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Thursday, 12 February 2026, 17:59
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to June 21, 2025 amount to nearly 1,010,390 invaders, including another 1,060 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Soldiers from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Revenge (Pomsta) brigade of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service have successfully destroyed an enemy armored personnel carrier, a tank, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery system using drones in the Kupiansk direction.
Soldiers from the 14th Ivan Bohun Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, known as the Chervona Kalyna brigade, captured a group of Russian soldiers in the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces carried out 343 attacks on 11 settlements across the Zaporizhzhia region in the past 24 hours, injuring a woman in the Zaporizhzhia district.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has codified and approved for operational use in the Ukrainian Armed Forces a domestically produced unmanned FPV aerial system "Svitlovod."
20 June 2025
During the prisoner exchange on June 19, soldier Dmytro Tarasiuk of the 95th Air Assault Brigade returned home. He had been captured in May 2022 and was considered missing for one year.
The Ukrainian authorities are already preparing for the next rounds of prisoner exchanges.
On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, during which the situation on the front lines, including developments in the Sumy region, was discussed.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has published exclusive video footage of the prisoner exchange that took place on June 20.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has stated that Russia has no intention of agreeing to a ceasefire with Ukraine, citing what he called a "strategic advantage" in the war.
In Tokmak, the town temporarily captured by the Russian army, their military base came under Ukrainian attack overnight Friday.
In Sumy region, on the border with Russia, the enemy has somewhat reduced the activity of small assault groups.
During the spring campaign, fighters from the Russian Volunteer Corps, part of Timur's Special Forces, carried out a daring assault operation and captured enemy positions.
There are not many combat clashes in the southern direction at the moment, but the enemy is regrouping and preparing to intensify combat operations in a few days.
Another prisoner-of-war exchange between Ukraine and Russia has taken place, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Early on Friday, June 20, Russian aircraft launched an airstrike on the Derhachi community in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region, leaving the village of Tsupivka without electricity.
Following another wave of Russian drone attacks on Odesa and Kharkiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged international partners to strengthen sanctions against Russia's energy sector and shadow fleet, and to lower the price cap on Russian oil to $30 per barrel.
Ukrainian defense intelligence intercepted Russian military radio communications where an incident is discussed involving a Russian soldier, who was considered missing, being killed and “eaten” by his comrade.
In Ukraine’s Odesa, one person died and 14 were injured as a result of an overnight attack by Russian drones.
In the past day, 176 combat clashes between Ukraine’s Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded along the front lines.
In the Sumy region, police bomb disposal experts defused the warhead of a Russian cruise missile.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to June 20, 2025, amount to approximately 1,009,330 people, including 1,090 people over the past day.
Operators of strike drones from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the Revenge brigade of the State Border Guard Service destroyed a Russian Solntsepyok heavy flamethrower system and a tank in the Kharkiv region.
Three people were injured and about 50 cars were damaged as a result of Russian drone strikes in Kharkiv.
As a result of an attack by enemy drones, a fire broke out in one of the districts of Sumy, but there were no casualties.
19 June 2025
Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian Ground Forces should implement their experience of coordination with NATO and combat experience.
Russia is currently trying to save Iran's nuclear program in order to enable its allies to continue exporting war.
As of Thursday, June 19, 216 damaged objects were registered in Kyiv as a result of a massive Russian attack on June 17, 111 of them in the Solomianskyi district.