President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff to discuss the formation of new corps in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. — Ukrinform.

Russian gains in Ukraine have been slowed by personnel shortages, suggesting Moscow may not be able to sustain the war.

The attack damaged an educational institution, an apartment building, and several administrative offices in the city. No casualties were reported, according to the administration. The administration also stated that Ukrainian air defense shot down seven Russian drones over Sumy Oblast during the night.

The Russian military hit a convoy of military trucks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Sumy region. This was announced by the coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance Sergey Lebedev, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Sumy region, the police’s explosives experts destroyed an unexploded part of a Kh-59 missile found in the Sumy district. — Ukrinform.

Ukrainian air defences downed 57 out of 104 drones launched by Russia overnight, the air force said on Monday, with officials saying infrastructure was hit in several regions.

Russian drone attacks damaged infrastructure sites in western, central and eastern Ukraine on Monday. Ukraine’s air force said it shot down 57 of the 108 total drones that Russian forces launched overnight.

The first month of 2025 has been challenging for Ukraine's Defense Forces. The Russian forces are expanding their control over the south of the Donetsk region, particularly over the areas of Velyka Novosilka and Pokrovsk,

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine maintains a "buffer zone" in Kursk region to protect Sumy and Kharkiv from the attacks of Russian troops.

Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, and Ivano-Frankivsk. Additionally, 39 Russian decoy drones were lost on radar without causing any negative effects.