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12 December 2025
There were 174 combat engagements between Ukraine’s Defence Forces and Russian invaders over the past day. The enemy exerted pressure in the Pokrovsk sector, while intense fighting continues in the Lyman, Kostiantynivka, Oleksandrohrad, Huliaipole, and Orikhiv sectors.
On the night of December 12, drones attacked Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. The attack targeted the local oil refinery Slavneft-YANOS, which is one of the five largest oil refineries in Russia.
On the night of December 12, drones attacked Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow. The attack targeted the local oil refinery Slavneft-YANOS, which is one of the five largest oil refineries in Russia.
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.
Russian forces attacked Pavlohrad overnight, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
Aerial reconnaissance operators of the Sky Hawks strike drone unit from the 4th Border Guard Detachment destroyed four positions of Russian invaders on the Southern Slobozhanshchyna fronts.
As a result of an air attack by Russian forces on Odesa, infrastructure was damaged and part of the city was left without electricity and water supply.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained two Russian agents who were preparing strikes on thermal and hydroelectric power plants in the Kyiv region.
The total cost of restoring the passenger depot and 27 destroyed electric train carriages in Fastiv, Kyiv region, following Russia’s large-scale attack is estimated at about UAH 400 million.
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.
Russian forces fired artillery and carried out drone attacks about 30 times on Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring a woman.
Another group of children aged 4 to 16 has been returned from the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region to the territory controlled by Ukraine. In total, 270 children have been returned from the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Kherson region this year.
The situation in the south remains difficult, with 56 combat clashes recorded in the past 24 hours. At the same time, Huliaypole remains under the control of the Defense Forces, with the enemy being destroyed on the outskirts of the city.
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.
Russian troops shelled the Dnipro district of Kherson around noon, injuring two men and a woman, and in the morning, the enemy attacked the Korabelny district, wounding a 49-year-old man.
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.
Since the start of the full-scale war, 676 children have died in Ukraine, and more than 2,000 children have been injured.
Drones struck the Acron mineral fertilizer plant in Veliky Novgorod in the early hours of December 11, causing a fire in the area of the facility.
Drones struck the Acron mineral fertilizer plant in Veliky Novgorod in the early hours of December 11, causing a fire in the area of the facility.
Russian troops used armored vehicles to launch a sudden attack on Pokrovsk in foggy weather, but the Defense Forces detected and eliminated them.
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.
In the Kamianske district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, a school bus collided with a Volkswagen Transporter. Two people were killed and seven others, including a child, were injured.
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.
In the Kupiansk direction, Russian forces killed a civilian and mined the site with an FPV-drone.
In the Kupiansk direction, Russian forces killed a civilian and mined the site with an FPV-drone.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, approximately ten railway stations in Ukraine have been destroyed, and about forty more have sustained damage of varying degrees.
Long-range drones of the SBU Special Operations Center Alpha struck the Filanovsky oil platform, which belongs to the company Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft.