Ukrainian forces down 13 Russian drones, 11 veer off course
Ukrainian forces downed 13 Russian drones between 19:00 on December 26 and 09:00 on December 27, while another 11 failed to reach their targets, likely due to electronic jamming.
27 December 2024
Ukrainian forces downed 13 Russian drones between 19:00 on December 26 and 09:00 on December 27, while another 11 failed to reach their targets, likely due to electronic jamming.
On December 26, 2024, there were 171 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders.
During career guidance sessions in the temporarily occupied part of Luhansk region, schoolchildren are being offered contracts with the Russian army.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to December 27, 2024, amount to approximately 782,510 personnel, including 1,650 over the past day.
Russian forces carried out 169 shelling attacks on border areas and settlements in Sumy region on Thursday, December 26, with a total of 311 explosions recorded.
26 December 2024
Explosive technicians from Ukraine's State Emergency Service have neutralized a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that fell on a private household in Kharkiv.
A total of 114 combat engagements have been reported along the frontlines since day-start on Thursday, December 26, as battles are still in progress in six directions, the fiercest ones in Kurakhove and Pokrovsk axes.
Hourly power outages for household consumers on Friday, December 27, are scheduled from 08:00 to 17:00.
As a result of the destruction of the command post of the 810th Separate Marine Brigade of the Russian Federation Armed Forces in the village of Lgov, Kursk region, the deputy commander of the brigade and 17 other soldiers, most of them staff officers, were probably killed.
A passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines crashed in the Kazakh city of Aktau due to a Russian surface-to-air missile.
The Ukrainian Air Force has conducted a precision strike on a ballistic missile fuel production plant in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, located in Russia's Rostov region.
Russian forces have attacked Nikopol with a kamikaze drone, injuring six people.
The Russians themselves admit that the Azerbaijan Airlines plane, which crashed near Aktau in Kazakhstan on December 25, was hit by a Russian air defense missile.
The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security pursues efforts to provide a brief explanation to foreign audiences on the current topics of particular interest as regards Ukraine.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry and the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council launched on the War&Sanctions portal a new section exposing "Kremlin mouthpieces", publishing the first list of 55 Russian propagandists and media managers.
Over the past day, December 25, a total of 217 combat engagements have been recorded on the Ukrainian battlefield, with the situation remaining tense in the Pokrovsk, Vremivka, and Kurakhove directions.
Ukraine’s Defense Forces overnight Thursday shot down 20 Russian drones, while 11 more veered off their intended course.
The total combat losses of Russian troops in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to December 26, 2024, amounted to about 780,860 people, including 1,540 people over the past day.
As of 6:00 a.m. on December 26, there is one enemy missile carrier in the Black Sea with a total volley of up to four Kalibr cruise missiles.
The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has added the US Helsinki Commission to the list of so-called undesirable organizations.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said a Russian missile had violated Moldovan airspace on the night of Wednesday, December 25.
25 December 2024
Ukraine's Armed Forces engaged in 211 combat clashes with Russian forces on December 25, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing the heaviest fighting.
Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp condemned Russia's Christmas morning attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, stating that the strike demonstrates President Vladimir Putin's focus on destruction rather than peace.
Former Austrian President Heinz Fischer has condemned Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, accusing Vladimir Putin of deception and branding the military action "unforgivable."
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy grid and emphasized the urgency of bolstering support for Ukraine.
Donald Trump's candidate for the post of US Special Representative for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, has condemned Russia's massive missile attack on Ukraine today.
During the day, Russian troops attacked Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts, Dnipro and Kamianske.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how, on the morning of December 25, soldiers of the Kherson Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade destroyed one of the cruise missiles fired by Russia.
More than a hundred patients of a hospital are being evacuated in Dnipro, where problems with electricity and heat supply have arisen after a massive air attack by Russian troops.
Drone strikes hit Russia's Tambov region this morning, damaging the Michurinsk Plant Progress defense enterprise and causing a fire at LLC Transnefteprodukt.