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The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has ordered pre-trial detention until February 22 for the former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in Kharkiv region, Roman Dudin, who was re-arrested while attempting to leave detention on bail.
Sweden has increased its total contribution to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to EUR 203.08 million by transferring an additional EUR 63.8 million.
A Russian attack on seaports in Ukraine’s Odesa region damaged a ship flying the Slovak flag, Slovakia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine held the first meeting of a working group tasked with preparing legislative proposals on the specifics of conducting elections during a special period. Among other goals, the group plans to develop mechanisms to counter Russian interference in the electoral process.
Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Taras Kachka and Montenegro's Ambassador to Ukraine, Borjanka Simicevic, have signed amendments to the free trade agreement between the governments of Ukraine and Montenegro.
In Kharkiv, Russian glide bomb strikes have resulted in fatalities and injuries, with the exact number of casualties still being clarified.
The Ukrainian side has not received an official response from Russia to the 20-point draft peace plan aimed at ending the war.
In the Kupiansk sector, Russian forces are trying to compensate for their setbacks near the town but without success, while clearing operations against the enemy are ongoing inside Kupiansk itself.
Fighters of the Prymary (Ghosts) special unit of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) destroyed a Russian S-300V launcher and other high-value targets in temporarily occupied Crimea.
Ukraine’s allies will meet in January to finalize plans for post-ceasefire security guarantees, including the possible deployment of troops on the ground.
Compared to last week, Ukraine's electricity imports from Europe have almost doubled.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that a draft 20-point peace plan is 90% complete.
Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets overnight on December 26 following a new attack by Russian drones on Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region.
Lithuanian Airports (LTOU) estimate that in October and November, they incurred losses of around €200,000 due to smuggling balloons arriving from Belarus, which most significantly disrupted operations at Vilnius Airport.
US President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on Sunday, December 28.
In December, Russia recruited 150 foreign nationals from 25 countries to fight in the war against Ukraine. A further 200 foreigners are reportedly preparing to join the Russian army.
The situation in Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region, remains difficult: dozens of combat engagements are recorded in the city every day, while Russian forces are attempting to cut logistical routes and take control of the settlement.
As of the end of December, more than 29,000 generators and 570 MW of distributed gas generation have been installed at municipal enterprises across Ukraine.
Russian troops launched a missile strike on Uman in the Cherkasy region, injuring six people, including two children.
On Friday, December 26, Russian troops attacked the Zaporizhzhia district with aircraft. As a result of the attack, one person was killed, and three were wounded.
On the morning of December 24, two explosions occurred in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky region of the Russian Federation, at the parking area of military unit No. 19288 — the 80th Vitebsk Red Banner Command Brigade.
Two powerful explosions occurred near the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol in the area of the Kacha Airfield on Friday night, December 26.
The counterintelligence unit of the Security Service of Ukraine has detained in Kyiv a perpetrator who, acting on orders from Russia’s Federal Security Service, attempted to assassinate an officer of the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
Consumers in five Ukrainian regions remained without electricity due to Russian attacks as of the morning of December 26, with emergency power outages being applied in some regions.
Russian occupation forces are attempting to expand the combat zone in the Kharkiv region, with the enemy sustaining significant losses in the area of Sotnytskyi Kozachok.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree appointing Yevhenii Ostrianskyi, First Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, to the personal composition of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief’s Staff.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops fired on border settlements in the Chernihiv region 47 times, with 93 explosions recorded.
Russian occupiers cannot advance from the village of Hrabovske further into the Sumy region. The enemy's forces currently number approximately 100 people.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 73 out of 99 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 25. A ballistic missile and 26 UCAVs were recorded as having been hit.