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Wednesday, 24 December 2025, 16:45
21 December 2025
Russia is actively spreading false narratives in the United States about the religious situation in Ukraine, attempting to maintain influence over some Orthodox Ukrainians, portray Ukraine as hostile to American values, and weaken Congressional support.
Russian forces are no different from Islamic State terrorists after forcibly deporting 50 civilians from the village of Hrabovske in Ukraine’s Sumy region to Russia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said.
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.
Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov together with Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Hnatov, will hold another round of security consultations with the U.S. side. The Ukrainian delegation expects further progress and tangible outcomes.
In the city of Izium, Kharkiv region, the area that had been hit by Russian strikes the day before was cleared, and the outlines of damaged windows were covered.
The Russian army shelled the Zaporizhzhia region nearly 5,000 times in one week. Sixty people were wounded.
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 400,000 square meters of road surface have been restored in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and bridges and overpasses that provide logistics for the Defense Forces have been repaired.
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.
Director of the US Office of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has refuted a recent Reuters report that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has not changed his military goals of capturing all of Ukraine in four years of full-scale war.
The Ministry for Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine and the Ministry of Energy are working to increase the available volumes of electricity for the Dnipropetrovsk region to match its load as a frontline region with military logistics and large-scale industry.
Ukraine's Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal discussed the continuation of cooperation in the defense sector and Ukraine's priority needs to protect people and critical infrastructure during a meeting in Kyiv with Portugal's Minister of Defense Nuno Melo.
Fighting is currently ongoing in Hrabovske, Sumy region, while Russian forces are absent from the neighboring settlement of Riasne.
The Swedish Customs and Coast Guard have boarded the Russian freighter Adler, which is anchored off Hoganas.
Soldiers of the 25th Airborne Sicheslav Brigade of the 7th Corps of the 25th Separate Airborne Brigade of the Air Assault Forces (AAF) have released rare footage of combat in Pokrovsk.
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.
The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has appealed to Russia's ombudsperson Tatyana Moskalkova, demanding information on the whereabouts of residents of the village of Hrabovske in the Sumy region who were forcibly taken to the territory of the Russian Federation by the occupiers.
In the Kharkiv region over the past day, as a result of Russian attacks, two people were killed and two more were injured.
Over the past week, the Russian Federation launched approximately 1,300 attack drones, nearly 1,200 glide bombs, and nine missiles of various types at the territory of Ukraine. The Odesa region suffered the most.
As a result of a rapid advance by Russian invading forces in Sumy region, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces withdrew from several positions near the village of Hrabovske. Stabilization operations are currently underway, along with measures to detect and eliminate enemy personnel.
During the war years, trade between Ukraine and Germany has grown rapidly, but after the war ends, the balance will need to be adjusted by increasing Ukrainian exports.
Japan and five Central Asian countries have agreed to develop a transport route to Europe bypassing Russia to ensure stable supplies of critical minerals and energy resources.
Healthcare facilities in southern Odesa region continue to operate normally.
The Russian authorities continue to increase funding for the war against Ukraine, even significantly exceeding the allocated budget. According to the results of 2025, Russia’s military expenditures are almost 20% higher than planned.
Agents of the ATESH partisan movement set fire to relay cabinets at a railway hub in the Russian town of Bataysk, through which supplies are delivered to enemy groupings on all southern axes.
A civilian infrastructure facility was damaged in Ukraine’s Rivne region as a result of a Russian attack.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 75 of the 97 drones launched by Russia in an overnight attack that began on Saturday evening.
On December 20, as many as 235 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line, including 72 in the Pokrovsk sector.
Solution found, frozen Russian assets will remain frozen
The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to December 21, 2025, amount to approximately 1,196,740, including 1,130 in the past 24 hours.