War update: Ukrainian forces repel 177 Russian attacks over past day
As many as 177 combat engagements between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline on December 9.
10 December 2025
As many as 177 combat engagements between Ukrainian forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline on December 9.
In the early hours of Wednesday, December 10, a Russian drone hit a civilian facility in the Koriukivka district, Chernihiv region, sparking a fire.
In Ukraine, 243 artists and 119 media workers, including foreigners, have been killed as a result of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation.
09 December 2025
There have been 164 combat engagements on the frontline today, with the enemy launching 42 attacks in the Pokrovsk sector, where more than 120 Russian troops were eliminated.
The length of the front line has decreased by 35 kilometers over the past month thanks to the actions of Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Andrii Melnyk, outlined what he described as the main reason why Russia is able to continue its war and urged the international community to step up sanctions against Russian energy exports.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi said that the Ukrainian Defense Forces are facing “some of the most serious challenges” since the start of the full-scale war.
Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Germany for years, so work is currently underway to strengthen the army and improve the civil defense system.
The situation in Kherson region is tense, particularly on the right bank, where Russian forces are intensively using aviation and drones.
Between June and November 2025, the number of civilian casualties resulting from Russian aggression against Ukraine increased significantly in both frontline and urban areas.
Two civilians were killed as a result of attacks by Russian drones in the border areas of Sumy region.
Intense fighting continues on the Huliaipole and Oleksandrohrad sectors of the front. Russian troops are trying to cut Huliaipole off from logistical routes and encircle the town.
In Ternopil, the dismantling of a multi-apartment building at 8 Vasyl Stus Street, which was hit by a Russian missile on November 19, has begun.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) carried out a series of precision nighttime strikes on Russian military logistics sites in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, destroying drone stockpiles and fuel reserves.
Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) carried out a series of precision nighttime strikes on Russian military logistics sites in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, destroying drone stockpiles and fuel reserves.
Over the past day, Russian troops have struck critical infrastructure in the Chernihiv region.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, a fire and rescue station was damaged as a result of a Russian strike.
Air defense forces destroyed 84 of the 110 Russian drones that the enemy used to attack Ukraine in the evening.
At night, the enemy attacked three districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
On the front line over the past day, December 8, 139 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops launched 105 attacks on 33 settlements in Sumy Oblast, injuring two people.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian attacks in the Kherson region have killed two people and injured five.
Units of the Hart border guard brigade used drones to hit communication antennas and shelters of the Russian invaders in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna direction.
Units of the Hart border guard brigade used drones to hit communication antennas and shelters of the Russian invaders in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna direction.
The military counterintelligence of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a Russian informant in the Mykolaiv region, who was spying on the movement of armored vehicles of the Defense Forces near the front line in the south.
08 December 2025
Russian troops are attacking Sumy again. More than eight explosions were heard in the city.
Russian occupiers carried out a massive FPV-drone attack on the Kostobobriv forestry of the Novhorod-Siverskyi forestry district of the Specialized Forest Enterprise (SFE), causing damage.
On the night of December 8, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck several Russian military targets. In the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region, an ammunition depot and a fuel and lubricants storage site were hit, while in the temporarily occupied territory of Donetsk region, a drone depot, a mobile fire group, and a Pantsir-S1 air-defense system were destroyed.
FPV drone pilots from the Signum battalion of the 53rd Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Volodymyr Monomakh are carrying out forest clearing operations against Russian invaders in the Lyman sector.
Several explosions were heard in Zaporizhzhia.