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22 December 2025
Viktor Tregubov, Head of the Communications Department of the Joint Forces Task Force, explained how Russian occupiers abducted civilians in the Sumy region: people were gathered in a church and later taken to the territory of Russia.
On the night of December 22, unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine struck the Tamanneftegaz Marine Oil Terminal in Russia’s Krasnodar region.
Russian troops struck the Donetsk region 1,627 times over the past 24 hours, damaging five civilian objects.
A series of explosions has been reported in two districts of temporarily occupied Mariupol.
Russian troops attacked the Sumy community with multiple launch rocket systems, damaging residential buildings and power lines.
Russia has adapted the Molniia strike drone for aerial reconnaissance.
On the night of December 22, the Russian army attacked the port and energy infrastructure of Odesa region, setting fire to containers with flour and oil.
In Odesa and the Odesa region, a massive Russian attack sparked fires at energy infrastructure facilities and damaged warehouse buildings storing fertilizers and agricultural machinery.
Russian troops carried out more than 80 strikes on 20 settlements in nine territorial communities of the Sumy region between the morning of December 21 and the morning of December 22.
On the night of December 20-21, two Su-30 and Su-27 fighter jets burned at a Russian military airfield near Lypetsk.
Air defense forces destroyed 58 drones used by Russian troops to attack Ukraine since last night, with enemy strikes recorded at 12 locations.
Over the past day, the Russian army launched rocket salvo attacks on two settlements in the Kharkiv region.
On December 21, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 223 combat engagements with Russian invaders along the frontline.
Over the past day, Russian forces used drones, artillery, and aircraft to strike 31 settlements across Kherson region, killing one person and injuring three others.
Total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022 to December 22, 2025 have reached approximately 1,197,860 personnel, including 1,120 eliminated over the past day.
Russian forces shelled four districts of Dnipropetrovsk region overnight, sparking fires and causing destruction.
In Odesa, a critical infrastructure facility was damaged as a result of two nighttime enemy attacks, leaving part of one of the city’s districts without electricity.
Russian occupiers have begun selling tickets for performances at the Mariupol Drama Theater, the site of the mass killing of civilians.
21 December 2025
In Kherson, two people were injured as a result of a Russian drone strike.
There were 200 combat engagements on the front line, more than 70 of them on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
Russian troops suffered losses during an attempted assault in the area of Sotnytskyi Kozachok in the Kharkiv region and were forced to retreat.
On Sunday, in the Nikopol district, a man and a woman were wounded as a result of Russian shelling.
Belarus is implementing a large-scale, classified state project to establish full-cycle production of artillery and rocket ammunition that could directly supply the Russian army in its war against Ukraine.
In the city of Izium, Kharkiv region, the area that had been hit by Russian strikes the day before was cleared, and the outlines of damaged windows were covered.
The Russian army shelled the Zaporizhzhia region nearly 5,000 times in one week. Sixty people were wounded.
The Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine and the Ministry of Energy are working to increase the available volumes of electricity for the Dnipropetrovsk region to match its load as a frontline region with military logistics and large-scale industry.
Fighting is currently ongoing in Hrabovske, Sumy region, while Russian forces are absent from the neighboring settlement of Riasne.
Soldiers of the 25th Airborne Sicheslav Brigade of the 7th Corps of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade of the Air Assault Forces (AAF) have released rare footage of combat in Pokrovsk.
The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has appealed to Russia's ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova, demanding information on the whereabouts of residents of the village of Hrabovske in the Sumy region who were forcibly taken to the territory of the Russian Federation by the occupiers.
In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of Russian attacks, two people were killed and two more were injured.