Russo-Ukrainian war main facts
- Ukraine was under massive missile fire, missiles were detected in a number of regions
- Kharkiv under attack by ballistic weapons
- The Russians have massively attacked Ukraine since the beginning of the night with attack UAVs
- 210 battles took place at the front during the day, the largest number – in the Kurakhiv direction
- ISW: China is helping the Kremlin to legitimize its seizure of Ukrainian territories
- The IAEA condemned attacks on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, but not Russia
- Ukrainian military personnel are on the verge of encirclement in four villages of Donetsk region
- The Russians shelled Sumy region 42 times, damaged cars and a house
- The United States is preparing over $440 million in aid to Ukraine's economy
- The United States provides Ukraine with a new $500 million aid package
- Biden approved another package of military aid to Ukraine
- The Russians stormed Pokrovsk head-on and began to bypass the city from the flanks
- Six European heads of foreign affairs promise to increase aid
- The Russians shelled Nikopolshchyna all day, there were casualties
- The Secretary General of NATO on the losses of the parties in the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine: They exceed a million people
- The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary called his colleague in the Russian Federation to complain about Ukraine
- The idea of deploying peacekeepers in Ukraine is being discussed by 5-8 states, but there are no specifics yet
- Russian drones attacked a community in Sumy Oblast, there is an injured person
- After the meeting with Macron, Tusk spoke about the agreement on all issues
- Macron arrived in Warsaw
- In Ukraine, Volodin, the head of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in absentia
- Xi Jinping pointed out to Medvedev the need for detente in the war against Ukraine
- 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