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16 January 2025
Soldiers of the unmanned systems battalion of the 63rd separate mechanized brigade “Steel Lions” of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how they destroyed a rare experimental reconnaissance drone of the Russians “Merlin-BP”.
In the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia operational and strategic grouping of troops (OSGT), Russian troops are using tanks not for assaults, but as vehicles.
Border guards, together with the Defense Forces, stopped a convoy of Russian vehicles moving toward the state border of Ukraine in one of the areas of active hostilities.
Air defense forces were working in the center of Kyiv, explosions were heard.
In Kherson and the suburbs, two people were injured in drone attacks on the morning of January 16.
In Chasiv Yar, the Russian occupation forces are actively using the pipes of the Siversky Donets-Donbas canal for hiding during bad weather and fog to accumulate forces.
On the evening of January 15, Russia’s drone attack targeted an agricultural enterprise in the Pryluky district of the Chernihiv region, damaging a grain storage facility.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine shot down 34 Russian Shahed attack UAVs and other types of drones on the night of January 16. Another 18 UAVs were lost from tracking.
On the morning of January 16, Russian troops fired on the village of Yantarne, Kherson region, injuring a 92-year-old local resident.
Several regions across Russia came under drone attacks overnight Thursday. An oil depot is on fire in the Voronezh region.
On January 15, 124 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded along the frontlines.
In the Donetsk region, 15 civilians were wounded as a result of Russia’s shelling on Wednesday, January 15.
On January 15, the Russian forces killed three people in Kherson region.
By January 16, 2025, the total combat losses of the Russian forces in manpower since February 24, 2022, have reached approximately 814,150, including 1,480 occupiers eliminated over the past day.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, agents of the ATESH movement have identified new defensive positions set up by the Russian forces near the settlement of Fedorivka. The occupiers are equipping these positions with electronic warfare (EW) systems and preparing fire points to counter UAVs.
15 January 2025
On Wednesday afternoon, the Russian army shelled Lvove in the Kherson region with artillery, leaving a man wounded.
Throughout the day, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and drones, leaving a civilian injured and causing damage.
On the Toretsk front, fighters from Ukraine’s Azov Brigade captured 23 Russian invaders.
Early on January 15, the Russian forces targeted gas infrastructure in Kharkiv region with four Kh-59 missiles, some of which were intercepted.
The number of wounded in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, as a result of a morning Russian air strike on a high-rise building has increased to nine.
On January 15, Russians fired on the village of Bilozerka - a 49-year-old civilian was wounded near a pharmacy, and two more people who were wounded in the village the day before also turned to doctors.
A warehouse at an infrastructure facility in Prykarpattia caught fire after Russian shelling. The fire has been extinguished.
The number of people injured in Russia’s shelling of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, on Wednesday morning has increased to six, including two children.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces shot down 30 missiles and 47 drones launched by the Russian forces at Ukraine early on January 15. The enemy targeted Ukrainian energy infrastructure, including gas infrastructure in Kharkiv, Lviv, and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that over 40 missiles, including ballistic ones, were launched during the latest Russian missile attack on Ukraine. At least 30 of these missiles were destroyed. Additionally, the Russians attacked with 70 drones.
Head of the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine (DSPU), Oleksii Morozov, in his first interview with the media, discussed the main challenges faced by the department.
During the morning Russian attack, two critical infrastructure facilities were struck in Drohobych and Stryi districts of Lviv region. Fortunately, there were no casualties, and electricity outages have not been implemented.
In the outskirts of Kherson, specifically in the settlement of Antonivka, a 56-year-old nurse from the local clinic was killed during Russian shelling.
The Russian forces targeted the energy infrastructure of Lviv region.
On January 14, a total of 170 combat engagements occurred on the frontline in Ukraine, with the most intense fighting in the Pokrovsk sector, where the Ukrainian forces repelled 70 attacks.