01 January 2025 - Ukraine Special Weapons News

Russian drone attack kills 2 in Kyiv VOA 01 Jan 2025 -- Russia launched a New Year's Day drone attack on Ukraine's capital early Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring at least six others, and damaging buildings in two districts, authorities said.
Russia Targets Ukraine With Scores Of Drones; Kyiv Says 63 Downed RFE/RL 01 Jan 2025 -- Russia targeted Ukraine with scores of drones overnight, and Ukrainian officials claimed most were downed or jammed by air defenses. At least one person was killed in Kyiv.

Staggering Toll: Ukraine Lost Nearly 600,000 Troops in 2024 Sputnik 01 Jan 2025 -- Ukrainian forces have lost around 593,410 troops over 2024, according to Sputnik calculations of the Russian Defense Ministry's data.

End Of Russian Gas Transit A Defeat For Moscow, Zelenskiy Says RFE/RL 01 Jan 2025 -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on January 1 that the end of natural gas supplies to Europe via a major pipeline traversing Ukraine is a major defeat for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian Defence Ministry reports on repelling AFU attempt to invade Russian territory in Kursk region (1 January 2025) Russia MoD 01 Jan 2025
Russian Forces Strike Key Ukrainian Military and Industrial Facilities Sputnik 01 Jan 2025 -- Russian forces targeted several key facilities in Ukraine over the past 24 hours, including an energy infrastructure site supporting the defense industry, military airfields and a site for assembling unmanned boats, the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported.

Russia Halts Gas Flow Through Ukraine as Deal Expires - Gazprom Sputnik 01 Jan 2025 -- Russia's Gazprom has no technical and legal ability to supply gas for transit through Ukraine due to the expiration of the agreement with Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz, the Russian energy giant said on Wednesday, adding that the gas supply stopped at 8 a. m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT).
Russian gas supplies through Ukraine end VOA 01 Jan 2025 -- Russian gas exports crossing through Ukraine were halted Wednesday with the expiration of a transit agreement.

Human rights plummet in Ukraine, Russian-occupied territories VOA 01 Jan 2025 -- U.N. human rights monitors find that almost three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the human rights situation in the country and areas occupied by Russia is on a downward spiral, as military operations intensify, civilian casualties rise, and torture, summary executions and other gross violations proliferate.

After A Plane Crash, Putin's Partial Apology Speaks Volumes RFE/RL 01 Jan 2025 -- When Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart over the crash of a passenger jet that was damaged in the sky above Chechnya, it was an extremely rare if not unprecedented occurrence in his 25 years in power.

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