Russia launches New Year’s Eve in Kyiv, killing two
The progressive and overwhelming advance of Russia in safe parts of the Eastern region of Ukraine, Donetsk, controlled at 4,168 km2 (1,609 square miles) of deserted fields and peoples in 2024, equivalent to 0, 69% of the country.
It is the evaluation of the Institute for the Study of War, a group of images reflected with Washington funds, founded on satellite images and geolocated video sequences.
“Russian forces have seized four mid-sized settlements – Avdiivka, Selydove, Vuhledar, and Kurakhove – in all of 2024, the largest of which had a pre-war population of just over 31,000 people,” said the ISW.
Russian forces spent four months taking Avdiivka, and two months each for Selydove and Kurakhove.
“Seizing these settlements has not allowed Russian forces to threaten any notable Ukrainian defensive nodes,” said the ISW, adding that Moscow’s troops failed to conduct the kind of rapid, mechanised manoeuvre necessary to convert these “tactical gains into deep penetrations of Ukraine’s rear”.
At this rate, Russia would need two more years to complete its conquest of Donetsk alone, the ISW assessed – something Russian President Vladimir Putin had ordered his commanders to do by October 1.
Russia’s sacrifices to achieve these advances have been immense, as Ukrainian forces used their defender’s advantage to inflict high casualties, especially in urban settings where they fought building-to-building, street-to-street.
The Ukrainian commander in Chief Oleksandr Syrskii said on Monday that the Russian forces had suffered an estimate of 427,000 injured and killed in 2024. A few days later, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine put Russia’s losses last year at 430,790 infantry, those of 36 Russian Russian rhusous divisions – exceeding their losses in 2022 and 2023 combined.
These losses amounted to an average of 1,180 a day, but casualty figures rose substantially towards the end of the year, as Russian forces increased their assaults in an apparent effort to influence the US election.
The highest losses per month, according to the Ministry of Defense, occurred in November and December to 45,720 and 48,670 respectively, while Russia intensified their attacks against Donetsk.
“This year, the Russians paid the highest price for the war against Ukraine, as our army and all of our defence and security forces of Ukraine destroyed more enemy equipment and manpower than in any of the previous years of the war,” Syrksyi told his forces in an address on December 31.
Russia did manage to increase its daily land grab from 14 sq km (5.4 square miles) in October to 28 sq km in November but fell back to 18 sq km (11 square miles) a day in December. Apparently, its losses did not fall commensurately.
“During the past week, the invaders lost around 1,700 people killed and wounds,” said Syrksyi on Monday.
December also produced two records of imaginable Russian victims.
On December 29, Ukraine staff said the Russian forces had lost 2,010 people. They submitted to an imaginable record of all time of 2,200 daily victims in confrontations of struggle in general on December 19.
Ukraine also estimated that he had removed 3,689 Russian tanks, thousands of armored fighting cars and more than 13,000 artillery pieces. The Ukrainian army said that boats and 458 small crafts flow.
Russia has recruited North Korean fighters to relieve tension in its workforce, Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said a quarter of them had been annihilated.
“According to the initial data, the number of dead North Koreans and injured in the Kursk region already exceeds 3,000 people,” Zelenskyy said in his night speech on December 23.
He recently said that Russia killed North Koreans in danger of falling into the hands of Ukrainian forces.
“Everything is organized in a way that prevents us from capturing Koreans as prisoners: their own people execute them, there are such cases,” said Zelenskyy on a night of confrontation on December 27.
Ukrainian army intelligence Gur said more North Koreans were being Kursk to update casualties.
Putin turns out to have prioritized the opposite war over the economy’s personnel.
He signed a decree on Monday forcing all undocumented migrants to leave Russia until the end of April, but achieving them to the army to pass the general needs of legal status.
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service estimated that Russia suffered from a hard-working shortage of 1. 5 million people last year, as the hard-working force dwindled by one million. Still, Putin’s decree would suck foreign personnel out of the economy and put them on the front lines.
Putin identified the scarcity of “hundreds of thousands” at a final press convention of December 19, but attached that scarcity to war. Instead, he proposed to bring more migrant personnel from the countries of Central Asia.
It has been attributed to the need to “expand a network painting of Russian schools there, examine the Russian language, provide other people to paint here” and talked about the need to develop hard work productivity to higher technologies.
Ukraine and Russia have transitioned to war economies, Russia financed through the fossil fuel source of revenue, and Ukraine through its Western allies.
Both have sought to become as weapons-autonomous as possible.
In his New Year’s address, Zelenskyy said 30 percent of the weapons Ukraine used last year were domestically made.
“I was ashamed as a citizen that since the 90s, the State had not seen those people,” he said. that a million drones in a year ».
Ukraine has used aerial and naval drones of its own design to strike deep inside Russia and across the Black Sea.
The intelligence of the Ukraine army said Tuesday that he had used a Seadragon missile introduced from a Naval Magura drone opposed to reducing a Russian Mi8 helicopter.
“Today, for the first time, a downed helicopter fell into the water. In other words, the fact of the destruction of an air target over the Black Sea recorded,” Kirill Budanov, Ukraine’s intelligence chief, told a telethon.
Gur published photographs of the strike. Previously, Russian helicopters hit this war had controlled to succeed in an airfield, he said.
Russia has also invested in drones, though it is hampered by Western sanctions on imports of sensitive technology.
Its drone plant in Alabuga, 1,000km (620 miles) east of Moscow, produced 5,760 drones in the first nine months of last year, Ukrainian intelligence sources told CNN, double its 2023 output.
Ukraine said that the Air Force said in 2024 that he faced a risk of missiles and drones much greater opposite to the critical infrastructure than in 2023, in a component because Russia was also drones lure that still do not bring explosives and overcome aerial defenses.
“The enemy is to complicate the aerial scenario as much as possible, overload our aerial defenses and exhaust our defenders of heaven,” said the Air Force.
Throughout last year, Ukraine said it shot down 11,200 “attack” drones, of which 7,800 were Shaheds.
kyiv faced two hundred air attacks last year, said the municipality, which involved 1,300 drones, more than two hundred cruise missiles and 46 ballistic missiles.
Ukraine’s prosecutor general reported a civilian death overnight on New Year’s Eve, after a Russian drone crashed into a residential building in Kyiv. Another drone caused a fire at the National Bank of Ukraine.
The drones were part of a huge attack involving 111 Shahed kamikaze drones, Ukraine’s air force said, 63 of which it said it shot down.
Despite its greatest production of weapons, Ukraine has continued to depend largely on its allies.
U. S. President Joe Biden announced $2. 5 billion in military aid in Ukraine on Monday, some of it in immediate disposal capacity.
Biden said the package represented the rest of the $ 60 billion to help for 2024 and included “loads of thousands of artillery series, thousands of rockets and loads of armored vehicles” as air defense equipment.