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Saturday, 13 December 2025, 10:59
As many as 120 combat engagements were recorded on the front lines in the past 24 hours, with the most intense fighting recorded in the Pokrovsk and Kursk sectors.
On April 12, Russian forces killed three residents of the Donetsk region and injured five others in a series of attacks.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to April 13, 2025 amount to nearly 932,670 invaders, including another 1,220 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces launched attacks on 31 settlements in the Kherson region, resulting in the deaths of three people and injuries to seven others.
Yesterday, Russian forces carried out 511 attacks on 11 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
As of 06:00 on April 13, 2025, the Ukrainian Navy has reported that there are no Russian warships in the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov.
In March, Ukraine's Defense Forces destroyed or disabled 1,644 Russian artillery systems—the highest monthly total since the beginning of the large-scale invasion.
Soldiers from the Phoenix UAV unit of the Pomsta (Revenge) Brigade of Ukraine's State Border Guard Service, in cooperation with the 93rd Mechanized Brigade and the 5th Assault Brigade, used drones to destroy three multi-purpose light armored towing vehicles MT-LB and damaged another towing vehicle, two tanks, and a recovery and evacuation towing vehicle VT-55A of the Russian forces near Klishchiivka, Donetsk region.
12 April 2025
After the Ukrainian-American negotiations in Jeddah, during which Ukraine accepted the proposal for an immediate 30-day ceasefire, Russia intensified its attacks, which is its response to the peace proposals.
The Norwegian government will contribute NOK 10 billion ($939 million) to equipping and training a Ukrainian brigade.
There is a global understanding of the need to end the war in Ukraine in a just manner, as it directly affects security in other regions of the world.
On the eastern front, soldiers from Ukraine's 3rd Assault Brigade destroyed a Russian Nona self-propelled mortar, several infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and communication antennas.
Russian forces struck a private house in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, with a glide bomb, injuring four people and potentially trapping others under the debris.
Russian forces targeted a civilian vehicle with an FPV drone near the village of Oleksandro-Kalynove in the Donetsk region on Saturday, injuring three people.
The situation in the southern segment of the front is becoming more tense, with the most active actions taking place in the Orikhiv sector.
The fighters of the 12th Special Forces Brigade Azov of the National Guard of Ukraine used drones to destroy Russian invaders who were storming the positions of Ukraine’s Defense Forces in the Toretsk sector of the front.
A Russian drone attacked a civilian car in Kherson’s Dniprovskyi district, resulting in the death of one man and injuries to two others.
On Saturday, April 12, in the town of Krasnopillia in Sumy region, Russian invaders attacked a vehicle with a drone, injuring both the driver and a passenger.
As of 16:00, April 12, as many as 58 combat engagements have taken place along the front lines, with the heaviest fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk and Kursk sectors.
Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully repelled another Russian armored attack in the Kupiansk sector of the front, destroying two tanks and damaging two infantry fighting vehicles.
On Saturday, Russian occupying forces shelled the village of Zelenivka in Kherson region, damaging residential homes, a civilian vehicle, and engineering infrastructure.
An 86-year-old woman was killed in Bilozerka, Kherson region, as a result of a Russian drone strike.
Russian forces continue to shell the border areas of Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kharkiv regions and are attempting to destroy the shelters and trenches of Ukrainian defenders. Using small assault groups, the enemy is trying to penetrate as deeply as possible into Sumy region.
Russian forces have shelled a medical facility in Ukraine's southern Kherson region with artillery, injuring two construction workers.
British intelligence predicts that long-term inflationary pressure in Russia is likely to affect its ability to sustain high defense spending for conducting the war.
Since the beginning of 2025, Russian forces have suffered 140,650 personnel losses.
Emergency crews have extinguished fires in Kyiv's Sviatoshynskyi district following a Russian drone attack on the city early on Saturday, April 12.
Two men have been injured in a Russian artillery strike on the village of Stepanivka in Ukraine's southern Kherson region.
Four people have been injured following Russian strikes on the city of Kharkiv and the nearby village of Slatyne.