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Thursday, 11 December 2025, 21:29
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, has reported positive developments on the frontline, particularly in the border areas of Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
At the border of the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, Ukrainian Defense Forces have halted the advance of Russian invaders and continue to retain the control of the village of Zaporizke, despite persistent enemy attempts to seize the settlement.
Russian forces once again targeted the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region with strike-capable FPV drones, resulting in the death of one woman and injuries to two men.
On the Toretsk sector, fighters from the Spalakh Unmanned Systems Battalion, the Kurt&Company unit, and the 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Knights of the Winter Campaign" destroyed six cannons and two tanks belonging to the Russian army.
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 71 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Russian troops. Fighting continues in six front areas, with the enemy showing the greatest activity in the Pokrovsk and Lyman sectors.
In Kherson, police bomb disposal experts destroyed Russian anti-infantry high-explosive mines (PFM-1 or Flower Petal Mine) that were found on one of the streets in the Dniprovskyi district.
Since the start of the weapons registration process in Ukraine, citizens have registered 11,738 firearms and over 5 million rounds of ammunition.
Agents of the ATESH guerrilla movement, who are employees of a plant in Yelabuga, Russia, have documented the construction of a tower with a Pantsir missile system next to the Shahed-136 loitering munition manufacturing plant.
President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting with military officials to discuss the situation on the frontlines and in the border areas, as well as to hear a report on cooperation with all partners within the Coalition of the Willing.
In Vovchansk community of Kharkiv region, a Russian drone struck a vehicle delivering humanitarian aid to a frontline settlement.
Sappers from the Tsunami assault regiment of the National Police brigade Liut destroyed a strategically important site in Toretsk that could have fallen under Russian control.
In Donetsk region, Russian shelling has caused a power outage at mines in Dobropillia community, leaving 148 miners trapped underground.
Russian forces attacked Shostka community in Sumy region in the morning, wounding three people and leaving part of the community without electricity.
Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian oil refineries and export infrastructure have disrupted Russia’s refining and export operations, triggered gasoline shortages in some regions, and served as a response to Moscow’s strikes on Ukraine’s gas and energy facilities.
The Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck Russian military logistics facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea.
On Tuesday night, Russians carried out a massive attack on the Sumy community. Rescuers were working at three locations.
On the morning of August 26, explosions rocked the temporarily occupied Crimea. In Dzhankoi, railway infrastructure was hit, and there was also a strike on the railway at the Urozhaina station in the village of Krasnohvardiiske.
In the Pokrovsk sector, border guards repelled an assault and captured nine invaders.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 47 of 59 Russian drones.
On the morning of August 26, Russian invaders attacked a car on a highway in the Kherson region with a drone, injuring two medical workers.
Yesterday, there were 174 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. The invaders put the most pressure on the Pokrovsk sector of the frontline, but they were also highly active in the Lyman and Novopavlivka sectors.
Yesterday, four settlements in the Kharkiv region were under attack by Russia, and one person was injured.
To support remote clearance of explosive devices in the Kyiv region, the pyrotechnic unit of the State Emergency Service’s Mobile Rapid Response Rescue Center will deploy a cutting-edge robotic dog.
On August 25, Russian forces killed one civilian in the Donetsk region and wounded six others.
Over the past 24 hours, four people were injured in the Kherson region as a result of ongoing Russian aggression.
As of August 26, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine—since the full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022—amount to approximately 1,077,830 personnel. This includes an additional 890 troops lost in the past 24 hours.
Over the course of the past day, Russian forces carried out 480 strikes across 17 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region. One man was injured following an enemy attack on the Zaporizhzhia district.
Units from the State Border Guard Service used drones to eliminate a Russian UAV launch site and four enemy shelters in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Soldiers from the 102nd Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine, known as “Ivano-Frankivshchyna,” have destroyed a Russian heavy flamethrower system, the TOS-1 Solntsepyok, in the Zaporizhzhia sector.