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Friday, 26 December 2025, 13:58
On Friday, December 26, Russian troops attacked the Zaporizhzhia district with aircraft. As a result of the attack, one person was killed, and three were wounded.
On the morning of December 24, two explosions occurred in the city of Ussuriysk, Primorsky region of the Russian Federation, at the parking area of military unit No. 19288 — the 80th Vitebsk Red Banner Command Brigade.
Two powerful explosions occurred near the temporarily occupied city of Sevastopol in the area of the Kacha Airfield on Friday night, December 26.
Russian occupation forces are attempting to expand the combat zone in the Kharkiv region, with the enemy sustaining significant losses in the area of Sotnytskyi Kozachok.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops fired on border settlements in the Chernihiv region 47 times, with 93 explosions recorded.
Russian occupiers cannot advance from the village of Hrabovske further into the Sumy region. The enemy's forces currently number approximately 100 people.
Air Defense Forces destroyed 73 out of 99 drones used by Russia to attack Ukraine since the evening of December 25. A ballistic missile and 26 UCAVs were recorded as having been hit.
As a result of a Russian attack on seaports in the Odesa region, vessels flying the flags of Slovakia and the Republic of Palau, as well as grain elevators and warehouses, were damaged.
On the night of Friday, December 26, a group of drones attacked the LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka oil refinery in the Krasnoarmeysky district of the Russian city of Volgograd again.
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.
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.
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.