Russo-Ukrainian war main facts
- The Russian Federation said that the Kremlin supports Orban's proposal to exchange prisoners
- Callas said that all frozen Russian assets in the EU should be sent to Ukraine
- The Russian Federation announced retaliatory strikes due to the attack on Russian Taganrog the day before
- Scholz said that he is ready for new negotiations with Putin
- Russians hit Kherson with a drone - killed a man
- The US defense budget for 2025 does not include the extension of Lend-Lease for Ukraine
- The Armed Forces neutralized 1,390 invaders and 28 combat vehicles during the day
- The Russians stormed the positions of the Armed Forces with overwhelming forces, over 200 combat clashes per day
- ISW: Russian troops six kilometers from Pokrovsk: the situation remains critical
- Despite the sanctions, Russia continues to purchase rifles and cartridges from the EU and the USA
- In the Kursk direction, the Russians fired artillery 316 times
- 114 explosions were recorded in the border areas of Sumy Oblast during the day
- Syrskyi: In the Pokrovsky direction, there are fierce battles, the Russians are superior in manpower
- Bloomberg: NATO wants to set new specific weapons production targets for member states
- The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation complained that Ukraine attacked the military airfield in Taganrog with ATACMS missiles
- Trump called the situation in the Middle East less complicated than in Ukraine
- EU ambassadors approved the 15th package of sanctions against Russia
- In response to Zelensky's criticism, Orban said that his idea of a Christmas truce was rejected
- Zelensky sharply reacted to Orban's call to Putin: We hope, at least, Assad will not call
- After the talks with Putin, Orbán goes to Erdoğan for talks
- The EU will allocate 170 million euros to six countries to protect their borders from Russia and Belarus
- After long battles in the Pokrovsky direction, two positions of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were destroyed, one was lost
- A married couple died in Sumy Oblast due to Russian shelling
- Russians announced sentences to nine defenders of "Azovstal"
- WP: Ukraine provided drones and operators to Syrian rebels
- Britain has successfully tested laser weapons against aerial drones
- Air defense shot down 2 rockets in Dnipropetrovsk region
- Intelligence of Ukraine: Two main diesel locomotives, which provided the logistics of the Russian army, burned down in Bryansk
- Defense forces of Ukraine struck a Russian oil depot in the Bryansk region with drones at night
- Media: There is tension between Zelenskyi and Biden over the issue of mobilization in Ukraine
- The Russian authorities announced a missile attack on Taganrog
- The Russians carried out 208 attacks, most of them in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhiv directions
- The Armed Forces neutralized 1,400 occupiers in one day
- The Parliament of Canada approved the allocation of about $600 million for military aid to Ukraine
- The Russians attacked 7 communities of the Sumy Oblast, in one of them a house and a car were damaged
- The US State Department approved a $266 million package of F-16 maintenance services for Ukraine
- 199 clashes took place at the front since the beginning of the day
- The Russians executed 109 Ukrainian prisoners of war during 2024
- Zelenskyi: Ukraine needs another 10-12 Patriots to protect its airspace
- Zelensky announced successful tests of the new Ruta missile
- A drone attacked an IAEA vehicle on the way to the occupied nuclear power plant
- The US successfully intercepted an intermediate-range ballistic missile near Guam for the first time
- Due to the Russian offensive, the gas supply to Pokrovsk has been shut off since December 12
- Russians killed a woman and injured 5 more people in the Kherson region with drone drops
- The Russians are loading equipment onto planes and fleeing Syria
- Israel says it has destroyed the Syrian navy and is strengthening positions near the Golan Heights
- The Russians twice attacked Zlatopil in the Kharkiv region with rockets, 11 people were injured
- Orbán met with Trump, Musk and Waltz in the USA
- Pentagon: North Korean troops remain in the Kursk region on alert
- The Russians advanced in Donetsk region and Sumy region