Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia: at least thirteen more killed and dozens injured
The Ukrainian forces have introduced a new wonderful offensive in Russia, expanding their prominent in Kursk to the north and the east, since kyiv’s counterinasion effectively ended its five -month stretch this week.
The geolocalized photographs have shown that the Ukrainian forces were moving from their base in Sudzha to Berdin, capturing the fields and entering the regulations on Sunday.
The Ukrainian forces captured the Russkoye Porechnoye and Novosotnitsky colonies on Monday. The 3 colonies are on the main road between Sudzha and the regional capital, Kursk.
Russian army bloggers said the Ukrainian forces celebrated the colonies of Martynovka, Checkasskoye Porechnoye and Mikhaylovka.
The Ukrainian forces would have complex attacks in 3 waves of the length of a company supported by armored vehicles, Russian bloggers said.
One of the reasons for your good fortune to be the effective use of electronic war.
“Our drones still cannot do anything, Etny EW (electronic war) has literally nailed them to the ground,” wrote a journalist.
The Ukrainian forces have also used the rocket systems of the Mobility Army (MMIM) to block Russian reinforcements.
“As in August, the enemy is actively covering his offensive movements with Himars strikes,” wrote a Russian journalist. “You are looking to suppress our reserves, gunners and drones. “
Explosions have been reported at a technical aviation base in Kursk itself, about 70 km (40 miles) from Ukrainian areas. The Kursk army’s headquarters of operations has killed more than one Ukrainian missile, suggesting that others have succeeded.
“The reports according to which the Ukrainian forces use long -rank fires to ban Russian rear spaces and the EW to degrade the Russian drones of the Ukrainian mechanized advances imply that the Ukrainian forces that operate in Kursk use more effective combined weapons tactics “The Institute for the Study of War wrote, a group of images reflected based on Washington.
In addition to the missiles, Ukraine has used drones of long range of its own structure to attack Russian power assets. A Ukrainian drone hit a terminal for the transford of fuel condensate in the port of UST-Luga, near Leningrad on Saturday, causing large fires.
Ukrainian officials have indexed a number of reasons for the counter-invasion, adding the profession of tens of thousands of Russian infantrymen who in a different way would attack Ukrainian soil.
“The Russians have deployed their strong sets in the Kursk region. North Korea infantry soldiers are involved. What the occupant cannot recently redirect all this force towards other directions, in the specific regions of Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv or Zaporizhia, “said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a speech at night.
“Since the beginning of Kursk’s operation, the enemy has already lost more than 38,000 infantry soldiers in this area, adding about 15,000 irreparable losses,” he said.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published a list of Russian equipment destroyed in Kursk, including 104 tanks, 575 armoured combat vehicles, more than 1,000 other vehicles and 330 artillery systems.
Ukraine also said it captured 860 Russians in Kursk, using them to exchange for its own POWs.
Russia has been updating to the soldiers, but its ability to update the device is less safe.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine estimated that in 2024, its forces had destroyed 3,689 Russian tanks, 8,956 armored fighting cars and more than 13,000 artillery pieces. The Ukrainian army said that boats and 458 small crafts flow.
Russia got rid of the Soviet garage with garage and renewed it for the fight. How long can continue doing it is not clear.
A Russian device instructor estimated that Russia had about 48% of its tanks, and a similar percentage of its armored fighting vehicles, but satellite photography reported that a higher proportion of them in such bad conditions that were unused.
The International Institute of Strategic Studies of London estimated a year ago that Russia had two to 3 years of armor.
Continued Russian assaults on Ukrainian positions during the past week also raised questions about Russian armour.
Russian forces have concentrated much of their manpower and firepower on the dual settlements of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad in Donetsk, striking 26 times along a 45-kilometer (30-mile) front from the south on Friday.
“Fierce battles continue along the entire line of the front, with the place near Pokrovsk,” Zelenskyy said in his Saturday night speech.
On Tuesday, fighting engagements were in this area, out of 176 on the total front.
At the closest point, Russian forces were manning posts 1. 5 km (1 mile) from Pokrovsk, where 7,300 civilians are believed to still be living and working.
“The intensity of the fight has changed, it is bigger. Now, in front of us, there is a separate motorized rifle brigade and a motorized rifle regiment of the Russian Federation, “said Okishev’s 25th fight in the Pokrovsk region to such Athon.
However, he pointed out that Russian troops were using fewer armoured vehicles and more buggies, golf carts and civilian vehicles. It was unclear if this was due to a dearth of armour in the Russian arsenal or for manoeuvrability.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian forces in Kurakhove also said on Friday that “the Russians have changed to attacks exclusively through the infantry in recent weeks, and if armored cars are used, only for fireplace and in the aggressions themselves do not participate” .
“The Russians maintain their own armored cars as much as imaginable because they are very afraid of our anti -tank missile systems,” he said.
Ukraine has invested a lot in its own defense industry during the year, especially in unmanned types of types, where avant -garde tactics are emerging.
Ukraine’s military intelligence on Monday told Ukrainian news outlet TSN that its Magura V sea drone shot down not one but two Russian Mi8 helicopters over the Black Sea on December 31.
The attack took its position near Cape Tarkhankut, 15 km (10 miles) from Sebastopol.
Unit 13 of military intelligence, responsible for operating the Magura surface drone, laid a trap for Russian aviation, which is engaged to spot and destroy naval drones once they’re sighted. “In this particular operation, we did not have the task, as usual, of hiding from aviation. We went specifically to hunt for air targets,” said an unidentified source.
Commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskii said the armed forces were “increasing the number of brigades with a reinforced unmanned component” and creating a separate brigade for unmanned systems.
“In general, in December, the operators of the Ukraine Defense Forces reached more than 54,000 enemy objectives. Almost part of this result, 49%, through a suicide bomber, “he wrote on social networks.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyal on Friday announced that Ukraine planned to build about 3,000 cruise missiles and drone missiles this year, and at least 30,000 long-range drones.
“From the” Victory Weapons “project, we will launch long -term contracts with brands for 3 to five years. We will pay icular attention to the long range component and the missile program,” said Shmyal.
The drone and missile programmes were part of a plan to increase Ukraine’s defence industrial capacity to about $30bn, from an estimated $7bn in 2024.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to end the war this year, expanding the possibility of freezing the clash along existing battle lines.
When he was asked if he was in a position to welcome a multinational force of European peacekeepers in Ukraine, Zelenskyy praised France for having higher the perspective, yet specified that this be component of an agreement bringing the ‘Ukraine at NATO.
“In fact, he is on his way to NATO. This does not mean that the deployment of European forces excludes a long career in NATO,” Zelenskyy said. I saw that Trump is positive about this idea. “