War update: 80 combat clashes on frontline, Pokrovsk sector remains hottest
There have been 80 combat clashes on the front, with 18 enemy attacks repelled in the Pokrovsk sector, and two battles currently ongoing.
05 February 2025
There have been 80 combat clashes on the front, with 18 enemy attacks repelled in the Pokrovsk sector, and two battles currently ongoing.
While nothing prevents the United States from negotiating with Russia at this stage, achieving concrete peace agreements and security guarantees for Ukraine without European involvement is impossible. Moreover, Ukraine itself would not agree to a negotiation format that excludes European countries.
A combat readiness check is currently underway in certain units of Belarus’ armed forces, but this does not pose any threat to Ukraine.
The United Kingdom will allocate an additional £55 million in financial assistance to Ukraine to boost resilience, foster development, and strengthen the 100 Year Partnership between the two nations.
Russian troops, supported by artillery and drones of various types, continue to storm Ukraine’s defense positions in the urban areas of Chasiv Yar and Toretsk.
The United States must continue to support Ukraine and provide it with everything necessary to ensure its survival, as well as to protect democracy and the international order that Washington upholds.
Eighty-five combat clashes were recorded between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders on February 4.
Maria Mezentseva, head of Ukraine’s delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), announced that funds from the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) will allow around 5,700 Ukrainians to receive compensation for destroyed housing.
04 February 2025
Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak had a phone call with the UK Prime Minister's National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell, discussing support for the implementation of the Century Agreement between the two countries.
Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak had a phone call with National Security Advisor to the U.S. President Michael Waltz to discuss the battlefield situation and the course of mobilization in Ukraine.
On February 4, the Ukrainian Defense Forces have engaged in 54 combat clashes with the Russian troops, with ongoing battles in six sectors of the front. The Pokrovsk direction remains the most intense.
The United States has not discussed the timing of elections in Ukraine with Ukrainian officials, including the possibility of holding them before the end of 2025. However, if President Donald Trump's team raises the issue, Ukraine is open to discussions.
The Russian occupation forces are reinforcing their troop formations along the front line, particularly on key attack directions.
Providing economic, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine is not about charity or altruism on the part of Europe, it is a step toward its own self-preservation, since the threat Russian aggression poses not only to Ukraine, but also to Europe and the world is real.
Drone operators from the Ukrainian National Guard's 4th Ivan Bohun Operational Brigade “Chervona Kalyna” together with soldiers from the 38th Separate Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Navy stopped the Russian troops’ offensive in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Russian army launched a missile attack on the town of Izium in the Kharkiv region. At least four people were killed, according to preliminary data.
Russian troops were forced to abandon their frontline positions near a settlement in the Kupiansk sector due to heavy fire from Ukrainian forces.
Brigadier General Hennadii Shapovalov has announced his departure from the position of commander of the Operational Command South.
On February 3, a total of 110 combat engagements took place between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and the Russian invaders on the front lines.
Since January 23, as many as 141 families with children have been evacuated from the most dangerous areas of Kupiansk district in Kharkiv region, but 126 more children still need to be relocated.
Irrecoverable and medical losses of the Russian troops in January reached 48,240 personnel, which is roughly equivalent to more than three motorized rifle divisions.
The Svea Court of Appeal, which is located in Stockholm, has confirmed Ukraine’s victory in the arbitration case brought by the stakeholders of Ukrnafta PJSC.
03 February 2025
Between January 27 and February 2, the Russian forces attempted 17 assaults in the island zone of Kherson region.
Estonia has to start implementing what we’ve seen in ports of Odesa
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 53 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is ongoing in three frontline sectors, with the Pokrovsk areas remaining the hottest.
A mob boss from the "DPR", founder of the Arbat special forces battalion, Armen Sarkisyan (also known as Armen Gorlovsky), who was gravely injured in an explosion in a residential building on February 3, died in a Moscow hospital.
This year's Munich Security Conference will be attended by around 60 heads of state and government, as well as 150 ministers and heads of international organizations.
An explosion occurred in a residential complex in Moscow on Monday, and according to preliminary data, among the casualties may be the founder of the Arbat special forces battalion, Armen Sarkisyan (also known as Armen Gorlovsky).
On February 2, 97 combat engagements were recorded at the front, 39 of them in the Pokrovsk sector.
Since the full-scale invasion, Russia has seen an estimated 841,660 casualties, including 1,300 killed or wounded in action in the past 24 hours.