Overview
- Russia’s Defense Ministry reported 77 Ukrainian UAVs were intercepted overnight across seven regions as well as over the Black and Azov seas, including three over the Moscow region.
- Earlier on December 25, the ministry said air defenses shot down 48 drones in a five‑hour span over Bryansk, Belgorod, Kaluga and Kursk regions.
- The ministry announced Russian units of the Southern grouping had taken the settlement of Svyato‑Pokrovskoe in the Donetsk People’s Republic.
- Russian security sources told RIA that a Ukrainian strongpoint near Udy in Kharkiv region was destroyed with heavy personnel losses and the death of a platoon commander, and Akhmat UAV teams reported strikes that destroyed armored vehicles and self‑propelled guns.
- Separately, a Lebanese military field source told RIA an Israeli drone struck a vehicle near the Lebanon–Syria border, with a preliminary report of one fatality.