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27 December 2025
Russian forces have been carrying out another massive attack on Ukraine since overnight, deploying nearly 500 drones and about 40 missiles, including Kinzhal missiles. The primary target was Kyiv, specifically energy and civilian infrastructure.
In the Kyiv region, 14 people were injured, and one person was killed as a result of a Russian attack on December 27.
In Dronivka, Donetsk region, the situation remains difficult but is fully under control of units of the 81st Separate Airmobile Slobozhanska Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Yesterday, December 26, four civilian men were killed in Kharkiv and the village of Podoly in the Kurylivka community, and seven people, including a nine-month-old girl, were injured in the regional center.
In Kyiv, the consequences of the Russian attack on December 27 were recorded in seven districts. Twenty-two people were injured, including two children.
A 47-year-old woman was killed, and six other people were injured in a Russian attack in the Kyiv region on December 27.
There are already 19 victims in Kyiv as a result of the Russian combined attack on December 27.
As a result of the enemy's attack, almost one-third of the capital is currently without heat. There is no electricity in some areas of the left bank.
In the Kyiv region, the consequences of the Russian air attack on December 27 have been recorded in five districts.
Russians struck Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs at night, injuring at least one person and damaging dozens of private houses.
Eight people have been injured in the capital as a result of the Russian attack.
Commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps Denis Kapustin died on the Zaporizhzhia front line.
Two high-rise buildings have been damaged in an air strike in Kyiv, and a number of private houses are on fire.
Over the course of 24 hours, the occupiers carried out 485 strikes on 22 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
In Kyiv, the consequences of the Russian attack have been recorded in the Darnytskyi, Dniprovskyi, Solomianskyi, Obolonskyi, Holosiivskyi, and Desnianskyi districts.
The total combat losses of Russian troops from February 24, 2022, to December 27, 2025, in the war against Ukraine amount to approximately 1,203,310 people, of which 1,240 were lost yesterday.
Five people were injured in Kyiv as a result of the Russian attack on December 27.
In occupied Crimea and Donetsk, wounded servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces are being forced to sign contracts and sent into “assault operations” instead of being demobilized. They are predominantly deployed to the Zaporizhzhia sector.
The enemies attacked several districts of the Kyiv region, damaging residential buildings, construction sites, and enterprises, and causing injuries.
In the settlement of Kirovske, Feodosia district, in temporarily occupied Crimea, a drone hit an “infrastructure facility.” A fire is currently being extinguished at the site.
In the Kursk sector, fighters from the 15th Mobile Border Guard Detachment used drones to strike a Russian tank camouflaged in the terrain.
26 December 2025
On the front line, Ukrainian forces engaged in 237 combat clashes, over 80 of them occurred in the Lyman and Pokrovsk sectors, where the enemy is suffering significant losses.
Over three years and ten months since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Russian forces have committed 870 crimes against journalists and media in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a number of Russian logistical facilities and enemy personnel in Donetsk region.
Fighters of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment Skelia of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting clearing operations against Russian invaders in the town of Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed preparations for the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, where a number of issues were discussed, namely countering Russian Shahed drone attacks, Ukraine's deep strikes, and Ukraine's Drone Line.
Russian troops carried out strikes throughout the day on the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring two civilians.
Ukrainian forces are holding defensive lines in Myrnohrad, Donetsk region. To deter Russian invaders, the city's defense has been reinforced with additional forces and assets.
Eight people were injured and two were killed as a result of a Russian strike on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.