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Saturday, 14 February 2026, 15:43
The US Treasury is preparing a new package of sanctions targeting Russia's energy sector to increase pressure on Moscow if Russian leader Vladimir Putin rejects a peace agreement with Ukraine.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 17, 2025 amount to approximately 1,192,350 personnel, including 1,730 in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces attacked civilian facilities in the Odesa region using strike drones, damaging a transport infrastructure facility.
Russian forces attacked rescuers responding to a fire call in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, using an FPV drone.
Hungary is blocking the European Union's annual document proposing the enlargement process due to Budapest's rejection of negotiations on Ukraine's accession to the EU.
In Kherson, Russian forces continue to attack heat generation facilities.
Over the past day, December 16, Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region.
In Russia's Krasnodar Krai, a drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk-na-Kubani, and left 38,800 subscribers without power.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 37 of 69 Russian drones.
In the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region, two residential buildings were damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack.
In the Kharkiv region, four settlements came under Russian attacks over the past day, leaving four people injured.
On December 16, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 278 combat clashes with Russian troops on the frontline.
Over the past day, Russian forces attacked 26 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, injuring six people.
Overnight, Russian forces once again struck Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting two districts.
Over the past day, eight people were injured in Kherson region as a result of Russian attacks.
U.S. Senators have drafted a bipartisan bill imposing sanctions on the purchase or facilitation of Russian oil and petroleum products.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the National Police of Ukraine have uncovered more than 490 cases of human trafficking.
Vinnytsia community, together with the Interregional Coordination Humanitarian Headquarters, has handed over 400 FPV drones and a vehicle to Ukrainian defenders.
Fighters from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have destroyed four more pieces of enemy equipment and weaponry in the Toretsk sector.
The United States, together with its allies, has prepared a plan of security guarantees for Ukraine that envisions a significant strengthening of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the deployment of European troops in the country, and increased use of American intelligence.
As a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion, 245 artists and 119 media workers, including foreigners, have been killed in Ukraine.
The 3,000 km across Ukraine program has already been activated by 300,000 Ukrainians in the Ukrzaliznytsia app, with more than 24,100 tickets issued since the program’s launch.
Russia is preparing a complete blockade of YouTube, which would mark the next stage of the systematic digital isolation of the Russian population.
The increase in LPG prices in December was driven by delays in fuel supplies and falling temperatures.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has instructed Ukrainian consuls to promptly clarify the circumstances of an attack on Ukrainian citizens in Poznan.
From September to November, police officers from the White Angel special unit evacuated more than 700 people from the Kramatorsk district of Donetsk region due to Russian attacks.
16 December 2025
The Russian army attacked Zaporizhzhia with a drone for the second time in one day.
In the Odesa region, electricity supply has been restored to more than 220,000 additional households whose homes were left without power as a result of a Russian attack.
Soldiers with the motor rifle battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed a group of Russian invaders attempting to infiltrate Siversk in the Donetsk region.