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Denis Pushilin, Head of the "DPR" (Russian-backed "Donetsk People's Republic" terrorist organisation), has been sentenced in absentia to 15 years behind bars. Source: Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office Quote: "Following a public charge by prosecutors of the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office, a citizen of Ukraine was sentenced for encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine and collaboration.

Russia continues to suffer losses in its war of aggression against Ukraine. Ukrainian defence forces killed over 1,000 Russian soldiers and destroyed 22 Russian tanks and one warship over the course of the past 24 hours.

Russian forces fired upon Kherson Oblast, killing at least one person, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Dec. 26.

A day after Russia claimed to have taken control of Marinka, a small town in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi has admitted that his troops have largely retreated. Zaluzhnyi told journalists in Kiev on Tuesday that new defence lines had been prepared outside the contested town, which is largely destroyed and deserted but holds strategic importance. Marinka is located just under 30 kilometres south-west of the city of Donetsk, which is Russian-controlled.

Russian forces shelled a train station in Kherson as civilians were trying to flee the front line city in southern Ukraine, the leadership in Kiev said late Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said many people were awaiting the departure of an evacuation train, with the number of dead and injured still unknown. Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram that one police officer was killed and two others injured. More than 100 civilians are now to be bussed out of the

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valerii Zaluzhniy announced in a press conference on December 26th that Russia could do to Avdiivka in two to three months what it did to Bakhmut, and will be strategic about its defense.

Ukraine's Air Force also targeted another Russian fighter jet over the Black Sea, a Su-30.

Russian attacks against Kherson and Donetsk oblasts over the past 24 hours killed one person and wounded another five, regional authorities reported on Dec. 25.

Following the downing of three Su-34 fighter-bombers by the Ukrainian Defence Forces, Russian troops have reduced their air activity in Kherson Oblast and are spreading rumours of a "wandering Patriot air defence system" [some Russian news outlets said that there is a Patriot air defence system that is travelling across Ukraine to shoot down targets - ed.

This number includes 780 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day.