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12 December 2025
Assaulting a Territorial Recruitment Center (TRC) employee is an attack on a servicemember fulfilling their duties in the rear, and such actions undermine the country’s defense capability and constitute a crime.
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.
The next meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group (the “Ramstein” format) will take place online on December 16.
There are areas on the battlefield where Ukraine’s Defense Forces have managed to shift the situation precisely by introducing new approaches and technologies. Today, there is no room left for solutions that were still relevant just six months ago.
Russian troops in the south have begun to use tactics involving breakthroughs by columns of armored vehicles with large numbers of infantry attempting to gain a foothold in populated areas, which makes it significantly more difficult to dislodge them.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the forward command post of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great in Kupiansk.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the forward command post of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great in Kupiansk.
President Volodymyr Zelensky, together with Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi, visited the forward command post of the 14th Separate Mechanized Brigade named after Prince Roman the Great in Kupiansk.
In Odesa, a container ship caught fire in the evening of December 12 as a result of a Russian attack.
Russian troops are attempting to land on Bilohrudy Island, have resumed assaults near Antonivsky Bridge, and continue to shell Kherson and surrounding areas, but Ukrainian Defense Forces are holding most of the islands at the mouth of the Dnipro River.
Since the beginning of the day, 93 combat engagements have been recorded on the front, with the enemy exerting the greatest pressure in the Pokrovsk and Lyman directions.
Journalists have identified the names of 155,368 Russian soldiers who have been killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. One-third of them were volunteers.
In Huliaypole, Russian troops have intensified their attempts to infiltrate the eastern parts of the city, entering residential buildings and supporting their assaults with powerful airstrikes in the Huliaypole and Orikhiv directions.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has awarded state honors to 392 service members, 193 of whom were honored posthumously.
The number of combat engagements on southern fronts has risen by 17–20% in December, and Russian forces have intensified assault actions and airstrikes, striking Huliaipole daily.
The Concord Theater in Paris hosted an exhibition entitled “Imprisoned Freedom,” which featured 26 portraits of Ukrainian journalists who were illegally detained and imprisoned by the Russian Federation.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Belgian clearing and settlement institution Euroclear over frozen Russian assets.
Soldiers of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment “Skelia” of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, together with adjacent units, cleared the Yuvileiny residential area in Kupiansk of Russian troops.
The Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk had an audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, during which they discussed strengthening international efforts to return Ukrainian children, prisoners of war, and civilian hostages.
Japan has submitted an official application to participate in SAFE (Security Action for Europe), following earlier applications by Turkey and South Korea.
While visiting Kupiansk, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that it is extremely important to achieve results on the front lines today so that Ukraine can achieve results in diplomacy.
The Russian ambassador to Germany was summoned to the German Foreign Ministry over a large-scale cyberattack and a disinformation campaign during the federal election campaign, which German authorities say were carried out by Russian intelligence services.
The Office of the Prosecutor General has denied information circulating on social media alleging that Ruslan Kravchenko submitted a letter of resignation from the post of Prosecutor General.
Soldiers from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Main Intelligence Directorate's special forces unit “Prymary” destroyed a Russian An-26 transport aircraft, two 55Zh6M “Nebo-M” radar systems, and a 64N6E radar system in the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the city of Shostka, Sumy region, Russian troops attacked a sports school with strike drones while children were training there.
In the Odesa region, 84,000 customers remain without electricity due to an enemy attack on the night of December 12.
Journalists from Le Monde misinterpreted the remarks of Mykhailo Podolyak, Adviser to the Head of the Office of the President, suggesting that Ukraine is allegedly ready to agree to the creation of a demilitarized zone in the Donetsk region.
On December 12, the Russian army struck the Nova Vodolaha community in the Kharkiv region, injuring at least four people.
State Border Service spokesman Andriy Demchenko said that the activity of enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups (DRG) has significantly decreased recently.
Units of the Khartia Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine have liberated Kindrashivka, Radkivka, and several blocks in northern Kupiansk, which has enabled them to cut off Russian supply routes and markedly stabilize the situation in the Kupiansk sector.