Russians attack critical infrastructure in Chernihiv region
Over the past day, Russian troops have struck critical infrastructure in the Chernihiv region.
09 December 2025
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.
Russian invaders killed three residents of Donetsk region and wounded 16 others on December 8.
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.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 9, 2025 amount to approximately 1,182,610 personnel, including 930 in the past 24 hours.
Units of the Hart border guard brigade used drones to hit communication antennas and shelters of the Russian invaders in the Southern Slobozhanshchyna direction.
Japan has declined the European Union's proposal to join Brussels' initiative to use frozen Russian state assets to provide financial support to Ukraine and, in particular, to make use of the EU's work in this area.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, during a meeting with his Chinese colleague Wang Yi in Beijing, called on China to use its influence and support international efforts aimed at ending the war in Ukraine as soon as possible.
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 Russian command in the Pokrovsk direction is concealing the actual losses among its personnel, registering the dead as those who allegedly left the unit without permission.
On Monday, a Ukrainian vice-consulate was opened in Rzeszów (southeastern Poland).
A Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant has sent its first shipment to China since the U.S. sanctions were imposed in January, the latest sign of growing energy cooperation between Beijing and Moscow.
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.
The exposure of a Russian influence operation in Norway proves that Russian propaganda abroad is inseparably linked to Russian intelligence services.
08 December 2025
France is very supportive of Ukraine, but raising funds for aid is becoming more difficult. At the same time, French volunteers remain mobilized and continue to hold fundraisers, in particular preparing to transfer another STABNET—a stabilization container of medical aid “at zero”—to the 37th Marine Brigade.
Russian troops are attacking Sumy again. More than eight explosions were heard in the city.
European leaders understand that Ukraine will not be able to do without the funds provided for in the reparations loan.
The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, under which NATO member states finance the purchase of weapons for Ukraine, requires USD 15 billion per year.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Ukraine has neither the legal nor the moral right to cede its territories to Russia. The United States is working to find a compromise that will satisfy both sides.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated that the main task now is to align the positions of European countries and Ukraine with those of the United States in order to finalize peace negotiations on the best possible terms for Ukraine.
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.
In November, Russia lost its position as the largest supplier of oil to China, overtaken by Saudi Arabia, Oman and Angola.
The international community must work to restore respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has decided to accept for consideration Russia's counterclaims against Ukraine under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, rejecting Ukraine's objections to the inadmissibility of Russia's claims.
Relevant services continue regular monitoring of the water level in the Pechenihy Reservoir; the situation is currently stable and there are no grounds for evacuating the population.
Russian security services are planning to organize a series of protest actions under the slogan “Against the War” in major cities — Odesa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv and Kyiv — in an effort to destabilize the situation inside Ukraine.