Zelensky announces meeting with Trump before New Year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the near future.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the near future.
Yesterday, December 25, Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region and wounded three others.
Over the past day, 121 combat clashes occurred between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, 28 of them in the Pokrovsk sector. The enemy also actively pressed on the Kostiantynivka and Oleksandrivka directions.
Units of the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) struck/destroyed 1,108 enemy targets over the past day.
In the Kherson region, one person was killed and six others were injured over the past 24 hours as a result of Russian attacks.
In Odesa, Russian forces attacked an infrastructure facility with a strike drone, resulting in a fire.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 26, 2025 amount to approximately 1,202,070 personnel, including 840 in the past 24 hours.
Over the past day, Russian occupation forces carried out 636 strikes on 29 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and four others were wounded as a result of enemy attacks on Zaporizhzhia district.
Russian forces attacked the city of Mykolaiv and its suburbs overnight with several attack drones, causing a partial power outage for residents of Mykolaiv district.
In temporarily occupied Crimea, the practice of shutting down or deliberately slowing mobile internet access is becoming a permanent norm.
Operators of the Prime strike unmanned aerial systems company of the 5th Border Guard Detachment destroyed a D-30 artillery gun, an electronic warfare system, communications equipment and enemy shelters in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna sector.
Fighters of the Phoenix unmanned systems regiment have repelled another Russian combined assault in the Toretsk sector, destroying a motorcycle column and an enemy tank.
A court has sentenced five Russian servicemen in absentia to ten years in prison for torturing civilians during the temporary occupation of parts of the Okhtyrka district in Ukraine's Sumy region at the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.
Soviet authorities persecuted Ukrainian carolers because they were seen as a threat to communist ideology and an expression of national identity.
The 2026 state budget expands funding for public investment to UAH 111.5 billion, resources the state will channel into modernizing critical infrastructure, regional recovery, strengthening energy resilience, and developing transport, social, healthcare, and educational facilities.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation is introducing strict controls and restrictions on the cryptocurrency market; cryptocurrency is now banned from being used as a means of payment.
Police in Cherkasy region are establishing the circumstances of a car explosion in Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi that occurred on Christmas Eve.
The Mykolaiv Academic Art Drama Theater hosted a Christmas nativity play, which was translated into sign language for the first time.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has detained two more Russian propagandists in Mykolaiv and in the Volyn region who justified Russia’s armed aggression and called on Russia to seize Ukraine.
25 December 2025
There have been 115 combat engagements on the frontline, with Russian forces making 26 attempts to break through Ukrainian defenses in the Pokrovsk sector, losing more than 70 occupiers in the process.
Russian forces carried out an airstrike on the Zaporizhzhia district, leaving four people wounded.
In Volyn, Russian forces attacked a critical infrastructure facility, but there were no casualties.
Fighters of the 3rd Assault Battalion of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment have liberated five villages in Dnipropetrovsk Region: Orestopil, Novoselivka, Sosnivka, Khoroshe, and Vorone.
Emergency and search operations have been completed in a five-story residential building in Chernihiv that was attacked by Russian Shahed-type kamikaze drones on Thursday, December 25. One person was killed.
Ukraine's Defense Forces have demonstrated how the General Cherry AIR interceptor effectively destroys Russian reconnaissance and strike drones.
In the city of Chornomorsk, Odesa region, Russia's army attacked the Illichivsk Oil and Fat Plant (IOFP) on the night of December 25.
Satellite images have captured the aftermath of a strike by Ukraine's Defense Forces on the Russian seaport of Temryuk, located in the Azov Sea bay on the Taman Peninsula.
Senators from both the Democratic and Republican parties have condemned Russia's killing of Ukrainian civilians at a time when Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas.
Some documents for a peaceful settlement are currently ready, but sensitive issues still require further work.