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30 December 2025
Pokrovsk is being defended by a substantial number of forces and assets, including units of the Unmanned Systems Forces and drone brigades and regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. At the same time, all approaches to the city are under the control of Ukrainian drones.
This morning, December 30, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with three guided aerial bombs. The shelling caused destruction.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces' Unmanned Systems Forces have struck a storage, equipment, and launch preparation site for Russian Shahed and Geran drones at Donetsk Airport.
In Chernihiv and Nizhyn districts, most consumers were left without electricity due to shelling and hits on energy facilities.
Air Defense Forces destroyed one ballistic missile and 52 UAVs used by Russians to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 29.
A man was injured in a Russian strike in the Kharkiv region yesterday, December 29.
Over the past day, on December 29, 151 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line.
Russian troops launched nearly 50 strikes on 23 settlements in 13 communities in the Sumy region between the morning of December 29 and the morning of December 30, wounding one person.
Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region over the past day, December 29.
In the Kursk direction, drone operators from the Steel Border border guard brigade destroyed two shelters and neutralized five Russian invaders.
Russian troops attacked the Nikopol and Synelnykivskyi districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with strike drones, injuring a woman.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to December 30, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,206,910 people, including 1,220 people in the previous day.
During the air raid alert in Zaporizhzhia, explosions were heard.
Soldiers of the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces used drones to destroy a column of Russian military equipment while it was still being assembled near Volodymyrivka in Donetsk region.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement have conducted reconnaissance of a suspected air defense forces headquarters of the Russian Armed Forces in the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol.
29 December 2025
On December 29, 136 combat engagements were recorded between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian invaders along the front line. The Pokrovsk sector remains the hottest, where the enemy attempted 40 attacks.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces will continue active operations near Kupiansk and eliminate enemy forces on the northern and eastern approaches to the city.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops are increasing the number of assault operations and are trying to take control of the settlement of Stepnohirsk.
Despite claims that Pokrovsk has been captured, Russian forces currently control approximately half of the city and cannot move freely there due to the work of Ukrainian drones.
As many as 1,400 residents remain in the frontline Dobropillia community, Pokrovsk district, including 1,000 in the town of Dobropillia.
Ukraine's Military Law Enforcement Service is conducting an investigation into an incident in which Russian soldiers entered a command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Huliaipole due to weak defenses.
Russian troops have allegedly killed seven civilians in Pokrovsk who were hiding in the basement of a residential building.
President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to Lavrov's statement about an alleged drone attack on Putin's residence in Valdai and threats to strike Ukrainian targets in response.
Law enforcement agencies have launched a pre-trial investigation into the shooting of three Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops in Zaporizhzhia.
A total of 89 combat engagements have been recorded along the entire frontline since the beginning of the day. Fighting is currently ongoing in six sectors of the front, with Russian forces concentrating their main efforts on the Pokrovsk sector.
Recent Kremlin statements indicate that Russia’s top leadership is seeking to portray Ukraine’s defenses across the frontline as allegedly “on the verge of collapse” and to present Russia’s seizure of four Ukrainian regions as an ostensibly achievable goal.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have denied claims by Russian invaders that they allegedly control part of the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
Russian troops launched an air strike on the frontline town of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky does not rule out the creation of a four-party working group that would include Russian representatives to work on peace arrangements.
Russian invaders have unsuccessfully attempted to entrench themselves along the railway north of Rodynske, as well as in the city’s western districts. Fighting for the city is ongoing.