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15 December 2025
Long-range drones of the SBU's Special Operations Center Alpha have struck oil production platforms operated by Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft in the Caspian Sea for the third time in the past week.
Russian forces have significantly increased the intensity of assaults and the use of weaponry in southern Ukraine. At the same time, the Defense Forces have destroyed hundreds of units of enemy equipment since the beginning of 2025.
The situation in the south remains difficult due to active assault operations by Russian troops, which are attempting to take control of Huliaipole and Stepnohirsk.
After regrouping, Russian forces may intensify assault operations in the Orikhiv sector, attempting to move as close as possible to the city of Orikhiv.
Russian forces have not occupied the village of Varvarivka on the Huliaipole axis, with heavy fighting ongoing there and on its outskirts.
As a result of Russian attacks overnight on December 15, power outages have been reported among customers in the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions; the situation in the Odesa region remains difficult following the strike on December 13.
The liberation of Kupiansk is proceeding cautiously to prevent civilian casualties and minimize military losses.
Over the past day, Russian troops fired 61 times on populated areas in the Chernihiv region, with 96 explosions recorded.
Russian troops launched a second attack while firefighters were extinguishing a fire at a factory in the Synelnykivskyi district of Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring a rescuer and a factory worker.
Russia reports drone attacks on Moscow and at least eight other regions, with Belgorod claiming that a thermal power plant has been hit.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has released details of a new modification of the Russian UAV “Geranium-2,” equipped with an R-60 air-to-surface missile.
Air defense forces destroyed 133 of the 153 drones used by Russian invaders to attack Ukraine since Sunday evening.
In the Kharkiv region, 11 settlements were under Russian attack yesterday, December 14.
Russian forces attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with Grad multiple rocket launchers and drones, injuring five people.
On the front lines yesterday, December 14, 158 combat engagements of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with Russian invaders were recorded.
Over the past day, six people were injured in the Kherson region as a result of Russian aggression.
Over the past day, Russian forces carried out 850 strikes on 23 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 15, 2025 amount to approximately 1,189,470 personnel, including 980 in the past 24 hours.
Russia continues a large-scale campaign to falsify historical memory and use pseudo-history as an instrument of pressure on its neighbors.
Bail in the amount of UAH 3,28 million was posted for MP Skorokhod, and she was released wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
In a number of Iranian cities, leaflets have appeared en masse offering to join the Russian army for a $20,000 signing bonus and about $2,000 per month.
A resident of the Velyka Pysarivka community in the Sumy region was attacked by a Russian drone while riding a bicycle. As a result of the enemy strike, the 62-year-old man was killed on the spot.
In Russia, the return of military personnel from the front has turned into a serious internal threat: “veterans” of the war against Ukraine have already killed or injured more than a thousand people.
Russian occupiers have once again shelled critical infrastructure in Kherson, damaging the centralized water supply system.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement have carried out detailed reconnaissance of the 758th Logistics Support Center (military unit No. 63876) of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.
14 December 2025
Ukrainian warriors repelled an attempt by Russian invaders to break through on motorcycles and quad bikes toward the village of Hryshyne in Donetsk region.
There were 148 combat engagements on the frontline, nearly half of them in the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka sectors.
Explosions have been heard in the town of Kashira in Russia’s Moscow region, with reports indicating air defense activity amid a drone attack.
On Sunday, December 14, six civilians were injured as a result of Russian attacks in Kherson region.
On Monday, the United Nations General Assembly will vote on an updated draft resolution on human rights violations in Ukraine’s territories temporarily occupied by Russia.