Lithuania sends note of protest to Russia over massive strike on Kyiv
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a note of protest to Russia in connection with the intensified shelling of Ukraine last Saturday.
28 December 2025
Lithuania's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a note of protest to Russia in connection with the intensified shelling of Ukraine last Saturday.
In the Ivano-Frankivsk region, the number of people injured as a result of a passenger bus accident has increased to 13. Among them are two children.
Ukrainian units continue to hold control over a substantial part of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region despite the difficult situation.
The United Kingdom and Germany have signed a joint procurement contract worth GBP 52 million ($70 million) to acquire advanced artillery systems mounted on armored vehicles, capable of firing on the move and striking targets at a distance of more than 70 kilometers.
Poland has begun installing new counter-drone fortifications along its eastern border. The work is expected to be completed within two years.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was unable to personally join the telephone conference with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and leaders of other European countries on December 27.
Since the start of the day, 103 clashes have been recorded along the entire front line, with fighting ongoing in six sectors, and the Russian forces exerting pressure on the Pokrovsk sector.
On Sunday, December 28, Russian forces once again attacked the Kherson Combined Heat and Power Plant, injuring one employee.
Since the beginning of 2025, Russia has carried out 90 combined strikes on Ukraine’s port infrastructure, which is twice as many as during the same period last year.
The number of victims of the morning shelling of Kherson on Sunday, December 28, has increased to five.
Russian troops struck the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs, killing one person and wounding four others.
Repairs to a key power transmission line near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) have begun following another agreement on a local ceasefire, mediated by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Over the course of this week, the Russian Federation used 94 missiles, more than 2,100 attack drones, and about 800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine.
In the Mykolaiv community of the Sumy region, the Russian military attacked a woman with a drone, injuring her.
Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski has drawn attention to an anti-Ukrainian post on social media by Polish defector judge Tomasz Szmydt, who fled to Belarus.
Russian troops struck the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs, killing one person and wounding three others.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine have struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region and several Russian military facilities in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
French actress and singer Brigitte Bardot, a renowned international sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, has passed away at the age of 91.
Some Ukrainian families, including mothers with children, left Latvia last year after alarming reports emerged about a possible threat from Russia to the Baltic states.
Russian forces have struck an energy facility in the Poltava region, damaging equipment.
Heat supply has already been restored to most homes in Kyiv and the Kyiv region following Russia’s shelling on December 27, while water supply has been fully restored.
Overnight, the Russian army continued attacks on energy infrastructure facilities in several regions. In Kyiv, electricity supply is gradually being restored after the enemy attack, while in the Kyiv region more than 19,000 consumers remain without power.
In the Chernihiv region, an elderly woman was injured and houses were damaged as a result of Russian attacks over the past day.
In Kyiv, following a massive enemy attack on December 27, power engineers restored electricity supply to 748,000 households.
Operators of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday, December 28, struck a number of military facilities of Russian invaders in temporarily occupied Crimea, including a base for storing and launching unmanned maritime vessels.
Operators of the 1st Separate Unmanned Systems Center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday, December 28, struck a number of military facilities of Russian invaders in temporarily occupied Crimea, including a base for storing and launching unmanned maritime vessels.
As a result of a massive morning shelling of Kherson, two people have been reported injured so far.
In the Pokrovsk sector, the Defense Forces of Ukraine are holding designated positions and reinforcing their groupings to counter pressure from Russian troops advancing from the northeast and south.
In the Pokrovsk sector, the Defense Forces of Ukraine are holding designated positions and reinforcing their groupings to counter pressure from Russian troops advancing from the northeast and south.
In Kyiv, rescuers from the State Emergency Service have completed efforts to eliminate the consequences at all locations following the massive Russian attack on December 27.