Overview
- Russia’s civil aviation authority said two of Moscow’s four main airports briefly restricted operations as Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported 25 Ukrainian drones intercepted near the capital over roughly a day.
- Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 131 drones overnight, with strikes killing at least one person, injuring others, damaging energy sites, and triggering power limits across several regions, including port and industrial facilities in Odesa.
- The Ukrainian General Staff reported 151 combat engagements on December 24, with the heaviest pressure on the Pokrovsk sector.
- Ukraine said its drones hit the Yefremov synthetic rubber plant in Russia’s Tula region and a marine‑drone storage site in occupied Crimea, while Tula’s governor reported debris from downed drones caused an industrial fire and Russia claimed large numbers of UAV shootdowns.
- An explosion in Moscow killed three people, including two police officers, and an unnamed Ukrainian intelligence official told the Associated Press it was a Ukrainian operation, a claim that has not been independently verified.