These are the important thing developments from day 1,399 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Printed On 24 Dec 2025
Right here is the place issues stand on Wednesday, December 24:
Combating
- Russian forces started a “massive attack” on Ukraine on Monday evening, killing three folks and concentrating on 13 areas with 650 drones and 30 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated in a publish on X.
- These killed within the overnight attack included a four-year-old woman within the central Zhytomyr area, Governor Vitalii Bunechko stated on Telegram. “Medical doctors struggled to avoid wasting the kid’s life, however in the long run, they have been unable to avoid wasting her,” Bunechko stated, including that 5 folks have been additionally injured within the assault.
- Russian forces additionally launched drones and missiles on the Vyshhorod district of Ukraine’s Kyiv area, killing a lady and injuring three folks, Governor Mykola Kalashnyk stated.
- In Ukraine’s western Khmelnytskyi area, one individual was killed by Russian shelling, Governor Serhii Tiurin stated.
- Russian drone attacks on Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi district left 5 folks injured, stated Tymur Tkachenko, the top of the Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration.
- Ukraine’s Ministry of Power stated that “emergency energy outages” have been launched in a number of areas throughout the nation as a result of Russian forces concentrating on power infrastructure. The ministry stated that it was working to revive electrical energy to the Rivne, Ternopil and Odesa regions. The ministry stated that the scenario was “most tough” within the border areas, “as restoring electrical energy is sophisticated by steady combating”.
- Ukraine’s Basic Workers stated Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from the Donetsk area’s Siversk space after heavy combating, noting that Moscow’s forces had a “important benefit” there.
- Ukraine’s Ministry of International Affairs stated that Ukrainian F-16 fighter pilots shot down 621 of 673 Russian “aerial targets” on Tuesday evening, together with 34 of 35 cruise missiles.
- In Russia, a Ukrainian drone strike on a automobile killed three males within the Belgorod area on Monday, the area’s emergency response staff reported.
- One other Ukrainian drone assault in Belgorod on Tuesday killed one individual and injured three, the area’s operational headquarters stated on Telegram.
- Russian forces shot down 56 Ukrainian drones in a day, in addition to a guided bomb, Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated, in keeping with the state information company TASS.
Ceasefire
- Zelenskyy stated in his nightly tackle, “We sense that America needs to achieve a closing settlement” to finish the conflict in Ukraine, and that “there may be full cooperation” from the Ukrainian facet.
- In an earlier publish on X, Zelenskyy stated that “a number of draft paperwork have now been ready”, following talks in Miami. “Particularly, these embrace paperwork on safety ensures for Ukraine, on restoration, and on a primary framework for ending this conflict,” he stated.
- Pope Leo stated that Russia’s obvious refusal to comply with a ceasefire on December 25 is “among the many issues that trigger me a lot disappointment”.
- “I’ll make an attraction one extra time to folks of goodwill to respect no less than Christmas Day as a day of peace,” Leo instructed reporters outdoors his residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy.
