Overview
- Kyiv officials reported 22 injured, including two children, after a large overnight attack that ignited fires and damaged multiple high‑rises across seven districts, with heat and power disruptions to thousands of buildings and public facilities.
- Kharkiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district was struck by a guided bomb, killing two people and wounding eight, among them a 9‑month‑old girl, and damaging dozens of homes and vehicles.
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 237 combat engagements on December 26, with the Lyman and Pokrovsk directions among the most active as Russian forces pressed repeated assaults.
- Security services said a 28‑year‑old allegedly recruited by Russia’s FSB was detained in Kyiv during an attempt to assassinate a GUR officer, with weapons and digital evidence seized and charges carrying a potential life sentence filed.
- Prosecutors announced an indictment of 18 suspects for torturing more than 90 civilians in occupied Kupyansk and named Russian detention chief Vyacheslav Perevozkin as charged in absentia over abuses and the deaths of detainees including journalist Viktoriya Roshchina; ex‑Kharkiv SBU head Roman Dudin was ordered held until February 22.