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12 December 2025
Russia carried out a massive attack on Odesa region with strike drones, damaging an energy infrastructure facility and warehouses. Some settlements were left without electricity.
Russia carried out a massive attack on Odesa region with strike drones, damaging an energy infrastructure facility and warehouses. Some settlements were left without electricity.
On December 12, Ukraine marks Ground Forces Day. Established by a presidential decree on October 18, 1997, the holiday honors the contributions of the Ground Forces – the largest branch of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – in ensuring the country’s defense capabilities.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, total Russian combat losses in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to December 12, 2025, amount to approximately 1,186,480 personnel, including 1,400 losses in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of National Defence of Poland has appealed to Google to blur images of military and critical infrastructure in its applications.
11 December 2025
Ukrainian forces engaged in 165 combat clashes with Russian invaders on December 11, with nearly half of them recorded in the Pokrovsk sector.
The Trump administration may send a representative to a meeting in Europe this week only if there is a "real chance" of signing a peace agreement.
U.S. President Donald Trump is deeply disappointed with both sides of the Russia-Ukraine war and now wants action instead of talk.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his address to the Coalition of the Willing, called for ensuring security guarantees for Ukraine, strengthening cooperation under the PURL program, and moving forward as quickly as possible on the issue of using frozen Russian assets.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, speaking at a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, emphasized the key principles required for an acceptable peace agreement to end Russia's war against Ukraine.
The Austrian Parliament has supported a resolution condemning Russia's human rights violations in the occupied territories of Ukraine and the treatment of Ukrainians in captivity.
Ukraine is doing everything possible to work constructively on the text of the peace agreement and defend its own interests, but unfortunately, the entire process could collapse for various reasons.
Questions of possible compromises on territorial issues within a peace plan must be decided by the people of Ukraine — either through elections or a referendum.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he hopes the United States will help Ukraine unblock its path to EU membership through its influence on certain countries.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine would number up to 800,000 troops under the draft of a possible peace agreement.
Ukraine has submitted a revised peace plan to the United States, but it is not yet final.
President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that his current priority is ending the war in Ukraine and developing a peace plan, not appointing a new head of the Presidential Office.
Since the beginning of the day, as of 16:00 on December 11, 108 combat engagements have taken place along the front. The Defense Forces are stopping the enemy, holding the lines, and disrupting Russia's plans.
The number of people injured in a school bus accident in the Dnipropetrovsk region has risen to 10, with two fatalities.
Russia will not agree to any peace agreement that includes accountability for its war crimes, so human rights defenders must work on developing new international institutions and placing the issue of justice into a separate track.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a decision that will allow service members who have been mobilized to obtain mortgages at a 3% interest rate instead of the standard 7%.
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Pavlo Palisa held a meeting with representatives of the French defence industry, with joint production projects topping the agenda.
Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin is openly displaying imperial ambitions and preparing for a prolonged war against Ukraine and further escalation on the European continent, as evidenced also by his recent decrees.
Russian troops dropped a guided bomb on a store in the Velyka Pysarivka community in the Sumy region, killing two women and wounding two more.
The E3 group, which includes the UK, France and Germany, has proposed that U.S. President Donald Trump coordinate proposals on achieving peace in Ukraine in the coming days, and hopes that talks could take place early next week, possibly in Berlin.
In the Huliaipole sector, a group of Russian soldiers, dressed in civilian clothes, tried to infiltrate the rear of Ukrainian defenders, but they were detected and eliminated.
Since the start of the full-scale war, 676 children have died in Ukraine, and more than 2,000 children have been injured.
Germany is a driving force behind NATO member states' support for Ukraine.
Ukraine's air defenses neutralized 83 drones and two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles launched by Russia in an attack that began on the evening of December 10.
Over the past few days, Russian occupation forces have continued to exert pressure near the city of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region and in the Lyman sector in the Donetsk region.