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20 January 2025
Ukrainian border guards and Defense Forces have successfully destroyed enemy equipment columns and sabotage and reconnaissance groups (SRGs) attempting to approach the borders of Sumy region.
A total of 189 combat engagements have been recorded along the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war over the past 24 hours. The Russians were attacking most actively in the Pokrovsk direction.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces intercepted 93 Shahed-type one-way attack UAVs and other types of drones, while another 47 decoy UAVs disappeared from radar.
The city of Kazan, which saw a drone attack overnight Monday, is home to several critical military aviation enterprises.
In the Donetsk region, one civilian was killed and two more were injured as a result of Russia’s shelling on Sunday, January 19.
On the night of January 20, Russian troops shelled the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region using heavy artillery and Grad multiple launch rocket systems.
In the Kherson region, one person was killed and two others were injured in Russian strikes on January 19.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to January 20, 2025 amount to nearly 820,430 invaders, including another 1,690 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Today, January 20, air defense forces shot down 22 Russian drones over the Sumy region.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 319 attacks on 11 towns and villages in the Zaporizhzhia region.
A 14-year-old girl sustained shrapnel wounds during Russia’s shelling of Zolochiv in the Kharkiv region.
There are currently no Russian warships in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has commented on the release of hostages after many months of war between Israel and Hamas, calling it a “deeply significant moment.”
Over the past year, Russia has increased the number of its armed forces by 140,000.
19 January 2025
The enemy's goal in the war unleashed against Ukraine is to destroy the country’s very statehood.
North Korean forces use outdated Soviet tactics, obsolete for modern-day military operations, but they may still pose a problem given their numbers and motivation.
The ongoing Kursk operation by the Ukrainian Armed Forces is an unprecedented endeavor as the aggressor state is forced to defend its own territory.
In order to prevail in a full-scale war, the Armed Forces must actively bring to the battlefield whatever Ukraine has as an advantage over the invasion troops.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces of Ukraine is exploring various ways to counter and intercept Russia’s intermediate-range ballistic missile Moscow refers to as “Oreshnik”.
In 2024, the Russian invasion forces lost more soldiers killed or wounded than in the previous two years of the big war.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are making every effort to prevent the capture of Pokrovsk by the Russian invasion forces.
Russia’s artillery ammunition utilization rates halved as a result of Ukrainian strikes inside Russia, targeting their defense industry.
Ukrainian defenders repelled an attempt by the Russian army to storm their positions in the Toretsk sector under the cover of bad weather.
During the day, the Russian military attacked the Marhanets community of the Nikopol district.
An air alert has been declared in Kyiv region and a number of other regions of Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the day, as many as 125 combat clashes have occurred across the frontlines; currently, fighting continues in seven sectors of the front, with the Russian forces most actively attacking in the Pokrovsk sector.
On the afternoon of January 19, a 24-year-old man was killed as a result of artillery shelling of the village of Chervonyi Maiak by Russian forces.
A fighter from the Second International Legion, Belarusian national Maria Zaitsava, was killed in action in the Pokrovsk operational zone.
British intelligence has analyzed Russia’s recent advances in Donetsk region, noting that the invaders are exerting pressure on the settlement of Velyka Novosilka.
Several kamikaze drones have been spotted over Kyiv region, which prompted the air defense to engage targets.