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25 January 2025
Cyber specialists from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) have executed a large-scale cyberattack against MegaFon, one of Russia's largest mobile and internet operators, known for supporting Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The Russian army attacked the town of Nikopol in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery, injuring a man and a woman.
In Cherkasy, a high-rise building and several private homes sustained damage from blast waves during an overnight attack by enemy strike UAVs.
In Cherkasy, after an overnight attack by enemy drones targeting critical infrastructure, some households remain in blackout.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces have shot down two Russian Kh-59/69 guided aircraft missiles and 46 drones since late Friday.
On January 24, a total of 211 combat engagements were recorded along the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
Two apartment blocks sustained damage from a Russian kamikaze drone attack on January 25.
Over the past day, Russian aggressors wounded one resident of the Donetsk region.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 25, 2025 amount to nearly 828,470 invaders, including another 1,650 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
A nine-story residential building in Vyshneve, Kyiv region, was damaged by a Russian drone attack.
On the night of January 25, Russian invaders shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region with heavy artillery, damaging infrastructure and power lines.
On January 24, Russian troops struck 13 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region 191 times.
As of 06:00 on January 25, there were two Russian warships in the Black Sea, one of which was a Kalibr carrier.
As a result of Russia’s UAV attack overnight Saturday, critical infrastructure facilities were hit in the Cherkasy region and some subscribers were left without power.
As a result of Russia’s drone attack, a nine-storey building was damaged in one of the settlements in the Kyiv region and a fire broke out in a manufacturing plant in another settlement.
Using FPV drones, the Ukrainian border guards destroyed an electronic warfare (EW) system and antenna equipment belonging to Russian occupiers in the southern region.
In Zaporizhzhia region, the Ukrainian defense intelligence operatives successfully destroyed a Russian Harmon (1L122) radar station, its operating crew, and a reconnaissance vehicle belonging to Russian signals intelligence specialists.
24 January 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, at which the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleh Ivashchenko, reported on Russia’s military capabilities and the issue of providing all Ukrainian units on the front line with all that’s needed to fight off the invasion was considered.
U.S. President Donald Trump is considering various levers of pressure on Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end the war, including economic ones, said Keith Kellogg, Trump’s pick for the position of special representative for Ukraine and Russia.
Four children were injured in Ukraine over the course of a week as a result of combat actions waged by the Russians.
Since the start of the day, as many as 117 combat clashes have occurred on the frontline, with the Russian forces primarily focusing their attacks in the Pokrovsk sector of the front.
Kharkiv is currently under attack by strike drones, with a hit already reported in one district.
The DPRK troops sent to support Russian forces in the Kursk region suffered significant losses in the battles - about 4,000 people - without achieving great results.
In Ukraine's north, the enemy is actively employing airborne weapons, from UAVs to guided bombs.
The bodies of 757 fallen defenders have been returned to Ukraine as a result of repatriation activities.
In Toretsk, the Russian occupation forces continue to use the tactic of advancing and consolidating with small groups of infantry.
Based on open data, the BBC Russian Service, together with the Mediazona outlet and a team of volunteers, from January 10 to 24, identified the names of 90,019 Russian servicemen who had been killed in action since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine and the Special Operations Forces, in cooperation with other elements of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, in the early hours of Friday, January 24, attacked the production facilities at the Ryazan Oil Refining Company and the Kremniy El microelectronics plant in Bryansk.
A 30-year-old volunteer from Austria was killed in action while fighting for Ukraine.
The situation near the village of Velyka Novosilka in Donetsk region remains complex and is under the control of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleksandr Syrskyi.