Electricity supply fully restored in Rivne region after Russian attack
Energy workers have fully restored the electricity supply in the Rivne region after a massive Russian attack.
23 December 2025
Energy workers have fully restored the electricity supply in the Rivne region after a massive Russian attack.
Fourteen houses, including eight residential buildings, were damaged in the Vinnytsia region as a result of a Russian attack this morning.
Since the evening of December 22, during a massive Russian aerial attack on Ukraine, the Defense Forces neutralized 635 out of 673 aerial attack assets, including almost all cruise missiles.
Russia has carried out its seventh attack on Ukraine's thermal power plants since early October, damaging the stations' equipment.
Critical infrastructure, a medical facility, and residential buildings were shelled by Russia in the Khmelnytskyi region.
On December 23, Russian invaders fired on the industrial zone of Kramatorsk from an Italmas drone in the Donetsk region.
As of 11:30, according to preliminary data, Air Defense Forces neutralized 621 Russian aerial targets: 587 unmanned aerial vehicles of various types and 34 Kh-101 and Iskander-K cruise missiles launched by Russia against Ukraine since the evening of December 22.
A Lebanon-flagged vessel carrying Ukrainian soy was damaged as a result of the December 23 attack on Odesa's port infrastructure.
Overnight and in the morning, Russia launched more than 650 drones at Ukraine, a significant number of them Shahed-type UAVs, as well as more than three dozen missiles. At least 13 regions were targeted.
Due to a massive Russian attack on December 23, Ukraine's nuclear power plants were forced to reduce electricity generation.
During a combined attack on December 23, Russia used more than 600 drones and dozens of missiles, striking Ukraine's energy facilities, mostly in the western regions.
A child was killed, and five people were injured in the Zhytomyr region as a result of Russian shelling, which also damaged houses and enterprises.
One person was killed, and power outages occurred in the Khmelnytskyi region as a result of Russian shelling.
Debris fell near a residential building in the Sviatoshynskyi district of Kyiv.
A woman was killed, and three other people were injured in a Russian attack in the Vyshhorod district of the Kyiv region.
Russia is launching massive attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and emergency power cuts have been introduced in a number of regions.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in manpower from February 24, 2022, to December 23, 2025, reached about 1,199,280 people, 1,420 of whom were eliminated in the last 24 hours.
22 December 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the current task is to organize real production of air defense systems and missiles for them in Ukraine.
Russia has adapted the Molniia strike drone for aerial reconnaissance.
On the night of December 20-21, two Su-30 and Su-27 fighter jets burned at a Russian military airfield near Lypetsk.
Air defense forces destroyed 58 drones used by Russian troops to attack Ukraine since last night, with enemy strikes recorded at 12 locations.
On December 21, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 223 combat engagements with Russian invaders along the frontline.
Total combat losses of Russian forces in manpower from February 24, 2022 to December 22, 2025 have reached approximately 1,197,860 personnel, including 1,120 eliminated over the past day.
In November 2025, China purchased gold from Russia worth a record $961 million, marking the largest deal in the history of bilateral trade in the precious metal.
21 December 2025
There were 200 combat engagements on the front line, more than 70 of them on the Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka directions.
If Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin rejects a peace agreement, then U.S. President Donald Trump should provide Ukraine with Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike military factories on Russian territory.
Belarus is implementing a large-scale, classified state project to establish full-cycle production of artillery and rocket ammunition that could directly supply the Russian army in its war against Ukraine.
In most regions of Ukraine on Monday, December 22, hourly electricity outage schedules will be in effect for residential consumers, while industrial users will face power consumption restrictions.
Foreign defense companies, for which the experience of potential partners is very important, are very cautious about starting cooperation with Ukrainian arms manufacturers, but steps towards each other are yielding good results.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, following a conversation with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store, said that Norway will help Ukraine strengthen its energy resilience.