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Monday, 08 December 2025, 15:40
The Special Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) is asking the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) to impose a pre-trial restraint measure on former Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Chernyshov in the form of arrest with the possibility of release on UAH 55 million bail.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the measures taken to counter corruption are not sufficient and added that the authorities will "continue the relevant actions."
French President Emmanuel Macron commented on a ten-year agreement with Ukraine and announced that new SAMP/T air-defense systems could potentially be deployed on Ukrainian territory as early as 2026.
One of the advantages of Rafale fighter jets is that Ukrainian pilots already operating Mirage fighters will not require additional training.
In Balakliia, Kharkiv region, a missile strike damaged 13 apartment buildings and 12 private homes, as well as a kindergarten.
In the port of Izmail, gas transfer equipment located on board a Turkish-flagged vessel caught fire following a nighttime Russian attack.
The consequences of Ukraine's long-range strikes on Russia's energy sector, oil infrastructure, and defense industry will become evident as early as next year.
Despite losses in manpower and equipment, Russian occupation forces continue to try to pressure Ukrainian forces in the south.
Russian troops struck Nikopol with artillery. Two people were killed and others were wounded.
Ukraine's Defense Forces continue to restrain Russian troops in the southern direction, repel attacks, and carry out blocking actions in areas of the enemy's highest activity.
Last Saturday, Russians killed a 75-year-old Kherson resident in the Korabelny district of Kherson, bringing the death toll from the shelling of the Kherson region on November 15 to four.
The situation in the southern sector continues to worsen, with the number of attacks by Russian forces increasing both on the ground and in the air.
Russian troops are stepping up their efforts to advance in the Huliaypole direction and are trying to encircle Huliaypole from the east and north.
Ukraine has placed an order for 100 Rafale fighter jets to equip its army.
The Ukrainian military has shown images of the destruction wrought by Russian invaders in Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region.
The number of people injured in the Russian missile strike on Balakliia in Kharkiv region has risen to 15, with three confirmed dead.
A 54-year-old woman was injured and an agricultural enterprise damaged as a result of Russian drone attacks on Chernihiv region. Two energy infrastructure facilities were hit, leaving part of the region without electricity.
Russian forces carried out a drone strike on the residential area of the settlement of Velykyi Burluk in Kupiansk district of Kharkiv region, killing one man and injuring another.
Reports from Russia say that the Veshkayma substation in Ulyanovsk region was attacked during the night of November 17.
From Sunday evening, Russia attacked Ukraine with two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 128 drones, of which Ukrainian air defense forces neutralized 91.
Fires broke out at energy and port infrastructure facilities in Odesa region as a result of an attack by Russian drones, leaving one person injured.
As many as 216 combat engagements were recorded between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian occupiers on November 16.
The Russian army attacked the Pavlohrad and Nikopol districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight.
One person was killed and 11 others were injured as a result of Russian aggression in the Kherson region on November 16.
Russia suffered approximately 1,159,420 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and November 17, 2025, with 1,160 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours.
Construction of ten shelters is underway in education institutions across the liberated communities of the Kherson region.
A Russian drone attack on Novhorod-Siverskyi in the Chernihiv region has damaged private residential buildings and a shop.
Russian forces launched two missiles at the central part of Balakliia in the Kharkiv region, with impacts recorded near residential buildings.
In the Southern Slobozhanshchyna sector of the front, aerial reconnaissance operators from the Stryx strike UAV company of the 4th Border Guard Detachment destroyed an ammunition depot, two shelters, and two communication antennas belonging to Russian invaders.