I'm Dom Nichols and this is Ukraine the latest. Today we look at some of the ways the war is likely to develop in 2025

and report on Russia's decision to ban cryptocurrency mining to protect its energy grid and charge nightclub attendees

for trying to arouse interest in non-traditional sexual relations.

How potentious will 2025, the year of the snake in the Chinese calendar, denoting a period of upheaval,

be for Russia?

Bravery takes you through the most unimaginable hardships to finally reward you with victory.

The first duty of my government is security and defense

to make clear our unshakable support of NATO

and with our allies towards Ukraine.

Keith stands strong.

Nobody's going to break us.

We're strong.

We're Ukrainians.

It's Thursday, the 2nd of January, 2025.

Two years and 319 days since the full-scale invasion began.

And today, I'm joined by the executive editor for audio, Francis Dernley.

I last spoke to you folks on Monday. It was the last live of 2024. A bit of a sort of look back then.

So Francis and I today, we're going to do, as well as the news and what, have you going to do a brief look forward any main sort of muscle moves that we expect in 2025.

But I'll start with the news.

So the head of Ukraine's armed forces, General Alexander Sersky, he says that Russian forces have suffered 427,000 casualties in 2024.

He was actually speaking on Monday just after we were on air. An analysis by the Institute for the Study of War says that that number mostly consists, the area that Russia took in 2024,

mostly consists of fields and small settlements in Ukraine and a little bit of Russia,

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