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11 December 2025
Russian occupying forces have sentenced Valerii Yeremieiev, a defender of Mariupol and a serviceman of the 1st Corps of the National Guard Azov, to 22 years in a penal colony.
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.
Based on materials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), an FSB agent has been sentenced to 15 years in prison with confiscation of property for carrying out arson attacks on Ukrzaliznytsia and preparing bombs for terrorist attacks in the Cherkasy region.
Law enforcement officers in the Odesa region have exposed a criminal group that organized the illegal removal of Ukrainian orphans and children deprived of parental care to foreign countries for subsequent adoption.
10 December 2025
President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed with representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine the possibility of holding elections under the legal regime of martial law.
Sanctions against Russian tankers and the entire infrastructure used to transport Russian oil will be intensified both by Europe and by Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky announced a strengthening of Ukraine's combat aviation.
Ukraine and its partners are working on a fundamental 20-point document to end the war, while work is also underway on at least two additional documents — one on security and one on the economy.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team held a productive discussion with the American side on Ukraine's reconstruction and economic recovery.
A criminal investigation into the situation surrounding the orphaned children evacuated to Turkey at the beginning of the full-scale invasion has also been opened on Turkish territory.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN, Andrii Melnyk, presented to the UN General Assembly (UNGA) a draft resolution on international cooperation in studying, mitigating, and minimizing the consequences of the Chornobyl disaster, and urged states to vote in favor of the document.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the Law “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2026.”
Today, SSU Sea Baby marine drones struck the Dashan oil tanker, which belongs to the Russian Federation's “shadow fleet,” in the Black Sea.
Ukraine still lacks a single body responsible for policy on temporarily occupied territories and the protection of internally displaced persons' rights, which leads to large-scale systemic problems.
Ukraine's ambassador to the Netherlands, Andriy Kostin, said that Russia had carried out the largest-scale abduction of children in Europe since World War II.
On December 10, several explosions were heard in the temporarily occupied Crimea near the Hvardiyske airfield. Maritime passenger transport has been suspended in Sevastopol.
Businessman Ihor Kolomoisky has claimed that an attempted assassination of Tymur Mindich, a suspect in a National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) case, was carried out in Israel but failed.
Shell Plc is planning to dissolve a partnership with Russia's Rosneft PJSC through which the two oil giants jointly own a stake in a pipeline from Kazakhstan.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that this week could bring news that advances efforts to end the bloodshed. He noted that a call with U.S. officials on a document detailing Ukraine's reconstruction process is scheduled for today, while a meeting of the Coalition of the Willing is planned for tomorrow.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, police detained a man who, while intoxicated, inflicted a stab wound on a local resident. The detainee has been served a notice of suspicion.
A new meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, aimed at advancing security guarantees for Ukraine, will take place on Thursday, December 11, via video link.
Most of the children Ukraine manages to return from Russia are teenagers who can defend their Ukrainian identity, while bringing back very young children is extremely difficult.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has congratulated Guy Parmelin on being elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2026.
Over the past 30 years, the depth of seasonal thawing of the upper permafrost layer in Russia has increased from 45 to 70 cm, placing 1,260 km of major gas pipelines and thousands of kilometers of roads in the danger zone.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) counterintelligence and the National Police have prevented a terrorist attack in Zhytomyr that a 16-year-old schoolgirl had been preparing on instructions from Russia.
The categories of violations of servicemembers' rights in 2025 have in fact not changed compared to 2022, and the biggest problems concern mobilization, length of service, reports (requests), and corruption in Territorial Recruitment and Social Support Centers (TRCs).
Operators of Vampire UAVs and FPV drone units of the Steel Border brigade destroyed 11 shelters used by Russian invaders in the Kursk sector.
Ukraine's National Police opened an internal investigation into a fatal road accident in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, in which a child was killed. The officers involved have been suspended from duty.
Ukraine, within the framework of the peace process and the humanitarian track, insists on the return of all its citizens, prisoners of war, civilian hostages, and deported children, based on the all-for-all principle.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky heard a report from the head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, Oleh Ivashchenko, on the foreign policy situation surrounding Ukraine and on developments inside Russia.