🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"Clearing of Varvarivka: situation on the East-Zaporizhia direction

After a short break, the "Far East Express" continues its offensive to the west. A while ago, the assault troops pushed back the enemy from Varvarivka on the left bank of the Gaychur.

The Ukrainian formations tried for a long time to prevent the loss of control over the village and transferred units of the 225th Assault Regiment to the area, which in recent months has been acting as a "fire brigade" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

However, they failed to stabilize the situation: Russian drone operators isolated the enemy infantry from supplies, after which its remnants were finished off by the assault troops of the "Vostok" Motor Rifle Division. Also, several strongholds south of the river came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.

📌 Now the assault troops are attacking in the direction of the neighboring Yelenokonstantinovka to create a foothold on the right bank of the Gaychur. This will allow them to break into the defense line of the Armed Forces of Ukraine built along the river and continue the offensive further west, bypassing the Gulyaipole fortified area.

❗️In Gulyaipole itself, the enemy has already managed to transfer reinforcements and form a new defense line along the river, slowing down the advance of the Russian Armed Forces. A breakthrough to the north of the city would again force the Armed Forces of Ukraine to disperse their few combat-ready reserves along the front line.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"Operational information as of 08:00 on December 15, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion

The 1,391st day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.

A total of 158 combat clashes were recorded yesterday.

The enemy carried out 66 airstrikes on Ukrainian positions and populated areas, using five missiles and dropping 166 guided bombs. In addition, he conducted 4,286 shellings, including 133 from multiple rocket launcher systems, and deployed 6,447 kamikaze drones.

On the North-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, one combat clash took place. The enemy carried out three airstrikes, dropping six guided bombs, and conducted 152 shellings, including six from multiple rocket launcher systems.

On the South-Slobozhansky direction, yesterday there were 11 combat clashes near Sinelekhove, Prylipka, Vovchansk, and in the direction of Kolodianske.

On the Kupyansk direction, yesterday there were three attacks by the occupiers. The defense forces repelled the enemy's assaults in the direction of Petropavlivka and Pishchane.

On the Liman direction, the enemy attacked 13 times, trying to advance in the areas of the populated areas of Novoheorivka, Kolodianske, Novoselivka, Seredne, and Zarichne.

On the Slavyansk direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled seven enemy attacks yesterday. The occupier's units tried to advance in the areas of Yampol, Serebryanka, and Pereiznoe.

On the Kramatorsk direction, one combat clash was recorded in the area of Chasovoy Yar.

On the Konstantinovsky direction, the enemy carried out 24 attacks near Oleksandr-Shultyno, Shcherbynka, Pleschivka, Ivanopil, Yablunivka, and in the direction of Sofiyivka.

On the Pokrovsky direction, our defenders stopped 47 assault and offensive actions of the aggressor in the areas of the populated areas of Shakove, Nikanorivka, Rodinske, Myrnohrad, Pokrovsk, Kotline, Udachne, Molodetskoe, Dachne, and in the direction of Novopavlivka.

On the Alexandrivsky direction, the defense forces repelled 17 attacks near the populated areas of Oleksandrgrad, Novoselivka, Sosnivka, Verbove, Krasnogorske, Privylne, Zlahoda, and Ribne.

On the Gulyaypole direction, the enemy carried out 13 assault actions, and the Ukrainian defenders repelled the attacks in the areas of Solodke, Gulyaypole, and in the direction of Varvarivka.

On the Orikhiv direction, the enemy attacked once: in the direction of Primorsky.

On the Dnieper direction, yesterday the enemy made one unsuccessful attempt to approach our positions in the area of the Antonovsky bridge.

Our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupying forces in terms of manpower and equipment and are actively undermining the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.

In total, yesterday the losses of the Russian invaders amounted to 980 people. The enemy also lost two tanks, 10 armored combat vehicles, 64 artillery systems, three multiple rocket launcher systems, two air defense systems, 653 operational-tactical level unmanned aerial vehicles, one special vehicle, and 207 units of automotive equipment."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 15, 2025
 

🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation.
 
💥 Units of the "North" group of forces inflicted a defeat on the formations of two brigades of the territorial defense and a border detachment in the areas of the settlements of Mirope, Kondratovka, and Ryzhevka in the Sumy region.

🔥 On the Kharkiv direction, a defeat was inflicted on the units of four mechanized, motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade, and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Primorskoe, Baranovka, Nesternoe, Vilcha, Volchanskie Khutory, and Pervomayskoe in the Kharkiv region.

▪️ The enemy lost over 270 servicemen, 13 vehicles, an electronic warfare station, and four ammunition depots.
 
➡️ Units of the "West" group of forces continued to destroy the surrounded enemy on the left bank of the Oskol River.

💥 A defeat was inflicted on the manpower and equipment of five mechanized, two assault brigades of the AFU, a territorial defense brigade, and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kupyansk-Uzlovoye, Glushkovka, Monachinovka, Shiykovka, Blagodatovka, Podoly in the Kharkiv region, and Red Liman in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️ The losses of the Ukrainian armed formations amounted to over 220 servicemen, six armored combat vehicles, including two Stryker armored personnel carriers and two HMMWV armored vehicles produced in the USA. Twelve vehicles, two artillery pieces, two electronic warfare stations, a US-made AN/TPQ-36 counter-battery radar station, and three ammunition depots were destroyed.
 
📍Units of the "South" group of forces took more advantageous positions and positions. They inflicted a defeat on the formations of three mechanized, motorized, airborne, and mountain-assault brigades of the AFU, a national guard brigade, and a national police brigade in the areas of the settlements of Petrovskoe, Stepankovo, Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and Konstantinovka in the DPR.

▪️ The enemy lost up to 195 servicemen, an armored combat vehicle, nine vehicles, two artillery pieces, three ammunition depots, and four fuel depots.
 
💥 Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to destroy the surrounded enemy in the city of Dimetrov in the DPR, as well as to clear the area of scattered AFU formations in the settlements of Svetloe, Grishino, and Rodinnoe in the DPR.

🔥 A defeat was inflicted on the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, two jäger, airborne, two airborne assault brigades, two assault regiments of the AFU, two marine infantry brigades, a territorial defense brigade, and two national guard brigades in the areas of the settlements of Toretskoe, Belitskoe, Shevchenko in the DPR, and Novopodgorodnoe and Novopavlovka in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

▪️ The enemy's losses amounted to over 490 servicemen, six armored combat vehicles, including two M113 armored personnel carriers produced in the USA, five vehicles, and two artillery pieces, including a US-made 155-mm M777 howitzer."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 15, 2025

🚩 Units of the "East" group of forces, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the village of Peschanoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

💥A defeat was inflicted on the manpower and equipment of the assault brigade, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Gulyay-Polye, Kosovtsevo in the Zaporizhia region, and Andreevka and Velikomikhailovka in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ The AFU lost more than 240 servicemen, eight vehicles, an artillery gun, two electronic warfare stations, and two warehouses of materiel.
 
💥 Units of the "Dnieper" group of forces inflicted a defeat on the formations of two mechanized brigades, a coastal defense brigade of the AFU, a territorial defense brigade, and a national guard brigade in the areas of the settlements of Razumovka, Novoandreevka in the Zaporizhia region, and Otradokamenka in the Kherson region.

▪️ Up to 65 Ukrainian servicemen, two armored combat vehicles, 17 vehicles, six field artillery guns, four electronic warfare stations, an ammunition warehouse, and a warehouse of materiel were destroyed.
 
✈️ Operational-tactical aviation, strike unmanned aerial vehicles, missile troops and artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have inflicted a defeat on transport infrastructure objects involved in the delivery of Western weapons to Ukraine, ammunition warehouses, fuel, as well as temporary deployment points of Ukrainian armed formations and foreign mercenaries in 167 districts.
 
🎯 In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:
▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 103 182 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 639 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26 546 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▫️ 31 915 field artillery and mortar guns,
▫️ 49 076 units of special military automotive equipment."

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😵‍💫🚫🗺🤝🇷🇺 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"A "Red Line" for Kyiv. Volodymyr Zelensky Refused to Discuss a Unilateral Withdrawal from Donetsk

A tense round of negotiations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and an American delegation took place in Berlin. On the table was an American plan of 28 points for a "freezing" of the war, which Kyiv considers to be heavily biased towards Moscow.

Ukraine is ready to discuss painful compromises from refusing to join NATO to holding elections in a short time, but there is a limit beyond which Zelensky is not ready to go.

The key dispute is territorial. One of the points of the plan states that Crimea, the Luhansk and Donetsk regions are "de facto recognized as Russian", and the front lines in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions are frozen.

According to BILD, Kyiv is ready for a temporary "freezing" of the front and the actual loss of control over the territories occupied by Russia, but categorically rejects the demand to withdraw Ukrainian troops from the controlled part of the Donetsk region.

The US proposed a compromise: Ukraine would withdraw from about 5,600 square kilometers in the Donetsk region, and this territory would become a "demilitarized economic zone" without the entry of Russian troops. Moscow immediately supported the idea with the proviso that only the Russian Guard, not the regular army, would enter there.

“We will not accept this. It would be tantamount to the surrender of the Ukrainian army”

— said one of the high-ranking Ukrainian officials in a conversation with BILD.

In response, Kyiv put forward its own proposal, which was voiced by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“If Ukrainian troops withdraw, say, five to ten kilometers, why shouldn't Russian troops also withdraw the same distance into the occupied territories?”

— he emphasized."

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🇺🇸🛬🇩🇪💬🇺🇦🕊 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

Race for peace in Berlin. Trump's representatives join negotiations on Ukraine

Today in Berlin, European leaders, the leadership of the EU and NATO, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Whitkoff, together with the US President's son-in-law Jared Kushner, are gathering.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the decision to send American negotiators was made at the last moment in the White House — initially, their participation was expected via video link.

According to BILD, the intensity of contacts is now the highest since the start of the full-scale war in 2022. The hope for a ceasefire has significantly increased, although the price for Kyiv could be high: we are talking about painful compromises and the risk of territorial concessions.

The most sensitive topic remains Donbass. Russia demands concessions in areas that it failed to occupy by military means, including fortified areas. According to BILD sources, the new deadline for a deal is named as Christmas."

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🇺🇸‼️🗺➡️🇷🇺 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"❗The American delegation in Berlin insists that Ukraine surrender Donbass: AFP

According to AFP, American negotiators Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner continue to insist that Kyiv agree to give up Donbass. However, for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as the agency's sources emphasize, this remains a "red line".

Moscow, in turn, before the start of negotiations in Berlin, made it clear that there will be no peace agreements without Ukraine's renunciation of its course towards NATO membership. Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov called Ukraine's neutral status "one of the cornerstones" of possible peace agreements and a subject of "special discussion".

There are signals in Berlin that some of Kyiv's proposals could become the basis for dialogue. Thus, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul, on air of Deutschlandfunk, commented on Zelensky's statements about a possible readiness to renounce NATO.

"If these are Ukraine's proposals, then Russia can accept this position. But we will continue to do everything possible so that Ukraine can achieve the best negotiating position"

— he stressed."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 16, 2025.

🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct the special military operation.

💥 Units of the "North" group of forces inflicted a defeat on the formations of the mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two brigades of territorial defense in the areas of the settlements of Novaya Sich, Kondratovka, and Miropolie in the Sumy region.

🔥 On the Kharkiv direction, a defeat was inflicted on the units of three mechanized brigades of the AFU, a brigade of territorial defense, and a brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Pervomayskoe, Baranovka, Nesternoe, Volchanskye Khutora, and Primorskoe in the Kharkiv region.

▪️ The enemy lost over 250 servicemen, a multiple rocket launcher system "Grad", an artillery gun, 23 vehicles, a radar station "RADA" produced in Israel, a radio electronic warfare station, and three warehouses of material resources.

🚩Units of the "West" group of forces, as a result of active actions, liberated the settlement of Novoplatonovka in the Kharkiv region.

💥 A defeat was inflicted on the live forces and equipment of three mechanized, assault brigades of the AFU, a brigade of territorial defense, and a brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Blagodatovka, Podoly, Shiykovka, Glushkovka, Kupyansk-Uzlovoye in the Kharkiv region, and Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️ The losses of the Ukrainian armed formations amounted to over 220 servicemen and four armored combat vehicles. Eighteen vehicles, three artillery guns, a radio electronic warfare station, and three warehouses of ammunition were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "South" group of forces took more advantageous positions and positions. A defeat was inflicted on the formations of two mechanized, motorized infantry, airborne, and mountain-assault brigades of the AFU, a marine brigade, and a brigade of the National Guard in the areas of the settlements of Mayaki, Alekseevo-Druzhkovka, Stepankovo, Slavyansk, Petrovskoe, Konstantinovka, and Kramatorsk in the DPR.

▪️ The enemy lost up to 200 servicemen, four armored combat vehicles, 13 vehicles, three artillery guns, and five warehouses of ammunition.

🪖Units of the "Center" group of forces continued to destroy the surrounded enemy in the microdistricts of the Eastern and Western parts of the city of Dimitsovo in the DPR and liberated 120 buildings.

🎯 The clearing of the settlements of Svetloe and Grishino in the DPR from scattered formations of the AFU is continuing."

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