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Monday, 08 December 2025, 16:12
Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal held a meeting with National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov and deputy defense ministers responsible for international cooperation and procurement. They discussed the production of weapons, in particular interceptor drones.
During the day, a Russian strike UAV attacked the Sumy territorial community, causing damage, affecting the power supply system, and injuring a child.
Ukraine is taking specific steps to collect funds from the Russian corporation Gazprom under international arbitration awards.
Apples imported from North Korea have begun appearing on the shelves of Russian supermarkets.
After the large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin's regime established a network of contacts in Germany, in particular to restart the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
On Sunday morning, a Russian drone attacked the city of Chuhuiv in the Kharkiv Region, damaging an administrative building and residential houses.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to take measures by September 1 this year to restrict the use of foreign software in Russia, including messengers developed in “enemy countries.”
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops carried out nearly 70 shelling attacks on 33 settlements in 13 territorial communities of the Sumy Region.
In the morning, the occupiers struck the village of Zymivnyk near the city of Kherson, wounding a minor girl and a man.
Defense Forces shot down 18 drones used by the Russian army to attack Ukraine since yesterday evening, while seven more enemy UAV simulators were lost/jammed by electronic warfare means.
Four civilians were killed and six were wounded in the Donetsk Region over the past 24 hours.
Over the past day, the Russian army shelled five settlements in the Kharkiv Region, injuring six people.
On July 19, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 154 combat clashes with Russian forces along the frontline.
Over the past day, Russian forces shelled social infrastructure, residential neighborhoods, private homes, and vehicles in Kherson region, resulting in one civilian killed and six injured, including a child.
In Synelnykove district of Dnipropetrovsk region, the number of people injured in yesterday’s missile strike has risen to five.
As of July 20, 2025, the total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine have reached approximately 1,041,990 personnel, with 1,040 killed or wounded in the past 24 hours alone.
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, combat units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) have destroyed 2,000 enemy tanks.
In Zaporizhzhia region, a man was injured and private homes were damaged as a result of a Russian drone attack. Several fires were also reported.
Fighters from the Freedom of Russia Legion, a unit of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR), carried out a successful ambush against militants from the Russian National Guard's Akhmat unit near the village of Velyka Bilozerka in the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia region.
A critical deterioration in the condition of local water bodies has been recorded in temporarily occupied Simferopol, where sections of the Salhyr River — the longest in Crimea — have completely dried up.
Russian forces have established a field hospital at the storage base of the 810th Marine Brigade in Sevastopol due to a lack of available space for treating wounded soldiers.
19 July 2025
Russian forces shelled the village of Dudchany in the Kherson region, damaging several residential houses. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.
Russian attacks have caused fires in the towns of Huliaipole and Bilenke in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Recovery efforts are ongoing in the Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions following Russian bomb attacks.
Russian forces launched a drone attack on the city of Kherson, injuring a local resident.
On July 19, Russian forces shelled several districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region, resulting in civilian casualties.
In the Donetsk region, Russian forces have once again attacked the city of Kostiantynivka, wounding one civilian.
Operators of the 424th Svarog Battalion of the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces have detected and destroyed an experimental Russian electronic warfare system known as the KOP-2.
Drone pilots from the 4th Border Guard Detachment of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine used FPV drones to destroy a fuel and lubricants depot, three communication antennas, a UAV launch point, and three combat positions of Russian invaders on the Southern Slobozhanshchyna front.