Intelligence officials at the UK’s Ministry of Defence say the pace of territorial gains being made by Moscow’s forces inside Ukraine has slowed in recent weeks.
“In January 2025, Russia’s territorial progress in Ukraine decreased speed while taking around 320 square feet, opposed to around 400 square feet in December 2024,” said the update.
“Russia has taken the stronghold of Velyka Novosilka, however, progress along most of the front line has been relatively minor. “
The officials added that North Korean ensembles fighting along Russian forces had been “temporarily withdrawn” from the front line, “likely to rest and prior to redeployment. “
“This is basically due to the great losses suffered attacks against Ukrainian positions,” they said.
These photographs show that the Ukrainian forces produced a shooting training with tank equipment, in an unleashed position in the country.
One of Donald Trump’s most frequently-aired grievances is the respective level of contributions to NATO by its various members.
The leader has deplored the fact that many countries pay less to the alliance than in Washington, although the most recent figures published through the NATO show in Germany have matched US funds.
However, in the context of Trump’s complaints, NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, said the defense expenses of the organization of the organization and Canada greater than 20% in 2024, compared to last year,
Many members are ahead of Trump’s message on board and already have a higher army expense, especially from the invasion of Ukraine in 2022 through Russia.
NATO said the 20% boost by the alliance’s non-US members took their total defence spending to more than $485bn (£390bn).
“I’m looking forward to hosting defence ministers at NATO next week where we’ll talk about investing more and better in defence,” Rutte said in response to a request to NATO for the latest spending figures.
“We have hung up the figures. They are increasing. In fact, spending in Europe and Canada increased by 20% in 2024, reporting overall investment in recent years from $640 billion to $700 billion dollars. “
The Russian forces have taken the city of Tretsk in eastern Ukraine, said Russia’s Ministry of Defense.
It was not imaginable to verify the report on the battlefield.
A main fight for the city began in June last year, with sour struggles since then.
Analysts recommend that it be strategic price as a logistics center.
Russia calls the city through its Soviet-era call of Dzerzhynsk and says the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine is now a component of Russia, a claim Kyiv rejects.
Russian forces also continue pushing toward Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub roughly 50km southwest of Toretsk, and towards Chasiv Yar to the north.
A series of maps show the current situation at various points on the Ukraine-Russia front lines.
See the cards below for the most recent battlefield advances in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, and Kursk.
Ukraine said that she idea that the paintings of the International Criminal Court regarding Russian war crimes will continue despite the sanctions imposed on the organization through Donald Trump.
Trump Legal Economic and Sancions aimed at other people who paint in CPI surveys in American citizens or American allies such as Israel.
The ICC is a permanent court that can prosecute war crimes, crimes opposed to humanity, genocide and crimes of aggression opposed to the territory of member states or through their nationals.
And the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Heorhii Tykhyi, said in kyiv information: “We are sure that the ICC will continue to carry out purposes in the case of Ukraine, pointing out in Russian war criminals specific to responsibility.
“We know that the United States and the ICC have a long history. “
Now we return to an assembly between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Moscow said this morning that there had been many erroneous reports about U. S. degrees to end the Ukraine War, and called for patience.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov questioned this morning on a report that Trump’s envoy for Russia and Ukraine Kellogg sought to organize a truce even before talks on a colony of peaceArray
“We have nothing to add yet,” he said.
“There is nothing really extensive in this account; we just want to be patient. “
Both Trump and Putin have said they are in person.
“Russia is open to negotiations. In any case, a settlement should come as a result of negotiations,” Peskov said.
As we reported earlier today, CNN in the past quoted Peskov as saying that there were no initial contacts between the two leaders on whether such an assembly was mandatory or where and how it could take place.
Russian troops have taken control of the village of Druzhba in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, Russia’s state news agency TASS is reporting, citing the defence ministry.
The report is independently verified, but we will provide updates as we receive them.
As we detail in our post 9. 29, the Ukrainian forces now now several settlements in the Kursk region of Russia, following unforeseen counteroffensives for beyond two days.
Kyiv has said it is in a position to open a humanitarian hall for civilians living in border spaces seized through its army to go back to Russian-controlled territory, if Moscow requests it.
“Apparently, the Russians don’t need such a humanitarian corridor, because we haven’t won a corresponding request from them,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, accusing Moscow of “indifference” to the fate of its own citizens.
More than the Russians, 1,500 civilians would continue to live in the western regions of Kursk, and there are reports that many wasted contacts with members of the relative circle on the other side of the front line.
IAEA chief Rafael Grossi is in Moscow today to hold talks with Alexei Likhachev, head of Russian nuclear corporation Rosatom.
The head of discussion subjects is the scenario existing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear force plant, which the Russian forces took in a while after the beginning of the war with Ukraine in 2022
Speaking after holding talks in Moscow, Grossi said the facility – the largest nuclear power plant in Europe – had faced an increasing number of attacks.
“The NPP number in Zaporizhzhya is increasing,” he said.
“We communicate about the report. We do not specify the precise figure, it increases. “
The state news firm of Russia, Tass, cited Grossi saying that it was not imaginable to discover what appearance was behind the attacks.
“Small plastic or wood fragments that remain through alleged drones and drones allow us to communicate about the origin of these fragments and those devices,” he said.
“However, I would like to guarantee that I am building the disorders of this order in the highest point of foreign discussions. “