British intelligence analyzes losses of Russian military equipment in Ukraine
Since February 2022, Russia has lost more than 3,600 main battle tanks. Losses of Russian military equipment in Ukraine continue to increase.
18 December 2024
Since February 2022, Russia has lost more than 3,600 main battle tanks. Losses of Russian military equipment in Ukraine continue to increase.
Ukrainian border guards successfully destroyed a small Russian vessel on the southern front using an FPV drone.
17 December 2024
The United States currently has no confirmation of the transfer of new North Korean units to Russia, adding that this possibility cannot be ruled out.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces are conducting combat operations along the frontline that stretches 1,170 kilometers. The situation is most challenging in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove sectors, and the Russian army is also intensifying its offensive in the Kursk region.
The Russian army shelled the village of Bilozerka in the Kherson region with artillery, killing one woman and injuring another one.
Since the beginning of the day, a total of 88 combat clashes have occurred on the frontline, with the heaviest fighting concentrated in the Pokrovsk, Siversk, and Kurakhove directions.
Members of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) announced during a summit in Tallinn that their combined military assistance to Ukraine in 2025 would exceed EUR 12 billion.
North Korean troops are setting up additional observation posts in response to fears of Ukrainian strike drones.
The situation on the Kharkiv front remains difficult, yet controlled by Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has neutralized a large network of agents who were tracking the fire positions of Ukrainian air defense systems and the locations of military airfields across five regions.
Ukraine's Defense Forces currently operate 1,500 mobile air defense fire teams, but this number remains insufficient to address the challenges posed by Russian drone attacks.
Over the past day, Russian troops conducted 31 assaults in the southern sector, including 22 in the Vremivka sector, where the enemy wants to capture Velyka Novosilka.
In the southern operational zone, Ukraine’s defenders are observing the increasing number of nighttime assault attempts as the invaders have received a batch of thermal imaging sights, night vision devices, thermal imagers, and other special equipment.
In the Prydniprovskyi sector, Russian occupation forces are actively storming Kozatskyi and Velykyi Potomkin (lt. Big Potemkin) Islands.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine says Russia will try to launch another missile strike as soon as they are ready, which is why the agreements on the supply of air defense systems, including those reached at the NATO summit in Washington, have to be executed in full.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, Russia’s FSB Federal Security Service detained a resident of Yalta for allegedly "transferring" to the Ukrainian government data on military equipment deployed on the peninsula. This was reported by "Crimea Realii" with reference to Russian media, Ukrinform reports.
Since the late hours of Monday, Russia has launched 31 one-way attack drones of the Shahed and other types from Bryansk and Orel regions.
In the area of responsibility of the Khortytsia operational and strategic group of troops, 165 clashes with the enemy took place over the past day and 22 since the beginning of the day.
Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) fighters have killed 50 North Korean soldiers and wounded 47 more in Russia's Kursk region over the past three days.
Debris from downed Russian drones fell across the Solomianskyi, Pecherskyi, Holosiivskyi and Dniprovskyi districts of Kyiv during a morning attack.
The explosion that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the chief of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of the Russian Armed Forces, was a special operation carried out by Ukraine's SBU State Security Service.
Russian forces attacked a civilian car with a drone in the suburbs of Kherson on Tuesday morning, injuring two people.
Russian forces shelled a medical facility in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, in the early hours of Tuesday, December 17.
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has allocated an additional UAH 1.89 billion to combat brigades for the procurement of drones.
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection troops of the Russian Armed Forces, has been killed along with his assistant in an explosion on Ryazansky Prospekt in Moscow.
In the past 24 hours, there were 245 combat engagements between the Ukrainian forces and the Russian invaders along the frontline, with the most intense fighting occurring in the Pokrovsk sector.
In the past 24 hours, the Russian forces attacked 30 settlements in Kherson region, which resulted in the death of one person and injuries to five others.
The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to December 17, 2024, amount to approximately 765,110 personnel, including 1,600 in the past 24 hours.
In 2024 alone, Russia has carried out 12 large-scale attacks directly on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, launching around 1,100 cruise and ballistic missiles at its facilities.
North Korean forces are reportedly facing expected struggles with high casualties and poor communication with Russian forces in the Kursk region, likely disrupting coordination between North Korean and Russian personnel and undermining Russian military operations.