15 January 2025 in Russo-Ukrainian war

• Russia massively attacked Ukraine with missiles, they mostly flew to the west of Ukraine
• In Lviv Oblast, there are rockets hitting critical infrastructure facilities
• The Russian Federation released more than 40 missiles and 70 energy drones, but the operation of the energy system was preserved
• Air defense of Ukraine destroyed 77 out of 117 air targets at night
• Poland has raised combat aircraft due to missile fire from Russia
• The European Union is preparing a ban on trade in Russian aluminum
• The Russians hit Antonivka in the Kherson region
• In Zhytomyr Oblast, houses built by Estonia for adoptive families of immigrants were opened
• The Air Force of South Korea, the United States, and Japan conducted joint exercises with aerial bomb launches
• Zelensky arrived in Warsaw for a meeting with Tusk
• The Russians hit Kramatorsk, eight were wounded, among them two children
• Media: Biden is under pressure from Europe to freeze Russian assets in a separate special account
• The Czech Republic handed over the wheeled self-propelled artillery installation DITA to the Ukrainian border guards
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania does not exclude the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine
• The Lukoil refinery was on fire in Volgograd, Russia
• Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: The ban on direct negotiations with Putin for Ukraine remains in force
• In unrecognized Transnistria, it was announced that Russia would provide gas as humanitarian aid
• Armed Forces: Ukrainian drones and artillery destroy up to 90% of Russian equipment in the Lyman direction
• 25 Ukrainians were returned from captivity, including defenders of "Azovstal" and the first seriously ill
• Tusk said that the Russian Federation was preparing air terror against Poland and airlines all over the world
• A Russian drone hit a man in Kupyansk, he was hospitalized in serious condition
• Armenia summoned the ambassador of the Russian Federation due to anti-Armenian rhetoric in the program of propagandist Kiselyov
• The Chinese displaced KamAZ from the first place in the Russian truck market
• Media: The EU is planning new sanctions against the Russian Federation, avoiding the vetoes of Hungary and Slovakia
• In Latvia, a former Soviet officer was imprisoned for 8 years for spying for the Russian Federation
• The President of Poland insists that Ukraine should be invited to NATO now
• Bloomberg: The Kremlin will demand from Trump that Ukraine never joins NATO
• Reuters: Trump's advisers admit that a peace deal on Ukraine will take months
• Azov captured 23 Russians in the Toretsk direction
• The Armenian government says that Russia remains a strategic ally
• Biden officially announced the agreement between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire and the release of hostages
• NYT: A mine was blown up near Pokrovsk to prevent the Russians from secretly passing through it
• In the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, an attack by drones on an oil depot was reported in the evening
• The Russians tried to storm the Pokrovsky direction 41 times
• The Russians occupied Neskuchne, the ring around Velika Novosilka is shrinking
• In his farewell speech, Biden mentioned Ukraine
• Media: Britain and France discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
• Armed Forces: 124 clashes took place at the front during the day, more than 50 in the Pokrovsky direction
• The Armed Forces neutralized 1,480 invaders and 40 artillery systems during the day