Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski “honored” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's post about blocking a loan to Ukraine using frozen Russian assets with the Order of Lenin.
Near Pokrovsk in the Donetsk region, Ukraine's Defense Forces carried out a special operation to destroy a large concentration of armored vehicles belonging to Russian invaders.
Rescuers from 12 regions of Ukraine are working in the Odesa region after massive Russian attacks. More than 660 Points of Invincibility have been established in the region.
On the night of December 18, Defense Forces units struck several air defense targets, a drone storage facility, and other Russian army objects in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
The U.S. Administration has issued General License GL-115C, which temporarily exempts an entire list of major Russian banks “related to civil nuclear energy” from U.S. sanctions.
Drone operators of the State Border Guard Service successfully struck a long-range visual observation complex Murom-M, along with antennas and a motorcycle used by Russian forces.
Russian drones killed two people in the Kherson region: a 57-year-old man died in the village of Darivka, and the identity of a civilian killed in Kherson is still being established.
In the Sloviansk sector, the arrival of around 1,500 Russian military personnel has been recorded; they are planned to be used to intensify assault operations.
Soldiers with the motor rifle battalion of the 54th Mechanized Brigade named after Hetman Ivan Mazepa of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have destroyed a group of Russian invaders attempting to infiltrate Siversk in the Donetsk region.
The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck a BM-27 Uragan multiple launch rocket system and Russian personnel in the Donetsk region.