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14 October 2025
The Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), Cindy McCain, called today's attack by the Russian army on a convoy of humanitarian trucks in the Kherson region “totally unacceptable”.
Russian troops struck Synelnykove, Pavlohrad, and Nikopol districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, damaging civilian buildings and infrastructure and killing one woman.
Since the start of the day, 113 combat engagements have taken place along the frontline between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, with fighting continuing in six sectors of the front.
Russia has likely sustained approximately 332,000 casualties (killed and wounded) in the Ukraine war so far in 2025, and approximately 1,118,000 casualties since launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Pilots from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Pomsta border guard brigade and fighters from allied units halted a Russian assault near Shakhove and Volodymyrivka, the Donetsk region.
The enemy has carried out over 620 strikes with kamikaze drones in the southern front over the past 24 hours, which is the average current intensity of such attacks.
In the Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, Ukraine's Defense Forces eliminated Russian occupiers across an area of 3.4 square kilometers and advanced up to 1.6 kilometers in certain sectors over the past 24 hours.
Russian forces launched attacks on civilian, railway, and energy infrastructure facilities in Kharkiv, as well as in the Kirovohrad, Sumy, and Donetsk regions on the evening of October 13 and throughout the night of October 14.
In the Orikhiv sector, Ukrainian forces have improved their tactical position near the villages of Mali Shcherbaky and Shcherbaky, prompting an active artillery response from Russian forces.
Early on October 14, Russian forces attacked four vehicles of a humanitarian mission in Bilozerka community of Kherson region, using drones and artillery.
Over the past day, Russian forces shelled the city of Kharkiv and eight settlements in Kharkiv region with various types of weapons, injuring 62 civilians.
In Kherson region, eight people were injured over the past day as a result of Russian aggression.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out nearly 110 attacks on 37 settlements across 15 communities in Sumy region.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 69 out of 96 Russian drones.
Ukrainian forces engaged in 190 combat clashes with Russian troops on October 13.
Two men were injured in Russian airstrikes on the Synelnykove district, Dnipropetrovsk region, on the evening of October 13.
Overnight on October 14, Russian forces attacked critical infrastructure in the Dolynske and Nova Praha communities of the Kirovohrad region.
Russia suffered approximately 1,125,150 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 14, 2025, with 1,200 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
On the southern front, Ukrainian drone operators struck a quad bike and a boat belonging to Russian invaders.
The sounds of explosions were heard during air raid alert in Kharkiv as Russian forces were bombarding the city with precision bomb strikes. Injured casualties have been reported.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has published data on 145 companies that are part of or managed by Technodinamika, a holding of the Russian state corporation Rostec.
The Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has released data on 145 enterprises that are part of or managed by Technodinamika Holding, a subsidiary of Russia’s state corporation Rostec.
Soldiers from the 1st Azov Corps of the National Guard of Ukraine have repelled a mechanized Russian assault near Dobropillia (Ocheretyne sector of the front), having destroyed 16 units of heavy equipment, three motorcycles and 78 invaders.
13 October 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that potential funding for supplying Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine could come from three sources: NATO's PURL program, a "Mega Deal" being negotiated with the United States, and frozen Russian assets.
The Ukrainian government has introduced an experimental mechanism to transfer technologies developed within the Ministry of Defense (MoD) system into mass production.
Russian troops have partially entered the outskirts of the villages of Kucheriv Yar and Shakhove in Donetsk region; however, fighting continues there, and the situation remains under the control of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.
Russian invading forces have significantly increased the number of fire strikes in the eastern sector of the front, with the intensity of shelling rising by 25–30% over the past ten days compared to the previous period.
As a result of a drone strike on an oil depot in temporarily occupied Feodosia on October 13, 11 storage tanks were damaged, 10 of which were filled with fuel.
Russian forces have once again attacked the town of Semenivka in Chernihiv region, striking a residential building with a drone.
A Russian-launched drone targeted a store in the border town of Semenivka, Chernihiv Oblast, killing a man and leaving a woman injured.