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30 December 2025
Peace in Ukraine is “on the horizon” for the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and a key outcome of recent negotiations has been a U.S. declaration on security guarantees, including the possible deployment of American troops in Ukraine.
Due to the scale of damage to the energy infrastructure, it is not yet possible to implement hourly power cuts in parts of Kyiv and the Kyiv region, as well as in the Odesa region.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine cannot simply withdraw from its territory as part of peace efforts, because this contradicts the law.
As of the morning of December 30, due to Russian attacks, many users in the Chernihiv region are without power, and there are also power outages in the Sumy and Kharkiv regions.
This morning, December 30, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with three guided aerial bombs. The shelling caused destruction.
In Chernihiv and Nizhyn districts, most consumers were left without electricity due to shelling and hits on energy facilities.
A man was injured in a Russian strike in the Kharkiv region yesterday, December 29.
The State Bureau of Investigation has opened a case regarding a traffic accident involving a serviceman, in which a woman was killed, and her two young children sustained injuries.
In the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region, on the Kyiv-Kharkiv highway, one person died and 13 were injured as a result of a collision between two cars and a minibus.
29 December 2025
Russian troops struck four settlements in the Kharkiv region over the past day, injuring three people.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that although agreement has been reached on most of the 20 points of the peace plan, the issue of Donbas remains difficult.
28 December 2025
Ukrainian units continue to hold control over a substantial part of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region despite the difficult situation.
Over the past day, Russian troops shelled six settlements in the Kharkiv region, injuring four people.
27 December 2025
Reports by Russian media claiming the alleged capture of Huliaipole and Stepnohirsk in Zaporizhzhia region and Myrnohrad in Donetsk region do not correspond to reality.
Over the past day, on December 26, 258 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line.
Yesterday, December 26, four civilian men were killed in Kharkiv and the village of Podoly in the Kurylivka community, and seven people, including a nine-month-old girl, were injured in the regional center.
Eight people were injured and two were killed as a result of a Russian strike on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.
Five people were injured in Kyiv as a result of the Russian attack on December 27.
In occupied Crimea and Donetsk, wounded servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces are being forced to sign contracts and sent into “assault operations” instead of being demobilized. They are predominantly deployed to the Zaporizhzhia sector.
26 December 2025
Russian troops carried out strikes throughout the day on the Nikopol, Synelnykove, and Kryvyi Rih districts of Dnipropetrovsk region, injuring two civilians.
Eight people were injured and two were killed as a result of a Russian strike on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv.
As of now, four people are known to have been injured as a result of Russian strikes on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkiv, and two people have been killed.
The Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has ordered pre-trial detention until February 22 for the former chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) in Kharkiv region, Roman Dudin, who was re-arrested while attempting to leave detention on bail.
In Kharkiv, Russian glide bomb strikes have resulted in fatalities and injuries, with the exact number of casualties still being clarified.
Consumers in five Ukrainian regions remained without electricity due to Russian attacks as of the morning of December 26, with emergency power outages being applied in some regions.
Russian occupation forces are attempting to expand the combat zone in the Kharkiv region, with the enemy sustaining significant losses in the area of Sotnytskyi Kozachok.
Yesterday, December 25, Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded three others.
Fighters of the Phoenix border unit have repelled another Russian combined assault in the Toretsk sector, destroying a motorcycle column and an enemy tank.
25 December 2025
Senators from both the Democratic and Republican parties have condemned Russia's killing of Ukrainian civilians at a time when Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas.
A volunteer from Kharkiv, Vyacheslav Ilchenko, was killed as a result of a Russian strike on an evacuation group in Donetsk region.