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Friday, 13 February 2026, 16:32
Over the past day, May 13, a total of 163 clashes were recorded on the frontline, with the most fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk, Novopavlivka, and Lyman sectors.
In the morning, two people were injured in the Rivne region as a result of a Russian air attack.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to May 14, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amounted to about 969,370 people, including 1,240 people over the past day.
Operators of the Ivan Franko Group's unmanned aerial vehicle unit have hit a tank, a howitzer and trucks with ammunition of the Russian invaders in Donetsk region.
Operators of FPV drones of the Stalevyi Kordon brigade of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine destroyed three shelters and an ammunition depot of Russian invaders in the Sumy region.
Soldiers from the 106th Battalion of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade, known as the "Steel Lions," have captured a citizen of Uzbekistan on the Lyman front.
13 May 2025
A mandatory evacuation has begun from the village of Nova Sloboda in the Konotop district, Sumy region.
Soldiers of the Separate Presidential Brigade named after Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytskyi of the Ukrainian Ground Forces have, for the first time, used a drone equipped with a grenade launcher in combat conditions.
Throughout the day, Russian forces attacked Nikopol and Synelnykove districts with drones and artillery. Two men were wounded.
A man was killed and a woman was injured in the village of Nechvolodivka, Kupiansk district, Kharkiv region, as a result of a Russian airstrike with guided aerial bombs. Another woman may still be trapped under the rubble.
A soldier from the 58th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade, named after Hetman Ivan Vyhovskyi of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, successfully shot down a Russian Su-25 aircraft using an Igla man-portable air defense system (MANPADS).
The Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have successfully destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system and an Uragan-1 multiple launch rocket system using attack drones.
Russian forces launched an attack on central Kharkiv using a Molniya drone.
Ukraine's Vice Consulate in Rzeszów (southeastern Poland) is expected to begin operations as early as this autumn, while the opening of a Ukrainian consulate in Poznań (western Poland) remains an "optimistic forecast" for this year.
On the southern front, the Russian army continues shelling and conducting assault operations. The hottest fighting is ongoing in the Novopavlivka sector, where the enemy is attempting to break through toward the administrative border of the Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
Over the past week, air defense units of the Ukrainian Ground Forces destroyed 180 enemy aerial reconnaissance and strike UAVs.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces used drones to attack the Luhansk asphalt plant, causing a fire at the industrial site.
Russian forces are illegally holding 13 employees of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) captive. The plant has been under Russian military occupation since 2022.
Russian forces carried out nearly 240 strikes at Sumy region in the past 24 hours, resulting in the death of one person.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down 10 Russian drones overnight.
On May 12, there were 166 combat clashes between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian invaders along the front lines.
Over the past day, Russian forces killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded two others.
Yesterday, Russian forces shelled the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region using Grad multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) and artillery, while also carrying out drone strikes.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to May 13, 2025 amount to nearly 968,130 invaders, including another 1,070 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
Two people, including a child, were wounded in the Kherson region yesterday due to Russian attacks.
Since the beginning of 2025, the Defense Forces of Ukraine have destroyed 6,186 Russian artillery systems.
Over the past day, Russian troops carried out 454 strikes on 14 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Soldiers from the 5th Separate Assault Brigade of the Kyiv Brigade successfully destroyed Russian artillery, fortifications, mobile communications equipment, and infantry in the Kramatorsk sector.
Operators from a unit of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces eliminated an eight-member Russian assault group during a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines.