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Tuesday, 24 December 2024, 19:40
20 December 2024
Since the beginning of the day, there have been 146 combat clashes between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and the Russian invaders on the frontline, with the most intense action occurring in the Kursk sector, where 40 clashes have already been reported today.
In Kyiv, the number of people injured in a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on Friday, December 20, increased to 13. One person was killed.
In Kostiantynivka, Donetsk region, a 75-year-old woman was killed after an enemy hit an apartment building. Her body was unblocked from the rubble.
The number of people injured in the morning Russian artillery shelling of Kherson has risen to 11.
A Russian missile attack on Kyiv early Friday caused significant damage to the embassies of Albania, Argentina, Palestine, North Macedonia, Portugal, and Montenegro.
In Pokrovsk district of Donetsk region, sappers of the State Emergency Service came under Russian fire, shrapnel damaged a car.
The bodies of 503 fallen Ukrainian defenders have been returned to Ukraine.
The Biden administration will announce in the coming days its final Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package, using up the remaining funds set aside to buy new weapons for Ukraine.
Two people were injured in the village of Bilozerka, Kherson region, as a result of shelling at night and during the day.
Officials from the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and the Dutch Defense Ministry have outlined priority areas of defense assistance for 2025. Discussions included providing additional spare parts for F-16 fighter jets, air defense and missile defense systems, tanks, artillery, and demining equipment.
In Shostka, Sumy region, a Shahed hit was recorded, and buildings and infrastructure were destroyed.
In the temporarily occupied Donetsk, a hit was recorded - the building of the so-called “Ministry of State Security of the DPR” was attacked.
On the night of December 20, the Russian army fired several Shahed-type attack drones in Sumy region, with hits recorded in the Chernechchyna community.
In the early hours of December 20, Russian forces launched a massive assault on Ukraine, deploying 65 drones from Bryansk, Millerovo, Oryol, and Primorsko-Akhtarsk.
As a result of a morning missile strike on Kyiv, the Saint Nicholas Church sustained damage to its facade stained glass windows and towers. This church, a national architectural landmark, was affected by the blast wave.
Hackers associated with the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU) are responsible for the cyberattack on the registries of Ukraine's Ministry of Justice.
The number of injured due to the massive morning artillery shelling of Kherson has increased to four more individuals, bringing the total number of injured in the city to ten.
Following the missile strike on Kryvyi Rih on December 19, two injured individuals, including a child, remain hospitalized.
One person was killed, and nine others were injured as a result of a Russian missile strike on Kyiv in the morning of December 20. Also, 630 residential buildings, 16 medical facilities, 17 schools, and 13 kindergartens have been left without heat in Holosiivskyi district.
Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups (SRGs) attempted to advance toward Kherson.
On December 19, a total of 191 combat clashes occurred between Ukraine's Defense Forces and the Russian invaders.
On the night of December 20, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Sumy city.
At least seven people have been injured in Kyiv as a result of Russia’s missile attack.
The Russian army’s combat losses in Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 20, 2024 amount to nearly 770,420 invaders, including another 2,200 troops killed or wounded in action in the past day.
The fall of debris as a result of a missile attack on Kyiv was recorded in the Holosiivskyi, Dniprovskyi, Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian occupiers launched 399 attacks on 12 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Russian troops have launched a large-scale artillery attack on Kherson, hitting apartment buildings. One man was killed and another six people were injured.
Russia’s missile attack on the city of Kyiv has resulted in cars catching fire due to falling debris in the Holosiivskyi district.
Explosions have been heard amid an air raid alert in Kyiv.
A Russian ballistic missile hit a residential two-story building in Kryvyi Rih, injuring five people, including a 15-year-old girl.