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27 January 2025
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says only a strong Army is able to protect the country, and if half of the Army returns home tomorrow, then Ukraine will have to surrender immediately.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that giving up nuclear weapons in exchange for the signing of the Budapest Memorandum was "absolutely stupid, illogical, and very irresponsible".
Even those European countries that support the idea of deploying a peacekeeping mission on the contact line as part of the plan to end the war fail to realize that peacekeepers should not be simply recording ceasefire violations, but counteracting Kremlin provocations and Russian attempts to advance.
Fighting continues in Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region, with Ukrainian troops holding positions within the settlement.
The Russian troops attacked a tractor in Kherson with an UAV, killing a 44-year-old man.
As a result of a massive airstrike on Stepnohirsk, a nine-story residential building was destroyed.
On January 27, the Ukrainian forces have been involved in 82 combat clashes with the Russian troops, with fighting still ongoing on six fronts. The most intense fighting is happening in the Pokrovsk sector.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea and Sevastopol, guerrillas scouted the schedules of enemy Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile systems.
To prevent the encirclement of the Ukrainian forces in the southern part of Velyka Novosilka, units of the Defense Forces have been withdrawn from the area.
On Monday afternoon, Russian troops fired on Kindrashivka, Kupiansk district, wounding a woman.
The Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has stated that the information spread in the media about the alleged statements of the head of military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, at a closed session of the Verkhovna Rada is not true.
The decision to attack Ukraine in 2022 will be as fatal for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as the attack on the USSR was for Nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler.
Russian troops attacked Stepnohirsk, Zaporizhzhia region, with guided aerial bombs, injuring four people.
In the Pokrovsk axis, the intensity of hostilities has not decreased as the enemy is attacking in small groups and trying to push Ukraine’s Defense Forces out of town.
In the area of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of forces, intense fighting continues. The enemy attempted to storm the Ukrainian positions in Vovchansk and tried to break through the defense lines in the Kramatorsk and Toretsk sectors.
Near Vovchansk, soldiers from the Forpost brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, together with the Defense Forces, repelled an assault by the Russian army.
A woman who was injured in a Russian airstrike on January 8 died in hospital in Zaporizhzhia.
As many as 147 artists and 95 media workers have been killed in Ukraine as a result of Russian aggression.
The bodies of two women who died as a result of a Russian air strike on a residential building in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, on January 26 were recovered from under the rubble.
Russian troops shelled Nikopol, Dnipro region, with artillery, injuring five people.
At night, an enemy attack drone hit a nine-story residential building in Dnipro.
At night in Khmelnytsky region, air defense shot down seven Russian drones. The attack damaged a house.
In Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, 13 private houses and a power line were damaged by Russian shelling.
During the war with Russia, the SBGSU mobile firing groups shot down more than 300 strike and reconnaissance UAVs. During attacks on the territory of Ukraine using UAVs, the enemy often uses decoys.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 57 Russian Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones, and another 39 enemy decoy drones disappeared from radar in the early hours of Monday.
Yesterday, January 26, Russian troops killed one person and injured four others in the Donetsk region.
Fighting continues in Velyka Novosilka in the Novopavlivka sector, with Russian troops firing nearly 30 artillery rounds at Ukrainian positions in the village.
On January 26, the Ukrainian forces reported a total of 166 combat clashes, with 78 of them occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
Enemy attacks on Dnipropetrovsk region and the city of Dnipro have caused destruction.
By January 27, 2025, the total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine since February 24, 2022, have reached approximately 831,620 personnel, including 1,430 troops lost over the past day.