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Friday, 26 December 2025, 08:28
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.
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.
Some documents for a peaceful settlement are currently ready, but sensitive issues still require further work.
President Volodymyr Zelensky heard a report from Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Pavlo Palisa on the decisions needed to strengthen frontline positions and the army.
Throughout the day, Russian invaders attacked the Synelnykivskyi and Nikopol districts of Dnipropetrovsk region with artillery, drones, and guided aerial bombs, damaging businesses, homes, infrastructure, and a cultural center.
As of 6 p.m., one 80-year-old woman is known to have died in Chernihiv as a result of a Russian drone striking a five-story building. Ten people were injured, including three children.
On December 25, Russian troops shelled the central part of Kherson, injuring two people.
Ukrainian company Frontline Robotics and German company Quantum Systems are scaling up production of the Linza bomber drone as part of the Build with Ukraine initiative, which provides opportunities to strengthen the tactical reconnaissance of the Defense Forces and mine territories.
Since the start of the day, a total of 61 combat engagements have taken place between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian troops. Fighting continues across six directions of the front, with Russian forces concentrating their greatest efforts on the Pokrovsk sector.
In Chernihiv, the number of people injured in a Russian strike on a multi-story residential building has risen to eight. Three of them are in serious condition, and one person has been killed.
A 48-year-old woman who was injured in a Russian drone attack on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district on Tuesday, December 23, has died in hospital.
In the Kharkiv region, a unit of the Strix reconnaissance-and-strike UAV group from the 4th Border Guard Detachment thwarted a covert attempt by Russian forces to cross the border via the Lozova river.
On the night of December 25, the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck infrastructure at the Temryuk seaport in Russia's Krasnodar Krai and a military airfield near the city of Maikop.
On Christmas, Russian troops carried out a massive shelling of central Kherson, killing a civilian.
In Russia's Rostov region, the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery caught fire following an attack.
A Russian drone attacked industrial infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia.