“Please note information regarding the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on December 7, 2025.”, — write: football.ua
Please note information regarding the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on December 7, 2025.
Illustrative photo. The Pecheneg Reservoir in Kharkiv Oblast in 2022 Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy / Ukrinform / Future Publishing via Getty Images December 8, 2025, 01:00
ESTIMATED LOSSES OF THE ENEMY
MAIN NEWS
– The former Minister of Defense of Ukraine during the presidency of Leonid Kuchma and the former “regional” Oleksandr Kuzmuk were dismissed from the position of freelance adviser to the commander of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
– Ukrainian fighters cleared the village of Tyhe in the Dnipropetrovsk region and drove the Russians out of it. On November 21, the occupiers announced the occupation of Tychy and Vidradny in the Pokrovsk community. Now the settlement is under the control of the Ukrainian military.
– Russian troops hit the dam of the Pecheneg reservoir, located in the Kharkiv region. As a result of the impact, traffic on the roadway of the dam was stopped.
– At night, the Russian occupiers hit the objects of the critical infrastructure of Ukraine with attack UAVs, air and ground-based missiles. Defense forces neutralized 179 targets.
Several enterprises of the energy sector in the Kremenchutsk district of the Poltava region came under attack. There, technical equipment was damaged, and in some areas there were interruptions in heat and water supply. A 50-year-old man was killed in the city of Novgorod-Siversky, in Chernihiv Oblast, as a result of strikes by Russian unmanned aerial vehicles.
INFORMATION FROM THE GENERAL STAFF OF THE ARMY REGARDING THE SITUATION AT THE FRONT (22:00)
Russian forces carried out two missile and 32 air strikes, used six missiles and dropped 87 guided air bombs. In addition, 3,358 kamikaze drones were used for attacks and 3,057 attacks were carried out on the positions of our troops and populated areas.
In the North-Slobozhansk and Kursk directions, the enemy fired 131 shots at the positions of our troops and populated areas, including one from rocket salvo systems.
In the South-Slobozhansk direction, the enemy stormed the positions of our units in the Vovchansk region four times.
In the Kupian direction, the aggressor twice tried to break through the defense of our defenders in the area of Pishchany.
In the Lymansky direction, Russian invaders attacked the positions of the Defense Forces 13 times near the settlements of Grekivka, Derilov, Zarichne, Myrne and in the directions of Oleksandrivka, Stavky, and Torsky. Two skirmishes are ongoing
Six assaults by the enemy’s forces were repulsed by Ukrainian defenders in the Slavyansk direction – the occupiers tried to advance near Yampol and Serebryanka.
One enemy attack was repulsed by our defenders in the area of Chasovoy Yar, in the Kramatorsk direction.
In the Kostiantynivka direction, the Russians attacked the positions of Ukrainian units 16 times in the areas of Oleksandro-Shultine, Pleshchiivka, Shcherbynivka, Kleban-Byk, Yablunivka and towards the Kostiantynivka, Ivanopillia, Rusyn Yar, Novopavlivka, Sofiivka settlements. Two clashes continue until now.
In the Pokrovsky direction, since the beginning of the day, the occupiers have tried to advance on the positions of Ukrainian units 46 times. The enemy attacked in the directions of Novy Shahovoy, Novy Donbas, Bilytskyi, Rodinskyi, Myrnograd, Molodetskyi, Novopavlivka and in the areas of the settlements of Novoeconomichne, Grishine, Kotlina, Udachne, Dachne, Filia. In some locations, battles are still going on.
According to preliminary data, a total of 88 occupiers were neutralized in this direction today, 51 of them irreversibly. Also, Ukrainian soldiers destroyed two units of automobile equipment, a quad bike, 31 unmanned aerial vehicles, shelters for personnel, also hit two unmanned aerial vehicle control points and 8 shelters for enemy personnel.
In the Oleksandrivsk direction, the enemy tried 13 times to break through the defenses of our defenders in the areas of the settlements of Yalta, Sosnivka, Verbove, Vorone, Zlagoda, Krasnohirske, Privilne, Sweetka, and in the direction of Vyshnevo.
18 combat clashes were recorded in the Gulyaipil direction, the enemy tried to advance to the settlements of Rybne, Radisne, Varvarivka, Dobropillia, Zelene, Gulyaipole. One combat encounter is ongoing.
In the Orihiv direction, the enemy launched two unsuccessful attacks in the direction of Novoandriivka and Primorsky.
In the Dnieper direction, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of our defenders in the area of the Antoniv bridge.
There are no significant changes in the rest of the directions.