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Tuesday, 23 December 2025, 15:46
Soldiers of the 92nd Separate Assault Brigade named after Kish Otaman Ivan Sirko repelled a Russian mechanized assault in Dnipropetrovsk Region, destroying five enemy vehicles and eliminating 35 invaders.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has arrived at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, where he was welcomed by his Polish counterpart, Karol Nawrocki.
As of the morning of December 19, consumers in five regions of Ukraine were left without electricity as a result of Russian attacks.
Russian forces shelled central Kherson with artillery on Friday morning, damaging residential buildings and critical infrastructure.
The United States government has lifted restrictive measures against seven companies and two legal entities linked to Russia.
Over the past day, 12 settlements in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region came under Russian attack. One person was killed and seven others were injured.
On the night of Friday, December 19, a group of drones attacked a number of sites on Russian territory, including the chemical company TogliattiAzot in Russia’s Samara region.
On December 18, a total of 193 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the frontline.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 108 out of 160 Russian drones between the evening of December 18 and the morning of December 19.
It is important that Russian assets remain immobilized and that Ukraine has received a financial security guarantee for the coming years.
In the Kherson region, two people were killed and 12 others wounded over the past day as a result of Russian attacks.
Russia suffered approximately 1,194,520 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and December 19, 2025, with 1,220 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
First ladies and gentlemen from Europe and Latin America held an online meeting to review the results of 2025 and discuss plans for the coming year.
Ukraine will repay the loan provided by the European Union using frozen Russian assets only after the Russian Federation pays reparations.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, which includes $400 million in assistance for Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that negotiations to end the war are "getting close to something" and that Ukraine should hurry so that the Russians do not "change their mind."
EU leaders have decided to provide Ukraine with EUR 90 billion in support for 2026-2027, European Council President Antonio Costa has said.
In Pokrovsk, soldiers of the 425th Skelia Assault Regiment of the Ukrainian Ground Forces captured two Colombian nationals who were fighting alongside Russia.
On Thursday, another 20 Belarusian political prisoners arrived in Lithuania after being released earlier by Aleksandr Lukashenko as part of an agreement with the United States.
Moldova has joined U.S. sanctions targeting Rosneft and Lukoil.
In Pokrovsk, soldiers of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelia” of the Land Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine captured two Colombian nationals who were fighting on Russia’s side.
The Cabinet of Ministers has reallocated UAH 142.3 million from the Fund for Elimination of the Consequences of Armed Aggression to support reconstruction projects in the Chernihiv and Sumy regions.
Member of Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy Dmytro Solomchuk told Ukrinform that the issue of crop storage cannot be resolved by building small vegetable storage facilities.
In 2025, a total of 1,230 Ukrainians affected by the war received free treatment and rehabilitation abroad under the Medevac Ukraine program.
18 December 2025
The UN General Assembly has adopted an updated resolution titled “The Situation of Human Rights in the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, including the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol.”
On December 18, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 183 clashes with Russian troops, with the fiercest fighting raging in the Pokrovsk sector, where 46 attacks occurred.
Russian troops attacked Odesa with drones in the evening of December 18, damaging civilian infrastructure and residential buildings.
Soldiers of the 15th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Brigade Black Forest detected and destroyed a launcher of Russia’s S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system along with its ammunition.
A tanker belonging to Russia’s “shadow fleet” that was attacked in Rostov-on-Don is reportedly sinking near the marine terminal of the Novoshakhtinsk Petroleum Products Plant.