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Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 04:24
29 December 2025
On December 29, 136 combat engagements were recorded between Ukraine's Defense Forces and Russian invaders along the front line. The Pokrovsk sector remains the hottest, where the enemy attempted 40 attacks.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces will continue active operations near Kupiansk and eliminate enemy forces on the northern and eastern approaches to the city.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops are increasing the number of assault operations and are trying to take control of the settlement of Stepnohirsk.
Despite claims that Pokrovsk has been captured, Russian forces currently control approximately half of the city and cannot move freely there due to the work of Ukrainian drones.
As many as 1,400 residents remain in the frontline Dobropillia community, Pokrovsk district, including 1,000 in the town of Dobropillia.
Ukraine's Military Law Enforcement Service is conducting an investigation into an incident in which Russian soldiers entered a command post of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Huliaipole due to weak defenses.
Russian troops have allegedly killed seven civilians in Pokrovsk who were hiding in the basement of a residential building.
President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to Lavrov's statement about an alleged drone attack on Putin's residence in Valdai and threats to strike Ukrainian targets in response.
Law enforcement agencies have launched a pre-trial investigation into the shooting of three Ukrainian prisoners of war by Russian troops in Zaporizhzhia.
A total of 89 combat engagements have been recorded along the entire frontline since the beginning of the day. Fighting is currently ongoing in six sectors of the front, with Russian forces concentrating their main efforts on the Pokrovsk sector.
Recent Kremlin statements indicate that Russia’s top leadership is seeking to portray Ukraine’s defenses across the frontline as allegedly “on the verge of collapse” and to present Russia’s seizure of four Ukrainian regions as an ostensibly achievable goal.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have denied claims by Russian invaders that they allegedly control part of the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
Russian troops launched an air strike on the frontline town of Orikhiv in the Zaporizhzhia region.
President Volodymyr Zelensky does not rule out the creation of a four-party working group that would include Russian representatives to work on peace arrangements.
Russian invaders have unsuccessfully attempted to entrench themselves along the railway north of Rodynske, as well as in the city’s western districts. Fighting for the city is ongoing.
In the village of Shakhove, Pokrovsk district, Donetsk region, Russian invaders executed two servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine who had been taken prisoner.
In the Republic of Adygea (Russian Federation), explosions were heard overnight on December 29 in the area of the Khanskaya military airfield.
Russian invaders killed one resident of the Donetsk region over the past day, December 28.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 21 of the 25 drones used by Russians to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 28.
Russian troops struck four settlements in the Kharkiv region over the past day, injuring three people.
Russian troops launched drone strikes on the Nikopol and Synelnykove districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region, causing fires.
On December 28, Ukrainian Defense Forces engaged in 209 combat clashes with Russian invaders.
The total combat losses of Russian forces since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to December 29, 2025, are estimated at around 1,205,690 personnel, including 1,180 in the past 24 hours.
Soldiers of the strike drone company Aquila from the Stalevyi Kordon (Steel Border) border brigade destroyed five enemy shelters and two Russian antennas in the Northern Slobozhanshchyna and Kursk sectors.
As a result of a strike by Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces on a command post and deployment sites of special forces of Russia’s 14th Brigade of Military Intelligence (GUR) in the temporarily occupied village of Berdianske in Donetsk region, 51 invaders were killed and 74 more wounded.
A DESTRUCTION TEAM unit of the rapid response border commandant’s office of the 5th Border Guard Detachment struck enemy shelters as well as drone control antennas on the Northern Slobozhanshchyna front. The antennas had been used to coordinate enemy actions and adjust fire.
At Moscow's Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports on the evening of December 27, more than 270 arrivals and departures were delayed due to flight restrictions introduced following a drone attack.
28 December 2025
Ten people were wounded in the Kherson region as a result of attacks by the Russian Federation on December 28.
A meeting between President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and US President Donald Trump has begun in Florida at the Mar-a-Lago residence.