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04 February 2025
North Korean troops deployed to support Russia's war against Ukraine appear to have been absent from combat in the front-line Kursk region since mid-January, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS).
Ukrainian forces have shot down 37 drones launched by Russian troops to attack Ukraine, with 28 additional UAVs veering off course and failing to reach their targets.
Russian forces continued to suffer high losses in January 2025 despite a slower rate of advance as compared with previous months in late 2024.
On February 3, Russian forces killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded two others, according to Vadym Filashkin, head of the regional state administration.
On February 3, a total of 110 combat engagements took place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders on the front lines.
In Cherkasy, fire broke out at three private enterprises as a result of Russian drone attacks.
The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 4, 2025, amount to approximately 842,930 personnel, including 1,270 in the last 24 hours.
Over the past week, the air defense units of the Ground Forces destroyed 212 enemy reconnaissance and attack aircraft.
On February 3, the Russian forces carried out 99 shelling attacks on border communities in Sumy region, with a total of 162 explosions recorded.
Since January 23, as many as 141 families with children have been evacuated from the most dangerous areas of Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region, but 126 more children still need to be relocated.
Irrecoverable and medical losses of the Russian troops in January reached 48,240 personnel, which is roughly equivalent to more than three motorized rifle divisions.
In January, the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck nine oil facilities in Russia.
03 February 2025
Ukraine possesses laser technology already being used to target enemy objects at certain altitudes, according to Colonel Vadym Sukharevskyi, commander of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces.
In just six months, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces have carried out more than 220 operations deep inside Russian territory, deploying over 3,500 drones.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has approved a plan to transition to a new organizational structure for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, including the establishment of military corps.
Russian forces have significantly reduced their use of heavy equipment during assault operations.
As part of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, 12 children who had been subjected to pressure under Russian occupation have been returned to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
The number of assault actions by Russian troops on the Toretsk front has increased by 30% compared to December 2024, and in the area near Chasiv Yar, the number of such actions has risen by 97%.
In Kherson region, three civilians were injured and six civilian structures were damaged due to Russian shelling throughout the day.
Between January 27 and February 2, the Russian forces attempted 17 assaults in the island zone of Kherson region.
Soldiers of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed 84 Russian tanks, 165 armored vehicles and 334 artillery systems in January 2025.
A 59-year-old man sustained injuries in the town of Seredyna-Buda, Sumy region, as a result of Russian shelling of civilian infrastructure.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 53 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is ongoing in three frontline sectors, with the Pokrovsk areas remaining the hottest.
A 63-year-old man was injured in Kherson as a result of Russian shelling.
A mob boss from the "DPR", founder of the Arbat special forces battalion, Armen Sarkisyan (also known as Armen Gorlovsky), who was gravely injured in an explosion in a residential building on February 3, died in a Moscow hospital.
Since the end of August 2024, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has recorded 79 cases of executions of captured Ukrainian soldiers by Russian armed forces in 24 separate incidents.
Russian forces launched a drone attack on an ambulance transporting a patient in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region.
The identity of the Ukrainian serviceman who was decapitated by Russians and depicted in widely circulated images has been preliminarily established.
Russian forces are trying to bypass and encircle Pokrovsk to deprive the town's defenders of resource supplies.
The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine, in coordination with other Defense Forces units, struck the Volgograd Oil Refinery (Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka) and the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant on the night of February 3.