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Wednesday, 17 December 2025, 14:47
As a result of an air strike on Zaporizhzhia, which took place over an hour ago, more than 130 apartments in one of the high-rise buildings have been damaged. The number of wounded is growing.
Russian troops struck Zaporizhzhia and the surrounding area three times on Wednesday.
Ukrainian defenders are eliminating Russian assault groups that managed to infiltrate the city of Siversk in the Donetsk region amid unfavorable weather conditions.
Russia has increased the size of its military grouping to about 710,000 troops to conduct a strategic offensive operation.
Energy workers have restored electricity supply to nearly 583,700 customers in the Odesa region following the massive attack on December 13.
Russian forces have just attacked Zaporizhzhia, with a strike hitting an apartment building.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 17, 2025 amount to approximately 1,192,350 personnel, including 1,730 in the past 24 hours.
Russian forces attacked civilian facilities in the Odesa region using strike drones, damaging a transport infrastructure facility.
Russian forces attacked rescuers responding to a fire call in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region, using an FPV drone.
In Kherson, Russian forces continue to attack heat generation facilities.
Over the past day, December 16, Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region.
In Russia's Krasnodar Krai, a drone attack caused a fire at an oil refinery in the city of Slavyansk-na-Kubani, and left 38,800 subscribers without power.
Ukraine's air defense forces neutralized 37 of 69 Russian drones.
In the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region, two residential buildings were damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack.
In the Kharkiv region, four settlements came under Russian attacks over the past day, leaving four people injured.
We must clearly understand: Ukraine is our home, and the primary responsibility for it rests with us
On December 16, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 278 combat clashes with Russian troops on the frontline.
Over the past day, Russian forces attacked 26 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region, injuring six people.
Overnight, Russian forces once again struck Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting two districts.
Over the past day, eight people were injured in Kherson region as a result of Russian attacks.
Fighters from the Phoenix unmanned aerial systems unit of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine have destroyed four more pieces of enemy equipment and weaponry in the Toretsk sector.
Russia is preparing a complete blockade of YouTube, which would mark the next stage of the systematic digital isolation of the Russian population.
16 December 2025
The Russian army attacked Zaporizhzhia with a drone for the second time in one day.
In the Odesa region, electricity supply has been restored to more than 220,000 additional households whose homes were left without power as a result of a Russian attack.
Soldiers with the motor rifle battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed a group of Russian invaders attempting to infiltrate Siversk in the Donetsk region.
In the southern part of the Odesa region, today's attack by Russian strike drones damaged civilian and transport infrastructure.
Russian invaders carried out attacks on the Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region throughout the day, damaging civilian facilities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held an audience with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands at Huis ten Bosch in The Hague.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system and Russian personnel in the Donetsk region.