Overview
- Ukraine’s Air Force reported neutralizing 131 of 149 strike drones in the latest wave, with impacts recorded at multiple sites as some UAVs remained in the air early Monday.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia launched more than 650 drones and 51 missiles overnight, targeting infrastructure across the country.
- Regional officials reported civilian casualties and damage across several oblasts, including five killed and 11 injured in Kharkiv, seven injured in Okhtyrka, and injuries with a gas pipeline fire in Chernihiv; Dnipropetrovsk reported one dead and five injured, including two children.
- The General Staff logged 164 combat engagements over the past day, including 53 clashes on the Pokrovsk front, while reporting continued Russian airstrikes, artillery fire and glide-bomb use along multiple axes.
- Ukraine said it struck a Russian ammunition depot, a UAV warehouse, a fuel depot and a Pantsir-S1 in occupied areas, and confirmed major damage from a December 5 drone strike on Russia’s Temryuk seaport; Russia’s Defence Ministry separately claimed village seizures and high Ukrainian drone shoot-downs.