in the Pokrovsk direction.
Since the beginning of the day, there have already been 11 clashes with the enemy in the eastern operational zone, the enemy has conducted 360 shelling attacks on Ukraine’s Defense Forces positions.
A large-scale fire is being extinguished in the Sumy region after a strike by Russian troops in a village in the Sumy district.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces of Ukraine have shot down 65 Russian Shahed-type one-way attack drones and other types of UAVs, while 28 decoy drones Russia launched to exhaust air defenses caused no damage on the ground.
A museum of retro cars sustained damage from the downed Russian drone debris as air defense forces were repelling an air raid in Kyiv region.
Heavy fighting with Russian troops continues in the urban areas of Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, Donetsk region.
Over the past day, Russian aggressors killed two residents of the Donetsk region.
On January 27, two people were killed and two others were wounded in the Kherson region as a result of Russian aggression.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 28, 2025 amount to nearly 833,000 invaders, including another 1,380 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers shelled eight settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region 362 times. In the Vasylivka district, four people were injured in Russian attacks.
Two private houses in Chernihiv have been partially destroyed by debris from an enemy drone.
A fire broke out at a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv's Novobavarskyi district after a Russian drone hit it, covering an area of about 1,500 square meters.
The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is focusing a lot of attention to the claimed Russian seizure of Velyka Novosilka, very likely as part of informational efforts to shape Western perceptions of the battlefield situation in Ukraine and degrade international support for Ukraine.
On the Kramatorsk front, units of the 5th Separate Kyiv Assault Brigade successfully repelled an attempted motorcycle assault by the Russian forces.
Agents of the ATESH guerrilla movement near Feodosia in the temporarily occupied Crimea have discovered a new location for military equipment that Russians moved after Ukrainian drone attacks.
27 January 2025
The Ryazan Oil Refinery in Russia has suspended operations after Ukrainian drone attack late last week.