A New Year's tree in an apartment damaged by a drone strike in Zaporizhzhia. Photo by Dmytro Smolienko / Ukrinform / NurPhoto / Getty Images.
- During the night, Volgograd was targeted by Ukrainian drones, with about 20 explosions heard in the city, and around ten drones were destroyed.
- The Ukrainian armed forces reported a missile strike with Storm Shadow cruise missiles on the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in the Rostov region of Russia on December 25.
- On Christmas night, energy infrastructure in five regions of Ukraine was affected. Kharkiv experienced partial power and hot water outages, and there were electricity supply restrictions in Odesa.
- On December 25, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a phone conversation with U.S. presidential special representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.
- According to "Kommersant," Vladimir Putin is considering a proposal from the U.S. for joint Russian-American mining at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and discussions are also underway regarding electricity supplies to Ukraine.
- The first meeting of the working group of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on preparing for elections and referendums under martial law and after the war will take place on December 26.
