Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force said air defenses intercepted 83 strike UAVs and two Iskander/KN-23 ballistic missiles from a combined attack starting the evening of December 10, with Kremenchuk named the primary target and multiple impacts recorded across regions.
- Russia’s defense ministry claimed 287 Ukrainian drones were downed over 12 regions, and Moscow’s mayor reported 36 shot down near the capital as nearly 200 flights were delayed or canceled and a flight carrying Armenia’s prime minister diverted to St. Petersburg.
- Radio Svoboda, citing an unnamed security service source, reported that the SBU’s Alpha unit struck the Filanovskoye offshore oil platform in the Caspian Sea, with at least four hits and production halted, a claim not independently verified and not acknowledged by Russia.
- Russian Telegram channels and local accounts described drone attacks on Acron chemical facilities in Veliky Novgorod and Dorogobuzh, with authorities offering no confirmation, while Voronezh’s governor reported power line damage from drone debris and temporary outages.
- Ukraine’s SBU said it detained two suspected GRU agents accused of scouting energy targets in the Kyiv region, and a Ukrainian brigade documented a civilian killed by a targeted FPV drone near Novoplatonivka as officials updated nationwide explosive-remnant casualties to 1,374 since 2022.