Merz and Rutte to discuss further support for Ukraine
German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will discuss further support for Ukraine in Berlin on Thursday, December 11.
07 December 2025
German Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will discuss further support for Ukraine in Berlin on Thursday, December 11.
Ukraine is currently facing problems with mobilization, and a considerable number of mistakes have already been made in this process, but this does not justify attacks on personnel of military recruitment centers.
The Defense Forces are conducting search-and-assault operations and eliminating enemy forces in the urban areas of Pokrovsk.
Human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who advocates for Ukraine on the international stage, Oleksandra Matviichuk, has called on Germany to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles and to take a more decisive stance against Russia.
This week, Russia launched more than 1,600 combat drones, about 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and nearly 70 missiles of various types at Ukraine.
Russians struck energy infrastructure facilities in the Poltava region, particularly in the city of Kremenchuk, and the Chernihiv region last night.
China is consolidating its position as Mongolia’s key economic partner, rapidly expanding purchases of Mongolian coal and financing new logistics routes that deepen Ulaanbaatar’s dependence on its southern neighbor while simultaneously reducing Russia’s role in regional trade.
The 67th Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced the clearing of the village of Tykhe in the Dnipropetrovsk region from Russian forces.
A total of 161 engagements between the Defence Forces of Ukraine and Russian invaders were recorded on the frontline over the previous day.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 175 Russian drones, two Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles, and two Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles.
At night, the Russian army attacked communities in the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region with drones.
Soldiers of the Active Operations Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Resistance Movement against Russian occupation in the Kherson region eliminated two invaders from the 76th Division along with their vehicle.
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to December 7, 2025, amount to approximately 1,180,870 people, including 1,080 people over the past day.
The Kremlin has finally abandoned plans to build the North Siberian Railway, which was supposed to become a key transport corridor for coal exports and the Northern Sea Route.
In Kremenchuk, Poltava region, a massive combined strike by Russian forces has caused disruptions in the supply of electricity, heat, and water.
Ukrenergo CEO Vitalii Zaychenko believes that it may take weeks to improve the electricity supply situation after the Russian attack on the night of December 6.
In the temporarily occupied areas of Luhansk region, Russian military commissariats are intensively encouraging graduating students to go to war for a “promising career.”
In all regions of Ukraine on Sunday, December 7, electricity consumption schedules will be in effect from 00:00 to 23:59, with three to four rotation blocks being disconnected.
Agents of the partisan movement ATESH conducted detailed reconnaissance of the Mytishchi Thermal Power Plant, a key energy hub that provides electricity to a number of military and defense facilities in the Moscow region.
As a result of Russian aggression, a warehouse storing gauze and bandages and a warehouse storing tires burned down in Dnipro on December 6.
06 December 2025
Ukraine's and Bulgaria's foreign ministers, Andrii Sybiha and Georg Georgiev, held a phone conversation on further steps to develop bilateral cooperation between the two countries.
The negotiation process between the United States and Ukraine on ending Russia's war is proceeding constructively, with some difficult points remaining, but both sides are working toward achieving realistic and acceptable outcomes.
In Sloviansk, Donetsk region, six people were injured after the enemy dropped an aerial bomb.
In the area of an electrical substation in the eastern district of Belgorod, Russia, on the evening of December 6, an explosion occurred after a Russian aerial bomb fell, leaving part of the regional center and nearby suburbs without electricity.
On Monday, a meeting will take place in London between the presidents of Ukraine and France and the prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Germany, who plan to discuss peace negotiations mediated by the United States.
The NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) held a ceremony to raise the Ukrainian flag.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Hnatov discussed key matters that could guarantee an end to the bloodshed and remove the threat of a third Russian invasion with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Heavy strike drones of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine delivered thematic leaflets to Russian military positions, reminding them of personal responsibility and punishment for taking part in a criminal war.
Soldiers of the Active Operations Department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the Resistance Movement against Russian occupation in the Kherson region eliminated two invaders from the 76th Division along with their vehicle.
Since the start of the day, 77 combat engagements have occurred on the front, with fighting continuing on six axes. Russian forces are most active near Pokrovsk.