Popovych said the enemy continues to bypass Pokrovsk, targeting weak points there due to insufficient infantry. He explained that the Russians are advancing toward Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in this way: “This raises questions about how far Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's borders are,

According to British intelligence, the army of the aggressor state russia has only been able to advance slightly into the territory controlled by Ukraine in

Aerial reconnaissance footage posted by the brigade on Facebook shows a couple of alleged Russian soldiers dressed in civilian clothes. The Kyiv Independent could not verify the images.

The Russians also seized the settlements of Novoivanovka, Leonidovo and Aleksandriya in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. In addition, the Russians have advanced in Dvorichna and near Zapadne in Kharkiv Oblast, as well as near Kurakhove and Yasenove in Donetsk Oblast.

DONETSK OBLAST, UKRAINE – DECEMBER 31 ... said Monday that some 38,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded fighting in Russia’s western Kursk region since August, with Kyiv now launching a fresh offensive in the border region.

Russia has sustained 38,000 casualties trying to push Ukrainian forces out of Kursk Oblast over the past five months, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Jan. 6.

A solitary Russian tank rolling toward Ukrainian lines in what one Ukrainian drone group called “a very unfortunate suicide” belies the perilous state of the Russian army as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its fourth year.

Ukraine aimed to challenge the self-imposed red lines set by the Biden administration and other Western leaders regarding its ability to strike back against Russia.

Donetsk region. Russian shelling killed one resident and wounded seven others in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk oblast, or region, on Jan. 11. Kherson region. A 56-year-old woman died at the hospital on Jan. 11, succumbing to injuries sustained in last week's Russian drone strike on a bus station in the southern city of Kherson.

With the prospect of peace negotiations more likely in 2025, Ukrainian and Russian forces are racing to capture as much territory as possible in different parts of the battlefield, one such region of interest on the Ukrainian side is the Kursk oblast,

The war in Ukraine continues to unfold on multiple levels. Over the weekend, the Ukrainian military went on the offensive inside Russia, while the Russian forces were hurling men and resources against an important point on the Ukrainian defensive line in the Donbas.