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Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 07:02
The Ukrainian forces repelled 107 enemy assaults in the past 24 hours, with 34 attacks concentrated in the Pokrovsk sector, where the Russian forces attempted to breach the Ukrainian defenses.
President Volodymyr Zelensky received reports from military commanders and commended units performing combat missions on the Pokrovsk front and in Russia’s Kursk region.
The Russian forces attacked Kostiantynivka for the second time today with FAB bombs causing widespread infrastructure damage, one fatality, and three injuries.
The Russian forces carried out an airstrike on Zolochiv in Kharkiv region, damaging 30 residential buildings, electricity and gas networks, and injuring a 60-year-old woman.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed a strike on the Novovelichkovskaya oil pumping station in Russia's Krasnodar territory.
An outpatient clinic was destroyed during a Russian attack in a frontline village in Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian prisoners of war who are accused of committing war crimes by Ukrainian law enforcement will not be able to make phone calls.
In Sumy region, Russians fired on the civilian infrastructure of the Krasnopil community in the morning.
Ukraine will repatriate the same number of bodies of its defenders from Russia - 757 - due to the available number of specialized vehicles.
In the morning of February 22, Russians dropped seven FAB-250 bombs with unified planning and correction modules (UPMC) on Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region. Two people were killed and three others were injured.
Examinations have confirmed nearly 50 DNA matches between the remains of Ukrainian prisoners of war and 62 bodies that Russia claimed were from the Il-76 plane crash in January 2024.
The Russian forces launched multiple airstrikes on Kostiantynivka early on February 22. Two fatalities and four injuries were reported.
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg visited Ukrainian defenders at the Irpin Military Hospital.
Some 30% of the personnel from military unit 3057 of the 12th National Guard Azov Brigade have been returned from Russian captivity, but the Azov soldiers and marines are not being handed over.
On February 20, drones of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) targeted and disabled the operations of the Novovelychkovskaya oil pumping station in Russia’s Krasnodar territory.
In the past 24 hours, on February 21, there were 90 recorded combat clashes between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and the Russian invaders. The Ukrainian troops repelled 29 enemy assaults in the Pokrovsk sector.
In the Kherson region, a person was killed in shelling yesterday, four more people were injured, and residential buildings and a gas pipeline were damaged.
In Kyiv region, rescuers extinguished a fire caused by an attack by Russian drones on the night of February 22.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to February 22, 2025, amounted to about 866 thousand people, including 1,140 over the past day.
General Carsten Breuer, the inspector general of the Bundeswehr, has arrived in Kyiv.
There is one enemy missile carrier in the Black Sea, with a total volley of up to 4 missiles, and no enemy ships in the Sea of Azov.
The operators of the 413th Reid Battalion of the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) discovered and destroyed a Russian autonomous mobile thermal imaging video surveillance complex “Murom-P”.
Law enforcement officers served suspicion notices in absentia to two Russian army commanders who organized the undermining and subsequent destruction of the Oskilske Reservoir dam in Kharkiv region in the fall of 2022.
The wreckage of a Russian drone has fallen in the Solomiansky district of Kyiv. A fire broke out on the territory of a private building, and there is damage.
In the Boryspil district of Kyiv region, a railway crossing guard was killed in a drone attack. A warehouse is on fire in the area, a high-rise building and an educational institution are damaged.
Civilian infrastructure was damaged in Poltava district as a result of Russian shelling.
A 69-year-old man was killed in Russia’s shelling of Antonivka, a suburb of Kherson, on February 17.
21 February 2025
Two Russian drones damaged an infrastructure facility in the Shostka community of the Sumy region on Friday, February 21.
On the Pokrovsk front, fighters of the 5th Separate Heavy Mechanized Brigade used drones to detect and destroy Russian equipment, positions, shelters, and enemy personnel.