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Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 18:04
The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has released footage of a combat operation carried out in November by its Black Winter Group unit on the Pokrovsk front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a link has been observed between Chinese satellites imaging Ukrainian territory and Russian strikes on energy infrastructure facilities.
Between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, 52 combat encounters have occurred since the start of the day. Fighting continues on six front-line directions, with the enemy concentrating most of its efforts on Pokrovsk.
In the island zone of the Kherson region, Russian occupiers continue to lay mines in channels and set up firing positions on certain islands. At the same time, the Defense Forces destroy 2–3 enemy boats every day.
Russian forces have entrenched themselves in the southern part of the border settlement of Hrabovske in the Sumy region, but made no further advance.
In Chernihiv and the Chernihiv district, power outages affected tens of thousands of homes as a result of a Russian strike on energy infrastructure.
Soldiers of the 16th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated small Russian assault groups that had infiltrated the village of Vilcha in the Vovchansk urban community of Kharkiv region.
Russians attacked multiple communities in the Zaporizhzhia region with drones. As a result of one of the attacks, a man was killed, and another drone struck a minibus.
Two North Korean prisoners of war captured by the Defense Forces in Russia's Kursk region wrote a letter expressing their wish to leave North Korea and relocate to South Korea.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the positions of Russian drone operators in Siversk and Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
The defense forces struck the facilities of the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in the Tula region of the Russian Federation, which specializes in the production of components for plastic explosives and solid rocket fuel, as well as storage and maintenance facilities for unmanned boats in the Myrnyi area of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the south, Russian troops continue active assault operations in the Huliaipole and Oleksandrivka directions and are simultaneously preparing for combat in winter conditions, receiving white camouflage uniforms for assault operations.
On the morning of December 24, a strike drone hit a gas station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
On the night of December 24, two Russian Interior Ministry officers who had participated in the war against Ukraine and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed on Yeletskaya Street in Moscow.
One person was killed and 11 wounded as a result of a strike on a thermal power plant in the Kharkiv region.
Throughout 2025, Russians carried out 24 massive combined attacks on Naftogaz Group facilities.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine estimates its total losses from the war with Russia at $800 billion and hopes to mobilize these funds through various post-war recovery funds.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the United States is proposing the joint operation of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) by Ukraine, the United States, and Russia, but no agreement has yet been reached on this issue.
As a result of fresh Russian attacks, power outages were reported as of the morning of December 24 in the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.
For the third consecutive day, Russian forces have been targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region.
For the second day in a row, Russia has deliberately targeted the oil and gas infrastructure of the Naftogaz Group.
If ratification of a peace agreement between Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and Europe, should it be signed, requires a nationwide referendum, Ukraine could hold the referendum at the same time as a presidential election. This could take place as early as 60 to 90 days after the agreement is signed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that the draft framework document between Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and Europe on ending the war provides Ukraine with security guarantees that would mirror NATO’s Article 5, yet with certain caveats.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that restoring the Kakhovka Dam, without which the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant cannot operate, will require EUR 2 billion.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed details of a 20-point draft framework document between Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and Europe aimed at ending the war.
The shelter over the destroyed reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was damaged in a Russian attack earlier this year and may not withstand a second strike.
Russian invading forces have once again attacked critical infrastructure in the city of Kherson, leaving the Dniprovskyi district without electricity as a result of the shelling.
The number of people injured as a result of the Russian overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to four.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 60 of 116 UAVs launched by Russian forces against Ukraine since the evening of December 23.