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Tuesday, 30 December 2025, 16:41
Ukraine’s air defense forces destroyed a Russian missile in the skies over Cherkasy region, with the blast wave damaging an educational institution, a garage complex, and a local cemetery.
As a result of strikes on energy infrastructure, the capacity of one of Kharkiv’s heat supply facilities has been significantly reduced, and some districts of the city are also without hot water.
In Chernihiv, an apartment building was damaged on Wednesday, December 24, as a result of a Russian drone crash.
In Kenya, a criminal network was uncovered that, under the guise of "high-paying jobs" in Russia, recruited people to take part in the war against Ukraine.
The Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense has released footage of a combat operation carried out in November by its Black Winter Group unit on the Pokrovsk front.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that a link has been observed between Chinese satellites imaging Ukrainian territory and Russian strikes on energy infrastructure facilities.
Between the Defense Forces of Ukraine and Russian troops, 52 combat encounters have occurred since the start of the day. Fighting continues on six front-line directions, with the enemy concentrating most of its efforts on Pokrovsk.
In the island zone of the Kherson region, Russian occupiers continue to lay mines in channels and set up firing positions on certain islands. At the same time, the Defense Forces destroy 2–3 enemy boats every day.
Russian forces have entrenched themselves in the southern part of the border settlement of Hrabovske in the Sumy region, but made no further advance.
In Chernihiv and the Chernihiv district, power outages affected tens of thousands of homes as a result of a Russian strike on energy infrastructure.
Soldiers of the 16th Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine eliminated small Russian assault groups that had infiltrated the village of Vilcha in the Vovchansk urban community of Kharkiv region.
Russians attacked multiple communities in the Zaporizhzhia region with drones. As a result of one of the attacks, a man was killed, and another drone struck a minibus.
The Defense Forces of Ukraine hit the positions of Russian drone operators in Siversk and Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.
The defense forces struck the facilities of the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in the Tula region of the Russian Federation, which specializes in the production of components for plastic explosives and solid rocket fuel, as well as storage and maintenance facilities for unmanned boats in the Myrnyi area of the temporarily occupied Crimea.
In the south, Russian troops continue active assault operations in the Huliaipole and Oleksandrivka directions and are simultaneously preparing for combat in winter conditions, receiving white camouflage uniforms for assault operations.
On the morning of December 24, a strike drone hit a gas station in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
On the night of December 24, two Russian Interior Ministry officers who had participated in the war against Ukraine and tortured Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed on Yeletskaya Street in Moscow.
One person was killed and 11 wounded as a result of a strike on a thermal power plant in the Kharkiv region.
For the third consecutive day, Russian forces have been targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region.
Russian invading forces have once again attacked critical infrastructure in the city of Kherson, leaving the Dniprovskyi district without electricity as a result of the shelling.
The number of people injured as a result of the Russian overnight attack on Zaporizhzhia has risen to four.
Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 60 of 116 UAVs launched by Russian forces against Ukraine since the evening of December 23.
On December 23, Ukrainian Defense Forces recorded 126 combat clashes with Russian invading troops along the frontline.
A group of drones carried out an attack on the Yefremov Synthetic Rubber Plant in Tula region (Russia) on the night of Wednesday, December 24.
In Zaporizhzhia, at least 13 multi-story residential buildings were damaged as a result of a nighttime attack with glide bombs (KABs).
Over the past day in the Kherson region, as a result of Russian aggression, one person was killed and five others were injured.
The total combat losses of Russian forces in the war against Ukraine from February 24, 2022 to December 24, 2025 amount to approximately 1,200,370 personnel, including 1,090 in the past 24 hours.
Over the past day, the occupiers launched 704 attacks on 27 settlements in Zaporizhzhia region. One person was killed and three others were injured as a result of enemy strikes on Zaporizhzhia city and Zaporizhzhia district.
The number of people injured as a result of an enemy attack on Zaporizhzhia has increased to three.