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Thursday, 09 April 2026, 06:46
In the Prydniprovske sector, Russian forces are carrying out fewer assault operations, but are not reducing the intensity of kamikaze drone and artillery strikes, particularly against Kherson and nearby communities.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed the hit on the infrastructure of the Slavyansk Eco oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation.
Russian forces are intensifying pressure and deploying reserves to the Pokrovsk and Ocheretyne sectors of the front.
Soldiers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated two Russian servicemen in Kupiansk and captured two others.
Over the previous day, January 25, Russian forces shelled Chernihiv region 42 times, with 56 explosions recorded. Among the targets were communications facilities.
On the northern outskirts of temporarily occupied Luhansk, in an area where a major energy facility is located, a fire has been observed.
From the evening of January 25 through the night of January 26, Russian forces attacked the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Region with a drone and shelled it with artillery, injuring a man.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 110 out of 138 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine starting from the evening of January 25.
Russian forces carried out strikes on 36 settlements in the Sumy region over the previous day, leaving seven people wounded, including two children.
An attack on an oil refinery took place in Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
Over the previous day, January 25, 138 combat engagements between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line.
The enemy attacked Zaporizhzhia for the second time in one night, delivering four strikes and damaging private homes.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to January 26, 2026, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,235,060 people, including 1,020 people over the past day.
Operators of the Raid regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces struck a Russian “turtle tank” with drones on one of the hot spots of the front line.
The Russians launched a new strike on Zaporizhzhia with strike UAVs, causing a fire at the site of the strike.
Soldiers of the 46th Separate Airborne Podillia Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how they used drones to destroy a tank and motor vehicles belonging to Russian invaders.
The enemy has again attacked the Zaporizhzhia region with drones, causing a fire in Vilniansk and damaging high-rise buildings.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement destroyed a vehicle belonging to Russian forces in Bryansk that was being used to support units operating in the border area.
Drunk Russian soldiers who failed to divide a captured thermal imager opened fire in occupied Donetsk, leaving one of the participants dead.
25 January 2026
A total of 129 combat clashes took place on the frontline as of 22:00 on Sunday, with the hottest situation on the Pokrovsk axis, where the enemy lost nearly 90 troops.
Kyiv continues to face a significant electricity shortage, with more than 800,000 customers remaining without power.
As many as 166 emergency repair crews are working to restore heating supply in Kyiv after Russian attacks in January.
In the village of Dmytrivka in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region, four children were injured as a result of a Russian drone attack.
In Ukraine’s Sumy region, four people, including two children, were injured on Sunday, January 25, as a result of enemy attacks.
Russian forces attacked Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region, killing a woman and injuring three civilians.
In the Mykolaiv region, Russian troops attacked energy infrastructure, injuring a utility worker.
Since the start of the day, Ukrainian Defense Forces have recorded 66 clashes with Russian invaders.
A Russian drone has attacked a mobile Ukrposhta post office in a village in the Kherson region.
A Russian drone has struck a high-rise residential building in Kharkiv, leaving people injured.