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Monday, 29 December 2025, 14:01
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 (GRU) 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.
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Ukrainian units continue to hold control over a substantial part of Huliaipole in the Zaporizhzhia region despite the difficult situation.
Since the start of the day, 103 clashes have been recorded along the entire front line, with fighting ongoing in six sectors, and the Russian forces exerting pressure on the Pokrovsk sector.
On Sunday, December 28, Russian forces once again attacked the Kherson Combined Heat and Power Plant, injuring one employee.
Since the beginning of 2025, Russia has carried out 90 combined strikes on Ukraine’s port infrastructure, which is twice as many as during the same period last year.
The number of victims of the morning shelling of Kherson on Sunday, December 28, has increased to five.
Russian troops struck the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs, killing one person and wounding four others.
Over the course of this week, the Russian Federation used 94 missiles, more than 2,100 attack drones, and about 800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine.
In the Mykolaiv community of the Sumy region, the Russian military attacked a woman with a drone, injuring her.
Russian troops struck the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk region with guided aerial bombs, killing one person and wounding three others.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine have struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region and several Russian military facilities in the temporarily occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.
Russian forces have struck an energy facility in the Poltava region, damaging equipment.
Heat supply has already been restored to most homes in Kyiv and the Kyiv region following Russia’s shelling on December 27, while water supply has been fully restored.