Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan discussed the security situation and the return of Ukrainians from Russian captivity during a meeting in Ankara.
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has stated that the commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), Denys Kapustin, is alive and that the Russian special services' operation to kill him has failed.
On the night of January 1, units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces struck the Ilsky Oil Refinery (in Krasnodar region, Russia) and several other critical Russian targets.
Fighters with Ukraine's 57th Motorized Brigade have captured a Russian serviceman who had been hiding behind the Ukrainian Defense Forces' lines in the Kharkiv region.
In 2025, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) demonstrated impressive results by conducting a unique special operation called Spider Web, striking a Russian submarine and delivering systematic blows to the enemy's infrastructure that supports the war.
In the city of Vovchansk, the situation is fairly stable; at the same time, Russian forces are attempting to bypass the city in order to expand their control zone.
The Defense Forces struck the Tuapse oil refinery, the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas terminal, a Rosrezerv oil depot, and a number of other facilities of the Russian invaders.
Within the span of one hour, the Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck two high-value air defense missile systems of the Russian invaders — a Buk and a Tor.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has detained a Kyiv resident who publicly disclosed the operation and positions of air defense systems during Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has refuted Russian claims that negotiations have broken down and stressed that dialogue with U.S. partners continues on a daily basis.
Russian troops have attacked civilian vehicles in two villages of the Novhorod-Siverskyi district, Chernihiv region, including a vehicle delivering bread.
Russian forces attacked the civilian vessels Emmakris III and Captain Karam with strike drones as the latter was entering a port to load wheat, leaving civilians injured.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian troops are increasing the number of assault operations and are trying to take control of the settlement of Stepnohirsk.
Despite claims that Pokrovsk has been captured, Russian forces currently control approximately half of the city and cannot move freely there due to the work of Ukrainian drones.
U.S. President Donald Trump has said that during a phone call on December 29, Russian leader Vladimir Putin told him about an alleged "strike" on his residence.
Russian manipulations regarding the alleged “attempted attack on Putin's residence” are fabricated for one reason only: to create a pretext and false justification for further attacks by the Russian Federation on Ukraine, as well as to undermine and obstruct the peace process.
Anton was diagnosed with a fracture of the orbital bone (eye socket), and doctors performed surgery under general anesthesia and removed bone fragments.