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Saturday, 13 December 2025, 10:53
Russian invading forces continue assaults and shelling in Donetsk region despite a declared ceasefire, with battles ongoing in the Pokrovsk, Toretsk, Lyman, Novopavlivka, and other sectors.
Russian military hit a civilian car with an FPV drone near the village of Velyki Prokhody, Kharkiv region, leaving three women in the vehicle injured.
A total of 196 combat engagements were recorded between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invasion troops in the past day as the battlefield situation was most intense in the Pokrovsk direction.
In the afternoon and evening hours of Wednesday, May 7, Ukraine’s Defense Forces intercepted 20 Russian attack drones in the sky over Ukraine, and six more decoy UAVs caused no damage on the ground.
There is one enemy Kalibr carrier in the Mediterranean Sea, and no Russian warships in the Azov and Black Seas.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in manpower from February 24, 2022, to May 8, 2025, amounted to about 961,970 people, including 1,200 invaders killed in the last day.
In the Kupiansk direction, pilots of the Rubaka unit's drones tracked down and destroyed the Russian invaders' transport in a hiding place.
In the Novopavlivka sector, Ukrainian defenders used FPV drones to track down and destroy a Russian Vozrozhdenie multiple rocket launcher system.
As of the first quarter of 2025, the environmental damage caused by the shelling of Ukrainian military facilities by the Russian army is estimated at about UAH 367 billion, which is equivalent to about USD 9 billion.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi reported to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky on the active actions of the Ukrainian military in the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation.
About 280,000 civilians remain in the government-controlled area of Donetsk region, including 21,200 children. Mandatory evacuations in the region continue.
07 May 2025
Ukraine's offer to introduced a 30-day ceasefire remains in force in order to give diplomacy a chance.
An emergency power outage was recorded in the Poltava district, tentatively due to infrastructure damage caused by the debris of a downed Russian drone.
Since the beginning of 2025, the combat losses of Russian troops have amounted to 169,970 people.
On May 7, the Russian army attacked Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region 30 times with drones and fired from heavy artillery, there are damages.
The information that the car of one of the leading Ukrainian engineers who worked on the development of drones was blown up in Kharkiv is not true.
Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science and Technology - Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov showed how the robotic deminer “Zmiy” works, which is capable of withstanding the detonation of two anti-tank mines.
In the Kursk region, operators of the 413th Reid Battalion as part of the consolidated detachment of the Dzhmil UAV of the Unmanned Systems Forces hit the Zaslon wheeled radar at a considerable distance from the state border.
Last night, long-range drones of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck two key defense industry facilities in the Russian rear.
Since the start of the day, May 7, as many as 93 combat engagements have taken place between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops, with active fighting ongoing in seven operational directions, the most intense being in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces shot down two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles and 81 drones used by Russian forces to attack Ukraine beginning the evening of May 6.
Russian forces launched a missile strike at the town of Velykyi Burluk in Kupiansk district. Kharkiv region.
Since the beginning of May, more than 1,300 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops have been recorded.
The Russian army attacked the Huliaypilia community in Zaporizhzhia region with aerial bombs. One person was wounded.
On May 6, the Russian army killed four residents of Donetsk region and injured 10 others.
On the night of May 7, Russian invaders attacked Kyiv with a ballistic missile and 28 attack drones.
In the Dnipro region, eight people were wounded in an enemy attack, two of them in serious condition.
In Kyiv, as a result of the night attack on May 7, there were hits in the Shevchenkivskyi, Sviatoshynskyi and Dniprovskyi districts.
Key defense industry enterprises in Saransk and Tula, Russia, were targeted in drone attacks.