
Ukraine downs 61 Russian drones while 42 veer off course
On the night of January 5, Ukraine’s Defense Forces shot down 61 Russian Shahed one-way attack UAVs and drones of other types.
On the night of January 5, Ukraine’s Defense Forces shot down 61 Russian Shahed one-way attack UAVs and drones of other types.
A field agent working as part of the underground network set up by the pro-Ukrainian ATESH movement in Russia and occupied areas gathered personal data of Russian military service members from the 28th Aerospace Force Arsenal in Tambov region.
On the frontlines in the past 24 hours, January 4, a total of 179 combat engagements were recorded, with the most intense fighting taking place in the Pokrovsk axis.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to January 5, 2025, amount to about 796,490 people, including another 1,730 people over the past day.
There is one enemy ship in the Black Sea that carries Kalibr cruise missiles, but no missiles.
Soldiers of a separate detachment of the Omega Wings of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed an enemy crossing, depriving Russian troops of the ability to move their forces.
Emergency rescue and other urgent work has been completed at the site of the Russian air strike on the residential sector of the village of Svesa, Sumy region.
Seven people were wounded, residential buildings and a hospital were damaged as a result of a Russian military strike with guided aerial bombs in the town of Semenivka, Chernihiv region.
On January 3, 2025, an explosion occurred in the village of Shuia, Ivanovo region (RF), in the epicenter of which was the battery commander of the 112th Missile Brigade Division of the 1st Tank Army of the Western Military District of the RF Armed Forces (military unit 03333), Captain Nagayko, who was involved in the deaths of 59 people at the wake in the village of Hroza, Kharkiv region.
04 January 2025
On the Donetsk--Horlivka highway, a freelance correspondent for the Russian propaganda publication Izvestia, Alexander Martemyanov, was killed by a drone strike.
Air defense forces shot down 14 Russian drones from 11:00 to 20:00 on Saturday, while 16 decoy UAVs disappeared from radar.
President Volodymyr Zelensky says on January 3 and 4, in the area of the village of Makhnovka, Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion worth of North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers.
Two paratroopers from the 79th Tavria Separate Airborne Assault Brigade captured 14 Russian soldiers.
Russian strikes on Chernihiv, Svesa, and Myropillia in Sumy region, as well as on Kharkiv region, confirm the invariability of Ukraine’s task, which is to strengthen its air defenses.
In the village of Svesa, Shostka district in Sumy region, the number of injured in a Russian bombing that targeted an apartment block Saturday afternoon has increased to 10.
In Sumy region, the number of wounded as a result of a Russian air strike has increased to five, including two children.
Ukrainian military destroyed an enemy UAV in the sky over Dnipro region.
In the suburb of Kherson, the village of Antonivka, a 45-year-old man was hit by a Russian drone, who became the sixth victim of such a strike as of January 4.
On the night of January 4, unidentified drones attacked Russia's largest seaport, Ust-Luga, in the Leningrad region.
A 68-year-old man was hit by a Russian drone in the suburb of Kherson, Antonivka village.
Russians dropped a bomb on a high-rise building in the Sveska village community in Sumy region, injuring two children and an adult.
On the birthday of the Chief of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine launched a cyberattack on the Russian RegionTransService LLC and disabled all servers.
A 48-year-old man was wounded in the village of Kindiyka, a suburb of Kherson, as a result of an explosive drop from a Russian drone.
The enemy attacked Nikopol with artillery. Three people were injured.
A rescue operation has been completed in Chernihiv at the site of a group missile attack on January 3.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky noted the role of drones in the ongoing war, stating that Ukraine will continue to expand efforts to ensure larges supplies of unmanned systems to the Armed Forces.
During the season of autumn and winter storms, Russia lost almost half of the barge barriers installed to protect the Crimea Bridge from Ukrainian maritime drone attacks.
Combat drone operators from the Phoenix unit with the Pomsta (Revenge) Brigade operating in the Kupiansk axis destroyed Russian UAV control points, ammunition depots, as well as military hardware and communication systems.
Over the past day, the Russian army struck the territory of Chernihiv region 32 times, employing artillery, mortars, UAVs, KAB glide bombs, as well as missiles.