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Ukraine continues to strengthen its air defense system thanks to international support. Germany has already transferred the ninth modern IRIS-T surface-to-air missile system to Ukraine. This was previously reported by Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Denys Shmyhal.
In the city of Siversk, the Defense Forces of Ukraine are actively and successfully destroying the enemy, as Ukrainian warriors know the city well, having defended it for a long time.
Fighters of the aerial reconnaissance company of the Pentagon Unmanned Systems Battalion of the 225th Assault Regiment are engaged in searching for key targets in the enemy’s rear, locations where enemy infantry is concentrated, and recently have begun hunting enemy aerial reconnaissance assets.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted a resolution developed by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine that introduces state financial support for defense industry enterprises under financial leasing agreements.
Fighters of the 49th Assault Battalion “Carpathian Sich”, in cooperation with the 100th Mechanized Brigade, the 28th Mechanized Brigade named after the Knights of the Winter Campaign, and the 36th Marine Brigade named after Rear Admiral Mykhailo Bilynskyi, destroyed a column of occupiers.
In the Kramatorsk sector, the enemy is attempting to attack exclusively with small infantry groups, while keeping equipment far from the line of contact.
Fighters of the Apachi Battalion of Unmanned Systems of the 81st Airmobile Slobozhanska Brigade of the Air Assault Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine demonstrated the destruction of a crossing used by Russian forces to move their troops.
On the night of December 26 (starting from 18:00 on December 25), the enemy attacked with one Iskander-M ballistic missile launched from the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, as well as 99 strike UAVs of the Shahed type, “Gerbera”, and other types of drones.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to meet with Donald Trump in the near future for negotiations.
In recent days in the Pokrovsk direction, pilots have been forced to fly “by instruments” due to fog interfering with normal operations.
Fighters of the Voron Battalion of Unmanned Systems of the 100th Mechanized Brigade repelled an assault by enemy equipment protected with so-called “grills”.
Fighters of the 1st Battalion of the 108th Kodatska Territorial Defense Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine detected and struck a detachment of Kadyrovites moving along a road toward Ukrainian positions.
Over the past day, the army of the aggressor country lost 840 personnel, 3 tanks, and 3 armored combat vehicles.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his evening address on December 25, spoke about further work in the areas of diplomacy, strengthening the Armed Forces, and increasing pressure on Russia.
It does not matter whether a person was mobilized or joined the military under contract — in any case, they must complete basic military training. One of the most important components of such training is tactical medicine.
The Ukrainian Military Medical Academy is updating its approaches to training military doctors, taking into account the experience of the full-scale war — in particular, the emergence of so-called “kill zones” along the front, where evacuation of the wounded takes place under constant threat from enemy drones.
Aerial reconnaissance pilots of the 127th Separate Heavy Mechanized Kharkiv Brigade captured five Russian servicemen over two days, including prisoners from the Russian Federation and a mercenary from Kenya. The occupiers surrendered directly to the drone, realizing that command had abandoned them.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported a constructive conversation with Special Representatives of U.S. President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
In the Kupiansk direction, in Kupiansk itself, occupying forces are thinning out. Russians are attacking settlements north of the city. Enemy propagandists have admitted that the attempt to entrench themselves in Kupiansk has failed.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has launched a pilot project introducing photo and video recording of quality control procedures during the acceptance of logistics supplies for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In the autumn of 2025, fighters of the 3rd Assault Battalion of the 225th Separate Assault Regiment, in cooperation with units of the 20th Army Corps, conducted a prolonged offensive-defensive operation in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, as a result of which five settlements were liberated.
Specialists of the surgical team of the Active Operations Department of the HUR MoD provided medical assistance in the open sea to a severely wounded soldier who had spent some time in cold water.