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13 December 2025
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders in Berlin this weekend.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that a peace deal for Ukraine being advanced by the United States could work and that, in his opinion, many people want to see it work.
In the Donetsk region, sunflower has been harvested from 58,000 hectares, or 83.3 percent of the planned area, while corn has been collected from 5,300 hectares, or 42.7 percent of the forecast.
A resident of Mariupol has been sentenced in the Russian Federation to 18 years in a strict-regime penal colony on fabricated “state treason” charges, despite the absence of any independent investigation.
A 13-year-old boy and his father have been evacuated from Kupiansk, where active hostilities continue. Their home has been destroyed.
In November 2025, Ukraine’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth accelerated to 5.3%, compared with 2.3% in October. The main drivers were agriculture, domestic trade, construction, and manufacturing.
12 December 2025
Several railway sections have been de-energized as a result of Russian strikes on energy infrastructure along the routes to the Pivdennyi port.
On December 12, there were 161 combat engagements between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders, with the most intense fighting in the Pokrovsk direction, where the enemy attempted 37 attacks.
A number of settlements in the Pryluky district of the Chernihiv region have been left without electricity as a result of a strike by Russian forces on an energy facility.
The EU Council today decided to temporarily prohibit any transfer of the frozen assets of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to the aggressor state.
The latest version of the American plan for resolving Russia's war against Ukraine also includes provisions on Ukraine's possible accession to the European Union as early as January 2027.
Long-range drones of the Alfa Special Operations Center of the SBU successfully attacked the Filanovsky oil production platform for the second time this week.
A seven-year-old boy was brought back from the part of the Kherson region temporarily seized by Russian forces as part of the President of Ukraine's initiative Bring Kids Back UA.
EU Ambassador to Ukraine Katarina Mathernova stressed the importance of today's decision by the EU Council to immobilize Russian assets without a specific deadline, including because it may contribute to the adoption of a decision on a reparations loan for Ukraine.
Information about the alleged capture of Novodanylivka in the Zaporizhzhia region by Russian forces does not correspond to reality.
Russian forces attacked with FPV drones and shelled the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of the Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery, damaging an enterprise, an educational institution, and residential buildings.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has confirmed a strike on the Yaroslavl oil refinery Slavneft-YANOS in Russia, as well as several targets on temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine.
Russian propagandists replaced the audio track of a video from a ceremony honoring a fallen Ukrainian defender.
Ukraine and the United States have established a joint working group to develop a rapid economic action plan as part of the process to ensure a sustainable and fair peace for Ukraine.
The Russian military launched a strike with Shahed drones and ballistic missiles on two ports in Odesa region, injuring one person and damaging port infrastructure.
A 60-90 day timeframe for preparing elections in Ukraine is unrealistic because it would cast doubt on their legitimacy. Premature elections could push Ukraine into a political crisis – something Russia is counting on.
Ukrainian Navy Marines from the 38th Separate Marine Brigade named after Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi captured several groups of Russian soldiers during an attempted breakthrough toward Myrnohrad in Donetsk region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, during a visit to Kharkiv region, received reports on the situation in the part of Kupiansk where Ukrainian forces are currently conducting clearing operations against remaining Russian troops.
Russian troops in the south have begun to use tactics involving breakthroughs by columns of armored vehicles with large numbers of infantry attempting to gain a foothold in populated areas, which makes it significantly more difficult to dislodge them.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the forward command post of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great in Kupiansk.
In Odesa, a container ship caught fire in the evening of December 12 as a result of a Russian attack.
Russian troops are attempting to land on Bilohrudy Island, have resumed assaults near Antonivsky Bridge, and continue to shell Kherson and surrounding areas, but Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding most of the islands at the mouth of the Dnipro River.
Since the beginning of the day, 93 combat engagements have been recorded on the front, with the enemy exerting the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk and Lyman directions.
Journalists have identified the names of 155,368 Russian soldiers who have been killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One-third of them were volunteers.
In Huliaypole, Russian troops have intensified their attempts to infiltrate the eastern parts of the city, entering residential buildings and supporting their assaults with powerful airstrikes in the Huliaypole and Orikhiv directions.