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25 December 2025
Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Kyrylo Budanov, arrived at forward positions to meet fighters of the Tymur Special Unit in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian troops are attempting to infiltrate the center of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region and entrench themselves on the outskirts of the city, while fierce fighting is also ongoing near settlements along the logistics route leading to it.
In Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, an enemy drone struck an evacuation mission, killing one civilian and injuring two others.
Russian troops are present in large numbers in Vovchansk and control certain areas, but they do not have full control over the city, and their offensive actions on the outskirts remain unsuccessful.
On the morning of December 25, part of Odesa and the Odesa region were left without electricity. Because of this, some areas of the city experienced water shortages.
Over the past day, Russian troops have struck 14 settlements in the Kharkiv region, killing one person and injuring 17 others.
Air defense forces destroyed 106 of the 131 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 24.
As of the morning of December 25, Russian strikes have left consumers without electricity in four regions, while the Odesa region is experiencing emergency outages due to the aftermath of earlier attacks.
Yesterday, Russian troops attacked two communities in the Mykolaiv region five times with FPV drones, without causing any casualties.
As a result of a strike by Ukrainian drones on the night of December 25 on the port of Temryuk in the Krasnodar region of the Russian Federation, located on the Sea of Azov, near Kerch, two tanks with petroleum products were damaged.
The Russian army dropped two guided aerial bombs on Derhachi in the Kharkiv region. The strikes damaged an energy infrastructure facility and a private enterprise.
Russian invaders struck port and industrial infrastructure in the Odesa region overnight, killing one person and injuring two others.
On December 24, Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops clashed in 151 combat engagements, with the heaviest pressure coming on the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces attacked the Synelnykove district in the Dnipropetrovsk region with drones, causing fires and damaging several civilian facilities.
Since February 24, 2022, Russian forces have suffered around 1,201,230 casualties in personnel, including 860 eliminated in the past 24 hours.
Drone operators of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine struck a Russian long-range observation system Murom-M and two electronic warfare (EW) stations on the southern front.
Representatives of the NATO-Ukraine Joint Analysis, Training, and Education Center (JATEC) participated in the final phase of the Loyal Dolos 2025 exercise, which assessed the combat capabilities of the Alliance.
Fighters of the Furia strike UAV company of the Hart Border Guard Brigade hit a Russian artillery gun, a tank, and several vehicles in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Drone operators of Ukraine’s 78th Separate Air Assault Brigade struck a Russian self-propelled artillery system in Russia’s Kursk region.
Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrii Melnyk believes that Ukraine’s partners should put pressure on countries of the Global South that fail to support Ukrainian resolutions at the UN General Assembly.
Units of the National Guard of Ukraine destroyed dozens of pieces of Russian heavy equipment during another enemy mechanized assault.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement are once again recording high levels of Russian military activity at the site of the former Transpele base in Luhansk. Despite the fact that the facility was previously targeted in effective strikes, the enemy is persistently continuing to use the location as a logistics hub and a deployment site.
Oily stains caused by sunflower oil spills due to enemy attacks on port infrastructure, as well as dead birds, have been spotted in the Black Sea waters within the Odesa region.
International partners contributed an additional EUR 245 million to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund in December.
The security situation near the Sumy region border remains unpredictable, potentially complicating the evacuation of civilians.
The case of a former head of one of the Logistics Forces directorates of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, exposed for illegal enrichment of more than UAH 17 million, has been referred to court.
Based on the evidence gathered by counterintelligence officers and investigators of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), a Belarusian KGB agent who spied along Ukraine's northern borders was sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property.
In Cherkasy, the Alley of Heroes and the city cemetery were damaged as a result of a Russian missile attack on Wednesday, December 24.
The UN was created primarily to maintain international peace and security and to find real ways to stop aggression, not just to condemn it verbally, according to Ukraine's Permanent Representative Andriy Melnyk.