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Monday, 08 December 2025, 19:39
A temporary local ceasefire mediated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) came into effect on Friday near the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) to allow repairs to the damaged Ferosplavna-1 power transmission line.
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that the situation in Pokrovsk remains difficult. In particular, the main objective for Russian forces continues to be the rapid occupation of the city.
The government is actively working on a concept for exporting Ukrainian weapons; it will be ready in December.
Next year, 70% of drone procurements are planned to be carried out through the digital platform DOT Chain Defence.
Rheinmetall's Skynex air-defense systems in Ukraine are destroying not only Shahed-type drones but also cruise missiles such as the Kh-101 and Kalibr.
A woman was killed in the Chuhuiv district of Kharkiv region as a result of a Russian UAV strike on November 7.
As of October 25, due to Russia’s full-scale aggression, 1,612 cultural heritage monuments and 2,427 cultural infrastructure facilities have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine.
Russian troops have struck the border community of Semenivka in the Chernihiv region with guided bombs.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha stated that Russia often recruits citizens from African countries to fight against Ukraine through deception or coercion and urged those governments to warn their citizens against participating in Russia's aggression.
Russian troops have reduced their activity in Pokrovsk, moving around the city less frequently in order to minimise losses and wait for reinforcements from their main forces.
In the Polish city of Przemysl, all those responsible for five incidents involving the removal of Ukrainian flags from the building housing the Honorary Consulate of Ukraine and the Association of Ukrainians in Poland have been identified and detained. A total of nine individuals, aged between 21 and 51, were apprehended.
A resident of Pidvysoke village in the Izium district of the Kharkiv region has died in hospital from wounds sustained in a Russian drone strike on 6 November.
In Kherson, a 68-year-old man was injured in a Russian shelling attack in the Dniprovskyi district.
In the Shostka community of the Sumy region, an infrastructure facility was damaged as a result of a night air raid by the Russian Federation, and some of the residential buildings were left without power.
Russian troops hit Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region with guided bombs, killing a utility worker and wounding a woman and a man.
The fighters of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) successfully struck the Sterlitamak petrochemical plant in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan using long-range drones.
Russian troops shelled the bus station in the village of Novovorontsovka, Kherson region, leaving two people injured.
Early on November 7, Russian forces struck energy and transport infrastructure in two communities in the Chernihiv region.
The Russian army has once again attacked critical infrastructure in the Lozova community in the Kharkiv region.
In the Kherson region, Russian forces are primarily attempting to move closer to Ukrainian positions from the direction of occupied Oleshky.
On November 7, the Russian army attacked three frontline communities in the Kharkiv region using drones.
In Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region, a 48-year-old local resident was injured when a Russian drone struck a civilian car.
Between the morning of November 6 and the morning of November 7, the Russian army carried out 52 attacks on 39 settlements across 13 territorial communities in the Sumy region, killing a 50-year-old man.
Ukraine's air defense forces shot down and jammed 94 drones used by the Russian army in overnight attacks on the country, while enemy strikes were recorded at 11 locations.
In the early hours of November 6, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) struck several logistics and fuel-and-energy infrastructure targets in the temporarily occupied Crimea using drones.
GUR special forces insertion into the northern industrial zone of Pokrovsk via U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters wasn’t a political gesture, but a military necessity of a high-tech battle in dense urban areas.
On November 6, there were 169 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian invaders, with the heaviest pressure exerted by the enemy on the Pokrovsk sector.
Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Odesa region with drones during the night of November 7.
Russian forces used drones, artillery, and aircraft to strike over 30 settlements in Kherson region over the past day, leaving ten people injured, including a child.