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Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 06:12
Russia plans to fully occupy the Donetsk region in the spring of 2026, but the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kyrylo Budanov, believes that this plan is unrealistic.
Norway is providing Ukraine with further 465 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $45.8 million) in humanitarian support. This allocation adds to 120 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $11.8 million) already designated for food security.
Russian forces attacked the Semenivka and Koriukivka communities in the Chernihiv region with drones, resulting in a burned-down locomotive and damage to houses, vehicles, and farm buildings.
Russia has announced the suspension of agreements to establish a naval logistics facility in Port Sudan, which demonstrates its limited resources for expanding overseas military infrastructure amid the ongoing war, and weakens its position in Africa.
Carbon monoxide levels exceeded safe limits on two streets in Lviv due to the Russian attack.
Ukrainian border guards are currently not detecting any movement of Belarusian military equipment or personnel near the Ukrainian border.
19 November 2025
Ukraine is a promising partner in the field of arms production and has the potential to become a security exporter in the future.
In Ternopil, there are reports of 26 people missing, including three children, in a building destroyed by a Russian missile strike.
In Dnipro, a building where food was stored caught fire as a result of an attack by Russian drones.
On the morning of November 19, soldiers from the 143rd Joint Training Center “Podillia” of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Support Forces destroyed a Russian Kalibr cruise missile in the Khmelnytskyi region.
In Ternopil, the death toll from the Russian missile strike on November 19 has risen to 26 people.
In the settlements of Donetsk region, where families with children are being forcibly evacuated, there are 420 families with 501 children.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, during a meeting with a U.S. delegation led by U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, briefed them on the frontline situation and discussed strengthening Ukraine’s capabilities in air defense, Deep Strike operations, drone systems, and training of Defense Forces personnel.
In Ternopil, rescue operations continue after Russia’s overnight missile strike, assistance is being provided to the injured. People remain trapped under the rubble.
The main topics of the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were unblocking the peace process, prisoner exchanges, and Türkiye’s participation in the Coalition of the Willing.
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of the Defense Forces continue to carry out missions in the Pokrovsk-Myronhrad agglomeration area.
In the coming months, Russia is unlikely to capture large areas of Ukrainian territory, but the war at its current level of intensity could continue for roughly another half-year.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said that resuming negotiations in Istanbul with a more comprehensive and pragmatic approach could help open pathways toward peace in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that many diplomatic processes regarding ending the war have intensified recently, but he emphasized that Russia must understand there can be no reward for war and for killing.
The burden of guaranteeing the future reparations loan for Ukraine should be shared not only by European countries but also by G7 partners, while the funds raised should be directed first and foremost toward strengthening Europe’s defense industry in cooperation with Ukraine.
Polish prosecutors have charged two Ukrainian citizens, 39-year-old Oleksandr K. and 41-year-old Yevhenii I., with committing acts of sabotage on railway lines in Poland.
A meeting between the Presidents of Ukraine and Türkiye is currently underway in Ankara.
Russia attacked apartment buildings in Ternopil with Kh-101 cruise missiles, which contain components from companies in the U.S., China, Taiwan, Germany, the Netherlands, and others.
F-16 fighters in Ukraine have intercepted more than 1,300 aerial targets and struck over 300 ground targets.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha has called on international partners to condemn Russia’s attack on Ternopil, which caused numerous casualties, and to provide Ukraine with additional air-defense capabilities.
The first Skyranger 35 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun mounted on the Leopard 1 tank chassis will be delivered to Ukraine next week.
Ternopil community has declared November 19, 20, and 21 days of mourning for those killed as a result of the combined attack on the city and the region.
As many as ten explosions were heard in Saky district of temporarily occupied Crimea. The Hvardiiske airfield or an oil depot in the settlement may also be under attack.
The previously published statement calling for the creation of a new coalition and government does not represent the position of the ‘Servant of the People’ political faction but only that of certain Members of Parliament.