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Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 04:00
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the National Police have blocked new draft-dodging schemes and detained four organizers of these operations in different regions of Ukraine.
As a result of a nighttime Russian attack on Odesa, four people were injured, a residential building and an enterprise were damaged.
In Zaporizhzhia, five people were killed and eight injured as a result of an enemy strike, and apartment buildings and commercial pavilions were damaged.
During Russia's full-scale invasion, 40 children have been killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region as a result of shellings.
A Russian UAV has been reported to have hit civilian targets in one of the communities in the Chernihiv district.
In Kyiv, an unidentified individual attacked a serviceman near the building of a Territorial Recruitment Center during mobilisation activities, prompting several warning shots with a non-lethal weapon into the ground to prevent further actions.
To expedite protective works on critical infrastructure facilities, Ukraine is signing direct contracts rather than conducting open tenders. The Centralized Procurement Organization (CPO) under the State Agency for Restoration is not involved in these tenders, as it operates exclusively through open bidding procedures.
Warsaw has sent Minsk a diplomatic note requesting the extradition to Poland of two Ukrainian citizens who committed terrorist acts on the Polish railway last weekend.
In September, Russian companies allocated a record 39% of their profits to interest payments on loans. The war in Ukraine continues to deepen the stagnation of the Russian economy.
Counterintelligence officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have detained an agent of Russia’s FSB who was transmitting coordinates of Ukraine’s Defense Forces units in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region.
20 November 2025
The enemy is attacking Zaporizhzhia, explosions have been heard in the city, and there are casualties.
Rescuers recovered the body of another victim from the rubble of a building on Stus Street in Ternopil.
The first residents of the temporarily occupied Luhansk region mobilized by the Russians are deserting near Pokrovsk.
President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded pupils and students with the “Future of Ukraine” distinction.
Russian combined strikes on Lviv on Thursday night destroyed one of the warehouses with medical aid intended for hundreds of civilian medical facilities, which was collected and transferred to Ukraine by the American charity organization Nova Ukraine.
In Ternopil, as a result of massive shelling by Russia on November 19, 21-year-old student of the Ivan Puliuia Ternopil National Technical University Andriy Veger was killed.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the teams of Ukraine and the United States will work on the provisions of the plan to end the war.
A reparations loan should become the main tool for strengthening Ukraine’s defense capability and a clear signal to Moscow that time is not on its side, while any peace plan can only succeed if it is supported by both Ukraine and Europe.
The number of casualties from the Russian strike on Ternopil has risen to 27.
A barrier to a peaceful settlement of Russia’s war against Ukraine is the fact that Vladimir Putin issued a decree declaring the “annexation” of four Ukrainian regions to the Russian Federation, even though Russian forces have failed to capture them.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has officially received from the American side a draft plan that, according to U.S. assessments, could help reinvigorate diplomatic efforts.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed the current situation in areas of active hostilities during a meeting with the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Carsten Breuer.
On November 20, the EU Council imposed restrictive measures on ten individuals responsible for serious human rights violations or abuses and for repression against civil society and the democratic opposition in Russia.
Evacuation of local residents is currently taking place from several frontline communities in Zaporizhzhia region. The most difficult situation is in Huliaipole, but currently there is no “large-scale evacuation” from the region — these are dozens, not hundreds, of people.
The European Union is considering additional restrictive measures against “flag states” that facilitate the operations of Russia’s so-called shadow oil fleet.
The Government of the United Kingdom, amid reports that the United States and Russia are developing a plan to end the war in Ukraine, has stated that the Ukrainian people must decide their own future.
Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has returned to Ukraine following an official trip.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 112 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting is currently ongoing on five fronts, with the enemy remaining most active in Pokrovsk.
Search and rescue operations continue for a second day in Ternopil at the site of the Russian missile strike.