War

As of 6:00 a.m. on December 26, there is one enemy missile carrier in the Black Sea with a total volley of up to four Kalibr cruise missiles. This was reported in a telegram by the Ukrainian Navy, Ukrinform reports. “There is one enemy ship in the Black Sea, which is a carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total volley of up to four missiles,” the statement said. There are no enemy ships in the Sea of Azov; In the Mediterranean Sea, there are eight enemy ships, three of which are carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total…

During the day, Russian troops fired 20 times at the border areas and settlements of Sumy region, with a total of 95 explosions recorded. According to Ukrinform, the Sumy Regional Military Administration reported this on Facebook. “The Yunakivka, Krasnopilia, Velyko Pysarivka, Novoslobidka, Hlukhivska, Esman, Shalyhine, Sveska, Seredyno-Budsk communities were shelled,” the statement reads. The enemy fired at the Esman community with mortars (14 explosions), artillery (12 explosions) and attacked with an FPV drone (1 explosion). Attacks by Russian FPV drones were also recorded in the Hlukhiv and Shalyhyne communities (4 and 1 explosion, respectively). Russian troops dropped 5 mines on…

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has added the US Helsinki Commission to the list of so-called undesirable organizations. This was reported by Radio Svoboda, Ukrinform reports. As noted in the decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, the commission's activities “are aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation in Russia, members of the organization massively disseminate materials discrediting the foreign and domestic policies of the country's leadership, the work of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.” The commission's activities will be banned in Russia, and citizens may face criminal prosecution for cooperating with it. Read also: Russia streamlines process of recognizing foreign…

Ukrainian poet and prose writer Oleksii Bezpaltsev has died while fighting in the Russian-Ukrainian war. PEN Ukraine, a cultural and human rights organization, reported this on its Facebook page, citing the poet's acquaintances, Ukrinform reports. Bezpaltsev, aged 34, lost his life during a combat mission in the Kharkiv region. He had served in the Pokrovsk sector for about a year before being deployed to the Kupiansk sector. Known for his evocative and emotional performances, Bezpaltsev was a prominent Kharkiv-based poet and prose writer. During his lifetime, he published two collections of short stories and was an active participant in poetry…

A Russian court has sentenced Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Levchenko to 22 years in prison for alleged acts of terrorism on a railway in Russian-occupied Crimea. That's according to the ZMINA Human Rights Center, as reported by Ukrinform. Levchenko's sentence includes an initial five-year term in prison, followed by the remainder to be served in a maximum-security penal colony. He was also fined one million roubles. Russian authorities accused Levchenko of multiple charges, including high treason, aiding terrorist activity, committing a terrorist attack as part of an organized group, preparing for a crime, attempting a terrorist attack, illegal manufacture of explosive…

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said a Russian missile had violated Moldovan airspace on the night of Wednesday, December 25. She reported this on X, Ukrinform saw. "While our countries celebrate Christmas, Kremlin chooses destruction—targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and violating Moldova’s airspace with a missile, actions that clearly violate international law. Moldova condemns these acts and stands in full solidarity with Ukraine," Sandu wrote. Point.md notes that the Moldovan army did not detect a Russian missile in the country's airspace. Read also: FM: Christmas terror is Putin's answer to those who talked about illusory “ceasefire” "The national army monitoring system did…

Ukraine's Armed Forces engaged in 211 combat clashes with Russian forces on December 25, with the Pokrovsk sector seeing the heaviest fighting. The General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces shared this operational update on Facebook, according to Ukrinform. Since the beginning of the day, Russia has launched one missile strike and 12 airstrikes using 78 missiles and 29 guided aerial bombs, 690 kamikaze drones and over 4,500 attacks on Ukrainian positions and settlements. In the Kharkiv sector, there were three clashes with Russian invaders in the Vovchansk area. In the Kupiansk sector, Russian forces launched seven attempts to displace Ukrainian…

During the day, Russian troops attacked Nikopol and Kryvyi Rih districts, Dnipro and Kamianske. This was reported in Telegram by the head of the Dnipro Regional Military Administration Serhiy Lysak, Ukrinform reports. “The situation was restless in the Nikopol region during the day. Namely, in the district center, Pokrovsk, Marhanets and Myrivsk communities. The enemy sent 15 kamikaze drones at them. They also fired 6 times from heavy artillery,” he wrote. In the communities, two infrastructure facilities and seven private houses were damaged, one of which caught fire. Garages, greenhouses, outbuildings and cars were also damaged. A power line was…

In the Donetsk region, a rescue vehicle of the capital's rescuers was damaged as a result of shelling. This was reported by the press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) on Telegram, Ukrinform reports. “While performing their assigned tasks, near Pokrovsk, rescuers of the attached unit of the Kyiv region's State Emergency Service came under enemy artillery fire. As a result of the shelling, the operational vehicle was damaged. Fortunately, no one was injured among the personnel,” the statement said. Read also: Militants killed one civilian in Donetsk region yesterday As reported, rescuers came under repeated fire…

The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine showed how, on the morning of December 25, soldiers of the Kherson Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade destroyed one of the cruise missiles fired by Russia. The Air Force Command posted the video on Facebook, Ukrinform reports. The command informed that during the night and morning, the brigade's fighters shot down a total of 11 enemy targets. As reported by Ukrinform, on the night of December 25, Russian invaders launched a combined attack on the facilities of the fuel and energy sector of Ukraine with missiles of various types of air, land and…