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Thursday, 25 December 2025, 06:23
Oily stains caused by sunflower oil spills due to enemy attacks on port infrastructure, as well as dead birds, have been spotted in the Black Sea waters within the Odesa region.
International partners contributed an additional EUR 245 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund in December.
The security situation near the Sumy region border remains unpredictable, potentially complicating the evacuation of civilians.
The case of a former head of one of the Logistics Forces directorates of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, exposed for illegal enrichment of more than UAH 17 million, has been referred to court.
Based on the evidence gathered by counterintelligence officers and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a Belarusian KGB agent who spied along Ukraine's northern borders was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
In Cherkasy, the Alley of Heroes and the city cemetery were damaged as a result of a Russian missile attack on Wednesday, December 24.
24 December 2025
The UN was created primarily to maintain international peace and security and to find real ways to stop aggression, not just to condemn it verbally, according to Ukraine's Permanent Representative Andriy Melnyk.
Russian troops have been attacking critical infrastructure facilities that provide Kharkiv residents with heat, hot and cold water supply all day long.
Operators of Vampire UAVs and FPV drones from the Steel Border border guard brigade neutralized Russian assault troops in the Kursk direction.
Andrii Melnyk, Ukraine's permanent representative to the UN, stresses that the UN Security Council should move from declarations to concrete decisions and put to a vote a resolution on an unconditional ceasefire in Russia's war against Ukraine.
In the Sumy community, a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were injured as a result of an attack by Russian drones.
If presidential election was held in the near future and President Volodymyr Zelensky ran, 30.6% of Ukrainians said they would vote for him. Former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, comes in second with 29.6% support.
Russian forces hit the town of Trostianets in the Sumy region with a missile, causing damage.
President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his gratitude to Pope Leo XIV for his efforts to establish a Christmas ceasefire during Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.
Ukraine’s air defense forces destroyed a Russian missile in the skies over Cherkasy region, with the blast wave damaging an educational institution, a garage complex, and a local cemetery.
Pivdennyi Port has reopened for vessel entry and departure. Operations in the port’s waters are being carried out in compliance with necessary safety measures and restrictions.
As a result of strikes on energy infrastructure, the capacity of one of Kharkiv’s heat supply facilities has been significantly reduced, and some districts of the city are also without hot water.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has greeted Ukrainians on Christmas Eve, saying that Ukraine is marking Christmas in a difficult time. Yet despite all the suffering brought by Russia, it is not capable of occupying what matters most – Ukraine’s unity.
In Chernihiv, an apartment building was damaged on Wednesday, December 24, as a result of a Russian drone crash.
In Kenya, a criminal network was uncovered that, under the guise of "high-paying jobs" in Russia, recruited people to take part in the war against Ukraine.
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.