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Friday, 11 July 2025, 08:23
The most difficult situation on the front is now in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove directions. In the Kursk combat zone, Ukrainian units each day repel over 30 Russian attacks.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Directorate for Defense Innovations has conducted a demonstration of fiber-optic-controlled FPV drones for senior commanders of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
On December 31, 2024, Magura V5 missile-equipped drone boats destroyed two Russian Mi-8 helicopters in the Black Sea.
Five people were injured when a minibus was struck by Russian artillery fire in Kherson's Korabelnyi district.
In 2024, the Russian military sustained its highest-ever losses in manpower and equipment since the onset of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Lower-ranking commanders in the Russian military are reportedly providing false accounts of casualties among North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia's Kursk region.
China is increasingly supporting Russia militarily, which poses a serious problem for Ukraine.
The Russian forces have not reached the outskirts of the town of Pokrovsk, but they are attempting to encircle it through neighboring settlements.
On January 1, the Russian forces targeted settlements in Kharkiv region with guided aerial bombs (GABs) and drones, causing damage to civilian infrastructure.
On January 1, Russian strikes in Kherson region claimed the lives of two people and injured six others.
On January 1, a total of 140 combat engagements took place at the front, 38 of which were in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukraine's defense forces shot down 47 Russian drones, while 24 others veered off course and failed to reach their targets.
A Russian warship is currently on combat duty in the Black Sea, with no Kalibr cruise missiles on board, while no naval vessels are spotted in the Sea of Azov.
The Russian invasion forces launched KAB glide bombs at the town of Stepnohirsk in Zaporizhzhia region, killing a local man.
The total combat casualties of the Russian troops from February 24, 2022 to January 2, 2025 reached an estimated 792,170, including 1,370 killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Fighters from the Achilles Battalion of attack UAV operators at the Ataman Ivan Sirko 92nd Separate Assault Brigade hit two Russian T-72 tanks and six BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicles in the Kupyansk operational zone.
Last year, Russia launched 318 strikes on Kharkiv, leaving 94 people dead and over 1,100 injured.
Over the year, the demining units of the Defense Ministry cleared almost 253,000 hectares of territories from mines and unexploded munitions and neutralized 137,821 explosive objects.
During the morning shelling of Kyiv on January 1, a married couple of prominent scientists — neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and Doctor of Biological Sciences Olesia Sokur — were killed.
Russian forces captured 4,168 square kilometers of territory, largely comprised of fields and small settlements in Ukraine and the Kursk region, at a reported cost of over 420,000 casualties in 2024.
01 January 2025
There were 125 combat clashes on the frontline, the enemy carried out over 3000 shelling attacks on Ukraine’s Defense Forces positions; fighting continues in most directions.
In the United Kingdom, 200 Ukrainian aviators received basic flight, ground, and language training in preparation for operating F-16 fighter jets.
Airports in the Russian cities of Kaluga, Penza, Saransk, and Saratov enacted the Carpet Plan on Wednesday evening in response to a potential drone attack.
The Russian forces are launching airstrikes on Zaporizhzhia region, with explosions reported near the town of Stepnohirsk.
In Kyiv, a Russian drone attack caused damage to the building of the National Writers' Union of Ukraine.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has reported challenging conditions for the rescue operation in Kyiv following a Russian drone attack on the morning of January 1.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry (HUR) showed exclusive episodes of the liberation of the Vovchansk Aggregate Plant in September 2024.
Ukraine’s Naval Forces operating as part of the Defense Forces last year destroyed over 37,000 Russian drones of all types, as well as five Russian warships and cutters.
As many as 101 combat clashes have been recorded on the battlefield since the start of Wednesday, with Russian forces focusing their efforts on the Kurakhove, Pokrovsk, Vremivka, and Kursk sectors.