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Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 23.12.25 (орієнтовно) Підтверджено втрати 2 літаків у попередній період

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The Russian offensive reportedly involved 24 armored vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and armored personnel carriers (APCs), as well as several dozen motorcycles and quad bikes. Ukrainian defenders neutralized the assault in approximately 100 minutes, according to Brovdi.

The core of the attacking force consisted of personnel from Russia’s 40th and 155th Naval Infantry Brigades, supported by additional units. The assault was carried out in four armored columns, reportedly under the assumption that they could breach Ukrainian defensive lines with speed and force.

In December, Sweden announced a 10bn kronor (£800m) cut in development funding to Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Tanzania and Bolivia. Germany's humanitarian budget of €1.05bn (£920m) for 2026 will be less than half of last year's, with spending refocused on areas deemed a priority to Europe.

The UK also announced earlier this year that it would be cutting aid to fund defence spending. Norway has increased its civilian support to Ukraine by 2.5bn kroner (£185m), to a quarter of its aid budget, but has been accused of making Africa pay for that rise with a 355m kroner cut (£26m).

France's budget for 2026 will also see a €700m cut to aid spending, with a 60% reduction in food aid, while increasing defence spending by €6.7bn.

On the Donetsk axis, operators of Ukraine's Rarog 427th Unmanned Systems Regiment have successfully halted an enemy assault by striking armored vehicles and key engineering equipment critical to the offensive. The operation disrupted the adversary's attempt to advance toward Ukrainian forces' positions and effectively neutralized the assault group's mobility and protection.

According to the report, Ukrainian drone operators targeted and disabled several enemy tanks and armored vehicles, as well as rare and tactically important MTU-20 bridge-laying vehicle. The loss of this vehicle played a decisive role in stopping the assault, as it was intended to enable armored units to overcome terrain obstacles during the advance.

Losing a bridgelayer like this is a major blunder for Russia and demonstrates a fatal lack of operational cohesion. An armored fighting force should never let this happen unless they already dealing with existential failures to the point that losing the bridgelayer is simply locking in a decisive failure amid pre-existing catastrophe. Even then it is a massive mistake not to pull the equipment and combat engineers back and redirect them elsewhere to parts of the front that they could more safely be used in before this happened.

Загальні бойові втрати противника з 24.02.22 по 22.12.25 (орієнтовно)

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Russian forces have reportedly deployed the Chinese-made Silent Hunter high-energy laser system in Ukraine, marking its first known combat use. The move, alongside Ukraine’s own apparent laser deployments in Odessa, signals a new phase in the escalating drone-countermeasure race.

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Meanwhile, evidence has emerged that Ukraine is deploying its own laser systems in defensive positions around key infrastructure. A video published on December 20, 2025, by crew members of a Turkish amphibious ship docked in Odessa shows Ukrainian air defense positions in full operation. The footage, shared on multiple social platforms without censorship, shows two laser beams emitted from ground-based platforms near anti-aircraft artillery emplacements. Open-source analysts and former NATO targeting officers reviewing the footage confirm the beams are active and focused, indicating either a targeting, guidance, or counter-optics function.

Russian forces have not conducted a sustained battlefield air interdiction (BAI) campaign with drones against operational and tactical rear areas along the international border in northern Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts to prepare the battlefield for ground assaults, as the Russian forces have done in the Pokrovsk and Hulyaipole directions.[21]

These BAI campaigns are part of a new Russian campaign design that aims to set conditions for intensified ground operations by degrading Ukrainian logistics and defenses ahead of such ground operations.[22] The absence of such preparation of the battlefield in Sumy and Kharkiv oblasts is therefore noteworthy, as such shaping operations have become the standard Russian operational template for enabling ground operations. Ukrainian Joint Forces Task Force Spokesperson Colonel Viktor Trehubov’s stated that the Russian operations in the border area do not appear to be an effort to conduct a large-scale breakthrough or a major military operation but are a local provocation — a statement consistent with all available open-source information.[23]

The Russian tactics in the assault in Sotnytskyi Kozachok are not consistent with Russian assault tactics across the theater and suggest the attack was designed to be seen.