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Thursday, 18 December 2025, 23:22
Russian troops attacked the district center and four communities in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region during the day, injuring a woman and a man and causing damage.
Today, SSU Sea Baby marine drones struck the Dashan oil tanker, which belongs to the Russian Federation's “shadow fleet,” in the Black Sea.
Ukraine still lacks a single body responsible for policy on temporarily occupied territories and the protection of internally displaced persons' rights, which leads to large-scale systemic problems.
Ukraine's ambassador to the Netherlands, Andriy Kostin, said that Russia had carried out the largest-scale abduction of children in Europe since World War II.
On December 10, several explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied Crimea near the Hvardiyske airfield. Maritime passenger transport has been suspended in Sevastopol.
The Kyiv Court of Appeal has upheld the preventive measure of 24-hour house arrest for former Odessa mayor Gennadiy Trukhanov in a case concerning official negligence.
Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky has claimed that an attempted assassination of Tymur Mindich, a suspect in a National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) case, was carried out in Israel but failed.
Shell Plc is planning to dissolve a partnership with Russia's Rosneft PJSC through which the two oil giants jointly own a stake in a pipeline from Kazakhstan.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that this week could bring news that advances efforts to end the bloodshed. He noted that a call with U.S. officials on a document detailing Ukraine's reconstruction process is scheduled for today, while a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing is planned for tomorrow.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, police detained a man who, while intoxicated, inflicted a stab wound on a local resident. The detainee has been served a notice of suspicion.
Russian troops shelled one of the hospitals in Kherson's Dniprovskyi district today after 14:00. One person is reported to be injured.
A new meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, aimed at advancing security guarantees for Ukraine, will take place on Thursday, December 11, via video link.
Most of the children Ukraine manages to return from Russia are teenagers who can defend their Ukrainian identity, while bringing back very young children is extremely difficult.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has congratulated Guy Parmelin on being elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2026.
Over the past 30 years, the depth of seasonal thawing of the upper permafrost layer in Russia has increased from 45 to 70 cm, placing 1,260 km of major gas pipelines and thousands of kilometers of roads in the danger zone.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence and the National Police have prevented a terrorist attack in Zhytomyr that a 16-year-old schoolgirl had been preparing on instructions from Russia.
The categories of violations of servicemembers' rights in 2025 have in fact not changed compared to 2022, and the biggest problems concern mobilization, length of service, reports (requests), and corruption in Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers (TRCs).
Operators of Vampire UAVs and FPV drone units of the Steel Border brigade destroyed 11 shelters used by Russian invaders in the Kursk sector.
Ukraine's National Police opened an internal investigation into a fatal road accident in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, in which a child was killed. The officers involved have been suspended from duty.
In Kherson, as a result of overnight Russian artillery shelling, the building of the regional history museum was damaged again.
Ukraine, within the framework of the peace process and the humanitarian track, insists on the return of all its citizens, prisoners of war, civilian hostages, and deported children, based on the all-for-all principle.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heard a report from the head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleh Ivashchenko, on the foreign policy situation surrounding Ukraine and on developments inside Russia.
Ambassadors of the European Union’s Member States, at today’s COREPER I meeting in Brussels, approved the agreement on the text of the RePowerEU Regulation, which provides for a gradual phase-out of purchases of Russian gas.
As of now, 1,902 children have been returned to Ukraine.
On Wednesday and Thursday, European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos is in Ukraine to discuss the country's accession to the European Union with member states at an informal meeting of EU ministers to be held in Lviv on December 11.
Detectives from the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine conducted searches of officials from the State Tax Service.
Russia is urgently stepping up its activities in Moldova's Transnistria region in order to divert Ukraine's resources away from the growing threat posed by this Russian enclave.
The Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv changed the preventive measure from arrest without bail to round-the-clock house arrest for Viktor Husarov, a detective of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
Warsaw may transfer the rest of its MiG-29s to Kyiv in January-February next year. They will strengthen Ukraine's air defense, in particular, they will enable Ukraine to shoot down Russian missiles and attack Russian missile carriers and guided missiles.