Overview
- Ukraine reported 151 combat engagements on December 24 and at least 61 more by midafternoon on December 25, with the fiercest fighting around Pokrovsk and Huliaipole.
- Overnight attacks hit Odesa’s port and industrial sites, killing one and injuring two, while regional officials reported additional civilian casualties in Kharkiv and Chernihiv.
- The national grid operator said strikes left consumers without power in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions, with emergency disconnections continuing in Odesa.
- Ukraine’s General Staff said its Air Force used Storm Shadow missiles against the Novoshakhtynsk oil products plant in Russia’s Rostov region; the regional governor confirmed explosions and a firefighter’s injury.
- The Kremlin said envoy Kirill Dmitriyev briefed Vladimir Putin on Miami contacts and that channels with the US will continue, as ISW assessed Russia as unreceptive to a compromise settlement.