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Friday, 26 December 2025, 13:58
29 December 2023
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, who unleashed a full-scale war in Europe, has not changed his objective in Ukraine, so he must be stopped because this poses a threat to the security of all of Europe and raises the risk of the United States being pulled into the war.
Ukraine's defense forces on Friday repelled 29 attacks by the Russian army in the Kupiansk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Marinka, and Zaporizhzhia sectors, as well as nine enemy assaults on the left bank of the Dnipro River.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited a forward command and observation post of the 110th Mechanized Brigade named after Corporal General Marko Bezruchko in Avdiivka and presented awards to Ukrainian soldiers.
The United Kingdom is sending hundreds of air defense missiles to Ukraine to bolster the country's air defense.
Thirty people have been injured in today's missile attack on Dnipro, three of them being in grave condition.
The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Kyiv has increased to nine, whereas eight people injured in the strike have been rescued from the rubble of a warehouse in the city's Shevchenkivskyi district.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited Ukrainian frontline positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region.
The death toll from a Russian missile attack on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia has increased to eight.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has condemned Russia's massive attack and called on the world to continue to support Ukraine.
The number of people killed in Zaporizhzhia as a result of a rocket attack has risen to seven, and 13 more people were injured.
In Kharkiv, three people wounded in a rocket attack on the morning of December 29 are in extremely serious condition.
Remnants of Iskanders, S-300 and X-22 missiles were seized at the sites of missile strikes in Kharkiv.
A number of European politicians, as well as Martin Wijnen, the commander-in-chief of the Dutch army, have called on their governments to prepare for the prospect of repelling Russian aggression.
Ukraine has survived another year of the full-scale invasion, destroying the dreams of the Russian invaders about the "blitzkrieg."
On December 29, Russia attacked Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Lviv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Cherkasy, Myrhorod, Starokostiantyniv, and other Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones.
During the morning shelling of the Lviv region, one of the enemy missiles hit an infrastructure facility in the Drohobych district.
Over the past day, 53 combat engagements took place in the frontline. Ukrainian aviation struck 19 times at the enemy, including its anti-aircraft missile systems.
A school building was damaged by a missile attack on Odesa on December 29.
Four people were killed in Zaporizhzhia as a result of shelling.
In Kharkiv, the death toll from rocket attacks has risen to three, all of them employees of a civilian enterprise.
On December 29, an air defense system was activated in the Ivano-Frankivsk region during a morning enemy missile attack. The air targets were shot down.
Belarus’ authoritarian president on Thursday attended a government-organized meeting with children brought from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine.
During the day, the Russian army attacked 15 regions of Ukraine, using attack drones, missiles, artillery, and mortars.
Against the backdrop of a massive Russian attack on Ukrainian cities, US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink emphasized that Ukraine already needs funding to continue the fight for freedom next year.
Over the past day, the Ukrainian Defense Forces eliminated 850 Russian invaders.
In Ukraine, 12 people were killed in a massive enemy air attack.
On Friday, the Russian Federation attacked Ukraine with almost all the air weapons it has in its arsenal.
The forces and means of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in cooperation with units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, destroyed 27 enemy Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs and 87 X-101/X-555/X-55 cruise missiles.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Russian aggressor has fired 300 X-22 missiles at Ukraine, none of which were shot down by air defense systems.
During the air alert, residents of Dnipro are asked to keep information silence.