Russian drone crash damages apartment building in Chernihiv
In Chernihiv, an apartment building was damaged on Wednesday, December 24, as a result of a Russian drone crash.
24 December 2025
In Chernihiv, an apartment building was damaged on Wednesday, December 24, as a result of a Russian drone crash.
The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has released footage of a combat operation carried out in November by its Black Winter Group unit on the Pokrovsk front.
In the island zone of the Kherson region, Russian occupiers continue to lay mines in channels and set up firing positions on certain islands. At the same time, the Defense Forces destroy 2–3 enemy boats every day.
In Chernihiv and the Chernihiv district, power outages affected tens of thousands of homes as a result of a Russian strike on energy infrastructure.
Russians attacked multiple communities in the Zaporizhzhia region with drones. As a result of one of the attacks, a man was killed, and another drone struck a minibus.
They are united by the formal documentation of Russian aggression in official UN instruments and by sustaining international attention on the war.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the positions of Russian drone operators in Siversk and Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
The defense forces struck the facilities of the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in the Tula region of the Russian Federation, which specializes in the production of components for plastic explosives and solid rocket fuel, as well as storage and maintenance facilities for unmanned boats in the Myrnyi area of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the south, Russian troops continue active assault operations in the Huliaipole and Oleksandrivka directions and are simultaneously preparing for combat in winter conditions, receiving white camouflage uniforms for assault operations.
On the morning of December 24, a strike drone hit a gas station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
Throughout 2025, Russians carried out 24 massive combined attacks on Naftogaz Group facilities.
As a result of fresh Russian attacks, power outages were reported as of the morning of December 24 in the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.
For the third consecutive day, Russian forces have been targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region.
For the second day in a row, Russia has deliberately targeted the oil and gas infrastructure of the Naftogaz Group.
The shelter over the destroyed reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant was damaged in a Russian attack earlier this year and may not withstand a second strike.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 60 of 116 UAVs launched by Russian forces against Ukraine since the evening of December 23.
On December 23, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 126 combat clashes with Russian invading troops along the frontline.
A group of drones carried out an attack on the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in Tula region (Russia) on the night of Wednesday, December 24.
Over the past day in the Kherson region, as a result of Russian aggression, one person was killed and five others were injured.
Over the past day, the occupiers launched 704 attacks on 27 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and three others were injured as a result of enemy strikes on Zaporizhzhia city and Zaporizhzhia district.
Drone operators of the 81st Separate Slobozhanska Airmobile Brigade destroyed a Russian infantry fighting vehicle together with its landing troops near Serebrianka.
Explosions were heard in Zaporizhzhia during an air raid alert.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said that the Khmelnytsky and Rivne nuclear power plants are reducing their capacity due to damage to electrical substations caused by Russian shelling.
In Poland, air defence systems were placed on heightened alert on Tuesday morning, including the scrambling of fighter jets to protect the country’s airspace amid a Russian air attack on Ukraine.
The first elements of a system designed to counter unmanned aerial vehicles have been installed along the Polish-Belarusian border, with the system set to become operational in January next year.
Pilots of the 39th Separate Coastal Defense Brigade, together with fighters from the 34th Venom Unmanned Systems Center, destroyed the Russian invaders' Strila-10 air defense system and 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled artillery unit in the Kherson region.
23 December 2025
On December 23, there were 110 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defense Forces and Russian troops, including 29 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector.
A Russian drone struck the technical floor of a nine-story residential building in Chernihiv, prompting an evacuation of residents.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky received a briefing from Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko on the situation in the country’s energy sector.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has revealed new details about how a Russian submarine was targeted in Novorossiysk on the night of December 15.