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Soldiers from the 6th Separate Special Purpose Regiment "Ranger" of the Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) have captured three Russian soldiers during a raid on enemy positions in one of the operational sectors.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting focused on security and social issues in Odesa.
The death toll from Russia's April 13 missile strike on Sumy has risen to 36 after another person injured in the attack died in hospital.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces successfully targeted the permanent deployment site of the 448th Missile Brigade of the Russian Armed Forces in Kursk region, which was responsible for the missile attack on the city of Sumy on Palm Sunday, April 13.
Since the beginning of the day, as many as 58 combat engagements have taken place between Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops along the frontline, with battles still ongoing in five directions.
Russian forces are constructing so-called anti-drone corridors for moving military equipment in the border area of Kursk region, however, Ukrainian troops are successfully destroying it.
On the night of April 15, the Defense Forces shot down 26 enemy drones, and another 19 imitator drones were lost without negative consequences.
On the morning of April 15, Russian troops fired drones at the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk region, injuring one person and damaging service stations and other businesses.
Enemy propaganda is spreading fake information about “foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” allegedly killed in the Kursk region of Russia.
Soldiers of the 5th detachment of the State Border Guard Service destroyed enemy assault groups that tried to enter the territory of Sumy region.
Forty-four people remain hospitalized following Russia's April 13 missile strike on Sumy, including ten children.
In the Novopavlivka sector, paratroopers from Ukraine's 71st Jaeger Brigade, together with neighboring units, repelled a massive Russian assault involving motorcycles, more than 20 tanks, and infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs).
Fires broke out in several residential buildings in Kursk following a massive drone attack on the city on the night of April 14-15.
Russian forces killed one civilian and injured four others in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region on Monday.
Over the past day, Russian forces launched strikes at 37 settlements in Kherson region, resulting in eight people being injured, including one child.
Over the past day, April 14, a total of 99 combat engagements took place between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian occupiers along the frontlines.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, through April 15, 2025, amount to approximately 935,160 personnel, with 1,180 casualties recorded in the past 24 hours.
Artillerymen and aerial reconnaissance units of the “Hart” Brigade of the 1st Border Detachment of Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service delivered fire strikes on clusters of Russian military personnel near Vovchansk in Kharkiv region.
In Kharkiv, rescuers extinguished a 1,600 square meter fire caused by a Russian drone strike on the morning of April 14.
14 April 2025
Ukraine has never wanted a single moment of this war, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on Monday during which reports were heard regarding the formation of a corps-based military structure.
Russia has likely sustained approximately 138,000 casualties (killed and wounded) in the Russia-Ukraine war so far in 2025.
Chinese prisoner of war Wang Guangjun stated that while at one of the Russian army’s recruitment centers, he encountered about 20 people of other nationalities, including individuals from Kazakhstan, Ghana, Iraq, and others.
Chinese mercenaries Zhang Renbo and Wang Guangjun, who were captured by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk region, have declared their readiness for a prisoner exchange and are appealing to the Chinese government to bring them back home.
Russian forces are systematically using chemicals on the battlefield — specifically, munitions containing poisonous gases.
Zhang Renbo, a Chinese national captured in Donetsk region by Ukrainian Defense Forces, said that the bank card on which his payment from the Russian army contract was deposited was used exclusively by Russians.
Since the beginning of 2025, the Russian army has lost 11,583 units of automotive and special equipment.
The death toll from a Russian ballistic missile strike on Sumy has risen to 35 people.
By May 9, in order to create the impression of success at the front, Russia may try to advance southwest of Pokrovsk in the direction of the Dnipro region, which is only a few kilometers away from the administrative border of the Russian-occupied areas.