Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force says defenses shot down or suppressed 131 of 149 attack drones launched from multiple directions, with impacts confirmed at 11 sites and debris falling in four locations.
- The General Staff reports 164 combat engagements in the past day, including 53 Russian assaults repelled in the Pokrovsk sector and continued pressure across several fronts.
- Local officials detail civilian harm and damage: Kharkiv reports five dead and 11 injured with a strike on the Pechenihy reservoir dam, Sumy’s Okhtyrka counts seven wounded, Chernihiv and Dnipropetrovsk record additional injuries, and guided bombs in Zaporizhzhia and Vilniansk injure 15.
- Ukraine says overnight strikes hit an ammunition depot, a fuel storage site, a drone depot, and a Pantsir-S1 air-defense system in occupied Donetsk and Luhansk, as officials also confirm the Dec. 5 Temryuk Seaport attack destroyed 20 fuel tanks with a fire still burning.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry claims village gains near Kharkiv and Pokrovsk and large numbers of Ukrainian drones and missiles downed, while Belgorod authorities report more than 70 incoming Ukrainian drones with injuries and infrastructure damage.