Overview of political violence events in Ukraine from 13 December 2025 to 2 January 2026
Key trends
Russian forces captured a total of 18 settlements: 10 in the Donetsk region, mostly east of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk; three in the Kharkiv region; two in the Dnipropetrovsk region; and one each in the Zaporizhia and Sumy regions.
Russian forces launched at least 127 long-range missile and drone attacks, mostly affecting the Odesa, Zaporizhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions, as well as Kyiv city and the surrounding region.
Russian strikes killed at least 71 civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhia, and Zhytomyr regions, as well as Kyiv city and region.
Ukrainian drones and shelling reportedly killed 44 civilians in the Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions.
