13.27 - Footage of explosion in Moscow that killed Russian nuclear troops commander appears online

13.20 - Ukrainian footballer Mudryk confirms positive doping test, faces up to 4-year ban

13.10 - Russia loses more than 3,000 main battle tanks since 2022, UK intelligence reports – photos

12.24 - Ukrainian air defence downs 20 Russian drones in 5 oblasts, 10 more disappear from radar

12.12 - Oil spills discovered on Kuban coast after Russian tankers crash in Kerch Strait – video

12.04 - Medvedev calls for retaliation after assassination of Russia's nuclear troops general

11.40 - Ukraine loses half of previously captured areas in Russia’s Kursk Oblast and switches to defence there – The Economist

11.19 - Finnish president urges everyone not to be hasty regarding peacekeepers for Ukraine

10.53 - Ukraine's Special Operations Forces post video showing how they target North Korean soldiers in Kursk Oblast – video

10.52 - Russians attack civilian car with drone in Kherson, injuring two people

10.50 - Russia attacks Kyiv with UAVs on 17 December, debris falls in four districts

10.20 - Ukraine ready to transit any gas except Russian – Ukraine's PM to his Slovak counterpart

10.11 - NATO fighter jets intercepted Russian aircraft violating airspace seven times last week

10.09 - Ukraine's Security Service behind killing of Russia's nuclear troops general – UP source, video

09.49 - South Korea imposes sanctions on North Korea and Russia for military cooperation

08.43 - UK wants to ensure Ukraine has strongest possible position in 2025 – UK PM

08.18 - Russians carry out almost 70 attempts to break through Ukrainian defence in Kursk Oblast – Ukraine's General Staff

07.59 - Russia loses 1,600 soldiers in one day

07.51 - US would regard North Korean troops entering Ukraine as escalation – US Department of State

07.24 - High-ranking Russian general killed in explosion in Moscow – photos, video

05.43 - Putin revives narrative of Zelenskyy's illegitimacy, likely to disrupt talks with NATO – ISW

04.25 - Russia ready to negotiate with those who are prepared to accept reality – Russia's Representative to UN

02.45 - Russians occupy Hannivka in Donetsk Oblast and advance near 9 settlements – DeepState

23.24 - Russians carry out 72 assaults in Kursk Oblast – Ukraine's General Staff report

23.09 - Ukraine's PM affirms to Slovak counterpart that Ukraine is ready to transit non-Russian gas

23.00 - 12 European countries agree on strengthened measures against Russian "shadow fleet"

22.28 - EU members call for tougher sanctions against Russian metals

22.07 - Russia, not Ukraine, should be forced to negotiate – Polish foreign minister

21.59 - Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asks Hungary to stop playing peacemaker

21.22 - Zelenskyy: Russians are trying to hide North Korean losses

21.00 - Ukraine's state grid operator says latest Russian attack targeted cross-border energy infrastructure

20.50 - Pentagon confirms first North Korean losses in combat against Ukraine

20.49 - Russians target residential area in Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, killing a civilian

20.31 - Ukraine uses Tryzub laser weapon capable of shooting down aircraft

20.25 - Trump hints he might reverse decision to allow Ukraine to launch long-range strikes into Russia

20.12 - EU will not finance construction at Khmelnytskyi nuclear plant and calls for supervisory board to be set up for its owner company

20.00 - Trump says he didn't invite Zelenskyy to his inauguration but "would like to have him"

19.33 - Trump mentions some progress in "ending the war" in Ukraine

19.23 - Ukraine sanctions Russian drone manufacturers

19.02 - German MEP cycles 600 km to raise money for Ukraine – photo

18.58 - Russians strike Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Nikopol district with artillery and drones: woman injured

18.19 - EU imposes sanctions in response to Russian hybrid threats for first time

18.08 - Hungarian foreign minister criticises EU's indifference to Orbán's Christmas truce proposal

18.03 - Italian government approves 10th military aid package for Ukraine

17.43 - Hungarian foreign minister "saved" Patriarch Kirill and Russia's UN ambassador from EU sanctions

16.50 - EU imposes sanctions on 26 people and two companies from Belarus

16.24 - Ukrainian defenders try to exhaust Russian forces as much as possible near Uspenivka in Donetsk Oblast

16.02 - Over 16,000 Ukrainian civilians held captive in Russia – Ukraine's ombudsman

15.58 - OECD notes Ukraine's progress in transparency of anti-corruption reforms and political finance

15.58 - German Chancellor once again refuses to supply Ukraine with Taurus missiles before no-confidence vote