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Sunday, 28 December 2025, 00:27
Since the beginning of the day, 100 combat engagements have been recorded on the front, with fighting ongoing across seven sectors. The enemy continues to exert pressure on the Pokrovsk sector.
Europe will become stronger if it consistently pursues defense-strengthening goals within NATO.
Norway is consolidating the training of Ukrainian servicemen on Polish territory, closer to the Ukrainian border, at the largest training camp, Jomsborg.
Norway is learning the lessons of the war in Ukraine at both the tactical and strategic levels.
Viktor Tregubov, Head of the Communications Department of the Joint Forces Task Force, explained how Russian occupiers abducted civilians in the Sumy region: people were gathered in a church and later taken to the territory of Russia.
Russia has not abandoned its ambitions of military aggression against Ukraine and will continue to pursue them in full, using various methods.
On the night of December 22, unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine struck the Tamanneftegaz Marine Oil Terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that by the end of the year Ukraine will adopt several more sanctions decisions against Russian entities as well as individuals who facilitate Russia's aggression. The sanctions lists will include not only Russian citizens but also nationals of other countries, including China.
When Norway realized it couldn’t provide certain types of weapons to Ukraine on its own, it turned to the United States, which in turn adapted the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) packages accordingly.
Since the beginning of 2025, the European Union has provided Ukraine with EUR 28.7 billion in financial support, bringing total EU assistance since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion to EUR 70.7 billion.
In January 2026, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe is expected to adopt a decision on the Enlarged Partial Agreement on the Management Committee of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. After this decision is adopted, the Advance Team will begin work on defining the parameters of this new institution.
The process of establishing compensation and legal mechanisms for Ukraine is proceeding on schedule, and the circle of states participating in the Convention Establishing the International Claims Commission for Ukraine will continue to expand.
Ukraine has received the sixth tranche of EUR 2.3 billion from the European Union under the Ukraine Facility financial instrument.
A working group is being formed in the Verkhovna Rada to promptly examine the issue of potentially holding presidential elections in Ukraine under martial law.
Russian troops struck the Donetsk region 1,627 times over the past 24 hours, damaging five civilian objects.
On Monday, December 22, the Council of the EU extended the economic restrictive measures against Russia over its war against Ukraine for a further six months, until July 31, 2026.
A series of explosions has been reported in two districts of temporarily occupied Mariupol.
Following Andriy Yermak's dismissal from the post of Head of the Office of the President, his aides and advisers were also dismissed. However, Serhii Leshchenko, Mykhailo Podolyak, and Oleksandr Bevz were transferred to other positions within the Office of the President.
Russian troops attacked the Sumy community with multiple launch rocket systems, damaging residential buildings and power lines.
Russia has adapted the Molniia strike drone for aerial reconnaissance.
On the night of December 22, the Russian army attacked the port and energy infrastructure of Odesa region, setting fire to containers with flour and oil.
In Odesa and the Odesa region, a massive Russian attack sparked fires at energy infrastructure facilities and damaged warehouse buildings storing fertilizers and agricultural machinery.
Russian troops carried out more than 80 strikes on 20 settlements in nine territorial communities of the Sumy region between the morning of December 21 and the morning of December 22.
On the night of December 20-21, two Su-30 and Su-27 fighter jets burned at a Russian military airfield near Lypetsk.
Air defense forces destroyed 58 drones used by Russian troops to attack Ukraine since last night, with enemy strikes recorded at 12 locations.
Over the past day, the Russian army launched rocket salvo attacks on two settlements in the Kharkiv region.
On December 21, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 223 combat engagements with Russian invaders along the frontline.
Over the past day, Russian forces used drones, artillery, and aircraft to strike 31 settlements across Kherson region, killing one person and injuring three others.
Total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022 to December 22, 2025 have reached approximately 1,197,860 personnel, including 1,120 eliminated over the past day.