Overview
- By 16:00 on December 26, the General Staff recorded 112 combat engagements, with the heaviest fighting on the Lyman axis and high activity on Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka.
- Ukrainian forces report a clearing operation inside Kupiansk, while Russian units try to apply pressure near the left bank of the Oskil River without gains.
- Kharkiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district was struck by guided aerial bombs, leaving two dead and eight wounded, including a 9-month-old, and damaging dozens of homes and vehicles.
- Ukraine reported fresh cross-border shelling of settlements in Sumy and Chernihiv regions and noted additional Russian airstrikes, including four guided bombs on northern sectors.
- Operational updates list ongoing battles across several directions, with multiple attacks repelled and no reported breakthrough by Russian forces.