War update: 158 clashes on frontline over past day
On the front lines yesterday, December 14, 158 combat engagements of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with Russian invaders were recorded.
15 December 2025
On the front lines yesterday, December 14, 158 combat engagements of the Ukrainian Defense Forces with Russian invaders were recorded.
In a number of Iranian cities, leaflets have appeared en masse offering to join the Russian army for a $20,000 signing bonus and about $2,000 per month.
14 December 2025
In the town of Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Russian forces shot a man and a woman in an apartment building in the occupied part of the city.
13 December 2025
The Ukrainian Season, which began on December 1 in France, is the largest program of bilateral cultural cooperation, with major events planned in French twin cities that Ukrainian cultural diplomacy has previously barely reached.
Russian units operating in the Kharkiv region, in the north part of Kupiansk and its outskirts, are blocked and cannot receive reinforcements or full logistical support.
On the night of December 13, the Russians launched more than 450 combat drones and 30 missiles of various types at Ukraine, damaging more than ten civilian objects.
Nine people were injured in enemy strikes on the Kharkiv region in 24 hours.
Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has purchased and organized the delivery of more than 600,000 items of adaptive clothing to military medical facilities in 2025 as part of the "Wounded Soldier's Kit" project.
A 13-year-old boy and his father have been evacuated from Kupiansk, where active hostilities continue. Their home has been destroyed.
In the Kharkiv region, 43 underground schools are being built, financed as part of the comprehensive “Offline School” policy, of which five projects are being implemented with the support of The Howard G. Buffett Foundation.
12 December 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky received reports from Head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, noting that efforts to end the war and define security guarantees for Ukraine are progressing in three directions.
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.
On December 12, the Russian army struck the Nova Vodolaha community in the Kharkiv region, injuring at least four people.
Due to enemy drone strikes on the night of December 12, a fire broke out on the territory of one of the state-owned coal mines, and two workers were wounded.
As of the morning of December 12, customers in the Odesa, Donetsk, and Kharkiv regions were left without power due to Russian attacks.
11 December 2025
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 Kharkiv region, four settlements were under Russian attack over the course of the day, and one person was killed.
Since the start of the full-scale war, courts in frontline regions have issued 311 rulings ordering Russia to pay UAH 386.03 billion in compensation to Ukrainian companies.
10 December 2025
Three settlements in the Kharkiv region were under Russian attack for 24 hours.
In Chernivtsi Oblast, a court sentenced a man who organized illegal crossings of conscription-age men across the border to 4 years of imprisonment.
09 December 2025
Damage to the Pechenihy Dam in Kharkiv region did not come as a surprise to the Defense Forces, the military had prepared in advance for such a scenario and laid out backup routes.
On the front line over the past day, December 8, 139 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded.
08 December 2025
The international community must work to restore respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity
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.
Russian forces continue daily shelling of three border regions of Ukraine and attempt to operate with infantry groups, but they cannot break through the defense lines of Ukrainian border guards.
As a result of Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region over the past day, five people were killed and 11 injured.
True victory will be when the countries once conquered by Russia appear in its place