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26 December 2024
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
On Wednesday morning, drones attacked the Baltimor military airfield in the Russian city of Voronezh. The facility reportedly sustained damage as a result of the attack.
In the temporarily occupied Crimea, a Ukrainian drone hit the Russian ship Fedor Uryupin, moored in the bay near the village of Chornomorske.
Over the past day, December 25, a total of 217 combat engagements have been recorded on the Ukrainian battlefield, with the situation remaining tense in the Pokrovsk, Vremivka, and Kurakhove directions.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces overnight Thursday shot down 20 Russian drones, while 11 more veered off their intended course.
The Russian military shelled Nikopol twice with heavy artillery at night, damaging two shops and three high-rise buildings.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to December 26, 2024, amounted to about 780,860 people, including 1,540 people over the past day.
As of 6:00 a.m. on December 26, there is one enemy missile carrier in the Black Sea with a total volley of up to four Kalibr cruise missiles.
During the day, Russian troops fired 20 times at the border areas and settlements of Sumy region, with a total of 95 explosions recorded.
In the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk region, old-style Russian passports will be issued starting in the new year.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has added the US Helsinki Commission to the list of so-called undesirable organizations.
Ukrainian poet and prose writer Oleksii Bezpaltsev has died while fighting in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Levchenko to 22 years in prison for alleged acts of terrorism on a railway in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said a Russian missile had violated Moldovan airspace on the night of Wednesday, December 25.
25 December 2024
Ukraine's Armed Forces engaged in 211 combat clashes with Russian forces on December 25, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing the heaviest fighting.
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp condemned Russia's Christmas morning attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, stating that the strike demonstrates President Vladimir Putin's focus on destruction rather than peace.
During the day, Russian troops attacked Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts, Dnipro and Kamianske.
In the Donetsk region, a rescue vehicle of the capital's rescuers was damaged as a result of shelling.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how, on the morning of December 25, soldiers of the Kherson Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade destroyed one of the cruise missiles fired by Russia.
More than a hundred patients of a hospital are being evacuated in Dnipro, where problems with electricity and heat supply have arisen after a massive air attack by Russian troops.
Drone strikes hit Russia's Tambov region this morning, damaging the Michurinsk Plant Progress defense enterprise and causing a fire at LLC Transnefteprodukt.
A woman was killed following a Russian strike on Novoosynove in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region early on December 25.
Russian forces are attempting to bypass frontal assaults on Pokrovsk by targeting the city's flanks but continue to suffer significant losses, according to Viktor Trehubov, spokesperson for Ukraine's Khortytsia Group of Forces.
A massive Russian attack on Kharkiv early on Wednesday, December 25, has left 74 buildings damaged.
Drones operated by the Security Service of Ukraine blew up an ammunition depot at the Kadamovsky training ground in Russia’s Rostov region.
On Wednesday morning, a drone crashed in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia. A UAV attack was also reported in the Chechen capital of Grozny.
On the night of December 25, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the command post of Russia’s 810th Separate Marines Brigade located in an abandoned civilian building in Lgov, Kursk region.
As of 12:00 on Wednesday, December 25, Ukraine’s Defense Forces have shot down 55 Russian cruise missiles, four guided air missiles, and 54 drones.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin deliberately chose Christmas for an attack, launching more than 70 missiles and more than 100 strike drones at Ukraine.
An administrative building, a high-rise building and a private house were damaged in Dnipro as a result of a Russian missile attack.