Overview
- Russia’s defense ministry reported intercepting 141 Ukrainian UAVs from 23:00 on December 24 to 07:00 on December 25 across multiple areas, with the highest tallies in Bryansk, Tula, and Kaluga regions and additional shootdowns over the Moscow region, the Azov Sea, Crimea, and the south.
- Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said eight drones targeting the capital were destroyed overnight, and emergency services were working at debris sites.
- Regional officials reported interceptions in Tula, Voronezh, and six districts of Rostov with no initial casualties, while in Russia’s Krasnodar Territory an agricultural site in Shcherbinovsky District was damaged and fires were reported at oil tanks in Temryuk port.
- Authorities in the Donetsk People’s Republic said one civilian was killed and two were injured in Ukrainian attacks, with medical care provided to the wounded.
- Russian security sources told state media that strikes near Pavlivka in Sumy Region killed several Ukrainian commanders and that Ukrainian units were taking losses and repositioning in parts of the Sumy and Kharkiv areas.