Defense Forces block enemy advance in central Pokrovsk — military
Despite enemy claims of capturing Pokrovsk, Defense Forces control the northern part of the city, while Ukrainian soldiers block the enemy's advance in central Pokrovsk.
Despite enemy claims of capturing Pokrovsk, Defense Forces control the northern part of the city, while Ukrainian soldiers block the enemy's advance in central Pokrovsk.
In Kherson, a man was killed as a result of Russian shelling in the Dniprovskyi district, and an older woman was wounded in her home in the Central district due to a drone attack.
On New Year's Eve, Russian troops struck a residential area of the city of Novhorod-Siverskyi in Chernihiv region with a drone, and during the day, the territory of an energy facility in Koriukivka district.
Rescuers extinguished fires that broke out at critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn region as a result of Russian drone attacks.
As of the morning of January 1, a significant number of consumers in the Odesa and Volyn regions are without power due to another massive Russian attack; there are also new power outages in the Chernihiv region.
Russian army losses in the war against Ukraine in 2025 amount to 418,170 soldiers.
On the front line yesterday, December 31, there were 131 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders.
A man and a woman were injured in Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region over the past day, December 31.
Russian troops carried out 75 strikes on 37 settlements in 17 territorial communities of the Sumy region in 24 hours, from the morning of December 31 to the morning of January 1, injuring one person.
On New Year's Eve, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil depot in the Kaluga region and an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 176 of the 205 drones used by Russians to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 31.
Russian forces continued attacks on Nikopol district in the evening and overnight.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to January 1, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,206,910 people, including 1,060 people in the previous day.
In the Kherson region, over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks resulted in the death of one person and injuries to four others.
During the night of January 1, Odesa was attacked by Russian strike drones, causing several fires.
Over the past day, Russian occupying forces carried out 612 attacks on 24 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. As a result of enemy strikes on Zaporizhzhia city, as well as Zaporizhzhia and Polohy districts, nine people were injured.
On the night of January 1, Russian UAVs targeted critical infrastructure facilities in the Volyn region.
As of December 31, the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have neutralized more than 50,000 Russian military personnel, over 28,500 of whom were eliminated irreversibly.
The engineering troops of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine neutralized and destroyed 960,767 explosive ordnance items during 2025.
Lutsk was attacked by enemy strike UAVs, and a fire erupted in the city.
The enemy has again attacked the energy infrastructure of Odesa region. A fire broke out at one of the facilities, causing power supply disruptions.
In December, Ukraine intensified its attacks on Russia's energy facilities, striking the largest number of targets since the beginning of the full-scale war.
Fighters with Ukraine's 57th Motorized Brigade have captured a Russian serviceman who had been hiding behind the Ukrainian Defense Forces' lines in the Kharkiv region.
31 December 2025
Five people, including one teenager, were injured in Zaporizhzhia as a result of enemy shelling.
In 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) demonstrated impressive results by conducting a unique special operation called Spider Web, striking a Russian submarine and delivering systematic blows to the enemy's infrastructure that supports the war.
Russian forces shelled and attacked the Nikopol, Pavlohrad, Kryvyi Rih, and Synelnykove districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery and strike drones. Four people were injured, and civilian infrastructure was damaged.
Ukraine's Defense Forces burn down Russia's military power, the capabilities of its military-industrial complex, and its oil refineries every day, thereby undermining the aggressor's desire to continue this war.
In the city of Vovchansk, the situation is fairly stable; at the same time, Russian forces are attempting to bypass the city in order to expand their control zone.
The Defense Forces struck the Tuapse oil refinery, the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas terminal, a Rosrezerv oil depot, and a number of other facilities of the Russian invaders.