Over the past day, the enemy launched 2 missile strikes and fired 44 rocket launchers. The units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the invaders in the areas of the settlements of Novoselovskoe and Stelmakhovka of the Luhansk region and Dilievka, Krasnogorovka, Vodyane, Vesele, Maryinka and Pobeda of the Donetsk region.
In the Volynsky, Polessky, Seversky and Slobozhansky directions, the situation has not changed significantly, the enemy maintains a military presence along the state border, and no signs of the formation of his offensive groupings have been found.
In the Seversk direction, the areas of Vintorovka, Manukhovka, Ryzhevka and Vorozhba of the Sumy region were shelled.
In the Slobozhansky direction, the areas of the settlements of Glubokoe, Krasnoe, Staritsa, Ogirevo, Novomlynsk, Dvurechnaya and Kupyansk of the Kharkov region were exposed to fire.
In the Kupyansky and Limansky directions, the enemy fired from tanks, cannon and rocket artillery at the areas of the settlements of Berestovo, Tavilzhanka, Tabaevka, Krakhmalnoye and Pervomayskoye of the Kharkov region; Novoselovskoye, Stelmakhovka, Kolomyychikha, Pervomayskoye and Ploschanka of the Lugansk region and Yampolevka, Torskoye, Dibrova and Grigorievka of the Donetsk region.
On the Bakhmut and Avdeevsky directions, the enemy inflicted a fiery defeat on the areas of more than 25 settlements. In particular, these are Belogorovka, Bakhmut, Kleshchievka, Belaya Gora, Kurdyumovka, Vodyanoye, Pervomayskoye, Maryinka and Novomikhailovka of the Donetsk region.
In the Zaporizhzhia direction, the areas of Temirovka, Olgovsky, Poltavka, Malaya Tokmachka, Novodanilovka, Novoandreevka and Plavnya of the Zaporozhye region were fired from mortars and cannon artillery.
In the Kherson direction, the civilian infrastructure of the settlements of Berislav, Sadovoe, Antonovka and Stanislav of the Kherson region and Kherson suffered from shelling by the invaders.
On December 25, our soldiers hit the concentration of manpower of Russian invaders near Novobelozerka, Vasilyevsky district, Zaporozhye region. Enemy losses amounted to 100 soldiers dead and wounded. Among them are 15 employees of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
Aviation of the Defense Forces during the day struck at the area where the occupiers were concentrated.
Rocket and artillery units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces hit 4 command posts and 6 enemy manpower concentration areas.