On the morning of 27 December, Russian occupiers once again attacked Ukrainian territory with missiles.

In the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Russian occupiers brutally dealt with a family that had stayed in the city while waiting for the Russian army. The Russians tortured and then killed the man, and raped his wife.

Units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, on the night of December 26, 2025, struck enemy targets in the temporarily occupied territory of the Donetsk region, a concentration of personnel from the 14th Special Purpose Brigade in the settlement of Berdyanske, and a warehouse of materiel and technical supplies of the 228th Motor Rifle Regiment in the Starobesheve area.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he is ready to put a U.S.-proposed peace plan to a referendum if Russia agrees to a ceasefire for at least 60 days.

Russian occupation forces struck Kharkiv with guided aerial bombs (KABs). Fatalities and injuries have been reported.

Russian occupation forces have occupied the village of Dronivka in the Donetsk region.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the 20-point plan to end the war in Ukraine is 90% ready.

Timur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman, who are involved in a corruption case in the energy sector, have been found in Israel.

The vast majority of Ukrainians continue to believe that Ukraine has not done enough to prepare for a full-scale Russian invasion in 2022.

Despite the optimism of US President Donald Trump's envoys regarding potential business prospects in Russia after the end of the war in Ukraine.