[Korrespondent] 21.57 Ukraine is in constant contact with the US and looks forward to further work on a peace agreement. This is evidenced by the statement of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in his video address published on Facebook.
21:40 A Russian strike drone hit the 9th floor of a building in Chernihiv on the evening of December 23. This was reported by the head of the Chernihiv City Military Administration, Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, on Telegram.
20.56 Employees of the 13th Main Directorate of the Military Counterintelligence Department of the SBU hit a modernized Il-38N Sea Dragon reconnaissance aircraft at the Yeisk airbase while preparing to strike the Russian submarine Varshavyanka in Novorossiysk. The SBU reported this on Facebook and posted a corresponding video.
20.39 The Russian army attacked Chernihiv with a drone on Tuesday evening, December 23. An important energy facility in the city was damaged. This was reported by the Chernihiv City Council.
20.08 Internet access in Crimea will be restricted until the end of the war with Ukraine. This was stated by the Russian-appointed "head" of the occupied peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov. This is reported by the Russian publication Meduza.
19.06 Kenyan authorities are investigating the activities of a transnational network that recruited Kenyans to fight on the side of Russia under the guise of work, Bloomberg news agency reported, citing data from the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
18.29 Along the entire front line, 67 combat clashes have taken place since the beginning of the day on December 23. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on Telegram.
17.59 Russian occupiers struck Kremenchuk on Tuesday, December 23. All necessary services are working at the scene. The Poltava OVA reported this on Telegram.
16.47 IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi announced that the Khmelnytskyi and Rivne nuclear power plants are reducing capacity due to damage to electrical substations as a result of a massive attack by the Russian Federation. The IAEA press service published a corresponding statement on the X platform.
16.01 About 100 Russian soldiers entered the territory of the village of Grabovske in Sumy region and tried to advance towards Ryasne; as of December 23, fighting is ongoing in the settlement.
Russian units are entrenched in the southern part of Grabovskoe. Ukrainian forces are trying to dislodge them from their occupied positions.
14.56 Most of the Russian missiles during the Russian shelling on the night of December 23 were intercepted by F-16 pilots. This was announced by Yuriy Ignat, a spokesman for the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, during a telethon on Tuesday.
At the same time, Ignat noted the insufficient number of missiles for air defense systems and air-to-air aircraft from Western partners.
"The vast majority were intercepted by tactical aviation pilots. It was the F-16 pilots who joined today in repelling this strike of cruise missiles. I would like to emphasize that missiles - both air-to-air aviation class and missiles that are part of our air defense systems - are a rather scarce commodity for us today. Everyone emphasizes this - both pilots say in their interviews and the higher military leadership... Some complexes are completely without them. And therefore, due to the fact that missiles, both for aircraft and for ground-based complexes, are not arriving in the quantity that we would like, of course, but they are arriving, we can repel such attacks today," he added.
14:55 Defense forces eliminated Russian "barn" tanks near Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, during an attempted assault by the invaders. This was reported by the Group of Forces East, publishing a video .
14.15 Russia is mainly mobilizing residents of poor regions, so Russians from large cities disproportionately rarely fight and die. Thus, the Kremlin is deliberately limiting losses among the politically active urban population. This was reported by the UK Ministry of Defense, citing intelligence data.
14.09 The German government stated that it remains of the position that peace for Ukraine under duress is unacceptable and insists on the absence of pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky to conclude agreements that Ukrainian society cannot accept. This was stated by the Deputy Spokesperson of the German Federal Government, Steffen Mayer, at a briefing in Berlin, Ukrinform reports .
13:52 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard a report by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Hnatov after meetings with the American team in Miami.
"We worked productively with President Trump's representatives, and now drafts of several documents have been prepared. In particular, there are documents on security guarantees for Ukraine, on restoration, and on the basic framework for ending this war. The points have been fixed today so that this corresponds to the task of a real end to the war and the need to prevent a third Russian invasion," Zelenskyy said.
13.24 France will provide the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with SAMP/T NG air defense systems, which will become the most powerful air defense system in Ukraine.
The manufacturer Thales has confirmed the commissioning of the SAMP/T NG system in France and Italy, with the first deliveries scheduled for 2026. This means that the first SAMP/T NG systems will be delivered to Ukraine in the same year.
12.37 The number of casualties in the capital as a result of massive shelling by Russian troops has increased, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported. The mayor clarified that three people are currently hospitalized.
"Five people were injured in the capital as a result of the enemy attack. Three people were hospitalized. Two of them are in serious condition," Klitschko noted.
12.35 As a result of night shelling in the port of Odessa, a civilian ship under the Lebanese flag, which was transporting Ukrainian soybeans, was damaged. There were no casualties. The liquidation of the consequences of the shelling is ongoing.
There is also damage at the port of Reni, where administrative buildings and port infrastructure were affected.
12.10 The ground robotic complex of the Third Assault Brigade went on combat duty for 45 consecutive days and suppressed all enemy attempts to break into the defense sector with machine gun fire. The Third Army Corps reported this in a video.
11.51 Ukraine's air defense neutralized 621 Russian air targets : 587 drones of various types and 34 Kh-101, Iskander-K cruise missiles, with which Russia has been attacking Ukraine since the evening of December 22.
11.38 On board the Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter, the crew of which died while performing a combat mission on December 17, was Oleksandr Shemet - Hero of Ukraine, who made the last air breakthrough on Azovstal. The man was the crew commander.
"On the evening of December 17, an order was received to take off to intercept the "shaheeds". The plane took off, kept in touch with the control point. Later, the helicopter was not detected on the radar at the control point. This indicates that it had already crashed. There is confirmation of the death. Four bodies were found at the crash site. All crew members died. This is a fact," said Yuriy Shemet, the brother of the deceased.
The death of the Mi-24 crew was reported by the press service of the 12th separate army aviation brigade named after Lieutenant General Viktor Pavlenko on December 18. As Yuriy Shemet said, this happened in the Cherkasy region. There is no official conclusion on the death of the military yet. A preliminary investigation has established that the helicopter collided with a "shaheed".
"There are also such circumstances that this "shaheed" was not visible at the control point. Apparently, it was flying very low. Those people who conducted the investigation say that they have never seen anything like this before. The helicopter was so badly damaged that it was, one might say, completely torn to pieces. The bodies were badly burned. Which "shaheed" hit the helicopter, I also do not know yet," the brother of the deceased said.
11.05 Russian troops advanced near the settlements of Yunakivka in Sumy region and Svyato-Pokrovske in Donetsk region. This was reported by the analytical project DeepState. It is noted that the enemy is advancing near the village of Yunakivka in the Yunakivska rural community of Sumy district of Sumy region, as well as near the village of Svyato-Pokrovske in the Siverska urban community of Bakhmut district of Donetsk region.
11.00 As a result of Russia's ninth massive attack on the energy sector since the beginning of the year, on the morning of Tuesday, December 23, consumers in the Rivne, Ternopil, and Khmelnytsky regions were almost completely without electricity.
In addition, there are also power outages due to shelling in Vinnytsia, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr regions, and in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions. Emergency power outages are in effect in most regions of Ukraine.
10.50 As a result of the Russian attack, energy facilities in the western regions of Ukraine suffered the most. In addition, due to the Russian attack, emergency shutdown schedules are being forced to be applied throughout the country. They will be canceled immediately after the situation in the energy system stabilizes.
10.31 As a result of the Russian attack in the Ternopil region, 280,000 consumers lost power, and the regional center was left without water. This was reported by the Ternopil OVA on December 23.
10.30 A massive Russian attack on Ukraine has been ongoing since last night, primarily on energy and civilian infrastructure. The Russian Federation has used more than 650 drones and more than three dozen missiles. This was stated by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Telegram on Tuesday, December 23.
"As of now, the air alert regime is maintained in most of the territory of Ukraine. However, all necessary services have been involved to eliminate the consequences of the strike. Unfortunately, there are losses. In the Kyiv region, a woman died from a Russian drone strike. A person is known to have died in the Khmelnytskyi region. In the Zhytomyr region, a four-year-old child died - a Russian drone hit a residential building. My condolences to his family and friends," the head of state said.
In total, according to Zelensky, at least 13 regions have already been hit. A significant part of the drones and missiles were shot down, however, there were also hits. Repair crews and energy specialists are already working on the ground.
10.15 In the Lviv region, a critical energy infrastructure facility was hit by a Russian air attack. This was reported by the head of the Lviv OVA Maksym Kozytskyi on December 23.
10.14 The number of people injured in the Russian strike in Kyiv has increased to three people, including a 16-year-old child. One woman was hospitalized by medics. The others were treated on the spot.
9.58 Russian troops struck the Odessa region. Damage to energy, port, transport, industrial and residential infrastructure was recorded in the affected areas. No one was injured as a result of the attack.
Meanwhile, strikes in one of the districts damaged a civilian dry cargo ship and a warehouse. The roof of a two-story residential building was blown off and a garage was damaged.
In another area, the impact damaged the windows and roofs of 122 private homes and the glazing of three more high-rise buildings. An empty warehouse was damaged.
Power outages are being observed in the affected areas. Critical infrastructure is powered by generators. Inviolability points have been set up - about 900 people have already sought help.
9.50 In Zhytomyr region, people were injured in an airstrike by the Russian Federation on December 23, including two children. This was reported by the head of the Zhytomyr OVA, Vitaliy Bunechko. Later, he clarified that a child born in 2021 died in the hospital. According to him, another child and an adult are in hospitals. In total, five people were injured.
9.36 A woman was killed and three more people were injured in a Russian attack in the Vyshgorod district of Kyiv region, the head of the regional state administration, Mykola Kalashnyk, said on December 23.
9.35 In the Rivne region, a two-story apartment building was damaged by a massive Russian air attack, with windows blown out by the blast wave. In addition, a wooden outbuilding was destroyed and three cars were damaged. No people were injured.
9.20 In Khmelnytskyi region, a man born in 1953 died as a result of a Russian attack. Power outages were also recorded due to the shelling.
9.16 In the Svyatoshynskyi district of Kyiv, fragments of a drone fell near a residential building. This was reported by Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko. Later, the mayor added that two people were injured in the Svyatoshynskyi district.
8.50 Over the past 24 hours, 205 combat clashes took place at the front, almost 60 attacks by Russian invaders were stopped by the Defense Forces in the Pokrovsky direction, and the enemy attacked the Konstantinovsky direction more than 30 times. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on December 23.
8.19 Russia is massively attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure, and emergency power outages have been introduced in a number of regions. The Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reported this on December 23. It is noted that as soon as the security situation allows, rescuers and energy workers will begin eliminating the consequences of the attack in order to restore power supply in the regions as soon as possible.
7.45 The Ukrainian Defense Forces killed and wounded 1,420 Russian occupiers over the past 24 hours. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported this on December 23. The total combat losses of the Russian invaders from 02/24/22 to 12/23/25 were approximately 1,199,280 people.
05.41 On the night of Tuesday, December 23, an air alert was declared in most regions of Ukraine due to an attack by Russian strike drones. As of 05:36, explosions could be heard in Rivne. A large number of enemy targets are being recorded in the airspace.
03.07 A series of explosions occurred in the city of Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, Russia, on the night of Tuesday, December 23. According to eyewitnesses, the strikes were directed at the Stavrolen chemical plant , which led to a large-scale fire.
01.04 Railway workers, despite the constant threat of enemy strike drones, continue to carry out restoration work near Korosten in Zhytomyr region, where an accident involving a freight and passenger train occurred at night. A number of passenger flights were redirected via Fastiv with delays of up to three hours. This was reported by Ukrzaliznytsia