Traffic jams easing at Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint at Ukraine-Poland border
On December 16, about 1,500 freight trucks crossed the border at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint in both directions.
On December 16, about 1,500 freight trucks crossed the border at the Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoint in both directions.
No electricity shortage has been reported in the country's united power system as of December 17, while the authorities urge citizens to use consume efficiently.
The situation on the border with Belarus remains fully under control and no threat is being observed of a repeated Russian offensive from that direction.
Russian President Vladimir Putin complained about Finland's accession to NATO, suggesting this would cause “problems” in bilateral relations.
The Russian invasion forces are increasing pressure on Ukrainian personnel of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the facility held by the Russians since March 2022, forcing them to obtain Russian passports and sign contracts with Russia’s nuclear generation operator Rosatom.
The range of Shahed kamikaze drones available to Russia for the war effort against Ukraine currently remains unchanged as deliveries of drones from Iran are ongoing.
Minister for Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba of Ukraine thanked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for coming up with the offer to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to leave the hall during the vote on Ukraine’s accession talks, which allowed the decision to pass.
On the night of December 17, 2023, Russian invaders twice shelled the Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district.
The number of Russian assault actions has somewhat reduced in the Tavria direction over the past two days. However, the enemy continues launching active infantry attacks and artillery strikes.
Last night and on the morning of December 17, 2023, Russian invaders struck two border communities in the Sumy region with mortars.
On December 16, 2023, Russian troops launched 174 attacks on 21 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The work of the Ukrainian military in the left-bank Kherson region is challenging but progressing.
On December 16, 2023, Russian troops attacked the Kherson region 96 times, having fired 577 projectiles.
As of 08:00 a.m., December 17, 2023, one Russian warship was remaining on combat duty in the Black Sea and another one in the Sea of Azov. There were no Kalibr-type missile carriers among them.
Russian troops have killed one civilian and wounded three others in the Donetsk region in the past 24 hours.
Falling drone debris has sparked a fire in a residential neighborhood of the Odesa district, killing one person.
Ukraine's defense forces eliminated about 346,070 Russian invaders between February 24, 2022 and December 17, 2023, including 1,250 in the past 24 hours.
Some 89 combat clashes took place on the front lines on December 16, with Ukrainian aircraft striking 21 areas of concentration of Russian troops, weapons and military equipment.
Russian troops attacked Ukraine with an Iskander-K cruise missile, a Kh-59 guided air missile and 20 Shahed UAVs on the night of December 16 to 17.
Thirty-three Ukrainian drones allegedly attacked Russia's Lipetsk, Rostov and Volgograd regions on the night of December 16 to 17.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive has stalled, and the West does not want to support it, but the situation on the battlefield is not hopeless and there are indications that Kyiv has plans.
Another Ukrainian truck driver has died while waiting to cross the border from Poland into Ukraine.
First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska believes that the country needs a nursing development strategy.
British intelligence has called a recent cyber attack on Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile network operator, as one of the highest-impact disruptive cyber attacks on Ukrainian networks since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
As a Ukraine aid package continues to stall in the United States Congress, America and its allies are assessing what they describe as the potentially debilitating impact on Ukraine’s defense and longer-term prospects of losing the war.
German news outlet Bild published an article on December 14 that unspecified intelligence findings and sources indicate that Russia plans to occupy Ukrainian territory beyond the four illegally annexed Ukrainian regions throughout 2024-2026.
Security hubs will soon be launched in settlements across Ukraine to allow for a faster response to emergency calls and aid to citizens.
16 December 2023
Türkiye continues to make efforts to restore the Black Sea Grain Initiative and end the Russian-Ukrainian war in accordance with the principle of Ukraine's territorial integrity.
Russian intelligence is creating fake Telegram channels of Ukrainian brigades and battalions to collect information and discredit the Ukrainian military.