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29 January 2025
Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications Mykola Tochytskyi of Ukraine and UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay discussed the issue of restoring cultural infrastructure in Ukraine with the participation of international partners.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and his Croatian counterpart, Andrej Plenkovic, discussed the creation of a joint working group to monitor the illegal activities of Russia's shadow fleet.
In the city of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Russian forces attacked an ambulance with a killer drone. Three people were injured in the attack.
Ukrainian forces destroyed four fuel tanks and damaged ten others in two drone attacks on the Kristall oil depot in Engels, located in Russia's Saratov region, in January 2025.
On the night of Wednesday, January 29, Kyiv was attacked by drones filled with shrapnel (small fragments).
Russian troops focused their main efforts on the Pokrovsk sector yesterday. The defense forces are taking measures to prevent the deterioration of the tactical situation there.
Two people were killed and 14 others were injured in Russian strikes on Ukraine's southern Kherson region on January 28.
Units of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate, in coordination with other formations of the Ukrainian Defense Forces, carried out a strike on the Nizhny Novgorod oil refinery in Kstovo, Russia, on the night of January 29.
Since the evening of January 28, Ukrainian defense forces have shot down 29 drones launched by Russian troops to attack Ukraine, with 14 additional UAVs veering off course and failing to reach their targets.
In the Ukrainian capital’s Darnytsia district, debris from a Russian drone hit the area close to the municipal Metro station.
The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources has received a response from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to Minister Svitlana Hrynchuk's appeal regarding the accident of Russian oil tankers in the Kerch Strait last December.
Over the past week, defenders from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) destroyed 16 Russian engineering fortifications and disabled 5 electronic warfare systems.
28 January 2025
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on January 28, as many as 174 combat engagements took place on the front line between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the Russian invaders. Specifically, in the Pokrovsk sector, the enemy launched 75 attacks.
A ceremony was held in Lviv to inaugurate the UNESCO Cultural Hub.
UNESCO is launching two new initiatives in Ukraine: a project to preserve Jewish documentary heritage and another to restore and promote over 300 works by around 50 Ukrainian women artists.
The Russian military attacked Kupiansk and the village of Prystin in the Kupiansk community of Kharkiv region with artillery and drones, and a 66-year-old man was injured.
Two private houses were destroyed in the Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of a Russian strike, and 13 more were damaged.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, two adults and an 11-year-old child were injured in Russian shelling.
German and Danish leaders, Olaf Scholz and Mette Frederiksen, discussed in Berlin assistance to Ukraine and countering hybrid threats posed by Russia.
The halt in Russian strikes with guided aerial bombs in the Kharkiv region can be attributed to the operations of the Defence Forces, including in the Kursk region, while the enemy uses alternative means.
Russia’s undeclared war against the West is intensifying, leveraging fear, destabilization and covert operations to undermine NATO unity and Western resilience.
The issue of Russia's accountability for war crimes that have already been committed and continue to be committed in Ukraine cannot be a subject for negotiations.
Over the past day, Ukraine’s Defense Forces successfully repelled Russian attacks in Vovchansk, preventing loss of positions in Kharkiv region. The fiercest battles continue in the Pokrovsk sector.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces of Ukraine have shot down 65 Russian Shahed-type one-way attack drones and other types of UAVs, while 28 decoy drones Russia launched to exhaust air defenses caused no damage on the ground.
A museum of retro cars sustained damage from the downed Russian drone debris as air defense forces were repelling an air raid in Kyiv region.
Heavy fighting with Russian troops continues in the urban areas of Chasiv Yar and Toretsk, Donetsk region.
On January 27, two people were killed and two others were wounded in the Kherson region as a result of Russian aggression.
Over the past 24 hours, the occupiers shelled eight settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region 362 times. In the Vasylivka district, four people were injured in Russian attacks.
A fire broke out at a civilian enterprise in Kharkiv's Novobavarskyi district after a Russian drone hit it, covering an area of about 1,500 square meters.
27 January 2025
The European Union is currently the largest donor to Ukraine, but it is obvious that Ukraine needs more to stop the westward shift of the front line – more support, more ammunition, and more air defense capabilities.